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 (Fecha de defensa: 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. ...

    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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...

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

    Vicente Rodríguez, Alba (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...

    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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...

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

    Tarrés Mercader, Marta (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...

    Fluxos d’aigua subterrània i concentració de metalls en dipòsits marins costaners contaminats: aproximació metodològica i casos d’estudi a la costa mediterrània de la Península Ibèrica = Submarine groundwater discharge and metal concentration in polluted coastal marine deposits: methodological approach and case studies on the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula 

    Cerdà i Domènech, Marc (Fecha de defensa: 2020-07-29)

    L’estudi de la concentració i la distribució de metalls i metal·loides en ambients costaners ha guanyat rellevància durant els darrers quaranta anys, principalment a conseqüència de la creixent preocupació per llurs ...

    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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...

    Formation and subsequent inversion of extensional salt-detached ramp-syncline basins developed above ramp-flatramp faults 

    Roma Nuñez, Maria (Fecha de defensa: 2020-02-27)

    The widespread extensional deformation that took place during Jurassic to Cretaceous times in Western Europe and the North Atlantic margin resulted in the formation of several rift systems. Some of the resulting basins ...

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

    Seillé, Hoël (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...

    Geomechanical study of the Tarfaya basin, West African coast, using 3D/2D static models and 2D evolutionary models 

    Linden d’Hooghvorst Rodríguez, Jean Joseph van der (Fecha de defensa: 2021-04-20)

    This thesis uses different variants of geomechanical modelling approaches to investigate stress, strain and geometry distribution and evolution through time of the Tarfaya salt basin, located on the West African coast. ...

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

    Mitjanas Colls, Gemma (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...

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

    Jiménez de Contreras, Diana Elizabeth (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...

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

    Català i Caparrós, Albert (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...

    Identification of snow avalanche release areas and flow characterization based on seismic data studies 

    Roig-Lafon, Pere (Fecha de defensa: 2021-06-10)

    The main objectives of this PhD thesis are the identification of the snow avalanche release areas and the snow avalanche flow regime characterization with the use of seismic data. We aim to search for new methods for ...

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

    Victoriano Lamariano, Ane (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...

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

    Martínez Granado, Pablo (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...

    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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...

    Modelització paleoclimàtica del límit Eocè–Oligocè a Catalunya a partir de l’anàlisi CLAMP 

    Tosal Alcobé, Aixa (Fecha de defensa: 2019-12-17)

    Aquesta tesi té com a objectiu modelitzar el paleoclima del trànsit Eocè−Oligocè de la Conca de l’Ebre i conèixer com aquest canvi afectà a la flora local. Aquesta caracterització paleoclimàtica s’ha obtingut a partir de ...

    Monitoring floating microplastics in coastal wasters of the Western Mediterranean Sea 

    de Haan, W. P. (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...

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

    Sánchez Sánchez-Pastor, Pilar (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...