I am trying to find the published names for a few geological formations in the Lebena region, north of Potes. I've tried a number of official sources hoping to find geological maps of the area with references to appropriate known formations, but some names keep eluding me.
On the (quite old) geological map attached I am looking for any published information on units within the red rectangle labelled (#8-12, #15, #19 and #32).
It is for my undergraduate geological mapping dissertation and any help would be much appreciated.
Have you looked at the memory associated with the map?
http://info.igme.es/cartografia/datos/magna50/memorias/MMagna0056.pdf
You can also try this other link:
http://info.igme.es/visor/
If you have any problems with the Spanish, maybe I can help. Good luck.
Maas, K., 1974. The geology of Liebana, Cantabrian Mountains, Spain; disposition and deformation of a flysch area. Lidse Geol. Mederelingen 49, 379–465.
Marquínez, J., 1978. Estudio geológico del sector SE de los Picos de Europa (Cordillera Cantábrica, NW de España). Trabajos de Geología 10, 295–315.
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Thanks for the replies!
Christos, I'm afraid the GIS software provides a map with too big of a scale and is a bit oversimplified. I'm after the lithostratigraphical units as well as opposed to lithology.
Javier, thanks for the memoir. I have looked at it earlier whilst in the field, but what eluded me was the understanding of subdivisions of facies in Permian and Triassic. I gather that Sotres Fm is attributed to Permian, but then I was not certain about the Bundsandstein facies. The GIS package helped here. Thank you.
Martinez and Villa (1998) seem to indicate an Upper Carboniferous age for the Sotres Formation:
http://geol.uniovi.es/TDG/Volumen21/TG21-17.PDF
Robles & Pujalte (2004) place the base of the Buntsandstein facies as Permian (pages 274-275):
http://books.google.es/books?id=n1SO6IjVhZEC&pg=PA274&dq=tri%C3%A1sico+de+la+Cordillera+Cant%C3%A1brica&hl=es&sa=X&ei=x0M4VIbUDIeS7Aa5woHYCQ&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=tri%C3%A1sico%20de%20la%20Cordillera%20Cant%C3%A1brica&f=false
Hope it helps you.
The more recent geological map of the area is:
Merino-Tomé, O., Bahamonde, J.R., Rodríguez-García, J. (2009). Mapa Geológico de Cantabria a E. 1:.25.000 nº 56-IV (Tama). Gobierno de Cantabria-IGME.
I am attaching the map
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You might have some luck at the pages of the IGME (Geological instituto of Spain):
http://info.igme.es/catalogo/
They offer lots of geological GIS data in various formats for free. But the georeferencing is in some strange reference system partially. You can also get Lidar data, high res satellite imagery etc. from the IGN (Geographical Institute of Spain):
http://www.ign.es/PNT/index.html
Can be a bit hard to browser it because much of the sites is in Spanish, but we have already used topographical maps from there for geological mapping courses.
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