• Mineralogical and Crystal-Chemical Constraints on the Glauconite-Forming Process in Neogene Sediments of the Lower Guadalquivir Basin (SW Spain) 

  Fernández Landero, Sandra; Fernández Caliani, Juan Carlos (MDPI, 2021-05)

  Glaucony is a significant green marine facies in the northwestern passive margin of the Guadalquivir Basin (Spain), where glauconite formed authigenically on a sediment-starved continental shelf, with fecal pellets and ...

  

• On the rootless nature of a Devonian suture in SW Iberia (Ossa-Morena Complex, Variscan Orogen): geometry and kinematics of the Azuaga Fault 

  Díez Fernández, Rubén; Fernández Rodríguez, Carlos; Arenas, Ricardo; Novo Fernández, Irene (Wiley, 2021-05)

  Suture zones are key to understand collisional orogens, but not all the remains of subduction leading to collision occur in the root of the suture. The Azuaga Fault bounds a Devonian suture zone known as Central Unit. ...

  

• Distribution and availability of rare earth elements and trace elements in the estuarine waters of the Ría of Huelva (SW Spain) 

  Ruiz Cánovas, Carlos; Basallote Sánchez, María Dolores; Macías Suárez, Francisco (Elsevier, 2020-08)

  Metal pollution in estuaries represents a serious environmental challenge, especially in areas affected by industrial and mining activities. This study investigates the metal partitioning and availability of rare earth ...

  

• Mine waters as a secondary source of rare earth elements worldwide: The case of the Iberian Pyrite Belt 

  León, Rafael; Macías Suárez, Francisco; Ruiz Cánovas, Carlos; Pérez López, Rafael; Ayora Ibáñez, Carlos; Nieto Liñán, José Miguel; Olías Álvarez, Manuel (Elsevier, 2021-05)

  Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) generates a great concern worldwide due to its severe impact to water resources during hundreds and even thousands of years after the cessation of mining activity if control measures are not ...

  

• Geochemical behaviour and transport of technology critical metals (TCMs) by the Tinto River (SW Spain) to the Atlantic Ocean 

  Ruiz Cánovas, Carlos; Basallote Sánchez, María Dolores; Macías Suárez, Francisco; Olías Álvarez, Manuel; Pérez López, Rafael; Ayora, Carlos; Nieto Liñán, José Miguel (Elsevier, 2021-04)

  This paper addresses the behaviour of several technology critical metals (TCMs), i.e., rare earth elements (REEs), Y, Sc, Ga and Tl, in the Tinto River (SW Spain), quantifying their fluxes to the Atlantic Ocean and unravelling ...

  

• Messinian ostracodes from the western Betic Strait (SW Spain) 

  Romero, Verónica; Ruiz Muñoz, Francisco; González-Regalado Montero, María Luz; Tosquella Angrill, Josep; Abad de los Santos, Manuel; Izquierdo, Tatiana; Toscano Grande, Antonio; Gómez, Paula (Carnets de Geologie, 2021-04)

  During the Neogene, the Betic Strait was one of the gateways that connected the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. In this paper, we have analyzed the ostracod faunas of samples collected from sediments crossed ...

  

• Copper Flash Smelting Process Balance Modeling 

  Bacedoni, María; Moreno-Ventas Bravo, Ignacio; Ríos, Guillermo (MDPI, 2020-09)

  Process control in flash smelting is based on mass and energy balance from which the operational parameters (oxygen coefficient, oxygen enrichment, and flux demand) are obtained to achieve matte and slag with defined ...

  

• The Evolution of Pollutant Concentrations in a River Severely Affected by Acid Mine Drainage: Río Tinto (SW Spain) 

  Olías Álvarez, Manuel; Ruiz Cánovas, Carlos; Macías Suárez, Francisco; Basallote Sánchez, María Dolores; Nieto Liñán, José Miguel (MDPI, 2020-06)

  The Río Tinto, located in the Iberian Pyrite Belt (SW Spain), constitutes an extreme case of pollution by acid mine drainage. Mining in the area dates back to the Copper Age, although large-scale mining of massive sulfide ...

  

• Raw material procurement and selection in Southeast Iberia’s early metallurgy 

  Murillo Barroso, Mercedes; Montero Ruiz, Ignacio; Camalich Massieu, M.ª Dolores; Nieto Liñán, José Miguel (CSIC, 2020-06)

  The role of metallurgy in the Copper Age communities of the Iberian Southeast is a recurrent question of archaeological research in western Europe. Based on lead isotope and trace element analyses of archaeometallurgical ...

  

• Deformation mechanics in inclined, brittle-ductile transpression zones: Insights from 3D finite element modelling 

  Tohid Nabavi, Seyed; Ahmad Alavi, Seyed; Díaz Azpiroz, Manuel; Fernández Caliani, Juan Carlos (Elsevier, 2020-08)

  Most natural examples of transpression zones developed at oblique convergence regime are inherently 3D and have inclined boundaries. A 3D finite element model with an elasto-plastic rheology is used to investigate ...

  

• Pit lakes from Southern Sweden: natural radioactivity and elementary characterization 

  Mantero, J.; Thomas, R.; Holm, E.; Ruiz Cánovas, Carlos (Nature Research, 2020-08)

  Natural radioactivity in the environment is a field gaining more attention in last decades. This work is focused on the study of natural radioactivity complemented with elementary characterization at former non‑uraniferous ...

  

• El embalse de Gossan-Cobre (Huelva): un laboratorio natural para estudiar los procesos de precipitación química. 

  Macías Suárez, Francisco; Morales González, Juan Antonio (Asociación Española para la Enseñanza de las Ciencias de la Tierra (AEPECT), 2020-06)

  

• A new early Visean coral assemblage from Azrou-Khenifra Basin, central Morocco and palaeobiogeographic implications 

  Rodríguez, Sergio; Somerville, Ian D.; Cózar, Pedro; Sanz López, J.; Coronado, Ismael; González Barrionuevo, Felipe; Said, Ismail; El Houicha, Mohamed (SpringerOpen, 2020-02)

  A new early Visean coral assemblage has been recorded from turbidite facies in the southern part of the Azrou- Khenifra Basin, northwest of Khenifra, central Morocco. The newly discovered Ba Moussa West (BMW) coral ...

  

• Massive Sulfide Ores in the Iberian Pyrite Belt: Mineralogical and Textural Evolution 

  Ruiz de Almodóvar Sel, Gabriel; Yesares Ortiz, María Dolores; Sáez Ramos, Reinaldo; Toscano Macías, Manuel; González Barrionuevo, Felipe; Pons, J. M. (MDPI, 2019-11)

  The Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB) is recognized as having one of the major concentrations of volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits on Earth. Original resources of about 2000 Mt of massive sulfides have been reported ...

  

• Calculated Potential Bedload Versus Real Transported Sands along the Guadiana River Estuary (Spain–Portugal) 

  Morales González, Juan Antonio; Lozano Guerra-Librero, Claudio; Sedrati, Mouncef (MDPI, 2019-11)

  The Guadiana estuary is a coastal system located in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula and is the natural border between Portugal and Spain. It is a rock-bounded estuary which extends along more than 40 km and is ...

  

• Mineral reactivity in sulphide mine wastes: influence of mineralogy and grain size on metal release 

  Ruiz Cánovas, Carlos; González de la Aleja Pérez, Carolina; Macías Suárez, Francisco; Pérez López, Rafael; Basallote Sánchez, María Dolores; Olías Álvarez, Manuel; Nieto Liñán, José Miguel (Copernicus Publications, 2019)

  The aqueous oxidation of sulphide minerals leads to the generation of acid mine drainage (AMD), one of the main causes of water pollution worldwide. Mineral reactivity is greatly enhanced as a result of extraction and ...

  

• Geometría de las unidades superiores del relleno holoceno del canal estuarino del Odiel (Huelva, SO de España) 

  Aguilar, M. Eugenia; Morales González, Juan Antonio; Morales Mateo, Raquel; Feria, M. Carmen; González, Miguel A.; González Batanero, Diego (Sociedad Geológica de España, 2019-06)

  Since the 90s decade, the authority of Huelva harbor located on the estuary of the Odiel River, has made numerous vibracores in the port channel. These data are available in their files. In this study 258 of these ...

  

• Análisis de la vulnerabilidad de las poblaciones costeras de la provincia de Huelva (suroeste de España) ante tsunamis 

  Izquierdo, Tatiana; Abad de los Santos, Manuel; Rodríguez Vidal, Joaquín; Ruiz Muñoz, Francisco; González-Regalado Montero, María Luz (Sociedad Geológica de España, 2019-06)

  Even though the coast of Huelva is considered as a low seismic and tsunamigenic hazardous area, it has suffered numerous marine high-energy events during the last thousands of years. In this work, we have classified the ...

  

• Basin Evolution and Massive Sulfide Deposition at Rammelsberg (Germany): Updating the Subsidence Analysis 

  Moreno Garrido, María Carmen; González Barrionuevo, Felipe; Sáez Ramos, Reinaldo (MDPI, 2019-01)

  The Rammelsberg sulfide deposit is classically considered as a SEDEX-type deposit. The origin of SEDEX-type massive sulfides links with the evolution of their hosting basins. They frequently constitute the source for the ...

  

• Hands in the dark: Palaeolithic rock art in Gorham’s Cave (Gibraltar) 

  Simón Vallejo, María D.; Cortés Sánchez, Miguel; Finlayson, Geraldine; Giles Pacheco, Francisco; Rodríguez Vidal, Joaquín (Universidad de Sevilla, 2018-07)

  The work in the inner area of Gorham’s Cave, Gibraltar, has added to the Palaeolithic art located in the cave. Although work continues on the surveying and the study of the evidence found up to now, we present here a ...

  

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