Field Excursion Guide to the Island of Mallorca
Print publication date: 01/01/1990
Regional Geology and General Interest, Geologists' Association, Geologists' Association Guides
Type: Book (Paperback)
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780707305882
Weight: 0.35kg
Number of pages: 93
£12.00
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Product Code: GA042
H C Jenkyns, B W Sellwood, and L Pomar
Reprinted 2011
This guide is based on numerous trips the authors have led to the island of Mallorca in the last decade, including two for the Geologists' Association, and contains a certain amount of original research. The Balaeric Group, the most isolated of the Mediterranean islands, covers an area of 5014 sqkm. Its submarine platform is separated from the east coast of Spain by the Valencia Trogh, a channel over 1000min depth. The alignment of island runs approximately east-west along a 300km belt. The largest island is Mallorca covering 73% of the area.
Preface • Geology of the Balearic Islands (Introduction; morphology and structure; geologicl history) • Excursions (Triassic Facies and Tectonic Style; Drowned Carbonate Platforms, Redposited Oolites and Jurassic Pelagic Facies; Platform Carbonates, Pelagic Sediments and Black Shales; Palaeogene Non-Marine Limestones and Lower Miocene Reefs and Turbidites, Messinian Reef Facies, Proximal Redposited Carbonates and Messinian Post-Reef Oolites and Stromatolites) • References • Index
