Our work in the Pyrenees Fold and Thrust Belt has been continuous since the late 80's with main scientific results on 3D balanced and restored sections in the SE Pyrenees, timing of deformation, tectono-sedimentary relations, growth strata, salt tectonics, fluid flow, dating calcites in thrust planes, and recently on the Iberia-Europe plate boundary evolution (from 83.5 Ma to present).
Listed papers correspond to those published after year 2011.
Link to: Vergés et al. in Journal of Virtual Explorer (2002).
Link to: Vergés (1993). Estudi geològic del vessant sud del Pirineu oriental i central. Evolució cinemàtica en 3D. PhD Thesis University of Barcelona, 1–199.
East Pyrenees cross-sections link: Balanced and restored cross-sections & related field pictures
East Pyrenees cross-sections link: Balanced and restored cross-sections & related field pictures
Link to: File kmz (Virtual Fieldtrip on Google Earth) with the geolocation of 15 balanced and restored cross-sections used to reconstruct the 3D evolution of the SE Pyrenees fold and thrust system.
Assembled by Cristina Martínez
East Pyrenees cross-sections link: Balanced and restored cross-sections & related field pictures
Cruset, D., Vergés, J., Muñoz-López, D., Moragas, M., Cantarero, I., & Travé, A. (2023). Fluid evolution from extension to compression in the Pyrenean Fold Belt and Basque-Cantabrian Basin: A review. Earth-Science Reviews, 104494.
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Casini, G., Vergés, J., Drzewiecki, P., Ford, M., Cruset, D., Wright, W., & Hunt, D. (2023). Reconstructing the Iberian Salt‐Bearing Rifted Margin of the Southern Pyrenees: Insights From the Organyà Basin. Tectonics, 42(7).
https://doi.org/10.1029/2022TC007715
Ford, M., Masini, E., Vergés, J., Pik, R., Ternois, S., Leger, J., Dielforder, A., Frasca, G., Vinciguerra, C., Bernard, T., Angrand, P., Crémades, A., Manatschal, G., Chevrot, S., Jolivet, L., Mouthereau, F., Thinon, I., Calassou, S., 2022. Evolution of a low extension-low convergence orogen: Main stages of Pyrenean orogenesis as recorded in its foreland systems. BSGF - Earth Sci. Bull. 1–46.
Muñoz-López, D., Cruset, D., Vergés, J., Cantarero, I., Benedicto, A., Mangenot, X., Albert, R., Gerdes, A., Beranoaguirre, A., Travé, A., 2022. Spatio-temporal variation of fluid flow behavior along a fold: The Bóixols-Sant Corneli anticline (Southern Pyrenees) from U–Pb dating and structural, petrographic and geochemical constraints. Mar. Pet. Geol. 143, 105788.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2022.105788
Open Access
Muñoz-López, D., Cruset, D., Vergés, J., Cantarero, I., Benedicto, A., Baqués, V., Mangenot, X., Albert, R., Gerdes, A., Beranoaguirre, A., Travé, A., 2022. U-Pb dating and geochemical dataset of fracture-filling calcite veins from the Bóixols-Sant Corneli anticline (Southern Pyrenees). Data Br. 45, 108636.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.108636
Link to: Folder kmz (Virtual Fieldtrip on Google Earth with Elevation Exaggeration = 1) with the geolocation of the main analyzed field localities, geological maps, and cross-sections from the Evolution of a salt-rich transtensional rifted margin, eastern North Pyrenees, France paper published in Journal of the Geological Society by the authors.
Assembled by Cristina Martínez & Cristina Biete.
Ford, M., Vergés, J., 2021. Evolution of a salt-rich transtensional rifted margin, eastern North Pyrenees, France. J. Geol. Soc. London. 178, jgs2019-157.
https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2019-157
Struth, L., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Rodríguez-Rodríguez, L., Viaplana-Muzas, M., Vergés, J., Jiménez-Díaz, A., 2021. Topographic, lithospheric and lithologic controls on the transient landscape evolution after the opening of internally-drained basins. Modelling the North Iberian Neogene drainage. BSGF - Earth Sci. Bull.
https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1bFrFyDcGMBYV
Cruset, D., Cantarero, I., Benedicto, A., John, C.M., Vergés, J., Albert, R., Gerdes, A., Travé, A., 2020. From hydroplastic to brittle deformation: Controls on fluid flow in fold and thrust belts Insights from the Lower Pedraforca thrust sheet (SE Pyrenees). Mar. Pet. Geol. 120, 104517. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104517
https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1bFrFyDcGMBYV
Vergés, J., Kullberg, J.C., Ch. Macchiavelli, M. Fernàndez, M.T., Quesada, C., J.J. Gómez-Fernández, J. López-Gómez, J. Martín-Chivelet, L.V. Duarte, A. Jabaloy, A.M., Algarra, J.A. Muñoz, P. Terrinha, R. Vegas, G. de Vicente, A. Casas, M.T.G.-P., 2018. 4. An Introduction to the Alpine Cycle in Iberia, in: Quesada, C., Oliveira, J.T. (Eds.), The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach, Springer.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-11295-0_1
Cruset, D., 2019. Sequential fluid migration along a fold and thrust belt: SE Pyrenees from Late Cretaceous to Oligocene. PhD Thesis Barcelona Univ., 351 pages.
Diaz, J., Vergés, J., Chevrot, S., Antonio-Vigil, A., Ruiz, M., Sylvander, M., Gallart, J., 2018. Mapping the crustal structure beneath the eastern Pyrenees. Tectonophysics 744, 296–309.
Struth, L., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Viaplana-Muzas, M., Vergés, J., 2018. Drainage network dynamics and knickpoint evolution in the Ebro and Duero basins: From endorheism to exorheism. Geomorphology.
Macchiavelli, C., Vergés, J., Schettino, A., Fernàndez, M., Turco, E., Casciello, E., Torne, M., Pierantoni, P.P., Tunini, L., 2017. A New Southern North Atlantic Isochron Map: Insights Into the Drift of the Iberian Plate Since the Late Cretaceous. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth 122, 9603–9626.
http://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014769
Link to: Iberian Plate motion from 83.5 Ma to Present movie
Grool, A.R., Ford, M., Vergés, J., Huismans, R.S., Christophoul, F., Dielforder, A., 2018. Insights Into the Crustal-Scale Dynamics of a Doubly Vergent Orogen From a Quantitative Analysis of Its Forelands: A Case Study of the Eastern Pyrenees. Tectonics 37, 450–476.
Cruset, D., Cantarero, I., Vergés, J., John, C.M., Muñoz-López, D., Travé, A., 2017. Changes in fluid regime in syn-orogenic sediments during the growth of the south Pyrenean fold and thrust belt. Glob. Planet. Change.
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.11.001
Link to: Eastern Pyrenees fold and thrust belt
Cruset, D., Cantarero, I., Travé, A., Vergés, J., & John, C. M. (2016). Crestal graben fluid evolution during growth of the Puig-reig anticline (South Pyrenean fold and thrust belt). Journal of Geodynamics, 101, 30–50.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jog.2016.05.004
Link to: Puig-reig anticline map
Saura, E., Ardèvol i Oró, L., Teixell, A., Vergés, J., 2016. Rising and falling diapirs, shifting depocenters, and flap overturning in the Cretaceous Sopeira and Sant Gervàs subbasins (Ribagorça Basin, southern Pyrenees). Tectonics 35, 638–662.
http://doi.org/10.1002/2015TC004001
Link to: Sopeira Early Cretaceous minibasin map
Link to: Folder kmz (Virtual Fieldtrip on Google Earth with Elevation Exaggeration = 1) with the geolocation of the main analyzed field localities, geological maps, and cross-sections from the Rising and falling diapirs, shifting depocenters, and flap overturning in the Cretaceous Sopeira and Sant Gervàs subbasins (Ribagorça Basin, southern Pyrenees) paper published in Tectonics by the authors.
Assembled by Cristina Martínez & Cristina Biete.
Carballo, A., Fernandez, M., Jiménez-Munt, I., Torne, M., Vergés, J., Melchiorre, M., Pedreira, D., Afonso, J.C., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Díaz, J., Villaseñor, A., Pulgar, J. a., Quintana, L., 2015. From the North-Iberian Margin to the Alboran Basin: A lithosphere geo-transect across the Iberian Plate. Tectonophysics 663, 399–418.
Rushlow, C.R., Barnes, J.B., Ehlers, T.A., Vergés, J., 2013. Exhumation of the southern Pyrenean fold-thrust belt (Spain) from orogenic growth to decay. Tectonics 32, n/a-n/a.
Vergés, J., Fernàndez, M., 2012. Tethys–Atlantic interaction along the Iberia–Africa plate boundary: The Betic–Rif orogenic system. Tectonophysics 579, 144–172.
Shackleton, J.R., Cooke, M.L., Vergés, J., Simó, T., 2011. Temporal constraints on fracturing associated with fault-related folding at Sant Corneli anticline, Spanish Pyrenees. J. Struct. Geol. 33, 5–19.
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2010.11.003
Link to: Sant Corneli anticline map
Garcia-Castellanos, D., Vergés, J., Gaspar-Escribano, J., Cloetingh, S., 2003. Interplay between tectonics, climate, and fluvial transport during the Cenozoic evolution of the Ebro Basin (NE Iberia). J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth 108, 2347. doi:10.1029/2002JB002073
http://doi.org/10.1029/2002JB002073