RESEARCH GROUP ON TECTONICS, VOLCANISM
AND ASSOCIATED NATURAL RISK
Rey Juan Carlos University
GEODYNAMIC EVOLUTION OF THE TERRESTRIAL PLANETS AND COMPARATIVE PLANETOLOGY
The different geologic process that have shaped the Surface of the earth can also operate in other terrestrial planets. Planets like Venus and Mars present an important record of tectonism and volcanism but in a stagnant-lid regime, that is, in absence of plate tectonics. The study of volcanism and tectonic activity in these other terrestrial planets allows us to study these processes in a different context (e.g. different environmental conditions, gravity) and compare the effect of this context in the final result. Each planets are a geodynamic laboratory were to test models and working hypothesis and compare them with their terrestrial analogues.
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
López, I., D'Incecco, P., Komatsu, G., Filiberto, J. (2022) The volcanology of Idunn Mons, Venus: The complex evolution of a possible active volcano. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 421, pp. 107428.
Hansen, V. L., & López, I. (2018). Mapping of geologic structures in the Niobe-Aphrodite map area of Venus: unraveling the history of tectonic regime change. Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets. 123, 1760–1790.
López, I., Lillo, J., and Hansen, V.L. (2008). Regional fracture patterns around volcanoes: possible evidence for volcanic spreading on Venus. Icarus, 195. 523-536.
PROJECTS
Operación técnica y explotación científica de datos en RLS de ExoMars y contribución al RAX de MMX.
Founded: Spanish Goverment
PI: Olga Prieto Ballesteros.
Analogs for Venus’s Geologically Recent Surfaces (AVENGERS): A Comprehensive Database of Terrestrial Active Volcanoes for the Analysis of Ongoing Volcanism on Venus.
No Founded
PI: Piero D’Incecco
Brief description: The project aims to develop a database of terrestrial analog sites for the analysis and identification of recent and possibly ongoing volcanic as well as tectonic activity on Venusto be investigated by the future missions.
Estrategias de exploración astrobiológica de lunas heladas con océanos: simulaciones experimentales de apoyo a las misiones JUICE, Europa Clipper y Europa Lander (ESP2017-89053-C2-1-P).
Founded: Spanish government
PI: Olga Prieto Ballesteros
Geologic Mapping and Analysis of the Niobe and Aphrodite 1:10M Map Areas, Venus.
Founded: NASA (Planetary Missions Data Analysis Program)
PI: Vicki L. Hansen/Iván López