Recent Submissions

Influence of Mesozoic structural inheritance on fault reactivation in the central Catalan Coastal Ranges (Catalan Margin, NW Mediterranean). Paleogene and Neogene tectonostratigraphic evolution 

Marín Pérez, Miquel À. (Date of defense: 2025-05-16)

[eng] The Catalan Coastal Ranges (CCR), located at the NE of the Iberian Peninsula is one of the alpine structural units that limit the Ebro Basin and it constitutes its southeastern boundary. Moreover, this unit is also ...

Contaminación por basuras marinas en ecosistemas costeros: análisis multiescalar de sus fuentes, dinámicas y riesgos asociados en manglares, playas y lagunas de Latinoamérica y el Caribe 

Garcés Ordoñez, Ostin (Date of defense: 2025-06-27)

[spa] La contaminación por basuras marinas es una problemática global que afecta a los ecosistemas marinos y costeros, provocando pérdida de biodiversidad, degradación ambiental y disminución de servicios ecosistémicos ...

Monitoring floating microplastics in coastal wasters of the Western Mediterranean Sea 

de Haan, W. P. (Date of defense: 2024-03-22)

[eng] Plastic waste is a global threat to ecosystems, especially in marine systems where most of the threats from plastics occur. The Mediterranean Sea is one of the most polluted basins due to marine litter, particularly ...

Fluxos de partícules i metalls als marges continentals del sud-est de la península Ibèrica 

Tarrés Mercader, Marta (Date of defense: 2024-01-26)

[cat] Les partícules que sedimenten en el medi marí tenen un paper clau en el cicle biogeoquímic d’un bon nombre d’elements i, per tant, són essencials per al funcionament de l’ecosistema. L’estudi dels fluxos de partícules ...

Multi-hazard assessment and risk management in volcanic islands 

López Saavedra, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-10-25)

[eng] Our planet is impacted by diverse natural and human-induced events, including weather-related events (floods, droughts, forest fires, etc.) and geological events (landslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc.). ...

Aplicación de tecnologías avanzadas para la caracterización del depósito de vertidos mineros de la bahía de Portmán, Murcia (España) 

Baza Varas, Andrea (Date of defense: 2023-05-19)

[spa] La afectación de ambientes costeros por vertidos mineros con altos contenidos metálicos procedentes de la explotación de sulfuros constituye un problema de alcance mundial. Aunque la mayoría de residuos mineros son ...

Afloraments fracturats digitalitzats. Avaluació de tècniques remotes en models DFN i aplicació de Machine Learning 

Blanco Núñez, Laura (Date of defense: 2023-02-23)

[cat] En l’actual transició digital, on es generen milions de dades cada dia, l’ús de tècniques remotes digitals i els processats amb tècniques de machine learning és cada cop més present i necessari, sense que l’àmbit de ...

Holocene Climate variability in the Western Mediterranean Sea: an integrated oceanic and atmospheric perspective 

Català i Caparrós, Albert (Date of defense: 2022-02-17)

[eng] The Mediterranean region is very sensitive to modern climate variability. Located in a temperate subtropical climatic zone and surrounded almost entirely by large continental masses, the Mediterranean region climate ...

Yacimientos de ámbar del Cretácico de la Cuenca del Maestrazgo: tafonomía, bioinclusiones y paleoecología 

Álvarez Parra, Sergio (Date of defense: 2023-02-01)

[spa] El objetivo de esta Tesis Doctoral es el estudio de los yacimientos de ámbar de la Cuenca del Maestrazgo con foco en la tafonomía, el paleoambiente, el contenido paleobiológico y la paleoecología. En esta cuenca se ...

Geophysical and geological characterization of fault-controlled geothermal systems: The Vallès Basin case of study 

Mitjanas Colls, Gemma (Date of defense: 2023-01-20)

[eng] Geothermal energy is a renewable source of energy that harnesses heat from the Earth's interior. Temperature increases with depth, defining the geothermal gradient, which can be variable depending on the geological ...

Salt Tectonics of the Offshore Tarfaya Basin (NW Africa): A Regional to Local Approach 

Uranga Moran, Rodolfo Martín (Date of defense: 2022-12-01)

[eng] Although there is certain consensus on the Middle Jurassic to Present evolution of the Central Atlantic, the Early Jurassic rift to drift transition stage is still under discussion. Through the interpretation of ...

Sedimentology and sedimentary architecture of the Middle Ordovician Hawaz Formation in the subsurface of the Murzuq Basin (Libya) 

Gil-Ortiz, Marc (Date of defense: 2022-10-14)

[eng] The Hawaz Formation is a Middle Ordovician siliciclastic succession which extends for hundreds of kilometres across North Africa. This thesis uses a subsurface-based approach, mainly utilizing well data, complemented ...

La Formación Caspe: análisis sedimentológico y estratigráfico de los depósitos fluviales del Oligoceno – Mioceno inferior del SE de la Cuenca del Ebro 

Cuevas Martínez, José Luis (Date of defense: 2022-10-24)

[spa] La Formación Caspe corresponde a las facies fluviales de los depósitos de un abanico fluvial de edad oligo-miocena, referido en la literatura como Sistema aluvial del Guadalope-Matarranya. Dicho sistema tuvo su área ...

Temporal Variability of Nepheloid Layer Structures on Continental Slope Environments: Natural and Anthropogenic Processes 

Arjona Camas, Marta (Date of defense: 2022-02-17)

This Thesis aims to investigate the contribution of the deep-sea trawling activities, besides that of natural processes, to the sediment dynamics in different continental slope areas, particularly in the NW Mediterranean ...

Developing Advanced Photogrammetric Methods for Automated Rockfall Monitoring 

Blanch Gorriz, Xabier (Date of defense: 2022-03-17)

In recent years, photogrammetric models have become a widely used tool in the field of geosciences thanks to their ability to reproduce natural surfaces. As an alternative to other systems such as LiDAR (Light Detection ...

Barremian charophytes from the Maestrat Basin: taxonomy, palaeoecology, palaeobiogeography and biostratigraphy 

Pérez Cano, Jordi (Date of defense: 2021-11-25)

This thesis is focused on the taxonomical, biogeographical, palaeoecological and biostratigraphical characterization of the Barremian charophytes of the Maestrat Basin (Eastern Iberian Chain, Spain). Thirty-four charophyte ...

Paleoseismic transect across the Alhama de Murcia Fault and implications of a fault-based seismic hazard assessment for the Eastern Betics 

Gómez Novell, Octavi (Date of defense: 2021-10-25)

The Eastern Betics Shear Zone (EBSZ) is one of the most active fault systems in SE Spain. It has caused damaging earthquakes in historical times, including the 2011 Lorca earthquake, which evidenced that the regional hazard ...

Caracterització espaciotemporal de la dinàmica d’allaus de neu majors al Pirineu català 

Oller Figueras, Pere (Date of defense: 2021-12-10)

Aquesta tesi té per objectiu avançar en el coneixement de la dinàmica de les allaus, i en concret, de les allaus majors, al Pirineu de Catalunya i, per extensió, als Pirineus, tot entenent per allau major l’allau la mida ...

Sediment routing systems of the Eocene Tremp-Jaca basin: Stratigraphic analysis and numerical models 

Vinyoles i Busquets, Andreu (Date of defense: 2021-02-12)

The Eocene South-Pyrenean foreland basin provides a continuum of outcrops representing a Source to Sink sediment routing system from subaerial canyons to deep marine environments. On this context, the specific objective ...

Numerical modeling of continental collision and intraplate deformation. Application to the Cenozoic geodynamic evolution of North Iberia 

Valverde Pérez, Ángel (Date of defense: 2021-01-27)

This thesis aims at improving the current understanding of the geodynamic controls on tectonic deformation during plate collision, using the Cenozoic evolution of Iberia as a case scenario. Despite the vast efforts during ...