Resumen de Los abanicos aluviales del borde norte de la sierra de Mijas (cuenca de Málaga, Cordillera Bética Occidental)
Juan M. Insua Arévalo, José Jesús Martínez Díaz, Julián García Mayordomo, F. Martín García, Ramón Capote del Villar
Three different generations of alluvial-fans have been identified at the northern border of Mijas range. The oldest generation is formed by debris-flow deposits showing an striking calcrete development of more than 30 m thick. The second generation is also formed by debris-flow deposits with important calcrete development (10 m max.). Finally, the third generation is formed by sheet-flow deposits with no calcrete development. Accordingly, the relative age of each depositional phase has been estimated in Pliocene, Lower-Middle Pleistocene and Upper Pleistocene-Holocene. The depositional phases show important dissimilarities from the western- to the eastern-sector of the mountain border. The oldest generation is only preserved at the western-sector, and the intermediate age generation is placed here at a higher elevation than in the eastern-sector. Furthermore, in the western-sector the youngest generation displays a distal-accretion off-lap arrangement in contrast to the proximal-accretion on-lap arrangement displayed in the eastern-sector. These significant dissimilarities are attributed to tectonic causes
