@booklet {Dagnino,
	title = {{Comparison of Objective Functionals in Seismic Full Waveform Inversion}},
	year = {Submitted},
	publisher = {European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers},
	abstract = {The FWI method is a powerful tool that allows one to obtain high-resolution information from the subsurface. However, the method is highly non-linear as in the convergence to the solution it might get trapped in local-minima. Among other techniques, it becomes crucial a suitable choice of the objective function. We have selected five objective functions to perform a comparative study under a common 2D-acoustic FWI scheme: the L2-nom, cross-correlation travel time (CCTT), non-integration-method (NIM), envelope and phase objective functions. We test with a 2D-canonical model the susceptibility of the functions to the initial model perturbations. To complete de study with a more realistic synthetic example we test the functions with the Marmousi model. The L2-norm and phase objective functions give the highest resolution images and the CCTT, NIM and envelope objective functions lead to smooth models. However in realistic initial conditions, L2 and phase misfits fail in recovering the velocity model in contrast to the CCTT, NIM and envelope functions that maintain a more consistent behavior},
	author = {Dagnino, D and Jiminez-Tejero, C E and Ranero, C{\'e}sar R and Sallares, Valenti}
}
@article {Biescas2016,
	title = {{Synthetic Modeling for an Acoustic Exploration System for Physical Oceanography}},
	journal = {Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology},
	volume = {33},
	number = {1},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {191{\textendash}200},
	publisher = {American Meteorological Society},
	abstract = {AbstractMarine multichannel seismic (MCS) data, used to obtain structural reflection images of the earth?s subsurface, can also be used in physical oceanography exploration. This method provides vertical and lateral resolutions of O(10?100) m, covering the existing observational gap in oceanic exploration. All MCS data used so far in physical oceanography studies have been acquired using conventional seismic instrumentation originally designed for geological exploration. This work presents the proof of concept of an alternative MCS system that is better adapted to physical oceanography and has two goals: 1) to have an environmentally low-impact acoustic source to minimize any potential disturbance to marine life and 2) to be light and portable, thus being installed on midsize oceanographic vessels. The synthetic experiments simulate the main variables of the source, shooting, and streamer involved in the MCS technique. The proposed system utilizes a 5-s-long exponential chirp source of 208 dB relative to 1 ?Pa at 1 m with a frequency content of 20?100 Hz and a relatively short 500-m-long streamer with 100 channels. This study exemplifies through numerical simulations that the 5-s-long chirp source can reduce the peak of the pressure signal by 26 dB with respect to equivalent air gun?based sources by spreading the energy in time, greatly reducing the impact to marine life. Additionally, the proposed system could be transported and installed in midsize oceanographic vessels, opening new horizons in acoustic oceanography research.},
	issn = {0739-0572},
	doi = {10.1175/JTECH-D-15-0137.1},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-15-0137.1},
	author = {Biescas, Berta and Ruddick, Barry and Kormann, Jean and Sallares, Valenti and Nedimovi{\'c}, Mladen R and Carniel, Sandro}
}
@article {Jim{\'e}nezTejero2015632,
	title = {{Comparative study of objective functions to overcome noise and bandwidth limitations in full waveform inversion}},
	journal = {Geophysical Journal International},
	volume = {203},
	number = {1},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {632{\textendash}645},
	abstract = {Ongoing works on full waveform inversion (FWI) are yielding an increasing number of objective functions as alternative to the traditional L2-waveform. These studies aim at designing more robust functions and inversion strategies to reduce the intrinsic dependence of the FWI results on (1) the initial model and (2) the lowest frequency present in field data. In this work, we perform a comparative study of five objective functions in time domain under a common 2-D-acoustic FWI scheme using the Marmousi model as benchmark. In particular, we compare results obtained with L2-based functions that consider the minimization of different wave attributes; the waveform-based, non-integration-method; instantaneous envelope; a modified version of the wrapped instantaneous phase and an improved version of the cross-correlation travel time (CCTT) method; and hybrid strategies combining some of them. We evaluate the robustness of these functionals as a function of their performance with and without low frequencies in the data and the presence of random white Gaussian noise. Our results reveal promising strategies to invert noisy data with limited low-frequency content (>=4 Hz), which is the single strategy using the instantaneous phase objective function followed by the hybrid strategies using the instantaneous phase or CCTT as initial models, in particular the combinations [I. Phase + Waveform], [CCTT + Waveform] and [CCTT + I. Phase]. {\textcopyright} The Authors 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal Astronomical Society.},
	doi = {10.1093/gji/ggv288},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84942124341\&partnerID=40\&md5=a3d1892b9dda25cdcea5fea23bef2d14},
	author = {Jim{\'e}nez Tejero, C.E.a and Dagnino, D.a and Sallar{\`e}s, V.a and Ranero, C.R.b}
}
@article {Prada201563,
	title = {{The complex 3-D transition from continental crust to backarc magmatism and exhumed mantle in the Central Tyrrhenian basin}},
	journal = {Geophysical Journal International},
	volume = {203},
	number = {1},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {63{\textendash}78},
	abstract = {Geophysical data from the MEDOC experiment across the Northern Tyrrhenian backarc basin has mapped a failed rift during backarc extension of cratonic Variscan lithosphere. In contrast, data across the Central Tyrrhenian have revealed the presence of magmatic accretion followed by mantle exhumation after continental breakup. Here we analyse the MEDOC transect E-F, which extends from Sardinia to the Campania margin at 40.5{\textdegree}N, to define the distribution of geological domains in the transition from the complex Central Tyrrhenian to the extended continental crust of the Northern Tyrrhenian. The crust and uppermost mantle structure along this \~{}400-km-long transect have been investigated based on wide-angle seismic data, gravity modelling and multichannel seismic reflection imaging. The P-wave tomographic model together with a P-wave-velocity-derived density model and the multichannel seismic images reveal seven different domains along this transect, in contrast to the simpler structure to the south and north. The stretched continental crust under Sardinia margin abuts the magmatic crust of Cornaglia Terrace, where accretion likely occurred during backarc extension. Eastwards, around Secchi seamount, a second segment of thinned continental crust (7-8 km) is observed. Two short segments of magmatically modified continental crust are separated by the \~{}5-km-wide segment of the Vavilov basin possibly made of exhumed mantle rocks. The eastern segment of the 40.5{\textdegree}N transect E-F is characterized by continental crust extending from mainland Italy towards the Campania margin. Ground truthing and prior geophysical information obtained north and south of transect E-F was integrated in this study to map the spatial distribution of basement domains in the Central Tyrrhenian basin. The northward transition of crustal domains depicts a complex 3-D structure represented by abrupt spatial changes of magmatic and non-magmatic crustal domains. These observations imply rapid variations of magmatic activity difficult to reconcile with current models of extension of continental lithosphere essentially 2-D over long distances. {\textcopyright} The Authors 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal Astronomical Society.},
	doi = {10.1093/gji/ggv271},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84942122080\&partnerID=40\&md5=02bdb76af30a3b605991623f90757147},
	author = {Prada, M.a and Sallar{\`e}s, V.a and Ranero, C.R.b and Vendrell, M.G.a and Grevemeyer, I.c and Zitellini, N.d and de Franco, R.e}
}
@article {Giaconia2015,
	title = {{Compressional tectonic inversion of the Algero-Balearic basin: Latemost Miocene to present oblique convergence at the Palomares margin (Western Mediterranean)}},
	journal = {Tectonics},
	volume = {34},
	number = {7},
	year = {2015},
	month = {jul},
	pages = {1516{\textendash}1543},
	keywords = {10.1002/2015TC003861 and Active tectonics, Abubacer anticline, multichannel seismics, Palomares fault zone, Tectonic inversion, Western Mediterranean},
	issn = {02787407},
	doi = {10.1002/2015TC003861},
	url = {http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/2015TC003861},
	author = {Giaconia, Flavio and Booth-Rea, Guillermo and Ranero, C{\'e}sar R and Gr{\'a}cia, Eul{\`a}lia and Bartolom{\'e}, Rafael and Calahorrano, Alcinoe and Lo Iacono, Claudio and Vendrell, Montserrat G and Cameselle, Alejandra L and Costa, Sergio and G{\'o}mez de la Pe{\~n}a, Laura and Mart{\'\i}nez-Loriente, Sara and Perea, Hector and Vi{\~n}as, Marina}
}
@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 {Bangs201567,
	title = {{Fluid accumulation along the Costa Rica subduction thrust and development of the seismogenic zone}},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth},
	volume = {120},
	number = {1},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {67{\textendash}86},
	abstract = {In 2011 we acquired an 11 {\texttimes} 55 km, 3-D seismic reflection volume across the Costa Rica margin, NW of the Osa Peninsula, to accurately image the subduction thrust in 3-D, to examine fault zone properties, and to infer the hydrogeology that controls fluid accumulation along the thrust. Following processing to remove water column multiples, noise, and acquisition artifacts, we constructed a 3-D seismic velocity model for Kirchhoff prestack depth migration imaging. Images of the plate boundary thrust show high-reflection amplitudes underneath the middle to lower slope that we attribute to fluid-rich, poorly drained portions of the subduction thrust. At \~{} 5 km subseafloor, beneath the upper slope, the plate interface abruptly becomes weakly reflective, which we interpret as a transition to a well-drained subduction thrust. Mineral dehydration during diagenesis may also diminish at 5 km subseafloor to reduce fluid production and contribute to the downdip change from high to low amplitude. There is also a layered fabric and systems of both thrust and normal faults within the overriding plate that form a "plumbing system." Faults commonly have fault plane reflections and are presumably fluid charged. The faults and layered fabric form three compartmentalized hydrogeologic zones: (1) a shallow NE dipping zone beneath the slope, (2) a steeply SW dipping zone beneath the shelf slope break, and (3) a NE dipping zone beneath the shelf. The more direct pathway in the middle zone drains the subduction thrust more efficiently and contributes to reduced fluid pressure, elevates effective stress, and creates greater potential for unstable coseismic slip. {\textcopyright}2014. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.},
	doi = {10.1002/2014JB011265},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84924020398\&partnerID=40\&md5=d49719196f3f40ccbd90cc13a525e689},
	author = {Bangs, N.L.a and McIntosh, K.D.a and Silver, E.A.b and Kluesner, J.W.b and Ranero, C.R.c}
}
@article {Moreno201578,
	title = {{Quaternary tectonic activity of the Carboneras Fault in the La Serrata range (SE Iberia): Geomorphological and chronological constraints}},
	journal = {Tectonophysics},
	volume = {663},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {78{\textendash}94},
	abstract = {The Eastern Betic Shear Zone (EBSZ) in Southern Iberia is known to accommodate part of the 4-5mm/yr convergence between Africa and Iberia, but its seismic hazard is not sufficiently understood for an accurate risk assessment. One of the main structures of the EBSZ, the left-lateral 150km-long Carboneras Fault, displays no clear instrumental and historical activity despite being morphologically expressive. Detailed geomorphological mapping, geochronological analysis, and structural observation on the La Serrata segment of the Carboneras Fault were designed to investigate its recent evolution. Quaternary sediments and geomorphic features were targeted and 42 new numerical ages were obtained based on 66 samples (thermoluminescence, U-series, 14C, 10Be). The chronological framework of La Serrata was constructed by combining these numerical ages with a conceptual model previously developed in the region, which assumes that alluvial fan aggradation was produced during cold and dry periods (glacials and stadials), whereas stability and phases of calcrete formation were favored during warm and wetter periods (interglacials and interstadials). The spatial distribution of dated alluvial fans suggests an early phase of uplift that probably occurred between 1Ma and 56.6ka in the northeastern portion of the study area, whereas in the southwest sector the main uplift phase occurred later than 110.3ka. A decline in fault activity would have taken place after 30.8ka. Vertically offset dated units indicate minimum dip-slip rates of 0.05mm/yr and 0.18mm/yr, averaged for the last 1Ma and the last 110.3ka, respectively. Deflected channels and associated dated units yield a minimum left-lateral strike-slip rate of 1.31mm/yr, averaged for the last 110.3ka. The most recent fault movement of the fault could be younger than AD 637. Our results suggest therefore that the Carboneras Fault is among the fastest in Iberia, and should be considered in future hazard analyses. {\textcopyright} 2015 Elsevier B.V.},
	doi = {10.1016/j.tecto.2015.08.016},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84955683900\&partnerID=40\&md5=e4a4acb51d89920f2e6fbd0c738b7730},
	author = {Moreno, X.a b and Masana, E.a and Pall{\`a}s, R.a and Gr{\`a}cia, E.b and Rod{\'e}s, {\'A}.a c and Bordonau, J.a}
}
@article {Hensen01042015,
	title = {{Strike-slip faults mediate the rise of crustal-derived fluids and mud volcanism in the deep sea}},
	journal = {Geology},
	volume = {43},
	number = {4},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {339{\textendash}342},
	abstract = {We report on newly discovered mud volcanoes located at \~{}4500 m water depth \~{}90 km west of the deformation front of the accretionary wedge of the Gulf of Cadiz, and thus outside of their typical geotectonic environment. Seismic data suggest that fluid flow is mediated by a >400-km-long strike-slip fault marking the transcurrent plate boundary between Africa and Eurasia. Geochemical data (Cl, B, Sr, 87Sr/86Sr, $δ$18O, $δ$D) reveal that fluids originate in oceanic crust older than 140 Ma. On their rise to the surface, these fluids receive strong geochemical signals from recrystallization of Upper Jurassic carbonates and clay-mineral dehydration in younger terrigeneous units. At present, reports of mud volcanoes in similar deep-sea settings are rare, but given that the large area of transform-type plate boundaries has been barely investigated, such pathways of fluid discharge may provide an important, yet unappreciated link between the deeply buried oceanic crust and the deep ocean.},
	doi = {10.1130/G36359.1},
	url = {http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/43/4/339.abstract},
	author = {Hensen, Christian and Scholz, Florian and Nuzzo, Marianne and Valadares, Vasco and Gr{\'a}cia, Eul{\`a}lia and Terrinha, Pedro and Liebetrau, Volker and Kaul, Norbert and Silva, Sonia and Mart{\'\i}nez-Loriente, Sara and Bartolom{\'e}, Rafael and Pi{\~n}ero, Elena and Magalh{\~a}es, Vitor H and Schmidt, Mark and Weise, Stephan M and Cunha, Marina and Hilario, Ana and Perea, Hector and Rovelli, Lorenzo and Lackschewitz, Klas}
}
@article {Garcia20154261,
	title = {{Structure of the mantle beneath the Alboran Basin from magnetotelluric soundings}},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {16},
	number = {12},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {4261{\textendash}4274},
	abstract = {We present results of marine MT acquisition in the Alboran sea that also incorporates previously acquired land MT from southern Spain into our analysis. The marine data show complex MT response functions with strong distortion due to seafloor topography and the coastline, but inclusion of high resolution topography and bathymetry and a seismically defined sediment unit into a 3-D inversion model has allowed us to image the structure in the underlying mantle. The resulting resistivity model is broadly consistent with a geodynamic scenario that includes subduction of an eastward trending plate beneath Gibraltar, which plunges nearly vertically beneath the Alboran. Our model contains three primary features of interest: a resistive body beneath the central Alboran, which extends to a depth of \~{}150 km. At this depth, the mantle resistivity decreases to values of \~{}100 Ohm-m, slightly higher than those seen in typical asthenosphere at the same depth. This transition suggests a change in slab properties with depth, perhaps reflecting a change in the nature of the seafloor subducted in the past. Two conductive features in our model suggest the presence of fluids released by the subducting slab or a small amount of partial melt in the upper mantle (or both). Of these, the one in the center of the Alboran basin, in the uppermost-mantle (20-30 km depth) beneath Neogene volcanics and west of the termination of the Nekkor Fault, is consistent with geochemical models, which infer highly thinned lithosphere and shallow melting in order to explain the petrology of seafloor volcanics. {\textcopyright} 2015. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.},
	doi = {10.1002/2015GC006100},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84955347580\&partnerID=40\&md5=9ce7a52b6fe74ed86c20613d5230a4db},
	author = {Garcia, X.a and Seill{\'e}, H.b and Elsenbeck, J.c and Evans, R.L.c and Jegen, M.d and H{\"o}lz, S.d and Ledo, J.e and Lovatini, A.f and Marti, A.e and Marcuello, A.e and Queralt, P.e and Ungarelli, C.f and Ranero, C.R.g}
}
@article {Geersen2015,
	title = {{Subducting seamounts control interplate coupling and seismic rupture in the 2014 Iquique earthquake area}},
	journal = {Nature Communications},
	volume = {6},
	year = {2015},
	abstract = {To date, the parameters that determine the rupture area of great subduction zone earthquakes remain contentious. On 1 April 2014, the Mw 8.1 Iquique earthquake ruptured a portion of the well-recognized northern Chile seismic gap but left large highly coupled areas un-ruptured. Marine seismic reflection and swath bathymetric data indicate that structural variations in the subducting Nazca Plate control regional-scale plate-coupling variations, and the limited extent of the 2014 earthquake. Several under-thrusting seamounts correlate to the southward and up-dip arrest of seismic rupture during the 2014 Iquique earthquake, thus supporting a causal link. By fracturing of the overriding plate, the subducting seamounts are likely further responsible for reduced plate-coupling in the shallow subduction zone and in a lowly coupled region around 20.5{\textdegree}S. Our data support that structural variations in the lower plate influence coupling and seismic rupture offshore Northern Chile, whereas the structure of the upper plate plays a minor role. {\textcopyright} 2015 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.},
	doi = {10.1038/ncomms9267},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84942875520\&partnerID=40\&md5=c48e69118579945090a1454f6db7407e},
	author = {Geersen, J.a and Ranero, C.R.b and Barckhausen, U.c and Reichert, C.c}
}
@article {Mel{\'e}ndez2015158,
	title = {{TOMO3D: 3-D joint refraction and reflection traveltime tomography parallel code for active-source seismic data-synthetic test}},
	journal = {Geophysical Journal International},
	volume = {203},
	number = {1},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {158{\textendash}174},
	abstract = {We present a new 3-D traveltime tomography code (TOMO3D) for the modelling of active-source seismic data that uses the arrival times of both refracted and reflected seismic phases to derive the velocity distribution and the geometry of reflecting boundaries in the subsurface. This code is based on its popular 2-D version TOMO2D from which it inherited the methods to solve the forward and inverse problems. The traveltime calculations are done using a hybrid ray-tracing technique combining the graph and bending methods. The LSQR algorithm is used to perform the iterative regularized inversion to improve the initial velocity and depth models. In order to cope with an increased computational demand due to the incorporation of the third dimension, the forward problem solver, which takes most of the run time (\~{}90 per cent in the test presented here), has been parallelized with a combination of multi-processing and message passing interface standards. This parallelization distributes the ray-tracing and traveltime calculations among available computational resources. The code{\textquoteright}s performance is illustrated with a realistic synthetic example, including a checkerboard anomaly and two reflectors, which simulates the geometry of a subduction zone. The code is designed to invert for a single reflector at a time. A data-driven layer-stripping strategy is proposed for cases involving multiple reflectors, and it is tested for the successive inversion of the two reflectors. Layers are bound by consecutive reflectors, and an initial velocity model for each inversion step incorporates the results from previous steps. This strategy poses simpler inversion problems at each step, allowing the recovery of strong velocity discontinuities that would otherwise be smoothened. {\textcopyright} The Authors 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal Astronomical Society.},
	doi = {10.1093/gji/ggv292},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84942105766\&partnerID=40\&md5=95ac8480fd67102b8f5322381f9ff8ef},
	author = {Mel{\'e}ndez, A.a and Korenaga, J.b and Sallar{\`e}s, V.a and Miniussi, A.c and Ranero, C.R.d}
}
@booklet {Harders2014,
	title = {{Characterization of Submarine Landslide Complexes Offshore Costa Rica: An Evolutionary Model Related to Seamount Subduction}},
	year = {2014},
	month = {dec},
	publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
	abstract = {Offshore Costa Rica large seamounts under-thrust the continental convergent margin causing slides of complex morphology. The large dimension of the structures has attracted previous investigations and their basic characteristics are known. However, no detailed mapping of their complex morphology has been reported. Here we present a detailed mapping of the failure-related structures and deposits. We use deep-towed sidescan sonar data, aided by multibeam bathymetry to analyze their geometry, geomorphologic character, backscatter intensity, and spatial distribution. Those observations are used to analyze the relationship between landslide characteristics and abundance, to the changes in the style of deformation caused by the subduction of seamounts to progressively greater depth under the margin.},
	isbn = {10.1007/978-3-319-00972-8\_34},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-00972-8\_34 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00972-8\_34>.},
	url = {http://oceanrep.geomar.de/22515/},
	author = {Harders, Rieka and Weinrebe, Wilhelm and Ranero, Cesar R.}
}
@conference {Tejero2014,
	title = {{Comparison of objective functionals in seismic full waveform inversion}},
	booktitle = {76th European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers Conference and Exhibition 2014: Experience the Energy - Incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2014},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {2819{\textendash}2823},
	publisher = {EAGE Publishing BV},
	organization = {EAGE Publishing BV},
	abstract = {The FWI method is a powerful tool that allows one to obtain high-resolution information from the subsurface. However, the method is highly non-linear as in the convergence to the solution it might get trapped in local-minima. Among other techniques, it becomes crucial a suitable choice of the objective function. We have selected five objective functions to perform a comparative study under a common 2Dacoustic FWI scheme: the L2-nom, cross-correlation travel time (CCTT), non-integration-method (NIM), envelope and phase objective functions. We test with a 2D-canonical model the susceptibility of the functions to the initial model perturbations. To complete de study with a more realistic synthetic example we test the functions with the Marmousi model. The L2-norm and phase objective functions give the highest resolution images and the CCTT, NIM and envelope objective functions lead to smooth models. However in realistic initial conditions, L2 and phase misfits fail in recovering the velocity model in contrast to the CCTT, NIM and envelope functions that maintain a more consistent behavior.},
	isbn = {9781632666949},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84907396478\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Tejero, C. E Jimenez and Dagnino, D. and Sallar{\`e}s, V. and Ranero, C.}
}
@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 {Moeller2014,
	title = {{Crustal thinning in the northern Tyrrhenian Rift: Insights from multichannel and wide-angle seismic data across the basin}},
	volume = {119},
	number = {3},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {1655{\textendash}1677},
	url = {http://apps.isiknowledge.com/full\_record.do?product=UA\&search\_mode=GeneralSearch\&qid=5\&SID=S1AN85ZGXvSBJ7DKZfo\&page=1\&doc=3},
	author = {Moeller, S. and Grevemeyer, I. and Ranero, C. R.}
}
@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.}
}
@booklet {Rebesco2014,
	title = {{Grounding zone wedges , Kveithola Trough ( NW Barents Sea )}},
	journal = {Atlas of Submarine Glacial Landforms},
	volume = {16},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {16840},
	url = {www.submarineglacialatlas.com},
	author = {Rebesco, Michele and Urgeles, Roger and {\"O}zmaral, Asli and Hanebuth, Till and Caburlotto, Andrea}
}
@article {Arroyo2014,
	title = {{Interplate seismicity at the CRISP drilling site: The 2002 Mw 6.4 Osa Earthquake at the southeastern end of the Middle America Trench}},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {15},
	number = {7},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {3035{\textendash}3050},
	publisher = {Blackwell Publishing Ltd},
	abstract = {We investigate potential relations between variations in seafloor relief and age of the incoming plate and interplate seismicity. Westward from Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica, a major change in the character of the incoming Cocos Plate is displayed by abrupt lateral variations in seafloor depth and thermal structure. Here a Mw 6.4 thrust earthquake was followed by three aftershock clusters in June 2002. Initial relocations indicate that the main shock occurred fairly trenchward of most large earthquakes along the Middle America Trench off central Costa Rica. The earthquake sequence occurred while a temporary network of OBH and land stations \~{}80 km to the northwest were deployed. By adding readings from permanent local stations, we obtain uncommon P wave coverage of a large subduction zone earthquake. We relocate this catalog using a nonlinear probabilistic approach within both, a 1-D and a 3-D P wave velocity models. The main shock occurred \~{}25 km from the trench and probably along the plate interface at 5-10 km depth. We analyze teleseismic data to further constrain the rupture process of the main shock. The best depth estimates indicate that most of the seismic energy was radiated at shallow depth below the continental slope, supporting the nucleation of the Osa earthquake at \~{}6 km depth. The location and depth coincide with the plate boundary imaged in prestack depth-migrated reflection lines shot near the nucleation area. Aftershocks propagated downdip to the area of a 1999 Mw 6.9 sequence and partially overlapped it. The results indicate that underthrusting of the young and buoyant Cocos Ridge has created conditions for interplate seismogenesis shallower and closer to the trench axis than elsewhere along the central Costa Rica margin. {\textcopyright} 2014. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.},
	keywords = {earthquake relocation, erosional margin, interplate drilling},
	issn = {15252027},
	doi = {10.1002/2014GC005359},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84906266765\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Arroyo, Ivonne G. and Grevemeyer, Ingo and Ranero, Cesar R. and von Huene, Roland}
}
@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 {Roux2014,
	title = {{Optimizing an experimental design for a CSEM experiment: methodology and synthetic tests}},
	journal = {Geophysical Journal International},
	volume = {197},
	number = {1},
	year = {2014},
	month = {jan},
	pages = {135{\textendash}148},
	abstract = {Optimizing an experimental design is a compromise between maximizing information we get about the target and limiting the cost of the experiment, providing a wide range of constraints. We present a statistical algorithm for experiment design that combines the use of linearized inverse theory and stochastic optimization technique. Linearized inverse theory is used to quantify the quality of one given experiment design while genetic algorithm (GA) enables us to examine a wide range of possible surveys. The particularity of our algorithm is the use of the multi-objective GA NSGA II that searches designs that fit several objective functions (OFs) simultaneously. This ability of NSGA II is helping us in defining an experiment design that focuses on a specified target area. We present a test of our algorithm using a 1-D electrical subsurface structure. The model we use represents a simple but realistic scenario in the context of CO2 sequestration that motivates this study. Our first synthetic test using a single OF shows that a limited number of well-distributed observations from a chosen design have the potential to resolve the given model. This synthetic test also points out the importance of a well-chosen OF, depending on our target. In order to improve these results, we show how the combination of two OFs using a multi-objective GA enables us to determine an experimental design that maximizes information about the reservoir layer. Finally, we present several tests of our statistical algorithm in more challenging environments by exploring the influence of noise, specific site characteristics or its potential for reservoir monitoring. {\textcopyright} The Authors 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal Astronomical Society.},
	keywords = {Electrical properties, Inverse theory, Magnetotelluric},
	issn = {0956-540X},
	doi = {10.1093/gji/ggt525},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84897848257\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1 http://gji.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/01/29/gji.ggt525.short},
	author = {Roux, E. and Garcia, X.}
}
@article {Biescas2014,
	title = {{Recovery of temperature, salinity, and potential density from ocean reflectivity}},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans},
	volume = {119},
	number = {5},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {3171{\textendash}3184},
	publisher = {Blackwell Publishing Ltd},
	abstract = {This work explores a method to recover temperature, salinity, and potential density of the ocean using acoustic reflectivity data and time and space coincident expendable bathythermographs (XBT). The acoustically derived (vertical frequency >10 Hz) and the XBT-derived (vertical frequency <10 Hz) impedances are summed in the time domain to form impedance profiles. Temperature (T) and salinity (S) are then calculated from impedance using the international thermodynamics equations of seawater (GSW TEOS-10) and an empirical T-S relation derived with neural networks; and finally potential density ($\rho$) is calculated from T and S. The main difference between this method and previous inversion works done from real multichannel seismic reflection (MCS) data recorded in the ocean, is that it inverts density and it does not consider this magnitude constant along the profile, either in vertical or lateral dimension. We successfully test this method on MCS data collected in the Gulf of Cadiz (NE Atlantic Ocean). T, S, and $\rho$ are inverted with accuracies of $δ$Tsd=0.1C, $δ$Ssd=0.09, and $δ$$\rho$sd=0.02kg/m 3. Inverted temperature anomalies reveal baroclinic thermohaline fronts with intrusions. The observations support a mix of thermohaline features created by both double-diffusive and isopycnal stirring mechanisms. Our results show that reflectivity is primarily caused by thermal gradients but acoustic reflectors are not isopycnal in all domains. Key Points Recovery of oceanic T, S, and potential density from acoustic reflectivity data Thermal anomalies observations at the Mediterranean tongue level Comparison between acoustic reflectors in the ocean and isopycnals {\textcopyright} 2014. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.},
	keywords = {low-frequency acoustic oceanography, ocean reflectivity, Seismic oceanography, thermohaline fronts, thermohaline intrusions},
	issn = {21699275},
	doi = {10.1002/2013JC009662},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84902770570\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Biescas, Berta and Ruddick, Barry R. and Nedimovic, Mladen R. and Sallares, Valenti and Bornstein, Guillermo and Mojica, Jhon F.}
}
@article {Dagnino2014,
	title = {{Scale- and parameter-adaptive model-based gradient pre-conditioner for elastic full-waveform inversion}},
	journal = {Geophysical Journal International},
	volume = {198},
	number = {2},
	year = {2014},
	month = {jun},
	pages = {1130{\textendash}1142},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press},
	abstract = {We present a scale- and parameter-adaptive method to pre-condition the gradient of the parameters to be inverted in time-domain 2-D elastic full-waveform inversion (FWI). The proposed technique, which relies on a change of variables of the model parameters, allows to balance the value of the gradient of the Lam{\'e} parameters and density throughout the model in each step of the multiscale inversion. The main difference compared to existing gradient pre-conditioners is that the variables are automatically selected based on a least squares minimization criteria of the gradient weight, which corresponds to the product of the gradient by a power of the parameter to be inverted. Based on numerical tests made with (1) a modified version of the Marmousi-2 model, and (2) a high-velocity and density local anomaly model, we illustrate that the value of the power helps to balance the gradient throughout the model. In addition, we show that a particular value exists for each parameter that optimizes the inversion results in terms of accuracy and efficiency. For the two models, the optimal power is \~{}2.0-2.5 and and \~{}1.5 for the first and second Lam{\'e} parameters, respectively; and between 3 and 6, depending on the inverted frequency, for density. These power values provide the fastest and most accurate inversion results for the three parameters in the framework of multiscale and multishooting FWI using three different optimization schemes. {\textcopyright} The Authors 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal Astronomical Society.},
	keywords = {Computational seismology, Inverse theory, Numerical approximations and analysis, Seismic tomography},
	issn = {0956-540X},
	doi = {10.1093/gji/ggu175},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84903949166\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Dagnino, D. and Sallar{\`e}s, V. and Ranero, C. R.}
}
@inbook {GraciaE.BartolomeR.PereaH.MorenoX.GomezdelaPenaL.RaneroC.RLoIaconoC.Martinez-LorienteS.DiezS.MasanaE.Danobeitia2014,
	title = {{Seismic hazard of active faults in the Alboran Sea inferred from submarine paleosismology}},
	booktitle = {Una aproximaci{\'o}n multidisciplinar al estudio de fallas activas, los terremotos y el riesgo s{\'\i}smico},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {101{\textendash}104},
	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 = {Gr{\`a}cia, E. and Bartolome, R. and Perea, H. and Moreno, X. and G{\'o}mez de la Pe{\~n}a, L. and Ranero, C.R and Lo Iacono, C. and Martinez-Loriente, S. and Diez, S. and Masana, E. and Da{\~n}obeitia, J.}
}
@article {Prada2014,
	title = {{Seismic structure of the Central Tyrrhenian basin: Geophysical constraints on the nature of the main crustal domains}},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
	volume = {119},
	number = {1},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {52{\textendash}70},
	publisher = {Blackwell Publishing Ltd},
	abstract = {In this work we investigate the crustal and tectonic structures of the Central Tyrrhenian back-arc basin combining refraction and wide-angle reflection seismic (WAS), gravity, and multichannel seismic (MCS) reflection data, acquired during the MEDOC (MEDiterr{\'a}neo OCcidental)-2010 survey along a transect crossing the entire basin from Sardinia to Campania at 40{\textdegree}N. The results presented include a \~{}450 km long 2-D P wave velocity model, obtained by the traveltime inversion of the WAS data, a coincident density model, and a MCS poststack time-migrated profile. We interpret three basement domains with different petrological affinity along the transect based on the comparison of velocity and velocity-derived density models with existing compilations for continental crust, oceanic crust, and exhumed mantle. The first domain includes the continental crust of Sardinia and the conjugate Campania margin. In the Sardinia margin, extension has thinned the crust from \~{}20 km under the coastline to \~{}13 km \~{}60 km seaward. Similarly, the Campania margin is also affected by strong extensional deformation. The second domain, under the Cornaglia Terrace and its conjugate Campania Terrace, appears to be oceanic in nature. However, it shows differences with respect to the reference Atlantic oceanic crust and agrees with that generated in back-arc oceanic settings. The velocities-depth relationships and lack of Moho reflections in seismic records of the third domain (i.e., the Magnaghi and Vavilov basins) support a basement fundamentally made of mantle rocks. The large seamounts of the third domain (e.g., Vavilov) are underlain by 10-20 km wide, relatively low-velocity anomalies interpreted as magmatic bodies locally intruding the mantle. {\textcopyright}2013. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.},
	keywords = {back-arc crust, exhumed mantle, Rifting, traveltime tomography, Tyrrhenian basin, wide-angle seismics},
	issn = {21699313},
	doi = {10.1002/2013JB010527},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84896740908\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Prada, M. and Sallar{\`e}s, V. and Ranero, C. R. and Vendrell, M. G. and Grevemeyer, I. and Zitellini, N. and de Franco, R.}
}
@booklet {HensenC.ScholzF.MarianneN.ValadaresV.GraciaE.TerrinhaP.LiebetrauV.KaulN.SilvaS.Martinez-lorienteS.BartolomeR.PineroE.MagalhaesV.H.SchmidtM.WeiseS.M.CunhaM.HilarioA.Pereah.RovelliL.2014,
	title = {{Strike-slip Faults Mediate the Rise of Basement-Derived Fluids and Mud Volcanism in the Deep Sea}},
	year = {2014},
	keywords = {Geology},
	author = {Hensen, C. and Scholz, F. and Marianne, N. and Valadares, V. and Gr{\`a}cia, E. and Terrinha, P. and Liebetrau, V. and Kaul, N. and Silva, S. and Martinez-Loriente, S. and Bartolome, R. and Pi{\~n}ero, E. and Mag{\~a}lhaes, V.H. and Schmidt, M. and S.M., Weise and Cunha, M. and Hilario, A. and Perea, H. and Rovelli, L. K.}
}
@inbook {GomezdelaPenaL.RaneroC.R.GraciaE.BartolomeR.2014,
	title = {{T{\'e}cnicas avanzadas de procesado de datos de s{\'\i}smica de reflexi{\'o}n multicanal aplicadas a mejorar la visualizaci{\'o}n de fallas activas del Mar de Albor{\'a}n}},
	booktitle = {Una aproximaci{\'o}n multidisciplinar al estudio de fallas activas, los terremotos y el riesgo s{\'\i}smico},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {229{\textendash}232},
	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 = {G{\'o}mez de la Pe{\~n}a, L. and Ranero, C.R. and Gr{\`a}cia, E. and R., Bartolome and cruise Party, TopoMed}
}
@article {LoIacono2014316,
	title = {{The West Melilla cold water coral mounds, Eastern Alboran Sea: Morphological characterization and environmental context}},
	journal = {Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography},
	volume = {99},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {316{\textendash}326},
	abstract = {Abstract A new mound field, the West Melilla mounds, interpreted as being cold-water coral mounds, has been recently unveiled along the upper slope of the Mediterranean Moroccan continental margin, a few kilometers west of the Cape Tres Forcas. This study is based on the integration of high-resolution geophysical data (swath bathymetry, parametric sub-bottom profiler), \{CTD\} casts, Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), \{ROV\} video and seafloor sampling, acquired during the \{TOPOMED\} \{GASSIS\} (2011) and \{MELCOR\} (2012) cruises. Up to 103 mounds organized in two main clusters have been recognized in a depth range of 299{\textendash}590 m, displaying a high density of 5 mounds/km2. Mounds, 1{\textendash}48 m high above the surrounding seafloor and on average 260 m wide, are actually buried by a 1{\textendash}12 m thick fine-grained sediment blanket. Seismic data suggest that the West Melilla mounds grew throughout the Early Pleistocene{\textendash}Holocene, settling on erosive unconformities and mass movement deposits. During the last glacial{\textendash}interglacial transition, the West Melilla mounds may have suffered a drastic change of the local sedimentary regime during the late Holocene and, unable to stand increasing depositional rates, were progressively buried. At the present day, temperature and salinity values on the West Melilla mounds suggest a plausible oceanographic setting, suitable for live CWCs. Nonetheless, more data is required to groundtruth the West Melilla mounds and better constrain the interplay of sedimentary and oceanographic factors during the evolution of the West Melilla mounds.},
	keywords = {Alboran Sea, high-resolution seismics, Quaternary, Swath mapping, \{CWC\} mounds},
	issn = {0967-0645},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.07.006},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967064513002786},
	author = {Iacono, Claudio Lo and Gr{\'a}cia, Eul{\`a}lia and Ranero, C{\'e}sar R and Emelianov, Mikhail and Huvenne, Veerle A I and Bartolom{\'e}, Rafael and Booth-Rea, Guillermo and Prades, Javier and Ambroso, Stefano and Dominguez, Carlos and Griny{\'o}, Jordi and Rubio, Eduardo and Torrent, Josep}
}
@booklet {Ranero2014,
	title = {{The Western Mediterranean Pairs of Basin and Arc Systems}},
	year = {2014},
	month = {feb},
	publisher = {Sociedad Geol{\'o}gica de Espa{\~n}a},
	abstract = {Ranero, C{\'e}sar R. ... et. al.{\textendash} VIII Congreso Geol{\'o}gico de Espa{\~n}a, 2012, Oviedo},
	isbn = {http://hdl.handle.net/10261/92021},
	url = {http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/92021},
	author = {Ranero, Cesar R. and Gr{\'a}cia, Eul{\`a}lia and Sallares, Valenti and Garcia, Xavier and Gallart Muset, Josep and Bartolom{\'e}, Rafael and Lo Iacono, Claudio and Martinez-Loriente, S. and Moreno, Ximena and Prada, Manel and Perea, Hector and Zitellini, N.}
}
@article {Gori2013,
	title = {{Bathymetrical distribution and size structure of cold-water coral populations in the Cap de Creus and Lacaze-Duthiers canyons (northwestern Mediterranean)}},
	journal = {Biogeosciences},
	volume = {10},
	number = {3},
	year = {2013},
	month = {mar},
	pages = {2049{\textendash}2060},
	abstract = {Submarine canyons are known as one of the seafloor morphological features where living cold-water coral (CWC) communities develop in the Mediterranean Sea. We investigated the CWC community of the two westernmost submarine canyons of the Gulf of Lions canyon system: the Cap de Creus Canyon (CCC) and Lacaze-Duthiers Canyon (LDC). Coral associations have been studied through video material recorded by means of a manned submersible and a remotely operated vehicle. Video transects have been conducted and analyzed in order to obtain information on (1) coral bathymetric distribution and density patterns, (2) size structure of coral populations, and (3) coral colony position with respect to the substrate. Madrepora oculata was the most abundant CWC in both canyons, while Lophelia pertusa and Dendrophyllia cornigera mostly occurred as isolated colonies or in small patches. An important exception was detected in a vertical cliff in LDC where a large L. pertusa framework was documented. This is the first record of such an extended L. pertusa framework in the Mediterranean Sea. In both canyons coral populations were dominated by medium and large colonies, but the frequent presence of small-sized colonies also indicate active recruitment. The predominant coral orientation (90{\textdegree} and 135{\textdegree} ) is probably driven by the current regime as well as by the sediment load transported by the current flows. In general, no clear differences were observed in the abundance and in the size structure of the CWC populations between CCC and LDC, despite large differences in particulate matter between canyons. {\textcopyright} Author(s) 2013.},
	issn = {1726-4189},
	doi = {10.5194/bg-10-2049-2013},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84880722043\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Gori, A. and Orejas, C. and Madurell, T. and Bramanti, L. and Martins, M. and Quintanilla, E. and Marti-Puig, P. and Lo Iacono, C. and Puig, P. and Requena, S. and Greenacre, M. and Gili, J. M.}
}
@conference {Buffett2013,
	title = {{Characterization of thermohaline staircases in the Tyrrhenian Sea using stochastic heterogeneity mapping}},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics},
	volume = {19},
	year = {2013},
	pages = {005013{\textendash}005013},
	abstract = {Processed multi-channel seismic (MCS) data acquired in the Tyrrhenian Sea in April-May 2010 provide images of oceanic thermohaline staircases. Using Stochastic Heterogeneity Mapping we characterize spatial reflector variations. This method is based on the band-limited von K{\'a}rm{\'a}n function. For scale sizes smaller than the correlation length, the von K{\'a}rm{\'a}n model describes a power law (fractal) process. We are most interested in the extraction of the exponent in the power law (The Hurst exponent) because it allows us to characterize the richness of scales present in the data set. Lower Hurst exponents represent a richer range of wavenumbers and therefore correspond to a broader range of heterogeneity in the observed seismic reflection events. The Hurst exponent is related to the fractal dimension and to the slope in the Garrett-Munk wavenumber spectrum. We interpret a richer range of heterogeneity as indicative of a greater degree of turbulent mixing. Data are presented alongside benchmark calibrations of synthetic seismic data generated from random fractal surfaces. We observe an oscillation in the Hurst exponent spectra as a function of frequency that is interpreted to represent a preferential coupling of energy across different spatial scales. {\textcopyright} 2013 Acoustical Society of America.},
	issn = {1939800X},
	doi = {10.1121/1.4799057},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84878961126\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Buffett, Grant G. and Hobbs, Richard W. and Vsemirnova, Ekaterina A. and Klaeschen, Dirk and Hurich, Charles A. and Ranero, César and Sallarès, Valentí}
}
@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 {Rice2013,
	title = {{The Current Trajectory of Seismic Oceanography}},
	journal = {Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union},
	volume = {94},
	number = {36},
	year = {2013},
	month = {sep},
	pages = {316{\textendash}316},
	issn = {00963941},
	doi = {10.1002/2013EO360003},
	url = {http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/2013EO360003},
	author = {Rice, Ana E. and Ruddick, Barry R. and Biescas-Gorriz, Berta}
}
@article {Moeller2013,
	title = {{Early-stage rifting of the northern Tyrrhenian Sea Basin: Results from a combined wide-angle and multichannel seismic study}},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {14},
	number = {8},
	year = {2013},
	month = {aug},
	pages = {3032{\textendash}3052},
	abstract = {Extension of the continental lithosphere leads to the formation of rift basins and ultimately may create passive continental margins. The mechanisms that operate during the early stage of crustal extension are still intensely debated. We present the results from coincident multichannel seismic and wide-angle seismic profiles that transect across the northern Tyrrhenian Sea Basin. The profiles cross the Corsica Basin (France) to the Latium Margin (Italy) where the early-rift stage of the basin is well preserved. We found two domains, each with a distinct tectonic style, heat flow and crustal thickness. One domain is the Corsica Basin in the west that formed before the main rift phase of the northern Tyrrhenian Sea opening (\~{}8-4 Ma). The second domain is rifted continental crust characterized by tilted blocks and half-graben structures in the central region and at the Latium Margin. These two domains are separated by a deep (\~{}10 km) sedimentary complex of the eastern portion of the Corsica Basin. Travel-time tomography of wide-angle seismic data reveals the crustal architecture and a subhorizontal 15-17 {\textpm} 1 km deep Moho discontinuity under the basin. To estimate the amount of horizontal extension we have identified the pre-, syn-, and post-tectonic sedimentary units and calculated the relative displacement of faults. We found that major faults initiated at angles of 45{\textdegree}-50{\textdegree} and that the rifted domain is horizontally stretched by a factor of $\beta$ \~{} 1.3 (\~{}8-10 mm/a). The crust has been thinned from \~{}24 to \~{}17 km indicating a similar amount of extension (\~{}30\%). The transect represents one of the best imaged early rifts and implies that the formation of crustal-scale detachments, or long-lived low-angle normal faults, is not a general feature that controls the rift initiation of continental crust. Other young rift basins, like the Gulf of Corinth, the Suez Rift or Lake Baikal, display features resembling the northern Tyrrhenian Basin, suggesting that half-graben formations and distributed homogeneous crustal thinning are a common feature during rift initiation. {\textcopyright}2013. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.},
	keywords = {Basin formation, Continental extension, Multichannel seismic data, Rifting, Tyrrhenian Sea, Wide-Angle data},
	issn = {15252027},
	doi = {10.1002/ggge.20180},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84885100133\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Moeller, S. and Grevemeyer, I. and Ranero, C. R. and Berndt, C. and Klaeschen, D. and Sallar{\`e}s, V. and Zitellini, N. and de Franco, R.}
}
@article {Cartes2013,
	title = {{Geomorphological, trophic and human influences on the bamboo coral Isidella elongata assemblages in the deep Mediterranean: To what extent does Isidella form habitat for fish and invertebrates?}},
	journal = {Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers},
	volume = {76},
	year = {2013},
	month = {jun},
	pages = {52{\textendash}65},
	abstract = {We analyzed what are the best ecological conditions for megafauna associated with the bamboo coral Isidella elongata based on the geomorphological, physical and trophic information taken in 3 stations (St1, St2, St3) off the southern Catalonian coasts at 620m depth in June 2011. Results were compared with assemblage compositions recorded in past cruises (May 1992, 1994) at the same 3 stations. St1 was in a fishing ground exploited since the 1940s over a relatively wide slope at ca. 22km from the nearest canyon head; St2 and St3 were on a narrower slope closer to canyon heads and to the Ebro river mouth than St1. I. elongata had formed (to May 1994, at least) a dense coral forest at St2-St3 (to ca. 255 colonies/ha at St3), and some isolated colonies (to ca. 0.9 colonies/ha) were still collected in 2011. Fish and invertebrate communities significantly differed between St1 and St2/St3, with two macrourid fishes (Trachrhynchus trachyrhynchus and Nezumia aequalis) and two decapods (Plesionika martia and Plesionika acanthonotus) more abundant at St2/St3. The following ecological indicators imply better food conditions for megafauna at St2-St3 and for I. elongata itself: (i) greater density of zooplankton (copepods, euphausiids, and others) as potential prey for planktivores (including I. elongata); (ii) greater biomass and mean weight of epifaunal and infaunal deposit feeders; (iii) higher feeding intensity, F, at St3 for benthos feeders (Phycis blennoides, N. aequalis and Aristeus antennatus). Also, at St2-St3 we found higher near-bottom turbidity (indicating particle resuspension: food for suspension feeders) and finer and more reduced (Eh) sediments. The results let us suggest that corals and accompanying fauna preferently found optimal ecological conditions in the same habitat, while habitat-forming capacity by I. elongata seemed weak to generate these conditions. Coral forests may enhance detritus accumulations around them, improving habitat conditions for benthos feeders (e.g. macrourid fish). At St3 our side-scan sonar recorded three types of tracks produced by trawler doors, which match with three identified vessels occasionally operating in the area. After this low fishing activity off the Ebro Delta since the mid-1990s, almost all colonies of I. elongata has been removed. However, this impact has hardly altered fish and invertebrate composition without any significant loss of diversity, pointing also toward a rather low capacity of I. elongata facies in forming habitat for megafauna on muddy bottoms of the Mediterranean slope. {\textcopyright} 2013 Elsevier Ltd.},
	keywords = {Bamboo coral, Canyons, Deep Mediterranean, Fish, Forming habitat, Invertebrates, Isidella elongate, Stable isotopy, Trophic relationships},
	issn = {09670637},
	doi = {10.1016/j.dsr.2013.01.006},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84876701226\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Cartes, J.E. and LoIacono, C. and Mamouridis, V. and L{\'o}pez-P{\'e}rez, C. and Rodr{\'\i}guez, P.}
}
@article {Kluesner2013,
	title = {{High density of structurally controlled, shallow to deep water fluid seep indicators imaged offshore Costa Rica}},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {14},
	number = {3},
	year = {2013},
	month = {mar},
	pages = {519{\textendash}539},
	abstract = {We used high-resolution mapping to document 161 sites of potential fluid seepage on the shelf and slope regions where no geophysical seep indicators had been reported. Identified potential seabed seepage sites show both high-backscatter anomalies and bathymetric expressions, such as pockmarks, mounds, and ridges. Almost all identified seabed features are associated with bright spots and flat spots beneath, as mapped within the 3-D seismic grid. We obtained EM122 multi-beam data using closely spaced receiver beams and 4-5 times overlapping multi-beam swaths, which greatly improved the sounding density and geologic resolvability of the data. At least one location shows an acoustic plume in the water column on a 3.5 kHz profile, and this plume is located along a fault trace and above surface and subsurface seepage indicators. Fluid indicators are largely associated with folds and faults within the sediment section, and many of the faults continue into and offset the reflective basement. A dense pattern of normal faults is seen on the outer shelf in the multi-beam bathymetry, backscatter, and 3-D seismic data, and the majority of fluid seepage indicators lie along mapped fault traces. Furthermore, linear mounds, ridges, and pockmark chains are found on the upper, middle, and lower slope regions. The arcuate shape of the shelf edge, projection of the Quepos Ridge, and high density of potential seep sites suggest that this area may be a zone of former seamount/ridge subduction. These results demonstrate a much greater potential seep density and distribution than previously reported across the Costa Rican margin. {\textcopyright}2013. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.},
	keywords = {Costa Rica, fluid flow, fluid seepage, Marine Geology and Geophysics, subduction zones},
	issn = {15252027},
	doi = {10.1002/ggge.20058},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84879641763\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Kluesner, Jared W. and Silver, Eli A. and Bangs, Nathan L. and McIntosh, Kirk D. and Gibson, James and Orange, Daniel and Ranero, Cesar R. and von Huene, Roland}
}
@conference {BiescasGorriz2013,
	title = {{Inversion of density in the ocean from seismic reflection data}},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics},
	volume = {19},
	year = {2013},
	pages = {005009{\textendash}005009},
	abstract = {Previous works in seismic oceanography explain that acoustic reflections are primarily associated with temperature vertical variations, so seismic images in the ocean can be interpreted as thermal contrasts maps. Temperature and salinity are the physical properties that describe structures in the ocean. However, the main physical parameter that controls oceans dynamics is the density and, since the ocean is a compressible fluid, potential density is the property that determines the stability, mixing and mesoscale motions of the particles. We have inverted oceanic impedance from seismic data and then derived density and potential density surfaces from the oceanic impedance. Results of the inverted potential density have been compared with seismic reflectors to show the relation between isopycnals and reflectors. We have also compare the seismic profiles of the GO Survey with the space-coincident CTDs and space and time-coincident XBTs to understand the nature of the reflectivity and its relation with the potential density in the ocean. {\textcopyright} 2013 Acoustical Society of America.},
	issn = {1939800X},
	doi = {10.1121/1.4798967},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84878986220\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Biescas Gorriz, Berta and Ruddick, Barry R. and Sallares, Valenti}
}
@booklet {Volpi2013,
	title = {{Late Neogene to Recent seafloor instability on the deep Pacific margin of the Antarctic Peninsula}},
	year = {2013},
	month = {mar},
	publisher = {SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)},
	abstract = {17 pages, 12 figures, 1 table},
	keywords = {Antarctic Peninsula, contourite sedimentation, Pacific margin, Slope instability},
	isbn = {isbn: 978-1-56576-287-9},
	url = {http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/72631},
	author = {Volpi, Valentina and Amblas, David and Camerlenghi, Angelo and Canals, Miquel and Rebesco, M. and Urgeles, Roger}
}
@article {Mel{\'e}ndez2013243,
	title = {{Origin of water layer multiple phases with anomalously high amplitude in near-seafloor wide-angle seismic recordings}},
	journal = {Geophysical Journal International},
	volume = {196},
	number = {1},
	year = {2013},
	pages = {243{\textendash}252},
	abstract = {Water layer multiple seismic phases are recorded at ocean bottom seismometers and hydrophones as arrivals that correspond to the reflection of the primary phases at the sea-free air interface. In regions of low to moderate seabed relief, the shape of these phases mimics that of the primary phases with a traveltime delay that depends on the water layer thickness at the receiver location. Given their longer travel paths, multiple phases should have smaller amplitudes than their corresponding primary phases. However, depending on the geological context it can be relatively common to observe the opposite, which results in the identification of the multiple phases at longer offsets than the primary events. In this paper, we examine the origin of this apparently paradoxical phenomenon by analysing the combined effect of the major factors potentially involved: the source frequency content, the subsurface velocity distribution, the receiver-seafloor distance, the geometrical spreading and attenuation of sound waves and the ambient noise level.We use synthetic modelling to show that for certain combinations of these factors, the interference between the multiple and its reflection at the seafloor is constructive and has a higher amplitude than the primary wave. Our analysis indicates that in the most favourable cases the phases resulting from this interference can be observed at offsets some tens of kilometres longer than their corresponding primary phases, and thus they can provide useful information for velocity modelling. {\textcopyright} The Authors 2013. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal Astronomical Society.},
	keywords = {ambient noise, Controlled source seismology, Controlled-source seismologies, Earthquake effects, Geometrical spread, hydrophone, Numerical approximations and analysis, numerical method, ocea, Seismology, Site effects, Wave propagation},
	issn = {0956540X},
	doi = {10.1093/gji/ggt391},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84890885715\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1 http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84890885715\&partnerID=40\&md5=a3729b5c20fafb9373a2a82c94b34990},
	author = {Mel{\'e}ndez, A.a and Sallar{\`e}s, V.a and Ranero, C.R.b R. and Kormann, J.c and Mel{\'e}ndez, A. and Sallar{\`e}s, V.}
}
@article {Sallares2013a,
	title = {{Overriding plate structure of the Nicaragua convergent margin: Relationship to the seismogenic zone of the 1992 tsunami earthquake}},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {14},
	number = {9},
	year = {2013},
	month = {sep},
	pages = {3436{\textendash}3461},
	abstract = {We present 2-D seismic velocity models and coincident multichannel seismic reflection images of the overriding plate and the inter-plate boundary of the Nicaragua convergent margin along two wide-angle seismic profiles parallel and normal to the trench acquired in the rupture area of the 1992 tsunami earthquake. The trench-perpendicular profile runs over a seamount subducting under the margin slope, at the location where seismological observations predict large coseismic slip. Along this profile, the igneous basement shows increasing velocity both with depth and away from the trench, reflecting a progressive decrease in upper-plate rock degree of fracturing. Upper mantle-like velocities are obtained at \~{}10 km depth beneath the fore-arc Sandino basin, indicating a shallow mantle wedge. A mismatch of the inter-plate reflector in the velocity models and along coincident multichannel seismic profiles under the slope is best explained by \~{}15\% velocity anisotropy, probably caused by subvertical open fractures that may be related to fluid paths feeding known seafloor seepage sites. The presence of a shallow, partially serpentinized mantle wedge, and the fracture-related anisotropy are supported by gravity analysis of velocity-derived density models. The downdip limit of inter-plate seismicity occurs near the tip of the inferred mantle wedge, suggesting that seismicity could be controlled by the presence of serpentinite group minerals at the fault gouge. Near the trench, the inferred local increase of normal stress produced by the subducting seamount in the plate boundary may have made this fault segment unstable during earthquake rupture, which could explain its tsunamigenic character. {\textcopyright} 2013. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.},
	keywords = {Convergent margin, travel time tomography, tsunami earthquake, wide-angle seismics},
	issn = {15252027},
	doi = {10.1002/ggge.20214},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84886671506\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Sallares, Valenti and Mel{\'e}ndez, Adri{\`a} and Prada, Manuel and Ranero, Cesar R. and McIntosh, Kirk and Grevemeyer, Ingo}
}
@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 {Sallares2013,
	title = {{Seismic evidence of exhumed mantle rock basement at the Gorringe Bank and the adjacent Horseshoe and Tagus abyssal plains (SW Iberia)}},
	journal = {Earth and Planetary Science Letters},
	volume = {365},
	year = {2013},
	month = {mar},
	pages = {120{\textendash}131},
	abstract = {The Gorringe Bank is a gigantic seamount that separates the Horseshoe and Tagus abyssal plains offshore SW Iberia, in a zone that hosts the convergent boundary between the Africa and Eurasia plates. Although the region has been the focus of numerous investigations since the early 1970s, the lack of appropriate geophysical data makes the nature of the basement, and thus the origin of the structures, still debated. In this work, we present combined P-wave seismic velocity and gravity models along a transect that crosses the Gorringe Bank from the Tagus to the Horseshoe abyssal plains. The P-wave velocity structure of the basement is similar in the Tagus and Horseshoe plains. It shows a 2.5-3.0. km-thick top layer with a velocity gradient twice stronger than oceanic Layer 2 and an abrupt change to an underlying layer with a five-fold weaker gradient. Velocity and density is lower beneath the Gorringe Bank probably due to enhanced fracturing, that have led to rock disaggregation in the sediment-starved northern flank. In contrast to previous velocity models of this region, there is no evidence of a sharp crust-mantle boundary in any of the record sections. The modelling results indicate that the sediment overlays directly serpentinite rock, exhumed from the mantle with a degree of serpentinization decreasing from a maximum of 70-80\% under the top of Gorringe Bank to less than 5\% at a depth of \~{}20. km. We propose that the three domains were originally part of a single serpentine rock band, of nature and possibly origin similar to the Iberia Abyssal Plain ocean-continent transition, which was probably generated during the earliest phase of the North Atlantic opening that followed continental crust breakup (Early Cretaceous). During the Miocene, the NW-SE trending Eurasia-Africa convergence resulted in thrusting of the southeastern segment of the exhumed serpentinite band over the northwestern one, forming the Gorringe Bank. The local deformation associated to plate convergence and uplift could have promoted pervasive rock fracturing of the overriding plate, leading eventually to rock disaggregation in the northern flank of the GB, which could be now a potential source of rock avalanches and tsunamis. {\textcopyright} 2013 Elsevier B.V.},
	keywords = {Gravity modelling, Mantle exhumation, North Atlantic margin, Travel-time tomography, wide-angle seismics},
	issn = {0012821X},
	doi = {10.1016/j.epsl.2013.01.021},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84874491076\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Sallares, Valenti and Mart{\'\i}nez-Loriente, Sara and Prada, Manel and Gr{\'a}cia, Eul{\`a}lia and Ranero, C{\'e}sar and Gutscher, Marc-Andr{\'e} and Bartolom{\'e}, Rafael and Gailler, Audrey and Da{\~n}obeitia, Juan Jos{\'e} and Zitellini, Nevio}
}
@inbook {TMadurell;C.Orejas;S.Requena;A.Gori;A.Purroy;C.LoIacono;A.Sabates;C.Dominguez;JM.Gili2012,
	title = {{The benthic communities of the Cap de Creus Canyon}},
	booktitle = {Mediterranean submarine canyons: ecology and governance},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {123{\textendash}132},
	isbn = {978-2-8317-1469-1},
	doi = {2831714699},
	url = {http://books.google.com/books?hl=es\&lr=\&id=7oanUOft4cwC\&pgis=1},
	author = {T Madurell and Orejas, C. and Requena, S. and Gori, A. and Purroy, A. and Iacono, C. Lo and Sabates, A. and Dominguez, C. and Gili, JM.}
}
@article {Gutscher2012,
	title = {{The Gibraltar subduction: A decade of new geophysical data}},
	journal = {Tectonophysics},
	volume = {574-575},
	year = {2012},
	month = {oct},
	pages = {72{\textendash}91},
	abstract = {The Gibraltar arc, spans a complex portion of the Africa-Eurasia plate boundary marked by slow oblique convergence and intermediate and deep focus seismicity. The seemingly contradictory observations of a young extensional marine basin surrounded by an arcuate fold-and-thrust belt, have led to competing geodynamic models (delamination and subduction). Geophysical data acquired in the past decade provide a test for these models and support a narrow east-dipping, subduction zone. Seismic refraction studies indicate oceanic crust below the western Gulf of Cadiz. Tomography of the upper mantle reveals a steep, east-dipping high P-wave velocity body, beneath Gibraltar. The anisotropic mantle fabric from SKS splitting shows arc-parallel "fast directions", consistent with toroidal flow around a narrow, westward retreating subducting slab. The accompanying WSW advance of the Rif-Betic mountain belt has constructed a thick pile of deformed sediments, an accretionary wedge, characterized by west-vergent thrust anticlines. Bathymetric swath-mapping images an asymmetric embayment at the deformation front where a 2. km high basement ridge has collided. Subduction has slowed significantly since 5. Ma, but deformation of recent sediments and abundant mud volcanoes suggest ongoing activity in the accretionary wedge. Three possible origins for this deformation are discussed; gravitational spreading, overall NW-SE convergence between Africa and Iberia and finally a WSW tectonic push from slow, but ongoing roll-back subduction. In the absence of arc volcanism and shallow dipping thrust type earthquakes, evidence in favor of present-day subduction can only be indirect and remains the object of debate. Continued activity of the subduction offers a possible explanation for great (M. >. 8.5) earthquakes known to affect the area, like the famous 1755 Great Lisbon earthquake. Recent GPS studies show SW motion of stations in N Morocco at velocities of 3-6. mm/yr indicating the presence of an independent block, a "Rif-Betic-Alboran" microplate, situated between Iberia and Africa. {\textcopyright} 2012 Elsevier B.V.},
	keywords = {Accretionary wedge, Active deformation, earthquakes, Iberia, Roll-back subduction, Tethys oceanic lithosphere},
	issn = {00401951},
	doi = {10.1016/j.tecto.2012.08.038},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84867273669\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Gutscher, M.-A. and Dominguez, S. and Westbrook, G.K. and Le Roy, P. and Rosas, F. and Duarte, J.C. and Terrinha, P. and Miranda, J.M. and Graindorge, D. and Gailler, A. and Sallar{\`e}s, V. and Bartolome, R.}
}
@book {LoIacono2012b,
	title = {{The habitats of the Cap de Creus continental shelf and Cap de Creus Canyon, northwestern Mediterranean}},
	series = {Seafloor Geomorphology as Benthic Habitat. GeoHab Atlas of seafloor geomorphic features and benthic habitats},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {457{\textendash}469},
	publisher = {Elsevier},
	organization = {Elsevier},
	abstract = {Continental shelves and submarine canyons represent peculiar environments that are geologically heterogenous on a small spatial scale (form hundreds to tens of meters) and therefore play a central role in increasing the ecosystem biodiversity. The Cap de Creus continental shelf and Cap de Creus canyon are located in the southernmost sector of the Gulf of Lions, in the northwestern Mediterranean. The Cap de Creus continental shelf contains sandy and muddy sediments and an abrupt morphology, with rocky outcrops, relict bioherms, erosive features, and planar bedforms. The Cap de Creus canyon breaches the shelf at a depth of 110 m and denotes a marked difference in the morphology between the northern and the southern flank, reflecting a different depositional regime. The most common substrates correspond to coarse and medium sands (28\%) and silty sediments (40\%). The most common megabenthic assemblages of the shelf correspond to the communities of "offshore detritic" (31.95\%) and "coastal terrigenous muds" (36.99\%), mostly dominated by sea pens, alcyonaceans, and ceriantharians. The northern flank of the Cap de Creus canyon is predominantly depositional, whereas the southern flank is erosional. Rocky outcrops provide the substratum for cold-water coral (CWC) communities{\textquoteright} development, in which the white coral Madrepora oculata is the most abundant species. {\textcopyright} 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Continental shelf, Geomorphology, Habitat mapping, Northwestern Mediterranean, Submarine Canyon, swath bathymetry},
	isbn = {9780123851406},
	doi = {10.1016/B978-0-12-385140-6.00032-3},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84883461551\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Lo Iacono, Claudio and Orejas, Covadonga and Gori, Andrea and Gili, Josep Maria and Requena, Susana and Puig, Pere and Rib{\'o}, Marta}
}
@inbook {Rebesco2012,
	title = {{One million years of climatic generated landslide events on the northwestern Barents Sea continental margin.}},
	booktitle = {Submarine Mass Movement and Their Consequences, Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {747{\textendash}756},
	publisher = {Springer Netherlands},
	organization = {Springer Netherlands},
	address = {Dordrecht},
	abstract = {Relatively recent, shallow landslides are imaged both on swath bathymetry, sub-bottom and multichannel seismic reflection (MCS) data from the upper-middle continental slope on the Storfjorden and Kveithola Trough Mouth Fans, NW Barents Sea margin. Giant paleo-landslide deposits, detected only by MCS profiles, are characterized by chaotic acoustic units up to about 250 m thick on the lower continental slope. The thickest, oldest landslide, dated between 1 and 0.8 Ma, took place just after the large-scale intensification of glaciation in the Barents Sea. The apparent spatial coincidence of landslides and channels with the boundary between the two fan systems, that are generated due to huge quantities of sediments transported to the continental slope by paleo-ice streams, suggests a common controlling climatic process for their development. Most probably the slides are related to the abundance of basal meltwater beneath the ice sheet, which in addition to determining ice stream motion and lubrication also influences the behavior of mass wasting processes. {\textcopyright} Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012.},
	keywords = {Continental slope, NW barents sea margin, Sealloor morphology, Seismic reflection, Submarine landslide},
	isbn = {978-94-007-2161-6},
	doi = {10.1007/978-94-007-2162-3},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84904105361\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Rebesco, Michele and Pedrosa, Maria T. and Camerlenghi, Angelo and Lucchi, Renata G. and Sauli, Chiara and De Mol, Ben and Madrussani, Gianni and Urgeles, Roger and Rossi, Giuliana and B{\"o}hm, Gualtiero},
	editor = {Yamada, Yasuhiro and Kawamura, Kiichiro and Ikehara, Ken and Ogawa, Yujiro and Urgeles, Roger and Mosher, David and Chaytor, Jason and Strasser, Michael}
}
@inbook {Harders2012,
	title = {{An overview of the role of long-term tectonics and incoming plate structure on segmentation of submarine mass wasting phenomena along the Middle America Trench.}},
	booktitle = {Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences - 5th International Symposium},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {391{\textendash}402},
	publisher = {Springer Netherlands},
	organization = {Springer Netherlands},
	address = {Dordrecht},
	abstract = {We study mass wasting along the Middle America Trench (MAT), a subduction zone dominated by tectonic erosion, using a comprehensive data set of seafloor relief. We integrate previous studies of long- Term tectonic processes to analyze how they influence the evolution of the slope structure and precondition the continental slope for mass wasting. We have used the distribution of an inventory of 147 slope failure structures along the MAT to discuss their relation to subduction erosion. We interpret that preconditioning of the slope by long- Term tectonics, interacts in a shorter- Term scale with features on the under- Thrusting oceanic plate to modulate the abundance and types of mass wasting phenomena. The complex origin of the incoming oceanic plate has produced abrupt lateral changes in plate age, crustal thickness, relief, and response to bending deformation at the trench, leading to its partitioning into six segments. We found that the continental-slope failure style and abundance are partitioned into six segments that spatially match the ocean plate segments. {\textcopyright} Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012.},
	keywords = {Convergent margin, Subduction erosion, Submarine landslide},
	isbn = {978-94-007-2161-6},
	doi = {10.1007/978-94-007-2162-3},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84904112373\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Harders, Rieka and Ranero, Cesar R. and Weinrebe, Wilhelm},
	editor = {Yamada, Yasuhiro and Kawamura, Kiichiro and Ikehara, Ken and Ogawa, Yujiro and Urgeles, Roger and Mosher, David and Chaytor, Jason and Strasser, Michael}
}
@article {Garcia-Mayordomo2012,
	title = {{The Quaternary Active Faults Database of Iberia (QAFI v.2.0)}},
	journal = {Journal of Iberian Geology},
	volume = {38},
	number = {1},
	year = {2012},
	month = {sep},
	pages = {301{\textendash}318},
	abstract = {The Quaternary Active Faults Database of Iberia (QAFI) is an initiative lead by the Institute of Geology and Mines of Spain (Instituto Geol{\'o}gico y Minero de Espa{\~n}a, IGME) for building a public repository of scientific data regarding faults having documented activity during the last 2.59 Ma (Quaternary). QAFI also addresses a need to transfer geologic knowledge to practitioners of seismic hazard and risk in Iberia by identifying and characterizing seismogenic fault-sources. QAFI is populated by the information freely provided by more than 40 Earth science researchers, storing to date a total of 262 records. In this article we describe the development and evolution of the database, as well as its internal architecture. Additionally, a first global analysis of the data is provided with a special focus on length and slip-rate fault parameters. Finally, the database completeness and the internal consistency of the data are discussed. Even though QAFI v.2.0 is the most current resource for calculating fault-related seismic hazard in Iberia, the database is still incomplete and requires further review.},
	keywords = {Active fault, Iberia, Portugal, Quaternary, Seismic hazard, Spain},
	issn = {1886-7995},
	doi = {10.5209/rev\_JIGE.2012.v38.n1.39219},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84861912592\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Garc{\'\i}a-Mayordomo, J. and Insua-Ar{\'e}valo, J.M. and Mart{\'\i}nez-D{\'\i}az, J.J. and Jim{\'e}nez-D{\'\i}az, A. and Mart{\'\i}n-Banda, R. and Mart{\'\i}n-Alfageme, S. and {\'A}lvarez-G{\'o}mez, J.A. and Rodr{\'\i}guez-Peces, M. and P{\'e}rez-L{\'o}pez, R. and Rodr{\'\i}guez-Pascua, M.A. and Masana, E. and Perea, H. and Mart{\'\i}n-Gonz{\'a}lez, F. and Giner-Robles, J. and Nemser, E.S. and Cabral, J.}
}
@inbook {Lucchi2012,
	title = {{Recent submarine landslides on the continental slope of Storfjorden and Kveithola Trough-Mouth Fans (north west Barents Sea)}},
	booktitle = {Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences, Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 34, Springer, Dordrecht (The Netherlands)},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {735{\textendash}745},
	publisher = {Springer Netherlands},
	organization = {Springer Netherlands},
	address = {Dordrecht},
	abstract = {Up to 12 submarine landslides retain a morphological evidence as concave amphitheater-like depressions of various sizes on the middle and upper slope of the Storfjorden and Kveithola Trough-Mouth Fans (TMFs), NW Barents Sea. The largest of them show lateral scarps 35-40 m high that reach the continental shelf edge and cover an area of at least 1,120 km2. Submarine landslides are translational, with headwall and laterals scarps clearly cut into Last Glacial Maximum debris flows deposits. The largest landslides seem to be rooted at the base of a terrigenous/hemipelagic sedimentary unit inferred to be of Middle Weichselian age (Marine Isotopic Stage 3). Stratigraphic, lithological and geotechnical observations suggest that the rapid deposition of a thick sequence of fine-grained, high water content interlaminate plumites is the most important controlling factors in the generation of submarine landslides on the southern Storfjorden and Kveithola TMFs. {\textcopyright} Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012.},
	keywords = {Barents Sea, Debris flow, Ice stream, Kveithola, Storfjorden, Submarine landslide, Trough-mouth fans},
	isbn = {978-94-007-2161-6},
	doi = {10.1007/978-94-007-2162-3},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84904104155\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Lucchi, Renata G. and Pedrosa, Maria T. and Camerlenghi, Angelo and Urgeles, Roger and De Mol, Ben and Rebesco, Michele},
	editor = {Yamada, Yasuhiro and Kawamura, Kiichiro and Ikehara, Ken and Ogawa, Yujiro and Urgeles, Roger and Mosher, David and Chaytor, Jason and Strasser, Michael}
}
@article {Lefeldt2012,
	title = {{Seismic evidence of tectonic control on the depth of water influx into incoming oceanic plates at subduction trenches}},
	journal = {Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems},
	volume = {13},
	number = {5},
	year = {2012},
	month = {may},
	pages = {Q05013},
	abstract = {Water transported by slabs into the mantle at subduction zones plays key roles in tectonics, magmatism, fluid and volatiles fluxes, and most likely in the chemical evolution of the Earth{\textquoteright}s oceans and mantle. Yet, incorporation of water into oceanic plates before subduction is a poorly understood process. Several studies suggest that plates may acquire most water at subduction trenches because the ocean crust and uppermost mantle there are intensely faulted caused by bending and/or slab pull, and display anomalously low seismic velocities. The low velocities are interpreted to arise from a combination of fluid-filled fractures associated to normal faulting and mineral transformation by hydration. Mantle hydration by transformation of nominally dry peridotite to water-rich serpentinite could potentially create the largest fluid reservoir in slabs and is therefore the most relevant for the transport of water in the deep mantle. The depth of fracturing by normal-fault earthquakes is usually not well constrained, but could potentially create deep percolation paths for water that might hydrate up to tens of kilometers into the mantle, restrained only by serpentine stability. Yet, interpretation of deep intraplate mineral alteration remains speculative because active-source seismic experiments have sampled only the uppermost few kilometers of mantle, leaving the depth-extent of anomalous velocities and their relation to faulting unconstrained. Here we use a joint inversion of active-source seismic data, and both local and regional earthquakes to map the three dimensional distribution of anomalous velocities under a seismic network deployed at the trench seafloor. We found that anomalous velocities are restrained to the depth of normal-fault micro-earthquake activity recorded in the network, and are considerably shallower than either the rupture depth of teleseismic, normal-fault earthquakes, or the limit of serpentine stability. Extensional micro-earthquakes indicate that each fault in the region slips every 2-3months which may facilitate regular water percolation. Deeper, teleseismic earthquakes are comparatively infrequent, and possibly do not cause significant fracturing that remains open long enough to promote alteration detectable with our seismic study. Our results show that the stability field of serpentine does not constrain the depth of potential mantle hydration. Copyright 2012 by the American Geophysical Union.},
	keywords = {Bending, Microseismicity, Oceanic plates, serpentinization, Subduction zone, Water influx},
	issn = {1525-2027},
	doi = {10.1029/2012GC004043},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84861357079\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Lefeldt, M. and Ranero, C. R. and Grevemeyer, I.}
}
@article {Sallares2012,
	title = {{The structure of the Tyrrhenian from integration of multichannel seismic images, wide-angle seismic data, and gravity modeling}},
	journal = {Rendiconti Online Societa Geologica Italiana},
	volume = {21},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {253{\textendash}254},
	keywords = {Crustal structure, Tectonic structure, Tyrrhenian rifting},
	author = {SALLARES, V and Ranero, C{\'e}sar R and Zitellini, N and Grevemeyer, I and Guzman, M and Prada, M and Moeller, S and R., De Franco and MEDOC Cruise Party}
}
@article {Amblas2012,
	title = {{Survival of a submarine canyon during long-term outbuilding of a continental margin}},
	journal = {Geology},
	volume = {40},
	number = {6},
	year = {2012},
	month = {apr},
	pages = {543{\textendash}546},
	abstract = {Net-depositional submarine canyons are common in continental slope strata, but how they survive and prograde on constructional margins is poorly understood. In this study we present field evidence for the coevolution of a submarine canyon and the adjacent continental slope. Using a three-dimensional seismic data cube that images the Ebro margin (northwest Mediterranean), we identify a preserved canyon on a middle Pleistocene paleosurface and relate it directly to its expression on the present-day seafloor. A subparallel stacking pattern of seismic reflectors, similar to that seen between prograding clinoforms in intercanyon areas, is observed between the modern and paleocanyon thalwegs. The concavity of the modern long profile differs from the convex-concave long profile on the middle Pleistocene surface, suggesting a long-term change in canyon sedimentation. We interpret this change as a shift to a canyon dominated by turbidity currents from one strongly influenced by the pattern of sedimentation that built the open-slope canyon interfluves. We find support for our interpretation in previous studies of the Ebro margin. {\textcopyright} 2012 Geological Society of America.},
	issn = {0091-7613},
	doi = {10.1130/G33178.1},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84864298406\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Amblas, D. and Gerber, T. P. and De Mol, B. and Urgeles, R. and Garcia-Castellanos, D. and Canals, M. and Pratson, L. F. and Robb, N. and Canning, J.}
}
@conference {Ranero2012,
	title = {{The tectonic structure of the Tyrrhenian Basin, a complex interaction among faulting and magmatism}},
	booktitle = {Rendiconti Online Societa Geologica Italiana},
	volume = {21},
	number = {PART 1},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {251{\textendash}252},
	keywords = {Crustal structure, Tectonic structure, Tyrrhenian rifting},
	issn = {20358008},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84872362909\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Ranero, C. R. and Sallar{\`e}s, V. and Zitellini, N. and Grevemeyer, I. and Guzman, M. and Prada, M. and Moeller, S. and de Franco, R.}
}
@article {Rosas2012,
	title = {{Thrust{\textendash}wrench interference between major active faults in the Gulf of Cadiz (Africa{\textendash}Eurasia plate boundary, offshore SW Iberia): Tectonic implications from coupled analog and numerical modeling}},
	journal = {Tectonophysics},
	volume = {548-549},
	year = {2012},
	month = {jun},
	pages = {1{\textendash}21},
	abstract = {Analog and numerical modeling experiments were carried out to investigate the tectonic interference between intersecting major active strike-slip and thrust faults in the Gulf of Cadiz (Africa-Eurasia plate boundary, offshore SW Iberia). The obtained results show that newly mapped tectonic features located in the fault intersection area (corner zone) consist mostly in oblique (dextral-reverse) faults that accommodate significant strain partitioning. Modeling of this corner-zone faults show that they have endured some degree of rotation, displaying successive evolving geometries and kinematics. Numerical modeling results further show that an interbedded shallow soft layer, accounting for a regional (Late Miocene) gravitational "Chaotic" unit, could explain the mild bathymetric expression of the fault pattern in the corner-zone. Moreover, a recognized depth discrepancy, between the (upper crust) interference fault-pattern and the (lithospheric mantle) seismicity, is interpreted as a manifestation of similar thrust-wrench tectonic interference at different lithospheric depths. Accordingly, an intermediate lower crust-upper mantle aseismic (i.e. softened) depth-domain could be explained by pervasive alteration/serpentinization, prompted by fluid percolation through fault-related fractures associated with the newly revealed corner zone fault-network. Overall obtained results reinforce the relevance of a thrust-wrench multi-rupture seismic scenario as the main cause for the moderate seismicity (Mw < 6.0) in the study area. {\textcopyright} 2012 Elsevier B.V.},
	keywords = {Analog and numerical modeling, Fault interference, Gulf of Cadiz, Lithospheric mantle seismicity, Multi-rupture seismic hazards, Thrust-wrench tectonics},
	issn = {00401951},
	doi = {10.1016/j.tecto.2012.04.013},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84862115104\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Rosas, F.M. and Duarte, J.C. and Neves, M.C. and Terrinha, P. and Silva, S. and Matias, L. and Gr{\`a}cia, E. and Bartolome, R.}
}
@article {Reston2011,
	title = {{The 3-D geometry of detachment faulting at mid-ocean ridges}},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {12},
	number = {7},
	year = {2011},
	month = {jul},
	pages = {n/a{\textendash}n/a},
	abstract = {Seismic images of Cretaceous slow spreading crust from the eastern Central Atlantic provide new constraints on the process of seafloor spreading and the importance of detachment faulting. The seismic depth sections image detachment faults that appear to have exhumed footwall massifs of similar geometry to massifs of plutonic and mantle rocks mapped at the present Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The detachments are consistent with the structure and microearthquakes of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 26{\textdegree}N, with the footwall rotation inferred from paleomagnetic data and with numerical modeling of oceanic detachments. Other seismically imaged detachments have similar dimensions and geometry, but are covered by a layer of small fault blocks. The detachment types differ in whether or not the fault locks up in the subsurface, probably controlled by the fault strength, the elastic thickness, and whether the exhumed footwall is partly covered by basalts. Toward the segment middle, decreasing mantle serpentinization, decreasing elastic thickness, and thicker median valley basalts all increase the likelihood that the fault locks up, and a new fault propagates upwards from the still active root zone, transferring a slice of the hanging wall to the footwall, to be rafted with the footwall out of the median valley. As a result an oceanic detachment fault, exhuming the footwall at a segment end to form an oceanic core complex, may disappear laterally beneath rafted blocks; detachment faulting may be more widespread at slow spreading ridges than interpreted from seafloor mapping. Copyright 2011 by the American Geophysical Union.},
	keywords = {detachment fault},
	issn = {15252027},
	doi = {10.1029/2011GC003666},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79961244612\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Reston, T. J. and Ranero, C. R.}
}
@article {Geersen2011,
	title = {{Active tectonics of the South Chilean marine fore arc (35{\textdegree}S-40{\textdegree}S)}},
	journal = {Tectonics},
	volume = {30},
	number = {3},
	year = {2011},
	month = {jun},
	pages = {n/a{\textendash}n/a},
	abstract = {The South Chilean marine fore arc (35{\textdegree}S-40{\textdegree}S) is separated into four tectonic segments, Concepci{\'o}n North, Concepci{\'o}n South, Nahuelbuta, and Tolten (from north to south). These are each characterized by their individual tectonic geomorphology and reflect different ways of mechanical and kinematic interaction of the convergent Nazca and South American plates. Splay faults that cut through continental framework rock are seismically imaged in both Concepci{\'o}n segments and the Tolten Segment. Additionally, the Concepci{\'o}n South Segment exhibits prominent upper plate normal faults. Normal faults apparently relate to uplift caused by sediment underthrusting at depth. This has led to oversteepening and gravitational collapse of the marine fore arc. There is also evidence for sediment underthrusting and basal accretion to the overriding plate in the Tolten Segment. There, uplift of the continental slope has created a landward inclined seafloor over a latitudinal distance of 50 km. In the Nahuelbuta Segment transpressive upper plate faults, aligned oblique to the direction of plate motion, control the seafloor morphology. Based on a unique acoustic data set including >90\% of bathymetric coverage of the continental slope we are able to reveal an along-strike heterogeneity of a complexly deformed marine fore arc which had escaped attention in previous studies that only considered the structure along transects normal to the plate margin. Copyright 2011 by the American Geophysical Union.},
	issn = {02787407},
	doi = {10.1029/2010TC002777},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79958808106\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Geersen, Jacob and Behrmann, Jan H. and V{\"o}lker, David and Krastel, Sebastian and Ranero, Cesar R. and Diaz-Naveas, Juan and Weinrebe, Wilhelm}
}
@article {Dannowski2011,
	title = {{Crustal structure of the propagating TAMMAR ridge segment on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 21.5{\textdegree}N}},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {12},
	number = {7},
	year = {2011},
	month = {jul},
	pages = {n/a{\textendash}n/a},
	abstract = {Active ridge propagation frequently occurs along spreading ridges and profoundly affects ridge crest segmentation over time. The mechanisms controlling ridge propagation, however, are poorly understood. At the slow spreading Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 21.5{\textdegree}N a seismic refraction and wide-angle reflection profile surveyed the crustal structure along a segment controlled by rapid ridge propagation. Tomographic traveltime inversion of seismic data suggests that the crustal structure along the ridge axis is controlled by melt supply; thus, crust is thickest, 8 km, at the domed segment center and decreases in thickness toward both segment ends. However, thicker crust is formed in the direction of ridge propagation, suggesting that melt is preferentially transferred toward the propagating ridge tip. Further, while seismic layer 2 remains constant along axis, seismic layer 3 shows profound changes in thickness, governing variations in total crustal thickness. This feature supports mantle upwelling at the segment center. Thus, fluid basaltic melt is redistributed easily laterally, while more viscose gabbroic melt tends to crystallize and accrete nearer to the locus of melt supply. The onset of propagation seems to have coincided with the formation of thicker crust, suggesting that propagation initiation might be due to changes in the melt supply. After a rapid initiation a continuous process of propagation was established. The propagation rate seems to be controlled by the amount of magma that reaches the segment ends. The strength of upwelling may govern the evolution of ridge segments and hence ultimately controls the propagation length. Copyright 2011 by the American Geophysical Union.},
	keywords = {Crustal structure, mid-ocean ridges, ridge propagation, seismic traveltime tomography},
	issn = {15252027},
	doi = {10.1029/2011GC003534},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79960696393\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Dannowski, A. and Grevemeyer, I. and Phipps Morgan, J. and Ranero, C. R. and Maia, M. and Klein, G.}
}
@article {Ribo2011,
	title = {{Dense shelf water cascades in the Cap de Creus and Palam{\'o}s submarine canyons during winters 2007 and 2008}},
	journal = {Marine Geology},
	volume = {284},
	number = {1-4},
	year = {2011},
	month = {jun},
	pages = {175{\textendash}188},
	abstract = {The Cap de Creus and the Palam{\'o}s submarine canyon heads were instrumented during two consecutive winters to study their respective role in the dynamics of the sediment transport on the north-western Mediterranean Sea. Several events of dense shelf-water cascading (DSWC) were identified simultaneously at both canyons and compared between them. DSWC events were characterized by abrupt drops of temperature, increases of current speeds, and peaks of high suspended-sediment concentrations (SSC). Concentrations up to 170mg l -1 were recorded in both studied winters at the Cap de Creus Canyon coinciding with the first DSWC event of the winter concurrent with an eastern storm. Overall, the amount of sediment transported during the DSWC events was one order of magnitude greater at the Cap de Creus Canyon than at the Palam{\'o}s Canyon. Results from this study have identified for the first time the presence of DSWC events also in the Palam{\'o}s Canyon head, south of the Gulf of Lions (GoL), and corroborated previous findings that the Cap de Creus Canyon is the main pathway for DSWC and the associated sediment transport from the GoL down to the deeper regions of the north-western Mediterranean. {\textcopyright} 2011 Elsevier B.V.},
	keywords = {Continental margin, Sediment transport, Submarine canyons, Western Mediterranean},
	issn = {00253227},
	doi = {10.1016/j.margeo.2011.04.001},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79957644806\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Rib{\'o}, M. and Puig, P. and Palanques, A. and Lo Iacono, C.}
}
@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 {Pedrosa2011,
	title = {{Seabed morphology and shallow sedimentary structure of the Storfjorden and Kveithola trough-mouth fans (North West Barents Sea)}},
	journal = {Marine Geology},
	volume = {286},
	number = {1-4},
	year = {2011},
	month = {aug},
	pages = {65{\textendash}81},
	abstract = {This study aims to present an overview of the seafloor morphology and shallow sedimentary structure of the Storfjorden and Kveithola Trough Mouth Fans (TMFs) on the northwestern Barents Sea continental margin. Data have been compiled from two International Polar Year (IPY) cruises (SVAIS, of the BIO Hesp{\'e}rides and EGLACOM of the R/V OGS-Explora) that yielded 15,340km2 of multi-beam bathymetry and 9500km of sub-bottom seismic profiles. In this area, the continental shelf edge defines three wide and subdued sedimentary lobes forming Storfjorden TMF, one single lobe on Kveithola TMF, and three inter-TMF areas on the continental slope. The two northernmost lobes of Storfjorden TMF (Lobes I and II) are composed by thick (up to 50m) sequences of glacially derived debris flow deposits interbedded with thin a few metres de-glacial and interglacial deposits. A network of upper slope gullies incises these debris flow deposits as a consequence of subglacial meltwater release at or near the shelf break. Gullies evolve into channels whose morphologic evidence disappears midslope, leaving place to a subdued chevron-like morphological pattern inherited by the preceeding glacial maximum debris flow deposits. A drastic change occurs on the continental slope of Storfjorden TMF Lobe III and Kveithola TMF, where are several translational submarine landslides mostly originated in the upper slope, the majority of which detach at the contact between Middle Weishelian glacigenic debris flows and the overlying acoustically laminated plumites. Dendritic canyon systems only develop in inter-TMF areas. The data suggest that TMF continental slope progradation depends on short-lived episodes of extreme sedimentation during glacial maxima and during the early deglaciation phase, and that an important controlling factor is the mechanism of ice stream retreat from the continental shelf edge. We suggest that the two northern Storfjorden sub-ice streams were composed of thicker and perhaps faster ice progressively draining a distal and larger ice source mainly located on Svalbard. Conversely, the southernmost Storfjorden sub-ice stream and the Kveithola ice stream were fed by a local, smaller marine-based ice dome grounded on Spitsbergenbanken. The ice dome persisted after the LGM, maintaining a local ice drainage system close to the shelf edge whose sedimentary evidence can be found on the continental slope of the southern lobe of Storfjorden TMF and Kveithola TMF. The high degree of lateral variability in the style of sedimentation on TMF slopes suggests that ice stream dynamics may vary considerably within the same glacial trough, and that such variability affects the long-term development of the architecture of TMFs. {\textcopyright} 2011 Elsevier B.V.},
	keywords = {Barents Sea, Deglaciation, Glacial maximum, Paleo-ice streams, Storfjorden, Svalbard},
	issn = {00253227},
	doi = {10.1016/j.margeo.2011.05.009},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80051568915\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Pedrosa, M.T. and Camerlenghi, A. and De Mol, B. and Urgeles, R. and Rebesco, M. and Lucchi, R.G.}
}
@article {Harders2011,
	title = {{Submarine slope failures along the convergent continental margin of the Middle America Trench}},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {12},
	number = {6},
	year = {2011},
	month = {jun},
	pages = {n/a{\textendash}n/a},
	abstract = {We present the first comprehensive study of mass wasting processes in the continental slope of a convergent margin of a subduction zone where tectonic processes are dominated by subduction erosion. We have used multibeam bathymetry along \~{}1300 km of the Middle America Trench of the Central America Subduction Zone and deep-towed side-scan sonar data. We found abundant evidence of large-scale slope failures that were mostly previously unmapped. The features are classified into a variety of slope failure types, creating an inventory of 147 slope failure structures. Their type distribution and abundance define a segmentation of the continental slope in six sectors. The segmentation in slope stability processes does not appear to be related to slope preconditioning due to changes in physical properties of sediment, presence/absence of gas hydrates, or apparent changes in the hydrogeological system. The segmentation appears to be better explained by changes in slope preconditioning due to variations in tectonic processes. The region is an optimal setting to study how tectonic processes related to variations in intensity of subduction erosion and changes in relief of the underthrusting plate affect mass wasting processes of the continental slope. The largest slope failures occur offshore Costa Rica. There, subducting ridges and seamounts produce failures with up to hundreds of meters high headwalls, with detachment planes that penetrate deep into the continental margin, in some cases reaching the plate boundary. Offshore northern Costa Rica a smooth oceanic seafloor underthrusts the least disturbed continental slope. Offshore Nicaragua, the ocean plate is ornamented with smaller seamounts and horst and graben topography of variable intensity. Here mass wasting structures are numerous and comparatively smaller, but when combined, they affect a large part of the margin segment. Farther north, offshore El Salvador and Guatemala the downgoing plate has no large seamounts but well-defined horst and graben topography. Off El Salvador slope failure is least developed and mainly occurs in the uppermost continental slope at canyon walls. Off Guatemala mass wasting is abundant and possibly related to normal faulting across the slope. Collapse in the wake of subducting ocean plate topography is a likely failure trigger of slumps. Rapid oversteepening above subducting relief may trigger translational slides in the middle Nicaraguan upper Costa Rican slope. Earthquake shaking may be a trigger, but we interpret that slope failure rate is lower than recurrence time of large earthquakes in the region. Generally, our analysis indicates that the importance of mass wasting processes in the evolution of margins dominated by subduction erosion and its role in sediment dynamics may have been previously underestimated. Copyright 2011 by the American Geophysical Union.},
	keywords = {Convergent margin, landslides, slope failure, Subduction erosion, submarine mass wasting, tectonics},
	issn = {15252027},
	doi = {10.1029/2010GC003401},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79959701829\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Harders, Rieka and Ranero, Cesar R. and Weinrebe, Wilhelm and Behrmann, Jan H.}
}
@conference {Melendez2010,
	title = {{Appraisal of joint refraction and reflection travel-time tomography in the context of weathering correction}},
	booktitle = {72nd European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers Conference and Exhibition 2010: A New Spring for Geoscience. Incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2010},
	volume = {6},
	year = {2010},
	pages = {4692{\textendash}4696},
	abstract = {We propose an application of joint refraction and reflection travel-time tomography to determine both velocity and thickness of the weathering layer to be used in statics correction. This low velocity layer affects the quality of seismic images. The innovative aspect of our approach is the use of refracted and reflected phases. This remarkably reduces the trade-off between depth and velocity. First arrivals can be automatically picked and the reflection at the layer bottom can be easily identified because of the high impedance contrast with the basement. Synthetic data are generated for a reference model with an acquisition geometry simulating production experiments. The reference model is modified by adding a velocity perturbation and displacing the reflector to create the initial model for the inversion. Travel-time residuals decrease from \~{}1 s to \~{}0.1 s and the reflector is recovered to within {\textpm}2 m. A Monte Carlo analysis is performed to calculate the mean deviation and its reduction as a measure of the model parameters uncertainty. The improvement (10-50\%) is more significant in areas covered by reflections and refractions, while the reflector is again limited to a \~{}2 m range. We are testing this application with real data. {\textcopyright} 2010, European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers.},
	isbn = {9781617386671},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-78249271372\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Mel{\'e}ndez, A. and De La Puente, J. and Sallar{\`e}s, V. and Ranero, C. R.}
}
@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.}
}
@article {Gracia2010,
	title = {{Holocene earthquake record offshore Portugal (SW Iberia): testing turbidite paleoseismology in a slow-convergence margin}},
	journal = {Quaternary Science Reviews},
	volume = {29},
	number = {9-10},
	year = {2010},
	month = {may},
	pages = {1156{\textendash}1172},
	abstract = {The SW margin of the Iberian Peninsula hosts the present-day boundary between the Eurasian and African Plates. Convergence (4-5 mm/yr) is accommodated through a wide deformation zone characterized by moderate magnitude seismic activity. This zone has also been the source of the most important seismic events in Western Europe, such as the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake and Tsunami and 1969 Horseshoe Earthquake. Despite efforts to identify active seismogenic structures in the Gulf of Cadiz in the last ten years, little is known about its paleoseismic history. The turbidite paleoseismology approach was applied for the first time in a low-rate convergent margin to determine the recurrence interval of large earthquake events that occurred in SW Iberia during the Holocene. Four sediment cores collected at strategically located sites offshore Portugal (i.e. Tagus Abyssal Plain, Infante Don Henrique Basin and Horseshoe Abyssal Plain) reveal that these deep-sea basins preserve a record of episodic deposition of turbidites. In the SW Iberian Margin excluding special climatic events, earthquakes are the most likely triggering mechanism for synchronous, widely-spaced distributed turbidites during the Holocene, when the sea level was relatively stable. Age correlation together with textural, mineralogical, physical properties and geochemical signatures of the new cores complemented by pre-existing multicores and gravity cores reveals a total of 7 widespread turbidite events for the Holocene. Precise dating of the most recent turbidite event (E1) based on 210Pb and 137Cs geochronology provides an age of AD 1971 {\textpm} 3. This age corresponds to a high-magnitude instrumental earthquake in the region: the 1969 Horseshoe Earthquake (Mw 8.0). Calibrated 14C ages of subsequent widespread turbidite events (E3 and E5) correlate with the dates of important historical earthquakes and paleotsunami deposits in the Gulf of Cadiz area, such as AD 1755 and 218 BC, respectively. If older synchronous events (E6, E8, and E10) with ages ranging from 4960-5510 yr BP to 8715-9015 yr BP are also taken into account, a great earthquake recurrence interval of about 1800 years is obtained for the Holocene. Our correlations suggest that the turbidite record may be considered as a proxy for paleoseismic activity in low-convergence rate margins, and a valuable complementary tool in earthquake and tsunami hazard assessment along the coasts of the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa. {\textcopyright} 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.},
	issn = {02773791},
	doi = {10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.01.010},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77950629573\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Gr{\'a}cia, Eul{\`a}lia and Vizcaino, Alexis and Escutia, Carlota and Asioli, Alessandra and Rod{\'e}s, {\'A}ngel and Pall{\`a}s, Raimon and Garcia-Orellana, Jordi and Lebreiro, Susana and Goldfinger, Chris}
}
@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}
}
@booklet {Moreno2013,
	title = {{Onshore-Offshore active tectonics along the Carboneras Fault Zone (Eastern Betic Cordilleras)}},
	journal = {Contribuci{\'o}n de la Geolog{\'\i}a al An{\'a}lisis de la Peligrosidad S{\'\i}smica},
	year = {2010},
	month = {sep},
	pages = {105{\textendash}107},
	abstract = {Primera Reuni{\'o}n Ib{\'e}rica sobre Fallas Activas y Paleosismolog{\'\i}a. Sig{\"u}enza (Guadalajara, Espa{\~n}a) 27, 28 y 29 de Octubre de 2010.{\textendash} 3 pages, 1 figure},
	isbn = {isbn: 978-84-693-6088-0},
	url = {http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/82454},
	author = {Moreno, Ximena and Masana, Eul{\`a}lia and Gr{\'a}cia, Eul{\`a}lia and Bartolom{\'e}, R and Rod{\'e}s, {\'A}ngel and Pall{\`a}s, Raimon}
}
@conference {DeLaPuente2010,
	title = {{The potential of discontinuous Galerkin methods for full waveform tomography}},
	booktitle = {72nd European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers Conference and Exhibition 2010: A New Spring for Geoscience. Incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2010},
	volume = {6},
	year = {2010},
	pages = {4144{\textendash}4148},
	abstract = {We present a discontinuous Galerkin solver for Full Waveform Tomography applications in seismic exploration. We discuss the advantages and drawbacks of using unstructured meshes in the model discretization and present a numerical example. {\textcopyright} 2010, European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers.},
	isbn = {9781617386671},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-78249285605\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {De La Puente, J. and Sallar{\`e}s, V. and Ranero, C. R.}
}
@article {Dannowski2010,
	title = {{Seismic structure of an oceanic core complex at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 22{\textdegree}19'N}},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research},
	volume = {115},
	number = {B7},
	year = {2010},
	month = {jul},
	pages = {B07106},
	abstract = {We present results from a seismic refraction and wide-angle experiment surveying an oceanic core complex on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 2219N. Oceanic core complexes are settings where petrological sampling found exposed lower crustal and upper mantle rocks, exhumed by asymmetric crustal accretion involving detachment faulting at magmatically starved ridge sections. Tomographic inversion of our seismic data yielded lateral variations of P wave velocity within the upper 3 to 4 km of the lithosphere across the median valley. A joint modeling procedure of seismic P wave travel times and marine gravity field data was used to constrain crustal thickness variations and the structure of the uppermost mantle. A gradual increase of seismic velocities from the median valley to the east is connected to aging of the oceanic crust, while a rapid change of seismic velocities at the western ridge flank indicates profound differences in lithology between conjugated ridge flanks, caused by un-roofing lower crust rocks. Under the core complex crust is approximately 40\% thinner than in the median valley and under the conjugated eastern flank. Clear PmP reflections turning under the western ridge flank suggest the creation of a Moho boundary and hence continuous magmatic accretion during core complex formation.Copyright 2010 by the American Geophysical Union.},
	issn = {0148-0227},
	doi = {10.1029/2009JB006943},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77955209693\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Dannowski, Anke and Grevemeyer, Ingo and Ranero, Cesar R. and Ceuleneer, Georges and Maia, Marcia and Morgan, Jason Phipps and Gente, Pascal}
}
@article {Ranero2010,
	title = {{Sequential faulting explains the asymmetry and extension discrepancy of conjugate margins.}},
	journal = {Nature},
	volume = {468},
	number = {7321},
	year = {2010},
	month = {nov},
	pages = {294{\textendash}9},
	abstract = {During early extension, cold continental lithosphere thins and subsides, creating rift basins. If extension continues to final break-up, the split and greatly thinned plates subside deep below sea level to form a conjugate pair of rifted margins. Although basins and margins are ubiquitous structures, the deformation processes leading from moderately extended basins to highly stretched margins are unclear, as studies consistently report that crustal thinning is greater than extension caused by brittle faulting. This extension discrepancy might arise from differential stretching of brittle and ductile crustal layers, but that does not readily explain the typical asymmetric structure of conjugate margins-in cross-section, one margin displays gradual thinning accompanied by large faults, and the conjugate margin displays abrupt thinning but smaller-scale faulting. Whole-crust detachments, active from early in the rifting, could in theory create both thinning and asymmetry, but are mechanically problematical. Furthermore, the extension discrepancy occurs at both conjugate margins, leading to the apparent contradiction that both seem to be upper plates to a detachment fault. Alternative models propose that much brittle extension is undetected because of seismic imaging limitations caused either by subseismic-resolution faulting, invisible deformation along top-basement 100-km-scale detachments or the structural complexity of cross-cutting arrays of faults. Here we use depth-migrated seismic images to accurately measure fault extension and compare it with crustal thinning. The observations are used to create a balanced kinematic model of rifting that resolves the extension discrepancy by producing both fault-controlled crustal thinning which progresses from a rift basin to the asymmetric structure, and extreme thinning of conjugate rifted margins. Contrary to current wisdom, the observations support the idea that thinning is to a first degree explained by simple Andersonian faulting that is unambiguously visible in seismic data.},
	issn = {1476-4687},
	doi = {10.1038/nature09520},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-78149470133\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Ranero, C{\'e}sar R and P{\'e}rez-Gussiny{\'e}, Marta}
}
@article {Bernabeu2010,
	title = {{Simulating the influence of physicochemical parameters on subsurface oil on beaches: preliminary results.}},
	journal = {Marine pollution bulletin},
	volume = {60},
	number = {8},
	year = {2010},
	month = {aug},
	pages = {1170{\textendash}1174},
	publisher = {Elsevier Ltd},
	abstract = {Monitoring of sandy beaches after the Prestige oil spill revealed thick subsurface layers (up to 1m thick) of grey-coloured sand. These horizons were sometimes found under more than 3m of clean sand. Examination of the sand by electron microscopy confirmed that the colouring was due to oil-coated sand grains, and revealed a sequence of degradation of buried oil. Further analysis of the sand revealed high concentrations of hydrocarbon in the oil-coated sand and that the main biomarkers were indicative of biodegradation, even though the oil was buried. A set of experiments was designed to analyze the evolution of oil from tar balls to coatings. The results revealed that biodegradation is a secondary process in the changes that take place in the buried oil, and that water flow slows down the appearance of grey sand and that low salinity may hinder the oil degradation process.},
	keywords = {Bathing Beaches, Biodegradation, Chemical, Chemical Hazard Release, Environmental, Environmental Monitoring, Kinetics, Models, Petroleum, Petroleum: analysis, Petroleum: metabolism, Silicon Dioxide, Silicon Dioxide: chemistry},
	issn = {1879-3363},
	doi = {10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.04.001},
	url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20451931},
	author = {Bernabeu, Ana M and Rey, D and Lago, A and Vilas, F}
}
@article {Kormann2010,
	title = {{Synthetic modelling of acoustical propagation applied to seismic oceanography experiments}},
	journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
	volume = {37},
	number = {6},
	year = {2010},
	month = {mar},
	pages = {n/a{\textendash}n/a},
	abstract = {Recent work shows that multichannel seismic (MCS) systems provide detailed information on the oceans{\textquoteright} finestructure. The aim of this paper is to analyze if high order numerical algorithms are suitable to accurately model the extremely weak wavefield scattered by the oceans{\textquoteright} finestructures. For this purpose, we generate synthetic shot records along a coincident seismic and oceanographic profile acquired across a Mediterranean salt lens in the Gulf of Cadiz. We apply a 2D finite-difference time-domain propagation model, together with second-order Complex Frequency Shifted Perfectly Matched Layers at the numerical boundaries, using as reference a realistic sound speed map with the lateral resolution of the seismic data. We show that our numerical propagator creates an acoustical image of the ocean finestructures including the salt lens that reproduces with outstanding detail the real acquired one. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2010 by the American Geophysical Union.},
	issn = {00948276},
	doi = {10.1029/2009GL041763},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77949835265\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Kormann, Jean and Cobo, Pedro and Biescas, Berta and Sallares, Valenti and Papenberg, Cord and Recuero, Manuel and Carbonell, Ram{\'o}n}
}
@article {Harris2010a,
	title = {{Thermal regime of the Costa Rican convergent margin: 1. Along-strike variations in heat flow from probe measurements and estimated from bottom-simulating reflectors}},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {11},
	number = {12},
	year = {2010},
	month = {dec},
	pages = {n/a{\textendash}n/a},
	abstract = {The thermal structure of convergent margins provides information related to the tectonics, geodynamics, metamorphism, and fluid flow of active plate boundaries. We report 176 heat flow measurements made with a violin bow style probe across the Costa Rican margin at the Middle America Trench. The probe measurements are collocated with seismic reflection lines. These seismic reflection lines show widespread distribution of bottom-simulating reflectors (BSRs). To extend the spatial coverage of heat flow measurements we estimate heat flow from the depth of BSRs. Comparisons between probe measurements and BSR-derived estimates of heat flow are generally within 10\% and improve with distance landward of the deformation front. Together, these determinations provide new information on the thermal regime of this margin. Consistent with previous studies, the margin associated with the northern Nicoya Peninsula is remarkably cool. We define better the southern boundary of the cool region. The northern extent of the cool region remains poorly determined. A regional trend of decreasing heat flow landward of the deformation front is apparent, consistent with the downward advection of heat by the subducting Cocos Plate. High wave number variability at a scale of 5-10 km is significantly greater than the measurement uncertainty and is greater south of the northern Nicoya Peninsula. These heat flow anomalies vary between approximately 20 and 60 mW m-2 and are most likely due to localized fluid flow through mounds and faults on the margin. Simple one-dimensional models show that these anomalies are consistent with flow rates of 7-15 mm yr-1. Across the margin toe variability is significant and likely due to fluid flow through deformation structures associated with the frontal sedimentary prism. Copyright 2010 by the American Geophysical Union.},
	keywords = {fluid flow, heat flow, Middle America Trench, subduction zones},
	issn = {15252027},
	doi = {10.1029/2010GC003272},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-78650544794\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Harris, Robert N. and Grevemeyer, Ingo and Ranero, Cesar R. and Villinger, Heinrich and Barckhausen, Udo and Henke, Thomas and Mueller, Christian and Neben, Soenke}
}
@article {Harris2010,
	title = {{Thermal regime of the Costa Rican convergent margin: 2. Thermal models of the shallow Middle America subduction zone offshore Costa Rica}},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {11},
	number = {12},
	year = {2010},
	month = {dec},
	pages = {n/a{\textendash}n/a},
	abstract = {At the Costa Rica margin along the Middle America Trench along-strike variations in heat flow are well mapped. These variations can be understood in terms of either ventilated fluid flow, where exposed basement allows fluids to freely advect heat between the crustal aquifer and ocean, or insulated fluid flow where continuous sediment cover restricts heat advection to within the crustal aquifer. We model fluid flow within the subducting aquifer using Nusselt number approximations coupled with finite element models of subduction and explore its effect on temperatures along the subduction thrust. The sensitivity of these models to the initial thermal state of the plate and styles of fluid flow, either ventilated or insulated, is explored. Heat flow measurements on cool crust accreted at the East Pacific Rise are consistent with ventilated hydrothermal cooling that continues with subduction. These models yield much cooler temperatures than predicted from simulations initialized with conductive predictions and without hydrothermal circulation. Heat flow transects on warm crust accreted at the Cocos-Nazca spreading center are consistent with models of insulated hydrothermal circulation that advects heat updip within the subducting crustal aquifer. Near the trench these models are warmer than conductive predictions and cooler than conductive predictions downdip of the trench. Comparisons between microseismicity and modeled isotherms suggest that the updip limit of microseismicity occurs at temperatures warmer than 100{\textdegree}C and that the downdip extent of microseismicity is bounded by the intersection of the subduction thrust with the base of the overriding crust. Copyright 2010 by the American Geophysical Union.},
	keywords = {fluid flow, subduction zones, thermal model},
	issn = {15252027},
	doi = {10.1029/2010GC003273},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-78650528793\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Harris, Robert N. and Spinelli, Glenn and Ranero, Cesar R. and Grevemeyer, Ingo and Villinger, Heinrich and Barckhausen, Udo}
}
@article {TRIGO-RODRIGUEZ2009,
	title = {{The Cali meteorite fall: A new H/L ordinary chondrite}},
	journal = {Meteoritics \& Planetary Science},
	volume = {44},
	number = {2},
	year = {2009},
	month = {feb},
	pages = {211{\textendash}220},
	abstract = {The fall of the Cali meteorite took place on 6 July 2007 at 16 h 32 {\textpm} 1 min local time (21 h 32 {\textpm} 1 min UTC). A daylight fireball was witnessed by hundreds of people in the Cauca Valley in Colombia from which 10 meteorite samples with a total mass of 478 g were recovered near 3{\textdegree}24.3{\textquoteright}N, 76{\textdegree}30.6{\textquoteright}W. The fireball trajectory and radiant have been reconstructed with moderate accuracy. From the computed radiant and from considering various plausible velocities, we obtained a range of orbital solutions that suggest that the Cali progenitor meteoroid probably originated in the main asteroid belt. Based on petrography, mineral chemistry, magnetic susceptibility, fhermoluminescence, and bulk chemistry, the Cali meteorite is classified as an H/L4 ordinary chondrite breccia.},
	issn = {10869379},
	doi = {10.1111/j.1945-5100.2009.tb00729.x},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-65949113395\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {TRIGO-RODR{\'I}GUEZ, Josep M. and LLORCA, Jordi and RUBIN, Alan E. and GROSSMAN, Jeffrey N. and SEARS, Derek W. G. and NARANJO, Mateo and BRETZIUS, Stacy and TAPIA, Mar and SEP{\'U}LVEDA, Marino H. GUAR{\'I}N}
}
@article {BrumdaSilveira2009,
	title = {{Evidence for coupled reverse and normal active faulting in W Iberia}},
	journal = {Tectonophysics},
	volume = {474},
	number = {1-2},
	year = {2009},
	month = {sep},
	pages = {184{\textendash}199},
	abstract = {The Vidigueira-Moura fault (VMF) is a 65~km long, E-W trending, N dipping reverse left-lateral late Variscan structure located in SE Portugal (W Iberia), which has been reactivated during the Cenozoic with reverse right-lateral slip. It is intersected by, and interferes with the NE-SW trending Alentejo-Plasencia fault. East of this intersection, for a length of 40~km the VMF borders an intracratonic tectonic basin on its northern side, thrusting Paleozoic schists, meta-volcanics and granites, on the north, over Cenozoic continental sediments preserved in the basin, on the south. West of the faults intersection, evidence of Cenozoic reactivation is scarce. In the eastern sector, Plio-Quaternary VMF reactivation is indicated by geomorphologic, stratigraphic, and structural data, showing reverse movement with a right-lateral strike-slip component, in response to a NW-SE trending compressive stress. An average vertical displacement rate of 0.06 to 0.08~mm/yr since late Pliocene (roughly the last 2.5~Ma) is estimated. The Alqueva fault (AF) is a subparallel, northward dipping, 7.5~km long anastomosing fault zone that affects Palaeozoic basement rocks, and is located 2.5~km north and on the hanging block of the VMF. The AF is also a reverse left-lateral late Variscan structure, which has been reactivated during the Tertiary with reverse right-lateral slip; however, Plio-Quaternary reactivation was normal left-lateral, as shown by abundant kinematical criteria (slickensides) and geomorphic evidence. It shows an average displacement rate of 0.02~mm/yr for the vertical component of movement in the approximately last 2.5~Ma. It is proposed that the normal displacements on the AF result from tangential longitudinal strain on the upthrown block of the VMF above a convex ramp of this main reverse structure. According to this model of faults interaction, the AF is interpreted to work as a bending-moment fault sited above the VMF thrust ramp. Consequently, it is expected that the displacements on the AF increase towards the topographic surface with the increase in the imposed extension, declining downwards until they vanish above or at the VMF ramp. In order to constrain the proposed scheme, numerical modeling was performed, aiming at the reproduction of the present topography across the faults using different geodynamic models and fault geometries and displacements. {\textcopyright} 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Active faulting, Fault interaction, Neotectonics, Numerical modeling, SW Iberia},
	issn = {00401951},
	doi = {10.1016/j.tecto.2009.04.013},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-68849083528\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Brum da Silveira, A. and Cabral, J. and Perea, H. and Ribeiro, A.}
}
@article {Petersen2009,
	title = {{Fluid seepage and mound formation offshore Costa Rica revealed by deep-towed sidescan sonar and sub-bottom profiler data}},
	journal = {Marine Geology},
	volume = {266},
	number = {1-4},
	year = {2009},
	month = {oct},
	pages = {172{\textendash}181},
	abstract = {Our analysis of geoacoustic data from the Middle American margin provides an insight into the formation and evolution mechanisms of mound structures observed on the continental slope offshore Costa Rica. Based on high-resolution deep-towed sidescan sonar and sub-bottom profiler (SBP) data six different mound and fluid seepage structures at the Hongo mound field are characterized in detail. The Hongo mound field is located on the lower continental slope offshore Nicoya peninsula in the prolongation of the subducting Nicoya fracture zone. The mounds have oval to circular shapes with diameters of 500-1600 m and relief heights of 60-100 m. High backscatter anomalies near the mound summits indicate carbonate precipitation and focused fluid seepage activity within the last 10 ka. The data do not show evidence for mud extrusions and the structures were probably formed by a combination of carbonate precipitation and mud diapirism. Based on seismic stratigraphy analysis, mud diapirism is at least active since 42.5-57 ka and average vertical growth rates vary between 6-24 cm/ka. However, if diapirism represents the dominant mound evolution mechanism, mound heights of 80 m point to much older mound ages of 330-1330 ka. {\textcopyright} 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {carbonate, deep-towed side-scan sonar, fluid seepage, mound, mud diapir, sub-bottom profiler},
	issn = {00253227},
	doi = {10.1016/j.margeo.2009.08.004},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-72049084256\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Petersen, Carl J{\"o}rg and Klaucke, Ingo and Weinrebe, Wilhelm and Ranero, Cesar R.}
}
@article {Kormann2009,
	title = {{Modelling Seismic Oceanography Experiments by Using First- and Second-Order Complex Frequency Shifted Perfectly Matched Layers}},
	journal = {Acta Acustica united with Acustica},
	volume = {95},
	number = {6},
	year = {2009},
	month = {nov},
	pages = {1104{\textendash}1111},
	abstract = {This work investigates the ability of modelling seismic oceanography experiments by using underwater acoustic propagation equations. Seismic oceanography tries to retrieve the fine structure of the ocean water masses by processing the acoustic waves reflected in the low-contrast interfaces of fronts, eddies, internal waves or thermohaline intrusions. Since the reflectivity of such interfaces is of order 10-3-10-4, the absorption capability of the numerical boundaries becomes crucial. Complex Frequency Shifted offers a better alternative to classical Perfectly Matched Layer formulation, but has not yet been extended to acoustic equations. Here, first- and second-order Complex Frequency Shifted Perfectly Matched Layers equations are proposed which can provide reflection coefficients of order 10-5. Therefore, a numerical Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) scheme combined with the proposed CFS-PML equations is able to model such experiments. {\textcopyright} S. Hirzel Verlag {\textperiodcentered} EAA.},
	issn = {16101928},
	doi = {10.3813/AAA.918242},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77149123321\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Kormann, Jean and Cobo, Pedro and Recuero, Manuel and Biescas, Berta and Sallares, Valenti}
}
@article {VonHuene2009,
	title = {{Neogene collision and deformation of convergent margins along the backbone of the Americas}},
	journal = {Geological Society of America Memoirs},
	volume = {204},
	year = {2009},
	month = {jun},
	pages = {67{\textendash}83},
	abstract = {Along Pacific convergent margins of the Americas, high-standing relief on the subducting oceanic plate "collides" with continental slopes and subducts. Features common to many collisions are uplift of the continental margin, accelerated seafloor erosion, accelerated basal subduction erosion, a flat slab, and a lack of active volcanism. Each collision along America{\textquoteright}s margins has exceptions to a single explanation. Subduction of an \~{}600 km segment of the Yakutat terrane is associated with >5000-m-high coastal mountains. The terrane may currently be adding its unsubducted mass to the continent by a seaward jump of the deformation front and could be a model for docking of terranes in the past. Cocos Ridge subduction is associated with >3000-m-high mountains, but its shallow subduction zone is not followed by a flat slab. The entry point of the Nazca and Juan Fernandez Ridges into the subduction zone has migrated southward along the South American margin and the adjacent coast without unusually high mountains. The Nazca Ridge and Juan Fernandez Ridges are not actively spreading but the Chile Rise collision is a triple junction. These collisions form barriers to trench sediment transport and separate accreting from eroding segments of the frontal prism. They also occur at the separation of a flat slab from a steeply dipping one. At a smaller scale, the subduction of seamounts and lesser ridges causes temporary surface uplift as long as they remain attached to the subducting plate. Off Costa Rica, these features remain attached beneath the continental shelf. They illustrate, at a small scale, the processes of collision. {\textcopyright} 2009 The Geological Society of America. All rights reserved.},
	issn = {0072-1069},
	doi = {10.1130/2009.1204(03)},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77949859751\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {von Huene, R and Ranero, C.R}
}
@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 {Gutscher2009,
	title = {{Tectonic shortening and gravitational spreading in the Gulf of Cadiz accretionary wedge: Observations from multi-beam bathymetry and seismic profiling}},
	journal = {Marine and Petroleum Geology},
	volume = {26},
	number = {5},
	year = {2009},
	month = {may},
	pages = {647{\textendash}659},
	abstract = {The Gulf of Cadiz lies astride the complex plate boundary between Africa and Eurasia west of the Betic-Rif mountain belt. We report on the results of recent bathymetric swathmapping and multi-channel seismic surveys carried out here. The seafloor is marked by contrasting morphological provinces, spanning the SW Iberian and NW Moroccan continental margins, abyssal plains and an elongate, arcuate, accretionary wedge. A wide variety of tectonic and gravitational processes appear to have shaped these structures. Active compressional deformation of the wedge is suggested by folding and thrusting of the frontal sedimentary layers as well as basal duplexing in deeper internal units. There is evidence for simultaneous gravitational spreading occurring upslope. The very shallow mean surface and basal slopes of the accretionary wedge (1{\textdegree} each) indicate a very weak decollement layer, geometrically similar to the Mediterranean Ridge accretionary complex. Locally steep slopes (up to 10{\textdegree}) indicate strongly focused, active deformation and potential gravitational instabilities. The unusual surface morphology of the upper accretionary wedge includes "raft-tectonics" type fissures and abundant sub-circular depressions. Dissolution and/or diapiric processes are proposed to be involved in the formation of these depressions. {\textcopyright} 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Accretionary wedge, Decollement, Gravitational spreading, Iberia, Morocco},
	issn = {02648172},
	doi = {10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2007.11.008},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-67349128699\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Gutscher, Marc-Andr{\'e} and Dominguez, Stephane and Westbrook, Graham K. and Gente, Pascal and Babonneau, Nathalie and Mulder, Thierry and Gonthier, Eliane and Bartolom{\'e}, Rafael and Luis, Joaquim and Rosas, Filipe and Terrinha, Pedro}
}
@article {Barckhausen2008,
	title = {{Birth of an intraoceanic spreading center}},
	journal = {Geology},
	volume = {36},
	number = {10},
	year = {2008},
	pages = {767},
	abstract = {The Cocos-Nazca spreading center is one of the few examples of the formation of a spreading center by splitting of oceanic lithosphere. It was created when the Farallon plate, broke up in the early Miocene following the collision of the Pacific-Farallon spreading center with the North American continent. Much of the ancient Farallon plate corresponding to the area of opening is lost to subduction beneath Central America and South America, but new data from the conjugate area on the Pacific plate allow the first detailed reconstruction of the break-up process. The opening began after chron 7 (25 Ma) at a location of focused crustal extension caused by overlapping spreading centers that had evolved in response to a slight reorientation of a Pacific-Farallon ridge segment. Beginning at chron 6B (22.7 Ma), eastward progressing seafloor spreading started along an axis that most likely migrated toward the region of weak lithosphere created by the Galapagos hotspot. By chron 6 (19.5 Ma), plate splitting from the spreading center to the trench was complete, allowing the fully detached Cocos and Nazca plates to move independently. This kinematic change resulted in a significant ridge jump of the newly established Pacific-Nazca spreading center, a change in plate motion direction of the Nazca plate by 20{\textdegree}clockwise, and a large increase in Pacific-Cocos plate velocity in the middle Miocene. {\textcopyright} 2008 The Geological Society of America.},
	keywords = {Central Pacific, Farallon breakup, Galapagos hotspot, Magnetic anomalies},
	issn = {0091-7613},
	doi = {10.1130/G25056A.1},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-54949104690\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Barckhausen, Udo and Ranero, Cesar R. and Cande, Steven C. and Engels, Martin and Weinrebe, Wilhelm}
}
@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.}
}
@conference {Shariat-Panahi2008,
	title = {{Design, Characterization and Calibration of a Short-Period Ocean Bottom Seismometer (OBS)}},
	booktitle = {2008 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference},
	year = {2008},
	month = {may},
	pages = {495{\textendash}500},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {First part of this paper presents an Ocean Bottom Seismometers (OBS) designed and constructed for mid-term deployments in order to study the earth dynamics and internal structure. Many marine research institutes have developed such equipment, however there is no standard method for their characterization and calibration. The second part discusses the characterization tests based on the international standards carried out to present the specifications of the equipment built. Calibration of the constructed OBS is carried out through an oceanographic cruise using a widely used reference OBS. Data quality of the instruments is evaluated by direct inspection of the corresponding seismic record sections. {\textcopyright}2008 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Analog-to-digital converter, Calibration, Datalogger, Dynamic range, Effective number of bits, Geophone, Jitter, Ocean bottom seismometer (OBS), Seismic record section, Time base},
	isbn = {978-1-4244-1540-3},
	issn = {10915281},
	doi = {10.1109/IMTC.2008.4547086},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-51349130474\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Shariat-Panahi, S. and M{\`a}nuel, A. and Alegria, F. and Roset, X. and Bermudez, A. and Sallar{\`e}s, V.}
}
@article {Sahling2008,
	title = {{Fluid seepage at the continental margin offshore Costa Rica and southern Nicaragua}},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {9},
	number = {5},
	year = {2008},
	month = {may},
	pages = {n/a{\textendash}n/a},
	abstract = {A systematic search for methane-rich fluid seeps at the seafloor was conducted at the Pacific continental margin offshore southern Nicaragua and northern central Costa Rica, a convergent margin characterized by subduction erosion. More than 100 fluid seeps were discovered using a combination of multibeam bathymetry, side-scan sonar imagery, TV-sled observations, and sampling. This corresponds, on average, to a seep site every 4 km along the continental slope. In the northwestern part of the study area, subduction of oceanic crust formed at the East Pacific Rise is characterized by pervasive bending-induced faulting of the oceanic plate and a relatively uniform morphology of the overriding continental margin. Seepage at this part of the margin typically occurs at approximately cone-shaped mounds 50 - 100 m high and up to 1 km wide at the base. Over 60 such mounds were identified on the 240 km long margin segment. Some normal faults also host localized seepage. In contrast, in the southeast, the 220 km long margin segment overriding the oceanic crust formed at the Cocos-Nazca Spreading Centre has a comparatively more irregular morphology caused mainly by the subduction of ridges and seamounts sitting on the oceanic plate. Over 40 seeps were located on this part of the margin. This margin segment with irregular morphology exhibits diverse seep structures. Seeps are related to landslide scars, seamountsubduction related fractures, mounds, and faults. Several backscatter anomalies in side-scan images are without apparent relief and are probably related to carbonate precipitation. Detected fluid seeps are not evenly distributed across the margin but occur in a roughly margin parallel band centered 28 {\textpm} 7 km landward of the trench. This distribution suggests that seeps are possibly fed to fluids rising from the plate boundary along deep-penetrating faults through the upper plate. Copyrignt 2008 by the American Geophysical Union.},
	keywords = {Authigenic carbonate, Chemosynthetic community, Subduction erosion},
	issn = {15252027},
	doi = {10.1029/2008GC001978},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70350099584\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Sahling, Heiko and Masson, Douglas G. and Ranero, Cesar R. and H{\"u}hnerbach, Veit and Weinrebe, Wilhelm and Klaucke, Ingo and B{\"u}rk, Dietmar and Br{\"u}ckmann, Warner and Suess, Erwin}
}
@article {Ranero2008,
	title = {{Hydrogeological system of erosional convergent margins and its influence on tectonics and interplate seismogenesis}},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {9},
	number = {3},
	year = {2008},
	month = {mar},
	pages = {n/a{\textendash}n/a},
	abstract = {Fluid distribution in convergent margins is by most accounts closely related to tectonics. This association has been widely studied at accretionary prisms, but at half of the Earth{\textquoteright}s convergent margins, tectonic erosion grinds down overriding plates, and here fluid distribution and its relation to tectonics remain speculative. Here we present a new conceptual model for the hydrological system of erosional convergent margins. The model is based largely on new data and recently published observations from along the Middle America Trench offshore Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and it is consistent with observations from other erosional margins. The observations indicate that erosional margins possess previously unrecognized distinct hydrogeological systems: Most fluid contained in the sediment pores and liberated by early dehydration reactions drains from the plate boundary through a fractured upper plate to seep at the seafloor across the slope, rather than migrating along the d{\'e}collement toward the deformation front as described for accretionary prisms. The observations indicate that the relative fluid abundance across the plate-boundary fault zone and fluid migration influence long-term tectonics and the transition from aseismic to seismogenic behavior. The segment of the plate boundary where fluid appears to be more abundant corresponds to the locus of long-term tectonic erosion, where tectonic thinning of the overriding plate causes subsidence and the formation of the continental slope. This correspondence between observations indicates that tectonic erosion is possibly linked to the migration of overpressured fluids into the overriding plate. The presence of overpressured fluids at the plate boundary is compatible with the highest flow rates estimated at slope seeps. The change from aseismic to seismogenic behavior along the plate boundary of the erosional margin begins where the amount of fluid at the fault declines with depth, indicating a control on interplate earthquakes. A previously described similar observation along accreting plate boundaries strongly indicates that fluid abundance exerts a first-order control on interplate seismogenesis at all types of subduction zones. We hypothesize that fluid depletion with depth increases grain-to-grain contact, increasing effective stress on the fault, and modifies fault zone architecture from a thick fault zone to a narrower zone of localized slip. Copyright 2008 by the American Geophysical Union.},
	keywords = {fluid flow, Seismogenesis, subduction zones, Tectonic erosion},
	issn = {15252027},
	doi = {10.1029/2007GC001679},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-67349265252\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Ranero, C. R. and Grevemeyer, I. and Sahling, H. and Barckhausen, U. and Hensen, C. and Wallmann, K. and Weinrebe, W. and Vannucchi, P. and von Huene, R. and McIntosh, K.}
}
@article {PhippsMorgan2008,
	title = {{Intra-arc extension in Central America: Links between plate motions, tectonics, volcanism, and geochemistry}},
	journal = {Earth and Planetary Science Letters},
	volume = {272},
	number = {1-2},
	year = {2008},
	pages = {365{\textendash}371},
	abstract = {This study revisits the kinematics and tectonics of Central America subduction, synthesizing observations of marine bathymetry, high-resolution land topography, current plate motions, and the recent seismotectonic and magmatic history in this region. The inferred tectonic history implies that the Guatemala-El Salvador and Nicaraguan segments of this volcanic arc have been a region of significant arc tectonic extension; extension arising from the interplay between subduction roll-back of the Cocos Plate and the \~{} 10-15mm/yr slower westward drift of the Caribbean plate relative to the North American Plate. The ages of belts of magmatic rocks paralleling both sides of the current Nicaraguan arc are consistent with long-term arc-normal extension in Nicaragua at the rate of \~{} 5-10mm/yr, in agreement with rates predicted by plate kinematics. Significant arc-normal extension can {\textquoteright}hide{\textquoteright} a very large intrusive arc-magma flux; we suggest that Nicaragua is, in fact, the most magmatically robust section of the Central American arc, and that the volume of intrusive volcanism here has been previously greatly underestimated. Yet, this flux is hidden by the persistent extension and sediment infill of the rifting basin in which the current arc sits. Observed geochemical differences between the Nicaraguan arc and its neighbors which suggest that Nicaragua has a higher rate of arc-magmatism are consistent with this interpretation. Smaller-amplitude, but similar systematic geochemical correlations between arc-chemistry and arc-extension in Guatemala show the same pattern as the even larger variations between the Nicaragua arc and its neighbors. {\textcopyright} 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {arc geochemistry, Central America, extension, magmatism, Plate Tectonics},
	issn = {0012821X},
	doi = {10.1016/j.epsl.2008.05.004},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-47749095517\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Phipps Morgan, J. and Ranero, C.R. and Vannucchi, P.}
}
@article {Klaucke2008,
	title = {{Multifrequency geoacoustic imaging of fluid escape structures offshore Costa Rica: Implications for the quantification of seep processes}},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {9},
	number = {4},
	year = {2008},
	month = {apr},
	pages = {n/a{\textendash}n/a},
	abstract = {Quantification of fluid fluxes from cold seeps depends on accurate estimates of the spatial validity of flux measurements. These estimates are strongly influenced by the choice of geoacoustic mapping tools. Multibeam bathymetry, side-scan sonar, and Chirp subbottom profiler data of several mound-shaped cold seeps offshore central Costa Rica show great variety in morphology and structure although the features are only a few kilometers apart. Mound 11 (a 35 m high and 1000 m in diameter structure), situated in the SE of the study area, has an irregular morphology but a smooth surface on side-scan sonar data, while mound 12 (30 m high, 600 m across) is a cone of more regular outline but with a rough surface, and mound Grillo (5 m high, 500 m across) shows the same rough surface as mound 12 but without relief. Video observations and sediment cores indicate that the structures are formed by the precipitation of authigenic carbonates and indications for extensive mud extrusion are absent, except for one possible mudflow at mound 11. Different sonar frequencies result in variable estimates of the extent of these mounds with low frequencies suggesting much wider cold seeps, consequently overestimating fluid fluxes. The absence of mud volcanism compared to accretionary prisms where mud volcanism occurs is related to different tectonic styles: strong sediment overpressure and thrust faulting in typical accretionary prisms can generate mud volcanism, while subduction erosion and normal faulting (extension) of the overriding plate at the Costa Rican margin result in fluid venting driven by only slight fluid overpressures. Copyright 2008 by the American Geophysical Union.},
	keywords = {Cold seeps, Costa Rica, Side-scan sonar},
	issn = {15252027},
	doi = {10.1029/2007GC001708},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-71749104881\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Klaucke, Ingo and Masson, Douglas G. and Petersen, C. J{\"o}rg and Weinrebe, Wilhelm and Ranero, Cesar R.}
}
@article {Rodriguez2008,
	title = {{A new multi-platform modular software tool for wide-angle reflection/refraction seismic data processing and representation (WASPAR)}},
	journal = {Computers \& Geosciences},
	volume = {34},
	number = {5},
	year = {2008},
	pages = {456{\textendash}463},
	abstract = {WASPAR (Wide-Angle reflection-refraction Seismic data Processing And Representation) is a new free multi-platform software tool to process and display wide-angle seismic data. It has been designed to read different raw data formats, construct record sections, process them using existing and newly developed algorithms, pick seismic phases and generate graphic files using a single, user-friendly interface. The main characteristics of WASPAR are its flexibility and expandability. It has been designed in a modular way using a plug-in architecture to manage raw data access and processing functionalities. We thus obtain a stable base easily maintainable and expandable. We have chosen the C ++ programming language in combination with an object oriented methodology to facilitate the development of a multi-platform software tool, which is already available on Linux and MS Windows. In order to allow its expansion and upgrade, the program will be freely distributed under the terms of GPL license. The philosophy of this software tool is to leave it open to external contributions. {\textcopyright} 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Object oriented programming, Plug-in, Signal processing, Software, wide-angle seismics},
	issn = {00983004},
	doi = {10.1016/j.cageo.2007.04.011},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-39149086998\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Rodr{\'\i}guez, I. and Simon, C. and Sallar{\`e}s, V. and Carlosena, A. and M{\`a}nuel, A. and Da{\~n}obeitia, J.J.}
}
@article {CALAHORRANOB2008,
	title = {{Nonlinear variations of the physical properties along the southern Ecuador subduction channel: Results from depth-migrated seismic data}},
	journal = {Earth and Planetary Science Letters},
	volume = {267},
	number = {3-4},
	year = {2008},
	pages = {453{\textendash}467},
	abstract = {We use two high-quality pre-stack depth-migrated multichannel seismic profiles acquired to quantify physical properties variations of underthrust sediments along the first \~{} 30~km of subduction off the erosional southern Ecuadorian margin. Seismic data show three zones along the subduction channel (referred to as Zones I, II and III) characterized by distinct velocity and velocity-derived physical properties, which are in agreement with values estimated from experimental results of deformation in granular media. These three zones result from transformational changes of underthrust sediments governed by fundamentally different physical processes that control their mechanical behavior at increasing confining pressures. Based on our observations and its comparison with experimental results, we argue that the transformations undergone by underthrust sediments as they dip into the subduction zone are the following: within Zone I, progressively increasing velocity (and decreasing velocity-derived porosity) indicates continuous sediment compaction, which must be accompanied by effective fluid drainage along the d{\'e}collement and/or across the accretionary wedge. The underthrust material is here unconsolidated from a mechanical point of view. Laboratory experiments indicate that the dominant processes at this range of pressures are grain rolling, particle rotation and frictional slip at grain contacts. Within Zone II, velocity (and porosity) remains constant for \~{} 16~km (SIS-72) and \~{} 12~km (SIS-18). This suggests undrained conditions resulting in growing fluid overpressure at the subduction channel. Grain deformation is similar to Zone I. Within Zone III, velocity increases and porosity falls rapidly, indicating sediment compaction and subsequent release of over-pressured fluids, where grain deformation is likely to be elastic. This might be the dominant process until the grains attain their crushing strength, resulting in granular cataclasis and, eventually, in the collapse of the system. We suggest that over-pressured fluid release may induce hydrofracturation and it is likely to increase inter-plate coupling down from Zone III. {\textcopyright} 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {fluid overpressure, grain deformation, subduction channel, velocity inversion},
	issn = {0012821X},
	doi = {10.1016/j.epsl.2007.11.061},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-39649120786\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {CALAHORRANOB, A and SALLARES, V and COLLOT, J and SAGE, F and RANERO, C}
}
@inbook {RaneroC.R.;vonHueneR.;WeinrebeW.andBarckhausen2007,
	title = {{Convergent margin tectonics of Middle America: A marine perspective}},
	booktitle = {Central America, Geology, Hazards and Resources},
	year = {2007},
	pages = {239{\textendash}265},
	keywords = {A. A. Balkema Publisher)., Ed. G. Alvarado and J. Bunschu},
	url = {http://sfx.bibliotecas.csic.es/sfx\_local?url\_ver=Z39.88-2004\&rft\_val\_fmt=info\%3Aofi\%2Ffmt\%3Akev\%3Amtx\%3Abook\&rft.genre=bookitem\&rft.btitle=Central America\%3A Geology\%2C Resources and Hazards\&rft.spage=239\&rft.epage=265\&rft.date=2007\&rft.aulast=Ranero\&},
	author = {Ranero, C. R. and von Huene, R. and Weinrebe, W. and Barckhausen, U.}
}
@article {Booth-Rea2007,
	title = {{Crustal types and Tertiary tectonic evolution of the Albor{\'a}n sea, western Mediterranean}},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {8},
	number = {10},
	year = {2007},
	pages = {n/a{\textendash}n/a},
	abstract = {Multichannel seismic reflection images across the transition between the east Albor{\'a}n and the Algero-Balearic basins show how crustal thickness decreases from about 5 s two-way traveltime (TWTT, \~{}15 km thick) in the west (east Albor{\'a}n basin) to \~{}2 s TWTT typical of oceanic crust (\~{}6 km thick) in the east (Algero-Balearic basin). We have differentiated three different crustal domains in this transition, mainly on the basis of crustal thickness and seismic signature. Boundaries between the three crustal domains are transitional and lack evidence for major faults. Tilted blocks related to extension are very scarce and all sampled basement outcrops are volcanic, suggesting a strong relationship between magmatism and crustal structure. Stratigraphic correlation of lithoseismic units with sedimentary units of southeastern Betic basins indicates that sediments onlap igneous basement approximately at 12 Ma in the eastern area and at 8 Ma in the western area. Linking seismic crustal structure with magmatic geochemical evidence suggests that the three differentiated crustal domains may represent, from west to east, thin continental crust modified by arc magmatism, magmatic-arc crust, and oceanic crust. Middle to late Miocene arc and oceanic crust formation in the east Albor{\'a}n and Algero-Balearic basins, respectively, occurred during westward migration of the Gibraltar accretionary wedge and shortening in the Betic-Rif foreland basins. Arc magmatism and associated backarc oceanic crust formation were related to early to middle Miocene subduction and rollback of the Flysch Trough oceanic basement. Subduction of this narrow slab beneath the Albor{\'a}n basin was coeval with collision of the Albor{\'a}n domain with the Iberian and African passive margins and subsequent subcontinental- lithosphere edge delamination along the Betic-Rif margins. Copyright 2007 by the American Geophysical Union.},
	keywords = {Albor{\'a}n basin, Algero-Balearic basin, Crustal structure, Magmatic arc, Reflection seismics, Western Mediterranean},
	issn = {15252027},
	doi = {10.1029/2007GC001639},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-54349126940\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Booth-Rea, G. and Ranero, C. R. and Mart{\'\i}nez-Mart{\'\i}nez, J. M. and Grevemeyer, I.}
}
@article {Larrasoana2007,
	title = {{Diagenetic formation of greigite and pyrrhotite in gas hydrate marine sedimentary systems}},
	journal = {Earth and Planetary Science Letters},
	volume = {261},
	number = {3-4},
	year = {2007},
	pages = {350{\textendash}366},
	abstract = {Mineral magnetic results and electron microscope observations from gas hydrate-bearing marine sediments cored at southern Hydrate Ridge during Ocean Drilling Program Leg 204 (Sites 1244 to 1252, Cascadia Margin, offshore Oregon) demonstrate that authigenic greigite and pyrrhotite formed as a byproduct of microbially-mediated diagenetic reactions in the sulphate, the anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM), and the methanic/gas hydrate zones. Geochemical conditions favourable for formation and preservation of greigite and pyrrhotite appear to be a limited source of sulphide, whether it derives from microbially-driven sulphate reduction in the sulphate zone, in the AOM zone or in deep sediments undergoing AOM, so that pyritization reactions are not driven to completion. Our results indicate that rock magnetic identification of greigite and pyrrhotite should be useful for detecting ancient gas hydrate systems in the marine sedimentary record, because it can enable rapid screening of ancient sediments for potential horizons where methane and disseminated gas hydrates might have occurred. Formation of authigenic greigite and pyrrhotite at different depths within the gas hydrate stability zone also implies that the magnetization of the host sediments will have been acquired at variable times, which is likely to compromise paleomagnetic results from greigite- and pyrrhotite-bearing marine sediments. {\textcopyright} 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {anaerobic oxidation of methane, diagenesis, gas hydrate, greigite, iron sulphide, marine sediments, methane, mineral magnetism, pyrrhotite, siderite, sulphate reduction},
	issn = {0012821X},
	doi = {10.1016/j.epsl.2007.06.032},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-34548475090\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Larrasoa{\~n}a, Juan C. and Roberts, Andrew P. and Musgrave, Robert J. and Gr{\'a}cia, Eul{\`a}lia and Pi{\~n}ero, Elena and Vega, Marta and Mart{\'\i}nez-Ruiz, Francisca}
}
@article {Ranero2007,
	title = {{Drilling the Seismogenic Zone of an Erosinal Convergent Margin: IODP Costa Rica Seismogenesis Project CRISP}},
	journal = {Scientific Drilling},
	number = {Special, No. 1},
	year = {2007},
	month = {nov},
	pages = {51{\textendash}54},
	issn = {1816-3459},
	doi = {10.2204/iodp.sd.s01.29.2007},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-72749124634\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Ranero, Cesar R. and Vannucchi, Paola and von Huene, Roland}
}
@article {Loreto2007,
	title = {{Evidence for fluid circulation, overpressure and tectonic style along the Southern Chilean margin}},
	journal = {Tectonophysics},
	volume = {429},
	number = {3-4},
	year = {2007},
	month = {jan},
	pages = {183{\textendash}200},
	abstract = {The southern Chilean convergent margin, between 50{\textdegree} and 57{\textdegree} S, is shaped by the interaction of the three main plates: Antarctic, South America and Scotia. North of 53{\textdegree} S, the convergence between Antarctic and South America plates is close to orthogonal to the continental margin strike. Here, the deformational style of the accretionary prism is mainly characterized by seaward-verging thrusts and locally by normal faults and fractures, a very limited lateral extension of prism, a very shallow dip (\~{} 6{\textdegree}) d{\'e}collement, and subduction of a thick and relatively undeformed trench sedimentary sequence. South of 53{\textdegree} S, convergence is oblique to the margin, locally, the trench sediments are proto-deformed by double vergence thrusting and the front of the prism grows through landward-verging thrusting. The d{\'e}collement is sub-horizontal and deep, involving most of the sediment over the oceanic crust in the accretionary process, building a comparatively wide and thicker prism. A Bottom Simulating Reflector is present across the whole prism to the abyssal plan, suggesting the presence of gas in the sediments. The analysis of P- and S-wave velocity reflectivity sections, derived by amplitude versus offset technique (AVO), detailed velocity information and the velocity-derived sediment porosity have been integrated with the structural analysis of the accretionary prism of two selected pre-stack depth migrated seismic lines, aiming to explain the relation between fluid circulation and tectonics. Accretion along double vergence thrust faults may be associated with the presence of overpressured fluid, which decreases the effective shear stress coefficient along the main d{\'e}collement and within the sediments, and modify the rheolgical properties of rocks. The presence of an adequate drainage network, represented by interconnected faults and fractures affecting the entire sedimentary sequence, can favour the escape of pore fluid toward the sea bottom, while, less permeable and not faulted sediments can favour fluid accumulations. Gravitational and tectonic dewatering, and stratigraphy could control the consolidation and the pore overpressure of sediments involved in subduction along the trench. The results of our analysis suggest the existence of a feedback between tectonic style and fluid circulation. {\textcopyright} 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Accretion, AVO, Back-thrust, Dewatering, Overpressure, subduction},
	issn = {00401951},
	doi = {10.1016/j.tecto.2006.09.016},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33845522651\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Loreto, Maria Filomena and Tinivella, Umberta and Ranero, Cesar 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}
}
@article {Biescas2007,
	title = {{Seismic attenuation of coda waves in the eastern region of Cuba}},
	journal = {Tectonophysics},
	volume = {429},
	number = {1-2},
	year = {2007},
	pages = {99{\textendash}109},
	publisher = {Elsevier},
	abstract = {11 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables},
	keywords = {coda wave, Cuba, quality factor Q, Seismic attenuation},
	issn = {00401951},
	doi = {10.1016/j.tecto.2006.09.013},
	url = {http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/26812},
	author = {Biescas, Berta and Rivera, Zulima and Zapata, Jose Alejandro}
}
