Escrito por messinianalicante el 20 de February, 2026

Three of the top cited paper, the first one, Criniti et al. (2023), the fourth one, Martín-Martín et al. (2023a), and the seventh, Martín-Martin et al., (2023b), have been written by our group, and have been referred in this blog.

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Escrito por messinianalicante el 31 de October, 2025

Interactive 3D HTML models and visualizations of geological structures derived from classic surface geological information have been developed, for the first time, in a Python environment, using the key case of the tectonic Mula sheets in the Betic Cordillera (southern Spain). These models were performed through several steps: a geological 2D sketch map, creating equispaced […]

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Escrito por messinianalicante el 4 de September, 2025

The Sierra Espuña and the Mula-Gebas intramontane basin, SE Spain, represent the Internal-External Zone Boundary (IEZB) of the Eastern Betic Cordillera. The Miocene infill of this basin seals the IEZB and is mainly derived from the Internal Zone. This deposition is coeval with a Late Miocene volcanism. Therefore, the study of these sediments is crucial […]

Continuar leyendo sobre The Miocene sedimentary cover of the Mula-Gebas Basin (South Spain)

Escrito por messinianalicante el 28 de August, 2025

According to classical literature, two Paleogene platforms developed along the northern and southern margins of the Neo-Tethys Ocean. Similar platforms have been recognized on the southern margin of a “lost domain” consisting of an independent microplate known as the “Mesomediterranean Microplate” (MM) in the westernmost Neo-Tethys Ocean. This microplate underwent tectonic dismantling and drifting during […]

Continuar leyendo sobre Deciphering Paleogene platforms from a “Lost Domain” in the Western Neo-Tethys 

 Early Jurassic multicostate Terebratulida are substantiated in the Subbetic Domain and reported in the Iberian Range for the first time. Records of this clade are revised in the peri-Iberian platforms (Subbetic, Iberian Range, Gibraltar, North and NE Spain, Lusitanian basin) in order to evaluate their global pattern distribution across the Tethys Ocean. After a new […]

Continuar leyendo sobre Multicostate terebratulides (Brachiopoda, Early Jurassic) in the westernmost Tethys Ocean

Escrito por messinianalicante el 18 de July, 2025

The Koudiat El Madene Unit (Arba Massif) belongs to the Kabylian “Dorsal” (Algerian Internal Zone). The stratigraphy and tectonic structuring of the area is equivalent to the western Moroccan Internal Rif and its counterpart in the Spanish Internal Betic Cordillera. In fact, all these chain segments are due to a common Cenozoic geodynamic evolution related […]

Continuar leyendo sobre Koudiat El Madene unit (Kabylian “Dorsal”, Algeria) and its correlation

Escrito por messinianalicante el 14 de July, 2025

A broad region of Mesozoic to Cenozoic tectonism along the western and central Circum- Mediterranean (CM) margins, from southern Spain (Betic Cordillera) to the northern Morocco (Rif) and Italy (Apennines), includes huge volumes of sedimentary record since the Late Paleozoic. These sediments are contemporaneous and related with the fragmentation of the Pangean supercontinent due to […]

Continuar leyendo sobre History of western Tethys Ocean and the birth of the circum-mediterranean orogeny

Escrito por messinianalicante el 25 de May, 2025

 In the Betic-Rif Cordilleras, recent works have evidenced the existence of well-developed Eocene (Ypresian-Bartonian) carbonate platforms rich in Larger Benthic Foraminifera (LBF). Contrarily to other sectors of the western Tethys, like the Pyrenean domain in the North Iberian Margin, where these platforms started in the early Ypresian (Ilerdian), in the Betic-Rif chains, the recorded Eocene […]

Continuar leyendo sobre Eocene Gravity Flows in the Betic Cordillera, Spain

Escrito por messinianalicante el 31 de March, 2025

The march issue of the Geoscience journas has a cover story dealing with the newly published paper in that issue by Tosquella et al. (2025) of our group. In the Betic-Rif Cordilleras the Eocene platforms started in the Cuisian after a gap including the Ilerdian. An Eocene succession with gravity flows consisting of turbidites and […]

Continuar leyendo sobre Geosciences, Volume 15, Issue 3 (March 2025)

Thirteen Paleocene-Eocene sections have been studied along the Prebetic Domain (South Iberian Margin) in the Alicante, Murcia, Granada, and Jaen Sectors. The sedimentary realms (mostly consisting in 15 shallow marine Lithofacies) and the tectono-sedimentary evolution were characterized. Three informal stratigraphic units were proposed and dated with planktic foraminifera, calcareous nannoplankton, and Larger Benthic Foraminifera (LBF): […]

Continuar leyendo sobre  Paleocene-Eocene evolution of the Prebetics (South Spain) and comparison with other western Tethyan margins