RESEARCH GROUP ON TECTONICS, VOLCANISM
AND ASSOCIATED NATURAL RISK
Rey Juan Carlos University
TECVOLRISK
The research group on Tectonics, Volcanism and Associated Natural Risks of the URJC (TECVOLRISK) consists of seven geologists and graduates in environmental sciences with more than 20 years of experience. The research has been developed in different geodynamic environments in six countries (Spain, Mexico, Portugal, Argentina, Chile and New Zealand), as well as in planetary geology in all the terrestrial planets. The current research is mainly focus on the Canary Island, the Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula and Venus-Mars. The TECVOLRISK is a multidisciplinary group in the study of tectonics and volcanic evolution that employ a range of techniques that include structural geology, geological fieldwork, petrological-geochemical studies (including radiometric dating) integrating those multiple data sets using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, structural mapping, and laboratory experiments. We perform analogue models of intrusive and tectonics processes affecting volcanoes in our new laboratory at URJC (LabMoA). GIS (including 3D analysis) and image processing techniques (including InSAR) are also fundamental tools for our research, available at our Remote Sensing laboratory (LabTEP).