@booklet {LoIacono2010a,
	title = {{Very high-resolution seismo-acoustics in the study of seagrasses. The case of posidonia oceanica (Mediterranean sea)}},
	year = {2010},
	month = {mar},
	publisher = {SARTI (Technological Development Centre of Remote Acquisition and Data processing Systems)},
	abstract = {The study of active structures offshore requires very-high resolution seismic imaging in order to observe the most recent layers below sea floor. In the other hand, high penetration methods are necessary to observe deeper reflections for understanding the evolution of the structure throughout the time. The aim of our study is to establish the seismic potential of the offshore segment of the Carboneras Fault, Eastern Betics, based on multiscale seismic imaging. Three different scale methods have been acquired and are compared here: very-high-resolution sub-bottom profiler TOPAS, very-high-resolution single-channel seismic (Sparker) and high-resolution multi-channel seismic. From seismic profiles, faulted Quaternary layers suggest that the Carboneras Fault is active. Sediment coring and dating analysis are used to consider ages for key reflectors observed in TOPAS profiles, and a change in the vertical slip-rate through the Quaternary is inferred.},
	keywords = {{\`A}rees tem{\`a}tiques de la UPC::Enginyeria electr{\`o}nica, Holocene, Mediterranean Sea, Non linear seismo-acoustics, Seagrasses},
	url = {http://upcommons.upc.edu//handle/2099/8613},
	author = {Lo Iacono, Claudio and Gr{\'a}cia, Eul{\`a}lia and Da{\~n}obeitia, Juan Jos{\'e}}
}
@article {Munjiza2010,
	title = {{The Virtual Geoscience Workbench, VGW: Open Source tools for discontinuous systems}},
	journal = {Particuology},
	volume = {8},
	number = {2},
	year = {2010},
	month = {apr},
	pages = {100{\textendash}105},
	abstract = {In 1989 work began on merging finite and discrete elements. During 1990 algorithmic solutions for the new combined method were developed, together with a C-based implementation known as the Y code. In 2004 these developments and implementations were published as a textbook. Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and Imperial College are currently engaged in a research project to make Y codes in both 2D and 3D available in Open Source format and with mainly geoscience problems in mind. The result is a set of Open Source tools for Geoscience (VGW), key components of which are summarised in this paper, together with illustrative range of simulation results. {\textcopyright} 2009 Chinese Society of Particuology and Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences.},
	keywords = {Combined finite-discrete element, Geoscience, Modelling, Workbench},
	issn = {16742001},
	doi = {10.1016/j.partic.2009.04.008},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77949485463\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Munjiza, A. and XIANG, J. and Garcia, X. and Latham, J.P. and D{\textquoteright}Albano, G.G. Schiava and John, N.W.M.}
}
@article {LoIacono2008a,
	title = {{Very high-resolution seismo-acoustic imaging of seagrass meadows (Mediterranean Sea): Implications for carbon sink estimates}},
	journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
	volume = {35},
	number = {18},
	year = {2008},
	month = {sep},
	pages = {L18601},
	abstract = {Posidonia oceanica is a widespread coastal Mediterranean seagrass which accumulates in its subsurface large quantities of organic material derived from its roots, rhizomes and leaf sheaths embedded in sandy sediments. These organic deposits may be up to several meters thick as they accumulate over thousands of years forming the matte, whose high content in organic carbon plays a major role in the global ocean carbon cycle. In this study, very high-resolution seismo-acoustic methods were applied to image the subsurface features of a P. oceanica seagrass meadow at Portlligat (Cadaqu{\'e}s, Girona, Spain), in the NW-Mediterranean Sea. Our findings yield fresh insights into the settling of the P. oceanica meadow in the study area, and define with unprecedented detail the potential volume occupied by the matte. A strong reflector, located from 4.3 to 11.7 m depth, was recognized in several seismo-acoustic profiles as the substratum on which P. oceanica first settled in the study area. A 3D bathymetric model of this substratum allowed us to reconstruct the Portlligat palaeo-environment prior to the settling of P. oceanica, which corresponded to a shallow coastal setting protected from the open sea. A core drilled in the meadow at Portlligat revealed the presence of a 6 in thick dense matte composed of medium to coarse, sandy sediments mixed with plant debris and bioclasts. Radiocarbon datings revealed a constant accretion rate of the matte of about 1.1 m/kyr. Gravelly bioclastic deposits observed at the base of the core correspond to the base of the matte and gave a date of 5616 {\textpm} 46 Cal yr BP. For the first time, very high-resolution marine geophysical techniques allowed us to accurately define the volume occupied by P. oceanica matte, which in the study area reaches up to almost 220,000 {\textpm} 17,400 M3. This result is an important step forward in our efforts to estimate the size of the carbon sink represented by P. oceanica meadows along the Mediterranean coasts significantly contributing to the biosphere carbon cycle. Copyright 2008 by the American Geophysical Union.},
	issn = {0094-8276},
	doi = {10.1029/2008GL034773},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-57849159443\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Lo Iacono, Claudio and Mateo, Miguel Angel and Gr{\'a}cia, Eul{\`a}lia and Guasch, Lluis and Carbonell, Ram{\'o}n and Serrano, Laura and Serrano, Oscar and Da{\~n}obeitia, Juanjo}
}
