The development of the sinus illicitanus (II)
Change on the coastline of the Southern Alicante region Tent-Manclús, J. E. The Bajo Segura Region is a plain dominated by the Segura River with the mouth towards the Mediterranean Sea on Guardamar. The Hondón and Salinas de Santa Pola lagoons inside the plain, are the remains of a major marine bay known in the […]
Marine Geology field trip to Sorbas (post-pandemic)
This year the students of the third course of Marine sciences of the Alicante University, could not go for a field trip on November as previous years, visiting the Sorbas basin, Cabo de Gata, and Hoyazo de Nijar. When the courses ended on May most of the students did the visit. The visit took place […]
Students of Alicante University did practices in La Albufera
Students of the third course of Geology of the Alicante University within the subject of Regional Geology: visit La Albufera de Valencia. First we have a view of the Ermita dels Sants de la Pedra (Sueca) and then the Silla Port. The evolution of the Albufera from the Middle Ages when was connected with the […]
The development of the sinus illicitanus (I)
The change of the coastline in the southern part of the province of Alicante for the last 15,000 years have been modeled and described in the work of Tent-Manclus (2013). It is obtained by integrating data from different sources and especially high-resolution seismic profiles of the nearby marine continental shelf. Ten periods have been distinguished in the evolution […]
Students of Alicante University do marine geology practices in Denia
Last February 6, 2020, students in the third year of the Marine Geology Degree carried out practices aboard the “Guadalupe” boat. This 12m-length boat assigned to the City of Dénia by the Court of Instruction number 3 of Dénia by the Judge Javier Reyes, is dedicated not only to surveillance tasks of the Marine Reserve […]
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 […]