Origen de las simas de Partagat (Sierra de Aitana, Alicante)
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Title: | Origen de las simas de Partagat (Sierra de Aitana, Alicante) |
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Other Titles: | Origine of the Partagat chasms (Sierra de Aitana, Alicante) |
Authors: | Alfaro García, Pedro | Delgado, Jose | Estévez Rubio, Antonio | García Tortosa, Francisco Juan | Tomás, Roberto | Marco Molina, Juan Antonio |
Research Group/s: | Evolución Geodinámica de la Cordillera Bética Oriental y de la Plataforma Marina de Alicante | Geología Aplicada e Hidrogeología | Ingeniería del Terreno y sus Estructuras (InTerEs) | Medio, Sociedad y Paisaje (MedSPai) |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra y del Medio Ambiente | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ingeniería Civil | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Análisis Geográfico Regional y Geografía Física |
Keywords: | Structural control | Lateral spreading | Landslide | Normal fault | Partagat chasms |
Issue Date: | 2006 |
Publisher: | Sociedad Geológica de España |
Citation: | Geogaceta. 2006, 40: 271-274 |
Abstract: | The Partagat chasms, located at the highest part of the Sierra de Aitana (Province of Alicante), are large joints which have opened up in Eocene limestone. They measure up to 15-20 metres in width and dozens of metres in depth. These joints have originated from lateral-spreading, which have evolved with time into slides. They have formed here along the lines of pre-existing NW-SE and NE-SW fractures, due to the movement of large blocks of limestone over an underlying layer of marls, both Eocene in age. Throughout the Quartenary, these landslides caused the mountain front retreat of the Aitana fault, a normal E-W fault with a throw of several hundred metres. |
Sponsor: | Este estudio ha sido financiado parcialmente por la Generalitat Valenciana (proyectos GV06/169 y GV06/179, y GRUPOS03/085, OCYT), y por los proyectos BTE2001-5230-E y CGL200401636/BTE |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/132691 |
ISSN: | 0213-683X | 2173-6545 (Internet) |
Language: | spa |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Rights: | © Sociedad Geológica de España |
Peer Review: | si |
Appears in Collections: | INV - MedSPai - Artículos de Revistas INV - GAH - Artículos de Revistas INV - GEODIN - Artículos de Revistas INV - INTERES - Artículos de Revistas |
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