RESEARCH GROUP ON TECTONICS, VOLCANISM
AND ASSOCIATED NATURAL RISK
Rey Juan Carlos University
berta lópez mir
Berta López-Mir is a structural geologist with a strong background on fieldwork and tectonics. She graduated in Geological Engineering (2007) from the Polytechnical University of Catalonia and received an MSc (2008) and a PhD (2013) in Earth Sciences from the University of Barcelona. Her PhD thesis focused on the salt tectonic evolution of the Cotiella Basin (Southern Pyrenees). From 2013 to 2020, she held a postdoctoral position at CASP (Cambridge, UK), where she carried out field, literature, and analysis-based geological research in the Arctic (Russia and Canada), Montenegro, Portugal, and Bolivia. From 2020 to 2022, she was employed by the Spanish Geological Survey (IGME – CSIC), where she investigated the tectonic development of the salt-bearing Betic Cordillera. At the end of 2022, Berta joined the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos as an Associate Lecturer in Internal Geodynamics. Besides, she is also an Associate Editor for the Journal Tektonika.
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
García-Senz, J., López-Mir, B., Robador, A., Dinarès-Turell, J., Pedrera, A. (2024) Translation, collision and vertical-axis rotation in the Organyà and Montsec minibasins (South-Central Pyrenees, Spain). Basin Research. 36(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12846
Pedrera, A., García-Senz, J., Pueyo, E.L., López-Mir, B., Silva-Casal, R., Díaz-Alvarado, J. (2023) Inhomogeneous rift inversion and the evolution of the Pyrenees. Earth-Science Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104555
Pointon, M.A., Smyth, H., Omma, J.E., Morton, A.C., Schneider, S., Hülse, P., Rippington, S.J., Lopez-Mir, B., Crowley, Q.G., Millar, I., et al. (2023). A Multi-proxy Provenance Study of Late Carboniferous to Middle Jurassic Sandstones in the Eastern Sverdrup Basin and Its Bearing on Arctic Palaeogeographic Reconstructions. Geosciences, 13, 10. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13010010
Pedrera, A., García-Senz, J., Peropadre, C., Robador, A., López-Mir, B., Díaz- Alvarado, J., Rodríguez-Fernández, L.R. (2021) The Getxo crustal-scale cross-section: Testing tectonic models in the Bay of Biscay-Pyrenean rift system. Earth Science Reviews 212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103429
Ramos, A., López-Mir, B., Wilson, E.P., Granado, P., Muñoz, J.A. (2021) 3D reconstruction of syn-tectonic strata in a salt-related orogen: learnings from the Llert syncline (South-central Pyrenees). Geologica Acta 18:1-19. https://doi.org/10.1344/GeologicaActa2020.18.20
Snidero, M., Carrera, N., Mencos, J., Butillé, M., Granado, P., Tavani, S., Lopez-Mir, B., Sàbat, F., Muñoz, J.A. (2020) Diapir kinematics in a multi-layer salt system from the eastern Persian Gulf. Marine and Petroleum Geology. Marine and Petroleum Geology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104402
Martín-Chivelet J., Floquet M., García-Senz J., Callapez P.M., López-Mir B., Muñoz J.A., Barroso-Barcenilla F., Segura M., Soares A.F., Dinis P.A., Marques F.J., Arbués P. (2019) Late Cretaceous Post-Rift to Convergence in Iberia. In: The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach. Edited by C. Quesada and J. T. Oliveira (eds.), Springer Nature. ISBN: 978-3-030-11190-8 https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030111892
López-Mir, B. (2019) Cross-section construction and restoration: examples from the Pyrenees. In: Problems and Solutions in Structural Geology and Tectonics. Edited by Andrea Billi, Ake Fagereng, and Soumyajit Mukherjee. Elsevier. ISBN: 9780128140482. https://www.elsevier.com/books/problems-and-solutions-in-structural-geology-and-tectonics/billi/978-0-12-814048-2
Curtis, M.L., López-Mir, B., Scott, R.A., Howard, J.P. (2018) Early Mesozoic sinistral transpression along the Pai-Khoi - Novaya Zemlya fold-and-thrust belt, Russia. Geological Society, London Special Publication, 460(1):355. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP460.2
López-Mir, B., Schneider, S. and Hülse, P. (2018) Fault activity and diapirism in the Mississippian to Late Cretaceous Sverdrup Basin: new insights into the tectonic evolution of the Canadian Arctic. Journal of Geodynamics, 118: 55-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jog.2017.11.002