Depósitos de pizarras para cubiertas en la Península Ibérica
- Víctor Cárdenes Van den Eynde 1
- Raúl de la Horra del Barco 2
- Carmen Monterroso Martínez 3
- Víctor País Diz 4
- Javier García Guinea 5
- 1 Fundación Centro Tecnológico de la Pizarra, Ourense
- 2 Departamento de Estratigrafía, Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- 3 Univ. Santiago de Compostela, Dep. Edafo. y Quím. Agrícola, Santiago de Compostela
- 4 Área de Geodinámica Externa, Universidad de León
- 5 Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Dpto. Geología
ISSN: 1576-5172
Year of publication: 2008
Issue Title: VII Congreso Geológico de España
Issue: 10
Pages: 1543-1546
Type: Article
More publications in: Geotemas (Madrid)
Abstract
The exceptional quality of the slate of northwest Spain and the new technological advances incorporated in the last years into the production process have made the country the largest roofing slate producer in the World. This article describes the main slate lithotecs of the Iberian Peninsula. Most of them belong to the Luarca Slates Formation, which in Portugal correlates into the Valongo Slates Formation. Following mining and petrological criteria, a total of 12 mining districts of the Iberian Peninsula have been evaluated as roofing slates deposits.