The march issue of the Geoscience journas has a cover story dealing with the newly published paper in that issue by Tosquella et al. (2025) of our group. In the Betic-Rif Cordilleras the Eocene platforms started in the Cuisian after a gap including the Ilerdian. An Eocene succession with gravity flows consisting of turbidites and olistostromes was detected in the Aspe-Terreros Prebetic section (External Betic Zone). In one of the turbidites, we dated the middle Ilerdian, on the basis of LBF, representing a vestige of a missing Illerdian carbonate platform. The microfacies of these deposits rich in LBF have been described and documented. The gap in the sedimentation and absence of Ilerdian platforms in the Betic-Rif have been related to the so-called Eo-Alpine tectonics (Cretaceous to Paleogene) and sea-level variations contemporarily with the establishment of shallow marine realms in the western Tethys. 

Cite as: Tosquella J., Martín-Martín M., Miclăuș C., Tent-Manclús J.E., Serrano F., Martín-Pérez J.A. (2025): Eocene Gravity Flows in the Internal Prebetic (Betic Cordillera, SE Spain): A Vestige of an Ilerdian Lost Carbonate Platform in the South Iberian Margin. Geosciences. 15(3):81. doi: 10.3390/geosciences15030081