This study proposes a tectonic reinterpretation of the southwest end of the Cazorla Arc from two different points
of view never used before in external zones of the Betic Cordillera: the paleogeographic study of the Triassic
sedimentary sequences together with the structural analysis of the ductile fabrics developed in clay- and gypsumbearing
Triassic rocks. This new approach has allowed to distinguish two kinematically distinct tectonic episodes
separated in the time: a first strike-slip E-W system of faults followed by a relatively recent strike-slip SE-NW system,
both dextral. The study from these points of view of other similar regions could clarify the origin of the so-called
Triassic chaotic complexes, at the same time that improve the knowledge of the tectonic evolution of the Cordillera