RESEARCH GROUP ON TECTONICS, VOLCANISM
AND ASSOCIATED NATURAL RISK
Rey Juan Carlos University
PUBLICATIONS
2024
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)
Taki-Eddine Rahmani, S., Abacha, I., Boulahia, O., Yelles-Chaouche, A., Crespo-Martín, C., Roubeche, K. (2024) Time-dependent and spatio-temporal statistical analysis of seismicity: application on the complete data set of the 2010 Beni–Ilmane earthquake sequence. Geophysical Journal International.
2023
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.
Crespo-Martín, C., Martínez-Díaz, J.J., Martín-González, F. (2023) Characterization of historical earthquakes through a study of landslides by lichenometry (Murcia, SE Iberia). Natural Hazards.
Ubide, T., Márquez, A., Ancochea, E., Huertas, M. J., Herrera, R., Coello-Bravo, J. J., Sanz-Mangas, D., Mulder, J. A., MacDonald, A., Galindo, I. (2023) Discrete magma injections drive the 2021 La Palma eruption. Science Advances. 9(27).
Martín-González, F., Crespo-Martín, C., Cesca, S., González-Muñoz, S. (2023) Understanding seismicity and seismotectonics in a stable continental region (NW Iberian Peninsula): Implications for the nature of intraplate seismicity. Global and Planetary Change. 227: 104177.
Ramos, A., Pedrera, A., García-Senz, J., López-Mir, B., & Salas, R. (2023). Seismic evidence for ductile necking of the mid-lower crust beneath the Columbrets Basin (Western Mediterranean). Terra Nova, 35.
Rincón, M., Márquez, Á., Herrera, R., Martín-González, F., López, I., Crespo-Martín, C. (2023) Morpho-structural criteria for the identification of spreading-induced deformation processes potentially compromising stratovolcano stability. Bulletin of Volcanology. 85(3): 17.
Machado, F., Nieto, R., Fernández-García, C., Ramos, M.R., González-Muñoz, S., Martín-González, F., Borromeo. S. (2023) Designing Low-Cost Open-Hardware Electromechanical Scientific Equipment: A Geological Analogue Modeling Sandbox. IEEE Access. 11: 31716-31746.
Jiménez-Díaz, A., Negredo, A.M., Kirby, J.F., Sánchez-Pastor, P., Fullea, J., Ruiz, J., Pérez-Gussinyé, M., Yu, C. (2023) The mechanical nature of the lithosphere beneath the Eastern Central Atlantic hotspots. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 24, e2022GC010608.
García-Sansegundo, J., Farias, P., Gallastegui, G., Heredia N., Cuesta A., Rubio-Ordonez A., Martín-Gonzalez F., Santos-Martínez J., Palape C., García-Moreno, O. (2023) Paleozoic Gondwanan structure along the Maule river valley between Toconey and Constitucion (35.4ºS, Chilean Pacific Coast). Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 123: 104246.
Pointon, M.A., Smyth, H., Omma, J.E., Morton, A.C.,Schneider, S., Hülse, P., Rippington, S.J., López-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 2023, 13, 10.
2022
Egea-González, I., Lois, P.C., Jiménez-Díaz, A., Bramson, A.M., Sori, M.M., Tendero-Ventanas, J.-A., Ruiz, J. (2022) The stability of a liquid-water body below the South Polar Cap of Mars. Icarus 383, 115073.
D'Incecco, P., Filiberto, J., López, I., Eggers, G., Di Achille, G., Komatsu, G., Gorinov, D., Monaco, C., Aveni, S., Mari, N., Blackett, M., Mastrogiuseppe, M., Cardinale, M., El Yazidi, M. (2022) Geologically Recent Areas as One Key Target for Identifying Active Volcanism on Venus. Geophysical Research Letters. 49. e2022GL101813.
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.
Rincón, M., Márquez, Á., Herrera, R., Galland, O., Sánchez‐Oro, J., Concha, D., Montemayor, A. S. (2022). Monitoring volcanic and tectonic sandbox analogue models using the Kinect v2 sensor. Earth and Space Science, 9(6), e2020EA001368.
Crespo-Martín, C., Martín-González, F., Hainzl, S., Rincón, M. (2022) Testing potential trigger mechanisms for seismicity in Sarria-Triacastela-Becerreá (Lugo seismic sequences) NW Iberian Peninsula, Spain. Journal of Seismology. 26: 1185–1203.
Heredia, N., Martín-González, F., Farias, P., García-Sansegundo, J., Pedreira, D., Gonzálo-Guerra, B., García-Davia, G., Mateos, G., Florez-Rodriguez, A. (2022) Geology of the Cabuérniga Fault System: evolution of a large Alpine structure with Variscan inheritance. Journal of Maps. 18:168-177.
Villamor, P., Litchfield, N. J., Gómez-Ortiz, D., Martin-González, F., Alloway, B. V., Berryman, K. R., Clark, K. J., Ries, W. F., Howell, A., Ansell, I. A. (2022) Fault ruptures triggered by large rhyolitic eruptions at the boundary between tectonic and magmatic rift segments: The Manawahe Fault, Taupō Rift, New Zealand. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 427: 107478.
Gonzalez-Menendez L., Rodríguez García A., Martín-Gonzalez F., Gonzalez-Alvarez I., Gallastegui G., A. Suarez-Rodríguez, Quintana L. (2022) Geochemical approach to provenance, weathering, hydrothermal processes and tectonics in a continental basin: The Ferreira basin (NW Spain). Catena 208: 105741.
2021
Crespo-Martín, C., Martín-González, F., Yazdi, P., Hainzl, S., Rincón, M. (2021) Time dependent and spatiotemporal statistical analysis of intraplate anomalous seismicity: Sarria- Triacastela-Becerreá (NW Iberian Peninsula, Spain). Geophysical Journal International, 225(1): 477-493.
Hopfenblatt, J., Geyer, A., Aulinas, M., Álvarez-Valero, A. M., Gisbert, G., Kereszturi, G., Ercilla G., Gómez-Ballesteros M., Márquez Á., García-Castellanos D., Pedrazzi D., Sumino H., Höskuldsson A., Giralt S., Angulo-Preckler, C. (2021). Formation of Stanley Patch volcanic cone: New insights into the evolution of Deception Island caldera (Antarctica). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 415, 107249.
Martín-González, F., Fernández-Lozano, J., De Vicente, G., Crespo-Martín, C., Heredia, N. (2021) Role of multiple inherited basement structures on orogen geometry and evolution: Insights from analogue modelling. Journal of Structural Geology. 144: 104267.
Crespo-Martín, C., Martín-González, F. (2021) Statistical Analysis of Intraplate Seismic Clusters: The Case of the NW Iberian Peninsula. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 178: 3355-3374.
Fürsich, F. T., Schneider, S., Werner, W., López-Mir, B., Pierce, C. S. (2021) Life at the continental–marine interface: palaeoenvironments and biota of the Alcobaça Formation (Late Jurassic, central Portugal) With a formal definition of the unit appended. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments.
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.
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.
D'Incecco, P., Filiberto, J., López, I., Gorynov, D., Komatsu, G. (2021) Idunn Mons: Evidence for Ongoing Volcano-tectonic Activity and Atmospheric Implications on Venus. The Planetary Science Journal. 2, pp.
D'Incecco, P., Filiberto, J., López, I., Gorinov, D., Komatsu, G., Matynov, A., Pisarenko, P. (2021) The Young Volcanic Rises on Venus: a Key Scientific Target for Future Orbital and in-situ Measurements on Venus. Solar System Research. 55 - 4, pp. 313 -321.
Jiménez-Díaz, A., Egea-Gonzalez, I., Parro, L.M., Tasaka, M., Ruiz, J. (2021) The thermal structure and mechanical behavior of the Martian lithosphere. Icarus, 353: 113635.
2020
Coello, J.J., Márquez, Á, Herrera, R., Huertas, M.J., Ancochea, E. (2020) Multiple related flank collapses on volcanic oceanic islands: Evidence from the debris avalanche deposits in the Orotava Valley water galleries (Tenerife, Canary Islands). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research Letters, 401.
Schneider, S., Kelly, S.R.A., Mutterlose, J., Hülse, P., López-Mir, B. (2020) The Rollrock Section, northern Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Islands: outstanding Arctic climate archive of the Jurassic–Cretaceous transition and its macrofauna. Cretaceous Research, 114.
Snidero, M., Carrera, N., Mencos, J., Butillé, M., Granado, P., Tavani, S., López-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.
2019
López-Gómez, J., Martín-González, F., Heredia, N., de La Horra, R., Barrenechea, J. F., Cadenas, P., ... García-Sansegundo, J. (2019). New lithostratigraphy for the Cantabrian Mountains: A common tectono-stratigraphic evolution for the onset of the Alpine cycle in the W Pyrenean realm, N Spain. Earth-science reviews, 188, 249-271.
Muñoz‐Iglesias, V., Prieto‐Ballesteros, O., López, I. (2019). Experimental Petrology to Understand Europa's Crust. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.
Serra Varela, S., González, P. D., Giacosa, R. E., Heredia, N., Pedreira Rodríguez, D., Martín González, F., María Sato, A. (2019). Evolution of the Palaeozoic basement of the North Patagonian Andes in the San Martín de los Andes area (Neuquén, Argentina): petrology, age and correlations. Andean Geology, 46.
Ruiz, J., Jiménez-Díaz, A., Mansilla, F., Parro, L.M., Egea-González, I., Küppers, M. (2019) Evidence of thrust faulting and widespread contraction of Ceres. Nature Astronomy, 3, 916–921.
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
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.
2018
Curtis, M.L., López-Mir, B., Scott, R.A., and 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.
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.
Crespo-Martin, C., Martin-Gonzalez, F., & Lozano, G. (2018). Review and extension of the seismic catalogue in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula before 1755 and their implications for the intraplate activity. ESTUDIOS GEOLOGICOS-MADRID, 74(2).
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(7), 1760-1790.
Márquez, A., Herrera, R., Izquierdo, T., Martín-González, F., López, I., & Martín-Velázquez, S. (2018). The dyke swarms of the Old Volcanic Edifice of La Gomera (Canary Islands): Implications for the origin and evolution of volcanic rifts in oceanic island volcanoes. Global and Planetary Change, 171, 255-272.
Martín-González, F. (2018). Earthquake damage orientation to infer seismic parameters in archaeological sites and historical earthquakes. Tectonophysics, 724, 137-145.
Rincón, M., Márquez, A., Herrera, R., Alonso-Torres, A., Granja-Bruña, J. L., & de Vries, B. V. W. (2018). Contrasting catastrophic eruptions predicted by different intrusion and collapse scenarios. Scientific reports, 8(1), 1-11.
2017
Molina, A., López, I., Prieto-Ballesteros, O., Fernández-Remolar, D., de Pablo, M. Á., Gómez, F. (2017) Coogoon Valles, western Arabia Terra: Hydrological evolution of a complex Martian channel system. Icarus, 293, 27-44.
Parro, L.M., Jiménez-Díaz, A., Mansilla, F., Ruiz, J. (2017) Present-day heat flow model of Mars. Scientific Reports 7, 45629.
Shi, X., Kirby, J.F., Yu, C., Jiménez-Díaz, A., Zhao, J. (2017) Spatial variations in the effective elastic thickness of the lithosphere in Southeast Asia. Gondwana Research 42, 49–62.
2016
Heredia, N., García Sansegundo, J., Gallastegui, G., Farias, P., Giacosa, R. E., Alonso, J. L., ... & Cuesta, A. (2016). Evolución Geodinámica de los Andes argentinochilenos y la Península Antártica durante el Neoproterozoico tardío y el Paleozoico.
Khajavi, N., Langridge, R. M., Quigley, M. C., Smart, C., Rezanejad, A., & Martín-González, F. (2016). Late Holocene rupture behavior and earthquake chronology on the Hope fault, New Zealand. Bulletin, 128(11-12), 1736-1761.
Villamor, P., Almond, P., Tuttle, M. P., Giona‐Bucci, M., Langridge, R. M., Clark, K., ... & Quigley, M. C. (2016). Liquefaction features produced by the 2010–2011 Canterbury earthquake sequence in southwest Christchurch, New Zealand, and preliminary assessment of paleoliquefaction features. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 106(4), 1747-1771.
López-Mir, B., Muñoz, J.A. and García-Senz, J. (2016) 1:25.000 geological map of the Cotiella thrust sheet, southern Pyrenees (Spain). Journal of Maps, 1(1).
López-Mir, B., Muñoz, J.A. and García-Senz, J. (2016) 3D geometric reconstruction of Upper Cretaceous passive diapirs and salt withdrawal basins in the Cotiella Basin (southern Pyrenees). Journal of the Geological Society, 173(4):616.
2015
Folguera, A., Bottesi, G., Duddy, I., Martín-González, F., Orts, D., Sagripanti, L., ... Ramos, V. A. (2015) Exhumation of the Neuquén Basin in the southern Central Andes (Malargüe fold and thrust belt) from field data and low-temperature thermochronology. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 64, 381-398.
Heredia, N., Fernández, L. P., Martín-González, F., & Bahamonde, J. R. (2015) Depositional style and tectonostratigraphic evolution of El Bierzo Tertiary sub-basin (Pyrenean orogen, NW Spain). Geologica Acta: an international earth science journal, 13(1), 1-23.
Lang, N. P., & López, I. (2015). The magmatic evolution of three Venusian coronae. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 401(1), 77-95.
Fernández, L. R., Pedrera, A., Pous, J., Ayala, C., Menéndez, L. G., Ibarra, P., ... Seillé, H. (2015) Crustal structure of the south-western termination of the Alpine Pyrenean–Cantabrian Orogen (NW Iberian Peninsula). Tectonophysics, 663, 322-338.
Rincón, M., Márquez González, Á., Van Wyk de Vries, B., Herrera, R., Granja Bruña, J. L., Llanes Estrada, P. (2015) Aplicación del sensor Kinect en modelos análogos para la identificación morfo-estructural de procesos de deformación en volcanes. Geogaceta, (57), 107-110.
Rodríguez-Pascua, M. A., Silva, P. G., Pérez-López, R., Giner-Robles, J. L., Martín-González, F., Del Moral, B. (2015) Polygenetic sand volcanoes: On the features of liquefaction processes generated by a single event (2012 Emilia Romagna 5.9 Mw earthquake, Italy). Quaternary international, 357, 329-335.
Jiménez-Díaz, A., Ruiz, J., Kirby, J.F., Romeo, I., Tejero, R., Capote, R. (2015) Lithospheric structure of Venus from gravity and topography. Icarus 260, 215–231.
Garcés, M., García-Senz, J., Muñoz, J.A., López-Mir, B., Beamud, E. (2015) Timing of magnetisation and vertical-axis rotations of the Cotiella massif (late Cretaceous, South Central Pyrenees). Geological Society London Special Publications, 425(1): 213.
Tavani S., López-Mir B., Muñoz J.A. (2015) Extensional fold-related sub-seismic fracturing in the Armeña rollover (Pyrenees). Italian Journal of Geosciences, 134(3):458-473.
López-Mir, B., Muñoz, J.A. and García-Senz, J. (2015) Extensional salt tectonics in the partially inverted Cotiella post-rift basin (south-central Pyrenees): structure and evolution. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 104(2):419-434.
2014
Martín‐González, F., Freudenthal, M., Heredia, N., Martín‐Suárez, E., & Rodríguez‐Fernández, R. (2014). Palaeontological age and correlations of the Tertiary deposits of the NW Iberian Peninsula: the tectonic evolution of a broken foreland basin. Geological Journal, 49(1), 15-27.
van Wyk de Vries, B ., Marquez, A., Herrera, R., Bruña, J. G., Llanes, P., & Delcamp, A. (2014). Craters of elevation revisited: forced-folds, bulging and uplift of volcanoes. Bulletin of Volcanology, 76(11), 875.
Jiménez-Díaz, A., Ruiz, J., Pérez-Gussinyé, M., Kirby, J.F., Álvarez-Gómez, J.A., Tejero, R., Capote, R. (2014). Spatial variations of effective elastic thickness of the lithosphere in Central America and surrounding regions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 391, 55–66.
López-Mir, B., Muñoz, J.A. and García-Senz, J. (2014) Restoration of basins driven by extension and salt tectonics: Example from the Cotiella Basin in the central Pyrenees. Journal of Structural Geology, 69(A):147-162.
2013
Velasco-Tapia F., P. Rodríguez-Saavedra, A. Márquez, I. Navarro de León, C. De Ignacio, S. G. Marroquín Guerra, J. Quintanilla-Garza, O.M. Rangel-Álvarez (2013) Mineralogical and geochemical evidence of magma mingling/mixing in the Sierra de las Cruces volcanic range, Mexican Volcanic Belt. J. Iberian Geology, 39: 149-166. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/rev_JIGE.2013.v39.n1.41756
2012
Egea-González, I., Ruiz, J., Fernández, C., Williams, J. P., Márquez, Á., & Lara, L. M. (2012). Depth of faulting and ancient heat flows in the Kuiper region of Mercury from lobate scarp topography. Planetary and Space Science, 60(1), 193-198.
García Mayordomo, J., Insua Arévalo, J. M., Martínez Díaz, J. J., Jiménez Díaz, A., Martín Banda, R., Martín Alfageme, S. R., ... & Masana Closa, E. (2012). The Quaternary active faults database of Iberia (QAFI v. 2.0).
Insua Arévalo, M., Martínez-Díaz, J. J., García Mayordomo, J., & Martín-González, F. (2012). Active tectonics in the Malaga Basin: evidences from morphotectonic markers (Western Betic Cordillera, Spain). Journal of Iberian Geology, 38(1), 175-190
Martín-González, F., Antón, L., Insúa Arévalo, J. M., Muñoz, V., Martínez Díaz, J. J., Muñoz Martín, A., ... & Olaiz Campos, A. J. (2012). Seismicity and potencially active faults in the Northwest and Central-West Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Iberian Geology, 38(1), 53-69.
Martín-González, F., Barbero, L., Capote, R., Heredia, N., & Gallastegui, G. (2012). Interaction of two successive Alpine deformation fronts: constraints from low-temperature thermochronology and structural mapping (NW Iberian Peninsula). International Journal of Earth Sciences, 101(5), 1331-1342.
Villamor Pérez, M. P., Stirling, M. W., Tsige Aga, M., Berryman, K. R., Martínez Díaz, J. J., & Martín-González, F. (2012). Contribution of active faults in the intraplate area of Iberia to seismic hazard: The Alentejo-Plasencia Fault. Journal of Iberian Geology, 38(1), 85-111.
Jiménez-Díaz, A., Ruiz, J., Villaseca, C., Tejero, R., Capote, R. (2012) The thermal state and strength of the lithosphere in the Spanish Central System and Tajo Basin from crustal heat production and thermal isostasy. Journal of Geodynamics, 58: 29–37.
2011
Izquierdo, T., Herrera, R., & Márquez, A. (2011). Modelo conceptual del sistema acuífero de Enchereda (La Gomera, Islas Canarias): contribuciones a otras islas volcánicas. Estudios Geológicos, 67(1), 41-58.
López, I. (2011). Embayed intermediate volcanoes on Venus: Implications for the evolution of the volcanic plains. Icarus, 213(1), 73-85.
Martín-González, F., & Heredia, N. (2011). Geometry, structures and evolution of the western termination of the Alpine-Pyrenean Orogen reliefs (NW Iberian Peninsula). Journal of Iberian Geology, 37(2), 103-120.
Martín-González, F (2011) Una aproximación a la actividad tectónica cenozoica en un sector del noroeste del Macizo Ibérico por medio del análisis morfotectónico de pequeña escala. Cadernos Laboratorio Xeolóxico de Laxe. 36: 157-176
Martín-González, F., & Heredia, N. (2011). Complex tectonic and tectonostratigraphic evolution of an Alpine foreland basin: The western Duero Basin and the related Tertiary depressions of the NW Iberian Peninsula. Tectonophysics, 502(1-2), 75-89.
Ruiz, J., McGovern, P.J., Jiménez-Díaz, A., López, V., Williams, J-P., Hahn, B.C., Tejero, R. (2011). The thermal evolution of Mars as constrained by paleo-heat flows. Icarus, 215, 508–517.
2010
Freudenthal, M., Martín-Suarez, E., Heredia, N., Rodriguez-Fernández, R. y Martín-González, F. (2010) Rodents from the Lower Oligocene of the Bierzo Basin (Leon, Spain). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. 257 (3) 317-340.
Martín-González, F. (2010) Sismotectónica y actividad sísmica en Sarriá-Triacastela-Becerreá: implicaciones para el riesgo sísmico. En: Riesgos naturales en Galicia (encuentro entre naturaleza y sociedad). 123-143 pp
Murray, J. B., van Wyk de Vries, B., Márquez, A., Williams, D.A., Byrne, P., Muller, J. P., Kim, J. R. y Smellie, J. (2010) Late-stage water eruptions from Ascraeus Mons volcano, Mars: implications for its structure and history. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.294: 479-491.