Estudio mineralógico de las secciones de Quibas-Cueva y Quibas-Sima (yacimiento de Quibas, Abanilla, Murcia)

  1. Del Castillo Sobrinos, Elia
  2. Alías Linares, María Asunción
  3. Laborda-López, Casto
  4. Agustí, Jordi
  5. Piñero, Pedro
Book:
XXVIII Jornadas de Patrimonio Cultural de la Región de Murcia: 4, 11, 18 y 25 de octubre de 2022
  1. Pedro Enrique Collado Espejo (dir. congr.)
  2. Juan García Sandoval (dir. congr.)
  3. Ángel Iniesta Sanmartín (dir. congr.)

Publisher: Consejería de Educación y Cultura ; Gobierno de la Región de Murcia

ISBN: 978-84-7564-812-5

Year of publication: 2022

Pages: 97-104

Congress: Jornadas de Patrimonio Cultural de la Región de Murcia (28. 2022. Cartagena)

Type: Conference paper

Abstract

The paleontological site of Quibas (Abanilla, Murcia), with an estimated age between 1.1 and 0.9 Ma (Early Pleistocene), is revealed as the !rst continuous pre-Jaramillo to Jaramillo terrestrial vertebrate succession from Europe. #is outcrop is composed of two structures: Quibas-Sima (divided into units QS-1 to QS-7) and QuibasCueva (QC-1 to QC-6). In this work, the mineralogical composition of the sediments forming the stratigraphic units of both structures is analyzed in order to study the relationship between them. #e consistency of the di'erent units established by macroscopic observations is also evaluated. Finally, the possible paleoclimatic implications along the Quibas-Sima sequence are discussed.