@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}
}
@mastersthesis {Cameselle2015,
	title = {{Sedimentary processes and resulting continental margin configuration during large-scale sea-level drawdown: The Messinian Salinity Crisis in the Western Mediterranean Sea}},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {233},
	school = {Universitat de Barcelona},
	type = {phdThesis},
	author = {Cameselle, Alejandra L}
}
@article {Grevemeyer2015,
	title = {{Seismicity and active tectonics in the Alboran Sea, Western Mediterranean: Constraints from an offshore-onshore seismological network and swath bathymetry data}},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth},
	year = {2015},
	abstract = {Seismicity and tectonic structure of the Alboran Sea were derived from a large amphibious seismological network deployed in the offshore basins and onshore in Spain and Morocco, an area where the convergence between the African and Eurasian plates causes distributed deformation. Crustal structure derived from local earthquake data suggests that the Alboran Sea is underlain by thinned continental crust with a mean thickness of about 20km. During the 5months of offshore network operation, a total of 229 local earthquakes were located within the Alboran Sea and neighboring areas. Earthquakes were generally crustal events, and in the offshore domain, most of them occurred at crustal levels of 2 to 15km depth. Earthquakes in the Alboran Sea are poorly related to large-scale tectonic features and form a 20 to 40km wide NNE-SSW trending belt of seismicity between Adra (Spain) and Al Hoceima (Morocco), supporting the case for a major left-lateral shear zone across the Alboran Sea. Such a shear zone is in accord with high-resolution bathymetric data and seismic reflection imaging, indicating a number of small active fault zones, some of which offset the seafloor, rather than supporting a well-defined discrete plate boundary fault. Moreover, a number of large faults known to be active as evidenced from bathymetry, seismic reflection, and paleoseismic data such as the Yusuf and Carboneras faults were seismically inactive. Earthquakes below the Western Alboran Basin occurred at 70 to 110km depth and hence reflected intermediate depth seismicity related to subducted lithosphere. {\textcopyright} 2015. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.},
	doi = {10.1002/2015JB012073},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84949685458\&partnerID=40\&md5=f8fcd419da7cfea696b0fd9d4be46078},
	author = {Grevemeyer, I.a and Gr{\`a}cia, E.b and Villase{\~n}or, A.c and Leuchters, W.a and Watts, A.B.d}
}
@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 {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.}
}
@article {Martinez-Loriente2014,
	title = {{Seismic and gravity constraints on the nature of the basement in the Africa-Eurasia plate boundary: New insights for the geodynamic evolution of the SW Iberian margin}},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
	volume = {119},
	number = {1},
	year = {2014},
	month = {jan},
	pages = {127{\textendash}149},
	publisher = {Blackwell Publishing Ltd},
	abstract = {We present a new classification of geological domains at the Africa-Eurasia plate boundary off SW Iberia, together with a regional geodynamic reconstruction spanning from the Mesozoic extension to the Neogene-to-present- day convergence. It is based on seismic velocity and density models along a new transect running from the Horseshoe to the Seine abyssal plains, which is combined with previously available geophysical models from the region. The basement velocity structure at the Seine Abyssal Plain indicates the presence of a highly heterogeneous, thin oceanic crust with local high-velocity anomalies possibly representing zones related to the presence of ultramafic rocks. The integration of this model with previous ones reveals the presence of three oceanic domains offshore SW Iberia: (1) the Seine Abyssal Plain domain, generated during the first stages of slow seafloor spreading in the NE Central Atlantic (Early Jurassic); (2) the Gulf of Cadiz domain, made of oceanic crust generated in the Alpine-Tethys spreading system between Iberia and Africa, which was coeval with the formation of the Seine Abyssal Plain domain and lasted up to the North Atlantic continental breakup (Late Jurassic); and (3) the Gorringe Bank domain, made of exhumed mantle rocks, which formed during the first stages of North Atlantic opening. Our models suggest that the Seine Abyssal Plain and Gulf of Cadiz domains are separated by the Lineament South strike-slip fault, whereas the Gulf of Cadiz and Gorringe Bank domains appear to be limited by a deep thrust fault located at the center of the Horseshoe Abyssal Plain. {\textcopyright}2013. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.},
	keywords = {Central and North Atlantic kinematics, crustal nature, geological domains, gravity modeling, refraction and reflection traveltime tomography, wide-angle seismics},
	issn = {21699313},
	doi = {10.1002/2013JB010476},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84896782219\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Mart{\'\i}nez-Loriente, Sara and Sallares, Valenti and Gr{\'a}cia, Eul{\`a}lia and Bartolom{\'e}, Rafael and Da{\~n}obeitia, Juan Jos{\'e} and Zitellini, Nevio}
}
@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.}
}
@article {LoIacono2014a,
	title = {{Submarine canyons of north-western Sicily (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea): Variability in morphology, sedimentary processes and evolution on a tectonically active margin}},
	journal = {Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography},
	volume = {104},
	year = {2014},
	month = {jun},
	pages = {93{\textendash}105},
	publisher = {Elsevier Ltd},
	abstract = {Swath-bathymetry, mono-channel and multi-channel seismic reflection records acquired during the last two decades on the northern Sicilian margin have unveiled a dense network of submarine canyons within the depth range of 80-2100. m. The canyons display a relevant variability in their geometry, morphology and sedimentary processes. The margin shows a young, tectonically active shelf to slope setting, linking the Sicilian-Maghrebian Thrust Belt to the Tyrrhenian oceanic realm, developed during the Neogene-Quaternary time span. The aim of this study is to highlight the main governing factors that contributed to the evolution and differentiation of the northern Sicilian canyons, mainly focusing on the Gulf of Palermo and on the Gulf of Castellammare. Tectonic control is more evident in the canyons of the Gulf of Palermo, with submarine landslides retrograding on a steep slope and mainly controlling their evolution. Otherwise, canyons, tributaries and gullies mapped in the Gulf of Castellammare developed on a less steep substrate and display sinuous to meandering paths, with a relevant role of coastal/shelf sedimentary inputs and downslope turbidity processes in their formation. Results suggest that, despite the geographically close proximity of the two study areas, the different structural settings of the Castellammare and Palermo Basins are mainly responsible for canyon variability. Data indicate likely on-going uplift and tilting movements along the Sicilian margin, influencing the development of the studied canyons, which have probably been more active during the Quaternary glacial maxima than they are in the present day. {\textcopyright} 2013 Elsevier Ltd.},
	keywords = {landslides, Seismic data, Sicily, Southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Submarine canyons, swath-bathymetry, tectonics},
	issn = {09670645},
	doi = {10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.06.018},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84901673777\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Lo Iacono, Claudio and Sulli, Attilio and Agate, Mauro}
}
@inbook {LoIacono2014b,
	title = {{Submarine Mass Movements Along a Sediment Starved Margin: The Menorca Channel (Balearic Islands {\textendash} Western Mediterranean)}},
	booktitle = {Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences},
	year = {2014},
	month = {mar},
	pages = {329{\textendash}338},
	publisher = {Springer International},
	organization = {Springer International},
	abstract = {The Malta-Sicily Escarpment (MSE) is a steep carbonate escarpment that appears to have largely remained isolated from inputs of fluvial and littoral sediments since the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Mass movement activity has so far only been inferred from sediment cores at the base of the MSE. In this study we use geophysical and sedimentological data acquired from the upper MSE and outer Malta Plateau to: (i) map and characterise the dominant forms of mass movements, and (ii) determine the nature and origin of these mass movements, and their role in the evolution of the MSE. We document 67 mass movement scars across 370 km2 of seafloor. Slope instability entailed translational slides, spreads and debris flows that mobilised Plio-Pleistocene outer shelf hemipelagic/pelagic sediments or carbonate sequences across the upper continental slope. Slope failure events are caused by loss of support associated with the formation of channels, gullies, canyon heads and fault-related escarpments. Mass movements play a key role in eroding the seafloor and transferring material to the lower MSE. In particular, they control the extent of headward and lateral extension of submarine canyons, facilitate tributary development, remove material from the continental shelf and slope, and feed sediment and drive its transport across the submarine canyon system.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-00972-8\_29 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00972-8\_29>).},
	url = {http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/362811/},
	author = {Lo Iacono, Claudio and Urgeles, Roger and Polizzi, S. and Griny{\'o}, J. and Druet, M. and Agate, M. and Gili, J.M. and Acosta, J.}
}
@inbook {Torbahn2014a,
	title = {{Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences}},
	booktitle = {Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences},
	series = {Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research},
	volume = {37},
	year = {2014},
	month = {jul},
	pages = {85{\textendash}94},
	publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
	organization = {Springer International Publishing},
	address = {Cham},
	abstract = {6th International Symposium on Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences (ISSMMTC), 23-25 September 2013, Kiel, Germany.{\textendash} 9 pages},
	keywords = {Discrete element method, failure, mechanism, pore volume change, sediment fabric, sediment strength},
	isbn = {978-3-319-00971-1},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-00972-8},
	url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-00972-8},
	author = {Torbahn, Lutz and Huhn, Katrin},
	editor = {Krastel, Sebastian and Behrmann, Jan-Hinrich and V{\"o}lker, David and Stipp, Michael and Berndt, Christian and Urgeles, Roger and Chaytor, Jason and Huhn, Katrin and Strasser, Michael and Harbitz, Carl Bonnevie}
}
@inbook {PereaHGraciaE.BartolomeRMartinez-Loriente2014,
	title = {{Submarine paleoseismology on the Santa Pola fault (Bajo Segura basin, western mediterranean): derivating direct on-fault paleoearthquakes}},
	booktitle = {Una aproximaci{\'o}n multidisciplinar al estudio de fallas activas, los terremotos y el riesgo s{\'\i}smico},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {121{\textendash}124},
	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 = {Perea, H and Gr{\`a}cia, E. and Bartolom{\'e}, R and Martinez-Loriente, S.}
}
@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}
}
@booklet {Bartolome2013,
	title = {{Seismic imaging of active faults in the Southern Alboran Sea (SE Iberian Margin): First results of the 2010 EVENT-DEEP cruise}},
	year = {2013},
	month = {sep},
	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} 4 pages, 4 figures},
	isbn = {isbn: 978-84-693-6088-0},
	url = {http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/82462},
	author = {Bartolom{\'e}, Rafael and Gr{\'a}cia, Eul{\`a}lia and Lo Iacono, Claudio and Martinez-Loriente, S. and Moreno, Ximena and Perea, Hector and Masana, E. and Team, EVENT-DEEP}
}
@conference {Gutierrez2013,
	title = {{Statistical model of a signal of Raman spectroscopy: Detection}},
	booktitle = {Symposium of Signals, Images and Artificial Vision - 2013: STSIVA - 2013},
	year = {2013},
	month = {sep},
	pages = {1{\textendash}5},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {Raman spectroscopy (RS) is a technique to find the spectral fingerprint of a material under study. To reach the spectrum, it is necessary to pass the acquired signal at the spectrometer by a bank of filters known as Raman signal{\textquoteright}s preprocessing system, which should eliminate all noise components accompanying the signal. The behavior of these noise components, and even the signal itself, are information that can be useful in order to optimize the system and to study the signal itself. This paper proposes a statistical model of Raman signal as the pre-processing system receives it, the signal{\textquoteright}s noise components and their statistical behavior, including its mathematical representation are presented. Additionally, it shows the results of the implementation of the simulation model leaving the door open for the validation, on which work is being done. The implementation of this model may be useful as an input signal for the optimization of the filter banks, since there are not always sufficient Raman signals for detailed study and development of filters for a specific signal under study. The model could also be used as a base for the study for systems using Raman spectroscopy to recognize substances. {\textcopyright} 2013 IEEE.},
	keywords = {pre-processing system of the Raman signal, Raman spectrometry, spectral fingerprint, statistical model},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-1121-9},
	doi = {10.1109/STSIVA.2013.6644935},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84891057081\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Gutierrez, Carlos A. and Garcia, Xavier and Zurek, Eduardo E. and Salazar, Augusto}
}
@article {Urgeles2013,
	title = {{Submarine landslides of the Mediterranean Sea: Trigger mechanisms, dynamics, and frequency-magnitude distribution}},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface},
	volume = {118},
	number = {4},
	year = {2013},
	month = {dec},
	pages = {2600{\textendash}2618},
	publisher = {Blackwell Publishing Ltd},
	abstract = {Submarine landslides are ubiquitous along Mediterranean continental margins. With the aim of understanding mass-wasting processes and related hazard at the scale of a large marine basin encompassing multiple geological settings, we have compiled data on their geometry, age, and trigger mechanism with a geographic information system. The distribution of submarine landslides in the Mediterranean reveals that major deltaic wedges have a higher density of large submarine landslides, while tectonically active margins are characterized by relatively small failures. In all areas, landslide size distributions display power law scaling for landslides > 1 km3. We find consistent differences on the exponent of the power law (${\th}eta$) depending on the tectonic setting. Available age information suggests that failures exceeding 1000 km3 are infrequent and may recur every \~{}40 kyr. Smaller failures that can still cause significant damage might be relatively frequent (failures > 1 km3 may recur every 40 years). The database highlights that our knowledge of submarine landslide activity with time is limited to a few tens of thousands of years. Available data suggest that submarine landslides may preferentially occur during lowstand periods, but no firm conclusion can be made on this respect, as only 70 landslides (out of 696 in the database) have relatively accurate age determinations. The temporal pattern and changes in frequency-magnitude distribution suggest that sedimentation patterns and pore pressure development have had a major role in triggering slope failures and control the sediment flux from mass wasting to the deep basin. Key Points Comprehensive catalog of submarine landslides in the Mediterranean Sea Geologic setting controls flux of sediment from submarine landslides Consolidation and fluid flow largely control submarine landslide initiation {\textcopyright}2013. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.},
	keywords = {frequency-magnitude, GIS, Mediterranean Sea, Submarine landslides, trigger mechanisms},
	issn = {21699003},
	doi = {10.1002/2013JF002720},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84892999015\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Urgeles, Roger and Camerlenghi, Angelo}
}
@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}
}
@book {YamadaY.KawamuraK.IkeharaK.OgawaY.UrgelesR.MosherD.Chaytor2012,
	title = {{Submarine Mass Movement and Their Consequences, Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research}},
	year = {2012},
	isbn = {978-94-007-2161-6},
	url = {http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/417/bok\%253A978-94-007-2162-3.pdf?auth66=1423826628\_566a545ac7b53078aef1bac73bad361e\&ext=.pdf},
	author = {Yamada, Y. and Kawamura, K. and Ikehara, K. and Ogawa, Y. and Urgeles, R. and Mosher, D. and Chaytor, J. and M., Strasser}
}
@inbook {Yamada2012,
	title = {{Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences: An introduction.}},
	booktitle = {Submarine Mass Movement and Their Consequences, Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {1{\textendash}12},
	publisher = {Springer Netherlands},
	organization = {Springer Netherlands},
	address = {Dordrecht},
	isbn = {978-94-007-2161-6},
	doi = {10.1007/978-94-007-2162-3},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84903753314\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Yamada, Yasuhiro and Kawamura, Kiichiro and Ikehara, Ken and Ogawa, Yujiro and Urgeles, Roger and Mosher, David and Chaytor, Jason and Strasser, Michael},
	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 {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.}
}
@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 {Chiocci2011,
	title = {{Seafloor mapping for geohazard assessment: state of the art}},
	journal = {Marine Geophysical Research},
	volume = {32},
	number = {1-2},
	year = {2011},
	month = {may},
	pages = {1{\textendash}11},
	abstract = {During the last two decades, increasing use of full-coverage sonic mapping of the seafloor has made us more aware of the large and different number of seafloor processes and events bearing significant geohazard potential. This awareness combines with the increasing use of the seafloor for infrastructure and with the high density of population and settlement on the coast. Seafloor mapping is the first step in making a census of the geohazard-bearing features present in a given offshore area. It often provides the only tool for a comprehensive, although non-specific, seafloor geohazard assessment over large areas that are scarcely groundtruthed by acoustic prospection and seafloor sampling. However, the characterization of geohazard features on a morphological basis alone is limited, and more detailed investigations are needed to define the character and state of activity of potentially hazardous features. Such investigations include the use of deep-tow or autonomous platforms designed to acquire high-resolution data at depth as well as in situ measurements, both being very expensive activities not applicable over large areas. Thus seafloor mapping is often not only the first and the main but also the only tool for a comprehensive seafloor geohazard assessment. This special issue represents an example of the diversity of approaches to seafloor geohazard assessment and summarizes the present state of this discipline. Both the diverse technologies applied and the specific aims of offshore geohazard assessment brought different communities to deal with the study of seafloor processes and events from remarkably distinct viewpoints. We identified three end members in offshore geohazard assessment: (1) geohazard assessment "sensu stricto", (2) "engineering" geohazard assessment, (3) "non-specific" geohazard assessment. These are being conducted by industry, academia and public agencies in charge of civil protection and land-use planning and management. Understanding the needs and geohazard perception of the different groups is a necessary step for a profitable collaboration in such an interesting and rapidly developing field of marine geology. {\textcopyright} 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.},
	keywords = {Geological risks, Multibeam bathymetry, Natural hazards, Seafloor morphology, Submarine landslides},
	issn = {0025-3235},
	doi = {10.1007/s11001-011-9139-8},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79957484646\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Chiocci, Francesco L. and Cattaneo, Antonio and Urgeles, Roger}
}
@article {Sallares2011,
	title = {{Seismic evidence for the presence of Jurassic oceanic crust in the central Gulf of Cadiz (SW Iberian margin)}},
	journal = {Earth and Planetary Science Letters},
	volume = {311},
	number = {1-2},
	year = {2011},
	month = {nov},
	pages = {112{\textendash}123},
	abstract = {We investigate the crustal structure of the SW Iberian margin along a 340. km-long refraction and wide-angle reflection seismic profile crossing from the central Gulf of Cadiz to the Variscan continental margin in the Algarve, Southern Portugal. The seismic velocity and crustal geometry model obtained by joint refraction and reflection travel-time inversion reveal three distinct crustal domains: the 28-30. km-thick Variscan crust in the north, a 60. km-wide transition zone offshore, where the crust abruptly thins \~{}. 20. km, and finally a \~{}. 7. km-thick and \~{}. 150. km-wide crustal section that appears to be oceanic in nature. The oceanic crust is overlain by a 1-3. km-thick section of Mesozoic to Eocene sediments, with an additional 3-4. km of low-velocity, unconsolidated sediments on top belonging to the Miocene age, Gulf of Cadiz imbricated wedge. The sharp transition between continental and oceanic crust is best explained by an initial rifting setting as a transform margin during the Early Jurassic that followed the continental break-up in the Central Atlantic. The narrow oceanic basin would have formed during an oblique rifting and seafloor spreading episode between Iberia and Africa that started shortly thereafter (Bajocian) and lasted up to the initiation of oceanic spreading in the North Atlantic at the Tithonian (late Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous). The velocity model displays four wide, prominent, south-dipping low-velocity anomalies, which seem to be related with the presence of crustal-scale faults previously identified in the area, some of which could well be extensional faults generated during this rifting episode. We propose that this oceanic plate segment is the last remnant of an oceanic corridor that once connected the Alpine-Tethys with the Atlantic ocean, so it is, in turn, one of the oldest oceanic crustal fragments currently preserved on Earth. The presence of oceanic crust in the central Gulf of Cadiz is consistent with geodynamic models suggesting the existence of a narrow, westward retreating oceanic slab beneath the Gibraltar arc-Alboran basin system. {\textcopyright} 2011 Elsevier B.V.},
	keywords = {Geodynamic evolution, Jurassic oceanic crust, Refraction and reflection travel-time tomography, SW Iberian margin, Uncertainty analysis, wide-angle seismics},
	issn = {0012821X},
	doi = {10.1016/j.epsl.2011.09.003},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-81155155560\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Sallares, Valenti and Gailler, Audrey and Gutscher, Marc-Andr{\'e} and Graindorge, David and Bartolom{\'e}, Rafael and Gr{\'a}cia, Eul{\`a}lia and D{\'\i}az, Jordi and Da{\~n}obeitia, Juan Jos{\'e} and Zitellini, Nevio}
}
@article {LoIacono2011,
	title = {{Submarine canyon morphologies in the Gulf of Palermo (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea) and possible implications for geo-hazard}},
	journal = {Marine Geophysical Research},
	volume = {32},
	number = {1-2},
	year = {2011},
	month = {mar},
	pages = {127{\textendash}138},
	abstract = {The continental shelf and the upper slope of the Gulf of Palermo (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea) in the depth interval ranging from 50 to 1,500 m were mapped for the first time with Multi Beam echosounder and high resolution seismic. Seven submarine canyons are confined to the upper slope or indent the shelf-edge and enter the Palermo intraslope basin at a depth of around 1,300 m. The canyons evolved through concurrent top-down turbiditic processes and bottom-up retrogressive mass failures. Most of the mass failure features of the area are related to canyon-shaping processes and only few of them are not confined to the upper slope. In general, these features probably do not represent a significant tsunami hazard along the coast. The geological element that controls the evolution of the canyons and induces sediment instability corresponds to the steep slope gradient, especially in the western sector of the Gulf, where the steepest canyons are located. The structural features mapped in the Palermo offshore contributed to the regulation of mass failure processes in the area, with direct faults and antiform structures coinciding with some of the canyon heads. Furthermore, the occurrence of pockmarks and highs that probably consist of authigenic carbonates above faulted and folded strata suggests a local relationship between structural control, fluid escape processes and mass failure. This paper presents a valuable high-resolution morphologic dataset of the Gulf of Palermo, which constitutes a reliable base for evaluating the geo-hazard potential related to slope failure in the area. {\textcopyright} 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.},
	keywords = {Geo-hazard, Mass failure processes, Southern Mediterranean, Submarine canyons, Swath mapping},
	issn = {0025-3235},
	doi = {10.1007/s11001-011-9118-0},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79961169577\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Lo Iacono, Claudio and Sulli, Attilio and Agate, Mauro and Lo Presti, Valeria and Pepe, Fabrizio and Catalano, Raimondo}
}
@booklet {Sueng-Won,
	title = {{Submarine Landslides: Science, Technology and Challenges}},
	year = {2011},
	publisher = {Taehan t{\textquoteright}omok hakhoe},
	abstract = {8 pages, 11 figures.},
	url = {http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/57343},
	author = {Sueng-Won, Jeong and Locat, Jacques and Leroueil, Serge and Urgeles, Roger}
}
@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.}
}
@article {Biescas2010,
	title = {{Seismic imaging of staircase layers below the Mediterranean Undercurrent}},
	journal = {Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers},
	volume = {57},
	number = {10},
	year = {2010},
	month = {oct},
	pages = {1345{\textendash}1353},
	abstract = {Seismic images of staircase layers at the bottom of the Mediterranean Undercurrent with a lateral coherence up to 50. km and a horizontal resolution of \~{}10m are presented. The images show clearly the interaction between these staircase layers and other flow structures such as meddies, seamounts and internal waves. The staircase layers were imaged during two different surveys that used different sound sources. Comparison between seismic images and historical oceanographic observations illustrates the importance of using a seismic source adapted to the vertical scale of the oceanographic target to be imaged. Wavelengths larger than the size of the staircase structure distort the image in the vertical. For optimal imaging, deconvolution of the data is required. {\textcopyright} 2010 Elsevier Ltd.},
	keywords = {Boundary mixing, Gulf of Cadiz, Meddy, Mediterranean Undercurrent, Seismic oceanography, Thermohaline staircase layers},
	issn = {09670637},
	doi = {10.1016/j.dsr.2010.07.001},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77956879722\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Biescas, Berta and Armi, Larry and Sallares, Valenti and Gr{\'a}cia, Eul{\`a}lia}
}
@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 {Buffett2010,
	title = {{Stochastic heterogeneity mapping around a mediterranean salt lens}},
	journal = {Ocean Science},
	volume = {6},
	number = {1},
	year = {2010},
	pages = {423{\textendash}429},
	abstract = {We present the first application of Stochastic Heterogeneity Mapping based on the band-limited von K{\'a}rm{\'a}n function to a seismic reflection stack of a Mediterranean water eddy (meddy), a large salt lens of Mediterranean water. This process extracts two stochastic parameters directly from the reflectivity field of the seismic data: the Hurst number, which ranges from 0 to 1, and the correlation length (scale length). Lower Hurst numbers represent a richer range of high wavenumbers and correspond to a broader range of heterogeneity in reflection events. The Hurst number estimate for the top of the meddy (0.39) compares well with recent theoretical work, which required values between 0.25 and 0.5 to model internal wave surfaces in open ocean conditions based on simulating a Garrett-Munk spectrum (GM76) slope of \&-2. The scale lengths obtained do not fit as well to seismic reflection events as those used in other studies to model internal waves. We suggest two explanations for this discrepancy: (1) due to the fact that the stochastic parameters are derived from the reflectivity field rather than the impedance field the estimated scale lengths may be underestimated, as has been reported; and (2) because the meddy seismic image is a two-dimensional slice of a complex and dynamic three-dimensional object, the derived scale lengths are biased to the direction of flow. Nonetheless, varying stochastic parameters, which correspond to different spectral slopes in the Garrett-Munk spectrum (horizontal wavenumber spectrum), can provide an estimate of different internal wave scales from seismic data alone. We hence introduce Stochastic Heterogeneity Mapping as a novel tool in physical oceanography.},
	issn = {18120784},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77950468840\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Buffett, G. G. and Hurich, C. A. and Vsemirnova, E. A. and Hobbs, R. W. and Sallar{\`e}s, V. and Carbonell, R. and Klaeschen, D. and Biescas, B.}
}
@booklet {Perea2013,
	title = {{Structure and Potential Seismogenic Sources of the Offshore Bajo Segura Fault Zone, Se Iberian Peninsula (Mediterranean Sea). Looking for the Source of the 1829 Torrevieja Earthquake}},
	journal = {Res{\'u}menes de la 1{\textordfeminine} Reuni{\'o}n Ib{\'e}rica sobre Fallas Activas y Paleosismolog{\'\i}a, Sig{\"u}enza, Espa{\~n}a},
	year = {2010},
	month = {sep},
	pages = {113{\textendash}116},
	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} 4 pages, 4 figures},
	keywords = {abstract, almost a, bajo segura, been extensively studied, betic shear zone and, bsfz, complete lack of information, during the event-shelf cruise, extends further, fallas activas, from a tectonic point, geolog{\'\i}a marina, into the mediterranean sea, is the northern terminal, of the bsfz has, of view, splay of the eastern, tect{\'o}nica activa, ten high-resolution seismic profiles, the bajo segura fault, the offshore zone has, whereas the onshore zone, zone},
	isbn = {isbn: 978-84-693-6088-0},
	url = {http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/82456},
	author = {Perea, H. and Gr{\`a}cia, E. and Bartolom{\'e}, Rafael and Iacono, Claudio Lo and Masana, E.}
}
@article {GarciaX.Jones2010,
	title = {{Structure of an unstable, Atlantic Oceanic island volcano (La Palma, Canary Islands) from land magnetotelluric imaging}},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research},
	volume = {B7},
	year = {2010},
	pages = {115},
	doi = {10.1029/2009JB006445},
	url = {http://meetings.copernicus.org/www.cosis.net/abstracts/EGU2008/08835/EGU2008-A-08835.pdf},
	author = {Garcia, X., Jones, A.G.}
}
@conference {Urgeles2013a,
	title = {{Submarine Landslides and Tsunamis}},
	booktitle = {Earth and Planetary Sciences},
	volume = {21},
	year = {2010},
	pages = {69{\textendash}88},
	keywords = {landslide, landslides, rigid body, subaerial, submarine, Submarine landslide, Submarine landslides, submarine-landslide, submarine-landslides, tsunami, tsunamis, viscous slide},
	isbn = {1402013493},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84898728287\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Yalciner, a C and Pelinovsky, E N and Okal, E and Synolakis, C}
}
@inbook {Mosher2010,
	title = {{Submarine mass movements and their consequences}},
	booktitle = {Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences, Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research},
	year = {2010},
	pages = {1{\textendash}8},
	publisher = {Kluwer Academic Publishers},
	organization = {Kluwer Academic Publishers},
	isbn = {9789048130702},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84903442067\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Mosher, D. C. and Moscardelli, L. and Shipp, R. C. and Chaytor, J. D. and Baxter, C. D P and Lee, H. J. and Urgeles, R.}
}
@book {Mosher2010a,
	title = {{Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences: 4 rd International Symposium. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research: v. 28}},
	series = {Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences: 4 rd International Symposium},
	year = {2010},
	pages = {786},
	url = {http://scholar.google.es/scholar?q=Advances+in+Natural+and+Technological+Hazards+Research+Moscardelli\&btnG=\&hl=es\&as\_sdt=0\%2C5\#9},
	author = {Mosher, DC and Shipp, RC and Moscardelli, L}
}
@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 {Falivene2010,
	title = {{Synthetic seismic models from outcrop-derived reservoir-scale three-dimensional facies models: The Eocene Ainsa turbidite system (southern Pyrenees)}},
	journal = {AAPG Bulletin},
	volume = {94},
	number = {3},
	year = {2010},
	month = {mar},
	pages = {317{\textendash}343},
	abstract = {This study uses one-dimensional convolution seismic models to better understand which features of slope turbidite systems can (or cannot) be observed on real seismic data, aiming to improve subsurface seismic interpretation. Synthetic seismic sections and cubes were built from reservoir-scale three-dimensional fades models of the outcropping Ainsa turbidite system. This turbidite system developed in a foredeep and wedge-top depositional setting within a slope system. The turbidite system consists of laterally and vertically stacked sandstone- and debrite-dominated channel fills, grading into heterolithic and mudstone units, with intercalations of slump-deformed mudstone-rich units. Typical petrophysical values for subsurface Cenozoic sediments were assumed for the seismic models, which are presented at 25-, 50-, and 75-Hz resolution. Seismic models enabled the comparison between architectural and faci{\`e}s distributions observed in the outcrops and the geological models to their possible seismic expression in the subsurface. Comparisons show how seismic expression degrades when seismic resolution decreases. By using models at different geological scales, the effects of each heterogeneity scale are identified. Precise delineation of the internal architecture and fades distribution within channel complexes is beyond the reach of all seismic frequendes. The position of channel complex tops and margins is uncertain because of thengradual character. Differentiating between sandstone- and debrite-filled channels is not straightforward, and bed-scale heterogendties within the sandstone-dominated channels are barely distinguishable in the seismic data. The net-to-gross predictive capability of root-mean-square amplitude extractions varies depending on the seismic frequency and unit thickness. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2010. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists All rights reserved.},
	issn = {0149-1423},
	doi = {10.1306/08030908157},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77950302966\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Falivene, O. and Arbu{\'e}s, P. and Ledo, J. and Benjumea, B. and Mu{\~n}oz, J. A. and Fern{\'a}ndez, O. and Mart{\'\i}nez, S.}
}
@article {Lebreiro2009,
	title = {{Sediment instability on the Portuguese continental margin under abrupt glacial climate changes (last 60kyr)}},
	journal = {Quaternary Science Reviews},
	volume = {28},
	number = {27-28},
	year = {2009},
	month = {dec},
	pages = {3211{\textendash}3223},
	abstract = {It is well established that orbital scale sea-level changes generated larger transport of sediments into the deep-sea during the last glacial maximum than the Holocene. However, the response of sedimentary processes to abrupt millennial-scale climate variability is rather unknown. Frequency of distal turbidites and amounts of advected detrital carbonate are estimated off the Lisbon-Set{\'u}bal canyons (core MD03-2698, at 4602 mwd), within a chronostratigraphy based on radiometric ages, oxygen isotopes and paleomagnetic key global anomalies. We found that: 1) higher frequency of turbidites concurred with Northern Hemisphere coldest temperatures (Greenland Stadials [GS], including Heinrich [H] events). But more than that, an escalating frequency of turbidites starts with the onset of global sea-level rising (and warming in Antarctica) and culminates during H events, at the time when rising is still in its early-mid stage, and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is re-starting. This short time span coincides with maximum gradients of ocean surface and bottom temperatures between GS and Antarctic warmings (Antarctic Isotope Maximum; AIM 17, 14, 12, 8, 4, 2) and rapid sea-level rises. 2) Trigger of turbidity currents is not the only sedimentary process responding to millennial variability; land-detrital carbonate (with a very negative bulk $δ$18O signature) enters the deep-sea by density-driven slope lateral advection, accordingly during GS. 3) Possible mechanisms to create slope instability on the Portuguese continental margin are sea-level variations as small as 20 m, and slope friction by rapid deep and intermediate re-accommodation of water masses circulation. 4) Common forcing mechanisms appear to drive slope instability at both millennial and orbital scales. {\textcopyright} 2009.},
	issn = {02773791},
	doi = {10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.08.007},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70549094210\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Lebreiro, S.M. and Voelker, A.H.L. and Vizcaino, A. and Abrantes, F.G. and Alt-Epping, U. and Jung, S. and Thouveny, N. and Gr{\`a}cia, E.}
}
@conference {Urgeles2009,
	title = {{Sediment undulations on the Llobregat prodelta: Signs of early slope instability or sedimentary bedforms?}},
	booktitle = {Rendiconti Online Societa Geologica Italiana},
	volume = {7},
	year = {2009},
	pages = {103{\textendash}106},
	abstract = {A field of sediment undulations has been mapped in the Llobregat River prodelta. similar features had been recognized in other prodeltas and interpreted either as deformation or sedimentary structures. therefore, proper interpretation of these undulations is needed for correct risk assessment. We evaluate the characteristics of the sediment undulations in order to determine the most likely process for the origin of these structures. these characteristics indicate that the sediment undulations on the Llobregat River prodelta do not result from sediment deformation. their identification as sediment waves implies that such features do not pose a major hazard for further offshore development.},
	issn = {20358008},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84863328164\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Urgeles, Roger and De Mol, Ben and Puig, Pere and De Batist, Marc and Hughes-Clarke, John E.}
}
@article {Flecha2009,
	title = {{Seismic imaging and modelling of the lithosphere of SW-Iberia}},
	journal = {Tectonophysics},
	volume = {472},
	number = {1-4},
	year = {2009},
	month = {jul},
	pages = {148{\textendash}157},
	abstract = {Data from a closely spaced wide-angle transect has been used to study the middle-to-lower crust and the Moho in SW-Iberia. A low-fold wide-angle stack image reveals a highly heterogeneous seismic signature at lower-crustal levels changing laterally along the profile. The lower crust features an irregular distribution of the reflectivity that can be explained by a heterogeneous distribution of physical properties. The Moho discontinuity also features a high variability in its seismic character that correlates with the different tectonic terranes in the area. A 2D finite difference code was used for solving the elastic wave equation and to provide synthetic wide-angle shots. Relatively simple layer cake model derived from conventional refraction interpretation generates the main events of the shot records. However, these models cannot account for the lateral variability of the seismic signature. In order to obtain more realistic simulations, the velocity model was modified introducing stochastic lensing at different levels within the crust. The Moho was modelled as a 3~km thick layered structure. The resulting average velocity models include a high velocity layer at mid-crustal depth, a highly reflective lower crust and a relatively thin horizontal Moho. This heterogeneous model can be achieved by lensing within the crust, a layered mafic intrusion and a strongly laminated lower crust and Moho. {\textcopyright} 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Crustal heterogeneities, Mafic intrusions, Wide-angle stack},
	issn = {00401951},
	doi = {10.1016/j.tecto.2008.05.033},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-67349173557\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Flecha, I. and Palomeras, I. and Carbonell, R. and Simancas, F. and Ayarza, P. and Matas, J. and Gonz{\'a}lez-Lodeiro, F. and P{\'e}rez-Esta{\'u}n, A.}
}
@article {Buffett2009,
	title = {{Seismic reflection along the path of the Mediterranean Undercurrent}},
	journal = {Continental Shelf Research},
	volume = {29},
	number = {15},
	year = {2009},
	month = {aug},
	pages = {1848{\textendash}1860},
	abstract = {Seismic reflection profiling is applied to the study of large scale physical oceanographic processes in the Gulf of C{\'a}diz and western Iberian coast, coinciding with the path of the Mediterranean Undercurrent. The multi-channel seismic reflection method provides clear images of thermohaline fine structure with a horizontal resolution approximately two orders of magnitude higher than CTD casting. The seismic data are compared with co-located historical oceanographic data. Three seismic reflectivity zones are identified: North Atlantic Central Water, Mediterranean Water and North Atlantic Deep Water. Seismic evidence for the path of the Mediterranean Undercurrent is found in the near-slope reflectivity patterns, with rising reflectors between about 500 and 1500 m. However, the core of the undercurrent is largely transparent. Seismic images show that central and, particularly, intermediate Mediterranean Waters have fine structure coherent over horizontal distances of several tens of kilometers. However, the intensity of the reflectors, and their horizontal coherence, decreases downstream. This change in seismic reflectivity is probably the result of diminished vertical thermohaline contrasts between adjacent water masses, so that double-diffusion processes become unable to sustain temperature and salinity staircases. Comparison of root-mean-square seismic amplitudes with temperature and salinity differences between the Mediterranean Undercurrent and the overlying central waters suggests a causal relationship between observed thermohaline fine structure and true seismic amplitudes. We estimate that, within this intermediate water stratum, impedance contrasts are mainly controlled by sound speed contrasts (a factor between 3.5 and 10 times larger than density contrasts), which are mainly controlled by temperature contrasts (a factor between 1.5 and 5 times larger than salinity contrasts). {\textcopyright} 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Amplitude, Entrainment, Mediterranean Undercurrent, Mixing, Salinity, Seismic oceanography, Temperature, thermohaline fine structure},
	issn = {02784343},
	doi = {10.1016/j.csr.2009.05.017},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-69249209739\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Buffett, G.G. and Biescas, B. and Pelegr{\'\i}, J.L. and Mach{\'\i}n, F. and Sallar{\`e}s, V. and Carbonell, R. and Klaeschen, D. and Hobbs, R.}
}
@conference {Monteys2009,
	title = {{Shallow geophysical characterization and fluid flow processes in two large pockmarks on the Malin Shelf, NW Ireland}},
	booktitle = {Near Surface 2009 - 15th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics},
	year = {2009},
	publisher = {European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, EAGE},
	organization = {European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, EAGE},
	abstract = {Shallow geophysical datasets and ground-truthing have been used in this research to characterize in detail two large gas related depressions in a recently discovered pockmark field on the Malin Shelf, northwest Ireland. Pockmarks are aligned to the main deep fault of the region, the SW-NE Skerryvore Fault. High resolution multibeam bathymetry and backscatter reveal the surface morphology of these seabed features to the meter scale. They appear as subcircular depressions and present several units within a generally smooth seabed. Shallow seismic and single-beam echosounder records reveal evidence of gas related activity within the subsurface strata. Electromagnetic results present a number of anomalies in conductivity associated with inhomogenities in the upper strata. These anomalies consist in a decrease in conductivity and in general, correlate well with acoustic anomalies.},
	isbn = {9073781728},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84912149526\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Monteys, X. and Garcia, X. and Evans, R. and Szpak, M. and Kelleher, B. and Hardy, D.}
}
@article {Stupazzini2009,
	title = {{Study of Rotational Ground Motion in the Near-Field Region}},
	journal = {Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America},
	volume = {99},
	number = {2B},
	year = {2009},
	month = {may},
	pages = {1271{\textendash}1286},
	abstract = {During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries observational seismologists recorded primarily the earthquake-induced translational wave field, while the rotational motion still remains poorly observed and investigated. We aim to further understand the rotational ground motion and its relation to the translational wave field, with a special emphasis on the near field, a few wavelengths away from the hypocenter, where damage related to rotational motion might need to be considered. A broad picture of the available values of rotational amplitudes and their variability is obtained by gathering most of the published data on strong rotational motion. To obtain a more detailed picture we perform a large scale 3D numerical study of a strike-slip event in the Grenoble valley where a combination of topographic, source, and site effects produces a realistic wave field. We analyzed the synthetic dataset in terms of the rotational and translational peak amplitudes and their dependence on two effects: nonlinear soil behavior and source directivity. On a soft soil deposit, we observe peak ground rotation of 1 mrad and the peak ground rotation rate of 10 mrad/sec, for an Mw 6.0 event. Those values show a strong dependence on the hypocenter location, the local site conditions, and the topographical features, inducing a variability of almost one order of magnitude in a range of distances of 20 km. Finally, we compare our numerical results in terms of peak ground velocity (PGV) versus peak ground rotation (PG${\o}mega$) with field data obtained at similar scenarios (e.g., Parkfield) by array techniques to investigate the relation between translational and rotational amplitudes expected in the near field for shallow, medium-sized earthquakes. Results of our numerical simulation fit reasonably well with those observed in past studies. Furthermore, the spatial variations of the PGV/PG${\o}mega$ ratio show a trend, which is correlated with the velocity structure of the model under study.},
	issn = {0037-1106},
	doi = {10.1785/0120080153},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-67649962349\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Stupazzini, M. and De La Puente, J. and Smerzini, C. and Kaser, M. and Igel, H. and Castellani, A.}
}
@book {VonHuene2009a,
	title = {{Subduction Zone Geodynamics}},
	series = {Frontiers in Earth Sciences},
	year = {2009},
	month = {oct},
	publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
	organization = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
	address = {Berlin, Heidelberg},
	abstract = {21 pages, 8 figures, 1 table},
	keywords = {Accretion, Convergent margins, Subduction erosion},
	isbn = {978-3-540-87971-8},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-87974-9},
	url = {http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/83778 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/83778},
	author = {von Huene, Roland and Ranero, Cesar R. and Scholl, Dave W.},
	editor = {Lallemand, Serge and Funiciello, Francesca}
}
@article {LoIacono2008,
	title = {{Seafloor characterization and backscatter variability of the Almer{\'\i}a Margin (Alboran Sea, SW Mediterranean) based on high-resolution acoustic data}},
	journal = {Marine Geology},
	volume = {250},
	number = {1-2},
	year = {2008},
	month = {apr},
	pages = {1{\textendash}18},
	abstract = {An acoustic study of the Almer{\'\i}a Margin (eastern Alboran Sea, SW Mediterranean) was carried out by means of an integrated dataset, comprising deep-towed TOBI sidescan sonar, swath-bathymetry, TOPAS high-resolution seismics and sediment gravity cores. The Almer{\'\i}a Margin is a complex system dominated by volcanic and tectonic features shaped by recent sedimentary processes, in which a regional hemipelagic sedimentation is intercalated by sporadic gravitative events. The aim of this work is twofold. The first objective is to recognize the sedimentary and tectonic features that shape the Almeria Margin. The main morpho-sedimentary and morpho-structural elements observed are: the Almer{\'\i}a canyon/channel Turbidite System, the Dal{\'\i}as Tributary Valley System, landslides, active faults and folds and volcanic banks. The second aim is to explore and quantify the surface and subsurface seafloor parameters that characterize the backscatter of the study area. Sedimentary, geomorphological and biological elements that play a role in the acoustic signature of the Almer{\'\i}a Margin were detected. Nevertheless, it should be noted that seafloor acoustic backscatter is also affected by geometrical and instrumental factors. Despite the wide variability of the environments studied, a low average acoustic backscatter reflects a diffused draping of hemipelagic sedimentation in the area. Higher backscatter values were observed at the top of some volcanic banks, along the Almer{\'\i}a canyon, and in the shallower sector of the Dal{\'\i}as tributary valley system. The influence of subseafloor properties in the acoustic signature of the area was revealed by backscatter-grain size correlations, which were carried out for different depth intervals in sediment cores collected in the Almer{\'\i}a Turbidite System. A poor relationship was found between backscatter and superficial silty sediments of the area, whereas a higher correlation resulted in the upper 50~cm. The presence of subsurface turbidites in the cores associated with the higher backscatter values suggests volume interface scattering of these sandy layers as a controlling factor of the acoustic signature obtained in the Almer{\'\i}a Margin. On the other hand, in rough settings such as the ones observed in the Dal{\'\i}as Tributary Valley System, topographic relief of up to 1-1.5~m strongly interacted with the TOBI acoustic pulse. This suggests that large-scale roughness is an additional parameter that characterizes the acoustic strength of the area. Extremely high reflective patches distributed along some of the volcanic banks (Chella and Pollux Banks) for depths ranging from 230 to 470~m coincide with areas where carbonate cold water coral mounds develop. In the TOBI images, coral facies reach the maximum value of acoustic backscatter, which is probably related to the rough morphology of coral ecosystems. The position of coral mounds in the banks suggests that the occurrence of strong bottom currents and reduced sedimentary inputs are environmental factors that favour their settling and development in the Almer{\'\i}a Margin. {\textcopyright} 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {backscatter, coral mounds, deep-towed sidescan sonar TOBI, high-resolution seismics, Mediterranean Sea, South Iberian Margin, swath-bathymetry},
	issn = {00253227},
	doi = {10.1016/j.margeo.2007.11.004},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-41349119993\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Lo Iacono, Claudio and Gr{\'a}cia, Eul{\`a}lia and Diez, Susana and Bozzano, Graziella and Moreno, Ximena and Da{\~n}obeitia, Juanjo and Alonso, Bel{\'e}n}
}
@book {Puente2008,
	title = {{Seismic Wave Propagation for Complex Rheologies}},
	year = {2008},
	abstract = {Seismic waves are produced whenever a large amount of energy is released under the surface of the Earth, for example when earthquakes occur. Such waves are perturbed by the heterogeneities they find in their travel through the subsurface, from hypocenter to seismometer. In the last decades, the increase in computational power has made it possible to simulate the propagation of seismic waves in fully 3D heterogeneous media. However, the subsoil often displays very complicated geometrical structures which are difficult to nest by nowadays simulation methods. The ADER-DG (Arbitrary high-order DERivatives Discontinuous Galerkin) method provides the means to better represent subsoil geological structures using tetrahedral meshes. Such meshes can be easily deformed and adapted to very complicated geometries such as folded layers, faults and shallow basins. In this book the ADER-DG method is developed for problems of elastodynamics and further extended to accommodate anisotropic, viscoelastic and poroelastic rheologies. For all cases examples are provided to verify the fast convergence properties and to show the precision of the synthetic seismograms computed.},
	isbn = {3639016793},
	url = {http://books.google.es/books/about/Seismic\_Wave\_Propagation\_for\_Complex\_Rhe.html?id=oqbVOQAACAAJ\&pgis=1},
	author = {Puente, Josep De La}
}
@article {Garcia2008a,
	title = {{Strong-weak network anisotropy switching and hysteresis in three-dimensional granular materials}},
	journal = {Physical Review E},
	volume = {78},
	number = {2},
	year = {2008},
	pages = {021305},
	abstract = {We address hysteresis of three-dimensional polydisperse granular packs, comparing macro- and microscopic viewpoints, to reveal their elastic/inelastic mechanics and force network anisotropy. During the uniaxial loading-unloading cycle of an appropriately prepared pack, one can decompose the force network into weak and strong subnetworks. The first stages of loading exhibit arching, where all the fabric displays negative anisotropy. For later stages, the strong (weak) network shows positive (negative) anisotropy. On unloading, the force network progresses to a fabric wide hydrostatic point, where the anisotropies of the weak and strong subnetworks switch signs. During the loading stage, a Mohr circle analysis permits the identification of a well-defined macroscopic internal friction angle, whose value is larger than that of grain-grain interactions. To analyze unloading, a generalized local Coulomb-friction argument predicts a continuously changing friction angle, that vanishes at the hydrostatic point. A suggestive interplay between microscopic friction and fabric structure, at different loding stages, is proposed as the mechanism for the emergence of a macro internal friction angle. {\textcopyright} 2008 The American Physical Society.},
	issn = {1539-3755},
	doi = {10.1103/PhysRevE.78.021305},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-50849085166\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Garcia, Xavier and Medina, Ernesto}
}
@conference {Urgeles2007,
	title = {{Scientific Ocean Drilling Behind the Assessment of Geo-hazards from Submarine Slides}},
	booktitle = {Eos},
	volume = {88},
	number = {17},
	year = {2007},
	pages = {192},
	issn = {00963941},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-34249827905\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Urgeles, Roger and Camerlenghi, Angelo and Ercilla, Gemma and Anselmetti, Flavio and Br{\"u}ckmann, Warner and Canals, Miquel and Gr{\'a}cia, Eul{\`a}lia and Locat, Jacques and Krastel, Sebastian and Solheim, Anders}
}
@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}
}
@book {Sallares2007,
	title = {{Special Paper 430: Plates, Plumes and Planetary Processes}},
	series = {Special Paper of the Geological Society of America},
	volume = {430},
	year = {2007},
	pages = {507{\textendash}524},
	publisher = {Geological Society of America},
	organization = {Geological Society of America},
	abstract = {At present there is no single "unified theory" capable of explaining the variety of geological, geophysical, and geochemical observations that characterize what is generically known as hotspot magmatism. An increasing number of geophysical and geo- chemical observations disagree with the predictions of the conventional thermal plume model, in which excess melting is due mainly to high mantle temperatures. Other parameters such as the presence of water or the composition of the mantle source have been shown to be as important as temperature in controlling the structure and physical properties of the igneous crust. In this article we first emphasize the importance of doing proper velocity and density modeling, including comprehensive uncertainty analysis, to determine how well resolved the geophysical parameters actually are. We show that in some cases the contribution of velocity-derived lateral crustal density variations can be sufficiently significant to account for the observed gravity and topography anomalies without calling for noticeable mantle density contrasts. Next we show that the comparison of crustal geometry obtained along age-progressive volcanic tracks enables temporal variations of the hotspot-ridge distance to be estimated. Finally we use a 2-D mantle melting model to illustrate the effect of different mantle melting parameters on the resulting crustal structure. The tests made indicate that it is difficult to find a plausible combination of mantle temperature, upwelling rate, melt productivity, and thickness of the melting zone to explain either the high-velocity, un- derplated bodies frequently described at midplate settings or the lack of a positive crustal thickness-velocity (H-Vp) correlation found at igneous provinces originated on-ridge. We suggest that the main parameter controlling the generation of volcanic underplating is the presence of a lithospheric lid limiting the extent of the mantle melting zone, whereas the H-Vp anticorrelation can be related to the presence of a major element heterogeneity, such as eclogite derived from recycled oceanic lithosphere, in the mantle source. {\textcopyright} 2007 The Geological Society of America.},
	keywords = {Crustal structure, Density, Mantle melting parameters, Seismic velocity},
	isbn = {978-0-8137-2430-0},
	issn = {00721077},
	doi = {10.1130/978-0-8137-2430-0},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-75749138216\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Sallares, Valenti and Calahorrano, Alcinoe}
}
