Camanni, Giovanni (Date of defense: 2014-10-20)
The Taiwan thrust belt is generally thought to develop above a shallow, through-going basal detachment confined to within the sedimentary cover of the Eurasian continental margin. A number of data sets, ...
Sanz Martín, Marina (Date of defense: 2018-03-09)
Climate change, caused by anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, is producing profound impacts on ecosystems. The Arctic Ocean is one of the ...
Gómez de la Peña, Laura (Date of defense: 2017-06-08)
In this PhD thesis we present a geophysical study of the westernmost Mediterranean basin: the Alboran Basin. This basin is located between the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa, and it is surrounded ...
Royer, Sarah-Jeanne (Date of defense: 2015-03-02)
Dimethylsulfide (DMS) and its algal metabolite precursor, dimethylsulfoproprionate (DMSP), are major players in the oceanic and atmospheric sulfur cycle. DMS is the most abundant volatile organic sulfur ...
Sánchez López, Giomar (Date of defense: 2016-09-16)
The climate variability of the Iberian Peninsula (IP) can be explained in terms of relatively few large-scale atmospheric modes, such as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), the East Atlantic (EA) and ...
González-Gaya, Belén (Date of defense: 2015-10-02)
The Open Ocean has been recognized as playing a key role on global dynamics of pollutants due to its large coverage of the planet surface, its high degradation potential and its sink and accumulation ...
Margalef Marrasé, Olga (Date of defense: 2014-03-14)
The PhD entitled “Last 70kyr of Rano Aroi (Easter Island, 27ºS) peat record: New insights for Central Pacific paleoclimatology” presents an environmental and climate reconstruction of Easter Island ...
Pedrazzi, Dario (Date of defense: 2014-03-07)
Monogenetic volcanism is characterized by a large diversity of eruptive styles, morphologies and deposits. Monogenetic landforms are the result of a complex merging of internal (magma composition, ...
Meléndez i Catalán, Adrià (Date of defense: 2014-12-19)
This dissertation is devoted to seismic tomography. I have implemented a new modelling tool for 3-D joint refraction and reflection travel-time tomography of wide-angle seismic data (TOMO3D). The reason ...
Camafort Blanco, Miquel (Date of defense: 2019-04-26)
This PhD thesis presents a geological and geophysical study that characterizes the Quaternary stratigraphy, geomorphology, recent tectonics, and discusses their implications to understand the geodynamic ...