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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sánchez Sánchez-Pastor, Pilar (Date of defense: 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 ...
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 ...
Piroddi, Chiara (Date of defense: 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 ...
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 ...
Pérez Guillén, Cristina (Date of defense: 2016-06-27)
Snow avalanches are extended moving sources of infrasonic and seismic energy. The acoustic and seismic wave fields generated by an avalanche is a complex natural phenomenon produced by the interaction ...
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 ...
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 ...