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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Campos Durán, Daniela (Date of defense: 2023-11-23)
[eng] Irazu is the highest volcano in Costa Rica (3427 m.a.s.l.); it constitutes an andesitic shield, with two main craters at the top and several pyroclastic cones cuspidal, and adventitial on the South ...
Vafaie, Atefeh (Date of defense: 2023-07-07)
[eng] Carbon capture and storage (CCS) in saline aquifers is a proven technology aimed at reducing atmospheric CO2 emissions and mitigating the climate change crisis. CO2 injection acidifies the formation ...
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 ...