%0 Book Section
%T Tertiary of Central System basins
publisher Cambridge University Press
%D 1996
%U 0521461715
%@ https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/60513
%X The rise of the Central System due to reactivation of lateHercynian fault systems during the Alpine Orogeny directly affectedthe strcture and stratigraphic framework of the basins nearbythat were being filled al the same time. The sedimentary record is theessential key to understanding the tectonic and palaeo-morphological history, of the Central Range, and vice-versa. Relating the fillingof the basins with the definition of the mountain range, pre-arkosic,arkosic and post-arkosic stages have been proposed. However, it isdifficult to support the previous idea that the arkosic stage continuedthroughout the Late Tertiary to finish in Middle Pliocene.:times withe the deposition of the Paramos(limestone). The arkoscsof the Central System arc of Eocene-Oligocce age and the highestalluvial fan deposits may be of Aragonian age. There is only a poorrecord of the remaining Tertiary and Quaternary sediments.boeause of active river incision during this lime in the hasins, theranges and elsewhere in the Spanish Meseta.
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