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PreFT-1: The legacy of mining pollution in the Iberian Pyrite Belt: Chemical sedimentary processes in the Tinto River (SW Spain).
PreFT-2: The late Miocene record of the straits connecting the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.
PreFT-3: Carbonate sedimentology in the External Zones of the Betic Cordillera
PostFT-1: Devonian and Carboniferous sedimentation in the Iberian Pyrite Belt
PostFT-2: Coast of Huelva including Doñana National Park
PostFT-3: A walk from the Ocean to the Desert in the central Betic Cordillera (Guadix-Baza Basin, Granada Geopark).
PreFT-1: The legacy of mining pollution in the Iberian Pyrite Belt: Chemical sedimentary processes in the Tinto River (SW Spain).
Leaders: José Miguel Nieto (Univ. Huelva) and Felipe J. González (Univ. Huelva)
Duration: 1 day (June 25, 2025), pre-congress. Start and end in Huelva.
Description: The Tinto River drains the central part of the Iberian Pyrite Belt in SW Spain, one of the largest polymetallic sulfide mining districts on Earth. During the fieldtrip we will visit the upper and middle part of this well-known “Red river” and discuss about natural versus anthropogenic pollution sources, and the role of chemical and physical sedimentation on its main channel.
Minimum number of participants: 10
Maximum number of participants: 29
Price: 60€ (It includes bus, picnic-lunch)
PreFT-2: The late Miocene record of the straits connecting the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.
Leaders: Ángel Puga (University of Granada) and Juan Carlos Braga (University of Granada)
Duration: 2 days (June 24 and 25), pre-congress. Start in Málaga and end in Huelva (Including stay on the night of the 24th in a hotel in Málaga and the transport to conference the second day)
Description: In the Late Miocene, several seaways connected the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean through the Betic Cordillera (southern Spain). Tectonic uplift of the cordillera resulted in narrowing of these connections and development of straits that eventually closed before the Messinian Salinity Crisis. The strait deposits (up to 400 m thick) consist of siliciclastics and mixed siliciclastics-carbonates with internal giant cross-bedding formed by the migration of large dunes moved by strong currents amplified by the constricted morphology of the strait. The proposed field trip focuses on the sedimentological features of the two westernmost Late Miocene straits in the Betic Cordillera. In the Zagra Strait, connecting the Mediterranean-linked Granada Basin with the Atlantic-linked Guadalquivir Basin, the dunes were moved by tidal currents. Bottom density currents flowing from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic generated the giant structures in the Guadalhorce Corridor, which closed in the early Messinian.
Minimum number of participants: 10
Maximum number of participants: 25
Price: 380€. (It includes bus, 2 picnic-lunches and 1 night of hotels)
PreFT-3: Carbonate sedimentology in the External Zones of the Betic Cordillera
Leaders: José Manuel Castro, Ginés A. de Gea, José Miguel Molina, Luis M. Nieto, Matías Reolid, Pedro Alejandro Ruiz-Ortiz.
Duration: 3 days (June 23-25), pre-congress. Start in Jaen and end in Huelva (Including stay on the nights of 23th and 24th in a hotel and the transport to conference the second day).
Description: The Betic External Zones are made up of para-autochthonous and allochthonous units (Prebetic and Subbetic respectively). In the former, we will recognize sequences, mainly from the Cretaceous, deposited on shallow carbonate platforms, close to the Iberian continent. The Subbetic Zone is mainly composed of Jurassic-Cretaceous carbonate sequences with predominant hemipelagic, pelagic and shallow-water deposits that we will visit. The Prebetic and Subbetic made up the South Iberian Continental Margin which, due to extensional stages associated with the opening of the Hispanic Corridor from the Pliensbachian, favoured a graben and semi-graben sea-bottom development, with differential subsidence, and consequently important lateral facies changes.
Minimum number of participants: 10
Maximum number of participants: 25
Price: 470€. (It includes bus, 3 picnic lunches and 2 nights of hotels)
PostFT-1: Devonian and Carboniferous sedimentation in the Iberian Pyrite Belt
Leaders: Felipe J. González and Teodosio Donaire
Duration: 1 days (June 29, 2025), post-congress. Start and end in Huelva.
Description: This excursion will provide an opportunity to visit the Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB), the largest district of volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits on Earth. During the Late Devonian, the IPB was affected by a transtensive tectonics related with the onset of the Variscan Orogeny. This resulted in the fragmentation of the former siliciclastic platform and the creation of numerous sub-basins with uneven sedimentation rates, the emergence of bimodal volcanism, and the formation of large volumes of massive sulfides. Since the Middle Mississippian, all these rocks were covered by a thick succession of sin-orogenic flysch deposits. The selected key outcrops in this one-day excursion will provide the opportunity to observe and discus all these different paleogeographic scenarios.
Minimum number of participants: 10
Maximum number of participants: 25
Price: 60€ (It includes bus, picnic-lunch)
PostFT-2: Coast of Huelva including Doñana National Park
Leaders: José Borrego, Antonio Rodríguez-Ramírez, Berta Carro, Juan A. Morales
Duration: 2 days (June 29-30, 2025), post congress. Every day start and end in Huelva. Hotels do not included.
Description: The coast of Huelva is an exceptional space to study both the processes and the facies of several depositional environments such as beaches, dunes, estuaries or tidal flats, including a wide range of examples that show how the evolution of coastal environments has occurred in the Holocene period and the record that remained preserved. In this 2-days field trip we will visit different coastal systems from the Guadiana River Delta to Doñana National Park, where we will study the widest dune field of Europe.
Minimum number of participants: 10
Maximum number of participants: 30
Price: 120€ (It includes bus, 2 picnic-lunches. Hotels not included)
PostFT-3: A walk from the Ocean to the Desert in the central Betic Cordillera (Guadix-Baza Basin, Granada Geopark).
Leaders: Dr. César Viseras (University of Granada), Jesús M. Soria (University of Alicante) and Luis M. Yeste (University of Granada)
Duration: 3 days (June 29, June 30 and July 1, 2025), post-congress. Start and end in Huelva (option to stay in Granada on return) (Including stay on the nights of 29th and 30th in a cave-hotel).
Description: In this three-day tour, beginning and ending in Huelva, we will be able to review 7 million years of a great variety of sedimentary environments, starting with the deep-marine sedimentation in the Tethys ocean, continuing with the coastal systems linked to the tectonic uplift of the area and the disconnection between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea at the end of the Miocene, continuing with the paleogeography of the fluvial and lacustrine systems that occupied the basin in its endorheic stage, to culminate with the processes responsible for the geomorphological inversion of the basin, which since the Pleistocene has been subjected to one of the highest erosion rates in Europe. This walk allows you to enjoy the fascinating landscapes of the Granada Geopark (UNESCO), probably the oldest human habitat on the European continent. During the field trip we will have the opportunity to recognize the sedimentary record of a wide variety of depositional systems, both marine and continental. The marine record includes examples of (hemi)pelagic systems, mixed terrigenous-carbonate platforms, reefs, and Gilbert-type deltas. The continental record is devoted to examples of alluvial fans, low-sinuosity rivers and shallow lakes.
Minimum number of participants: 10
Maximum number of participants: 30
Price: 530€. (It includes bus, 3 picnic-lunches and 2 nights of hotels)