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 ...
Merino Perez, Irene (Date of defense: 2021-10-22)
In this PhD work, we carry out a geophysical and geological study of two classical examples of rifted continental margins: the Gulf of Lions (GoL), located in the Western Mediterranean, and the Tagus ...
Handoyo (Date of defense: 2023-02-16)
[eng] The Earth System is formed by four components that sustain life: the atmosphere, the biosphere, the hydrosphere and the geosphere. The complex region in which these elements interact is known as ...
Olivé Abelló, Anna (Date of defense: 2023-03-20)
[eng] The returning limb of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is partly supplied by the cold-fresh waters that enter through the Drake Passage. Up to the isoneutral 28.0 kg m−3, the ...
Turu, Valentín (Date of defense: 2023-04-24)
[eng] Many sediment-covered mountain areas affected by the growth of Pleistocene glaciers are over-consolidated. Palaeoglacial conditions are deduced from glacial consolidation and site investigations. ...
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 ...
Greene Giannetta, Max (Date of defense: 2022-03-25)
The Aran Valley in Catalonia (Spain), was the site of large-scale Zn, Pb, Cu, Fe, and Ag mining from the late 19th century until approximately 1950. Although mining activities ceased over 70 years ago, ...