Cantabrian Mountains

Clevenger, A.P., Purroy, F.J. and Pelton, M.R. 1992 Food habit ofbrown bears fUrsus arctos) in the Cantabrian mountains, Spain. Journal ofMammalogy 73 415 21. 

The Cantabrian Mountains and the Pyrenees in the North, the Iberian System in the South-East, and the Coastal Catalan mountains in the East are the natural limits of the Ebro River basin. Traditionally, the river source was supposed to be at Fontibre (name derived from Forties Iberis in latin, Springs of Iberia ) at 880 m.a.s.l., near Reinosa in Cantabria. Nowadays, the river source is placed at 1,980 m.a.s.l., the water coming from a source in Penalara (27 km upstream from Reinosa). The main river channel is 910 km in length, flows NW-SE, from the Cantabrian Mountains to the Mediterranean Sea, where it forms a delta. 

Shale Weches Formation East Texas, USA 8 samples Siltstone (marly) Lena Group, Cantabrian Mountains, Spain 12 samples... 

Siltstone Lena Group, Cantabrian Mountains, Spain 18 samples St. Peter Sandstone eastern Wisconsin, USA Walnut Creek Shale Erie, Pennsylvania, USA... 

Estimates of deformation conditions during crustal deformation from studies of quartz microstructures. Blenkinsop and Drury (1988) studied the microstructures in quartzites associated with the development of a fault that forms part of a thrust belt in the Cantabrian Mountains of northwest Spain. The thickness of the overlying sediments suggests that the deformation occurred at shallow depths in the upper crust at pressures of 60-100 MPa. The deformation temperature was estimated to be 150 -250°C from the illite crystallinity. 

Figure 12.9 Undnulus pila (Schnur), a rhynchonellide. Corniero, Cantabrian Mountains, NW Spain ...

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