Advanced seismic methods applied to the study of snow avalanche dynamics and avalanche formation 

    Pérez Guillén, Cristina (Date of defense: 2016-06-27)

    Snow avalanches are extended moving sources of infrasonic and seismic energy. The acoustic and seismic wave fields generated by an avalanche is a complex natural phenomenon produced by the interaction of the flow with its ...

    Geoelectrical characterisation of Alpine orogenic belts in the Iberian Peninsula using the magnetotelluric method 

    Seillé, Hoël (Date of defense: 2016-07-26)

    The Iberian Peninsula is considered as a “micro-continent”, located between the Eurasian and the African plates. Several ranges formed during the Alpine orogeny, in the borders of the plate or intraplate. As part of this ...

    Composició, origen i transport de matèria orgànica en marges continentals i conques de la mar Mediterrània = Composition, origin and transport of organic matter in continental margins and basins of the Mediterranean Sea 

    Pedrosa Pàmies, Rut (Date of defense: 2016-09-09)

    One of the grand challenges in marine biogeochemistry is to improve our understanding on the temporal (seasonal and multi-annual) and spatial (regional and global) variability of ocean uptake of CO2, and the physical and ...

    Combining Discrete Element and Process-based sedimentary models: a new tool to model syntectonic sedimentation 

    Carmona Bardella, Ana (Date of defense: 2016-09-20)

    In order to understand the current state of the natural rocky environment and its heterogeneity, we require to study the interaction and time evolution of the numerous geological processes that have contributed to the ...

    Ecosystem based management in the Mediterranean Sea: scientific challenges and advances = La gestión basada en los ecosistemas en el Mar Mediterráneo: retos científicos y avances 

    Piroddi, Chiara (Date of defense: 2016-11-21)

    In this thesis I investigated the status of the Mediterranean Sea ecosystem and the sustainability of its marine resources using an interdisciplinary approach, which combined data integration and modelling approaches. ...

    Teleconnexions atmosfera-oceà a la regió intertropical durant el Plistocè inferior 

    Povea de Castro, Patricia (Date of defense: 2016-12-02)

    Els sediments marins profunds són claus per a la comprensió de la variabilitat del clima al llarg de la història de la Terra. Aquests sediments contenen una gran varietat d’indicadors per reconstruir canvis tan de l’oceà ...

    Mesozoic extension and Cenozoic contraction in the Eastern Iberian Chain (Maestrat Basin) = Tectònica extensiva mesozoica i contractiva cenozoica a la Cadena Ibèrica oriental 

    Nebot Miralles, Marina (Date of defense: 2016-12-16)

    The Maestrat basin was one of the most subsident basins of the Iberian Rift System, which experienced two main rifting events: Late Permian-Late Triassic and Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous. Its inversion during the Cenozoic ...

    Teleconnexions atmosfèriques i resposta oceanogràfica a les mars Mediterrània Nordoccidental i Cantàbrica 

    Rumín Caparrós, Aitor (Date of defense: 2017-03-23)

    Hom considera que els oceans són sistemes altament complexos, la dinàmica dels quals depèn de la interrelació de processos físics, químics i biològics. En aquests context, l’estudi dels intercanvis verticals de matèria ...

    Inversion Tectonics in the Alpine Foreland, Eastern Alps (Austria) 

    Martínez Granado, Pablo (Date of defense: 2017-05-03)

    In this thesis, the 3D structure and kinematics of the locally and mildly inverted Lower Austria Mesozoic Basin beneath the Alpine-Carpathian fold-and-thrust belt is described. This study has been carried out by the ...

    Els caròfits del límit Cretaci−Paleogen a les conques sud-pirinenques 

    Vicente Rodríguez, Alba (Date of defense: 2017-06-28)

    Els objectius d’aquesta tesi se centren en la caracterització taxonòmica, paleoecològica, paleobiogeogràfica i biostratigràfica dels caròfits de les fàcies fluvials del trànsit Cretaci–Paleogen (K/Pg) de les conques ...

    Post-Hercynian tectonic and paleogeographic evolution of SW Iberia and the Gulf of Cadiz 

    Ramos Ordoño, Adrià (Date of defense: 2017-06-29)

    This thesis addresses the tectonic and paleogeographic evolution of the SW Iberia Margin from the Mesozoic rifting stage to the post-rifting collision of Late Cretaceous through Miocene times and transpressive stages of ...

    El volcán Tagoro y el banco de Concepción: Estadíos juvenil y maduro de la evolución geomorfológica de montes submarinos en aguas canarias 

    Rivera Martínez, Jesús (Date of defense: 2017-07-18)

    Ademas de identificar y describir las formas del relieve, la geomorfologia tambien intenta descifrar los procesos y mecanismos causantes. Esto, que es válido para la geomorfología en general, lo es también para la geomorfología ...

    Paleobiología de los artrópodos edáficos y acuáticos del ámbar del Cretácico Inferior de España 

    Sánchez García, Alba (Date of defense: 2017-09-07)

    El objetivo principal de la Tesis realizada ha consistido en el conocimiento de la fauna de organismos edáficos y acuáticos preservados como bioinclusiones en ámbar español de los yacimientos albienses de Peñacerrada I y ...

    Integración de métodos para la caracterización hidrogeomorfológica de la actividad torrencial en una cuenca de montaña (Portainé, Pirineos Orientales) 

    Victoriano Lamariano, Ane (Date of defense: 2018-07-16)

    La predicción de las avenidas torrenciales en zonas de montaña está limitada por la complejidad de las inestabilidades meteorológicas que las generan (tormentas convectivas con un fuerte efecto orográfico), la rápida ...

    Salt tectonics in contractional fold belts, the Kuqa foreland basin and thrust belt case (Tarim basin, China) 

    Pla de Casacuberta, Oriol (Date of defense: 2019-05-15)

    The thesis presented here spins off from the 2-year oil-industry project entitled “Salt Tectonics Modelling at Kuqa Foreland Fold and Thrust Belt, Tarim Oilfield” that was a collaboration between the American-based company ...

    Monitoring the subsurface elastic properties using ambient seismic noise: 2011 El Hierro eruption and Reykjanes geothermal reservoir 

    Sánchez Sánchez-Pastor, Pilar (Date of defense: 2019-06-21)

    Monitoring the elastic properties of the subsurface is of a special interest to mitigate the associated risk with natural and artificial hazards. In the last decade, coda-wave interferometry has become an excellent tool ...

    Extensional development and contractional reactivation of salt walls: examples from the southeastern Paradox Basin (SW Colorado) and the Eastern Prebetic Zone (SE Spain) 

    Escosa Bernal, Frederic Oriol (Date of defense: 2019-09-27)

    This thesis uses a field-based approach complemented with geophysical and well data to investigate the controlling factors on the geometry and kinematics of salt walls developed above extensional faults whose movement ...

    Structure and Kinematics of the SW Taiwan Fold and Thrust belt 

    Biete Castells, Cristina (Date of defense: 2019-10-22)

    Studies of mountain belts worldwide show that along-strike changes are common in their foreland fold-and-thrust belts. These are typically caused by processes related to fault reactivation and/or fault focusing along changes ...

    Hazard Assessment and Risk Management at San Miguel volcano, El Salvador 

    Jiménez de Contreras, Diana Elizabeth (Date of defense: 2019-11-20)

    The purpose of this PhD thesis is to evaluate the volcanic risk associated with San Miguel Volcano, one of the most active volcanoes of El Salvador, through assessing volcanic hazard, that is, identify how a volcanic system ...

    Reconstrucció climàtica dels darrers 2.700 anys a la Mediterrània occidental: sediments marins i estalagmites 

    Cisneros Bermejo, Mercè (Date of defense: 2019-12-17)

    Donada l’alta sensibilitat de la regió central de la Mediterrània occidental a la variabilitat climàtica, s’han reconstruït les condicions de la mar superficials i profundes així com de les atmosfèriques pels darrers 2.700 ...