José Arribas Mocoroa

REPLY: Answer to the comment of Casas et al. about González Acebrónet al.’s (2011) paper

The comment of Casas et al. concerns the paper published by Gonzalez-Acebron et a1. (201 1) and refers mostly to their model for the structural and thermal events in the sedimentary record (Late Jurassic-Eady Cretaceous) from the Cameros Basin. Their model differs significantly from the interpretations previously published by Mas et a1. (1993). Guimera et a1. (1995. 20M) and Mas and Salas (2002). Their main concern appears to be the difference of opinion about the previously published structural evolution of the basin, not the results of our new study. Rather than debate the earlier, more appropriate papers, they have chosen this our marginally related paper to air their difxad ferent view of the structural interpretations. Our paper did not concern evidence for interpretations of the structural evolution of this basin. which had already been published and peer-reviewed. We clearly stated that we had excluded their model for consideration relative to our new data, why we had done so, and referred to the appropriate peerxad reviewed literature. Thus, we must question whether this is