David CrusetGeosciences Barcelona (GEO3BCN-CSIC)
David Cruset
PhD
Relationships between fluid flow and tectonic deformation
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July 2019 - May 2021
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June 2016 - July 2019
December 2014 - June 2016
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The South Pyrenean fold and thrust belt developed during the Alpine compression and affected Upper Cretaceous to Lower Oligocene foreland basin deposits. In this study, we determine the changes in fluid regime and fluid composition during the growth of this fold and thrust belt, integrating structural, petrographic and geochemical data.
Hydrotherma...
We present a multidisciplinary study to decipher the controls of deformation on fluid flow regime in fold and thrust belts using the Lower Pedraforca thrust sheet in the SE Pyrenees as an example. We integrate field-based and petrographic observations and geochemical and geochronological data to differentiate seven types of fractures, eight types o...
It is difficult to quantify the timing of the deformation processes in brittle fold–thrust belts because minerals suitable for dating and well-preserved growth strata sediments are scarce or absent. Here, we quantify the duration of thrust sheet emplacement and shortening rates in the SE Pyrenean thrust sequence using U–Pb dating of fracture-fillin...
We combine structural analysis of fractures with 22 U–Pb dates measured in fracture-filling carbonate cements from bed-parallel fibrous calcite veins (beef), conjugated veins and faults within the Vaca Muerta Formation along the Andean fold and thrust belt in the Neuquén Basin. The measured ages constrain accurately the relationships between overpr...
We propose a review to discuss the large number of studies dealing with the fluid history in extensional and compressional sedimentary basins that evolved along the Iberian-Eurasian plate boundary during the full Mesozoic-Cenozoic Wilson Cycle in the Pyrenean fold belt and the Basque-Cantabrian Basin. We integrate classic and modern geochemical and...
We present a geochronological and structural study of the sedimentary architecture of the Vaca Muerta-Quintuco System and Mulichinco Formation in Sierra de Reyes and La Yesera anticlines along the Andean front within the Neuquén Basin. Remote sensing mapping coupled with fieldwork has allowed us to analyse an Auquilco-related secondary detachment a...
This dataset contains structural data of the southern sector of the Sierra de Reyes Antiform along the Andean front in the Neuquén Basin, Argentina. This structural data consist of bedding dips and their strike as well as Remote Sensing Mapping of the main units outcropping in the area. Location of calcite shells within the Vaca Muerta-Quintuco Sys...
The complex Mesozoic-to-present tectonic history of the Caucasus region includes the opening of several intracontinental back-arc extensional basins along the southern edge of the Eurasian continental plate as a response to the northward subduction of the Neo-Tethys beneath Eurasia, followed by the Arabia-Eurasia collision and the tectonic inversio...
Salt-embedded basins and their sedimentary successions may play an important role in energy transition as geothermal reservoirs, due to the high thermal conductivity of some evaporites (halite) and the comparatively higher porosity and permeability of basin-filling sedimentary successions. However, outcrop analogue studies on the reservoir potentia...
Salt is playing a principal role in the current energy transition. From diapirs to salt walls, salt structures are being proposed for a growing number of non-fossil energy purposes and carbon-neutral projects (i.e., geothermics, hydrogen storage in salt caverns or CCS). However, diapiric structures are not uniform and exhibit significant compositio...
During the last decade, several studies have investigated the impact of diapirism in the diagenesis of the flanking sediments, as they are potential targets for the exploration of mining and energetic resources. These diagenetic processes are closely related to the tectonic evolution of the salt structures. The Tazoult and the Toumliline diapirs ca...
Field data together with petrographic and geochemical analyses (δ13C, δ18O) of vein cements and host rocks are used to reconstruct the fluid flow evolution in a well-exposed carbonate thrust zone, the Montsec thrust sheet, Southern Pyrenees. The Montsec thrust places Upper Cretaceous marine limestones over Paleocene non-marine carbonates and clays....
The Oliana anticline (10 km wide by 15 km long) is a well-exposed structure located in the northern margin of the Ebro foreland basin, at the footwall of the Southern Pyrenean orogenic wedge. The upper Eocene to Oligocene sedimentary succession of the Oliana anticline brings the opportunity to develop outcrop analogue studies in the proximal margin...
This study aims to reconstruct the evolution of fractures in a well-exposed thrust zone in the southern Pyrenees, and to qualitatively evaluate the thrust zone permeability. This is, to characterize the transfer of fluids through the fault zone and to qualitatively determine the fault behavior as conduit or barrier to fluid flow.
This contribution...
The Central High Atlas of Morocco is a double verging major diapiric province encompassing SW-NE trending salt-related ridges and Lower to Middle Jurassic deposits over synclines (minibasins) in between them. Typically, Pliensbachian and Bajocian platform carbonates flanking diapirs exhibit partial dolomitization in the vicinity of the diapir wall....
The chemostratigraphy of the growth strata related to the growth of the Sant Corneli-Bóixols anticline, reveals the sedimentary environment evolution of these syn-orogenic sediments. The decrease of Y/Ho ratios throughout the succession from typical open marine values to nearshore values indicates the shallowing upward trend of the growth strata an...
In the Upper Pedraforca thrust sheet in the Southern Pyrenees, replacive dolomite occurs in Jurassic carbonates (Rd1) and in Lower Cretaceous sedimentary breccias and carbonates (Rd2). Dolomite crystals are red-dull to non-luminescent, subhedral, range between 15 and 400 μm in size and show idiotopic and hypidiotopic textures. The replacive dolosto...
Dating fold-related structures is critical to understand the timing, duration, and rate of fold growth as well as the sequential evolution of fold-and-thrust belts. In this contribution, we combine structural analysis of fractures with U-Pb dating of calcite veins related to the evolution of the Bóixols-Sant Corneli anticline (Southern Pyrenees) ai...
Reinterpretation of the Organyà Basin, based on new detailed field observations and subsurface data, emphasizes the key contribution of Upper Triassic evaporites in the tectono‐sedimentary evolution of the South‐Central Pyrenees. Results are integrated in a 65‐km long restored cross‐section through the Serres Marginals, Montsec and eastern Organyà...
surrounding sedimentary basins and the role of plate collision in the basin-mountain coupling process. This paperinvestigates the provenance of the Cenozoic sediments filling the Qaidam Basin (Qinghai Tibetan Plateau, China)by combining petrology, major elements, trace elements, rare earth elements (REEs), and Zircon U–Pb datinganalysis to provide...
We analysed the petrothermal and petrophysical properties of the Upper Eocene alluvial fan, fluvial fan and lacustrine deposits in the NE Ebro Foreland Basin, South Pyrenean fold belt. The proximal facies located in the Oliana anticline consist of marine marls, transitional sulphates and non-marine alluvial sandstones and conglomerates. Distally, f...
This study aims the characterization of the sequence stratigraphy, the mineralogy and the thermal properties of deltaic deposits. As a case of study, we focused on the transgressive sequence set of the middle Eocene Cal Padró composite sequence of the Sant Llorenç del Munt fan-delta complex in the eastern Ebro foreland basin, related with the growt...
The lithographic limestone of La Pedrera de Meià (LPM) in south-central Pyrenees (NE Spain) is considered one of the best preserved lacustrine-coastal successions of the Early Cretaceous in Europe, hosting a taxonomically diverse record of Barremian biota. While this Konservat-Lagerstätte has been extensively surveyed for paleontological purposes,...
Structural analyses of vein and faults related with the growth of the South Pyrenean fold and
thrust belt are coupled with the U-Pb ages of fracture-filling calcites compiled in Cruset et al.
(2020) and Muñoz-López et al. (2022). Fractures include conjugated vein systems and reverse,
strike-slip and normal faults cemented by calcite. The results re...
The petrophysical and petrothermal characterization of the sedimentary succession of the Oliana anticline in the Southern Pyrenees has been performed on the basis of mineral density, connected porosity, permeability, P-wave velocity and thermal conductivity measurements of rock samples distributed along this anticline. This dataset was used to expl...
The Oliana anticline (Southern Pyrenees) has been characterized as an outcrop analogue of a geothermal reservoir using field data (stratigraphy and fracturing) and petrological, petrophysical and petrothermal analyses. Five lithofacies were established including conglomerates, hybrid arenites, lithic arenites, carbonates and evaporites.
Petrophysi...
Fluvial system deposits often form suitable reservoirs for CO2 geological storage (CGS). These potential storage sites usually present heterogeneous fluvial architectures at multiple scales. This heterogeneity can exert varied effects on different aspects of CGS, resulting in significant storage efficiency variability. Here, we investigate the effe...
The Oliana anticline in the southern Pyrenees is a seismic-scale (14 km wide by 15 km long) well-exposed structure located in the northern margin of the Ebro foreland basin, at the footwall of the South-Pyrenean orogenic wedge.
This structure has been studied as an outcrop analog of a geothermal reservoir
located in the proximal domain of a forelan...
Coupled field structural data and petrographic-geochemical analyses (δ 13 C, δ 18 O) is used to reconstruct the evolution of fractures and fluid flow regimes in a well-exposed carbonate thrust zone (the Montsec thrust sheet, Southern Pyrenees). The Montsec thrust places Upper Cretaceous marine limestones over Paleocene non-marine carbonates and cla...
During the last decade, several studies have investigated the impact of diapirism in the diagenesis of the flanking sediments, as they are potential targets for the exploration of mining and energetic resources. These diagenetic processes are close related to the tectonic evolution of the salt structures.
The Tazoult and the Toumliline diapirs cas...
U-Pb dating and geochemical analyses (δ18O, δ13C, Δ47, 87Sr/86Sr and elemental composition) have been applied to fracture-filling calcite veins and host carbonates from the Bóixols-Sant Corneli anticline, which developed along the front of the Bóixols thrust sheet in the Southern Pyrenees. This robust dataset is used to determine: (i) the absolute...
Dating of fracture-filling carbonates has been revealed in recent years as a powerful tool to constrain the absolute timing of fluid migration and tectonic deformation in extensional, compressional and strike-slip tectonic settings worldwide. This method has been applied to fracture-filling calcite cements from the SE Pyrenean thrust sheet system a...
This study integrates field structural data, petrographic and geochemical (δ¹⁸O, δ¹³C, Δ47, ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr, and elemental composition) analyses and U–Pb dating of calcite veins cutting the Bóixols-Sant Corneli anticline (Southern Pyrenees) in order to date and to investigate the spatio-temporal relationships between fluid flow and fold evolution. This E...
The uplift of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) during the late Cenozoic is thought to be one of the crucial factors controlling the Asian climate. However, the complex interaction between tectonics and climate change remains unclear. The carbon and oxygen isotopes and elementary geochemistry of rocks from the early Eocene Lulehe Formation to the Miocene Yo...
As one of the predominant diagenetic products in clastic rocks, calcite cements are typical fingerprints of cement‐forming fluids and are key controls on reservoir quality. The Puig‐reig anticline, in the south‐eastern Pyrenees (Spain), exposes excellent outcrops of conglomerates, sandstones and claystones, which were deposited from a proximal to m...
Karst fills from the onshore Penedès Basin and offshore València Trough display red,
pink, orange and ochre colours. Their Mössbauer spectra indicate that Fe3+ contained in goethite is the dominant species in reddish-pink fills, whereas Fe2+ contained in dolomite and clays is more dominant in the orange and ochre ones. The lower δ13C values and hig...
Core recoveries are often incomplete, hampering sedimentological descriptions and their interpretations. To solve these limitations, chemostratigraphy is a reliable tool that provide information about the evolution of buried sedimentary systems, which can be applied to both continuous conventional core data and drill cuttings. Furthermore, chemostr...
Fluvial fans represent one of the dominant sedimentary systems at the active margins of non-marine foreland basins. The Puig-reig anticline at the north-eastern margin of the Ebro Foreland Basin (SE Pyrenees, Spain) exposes continuous outcrops of Late Eocene-Early Oligocene fluvial deposits, from proximal to medial fluvial fan environments. The pro...
Fluid systems in inverted rifted margins are challenging to interpret because fractures formed before compression were often reactivated acting as fluid pathways as new ones formed. Deciphering the fracture and fluid flow history in such complex settings has key implications for the prediction of the distribution of mineral resources. As an example...
Abstract: Calcite veins precipitated in the Estamariu thrust during two tectonic events have been investigated in order to decipher the relationships between deformation and fluid migration in Paleozoic basement rocks. Structural observations constrain the timing of vein formation and fluid migration, whilst geochemical analyses (δ13C, δ18O, 87Sr/8...
The role of stylolites and stylolite networks on fluid flow during the diagenetic evolution of carbonate rocks is controversial, according to recent heated debate in the literature (e.g., Humphrey et al., 2019). This contribution aims to discuss the role of bedding-parallel stylolites on the formation and distribution of replacive dolostones and su...
As the most prevalent authigenic mineral, calcite cement exerts a significant effect on reservoir quality of the Puig-reig anticline, which is an excellent outcrop analogue to study calcite cement distribution due to good and continuous exposure. After stratigraphic logging and rock sampling, two major generations of calcite cementation have been i...
Calcite crystal morphologies reflect physical parameters of precipitation such as temperature and ion saturation and pressure,
as also CO2 release related to fluid boiling and effervescence (Montcada et al., 2012; Milodowski et al., 2018). We present a study of fracture-filling rose-like clusters of bladed calcites from the Cadí thrust sheet (SE Py...
This work is focused on the fluid circulation registered in the supra-salt deformation related to the Jumilla Fault in the Upper Jurassic marine carbonates. This deformation consists of normal faults associated with breccias cemented by three generations of calcite cement (Cc1 to Cc3) and by manganese oxides, which precipitate between Cc2 and Cc3....
Fluvial fans represent one of the dominant sedimentary systems at the active margins of non-marine foreland basins. The Puig-reig anticline at the northeastern margin of the Ebro Foreland Basin (SE Pyrenees, Spain) exposes continuous outcrops of late Eocene-early Oligocene fluvial deposits, from proximal to medial fluvial fan environments. The prox...
Rocks from the Pyrenean basement have a different chemical composition with respect to those from the sedimentary cover, and thereby, the fluids migrating through basement or cover units have a different geochemical signature. For this reason, calcite cements, precipitated in fractures from these fluids, record information about the rocks through w...
Fluid flow analysis in fold and thrust belts provides information about the exhumation of foreland basins. In this contribution, we decipher the evolution of the SE Pyrenean fold and thrust belt from Late Cretaceous to Oligocene by means of petrographic observations and geochemical studies of fracture-filling calcites. We have used δ18O, δ13C, 87Sr...
Sedimentary rocks of foreland fold-and-thrust belts typically undergo intensive fracturing as fold grows. The resulting fracture networks can present significant variations depending on the distribution of sedimentary facies and the complex structural characteristics of fold-and-thrust belts. The Puig-reig anticline, located in the south-eastern Py...
Recently, U-Pb dating of fracture-filling carbonates has revealed as a powerful tool to constrain the absolute timing of deformation in fold and thrust belts. However, geochronological studies of these minerals have to be combined with petrological observations and geochemical analyses to decipher if measured dates document fluid flow Synchronously...
Our data attest for the compartmentalization of the thrust zone (different deformation and fluid flow histories in the footwall and hanging wall). The study thrust acted as a transverse barrier and a longitudinal drain for fluids.
During thrusting, the source for fluids evolved from percolation of meteoric fluids to upflow of hotter formation water...
Calcite veins precipitated in the Estamariu thrust during two tectonic events are studied in order to (i) decipher the temporal and spatial relationships between deformation and fluid migration in a long-lived thrust and (ii) determine the influence of basement rocks on the fluid chemistry during deformation. Structural and petrological observation...
The Estamariu thrust, in the Pyrenean Axial Zone, resulted from a long-lived Variscan to Neogene tectonic history. Structural data together with petrological and geochemical analyses of synkinematic calcite veins and host rocks, constrain the fault-fluid system evolution during two successive tectonic events. Despite the Estamariu thrust is known t...
A well exposed thrust in the Southern Pyrenees was selected to characterize the transfer of fluids along and across a fault zone and to determine the thrust behavior as conduit or barrier to fluid migration. The studied thrust juxtaposes a Cenomanian-Turonian carbonate sequence in the hanging wall against a Coniacian carbonate succession in the foo...
Petrographic and geochemical analyses (δ¹⁸O, δ¹³C, ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr, clumped isotopes, and elemental composition) coupled with field structural data of synkinematic calcite veins, fault rocks, and host rocks are used to reconstruct the episodic evolution of an outstanding exposed thrust zone in the Southern Pyrenees and to evaluate the fault behavior as a...
Between the late Tortonian and the Middle Pleistocene, a shallow but large (up to 800 km2) lacustrine system existed in the Baza Basin. During the Early Pleistocene, the marginal area of this lake was occupied by humans that arrived from Africa. With 1.3 Ma, these fossils and archaeological finds represent the oldest evidences of humans in Europe....
Fracture-filling rose-like clusters of bladed calcite crystals are found in the northern sector of the Cadí thrust sheet (SE Pyrenees). This unusual calcite crystal morphology has been characterized by using optical and electron microscope, X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, δ 18 O, δ 13 C, 87 Sr/ 86 Sr, clumped isotopes, and major and rare ear...
U-Pb dating using laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS), δ¹³C, δ¹⁸O, clumped isotopes and ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr analysis, and electron microprobe have been applied to fracture-filling calcites and host carbonates from the Lower Pedraforca thrust sheet, in the SE Pyrenees. These data are used to determine the type and origin of...
Calcite veins precipitated in the Estamariu thrust during two tectonic events decipher the temporal and spatial relationships between deformation and fluid migration in a long-lived thrust and determine the influence of basement rocks on the fluid chemistry during deformation. Structural and petrological observations constrain the timing of fluid m...
The south Pyrenean fold and thrust belt contain excellent exposures of source and reservoir rocks where the relationships between oil migration and deformation during the alpine orogeny can be established. In this study we focused on the Lower Eocene Corones and Armàncies Formations, which constitute, respectively, the main source rock and reservoi...
The south eastern Pyrenees allowed us to study the relationships between fluid flow and deformation in a complete section of a well-preserved fold and thrust belt. Furthermore, this study enables us to decipher the main controls on fluid flow and to perform a conceptual model of fluid migration in fold and thrust belts by comparing the southern Pyr...
The Montagut fault system stands as part of the Sant Corneli and Boixols anticline, located in the frontal part of the Boixols thrust belt of the southern Pyrenees, as developed during the Alpine compression. Structural in-field data, as associated with petrographic and cathodoluminescence study, has yielded recognition of three different generatio...
The evolution of fluid flow during the emplacement of the Lower Pedraforca thrust sheet has been inferred from fracture data, petrography and geochemistry of calcite cements. The reached results reveal that during the earlier compression stages, fluids migrating along the fractures were in equilibrium with their adjacent host rocks. Inversely, exte...
Structural, petrological and geochemical (δ 13 C, δ 18 O, clumped isotopes, 87 Sr/ 86 Sr and ICP-MS) analyses of fracture-related calcite cements and host rocks are used to establish a fluid-flow evolution model for the frontal part of the Bóixols thrust sheet (Southern Pyrenees). Five fracture events associated with the growth of the thrust-relate...
Structural, petrological and geochemical data allow us to constrain the fluid flow system at the frontal part of the Bóixols thrust sheet, Southern Pyrenees, focusing on the fluid origin, pathways and regimes. Throughout the evolution process of the fault-related Bóixols anticline, different fracture sets have been developed and mineralized with at...
The relationships between deformation and fluid flow have been investigated in the Paleozoic basement of an isolated horst of the Catalan Coastal Ranges. A structural, petrological and geochemical study has been performed in a complex fracture network that resulted from a long-lived tectonic history (from Carboniferous to Miocene).
Nine fracture ty...
The South Pyrenean fold and thrust belt (NE Spain) is an excellent example in which the relationships between fluids and sedimentary basins during the Mesozoic extension and Pyrenean orogeny can be studied. This study is focused in the Upper Pedraforca thrust sheet, emplaced from Late Cretaceous to Paleocene. This structure consists of an extension...
In salt-influenced rift basins, the study of the relationship between faults and cements allows determining the different diagenetic stages and, therefore, the different fluid flow events linked with deformation. The present study is located in the Eastern Prebetic Zone (Southeastern Spain) where three main kinematic events have been stablished: 1)...
During the Tortonian the Betic Cordillera formed an archipelago of islands that emerged gradually within the Betic corridor. This strait was formed by a series of marine sea-ways and interconnected sedimentary basins that allowed the connection between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. The progressive rise of the Betic range produced the continen...
The South-Pyrenean fold-and-thrust belt is an ideal natural case for the study of fluid-migration during orogenic compression. The study area comprises the southern limb of the eastern sector of the Sant Corneli-Bóixols-Nargó anticline and its related footwall Coll de Nargó syncline. Structurally speaking, the Sant Corneli-Bóixols-Nargó anticline i...
The South Pyrenean fold and thrust belt (NE Spain) is an excellent example to study the evolution of fluids during the progressive exhumation of a foreland basin. This study is focused on the Cadí thrust sheet, emplaced from the middle Eocene to the lower Oligocene. The southern limit of the Cadí thrust sheet is the Vallfogona thrust, which places...