Contents                                                  ​BIBLIOGRAPHY      COMMENTS       NEWS

---

BACKGROUND
​
​_______________________

• Plate Tectonics
• Rocks - igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic
• Rock deformation - faulting, folding, fracturing
• Geological Time
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ​
  
  ​

THE GEOLOGICAL STORY OF SOUTHERN SPAIN
​ 
​__________________________________________

• ​​Preface
• ​Chapter 1
  • The formation of Pangaea
• Chapter 2
  • The break-up of Pangaea and the closure of the Tethys Ocean
  • The Jurassic / Cretaceous palaeogeography of Southern Spain
• Chapter 3
  • Collision - the big picture
  • Collision - zoom in on the Western Med
  • Collision - zoom in on the Betics
  • The Messinian salinity crisis
• Chapter 4
  • The latest moulding
  • Wrap up, with geological map
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

INDIVIDUAL PLACES AND TOPICS OF INTEREST
_________________________________

• ​La Concha  
  (example of metamorphosed Palaeozoic rocks)
• El Torcal, Rock of Gibraltar, Utrera canyon  
  (examples of Jurassic limestone)
• Ronda peridotite 
  (a piece of the Upper Mantle at surface)
• Gibraltar, "upside down" !  
  (an example of deformation that can occur during mountain building)
• Cabo de Gata nature reserve  (evidence of volcanoes and volcanics)
• Alboran Sea
  (an example of a Chapter 3 sedimentary basin)
• Earthquakes and Tsunamis 
  ​(plate convergence is still happening)
• Gibraltar & Jebel Musa wave cut platforms
  ​(evidence that the land is still rising)