Person: Benito Moreno, María Isabel
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First Name
María Isabel
Last Name
Benito Moreno
Affiliation
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Faculty / Institute
Ciencias Geológicas
Department
Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y Paleontología
Area
Estratigrafía
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Item Calcareous algae (dasycladales and charophytes), essential for the sedimentological interpretation of ancient coastal-lakes systems. The Barremian-Aptian Leza Fm., Cameros Basin, N Spain(Third circular. Program : 29th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology. Sedimentology in the Heart of the Alps. Schlaming, September, 10-13 2012, 2012) Suárez González, Pablo; Martín Closas, C.; Quijada, Isabel Emma; Benito Moreno, María Isabel; Mas Mayoral, José RamónItem Do stromatolites Need Tides to trap Oodis? insights from the Coastal-Lake carbonates of the Leza FM (Early Cretaceous, N Spain)(Abstract book / Tidalites 2012: 8th International Conference on tidal environments, Caen, France, july 31- august 2, 2012) Suárez González, Pablo; Quijada, Isabel Emma; Benito Moreno, María Isabel; Mas Mayoral, José RamónItem Evolution of an intra-plate rift basin: the Latest Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Cameros Basin (Northwest Iberian Ranges, North Spain)(Geo-guías, Post-Meeting Field trips 28th IAS Meeting, Zaragoza, 2011) Mas Mayoral, José Ramón; Benito Moreno, María Isabel; Arribas Mocoroa, José; Alonso Millán, Ángela; Arribas Mocoroa, María Eugenia; Lohmann, K.C.; González Acebrón, Laura; Hernán, J.; Quijada, Isabel Emma; Suárez González, Pablo; Omodeo Salé, S.; Arenas, Concha; Pomar, Luis; Colombo, FerránItem Textbook example of tectonically controlled carbonate sedimentation at the active margin of a rift basin: the Leza Fm (Early Cretaceous, Cameros Basin, Spain)(Abstracts / 28th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Zaragoza, Julio 5-8 2011, 2011) Suárez González, Pablo; Quijada, Isabel Emma; Benito Moreno, María Isabel; Mas Mayoral, José Ramón; Omodeo Salé, S.; Bádenas, Beatriz; Aurell, Marcos; Alonso-Zarza, Ana MaríaItem Influencia del Keuper y de la estructuración tardivarisca en la arquitectura de las unidades sin-extensionales del borde norte de la Cuenca de Cameros(Geotemas, 2016) Suárez González, Pablo; Benito Moreno, María Isabel; Mas Mayoral, José Ramón; Quijada, Isabel Emma; Campos Soto, SoniaEste trabajo aporta nuevos datos cartográficos y sedimentológicos para aclarar la controvertida evolución tectónica extensional de la Cuenca de Cameros (N de España). La geometría actual del borde norte de la cuenca representa la continuación de lineaciones tardivariscas NO-SE y SO-NE reconocidas en la Cuenca Vasco-Cantábrica, a lo largo de las cuales se produjo una importante tectónica salina sin-extensional. En la zona de estudio, la distribución irregular de los depósitos plásticos del Keuper es interpretada aquí como debida a una movilización sin-extensional. De este modo, la estructuración tardivarisca del basamento y las movilizaciones de Keuper, asociadas a ella, permiten explicar la arquitectura y distribución de las unidades sin-extensionales del relleno de la cuenca.Item Sedimentology of ancient coastal wetlands: insights from a cretaceous multifaceted depositional system(Journal of sedimentary research, 2015) Suárez González, Pablo; Quijada, Isabel Emma; Benito Moreno, María Isabel; Mas Mayoral, José RamónCoastal wetlands are prominent modern environments widely studied in geomorphology and ecology, but the term ‘‘coastal wetland’’ is still barely used for the sedimentological classification of ancient deposits. The depositional system studied here (Leza Formation, Cameros Basin, Early Cretaceous, N Spain) includes diverse carbonate and clastic facies deposited at the sea–land transition, and is an illustrative example of the wide array of sedimentary environments that may occur in coastal wetlands systems. The studied system was composed mainly of carbonate water bodies whose salinity ranged from fresh to brackish and near-marine, and which had variable input of clastic material due to their lateral connection with alluvial fans. In addition, the system also included carbonate water bodies with stronger marine influence, tide-influenced oolitic areas, and relatively restricted evaporative settings. The deposits of all these environments occur alternating with each other throughout a unit 30–280 m thick, and they range from continental to marine conditions in a relatively small area (approximately 10 km 3 30 km). Thus, this sedimentological study of the Leza Fm provides an ideal opportunity to investigate challenging ancient deposits with both continental and marine features. Comparison with other modern and ancient coastal settings allows the conclusion that ‘‘coastal wetland’’ may be the most accurate sedimentological classification for the Leza Fm, since it was not part of a major coastal system (e.g., delta or estuary). A series of general sedimentological characteristics of coastal wetland deposits are gathered from the Cretaceous case study and from the modern and ancient examples examined. These characteristics include: predominance of shallow-water facies; common subaerial exposure and edaphic features; great variety of interrelated continental, transitional, and marine environments with contrasting hydrodynamic and hydrochemical conditions; and low-diversity biotic communities, including both continental and marine fossils, as well as fossils of ambiguous affinities.Item Origin and significance of lamination in Lower Cretaceous stromatolites and proposal for a quantitative approach(Sedimentary geology, 2014) Suárez González, Pablo; Quijada, Isabel Emma; Benito Moreno, María Isabel; Mas Mayoral, José RamónStromatolite lamination is typically defined as alternation of dark and light laminae. Study of Lower Cretaceous stromatolites fromthe Leza Fm(N Spain) supports this statement, but recognises additional complexities in lamination that have implications for interpreting accretion processes. These stromatolites are partial analogues of present-day coarse-grained carbonate stromatolites in the Bahamas and Shark Bay (Australia) that mainly form by trapping and binding carbonate sand. The Leza examples contain both grain-rich and micrite-rich laminae with scarce particles, suggesting that they accreted both by trapping and not trapping grains. Lamination in modern and ancient coarse-grained stromatolites is commonly defined by thinmicritic crusts that formed during interruptions in accretion and separate contiguous grainy laminae (repetitive lamination). Leza examples also contain these thin hiatal crusts and locally showrepetitive lamination, but their conspicuous macroscopic lamination is defined by thicker alternating grain-rich and micrite-rich laminae (alternating lamination). This indicates that, although hiatuses in accretion occurred, change in accretion process was the main cause of macroscopic lamination. These differences in accretion processes and lamination styles between Leza examples and modern coarse-grained stromatolites may reflect differences in their environmental settings. Modern examples occur in shallow marine tidal environments, whereas Leza Fm coarse-grained stromatolites developed in ideinfluencedwater-bodies in coastal-wetlands that experienced fluctuations inwater salinity and hydrochemistry. Analysis of lamina-thickness in these Cretaceous stromatolites and similar published examples provides a quantitative approach to the processes that underlie stromatolite lamination.Item Nuevas aportaciones sobre la influencia marina y la edad de los carbonatos de la Fm Leza en el sector de Préjano (SE de La Rioja). Cretácico Inferior, Cuenca de Cameros(Geogaceta, 2010) Suárez González, Pablo; Quijada, Isabel Emma; Mas Mayoral, José Ramón; Benito Moreno, María IsabelThe Cameros Basin is a rift basin whose sedimentary infill is essentially continental with some episodes of marine influence. The Leza Fm carbonates (Enciso Gr, Barremian-Aptian) correspond to one of these episodes and their depositional environment has been described as lacustrine with occasional marine incursions. A detailed facies analysis of these carbonates in the Préjano area has led to the conclusion that the depositional environment of the Leza Fm in this area is in fact a system of coastal-lakes filled with brackish water as shown by the abundance of marine microfossils (Dasycladales algae and foraminifera) coexisting with continental microfossils (charophytes). The age of the Dasycladales found in the studied area is Barremian-Albian and thus it confirms the Barremian-Aptian age proposed for the Leza Fm and the Enciso Gr.Item Coastal wetlands as markers of transgression in proximal extensional systems (Berriasian, W Cameros Basin, Spain)(Journal of Iberian Geology, 2019) Mas Mayoral, José Ramón; Arribas Mocoroa, María Eugenia; González Acebrón, Laura; Quijada, Isabel Emma; Campos-Soto, S.; Suárez González, Pablo; Sacristán Horcajada, Sara; Arribas Mocoroa, José; Benito Moreno, María Isabel; Pérez Garrido, Carlos; Alonso Millán, ÁngelaThe early stages of intraplate extensional systems commonly are recorded by deposition of continental sediments. In this context, given appropriate tectonics and eustasy, transgressions can be well recorded in the areas of the basins located close to the sea, but they may be difficult to recognize in the innermost landwards areas of the system. This situation occurs in the innermost Upper Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Cameros Basin, part of the Iberian Extensional System (N. Spain), where a Berriasian transgression is recorded. The Berriasian succession in this area consists of siliciclastic deposits (sandstone and mudstone) of the Salcedal Formation and of carbonate and mixed carbonate-fine siliciclastic deposits (limestone and marl) of the San Marcos Formation. The sedimentological analysis of this depositional succession indicates that a Berriasian carbonate coastal wetland system occupied that sector of the Cameros Basin during deposition of the San Marcos Formation. This carbonate coastal wetland system consisted of shallow and quiet water bodies including some with marine influence others with no to very little marine influence, and palustrine areas. A semiarid climate characterized by the seasonal alternation of short wet and long dry periods caused water bodies of the system to undergo episodic desiccation and subaerial exposure. Moreover, this complex mosaic of sub-environments was connected laterally with a distal zone of a distributive fluvial system that was rimmed by siliciclastic tidal flats during phases of greater marine influence. The paleogeographic arrangement of this coastal wetland depositional system indicates that the marine influence came from the Basque-Cantabrian Basin to the north. During the period of Berriasian maximum marine influence, accommodation linked to the eustatic rise added to accommodation generated by tectonic subsidence from the extensional reactivation of late Variscan strike-slip faults. All these factors favored marine incursion into the west Cameros Basin from the Basque-Cantabrian Basin to the north. The example of the Berriasian transgression recorded in the W Cameros Basin by establishment of coastal wetland systems matches the interpretations of previous studies in neighboring areas. In those areas, complex coastal systems record transgressions in the innermost parts of the intraplate extensional basins of the Iberian Plate. This observation suggests that this paleogeographic and sedimentological arrangement may be common in the innermost parts of intraplate extensional basins during transgressive episodes throughout the geological record.Item A coastal paradise for Aptian microbialites (Early Cretaceous, N Spain(11th Workshop on Alpine Geological Studies & 7th IFAAn, September, 7-14, 2013) Suárez González, Pablo; Quijada, Isabel Emma; Benito Moreno, María Isabel; Mas Mayoral, José Ramón; Riding, R.
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