Transcurrencia y mélange tectónica en el área de Sierra Arana (Cordillera Bética, NE de Granada)

Abstract

In the Sierra Arana area, dextral transcurrent faults form a set of long and narrow E-W tectonic bands, some of which are filled by Oligo-Aquitanian and Cretaceous sediments deeply squeezed among Jurassic carbonates. These bands form a “flower structure” which higher blocks, cut by the faults, fallen over Oligo-Aquitanian sediments, forming a tectonic melange. The crest zone of Sierra Arana indicates the position of a great reversed south verging anticlinal. The elements situated directly to the south of Sierra Arana, are attributed to a very internal Subbetic or to the Dorsal, and seem to correspond to the paleogeographic passage from the Subbetic to the Malaguide Complex.