Controles alogénicos sobre la ciclicidad en la sedimentación continental en la Cuenca de Guadix (Cordillera Bética, España) durante el Plioceno y Pleistoceno: estado del conocimiento
- César Viseras 1
- Sila Pla-Pueyo 2
- Jesús M. Soria 3
- Juan Fernández 1
- Fernando García-García 4
- Elizabeth Gierlowski-Kordesch 5
- Ian Candy 6
- Danielle Schreve 6
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Universidad de Granada
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Heriot-Watt University
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Universitat d'Alacant
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Universidad de Jaén
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University of London
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Ohio University
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ISSN: 0214-2708
Year of publication: 2014
Volume: 27
Issue: 1
Pages: 223-238
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España
Abstract
The Guadix Basin (Betic Cordillera, S Spain) is the ideal scenario to study the auto- and allogenic processes controlling continental sedimentation in hydrologically closed-basins. The extension and the lateral and vertical continuity of the outcrops, together with abundant archaeological and palaeontological sites in the area, have allowed the interpretation of the evolution of the basin throughout the last 4 Ma and the factors controlling it. These studies become much more important due to their relation to the characterisation of palaeoenvironments inhabited by the first European hominins. In this work, we present a synthesis of the most significative stratigraphical, sedimentological, petrological and palaeoclimatic studies developed in the Guadix Basin in the last decade, and updated results regarding the allogenic factors that controlled the continental sedimentation in the basin.