Person: Arribas Mocoroa, José
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José
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Arribas Mocoroa
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Ciencias Geológicas
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Mineralogía y Petrología
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Petrología y Geoquímica
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Item The “Raña” unit, an intensely weathered Late Neogene product from SW Iberia: Petrographic and geochemical evidences(Catena, 2021) Arribas Mocoroa, José; Garzón Heydt, Guillermina; Tejero López, Rosa; Tsige Beyene, MeazaThe Raña is a morphosedimentary unit related to the last record of the Guadiana Basin and located in the southwestern Iberian Peninsula. The Guadiana Basin is an intracratonic basin filled with <200 m of Paleogene and Neogene clastic sediments. The Raña unit represents a relict unit that lies over the northern border of the Guadiana Basin and the Variscan basement of Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic low-grade metasediments from the Iberian Massif. Raña deposits are alluvial fans abandoned by their feeding streams during the Late Neogene period. Outcrops correspond to the apex of the alluvial fans isolated from the fluvial network. This study analysed Raña deposits using petrographic, mineralogical, and geochemical techniques, which suggested a source-to-sink analysis by contrasting data among the three involved elements: source areas, basin fill sediments, and Raña deposits. Sandstones from the basin infill show primarily quartzolithic petrofacies as a consequence of the low-grade metamorphic character of the sources. The Raña sandstones show similar petrofacies with a greater quartz content than basin infill deposits and an important population of argillaceous pisoids. Kaolinite is the dominant clay mineral associated with the Raña units. The aforementioned characteristics indicate a sedimentary provenance from intensely weathered products. The contrast of the geochemical composition of the parent rocks, basin-fill, and Raña deposits also confirms the forced maturation of sediments by chemical weathering. Chemical index of alteration values show evolution from infill sediments (76) to Raña deposits (90) as a consequence of mobile cation loss (Ca, Na, and K). This approach is related to different zones of alteration in soils, suggesting the formation of sapropelic deposits on weathering mantles at the source under hot and wet climates (tropical) during the formation of the Raña deposits. Finally, the provenance signals prevail despite intense weathering.Item Fluid migration recorded by fluid inclusions in crack-sealed quartz veins and sandstone host rock; Cameros Basin, Spain(Journal of iberian geology, 2021) González Acebrón, Laura; López Elorza, Maialen; Mas Mayoral, José Ramón; Arribas Mocoroa, José; Omodeo-Salé, SilviaThe role of deep hydrothermal fluid circulation through fractures and their impact on the sandstone host rock is studied in an extensional sedimentary basin (Cameros Basin, Spain) affected by a post-extensional hydrothermal metamorphism. The quartzarenites of the Urbión Group constituted a hydrocarbon carrier affected by very low to low-grade hydrothermal metamorphism during Late Albian to Coniacian. This process generated abundant quartz veins and transformed the quartzarenites into quartzites. This study compares the microthermometry of the fluid inclusion asemblages (FIAs) in the veins and in the quartz grain overgrowths in the quartzites, in order to understand the behavior of the hydrothermal fluids through fractures and their effects in the host rock. Fluid inclusions in the quartz grain overgrowths contain liquid and vapor at room temperature and homogenize to the liquid (Th: 124–265 °C, H2O + NaCl system). Those of quartz veins present both liquid and vapor CO2 and an aqueous liquid phase (room temperature). Final homogenization is to the liquid (Th: 109–282 °C, H2O + NaCl + CO2, mean values of amount-of-substance fractions: 0.92, 0.01, 0.07). Large Th variation within each FIA is common, due to crack and sealing processes and to reequilibration by successive thermal pulses. In contrast, the narrow Th range in each FIA towards the top of the record indicates that these inclusions are probably not reequilibrated. Two growing stages are recognized under SEM-CL in the quartz grain overgrowths, one diagenetic and another hydrothermal, the later with FIAs showing Th similar than the veins. The results can help in the evaluation of the geo-energy resources in sedimentary basins.Item Petrography and provenance of beach sands from volcanic oceanic islands: Cabo Verde, Atlantic Ocean(Journal of Sedimentary Research, 2021) Le Pera, Emilia; Morrone, Consuele; Arribas Mocoroa, José; Arribas Mocoroa, María Eugenia; Ancochea Soto, Eumenio; Huertas Coronel, María JoséVolcaniclastic deposits have been extensively analyzed in several settings in the Pacific and circum-Pacific area. Recent volcaniclastic products from Atlantic oceanic islands offer another opportunity to add new data and be an important key to a better understanding of volcanic imprints on the sedimentary record. The Cabo Verde archipelago is an Atlantic Oceanic plateau with late Oligocene to Holocene volcanism. Outcrops consist mainly of mafic and strongly alkaline and ultra-alkaline volcanic (pyroclastic and lava flows) and less abundant intrusive rocks with minor carbonatites and carbonate sedimentary rocks, constituting a multiple-provenance assemblage for the sandy beaches surrounding the islands. Currently, climate is semiarid to hyperarid with ephemeral and intermittent streams. Thirty-six samples of beach sand from six principal Cabo Verde Islands were selected for petrographic inspection. On average, beach sands constitute a volcanolithic petrofacies. A relative increase in carbonate limeclasts and bioclasts dilutes the pure volcaniclastic contribution mainly on the older island beaches (Sao Vicente, Sal, and Boa Vista). The major components of Cabo Verde beach sands are highly variable; in general, composition is a function of island morphological evolution and age. Thus, beaches of the younger islands (Sao Nicolau, Santiago, and Fogo) consist mainly of volcanic lithic fragments, and monomineralic grains of dense minerals such as olivine, pyroxene, and amphibole, and single grains of plagioclase and anorthoclase. By contrast, beaches of older eastern islands (Sal, Boa Vista, and Sao Vicente) contain more calcareous bioclasts, micritic and/or sparitic sedimentary lithic grains. The presence of carbonate grains suggests provenance from shallow carbonate platforms developed during periods of volcanic quiescence. Cabo Verde volcanic sandy fractions are composed mostly of black, brown, and orange glassy volcanic particles exhibiting microlitic, lathwork, and vitric textures. Volcanic particles with lathwork textures are linked to mafic provenance assemblages (nephelinites, basanites, and tephrites). The content of glassy particles is nearly constant in all beaches, and both hydroclastic and epiclastic processes are reflected in these populations of glassy grains. Boa Vista, Sao Vicente, and Santiago beaches contain higher proportions of sideromelane, linked to recent coastal volcanism, and lower proportions of orange and black glassy particles. The concentration of orange glass particles in the beaches of Santiago Island is higher than in the other island beaches. These orange glassy textures have been preserved even if they were sourced from the intensely altered Ancient Eruptive Complex, representing the pre-Miocene seamount stage of Santiago Island. A very small percentage of altered labile monocrystalline grains such as olivine and the paucity of altered volcanic components reflect the weathering-limited erosion regime of the islands. The exposed phonolitic lava flows that occupy only a minor surface part of the inland source produce particles with microlitic texture in sand beaches. Thus, this texture is not exclusive to andesitic, basaltic, and basaltic andesites sources, suggesting the need for a review of these particles as source-sensitive provenance signals.Item The Jurassic – Cretaceous transition in the West Cameros Basin (Tera Group, Burgos, Spain): Sedimentological and palynostratigraphical insights(Cretaceous research., 2022) Rodríguez Barreiro, Iván; Santos, Artai A.; Arribas Mocoroa, María Eugenia; Mas Mayoral, José Ramón; Arribas Mocoroa, José; Villanueva Amadoz, Uxue; Torcida Fernández-Baldor, Fidel; Diez, José B.The Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary transition is widely distributed within the West Cameros Basin. This horizon is constituted by the Tera Group, consisting of two depositional sequences (DS1 and DS2) comprising four geological formations spanning the Tithonian to the Berriasian. Here, a combined sedimentological and palynostratigraphic study was made covering the Tera Group. The sedimentological results for the DS 1 differentiate three facies associations (FA 1-1, 1-2 and 1-3) corresponding to floodplains and braided channels of a distributive fluvial system shifting to shallow lacustrine facies in a semi-arid climate. For the DS 2, three FA were also differentiated (FA 2-1, 2-2, and 2-3), corresponding to tidal-influenced meandering channels and floodplains in a distal fluvial to a delta-plain system that shifts to shallow lacustrine facies. The palynological results were only productive in samples from the Jaramillo Formation. The palynological record shows an assemblage dominated by spores including Concavissimisporites, Leptolepidites and Taurocusporites, as well as Classopollis pollen. According to the stratigraphic ranges of some selected taxa, the suggested chronostratigraphic assignment is lower Berriasian for the Jaramillo Fm. A comparison of the microfloras from the Tithonian–Berriasian recorded in the Iberian Peninsula was carried out. The following observations can be concluded: 1) the change in the plant communities, already observed since the Late Jurassic onwards, became more pronounced between the Tithonian–Berriasian boundary and the late Berriasian; and 2) a noteworthy occurrence of some biostratigraphically important taxa, specifically for the Tithonian–Berriasian interval.Item Interpretación estratigráfica y estructural de la Cuenca de San Pedro (margen sudeste de la República Dominicana)(Geotemas, 2021) Gorosabel Araus, J.M.; Granja Bruña, José Luis; Gallego Mingo, , A.; Carbo Gorosabel, Andrés; Mas Mayoral, José Ramón; Arribas Mocoroa, José; Arribas Mocoroa, María Eugenia; López Andrés, Sol; Canales Fernández, María Luisa; Rodríguez Zurrunero, Álvaro; Reynoso-Villafaña, R.; Rosario, G.; Muñoz-Tapia, S.J.La cuenca de San Pedro (CSP) se define como una depresión batimétrica con tendencia E-O y una extensión aproximada de 6000 km2, situada en el margen sureste de la isla de La Española (República Dominicana y Haití). Estructuralmente se ubica en la parte trasera del Cinturón Deformado de los Muertos (CDM). Considerada tradicionalmente como una cuenca de edad Mioceno medio, cuyo relleno ha sido depositado en el espacio de configuración generado por la progresiva deformación del CDM. Sin embargo, gracias a la integración de los trabajos de cartografía geológica (Proyectos SYSMIN I y II) con datos de geofísica de subsuelo (sísmica de reflexión, registros de pozo y campos potenciales), ha sido posible proponer un nuevo modelo evolutivo de la cuenca que abarca desde el inicio de la sedimentación en un contexto de retro-arco desde el Cretácico Superior hasta la inversión de la cuenca en el Eoceno medio y la posterior evolución del conjunto CSP-CDM hasta la actualidad, pudiendo correlacionar las principales secuencias estratigráficas y estructuras con los datos de afloramiento y pozo.- Project number: 196
Item Material audiovisual para el mural "El Tiempo en Geología" de la Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas(2020) García Lorenzo, María De La Luz; Arroyo Rey, Xabier; Soutullo García, Belén; Abati Gómez, Jacobo; Benito Moreno, María Isabel; Álvarez Sierra, María De Los Ángeles; Arribas Mocoroa, José; Arribas Mocoroa, María Eugenia; Castiñeiras García, Pedro; Crespo Feo, María Elena; Fernández Barrenechea, José María; García Romero, Emilia; Granja Bruña, José Luis; Iglesias Martínez, Mario; De Ignacio San José, Cristina; Martín Chivelet, Javier; Muñoz Martín, Alfonso; Orejana García, David; Ortega Menor, Lorena; Pieren Pidal, Agustín Pedro; Piña García, Rubén; Fernández Martín, Elena; Fernández Suffo, Paula; Muñoz Gallego, AlmudenaLa Geología abarca toda la historia del planeta, por lo que se hace inviable utilizar conceptos temporales de nuestra vida cotidiana. Por ello, se ha realizado un friso para el hall de la Facultad y para presentarlo, se ha realizado un vídeo explicativo del mismo.