Discriminating between tectonism and climate signatures in palustrine deposits: Lessons from the Miocene of the Teruel Graben, NE Spain

Tectonism controlled the location of the main lacustrine depocentre close to the basin's main fault. The activity of this normal fault during the sedimentation of Unit II determined long- and short-term sedimentary sequences. Such sequences are the response to small-scale subsidence pulses followed by the infill of the created accommodation space by shallow lacustrine deposits, which underwent early pedogenic and diagenetic processes after subaerial exposure.