@article {N{\'u}{\~n}ez-Corn{\'u}201659,
	title = {{Geophysical studies across rivera plate and jalisco block, Mexico: Tsujal project}},
	journal = {Seismological Research Letters},
	volume = {87},
	number = {1},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {59{\textendash}72},
	abstract = {In the spring of 2014, an onshore-offshore geophysical experiment ("Crustal Characterization of the Rivera plate-Jalisco Block Boundary and Its Implications for Seismic and Tsunami Hazard Assessment") was carried out in the frame of theTsuJal project to define the crustal architecture of the western Mexican active margin and identify potential structural sources that can trigger earthquakes and tsunamis at the convergence between the Rivera plate (RP) and the Jalisco Block (JB) within the North American plate. In this work, we present the preliminary results about bathymetric, structural geology, and wide-angle seismic data of the southern coast of Bah{\'\i}a de Banderas. These data indicate the slab thickness in this area is about 10 km and presents a dip angle of about 8. Continental crustal thickness below Puerto Vallarta is about 20 km, but no evidences of continental Moho and clear subduction features (trench, accretionary prism) are observed. Nevertheless, this model supports the hypothesis that the region of Bah{\'\i}a de Banderas is under strong crustal stresses generating structural lineaments with the same trends offshore and inland due to the convergence of the RP against the JB. Most of the seismicity reported can be associated with the main structural lineaments. Moreover, the Banderas Canyon (BC) is apparently in an eastward opening process, which seems to continue through the Rio Pitillal river valley; no seismic or morphological evidences were found to suggest the BC is a continuation of the Vallarta graben. Offshore, the Sierra de Cleofas, located south of Mar{\'\i}a Cleofas Island, marks the limit between the RP and the JB along 100 km. It may be the result of the RP pushing against the JB establishing the beginning of the current subduction process, with associated seismic activity. If a subduction type earthquake occurs in this area, the associated magnitude will be about 7.5 and could have a tsunamigenic effect.},
	doi = {10.1785/0220150144},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84954306785\&partnerID=40\&md5=ad4bbdb5d2b001b4510745d3e92ea302},
	author = {N{\'u}{\~n}ez-Corn{\'u}, F J and C{\'o}rdoba, D and Da{\~n}obeitia, J J and Bandy, W L and Figueroa, M O and Bartolom{\'e}, R and N{\'u}{\~n}ez, D and Zamora-Camacho, A and Esp{\'\i}ndola, J M and Castell{\'o}n, A and Escudero, C R and Trejo-G{\'o}mez, E and De Jes{\'u}s Escalona-Alc{\'a}zar, F and Plascencia, C S and Alejandro Nava, F and Mortera, C}
}
@article {Cameselle2015,
	title = {{The continent-ocean transition on the northwestern South China Sea}},
	journal = {Basin Research},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {n/a{\textendash}{\textendash}n/a},
	issn = {0950091X},
	doi = {10.1111/bre.12137},
	url = {http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/bre.12137},
	author = {Cameselle, Alejandra L and Ranero, C{\'e}sar R and Franke, Dieter and Barckhausen, Udo}
}
@article {Cameselle2014,
	title = {{The continent-ocean transition of the rifted South China continental margin}},
	journal = {EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts},
	volume = {16},
	year = {2014},
	month = {may},
	pages = {14917},
	url = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014EGUGA..1614917C},
	author = {Cameselle, Alejandra L. and Ranero, C{\'e} and sar R. and Franke, Dieter and Barckhausen, Udo}
}
@article {Hanebuth2014,
	title = {{Drilling Glacial Deposits in Offshore Polar Regions}},
	journal = {Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union},
	volume = {95},
	number = {31},
	year = {2014},
	month = {aug},
	pages = {277{\textendash}278},
	publisher = {Blackwell Publishing Ltd},
	abstract = {High latitudes are of fundamental importance in the Earth{\textquoteright}s climate system - they house ice sheets that govern global sea level heights, influence how much solar energy is reflected back to space, and create deep and bottom waters that drive the ocean{\textquoteright}s ability to circulate energy and nutrients across the globe. {\textcopyright}2014. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.},
	keywords = {Arctic region, Glacigenic drilling, grounding zone wedges},
	issn = {00963941},
	doi = {10.1002/2014EO310001},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84905693212\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Hanebuth, Till J. J. and Rebesco, Michele and Urgeles, Roger and Lucchi, Renata G. and Freudenthal, Tim}
}
@inbook {MasanaOrtunoM.E.FerraterM.PereaH.BaizeS.EcheverriaA.PallasR.GarciaMelendezE.Martinez-DiazJ.J.andRockwell2014,
	title = {{Fine grained bodies as evidence of {\textquotedblleft}dusty{\textquotedblright} paleoearthquakes in the Alhama de Murcia Fault geological record}},
	booktitle = {Una aproximaci{\'o}n multidisciplinar al estudio de fallas activas, los terremotos y el riesgo s{\'\i}smico},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {23{\textendash}26},
	isbn = {978-84-617-2049-1},
	url = {http://www.researchgate.net/publication/267574309\_Una\_aproximacin\_multidisciplinar\_al\_estudio\_de\_las\_fallas\_activas\_los\_terremotos\_y\_el\_riesgo\_ssmico},
	author = {Masana, Ortu{\~n}o, M., E. and Ferrater, M. and Perea, H. and Baize, S. and Echeverria, A. and Pall{\`a}s, R. and Garc{\'\i}a Mel{\'e}ndez, E. and Mart{\'\i}nez-D{\'\i}az and J.J. and Rockwell, T.}
}
@article {Papadopoulos2014,
	title = {{Historical and pre-historical tsunamis in the Mediterranean and its connected seas: Geological signatures, generation mechanisms and coastal impacts}},
	journal = {Marine Geology},
	volume = {354},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {81{\textendash}109},
	publisher = {Elsevier},
	abstract = {The origin of tsunamis in the Mediterranean region and its connected seas, including the Marmara Sea, the Black Sea and the SW Iberian Margin in the NE Atlantic Ocean, is reviewed within the geological and seismotectonic settings of the region. A variety of historical documentary sources combined with evidence from onshore and offshore geological signatures, geomorphological imprints, observations from selected coastal archeological sites, as well as instrumental records, eyewitnesses accounts and pictorial material, clearly indicate that tsunami sources both seismic and non-seismic (e.g. volcanism, landslides) can be found in all the seas of the region with a variable tsunamigenic potential. Local, regional and basin-wide tsunamis have been documented. An improved map of 22 main tsunamigenic zones and their relative potential for tsunami generation is presented. From west to east, the most important tsunamigenic zones are situated offshore SW Iberia, in the North Algerian margin, in the Tyrrhenian Calabria and Messina Straits, in the western and eastern segments of the Hellenic Arc, in the Corinth Gulf of Central Greece, in the Levantine Sea offshore the Dead Sea Transform Fault and in the eastern side of the Marmara Sea. Important historical examples, including destructive tsunamis associated with large earthquakes, are presented. The mean recurrence of strong tsunamis in the several basins varies greatly but the highest event frequency (1/96. years) is observed in the east Mediterranean basin. For most of the historical events it is still unclear which was the causative seismic source and if the tsunami was caused by co-seismic slip, by earthquake-triggered submarine landslides or by a combination of both mechanisms. In pre-historical times, submarine volcanic eruptions (i.e. caldera collapse, massive pyroclastic flows, volcanogenic landslides) and large submarine landslides caused important tsunamis although little is known about their source mechanisms. We conclude that further investigation of the tsunami generation mechanisms is of primary importance in the Mediterranean region. Inputs from tsunami numerical modeling as well as from empirical discrimination criteria for characterizing tsunami sources have been proved particularly effective for recent, well-documented, aseismic landslide tsunamis (e.g., 1963 Corinth Gulf, 1979 C{\^O}te d{\textquoteright}Azur, 1999 Izmit Bay, 2002 Stromboli volcano). Since the tsunami generation mechanisms are controlled by a variety of factors, and given that the knowledge of past tsunami activity is the cornerstone for undertaking tsunami risk mitigation action, future interdisciplinary research efforts on past tsunamis are needed. {\textcopyright} 2014 Elsevier B.V.},
	keywords = {Geological signatures, Historical tsunamis, Mediterranean region, Tsunami impact, Tsunami mechanisms},
	issn = {00253227},
	doi = {10.1016/j.margeo.2014.04.014},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84901663041\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Papadopoulos, Gerassimos A. and Gr{\'a}cia, Eul{\`a}lia and Urgeles, Roger and Sallares, Valenti and De Martini, Paolo Marco and Pantosti, Daniela and Gonz{\'a}lez, Mauricio and Yalciner, Ahmet C. and Mascle, Jean and Sakellariou, Dimitris and Salamon, Amos and Tinti, Stefano and Karastathis, Vassilis and Fokaefs, Anna and Camerlenghi, Angelo and Novikova, Tatyana and Papageorgiou, Antonia}
}
@book {Sassa2014,
	title = {{Landslide Science for a Safer Geoenvironment}},
	volume = {2},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {483{\textendash}489},
	publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
	organization = {Springer International Publishing},
	address = {Cham},
	keywords = {ardizzone, cardinali f, f, fiorucci f, geological layers slip ellipsoid, GIS, guzzetti, i, marchesini m, santangelo m, slope stability open source},
	isbn = {978-3-319-05049-2},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-05050-8},
	url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-05050-8},
	author = {Marchesini, Ivan and Mergili, Martin and Rossi, Mauro and Santangelo, Michele and Cardinali, Mauro and Ardizzone, Francesca and Fiorucci, Federica and Schneider-muntau, Barbara and Fellin, Wolfgang and Guzzetti, Fausto},
	editor = {Sassa, Kyoji and Canuti, Paolo and Yin, Yueping}
}
@article {ferraterprimeros,
	title = {{PRIMEROS VALORES DE VELOCIDAD DE DESLIZAMIENTO LATERAL EN LA FALLA ALHAMA DE MURCIA BASADOS EN TRINCHERAS 3D}},
	journal = {Segunda reuni{\'o}n Ib{\'e}rica sobre fallas activas y paleosismolog{\'\i}a},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {19},
	author = {Ferrater, M and Ortu{\~n}o, M and Masana, E and Perea, H and Baize, S and Mart{\'\i}nez-D{\'\i}az, J J and Pall{\`a}s, R and Garc{\'\i}a-Mel{\'e}ndez, E}
}
@article {Cameselle2013a,
	title = {{The continent-ocean transition of the Pearl River margin}},
	journal = {AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts},
	volume = {-1},
	year = {2013},
	month = {dec},
	pages = {06},
	abstract = {Rifted continental margins form by lithospheric extension and break-up. The continent to ocean transition (COT) architecture depends on the interplay between tectonic and magmatic processes, and thus, to study the COT variability of different systems is key to understand rifting. We use MCS data and magnetic lineations across the Pearl River margin (PRM) of South China Sea to investigate a previously poorly defined COT. The structure of the PRM presents different amounts of extension allowing the study of conjugate pairs of continental margins and their COT in a relative small region. We reprocessed about 2250 km of MCS data along 4 regional, crustal-scale lines and found that 3 of them possibly display the COT. The time-migrated seismic sections show differences in internal reflectivity, faulting style, fault-block geometry, the seismic character of the top of the basement, in the geometry of sediment deposits, and Moho reflections, that we interpret to represent clear continental and oceanic domains. The continental domain is characterized by arrays of normal faults and associated tilted blocks overlaid by syn-rift sedimentary units. The Moho is imaged as sub-horizontal reflections that define a fairly continuous boundary typically at 8-10 s TWT. Estimation of the thickness of the continental crust using 6 km/s average velocity indicates a \~{}22 km-thick continental crust under the uppermost slope passing abruptly to \~{}9-6 km under the lower slope. Comparatively the oceanic crust has a highly reflective top of basement, little-faulting, not discernible syn-tectonic strata, and fairly constant thick aness (4-8 km) defined by usually clear Moho reflections. The COT occurs across \~{}5-10 km narrow zone. Rifting resulted in asymmetric conjugate margins. The PRM shows arrays of tilted fault blocks covered by abundant syn-rift sediment, whereas the conjugate Macclesfield Bank margin displays abrupt thinning and little faulting. Seismic profiles also show a change in the tectonic structure from NE to SW. On the two NE- most lines, crustal thinning and break-up occur over 20-40 km wide segments. To the SW, continental extension occurred over a comparatively broader \~{}100-110 km segment of tilted fault-block structure. We interpret, that this 3D structural variability and the narrow COT was caused by the lateral NE to the SW propagation of a spreading center. In the NE, early spreading center propagation during ongoing rifting stopped continental stretching, causing an abrupt break-up and a narrow COT to seafloor spreading. Later arrival of spreading center propagated to the SW, resulted in a comparatively broader segment with fault-block structures of extended continental crust. However, the COT to clear oceanic crust is narrow. Spreading center propagation in the basin is however not a simple phenomena and ridge jumps and abrupt cessation of spreading contributed to form narrow COT that laterally change to highly thinned continental crust segments. We suggest that the tectonic architecture of continental extension and the abrupt COT along the PRM have been controlled by 3D oceanic spreading center propagation to a degree larger than by the local lithospheric structure during rifting.},
	keywords = {8105 TECTONOPHYSICS Continental margins: divergent},
	url = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013AGUFMOS23E..06C},
	author = {Cameselle, Alejandra L. and Ranero, Cesar R. and Franke, Dieter and Barckhausen, Udo}
}
@article {Lucchi2013,
	title = {{Postglacial sedimentary processes on the Storfjorden and Kveithola trough mouth fans: Significance of extreme glacimarine sedimentation}},
	journal = {Global and Planetary Change},
	volume = {111},
	year = {2013},
	month = {dec},
	pages = {309{\textendash}326},
	abstract = {The depositional history of the Storfjorden and Kveithola trough-mouth fans (TMFs) in the northwestern Barents Sea has been investigated within two coordinated Spanish and Italian projects in the framework of the International Polar Year (IPY) Activity 367, NICE STREAMS. The investigation has been conducted using a multidisciplinary approach to the study of sediment cores positioned on high-resolution multibeam bathymetry and TOPAS/CHIRP sub-bottom profiles.Core correlation and the age model were based on 27 AMS 14C samples, rock magnetic parameters, lithofacies sequences, and the presence of marker beds including two oxidized layers marking the post Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) inception of deglaciation (OX-2) and the Younger Dryas cold climatic event (OX-1).Sediment facies analysis allowed the distinction of a number of depositional processes whose onset appears closely related to ice stream dynamics and oceanographic patterns in response to climate change. The glacigenic diamicton with low water content, high density, and high shear strength, deposited during glacial maxima, indicates ice streams grounded at the shelf edge. Massive release of IRD occurred at the inception of deglaciation in response to increased calving rates with possible outer ice streams lift off and collapse. The presence of a several-meter-thick sequence of interlaminated sediments deposited by subglacial outbursts of turbid meltwater (plumites) indicates rapid ice streams{\textquoteright} melting and retreat. Crudely-layered and heavily-bioturbated sediments were deposited by contour currents under climatic/environmental conditions favorable to bioproductivity.The extreme sedimentation rate of 3.4cma-1 calculated for the plumites from the upper-slope area indicates a massive, nearly instantaneous (less than 150years), terrigenous input corresponding to an outstanding meltwater event. We propose these interlaminated sediments to represent the high-latitude marine record of MeltWater Pulse 1a (MWP-1a). Different bathymetric and oceanographic conditions controlled locally the mode of glacial retreat, resulting in different thickness of plumites on the upper continental slope of the Storfjorden and Kveithola TMFs. It is possible that the southern part of Storfjorden TMF received additional sediments from the deglaciation of the neighboring Kveithola ice stream. {\textcopyright} 2013.},
	keywords = {Barents Sea, Gullies, LGM, Meltwater plumes, MWP-1a, Sedimentary processes},
	issn = {09218181},
	doi = {10.1016/j.gloplacha.2013.10.008},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84887563264\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Lucchi, R.G. and Camerlenghi, A. and Rebesco, M. and Colmenero-Hidalgo, E. and Sierro, F.J. and Sagnotti, L. and Urgeles, R. and Melis, R. and Morigi, C. and B{\'a}rcena, M.-A. and Giorgetti, G. and Villa, G. and Persico, D. and Flores, J.-A. and Rigual-Hern{\'a}ndez, A.S. and Pedrosa, M.T. and Macri, P. and Caburlotto, A.}
}
@article {Evans2011,
	title = {{Electrical lithosphere beneath the Kaapvaal craton, southern Africa}},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research},
	volume = {116},
	number = {B4},
	year = {2011},
	month = {apr},
	pages = {B04105},
	abstract = {A regional-scale magnetotelluric (MT) experiment across the southern African Kaapvaal craton and surrounding terranes, called the Southern African Magnetotelluric Experiment (SAMTEX), has revealed complex structure in the lithospheric mantle. Large variations in maximum resistivity at depths to 200-250 km relate directly to age and tectonic provenance of surface structures. Within the central portions of the Kaapvaal craton are regions of resistive lithosphere about 230 km thick, in agreement with estimates from xenolith thermobarometry and seismic surface wave tomography, but thinner than inferred from seismic body wave tomography. The MT data are unable to discriminate between a completely dry or slightly "damp" (a few hundred parts per million of water) structure within the transitional region at the base of the lithosphere. However, the structure of the uppermost \~{}150 km of lithosphere is consistent with enhanced, but still low, conductivities reported for hydrous olivine and orthopyroxene at levels of water reported for Kaapvaal xenoliths. The electrical lithosphere around the Kimberley and Premier diamond mines is thinner than the maximum craton thickness found between Kimberley and Johannesburg/Pretoria. The mantle beneath the Bushveld Complex is highly conducting at depths around 60 km. Possible explanations for these high conductivities include graphite or sulphide and/or iron metals associated with the Bushveld magmatic event. We suggest that one of these conductive phases (most likely melt-related sulphides) could electrically connect iron-rich garnets in a garnet-rich eclogitic composition associated with a relict subduction slab. Copyright 2011 by the American Geophysical Union.},
	issn = {0148-0227},
	doi = {10.1029/2010JB007883},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79955426798\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Evans, Rob L. and Jones, Alan G. and Garcia, Xavier and Muller, Mark and Hamilton, Mark and Evans, Shane and Fourie, C. J. S. and Spratt, Jessica and Webb, Susan and Jelsma, Hielke and Hutchins, Dave}
}
@article {Manchuel2011,
	title = {{New insights on the interseismic active deformation along the North Ecuadorian-South Colombian (NESC) margin}},
	journal = {Tectonics},
	volume = {30},
	number = {4},
	year = {2011},
	month = {aug},
	pages = {n/a{\textendash}n/a},
	abstract = {The North Ecuadorian-South Colombian subduction zone was the site of the 1906 Mw 8.8 megathrust earthquake. This main shock was followed by three large events in 1942, 1958, and 1979 whose rupture zones were located within the 500 km long 1906 rupture area. A combined onshore and offshore temporary seismic network covering from the trench to the Andes was deployed during 3 months in the area of large earthquakes, in order to obtain a detailed knowledge of the seismic background activity. Resulting earthquakes location and mechanisms bring new insights on interseismic active deformation distribution in the three main tectonic units of the margin, namely, the Interplate Seismogenic Zone, the fore-arc region which is part of the North Andean Block and the downgoing oceanic Nazca plate. The interplate seismic activity presents along strike variations, suggesting that the seismicity and the associated stress buildup along the plate interface depend on the time elapsed since the last large earthquakes. According to our results, the updip and downdip limits of the seismogenic zone appear to be located at 12 and 30 km depth, respectively. Shallow to intermediate depth seismicity indicates a slab dip angle of ≈25{\textdegree}. North of the Carnegie Ridge, the Wadati-Benioff plane is defined beneath the fore arc down to ≈100 km depth. Facing the ridge, the Wadati-Benioff plane extends beneath the Andes, down to ≈140 km depth. This observation conflicts with the hypothesis of the presence of a flat slab at a depth of 100 km facing the ridge. In the overlying fore-arc region, the crustal seismicity occurs down to 40 km depth and is mainly concentrated in a roughly NW-SE 100 km wide stripe stretching from the coast, at about 1{\textdegree}N, to the Andes. The location of this active deformation stripe coincides with observed tectonic segmentation of the coastal domain as evidenced by the presence of an uplifting segment to the south and a subsiding segment to the north of the stripe. It also corresponds to a ≈30{\textdegree} change in the trend of the Andes, suggesting that the curvature of the volcanic arc might play an important role in the deformation of the fore-arc region. Copyright 2011 by the American Geophysical Union.},
	issn = {02787407},
	doi = {10.1029/2010TC002757},
	url = {http://doi.wiley.com/10.1029/2010TC002757 http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79960929640\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Manchuel, Kevin and R{\'e}gnier, Marc and B{\'e}thoux, Nicole and Font, Yvonne and Sallares, Valenti and D{\'\i}az, Jordi and Yepes, Hugo}
}
@article {Moore2011,
	title = {{Threshold of borehole failure: Breaking in before breaking out, Mississippi fan, Gulf of Mexico}},
	journal = {Geosphere},
	volume = {7},
	number = {3},
	year = {2011},
	pages = {684{\textendash}693},
	abstract = {Resistivity images from Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Site U1322 on the Mississippi fan (Gulf of Mexico) show borehole failure as (1) low-resistivity bands interpreted as breakouts and (2) high-resistivity bands. Both features occur as opposing pairs on opposite sides of the borehole, and have similar azimuthal orientations and widths. Failures occur at depths of 90-216 m in sediments very rich in expansive (smectite-illite) clays of 40\%-50\% porosity that are younger than 65 ka. The low-resistivity breakouts resemble similar features in other IODP boreholes from southwest Japan and offshore Oregon. The high-resistivity features are unknown in other boreholes. Estimates of stress magnitudes based on the overburden stress and the extensional tectonic environment in the Gulf of Mexico predict that the borehole was at failure. Experiments were conducted on cores with lithologies equivalent to those of the borehole failure localities from IODP Site U1322 and adjacent Site U1324. These experiments suggest an elastic-plastic deformation with strains of 10\%-15\% before reaching a plastic yielding. In the experiments, strain softening during plastic deformation ranges from 0\% to 20\%. Physically the experimental samples show a combination of lateral bulging and discrete conjugate shears. These experiments suggest that the resistive areas in the borehole are an initial state of bulging, or extrusion, into the borehole. We call these extrusive failures "breakins" to distinguish them from traditional breakouts. Extrusion into borehole decreases the amount of conductive borehole fluid between the bulging sediment and the resistivity tool, increasing the resistivity signal. The high residual strength of the sediment prevents disaggregation and spalling. Where spalling has developed, breakouts occur. This analysis is the first documentation of this incipient stage of borehole failure. {\textcopyright} 2011 Geological Society of America.},
	issn = {1553-040},
	doi = {10.1130/GES00613.1},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80054764068\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Moore, J. Casey and Roger Urgeles, R. and Conin, Marianne and Flemings, Peter B. and Iturrino, Gerardo J.}
}
@article {Nemser,
	title = {{Compilation of parameterized seismogenic sources in Iberia for the SHARE European-scale seismic source model.}},
	year = {2010},
	pages = {201{\textendash}204},
	keywords = {Database, Fault, Seismogenic, SHARE},
	isbn = {978-84-693-6088-0},
	url = {https://dspace.uevora.pt/rdpc/handle/10174/6247},
	author = {Nemser, E.S. and Garc{\'\i}a-Mayordomo, J. and Cabral, J. and Fonseca, J. and Mart{\'\i}nez-D{\'\i}az, J.J. and Alfaro Garc{\'\i}a, P. and {\`A}lvarez G{\'o}mez, J.A. and Atakan, K. and Aza{\~n}{\'o}n Hern{\'a}ndez, J.M. and Basili, R. and Besana-Ostman, G.M. and Bezzeghoud, M. and Borges, J.F. and Brum da Silveira, A. and Carlos Lopes, F. and Carvalho, J. and Dias, R.P. and Figueiredo, P.M. and Garc{\'\i}a Fern{\'a}ndez, M. and Giner Robles, J. and Gonzalez, A. and Gr{\`a}cia, E. and Gutierrez, F. and Insua Ar{\'e}valo, J.M. and Jim{\'e}nez, M.J. and Jim{\'e}nez-D{\'\i}az, A. and Lafuente Tom{\'a}s, P. and Lucha, P. and Madeira, J. and Martin Gonz{\'a}lez, F. and Masana, E. and Matias, L. and Moreno, X. and Ortu{\~n}o, M. and Perea, H. and P{\'e}rez L{\'o}pez, R. and Rodr{\'\i}guez Pascua, M.A. and Ruano, P. and Santanach, P. and Sanz de Galdeano, C. and Silva Barroso, P. and Silva, S. and Sim{\'o}n, J.L. and Terrinha, P. and Vilanova, S. and Villamor, P. and Wong, J.}
}
@conference {Camerlenghi2010,
	title = {{A database on submarine landslides of the mediterranean sea}},
	booktitle = {Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences - 4th International Symposium},
	year = {2010},
	pages = {503{\textendash}513},
	publisher = {Kluwer Academic Publishers},
	organization = {Kluwer Academic Publishers},
	abstract = {Submarine landslides are ubiquitous along the continental margins of the Mediterranean basin and occur on tectonically-dominated margins as well as on passive margins and volcanic island flanks. Tectonically quiet zones seem to have the highest density of known events. Most landslides occur as long run-out distance debris flows, but slumps and deep-seated failures are also relatively common. In abyssal plains the distal product of massive failures is recorded as large megatur-bidites, while on volcanic islands the dominant failure type is flank-collapse with development of debris avalanches. Submarine landslides, excluding megaturbidites, appear to occur in all water depths between the coastline and about 2000 m. Most landslides occupy areas ranging from a few to about 600 km2 and volumes up to 220 km3. Abyssal plain megaturbidites can attain 60, 000 km2 and 1, 000 km3. The landslides headwall height are clustered around two modes: 0 to 40 m for relatively small landslides and 160 to 200 m for the largest ones. Most recorded submarine landslides are relatively young in age and several events appear to group near the Pleistocene to Holocene transition. {\textcopyright} Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2010.},
	keywords = {Geohazard, Holocene, Mass wasting, Mediterranean, Megaturbidite, Pleistocene, Submarine landslide},
	isbn = {9789048130702},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84903488503\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Camerlenghi, A. and Urgeles, R. and Fantoni, L.}
}
@conference {Urgeles2010,
	title = {{History of pore pressure build up and slope instability in mud-dominated sediments of Ursa Basin, Gulf of Mexico continental slope}},
	booktitle = {Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences - 4th International Symposium},
	year = {2010},
	pages = {179{\textendash}190},
	publisher = {Kluwer Academic Publishers},
	organization = {Kluwer Academic Publishers},
	abstract = {The Ursa Basin, at \~{}1, 000 m depth on the Gulf of Mexico continental slope, contains numerous Mass Transport Deposits (MTDs) of Pleistocene to Holocene age. IODP Expedition 308 drilled three sites through several of these MTDs and encompassing sediments. Logs, sedimentological and geotechnical data were collected at these sites and are used in this study for input to basin numerical models. The objective of this investigation was to understand how sedimentation history, margin architecture and sediment properties couple to control pore pressure build-up and slope instability at Ursa. Measurements of porosity and stress state indicate that fluid overpressure is similar at the different sites (in the range of 0.5-0.7) despite elevated differences in sedimentation rates. Modeling results indicate that this results from pore pressure being transferred from regions of higher to lower overburden along an underlying more permeable unit: the Blue Unit. Overpressure started to develop at \~{}53 ka, which induced a significant decrease in FoS from 45ka, especially where overburden is lower. {\textcopyright} Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2010.},
	keywords = {Basin modeling, Pore pressure, Scientific drilling, Slope instability, Submarine landslides},
	isbn = {9789048130702},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79961172106\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Urgeles, R. and Locat, J. and Sawyer, D. E. and Flemings, P. B. and Dugan, B. and Binh, N. T T}
}
@article {Garcia2010,
	title = {{In vitro characterization and in vivo analgesic and anti-allodynic activity of PLGA-bupivacaine nanoparticles}},
	journal = {Journal of Nanoparticle Research},
	volume = {13},
	number = {5},
	year = {2010},
	month = {jun},
	pages = {2213{\textendash}2223},
	abstract = {An injectable controlled release system containing local anesthetics able to provide longlasting analgesia in nociceptive and neuropathic pain could have a marked impact in pain management. In order to address this issue, bupivacaine, a widely used local anesthetic, has been nanoencapsulated using poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) from an oil-in-water emulsion by the solvent evaporation technique. Nanoparticles were evaluated in vitro studying their drug release mechanism by fitting different model equations, and in vivo by testing its analgesic and anti-allodynic activity in front of heat-induced nociceptive pain and sciatic nerve chronic constriction injury in rats, respectively. The particle size of the PLGA nanoparticles obtained was of 453 {\textpm} 29 nm, the encapsulation efficiency, drug loading, and burst effect at 30 min were 82.10 {\textpm} 0.001, 45.06 {\textpm} 0.001, and 4.6 {\textpm} 0.6\%, respectively. A prolonged release of the drug in comparison to bupivacaine solution was seen. The mean dissolution time (MDT) obtained for nanoparticles was relatively long (9.44 {\textpm} 0.56 h) proving the sustained release process, while the dissolution efficiency (DE) (84.10 {\textpm} 1.01\%) was similar to the maximum percentage of drug released. Korsmeyer- Peppas was the best model that fitted our release data.A non-Fickian mechanism was concluded to be involved in the release of bupivacaine from the nanoparticles, taking into account the value of the diffusional exponent obtained (n = 0.95). After local infiltration in the rat, the antinociceptive and anti-allodynic activity of the nanoencapsulated bupivacaine was longer lasting than that of bupivacaine solution. An increase in the values of the area under the curve (AUC) of the antinociceptive and anti-allodynic effect versus time of 67 and 36\%, respectively, was observed when the drug was encapsulated. {\textcopyright} Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010.},
	keywords = {Antiallodynia, Antinociception, Bupivacaine, In vitro release, Korsmeyer-peppas, Modeling and simulation, Nanomedicine, Plga nanoparticles},
	issn = {1388-0764},
	doi = {10.1007/s11051-010-9979-1},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79956290523\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Garcia, Xavier and Escribano, Elvira and Domenech, Josep and Queralt, Josep and Freixes, Joan}
}
@article {LoIacono2010,
	title = {{Large-scale bedforms along a tideless outer shelf setting in the western Mediterranean}},
	journal = {Continental Shelf Research},
	volume = {30},
	number = {17},
	year = {2010},
	month = {oct},
	pages = {1802{\textendash}1813},
	abstract = {High-resolution multibeam swath-bathymetry and sediment samples were collected across the outer shelf region of the Columbretes Islands (southern Ebro continental shelf, western Mediterranean Sea). Bathymetric data from the submerged part of the Columbretes volcanic system revealed the presence of three main relict sand bodies along the outer shelf, at 80-116. m depth range, above which asymmetric and slightly asymmetric large and very large 2D and 3D subaqueous dunes were observed. These bed features were recognized, mapped and quantified with the aim of evaluating their potential formation mechanisms in relation to the local hydrodynamic and morphologic settings of the area. Dunes range from 150 to 760. m in wavelength and from tens of centimeters to 3. m in height, and are among the longest ever recognized in an outer shelf region. These bedforms are mostly composed of medium-sized sandy sediments, presumably coming from the degraded relict sand bodies on top of which they have developed, mixed with fine fractions from the recent draping holocenic sediments. The orientation of the dunes is SSW, progressively turning W towards the southernmost sector of the area, following the trend of the shelf-edge. Contemporary hydrodynamic measurements at the Ebro continental shelf-edge show that recorded currents are insufficient to form the observed bedforms and that stronger currents are required for sediment mobilization and dune formation. Based on their morphology and orientation, it is proposed that these bedforms are produced by the action of the southward-flowing Liguro-Proven{\c c}al-Catalan (LPC) geostrophic current. The LPC probably reaches high near-bottom currents during energetic hydrodynamic events through interactions with the seafloor morphology of the study area. Subaqueous dunes are expected to be basically inactive features with respect to present-day processes, although they can be reactivated during high-energy events. The small $Δ$h/${\l}ambda$ ratio measured in the dune fields of the Columbretes shelf revealed that the dune heights fall below the values predicted by the Flemming (1988) global equation, as observed in other outer shelf settings also dominated by unidirectional flows. This may suggest a different morphodynamic character of large dunes formed on outer shelves in a micro-tidal regime. {\textcopyright} 2010 Elsevier Ltd.},
	keywords = {Continental shelf, Geomorphology, Subaqueous dunes, Swath mapping, Western Mediterranean},
	issn = {02784343},
	doi = {10.1016/j.csr.2010.08.005},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77957596289\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Lo Iacono, Claudio and Guill{\'e}n, Jorge and Puig, Pere and Rib{\'o}, Marta and Ballesteros, Maria and Palanques, Albert and l{\'\i} Farr{\'a}n, Marcel and Acosta, Juan}
}
@article {Falivene2010,
	title = {{Synthetic seismic models from outcrop-derived reservoir-scale three-dimensional facies models: The Eocene Ainsa turbidite system (southern Pyrenees)}},
	journal = {AAPG Bulletin},
	volume = {94},
	number = {3},
	year = {2010},
	month = {mar},
	pages = {317{\textendash}343},
	abstract = {This study uses one-dimensional convolution seismic models to better understand which features of slope turbidite systems can (or cannot) be observed on real seismic data, aiming to improve subsurface seismic interpretation. Synthetic seismic sections and cubes were built from reservoir-scale three-dimensional fades models of the outcropping Ainsa turbidite system. This turbidite system developed in a foredeep and wedge-top depositional setting within a slope system. The turbidite system consists of laterally and vertically stacked sandstone- and debrite-dominated channel fills, grading into heterolithic and mudstone units, with intercalations of slump-deformed mudstone-rich units. Typical petrophysical values for subsurface Cenozoic sediments were assumed for the seismic models, which are presented at 25-, 50-, and 75-Hz resolution. Seismic models enabled the comparison between architectural and faci{\`e}s distributions observed in the outcrops and the geological models to their possible seismic expression in the subsurface. Comparisons show how seismic expression degrades when seismic resolution decreases. By using models at different geological scales, the effects of each heterogeneity scale are identified. Precise delineation of the internal architecture and fades distribution within channel complexes is beyond the reach of all seismic frequendes. The position of channel complex tops and margins is uncertain because of thengradual character. Differentiating between sandstone- and debrite-filled channels is not straightforward, and bed-scale heterogendties within the sandstone-dominated channels are barely distinguishable in the seismic data. The net-to-gross predictive capability of root-mean-square amplitude extractions varies depending on the seismic frequency and unit thickness. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2010. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists All rights reserved.},
	issn = {0149-1423},
	doi = {10.1306/08030908157},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77950302966\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Falivene, O. and Arbu{\'e}s, P. and Ledo, J. and Benjumea, B. and Mu{\~n}oz, J. A. and Fern{\'a}ndez, O. and Mart{\'\i}nez, S.}
}
@article {Jones2009,
	title = {{Area selection for diamonds using magnetotellurics: Examples from southern Africa}},
	journal = {Lithos},
	volume = {112},
	year = {2009},
	month = {nov},
	pages = {83{\textendash}92},
	abstract = {Southern Africa, particularly the Kaapvaal Craton, is one of the world{\textquoteright}s best natural laboratories for studying the lithospheric mantle given the wealth of xenolith and seismic data that exist for it. The Southern African Magnetotelluric Experiment (SAMTEX) was launched to complement these databases and provide further constraints on physical parameters and conditions by obtaining information about electrical conductivity variations laterally and with depth. Initially it was planned to acquire magnetotelluric data on profiles spatially coincident with the Kaapvaal Seismic Experiment, however with the addition of seven more partners to the original four through the course of the experiment, SAMTEX was enlarged from two to four phases of acquisition, and extended to cover much of Botswana and Namibia. The complete SAMTEX dataset now comprises MT data from over 730 distinct locations in an area of over one million square kilometres, making SAMTEX the largest regional-scale MT experiment conducted to date. Preliminary images of electrical resistivity and electrical resistivity anisotropy at 100 km and 200 km, constructed through approximate one-dimensional methods, map resistive regions spatially correlated with the Kaapvaal, Zimbabwe and Angola Cratons, and more conductive regions spatially associated with the neighbouring mobile belts and the Rehoboth Terrane. Known diamondiferous kimberlites occur primarily on the boundaries between the resistive or isotropic regions and conductive or anisotropic regions. Comparisons between the resistivity image maps and seismic velocities from models constructed through surface wave and body wave tomography show spatial correlations between high velocity regions that are resistive, and low velocity regions that are conductive. In particular, the electrical resistivity of the sub-continental lithospheric mantle of the Kaapvaal Craton is determined by its bulk parameters, so is controlled by a bulk matrix property, namely temperature, and to a lesser degree by iron content and composition, and is not controlled by contributions from interconnected conducting minor phases, such as graphite, sulphides, iron oxides, hydrous minerals, etc. This makes quantitative correlations between velocity and resistivity valid, and a robust regression between the two gives an approximate relationship of Vs [m/s] = 0.045 * log(resistivity [ohm m]) + 4.5. {\textcopyright} 2009.},
	keywords = {Cratonic lithosphere, Diamond exploration, Electrical conductivity, Kaapvaal Craton, Sub-continental lithospheric mantle, Zimbabwe Craton},
	issn = {00244937},
	doi = {10.1016/j.lithos.2009.06.011},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-72149117671\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Jones, Alan G. and Evans, Rob L. and Muller, Mark R. and Hamilton, Mark P. and Miensopust, Marion P. and Garcia, Xavier and Cole, Patrick and Ngwisanyi, Tiyapo and Hutchins, David and Fourie, C.J.S. and Jelsma, Hielke and Evans, Shane and Aravanis, Theo and Pettit, Wayne and Webb, Sue and Wasborg, Jan}
}
@article {Yang2009,
	title = {{Geotechnical Properties of River-fed Sediments Compared with Glacier-fed Sediments}},
	journal = {Marine Georesources \& Geotechnology},
	volume = {27},
	number = {4},
	year = {2009},
	month = {oct},
	pages = {281{\textendash}295},
	abstract = {This paper discusses the influence of sedimentary environment and geological setting on geotechnical and physical properties of resulting sedimentary deposits. For this study, two different geological settings were considered, one is a river-fed and the other is a glacier-fed sedimentary environment. For both sedimentary environments, various geotechnical properties were considered and compared. These include plasticity, activity, compressibility, undrained shear strength and sensitivity. Results indicate that physical and geotechnical properties of sediments deposited in these two settings are significantly different. These differences are then interpreted in terms of the various mechanisms involved in submarine slope failure initiation in river-fed versus glacier-fed sedimentary environments. {\textcopyright} Taylor \& Francis Group, LLC.},
	keywords = {Activity, Compressibility, Plasticity, Sedimentary environment, Sensitivity, Shear strength, Submarine landslides},
	issn = {1064-119X},
	doi = {10.1080/10641190903025214},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70449408082\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Yang, S. L. and Solheim, A. and Forsberg, C. F. and Kvalstad, T. and Feng, X. L. and Li, A. L. and Urgeles, R.}
}
@article {Muller2009,
	title = {{Lithospheric structure, evolution and diamond prospectivity of the Rehoboth Terrane and western Kaapvaal Craton, southern Africa: Constraints from broadband magnetotellurics}},
	journal = {Lithos},
	volume = {112},
	year = {2009},
	month = {nov},
	pages = {93{\textendash}105},
	abstract = {A 1400~km-long, 2-D magnetotelluric (MT) profile, consisting of 69 sites at 20~km intervals, across the western part of the Archaean Kaapvaal Craton, the Proterozoic Rehoboth Terrane and the Late Proterozoic/Early Phanerozoic Ghanzi-Chobe/Damara Belt reveals significant lateral heterogeneity in the electrical resistivity structure of the southern African lithosphere. The lithospheric structures of the Rehoboth Terrane and Ghanzi-Chobe/Damara Belt have not been imaged previously by geophysical methods. Temperature is the primary control on the resistivity of mantle minerals, and the MT derived lithospheric thicknesses therefore provide a very reasonable proxy for the "thermal" thickness of the lithosphere (i.e., the thickness defined by the intersection of a conductive geotherm with the mantle adiabat), allowing approximate present-day geotherms to be calculated. The work indicates the following present-day average lithospheric thicknesses, to a precision of about {\textpm} 20~km, for each of the terranes traversed (inferred geotherms in brackets): Eastern Kimberley Block of the Kaapvaal Craton 220~km (41~mW m- 2), Western Kimberley Block 190~km (44~mW m- 2), Rehoboth Terrane 180~km (45~mW m- 2) and Ghanzi-Chobe/Damara Belt 160~km (48~mW m- 2). A clear relationship between the electrical resistivity structure of the lithosphere and the tectonic stabilisation-age of the terrane is evident. Good agreement between the inferred present-day lithospheric geotherms and surface heat flow measurements indicate the latter are strongly controlled by variations in lithospheric thickness. A significant difference in lithospheric thickness is observed between the Eastern and Western Kimberley blocks, and is consistent with previous seismic tomography images of the Kaapvaal Craton. The present-day lithospheric thickness, and reduced depth extent into the diamond stability field, accounts for the absence of diamondiferous kimberlites in the Gibeon and Gordonia kimberlite fields in the Rehoboth Terrane. Previously published mantle xenolith P-T arrays from the Gibeon, Gordonia and Kimberley fields, however, suggest that the Rehoboth Terrane had equilibrated to a cooler conductive palaeo-geotherm (40-42~mW m- 2 ), very similar to that of Eastern Kimberley Block of the Kaapvaal Craton, at some time prior to the Mesozoic eruption of the kimberlites. The timing and nature of both the thermal equilibration of the Rehoboth Terrane, and the subsequent lithospheric heating/thinning event required to account for its present-day lithospheric structure, are not well constrained. A model consisting of the penetration of heat transporting magmas into the lithosphere, with associated chemical refertilisation, at an early stage of Mesozoic thermalism appears to be the most plausible model at present to account for both the present-day lithospheric structure of the Rehoboth Terrane and an earlier, cooler palaeo-geotherm. Some problems, however, remain unresolved in terms of the isostatic response of the model. Based on a compilation of xenocryst Cr/Ca-in-pyrope barometry observations, the extent of depleted mantle in the Rehoboth Terrane is found to be significantly reduced with respect to the Eastern Kimberley Block: 117~km versus 138-167~km. It appears most likely that the depletion depth in both terranes, at least in the vicinity of kimberlite eruption, is explained by refertilisation of the lower lithospheric mantle. {\textcopyright} 2009.},
	keywords = {Diamond, Geotherm, Lithosphere, Magnetotellurics, Southern Africa, Xenolith},
	issn = {00244937},
	doi = {10.1016/j.lithos.2009.06.023},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-72049130282\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Muller, M.R. and Jones, A.G. and Evans, R.L. and Gr{\"u}tter, H.S. and Hatton, C. and Garcia, X. and Hamilton, M.P. and Miensopust, M.P. and Cole, P. and Ngwisanyi, T. and Hutchins, D. and Fourie, C.J. and Jelsma, H.A. and Evans, S.F. and Aravanis, T. and Pettit, W. and Webb, S.J. and Wasborg, J.}
}
@article {Palomeras2009,
	title = {{Nature of the lithosphere across the Variscan orogen of SW Iberia: Dense wide-angle seismic reflection data}},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research},
	volume = {114},
	number = {B2},
	year = {2009},
	month = {feb},
	pages = {B02302},
	abstract = {Two wide-angle seismic transects have been acquired across the SW Iberian Massif. They crossed three major geological zones (South Portuguese Zone, Ossa-Morena Zone, and Central Iberian Zone), with their tectonic contacts and the Pyrite Belt being of greatest interest. A total of 690 digital seismic recording instruments (650 Texans and 40 Reftek 3 component units) from the IRIS-PASSCAL Instrument Pool were used. The transects (A and B) are each approximately 300 km long and consist of 3 and 6 shot points, respectively, with an approximately 60-km shot point interval. The charge sizes range from 1000 kg at the edges to 500 kg at the center. These recently acquired experiments were designed to provide velocity constraints on the lithosphere and to complement the previously acquired normal incidence seismic profile IBERSEIS. Both data sets are part of the SW Iberia project, which was developed within the EUROPROBE program and designed to address fundamental questions about the nature and dynamics of the Variscan lithosphere. The acquisition parameters provide closely spaced wide-angle seismic images of the lithosphere beneath SW Iberia. In transect A, the station spacing was on average 400 m, while along transect B, the receiver spacing was approximately 150 m. Because of this close trace spacing, the lateral continuity of the seismic arrivals is greatly improved. Frequency analysis revealed that the recorded events feature relatively low frequencies (6-25 Hz). After processing, the shot records show high-amplitude and well-defined arrivals. The interpreted PmP arrival, located at approximately 11 s (normal incidence traveltime), is characterized by high amplitude and relatively low frequency (6-12 Hz). A well-defined Pn arrival appears at offsets beyond 120 km. At far offsets greater than 180 km, an upper mantle reflection is observed. Furthermore, within the upper crust, the shots records feature a relatively high-velocity arrival, located at 4-5-s normal incidence traveltime. The analysis of this arrival indicates that it probably corresponds to the top of the Iberian Reflective Body identified in the IBERSEIS deep seismic profile. The velocity models obtained by forward modeling show a complex crust, especially in the middle crust. The velocity models are the most detailed ones that have been produced in the area and contain a large amount of new features that are relevant to the understanding of the composition of the crust and upper mantle beneath the zone. The velocity depth functions derived from the velocity models have higher middle crustal velocities than the average in other continental areas. A comparison between laboratory seismic velocity measurements and the velocities of the models was carried out in order to estimate the crustal and the upper mantle composition. Results indicate that the high middle crust velocities correspond to rocks of a mafic composition. The combined data set reveals new aspects related to the lithospheric evolution of this transpressive orogen and allows us to attempt an interpretative cross section of the upper lithosphere in SW Iberia. {\textcopyright} 2009.},
	issn = {0148-0227},
	doi = {10.1029/2007JB005050},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-66149180585\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Palomeras, I. and Carbonell, R. and Flecha, I. and Simancas, F. and Ayarza, P. and Matas, J. and Mart{\'\i}nez Poyatos, D. and Azor, A. and Gonz{\'a}lez Lodeiro, F. and P{\'e}rez-Esta{\'u}n, A.}
}
@article {Flecha2009,
	title = {{Seismic imaging and modelling of the lithosphere of SW-Iberia}},
	journal = {Tectonophysics},
	volume = {472},
	number = {1-4},
	year = {2009},
	month = {jul},
	pages = {148{\textendash}157},
	abstract = {Data from a closely spaced wide-angle transect has been used to study the middle-to-lower crust and the Moho in SW-Iberia. A low-fold wide-angle stack image reveals a highly heterogeneous seismic signature at lower-crustal levels changing laterally along the profile. The lower crust features an irregular distribution of the reflectivity that can be explained by a heterogeneous distribution of physical properties. The Moho discontinuity also features a high variability in its seismic character that correlates with the different tectonic terranes in the area. A 2D finite difference code was used for solving the elastic wave equation and to provide synthetic wide-angle shots. Relatively simple layer cake model derived from conventional refraction interpretation generates the main events of the shot records. However, these models cannot account for the lateral variability of the seismic signature. In order to obtain more realistic simulations, the velocity model was modified introducing stochastic lensing at different levels within the crust. The Moho was modelled as a 3~km thick layered structure. The resulting average velocity models include a high velocity layer at mid-crustal depth, a highly reflective lower crust and a relatively thin horizontal Moho. This heterogeneous model can be achieved by lensing within the crust, a layered mafic intrusion and a strongly laminated lower crust and Moho. {\textcopyright} 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Crustal heterogeneities, Mafic intrusions, Wide-angle stack},
	issn = {00401951},
	doi = {10.1016/j.tecto.2008.05.033},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-67349173557\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Flecha, I. and Palomeras, I. and Carbonell, R. and Simancas, F. and Ayarza, P. and Matas, J. and Gonz{\'a}lez-Lodeiro, F. and P{\'e}rez-Esta{\'u}n, A.}
}
@book {VonHuene2009a,
	title = {{Subduction Zone Geodynamics}},
	series = {Frontiers in Earth Sciences},
	year = {2009},
	month = {oct},
	publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
	organization = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
	address = {Berlin, Heidelberg},
	abstract = {21 pages, 8 figures, 1 table},
	keywords = {Accretion, Convergent margins, Subduction erosion},
	isbn = {978-3-540-87971-8},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-87974-9},
	url = {http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/83778 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/83778},
	author = {von Huene, Roland and Ranero, Cesar R. and Scholl, Dave W.},
	editor = {Lallemand, Serge and Funiciello, Francesca}
}
@article {Ferrer2008,
	title = {{The deep seismic reflection MARCONI-3 profile: Role of extensional Mesozoic structure during the Pyrenean contractional deformation at the eastern part of the Bay of Biscay}},
	journal = {Marine and Petroleum Geology},
	volume = {25},
	number = {8},
	year = {2008},
	month = {sep},
	pages = {714{\textendash}730},
	abstract = {The new MARCONI-3 deep seismic profile allows recognition of the upper crustal structure of the eastern part of the Bay of Biscay and the main features of its Alpine geodynamic evolution. It denotes that the easternmost part of the Bay of Biscay consists of a thick wedge of uppermost Cretaceous to Cenozoic synorogenic sediments lying unconformably on the top of a thinned continental crust with the Mesozoic Parentis Basin to the north and the coeval Landes High to the south. The Parentis Basin appears as a major half-graben bounded southwards by a north-dipping planar fault. It is filled by a thick sequence of Jurassic-Upper Cretaceous carbonates affected by salt domes and squeezed diapirs made up of Triassic evaporites and mudstones. These salt tectonic structures also affect the overlying uppermost Cretaceous to Lower Miocene synorogenic deposits which are folded upon these structures. The Landes High includes a thin pre-Upper Cretaceous cover tilted to the south. In the Basque shelf, it is deformed by a basement-involving thrust wedge emplaced during the Late Eocene-Miocene that constitutes the North-Pyrenean contractional front. Geometric relationships and thickness variations depict that this overall structure results from the following. {\textbullet}Mesozoic extensional stage which includes a Late Jurassic (?)-Late Aptian syn-rift stage in which the Parentis Basin formed; and an Albian-early Late Cretaceous post-rift stage in which diapirs of Triassic evaporites grew close to this major fault.{\textbullet}Compressive deformational stage coeval to the Pyrenean orogeny which led to (1) the development of a latest Cretaceous up to Middle Miocene foreland basin; and (2) from Late Eocene, the formation of a basement-involving thrust wedge in the innermost foreland basin, the squeezing of the diapiric structures formed previously in the Parentis Basin and, later (Middle Miocene), the partial inversion of some pre-existent faults located in the southern Parentis Basin margin. This geodynamic evolution together with the structure of the area evidences that the extensional structure resulting from the opening of the Bay of Biscay played an important role both in the location of the North-Pyrenean front and in the North-Pyrenean foreland contractional deformation features. Specially, the lack of significant inversion structures in the Parentis Basin, despite that it belongs to a severely thinned crustal area before the Alpine compression, denotes that the Mesozoic Landes High acted as an important buffer for the propagation of the Pyrenean contractional deformation to the north. This deformational buffer was active until Early Miocene and probably vanished afterwards during the last stages of Pyrenean orogen development when some basement faults reactivated in the Parentis Basin. {\textcopyright} 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Bay of Biscay, Cenozoic, Inversion, Mesozoic, Parentis Basin, Pyrenees, Salt tectonics, Seismic profile},
	issn = {02648172},
	doi = {10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2008.06.002},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-52349092015\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Ferrer, O. and Roca, E. and Benjumea, B. and Mu{\~n}oz, J.A. and Ellouz, N.}
}
@article {Ercilla2008,
	title = {{High-resolution seismic stratigraphy of the Galicia Bank Region and neighbouring abyssal plains (NW Iberian continental margin)}},
	journal = {Marine Geology},
	volume = {249},
	number = {1-2},
	year = {2008},
	month = {mar},
	pages = {108{\textendash}127},
	abstract = {The high-resolution seismic stratigraphy of the Galicia Bank Region and adjacent deposits of the neighbouring Iberian and Biscay Abyssal Plains was included as part of the geological studies conducted in the area where the oil-tanker Prestige wreck is located. This seismic stratigraphy is characterized by five seismic units (5 to 1, from oldest to youngest) lying above an irregular acoustic basement defined by a highly fractured system of horsts and grabens. These faulted systems have controlled the local depositional architecture, deforming, fracturing, relocating and distributing sediments since the Valanginian. Three depositional models of facies can be recognized on the Galicia Bank Region and surrounding abyssal plains: bank, escarpment, and abyssal plain facies. The bank facies reflects the depositional evolution from initial filling to obliterating stages of the horsts and grabens. The escarpment facies has a local distribution and represents deposition associated with active slopes of the faulted escarpments. The abyssal plain facies represents gravity flow deposits coming mostly from the bounded-fault flanks of the Galicia Bank Region. The Valanginian to Quaternary sedimentary evolution of the Galicia Bank Region reflects depositional responses to tectonic condition. The occurrence of mass-movements confirms that the syn-rift period (Valanginian to Aptian age) along the Galicia margin was diachronous, beginning in the Interior Basin and shifting later toward the west of the Galicia Bank Region (Deep Galicia Margin). The Albian to Quaternary post-rift evolution is characterized by a decrease in tectonic activity and sedimentary variations in the style of deposition (valley and related features, mass-movement deposits, contourites, and drape deposits) conditioned by changes in the sedimentary processes, paleoenvironments, and tectonic reactivation of the regional slopes. The effects of tectonic movements persist, as evidenced in areas where faulted escarpments and highs outcrop, and in areas of near-surface faulting. The syn-rift and post-rift stages have also conditioned the depositional architecture of the Prestige sinking area. The evolution of the surrounding abyssal plains does not reflect the same pattern to tectonic condition. {\textcopyright} 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {facies architecture, Galicia Bank, high-resolution seismic profiles, sedimentary evolution, seismic facies, stratigraphy},
	issn = {00253227},
	doi = {10.1016/j.margeo.2007.09.009},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-39649109232\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Ercilla, G. and Garc{\'\i}a-Gil, S. and Estrada, F. and Gr{\`a}cia, E. and Vizcaino, A. and V{\'a}quez, J.T. and D{\'\i}az, S. and Vilas, F. and Casas, D. and Alonso, B. and Da{\~n}obeitia, J. and Farran, M.}
}
@article {Secanell2008,
	title = {{Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment of the Pyrenean region}},
	journal = {Journal of Seismology},
	volume = {12},
	number = {3},
	year = {2008},
	month = {mar},
	pages = {323{\textendash}341},
	abstract = {A unified probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (PSHA) for the Pyrenean region has been performed by an international team composed of experts from Spain and France during the Interreg IIIA ISARD project. It is motivated by incoherencies between the seismic hazard zonations of the design codes of France and Spain and by the need for input data to be used to define earthquake scenarios. A great effort was invested in the homogenisation of the input data. All existing seismic data are collected in a database and lead to a unified catalogue using a local magnitude scale. PSHA has been performed using logic trees combined with Monte Carlo simulations to account for both epistemic and aleatory uncertainties. As an alternative to hazard calculation based on seismic sources zone models, a zoneless method is also used to produce a hazard map less dependant on zone boundaries. Two seismogenic source models were defined to take into account the different interpretations existing among specialists. A new regional ground-motion prediction equation based on regional data has been proposed. It was used in combination with published ground-motion prediction equations derived using European and Mediterranean data. The application of this methodology leads to the definition of seismic hazard maps for 475- and 1,975-year return periods for spectral accelerations at periods of 0 (corresponding to peak ground acceleration), 0.1, 0.3, 0.6, 1 and 2 s. Median and percentiles 15\% and 85\% acceleration contour lines are represented. Finally, the seismic catalogue is used to produce a map of the maximum acceleration expected for comparison with the probabilistic hazard maps. The hazard maps are produced using a grid of 0.1{\textdegree}. The results obtained may be useful for civil protection and risk prevention purposes in France, Spain and Andorra. {\textcopyright} Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008.},
	keywords = {Andorra, France, Monte Carlo, Probabilistic, Seismic hazard, Seismic zonation, Spain},
	issn = {1383-4649},
	doi = {10.1007/s10950-008-9094-2},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-46349102115\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Secanell, R. and Bertil, D. and Martin, C. and Goula, X. and Susagna, T. and Tapia, M. and Dominique, P. and Carbon, D. and Fleta, J.}
}
@article {Hernandez-Molina2008,
	title = {{Recent sedimentary processes in the Prestige site area (Galicia Bank, NW Iberian Margin) evidenced by high-resolution marine geophysical methods}},
	journal = {Marine Geology},
	volume = {249},
	number = {1-2},
	year = {2008},
	month = {mar},
	pages = {21{\textendash}45},
	abstract = {An echo-character analysis of the oil tanker Prestige wreck area was undertaken using high-resolution marine geophysical methods (TOPAS and airgun seismic-reflection profiles, multibeam echosounder and TOBI sidescan sonar). Integration and comparison of the results using all these methods is presented given some practical applications for indirect near-surface and seafloor interpretations. Ten different echo types were identified and grouped into four main classes: I) distinct; II) indistinct; III) irregular and IV) hyperbolic. Echo-character distribution enabled us to determine recent sedimentary processes in the area. Two major depositional systems can be found through the identification of these sedimentary processes: a) a slope depositional system (SDS) located in the eastern and central area, where mass-movement processes are dominant and b) a turbiditic Main Channel depositional system (TDS) located in the western area where channel-related processes are dominant. Both of these interact over the half-graben structure of the southwestern sector of the Galicia Bank, where the Prestige wreck is located. Within the SDS, erosive and depositional mass-movement processes characterised a complex depositional system. Erosive processes occur on the fault scarp, channels head, inter-lobe channels and distal part of the sedimentary lobes. Moreover, depositional processes take place on the top of the fault scarp, sedimentary wedges, sedimentary lobes, and on the west flank of the Main Channel. Both depositional systems interact, but the SDS should be more active during fault-scarp reactivation periods, through relief rejuvenation and new exposed deposits. Microearthquake activity would favour the available materials, being weathered, eroded and transported by mass-movements. In such a situation, the TDS acts as the main collector of eroded sediment derived from the fault scarp throughout the SDS being responsible for its evacuation into the Iberian Abyssal Plain. However, outside of fault reactivation periods, the SDS is less active (such as during the present situation). {\textcopyright} 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {echo-character analysis, Galicia Bank, high-resolution seismic profiles, sedimentary process, swath bathymetry, TOBI sidescan sonar},
	issn = {00253227},
	doi = {10.1016/j.margeo.2007.09.011},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-39549115454\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Hern{\'a}ndez-Molina, F.J. and Llave, E. and Ercilla, G. and Maestro, A. and Medialdea, T. and Ferrin, A. and Somoza, L. and Gr{\`a}cia, E. and Masson, D.G. and Garc{\'\i}a, M. and Vizcaino, A. and Le{\'o}n, R.}
}
@booklet {McIntosh2007,
	title = {{The Nicaragua Convergent Margin: Seismic Reflection Imaging of the Source of a Tsunami Earthquake}},
	journal = {The seismogenic zone of subduction thrust faults},
	year = {2007},
	pages = {257{\textendash}287},
	publisher = {University of British Columbia Press},
	abstract = {Peer Reviewed},
	isbn = {isbn: 978-0-231-13866-6},
	url = {http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/108405},
	author = {McIntosh, Kirk D and Silver, Eli a and Ahmed, Imtiaz and Berhorst, Arnim and Ranero, C{\'e}sar R and Kelly, Robyn K and Flueh, Ernst R}
}
@article {Grevemeyer2007,
	title = {{Passive and active seismological study of bending-related faulting and mantle serpentinization at the Middle America trench}},
	journal = {Earth and Planetary Science Letters},
	volume = {258},
	number = {3-4},
	year = {2007},
	month = {jun},
	pages = {528{\textendash}542},
	abstract = {Water transported within the subducting oceanic lithosphere into the Earth{\textquoteright}s interior affects a wealth of subduction zone processes, including intraslab earthquakes and arc magmatism. In recent years growing evidence suggests that much of the hydration of oceanic plates occurs at the trench-ocean slope right before subduction. Here, normal faults are created while the rigid lithosphere bends into the trench. Offshore of Middle America, multi-channel seismic reflection imaging suggests that bending-related faults cut into the uppermost mantle, providing a mechanism for hydration and transformation of mantle peridotites into serpentinites. Seismic wide-angle reflection and refraction data were collected coincident with one of the seismic profiles where the faults have been imaged. Travel time inversion provides evidence that both crustal and uppermost mantle velocities are reduced with respect to the velocity structure found in mature oceanic crust away from deep-sea trenches. If mantle velocity reduction is solely produced by hydration, velocities indicate 10-15\% of serpentinization in the uppermost 3~km of the mantle, where seismic data provide enough resolution. A small network of ocean bottom hydrophones, deployed for about a month, detected \~{} 3 local micro earthquakes per day. Earthquake epicentres align with fault scarps at the seafloor and continuous earthquake activity might be an important process to facilitate the percolation of seawater into the upper mantle. {\textcopyright} 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {bending-related normal faulting, earthquakes, global water cycle, seismic refraction, serpentinization, subduction},
	issn = {0012821X},
	doi = {10.1016/j.epsl.2007.04.013},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-34249911517\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Grevemeyer, Ingo and Ranero, Cesar R. and Flueh, Ernst R. and Kl{\"a}schen, Dirk and Bialas, J{\"o}rg}
}
