Estructura del Massís del Gaià: relacions estructurals amb les fosses del Penedès i del Camp de Tarragona 

    Amigó i Mitjana, Jordi (Date of defense: 1986-01-01)

    [cat] L'estudi previ d'una part del contacte entre el Massís del Gaià i la fossa del Penedès (AMIGÓ, 1983) va donar com a resultat l'aportació d'una sèrie de dades referents a l'estructura i evolució cinemàtica de les ...

    Development of GasChromatographic/Mass Spectrometric procedures and Synchroton Radiation based techniques for the study of painting materials in works of art 

    Lluveras Tenorio, Anna (Date of defense: 2009-06-30)

    El estudio de muestras de pintura persigue diferentes objetivos. Por un lado, identificar los materiales y técnica de la pintura de una época y por lo tanto el know-how de un período histórico. Por otra parte, estudiar la ...

    Hydrmagmatic monogenetic volcanism in continental and oceanic island enronments 

    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, vesiculation) and external ...

    The last 70 kyr of Rano Aroi (Easter island, 27ºS) peat record: New insights for the Central Pacific paleoclimatology 

    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 during the last 70.000 ...

    Non Stationary Magnetotelluric Data Processing 

    Neukirch, Maik (Date of defense: 2014-07-01)

    Studies have proven that the desired signal for Magnetotellurics (MT) in the electromagnetic (EM) field can be regarded as 'quasi stationary' (i.e. sufficiently stationary to apply a windowed Fourier transform). However, ...

    The structure of the south‐central Taiwan thrust belt 

    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, however, such as ...

    Development of a New Parallel Code for 3-D Joint Refraction and Reflection Travel-Time Tomography of Wide-Angle Seismic Data. Synthetic and Real Data Applications to the Study of Subduction Zones 

    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 behind this central ...

    Links Between Dimethylated Sulfur and Phytoplankton Photophysiology in the Surface Ocean Geographical Paterns and Short-Term Variability = Relación entre el Dimetilsulfuro y la Fotofsiología del Fitoplancton en la Superfcie del Océano. Patrones Geográfcos y Variabilidad a Corto Plazo 

    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 compound in the ...

    Occurrence, Transport and Fate of Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Global Ocean = Presencia, Transporte y Destino de Contaminantes Orgánicos Persistentes en el Océano Global 

    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 capacities towards ...

    Estrategias del procesado y análisis espectral de datos sísmicos para el estudio de procesos dinámicos en oceanografía física 

    Mojica Moncada, Jhon Fredy (Date of defense: 2015-11-04)

    La circulación oceánica de gran escala se encuentra relacionada con la pequeña escala a través de los procesos turbulentos, los cuales hacen posible el intercambio de energía cinética. Alrededor de la frecuencia de Coriolis, ...

    Sedimentary processes and resulting continental margin configuration during large-scale sea-level drawdown: The Messinian Salinity Crisis in the Western Mediterranean Sea 

    Lago Cameselle, Alejandra (Date of defense: 2015-11-16)

    At the end of the Miocene (5.97-5.33 Ma), the Mediterranean basins underwent deep morphological and sedimentological changes as a result of the large-scale sea-level fall during the so-called Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) ...

    Understanding the processes that controlled rifting of the Tyrrhenian basin 

    Guzman Vendrell, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2015-11-30)

    This thesis is focused in the processes that took place in the Tyrrhenian Sea, which is a Neogene basin belonging to the Western Mediterranean realm. Its formation is related with the subduction system of the African plate ...

    North Atlantic Oscillation imprints in the Central Iberian Peninsula for the last two millennia: from ordination analyses to the Bayesian approach 

    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 the Scandinavian ...

    Two-dimensional modeling and inversion of the controlled-source electromagnetic and magnetotelluric methods using finite elements and full-space PDE-constrained optimization strategies 

    Galiana Blanch, Savitri (Date of defense: 2016-09-27)

    The controlled-source electromagnetics (CSEM) and magnetotellurics (MT) methods are common geophysical tools for imaging the Earth's electrical interior. To appreciate measured data, both methods require forward and inverse ...

    Tectonic structure and formation kinematics of the Western Mediterranean basins 

    Viñas Gaza, Marina (Date of defense: 2017-01-20)

    In this work we present a geophysical study of three Western Mediterranean basins: Valencia Trough, Gulf of Lions and Algero-Balearic Basin. The work aims to define the tectonic structure, nature of the basement, and to ...

    The origin and tectono-sedimentary structure of the Alboran Basin 

    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 by the Betics and Rif ...

    Geophysical evidence of the preparedness for a volcanic eruption: El Hierro 2011-2012 

    López Moreno, Carmen (Date of defense: 2017-09-05)

    The observational data recorded by the monitoring networks during El Hierro 2011-2012 volcanic unrest and eruption, allowed us to conduct a study of the volcanic eruptive phenomena with that wide view. The lack of previous ...

    Caracterización gravimétrica de zonas de rift en islas volcánicas oceánicas : aplicación a las islas de Tenerife y el Hierro 

    Sainz-Maza Aparicio, Sergio (Date of defense: 2017-09-05)

    Los sistemas de rift en configuraciones volcánicas, se encuentran relacionadas con crecimiento de grandes edificios volcánicos y se definen como áreas de la corteza sometidas a esfuerzos extensivos que generan fracturas ...

    Origen de la estructura de la caldera Cañas Dulces y su relación con el recurso geotérmico de alta entalpía 

    Molina Zúñiga, Fernando (Date of defense: 2017-09-27)

    El ambiente geotectónico en que se ubica Costa Rica, ha permitido el desarrollo de un arco volcánico activo, contexto geológico que favorece la formación de sistemas hidrotermales con potencial geotérmico; fuente de energía ...

    Developing a management strategy for the red shrimp Aristeus antennatus fishery in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea = Desarrollo de una estrategia de gestión para la pesquería de la gamba roja Aristeus antennatus en el Mediterráneo Noroccidental 

    Gorelli, Giulia (Date of defense: 2017-10-05)

    The deep-sea red shrimp Aristeus antennatus is one of the main target species for bottom trawl fishery in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. In the Catalan region, this species is fished along the continental margin of a ...