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AGU Fall meeting 2020: Shaping the Future of Science
American Geophysical Union meeting (AGU Fall Meeting) is back. This year the conferences will be held online from 1 to 17 of December. AGU20 is scheduled over a thousand hours of virtual content to minimize conflicts while maximizing global engageme... Read more
27-11-2020 Research News
Modelling the chemical composition and thermal structure of the Western Mediterranean lithosphere by integrating data across diciplines
Ajay Kumar successfully defended his Ph. D. thesis online last 24 November. The thesis, entitled "Thermal and chemical imaging of the upper mantle anomalies: application to Western Mediterranean" has been directed by Manel Fernández and Jaume Vergés... Read more
25-11-2020 Research News
GEO3BCN acquires a new electronic microscope
Geosciences Barcelona has expanded its catalogue of scientific equipment acquiring a new tabletop electronic microscope (Hitachi TM4000PLUSII). This new device enables researchers to observe rock samples and it can also be used to image a wide range ... Read more
23-11-2020 Research News
GEO3BCN offers two PhD research proposals for the FPU 2020 grants programme
The call for applications for the Training of University Professors grants (FPU 2020) awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Universities is now open. In the framework of this call, GEO3BCN-CSIC researchers offer two PhD research proposals. ... Read more
18-11-2020 Research News
Cutting edge technologies for mineral exploration discussed in the SIT4ME project workshop
The demand for mineral resources to meet current societal needs has been steadily increasing over last years. Mineral exploration, the first step of the raw materials cycle, is facing a great challenge because the shallow and easily accessible minera... Read more
13-11-2020 Research News
MinerMat 2020: Minerals, materials, environment and sustainable development
Expominer outreach talks and workshops will be held online this year under the name of MinterMat 2020.There are 16 talks and workshops scheduled that will be carried out by researchers from several institutions like Geociencias Barcelona (GEO3BCN-CSI... Read more
09-11-2020 Institutional News
New special issue on mineral exploration in preparation
Ramon Carbonell and Juan Alcalde, both researchers at GEO3BCN-CSIC, are part of the editorial team that is preparing a special issue for the journal Solid Earth that seeks to provide a wide-ranging panorama of the mineral exploration. This volume is ... Read more
06-11-2020 Research News
"Virtual rocks" to resolve the enigma of C' shear band formation and evolution
C' shear bands are a common feature in nature and they are widely used as kinematic indicators to study deformation processes of rocks in the deep parts of the Earth's crust. However, there is little consensus about how they form. Now, using numerica... Read more
02-11-2020 Research News
Study identifies the main obstacles to reconstruction of modes of climate variability through the Holocene
North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is the major atmospheric mode that controls winter European climate variability. Its strength and phase determine regional temperatures, precipitation and storm tracks in this part of the planet and around a large par... Read more
26-10-2020 Research News
María José Jurado will compete for the EIT Innovation Award 2020
María Jose Jurado, researcher at Geosciences Barcelona-CSIC (GEO3BCN-CSIC), has been nominated for the EIT Innovation Award 2020 for her work on INNOLOG project. Jurado is the PI and coordinator of the project that started in 2017 aimed to develop mo... Read more
22-10-2020 Research News
Two pictures taken by Santiago Giralt featured in the book 'Images of Arctic Science'
Two pictures taken by Santiago Giralt during a fieldwork campaign in Greenland in 2019 have been featured in the book 'Images of Arctic Science'. The book presents the best photos submitted to the 'INTERACT Photo Competition' organized by INTERACT, a... Read more
19-10-2020 Institutional News
The second edition of the Technical Workshop on Geoenergy in Catalonia will be focused on the use of geothermal energy within the cities
The second edition of the Technical Workshop on Geoenergy in Catalonia will be held online next 6th and 13rth of November. The Geothermal Working Group of the Cluster of Efficient Energy in Catalonia, of which GEO3BCN-CSIC is an active member... Read more
15-10-2020 Institutional News
Special issue on crystal deformation research coedited by Maria Gema Llorens
Maria Gema Llorens, Juan de la Cierva researcher at Geosciences Barcelona - CSIC (GEO3BCN-CSIC), is one of the guest editors of the special issue entitled 'Crystal Deformation' run by the journal Crystals, along with Brahmananda Pramanik, Ph.D., P.E... Read more
13-10-2020 Research News
Irene Pérez Cáceres participates in the "Outono Xelóxico"
Irene Pérez Cáceres, researcher at GEO3BCN-CSIC, has participated in the first edition of “Outono Xeolóxico” (Geological Autumn), an outreach event organized by the Montañas do Courel Geopark (Galicia). Last 4 of October, Perez led one of the schedul... Read more
08-10-2020 Institutional News
Glacial lakes hide the Antarctica's climate history
Subglacial lakes, hidden under the Antarctic ice sheets, constitute the opportunity to study the last 20,000 years of evolution of the Antarctica's climate in much more detail. This is one of the main conclusions of the chapter ‘Holocene environmenta... Read more
07-10-2020 Research News
A review of ‘Quaternary ecology, evolution, and biogeography’ featured in Quaternary Science Reviews
November’s volume of Quaternary Science Review publishes a review of the book 'Quaternary ecology, evolution and biogeography', recently written by Valentí Rull, researcher at Geosciences Barcelona - CSIC (GEO3BCN-CSIC). ... Read more
05-10-2020 Institutional News
RawMatCop Academy 2020 will be held online
'RawMatCop Academy, Copernicus for RawMaterials' course will be held online on 13, 15, 20, 22 of October from 9.30 till 13.00 (CET). Application for this course ends on October 2. This course is a joint initiative of EIT RawMaterials and Copernicus a... Read more
30-09-2020 Institutional News
New research accurately dates the Ilopango volcanic eruption (El Salvador) that shocked the Maya’s civilization 1590 years ago
1590 years ago, in 431 CE, the Maya civilisation was laid waste as the Ilopango volcano erupted, killing every living thing within 40 km around the volcano, according to a new study carried out by an international team of scientists and with the part... Read more
28-09-2020 Research News
Datasets de Ciencias de la Tierra en EPOS: un caso práctico de participación en la Nube Europea de Ciencia Abierta
EPOS (European Plate Observing System), proyecto en el que participan varios investigadores de Geociencias Barcelona (GEO3BCN – CSIC), es una de las primeras infraestructuras en sumarse a la Nube Europea de Ciencia Abierta (EOSC, en sus siglas en ing... Read more
01-09-2020 Institutional News
El nuevo libro de Valentí Rull sintetiza por primera vez todo el conocimiento paleoecológico sobre la Isla de Pascua
La Isla de Pascua, situada en la Polinesia Oriental (aunque políticamente pertenece a Chile), se ha presentado tradicionalmente como un modelo microcósmico de lo que podría ocurrir en toda la Tierra si se continúa con los niveles de consumo y explota... Read more
01-09-2020 Research News
Influence of tubing/oil-blanket lifting on construction and geometries of two-well-horizontal salt caverns
Wan, J., Peng, T., Yuan, G., Ban, F., Jurado, M. J., & Xia, Y. (2020). Influence of tubing/oil-blanket lifting on construction and geometries of two-well-horizontal salt caverns. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 103688. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tust.2020.103688
Read moreThe Anthropozoic era revisited
Rull, V. (2020).The Anthropozoic era revisited. Lethaia, https://doi.org/10.1111/let.12408 Vol. 000, pp. 1– 11.
Read moreUnderwater Monitoring of Submarine Volcanic Activity: El Hierro (Canary Islands 2011–2012) Eruption
Jurado, Maria Jose, Maurizio Ripepe, Carmen Lopez, Antonio Ricciardi, Maria Jose Blanco, and Giorgio Lacanna. 2020. “Underwater Monitoring of Submarine Volcanic Activity: El Hierro (Canary Islands 2011–2012) Eruption.” Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 107097. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2020.107097.
Read moreSeismic Anisotropy of Temperate Ice in Polar Ice Sheets
Llorens, M.G., Griera, A., Bons, P. D., Gomez-Rivas, E., Weikusat, I., Prior, D. J., et al. (2020). Seismic anisotropy of temperate ice in polar ice sheets. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 125, e2020JF005714. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JF005714
Read moreEvolution of a salt-rich transtensional rifted margin, eastern North Pyrenees, France
Ford, M., & Vergés, J. (2020). Evolution of a salt-rich transtensional rifted margin, eastern North Pyrenees, France. Journal of the Geological Society, jgs2019-157. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2019-157
Read morePristinity, degradation and replacement: The three dimensions of human impact on island vegetation
Rull V. Pristinity, degradation and replacement: The three dimensions of human impact on island vegetation. Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment. October 2020. doi:10.1177/0309133320960992
Read moreIdentification, cataloguing and preservation of outcrops of geological interest in monogenetic volcanic fields: the case of La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park
Planagumà, L., Martí, J. Identification, cataloguing and preservation of outcrops of geological interest in monogenetic volcanic fields: the case of La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park. Geoheritage 12, 84 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-020-00508-w
Read morePaleoenvironmental evolution of Picos de Europa (Spain) during marine isotopic stages 5c to 3 combining glacial reconstruction, cave sedimentology and paleontological findings
Ballesteros, D., Álvarez-Vena, A., Monod-Del Dago, M., Rodríguez-Rodríguez, L., Sanjurjo-Sánchez, J., Álvarez-Lao, D., Pérez-Mejías, C., Valenzuela, P., DeFelipe, I., Laplana, C., Cheng, H., & Jiménez-Sánchez, M. (2020). Paleoenvironmental evolution of Picos de Europa (Spain) during marine isotopic stages 5c to 3 combining glacial reconstruction, cave sedimentology and paleontological findings. Quaternary Science Reviews, 248, 106581. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106581
Read moreGeochemical and Sr–Nd Isotopic Features of the Zaro Volcanic Complex: Insights on the Magmatic Processes Triggering a Small-Scale Prehistoric Eruption at Ischia Island (South Italy)
Pelullo, C, G Cirillo, R S Iovine, I Arienzo, M Aulinas, L Pappalardo, P Petrosino, J L Fernandez-Turiel, and M D’Antonio. 2020. “Geochemical and Sr–Nd Isotopic Features of the Zaro Volcanic Complex: Insights on the Magmatic Processes Triggering a Small-Scale Prehistoric Eruption at Ischia Island (South Italy).” International Journal of Earth Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-020-01933-6.
Read moreThe magnitude and impact of the 431 CE Terra Blanca Jove eruption of Ilopango, El Salvador.
Smith, V., et a l'(2020)., The magnitude and impact of the 431 CE Terra Blanca Jove eruption of Ilopango, El Salvador. PNAS. doi: https://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.2003008117
Read moreThe lithospheric structure of the Gibraltar Arc System from wide‐angle seismic data
Gómez de la Peña, L., Grevemeyer, I., Kopp, H., Díaz, J., Gallart, J., Booth‐Rea, G., et al. (2020). The lithospheric structure of the Gibraltar Arc System from wide‐angle seismic data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125, e2020JB019854. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB019854
Read moreA 2,000-year Bayesian NAO reconstruction from the Iberian Peninsula
Hernández, A., Sánchez-López, G., Pla-Rabes, S. et al. A 2,000-year Bayesian NAO reconstruction from the Iberian Peninsula. Sci Rep 10, 14961 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71372-5
Read moreQuantifying deformation processes in the SE Pyrenees using U–Pb dating of fracture-filling calcites
Cruset, D., Vergés, J., Albert, R., Gerdes, A., Benedicto, A., Cantarero, I., & Travé, A. (2020). Quantifying deformation processes in the SE Pyrenees using U–Pb dating of fracture-filling calcites. Journal of the Geological Society, 177(6), 1186 LP – 1196. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-014
Read moreA single-stage megaflood at the termination of the Messinian salinity crisis: Geophysical and modelling evidence from the eastern Mediterranean Basin
Spatola, D., del Moral-Erencia, J. D., Micallef, A., Camerlenghi, A., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Gupta, S., Bohorquez, P., Gutscher, M.-A., & Bertoni, C. (2020). A single-stage megaflood at the termination of the Messinian salinity crisis: Geophysical and modelling evidence from the eastern Mediterranean Basin. Marine Geology, 430, 106337. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2020.106337
Read morePressure dependence of the interlayer and intralayer E2g Raman-active modes of hexagonal BN up to the wurtzite phase transition
Cuscó, R., Pellicer-Porres, J., Edgar, J. H., Li, J., Segura, A., & Artús, L. (2020). Pressure dependence of the interlayer and intralayer ${E}_{2g}$ Raman-active modes of hexagonal BN up to the wurtzite phase transition. Physical Review B, 102(7), 75206. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.102.075206
Read moreDates and rates of endo-exorheic drainage development: Insights from fluvial terraces (Duero River, Iberian Peninsula)
Rodríguez-Rodríguez, L., Antón, L., Rodés, Á., Pallàs, R., García-Castellanos, D., Jiménez-Munt, I., Struth, L., Leanni, L., Aumaître, G., Bourlès, D., & Keddadouche, K. (2020). Dates and rates of endo-exorheic drainage development: Insights from fluvial terraces (Duero River, Iberian Peninsula). Global and Planetary Change, 193, 103271. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2020.103271
Read moreAutomated detection of archaeological mounds using machine-learning classification of multisensor and multitemporal satellite data
Orengo, H. A., Conesa, F. C., Garcia-Molsosa, A., Lobo, A., Green, A. S., Madella, M., & Petrie, C. A. (2020). Automated detection of archaeological mounds using machine-learning classification of multisensor and multitemporal satellite data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(31), 18240 LP-18250. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2005583117
Read moreModes of climate variability: Synthesis and review of proxy-based reconstructions through the Holocene
Hernández, A., Martin-Puertas, C., Moffa-Sánchez, P., Moreno-Chamarro, E., Ortega, P., Blockley, S., Cobb, K. M., Comas-Bru, L., Giralt, S., Goosse, H., Luterbacher, J., Martrat, B., Muscheler, R., Parnell, A., Pla-Rabes, S., Sjolte, J., Scaife, A. A., Swingedouw, D., Wise, E., & Xu, G. (2020). Modes of climate variability: Synthesis and review of proxy-based reconstructions through the Holocene. Earth-Science Reviews, 209, 103286. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103286
Read moreFairy rings harbor distinct soil fungal communities and high fungal diversity in a montane grassland
Marí, T., Castaño, C., Rodríguez, A., Ibáñez, M., Lobo, A., & Sebastià, M.-T. (2020). Fairy rings harbor distinct soil fungal communities and high fungal diversity in a montane grassland. Fungal Ecology, 47, 100962. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2020.100962
Read moreNew gravity data in the Central Pyrenees (NE Spain)
Ayala, C., Rubio, F. M., Rey-Moral, C., Pueyo, E. L., Clariana, P., Soto, R., Casas, A. M., Román, T., Berdiel, & Martí, Y. J. (2020). New gravity data in the Central Pyrenees (NE Spain) . Geogaceta, 67, 103–106.
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