The Spanish research agency (Agencia Estatal de Investigación) of the Spanish Science and innovation minister (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación)  has conceded a new project to study the Cenozoic sedimentary basins entitle as “EVOLUCION TECTONO-DEPOSICIONAL DE CUENCAS SEDIMENTARIAS CENOZOICAS: CARACTERIZACION 2D-3D Y MEJORA DE PATRONES ESTANDAR” (PID2020-114381GB-I00).

This research project  will develop techniques for the analysis of various types of Cenozoic sedimentary basins in a general compressive or convergent framework (associated with strike-slip faults, transported -piggy-back or wedge-top-, and complex foreland systems). The stratigraphic architecture, biostratigraphic control of the different sedimentary bodies, stratigraphic discontinuities will be studied, as well as  sediments  sources (both terrigeneous and biogenic) through mineralogical, petrographic and geochemical studies.

TEAM

Principal investigator: Manuel Martín-Martín (Alicante University)

Jesús M. Soria (Alicante University)

Manuel Bullejos Lorenzo (Granada University)

Antonio Sánchez Navas (Granada University)

Agustín Martín-Algarra (Granada University)

José Enrique Tent-Manclús (Alicante University)

Josep Tosquella (Huelva University)

Carlos Ureña Almagro (Granada University)

Fernando Pérez-Valera (Alicante University)

Francisco Javier Alcalá-García (Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, IGME)

Estelle Mortimer (University of Leeds)

Douglas Patton (University of Leeds)

Francesco Perri (Calabria University)

Salvatore Critelli (Calabria University)

Crina Miclaus (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University)

Francisco Serrano (Malaga University)