The recycled orogenic sand provenance from an uplifted thrust belt, Betic Cordillera, southern Spain

Three key sand petrofacies (fluvial and marine), derived from the Betic mountain belt, reflect the main clastic contribution of known source rocks, and the complex factors operating during pedogenesis, erosion, transport, deposition (first order parameters). These first order parameters are not independent but influenced by tectonics and climate.