Diego Torromé

University of Zaragoza | UNIZAR · Department of Earth Sciences

The sedimentary and stratigraphic features of the low-gradient slope carbonate palustrine system of the Fortanete Formation (northeast Spain) during the early Campanian have been studied. The succession of the Fortanete Fm provides depositional record of a progressive transition to continental settings in an area that was predominantly marine for m...

This work characterizes for the first time the 500–700 m-thick uppermost Cretaceous continental sedimentary succession of the Allueva Fm recorded in the northeastern margin of the Iberian basin, in the Montalbán subbasin (Maestrazgo domain, Spain). The middle-upper Campanian age of this unit constrained here by new paleomagnetic and biostratigraphi...

A new dasycladalean green alga is described as Milanovicella? canadillana from the Upper Cretaceous (middle Santonian–lower Campanian) of northeastern Spain. It occurs in foram-algal wackestones of the La Cañadilla Formation ascribed to a shallow marine (hyposaline?) to coastal environment. The associated microfauna is dominated by miliolids. The g...

The middle Santonian-lower Campanian carbonate-mud dominated succession deposited in the northeastern margin of the South Iberian Ramp (La Cañadilla Fm, NE Spain) shows a complex set of interfingered facies developed in a low-energy and low-gradient shallow-marine to coastal environment. Three facies belts characterize the environment reconstructed...

Cenozoic marine limestones containing larger foraminifera, corals and coralline algae are a common hydrocarbon reservoir rock. Such reservoirs frequently show complex micritization processes and porosity systems including diagenetic 'chalky' microporosity. In order to gain understanding on the origin of this microporosity, this study characterizes...