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Díaz Molina, Margarita

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Margarita
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Díaz Molina
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/82944
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Ciencias Geológicas
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    Ichnofauna from coastal meandering channel systems (Upper Cretaceous Tremp Formation, South-Central Pyrenees, Spain): delineating the fluvial-tidal transition
    (Journal of paleontology, 2016) Díez Canseco, Davinia; Buatois, Luis A.; Mángano, M. Gabriela; Díaz Molina, Margarita; Benito Moreno, María Isabel
    The Upper Cretaceous “redbeds” of the lower Tremp Formation (South-Central Pyrenees, Spain) contains an ichnofauna consisting of Taenidium barretti, Taenidium bowni, Loloichnus isp., Arenicolites isp., Planolites isp., and Palaeophycus isp. This ichnofauna occurs in deposits formed in tide-influenced meander loops and their associated overbank mudflats. Evaluation of the taphonomic controls on the Tremp ichnofauna shows that (1) two morphotypes of Taenidium barretti are controlled by the substrate consistence, (2) Arenicolites may be enlarged by erosion processes, and (3) Taenidium barretti and Planolites isp. are not the same ichnotaxa showing different types of preservation. The meniscate fill in Taenidium barretti suggests that this structure was produced by deposit feeders. The Tremp ichnofauna is grouped into two trace-fossil assemblages, a depauperate subaquatic monospecific Planolites suite and an assemblage representing the Scoyenia Ichnofacies.Trace-fossil distribution reflects paleoenvironmental changes in the meandering channels along the stratigraphic section with the Planolites suite in the lowermost part of the lower interval and the Scoyenia Ichnofacies in the middle and upper intervals. The lowermost suite may be likely formed seaward of the maximum salinity limit, under extreme brackish-water conditions, whereas the Scoyenia Ichnofacies records a freshwater assemblage that was formed landward of the maximum salinity limit, reflecting deltaic progradation.
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    Sedimentary facies and three-dimensional reconstructions of upper Oligocene meander belts from the Loranca Basin, Spain
    (AAPG Bulletin, 2010) Díaz Molina, Margarita; Muñoz García, María Belén
    In this article, we reconstruct and explore the three-dimensional (3-D) architecture of superimposed meander-belt sediments as an analog of subsurface reservoirs. Two exposures, named the Huete anticline and Garcinarro, were selected from the Loranca Basin, central Spain. In both of them, deposits are dominated by meandering river sediments of Oligocene age. Some point bars show fining-upward sequences of sedimentary structures and grain size typical of the helicoidal flow, but most of them present multiple vertical changes in grain size and are characterized by the occurrence of small-scale cross-stratification filling scours. The origin of these structures is related to oppositely rotating spiral vortices associated with flow separation along the convex bank of the meander bends. The 3-D architecture of superimposed meander-belt sediments allowed the reconstruction of meandering channel orientations and meander wavelength, calculation of the net/gross sandstone content, and the fraction of interconnected sandstone bodies. The 3-D architecture revealed that the interconnection areas are nearly absent when the orientations of the superimposed meander belts were perpendicular and that interconnection areas are more abundant and larger where a coincidence in the orientations of superimposed meander belts is observed. Horizontal projections of the highly interconnected areas allow calculation of the area fraction where one or more sandstone bodies could be intersected by vertical drilling. Differences in sandstone fraction between the two studied exposures were caused by the proximity to the Altomira Sierra thrust belt, which forms the western margin of the Loranca Basin.
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    Bioestratigrafía y paleogeografía del terciario al E. de la Sierra de Altomira (Cuenca)
    (2015) Díaz Molina, Margarita; Aguirre, Emiliano; Vilas Minondo, Lorenzo
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    Stream mouth deposits in the palaeontological site of Somosaguas, Middle Miocene, Madrid Basin
    (Revista española de paleontología, 2012) Díez Canseco, Davinia; López Martínez, Nieves; Díaz Molina, Margarita; Benito Moreno, María Isabel
    The Middle Miocene sediments exposed in Somosaguas contain an excellent record of mammal fossil remains preserved in debris and mudfl ow deposits. In the sedimentary sequence of Somosaguas three facies associations are distinguished, representing alluvial fan and shallow lake margin environments. Alluvial fans are composed of mud and debris fl ow deposits. The whole of the lacustrine deposits are interbedded between debris and mud fl ow deposits. The shallow lake deposits are devoid of fossil remains, and they consist of well-sorted micaceous sandstone bodies with water flow structures, interbedded with thin mudstone beds. These sandstone bodies are interpreted as stream mouth lobes. Three integrated stratigraphic sections show that the lacustrine bedset overlain an erosion surface, probably scoured by flood waters. Palaeocurrent measurements indicate that the sediment filling the shallow lake came from the west and the north.