Large tropical forests time led to the current coal seams in northern Spain. The territory that now forms Asturias temperatures endured tropical forest was populated by large leading to carbon deposits in the region and was the center of the "supercontinent Pangea"-which-earth structure configured 305 million years ago.
These are some of the data has revealed the scientific research conducted by the University of Salamanca Gabriel Gutierrez, in collaboration with Arlo Weil, a geologist at the University of Bryn-Mawr (Philadelphia).
These are some of the data has revealed the scientific research conducted by the University of Salamanca Gabriel Gutierrez, in collaboration with Arlo Weil, a geologist at the University of Bryn-Mawr (Philadelphia).
The project pinpoints the processes leading to coal and mineral deposits of the Principality of Asturias as a result of the formation of Pangea (consisting of the union of all continents known today), resulting in the creation of the Asturias coalfields along a process that began 305 million years ago and was closed in 295.
The formation of what the scientist at the University of Salamanca describes as "super" is regarded as "one of the highlights of the planet." As shown by Gutierrez in his study, after the union of two continents formed a belt or suture located in the north of the Iberian Peninsula would double in a structure called oroclinal: a mountain in the form of u in which center would be located the Picos de Europa.
on the outskirts of this mountain would be located all slope ranges from Leon to the mountains of Cabo Peñas and Sueve, closing along the valley of Narcea. With the formation of this large structure originated many of the coalfields of Asturias, together with deeper rocks (granites) and gold mineralization as Berets, in Belmont, said Gutierrez.
The work of researchers concluded the debate began in the nineteenth century by the Austrian geologist Suess, which he termed as "Asturian knee." The thesis dominant so far was that Asturias had been a corporal who was rammed in the southern part of Pangea. Research at the University of Salamanca was carried out using paleomagnetic techniques in different areas of the community, and in the Picos de Europa, Villaviciosa and Langreo, which has allowed us to date was generated when the great "or" the Ibero-Armorican arc spanning Asturias, Galicia, Portugal and Extremadura .
