Heida, Hanneke (Date of defense: 2022-12-01)
[eng] During the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC, 5.97 – 5.33 Ma), an environmental crisis unparalleled in recent geological history, thick evaporites were deposited in the Mediterranean Basin associated ...
Arias Bulbena, Anna (Date of defense: 2020-09-10)
Protistan grazers are a key component of marine planktonic food webs. These marine protists are the major grazers of pelagic primary production in the oceans and, therefore, they display a crucial ...
Mencaroni, Davide (Date of defense: 2022-02-25)
Contourite drifts are the depositional expression of bottom currents, which are capable of shaping the morphology of the seafloor by transporting, eroding and reworking marine sediments, and are distributed ...
Cabrera Brufau, Miguel (Date of defense: 2023-02-17)
[eng] Marine phytoplankton are responsible for approximately half of the photosynthetic production of organic matter (OM) and oxygen in Earth. The composition and reactivity of phytoplankton- derived ...
Sagristà Soler, Enric (Date of defense: 2020-09-23)
Las zonas costeras, y en especial las playas, son la unión principal entre la tierra y el mar, siendo el escenario de infinidad de interacciones causadas por factores muy diversos, desde cambios producidos ...
Sánchez Serra, Cristina (Date of defense: 2021-09-09)
The southwestern margin of the Iberian Peninsula, which includes the Gulf of Cadiz, is characterized by a present-day active deformation mainly driven by the NW-SE trending convergence between the African ...
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. ...