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Marine Geology field trip to Nijar and Sorbas
As the last year, students of the third course of Marine sciences of the Alicante University visit the Sorbas basin, Cabo de Gata, Hoyazo de Nijar, and Cerro del Espíritu Santo of Vera. The visit took place on 7 and 8 of November of 2019. The visit was organized by Antonio Estévez, Santiago Moliner, and […]
Alicante Messinian Group LOGO
The logo was made by Jesús M. Soria based in an eroded mediterranean margin resembling the M of Messinian. The “Paleoenviromental changes” logo is for the Research Group of the Alicante University. The Alicante Messinian Group was granted by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación Research Project CGL 2007 -6583 .
Neogene Brachiopods and Betic Corridors
Diego García-Ramos University of Vienna, Institut for Paläontologie 1.Introduction Brachiopods, a name that derives from Ancient Greek words βραχίων (“arm”) and πούς (“foot”), make up a phylum of tripoblastic, coelomate, marine invertebrates that belong, along with bryozoans and phoronideans, to the superphylum of the so-called lophophorates. Their body plan consists of two valves displaying bilateral […]
Villafranqueza corals in the 34th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology (Rome)
Entobia is a well-known ichnofacies typical for nearshore environments, differentiated from the Gnatichnus ichnofacies as being related to more stable conditions in high-energy settings and longer times of exposure of the bottoms. Surroundings of the city of Alicante (Villafranqueza section, SE Spain), boring structures related to the Entobia ichnofacies were observed on an Eocene rockground colonized after a Miocene […]
Kuphus beds at the 34th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology
“Kuphus beds in an Oligocene carbonate platform (Sierra de la Argüeña, Southeastern Spain): palaeoecological context and relationship with shallowing-upward cycles” by Alice Giannetti and Santiago Falces-Delgado Although the Oligocene carbonate platforms saw the development of Kuphus-dominated assemblages, few studies addressed the role of these bivalves in ancient shallow-water ecosystems. Kuphus is a genus of peculiar teredinid […]
Tethyan to Mediterranean Evolution
Message from the Guest Editor Dear Colleagues, Several geological modeling studies on the geodynamic and paleogeographic Alpine (Eo-Alpine during the Cretaceous–Paleogene; Neo-Alpine during the Oligocene– Miocene) evolution of the Mediterranean have been published without consensus in the last four decades. Therefore, a Special Issue dedicated to “Tethayan to Mediterranean evolution” seems justified. Studies that consider the geodynamic and/or paleogeographic evolution of the entire […]
Sorbas and Nijar visit
Students of the third course of Marine sciences of the Alicante University visit the Sorbas basin, Cabo de Gata, Hojazo de Nijar, and Cerro del Espíritu Santo of Vera. The visit took place on 8 and 9 of November of 2018. The visit was organized by José Enrique Tent-Manclús. Photograph of students watching the […]
Members of the Alicante Messinian Group
The team leader is the Professor Jesús M. Soria of the Alicante University. Jesús Soria (in the 90’s) pointing to a palm-tree-gypsum near Benejúzar (Alicante). Team Members: Antonio Estévez Alfonso Yébenes José Antonio Pina José Enrique Tent-Manclús Ignacio Fierro José Francisco Baeza-Carratalá Alice Giannetti Hugo A. Corbi Juan J. Peral https://dctma.ua.es https://imem.ua.es
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