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The Rapitán turbidite channel-levee system (RCH), located in the Tertiary Foreland Jaca Basin (Fig. 21.1), is the lower lowstand fan and part of the lowstand wedge of the fourth sequence of the Jaca complex (Remacha and Picart 1991). This sequence links the end of the Hecho Group turbidite sedimentation (after Mutti et al. 1972) with the Sabinánigo Sandstone delta (Puidefabregas 1975). After Canudo and Molina (1988), the RCH sedimentation occurs in the upper Lutetian and seems to be well correlated with the lower interval of the 3.4 cycle of Haq et al. (1987).
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Remacha, E., Oms, O., Coello, J. (1995). The Rapitán turbidite channel and its related eastern levee-overbank deposits, Eocene Hecho group, south-central Pyrenees, Spain. In: Pickering, K.T., Hiscott, R.N., Kenyon, N.H., Ricci Lucchi, F., Smith, R.D.A. (eds) Atlas of Deep Water Environments. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1234-5_22
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