doi:10.1007/s10347-018-0521-8engSequero, C.Bádenas, B.Aurell, M.Facies mosaic in the inner areas of a shallow carbonate ramp (Upper Jurassic, Higueruelas Fm, NE Spain)ART-2018-104550The internal facies and sedimentary architecture of an Upper Jurassic inner carbonate ramp were reconstructed after the analysis and correlation of 14 logs in a 1 × 2 km outcrop area around the Mezalocha locality (south of Zaragoza, NE Spain). The studied interval is 10–16 m thick and belongs to the upper part of the uppermost Kimmeridgian–lower Tithonian Higueruelas Fm. On the basis of texture and relative proportion of the main skeletal and non-skeletal components, 6 facies and 12 subfacies were differentiated, which record subtidal (backshoal/washover, sheltered lagoon and pond/restricted lagoon) to intertidal subenvironments. The backshoal/washover subenvironment is characterized by peloidal wackestone–packstone and grainstone. The lagoon subenvironment includes oncolitic, stromatoporoid, and oncolitic-stromatoporoid (wackestone and packstone) facies. The intertidal subenvironment is represented by peloidal mudstone and packstone–grainstone with fenestral porosity. Gastropod-oncolitic (wackestone–packstone and grainstone) facies with intercalated marl may reflect local ponds in the intertidal or restricted lagoon subenvironments. Detailed facies mapping allowed us to document 7 sedimentary units within a general shallowing-upward trend, which reflect a mosaic distribution, especially for stromatoporoid and fenestral facies, with facies patches locally more than 500 m in lateral extent. External and internal factors controlled this heterogeneity, including resedimentation, topographic relief and substrate stability, combined with variations in sea-level. This mosaic facies distribution provides useful tools for more precise reconstructions of depositional heterogeneities, and this variability must be taken into account in order to obtain a solid sedimentary framework at the kilometer scale..2018http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/7706810.1007/s10347-018-0521-8http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/77068oai:zaguan.unizar.es:77068info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/CGL2014-53548-Pinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/CGL2017-85038-Pinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/UZ/IUCA-H54FACIES 64, 2 (2018), 9 [23 pp]All rights reservedhttp://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess