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Es un hecho que en los últimos años ha aumentado la sensibilización y el interés por los desastres naturales ante los acaecidos sucesos como el tsunami de Indonesia en 2004, los terremotos de Haití y Chile en 2010 (este último acompañado de un tsunami) o el terremoto y tsunami de Japón en 2011, que produjeron un elevado número de víctimas y generad...
Las cavidades kársticas del peñón de Gibraltar contienen en su mayoría depósitos arqueológicos que abarcan, hasta el momento, niveles del Pleistoceno Superior, Holoceno e históricos. Rich Sands Cave constituye uno de éstos fenómenos kársticos, situado al pie del acantilado oriental del Peñón, donde se ha documentado un depósito holocénico con regis...
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The region of Murcia, in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula, experiences moderate tectonic activity, with earthquakes of up to 6.2-6.9 Mw recorded. Even with seismic activity of this scale there is no geological or instrumental record of tsunamis affecting the area. The presence at Cape Cope, Murcia of a...
Resumen La estratigrafía de los isótopos del oxígeno no es un método de datación por sí mismo, sino que es necesaria la comparación de nuestros registros con secuencias isotópicas "globales" para su correlación. La proporción de los isótopos del oxígeno (O 16 , O 18) en compuestos moleculares que contienen este elemento (p.ej. H 2 O, CaCO 3) varía...
Resumen Los sondeos de hielo en los casquetes polares (Groenlandia y Antártida) han permitido profundizar en el conocimiento de los cambios climáticos registrados en los sondeos oceánicos profundos y el registro de los isótopos del oxígeno. La gran variedad de datos obtenidos, tanto a partir del análisis del hielo, como del aire atrapado en sus bur...
The geoheritage and geodiversity of the national parks contribute, together with biodiversity, to make them protected natural areas that are unique in Spain, but also unique worldwide. Geoheritage is non-renewable and if it is lost or degraded it does so forever. Under the Global Change and Climate Change scenario, the geoheritage of the Canary nat...
This chapter offers an overview of the current knowledge of the southwest Iberian tsunami geological record. Specifically, this chapter summarizes three decades of research on tsunami and storm deposit recognition, differentiation and establishing chronologies of past events. The impact and signature of the CE 1755 within coastal stratigraphic unit...
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A sedimentary sequence covering the entire last glacial cycle (period between Terminations I and II) outcrops along the south-eastern coast of Formentera Island. A detailed geomorphological, geological and sedimentological study, supported by geochemical, soil and soil-morphology analys...
The dune fields of the National and Natural Parks of Doñana are considered one of the most outstanding dune fields in Western Europe. They are located at the west margin of the Guadalquivir river estuary. The accumulation of aeolian sands partly blocks the connection between the ample Guadalquivir River estuary and the Gulf of Cádiz in the Atlantic...
The dune fields of the National and Natural Parks of Doñana are considered one of the most outstanding dune fields in Western Europe. They are located at the west margin of the Guadalquivir river estuary. The accumulation of aeolian sands partly blocks the connection between the ample Guadalquivir River estuary and the Gulf of Cádiz in the Atlantic...
El Sidrón Cave is an archaeological and anthropological reference site of the Neanderthal world. It shows singular activity related to cannibalisation, and all existing processes are relevant to explain the specific behaviour of the concerned individuals. This paper presents geoarchaeological data, primarily based on mineralogical and petrographic...
The third edition of the Chronostratigraphic Chart for the Quatemary of the Iberian Peninsula (v 3.0) substitutes the older 2007 and 2009 versions (Silva et al., 2009). The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), and more specifically the Subcommission on Quatemary Stratigraphy (SQS), has been working since 2009 both in the formal definitio...
Análisis paleontológicos, geomorfológicos y sedimentológicos obtenidos a lo largo de los últimos 30 años en el litoral mediterráneo español, muestran un importante cambio meteorológico al final del último período interglaciar (MIS 5e). El pico más cálido
del MIS5e (135-120 ka; Hearty et al., 2007) ha sido datado en el litoral Mediterráneo español e...
After the 2004 Indian Ocean (IOT) and the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunamis, new research in tsunami-related fields was strongly stimulated worldwide and also in the Mediterranean. This research growth yields substantial advancements in tsunami knowledge.
Among these advancements is the “Paleotsunami” research that has marked particular progress on the reco...
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The volcanic Cape Verde archipelago constitutes one of the few sites in low latitude eastern Atlantic Ocean, where a long record of Pleistocene sea-level indicators develops, particularly beach deposits and marine terraces. The extreme aridity of the easternmost islands (Sal, Boa Vista and Maio) allows the exposure of long sedimentary sequences, th...
The recent geodynamic evolution of Iberia is recorded in its topography. Geomorphic markers and their dating; morphometric indices estimated through cutting-edge DEM analysis techniques; and the link of all this data with results of geophysical studies allow discussing why Iberia displays the highest average elevation in Europe and shows a particul...
This article is a response to the publication by Nick Marriner, David Kaniewski, Christophe Morhange, Clement Flaux, Matthieu Giaime, Matteo Vacchi and James Goff entitled “Tsunamis in the geological record: Making waves with a cautionary tale from the Mediterranean”, published in October 2017 in Science Advances. Making use of radiometric data set...
The Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, has typically been considered a tectonically stable region without significant seismic activity, in contrast, the region is one that is regularly affected by hurricanes. A detailed survey of ca. 100 km of the eastern Yucatan and Cozumel coast identified the presence of ridges containing boulders measuring >1 m, with u...
Quartz grains collected from Arauco and Mataquito (central Chile) after the 2010 Maule tsunami presented an
overwhelming dominance of dissolution textures. The analysis of superficial imprints proved that some grains
were mechanically impacted before deposition. However, the percentage of grains with fresh surfaces and
percussion marks was signific...
The sedimentary infill bearing the archaeological and anthropological record of the Ossuary Gallery (the Sidrón cave) shows high complexity in both sediment types and their spatial distribution in the cavity. The main factors that govern this complexity are the episodic and highly energetic nature of the recorded sedimentary infill units and the ir...
Geological indicators of former sea level can be considered an accurate tool for determining coseismal vertical displacements. However, sea level markers do not always offer the same degree of reliability. Coastal deposits or marine terraces do not mark by themselves the datum level (±0 m). Differences in altitude amsl in present beaches can reach...
The Iberian Mediterranean coast has very few geological records of EWE (Extreme Wave Events) such as tsunamis or storm surges. Some historical tsunamis have been reported in the region, however, their impact at the coast has been negligible. In Cope Basin (Murcia) there is a boulder ridge containing boulders of >1 m extending up to 8 masl, which wa...
Whilst the SW coast of the Iberian Peninsula has a significant record of extreme wave events (EWE), mostly associated with tsunamis, the Mediterranean coast offers a smaller record of these events, although some historical tsunamis with limited impact have been cited on the coast. In general, these studies have been based on the geological record o...
The innovative application of microtextural analysis to the study of sandy tsunamigenic sediments has been sparsely attempted over recent years. Despite having demonstrated potential as a provenance tool, its reliability as a discriminant proxy for these deposits is still a matter under discussion. This is mainly due to the subjectivity of the anal...
Normally in paleoseismology, the study of the tectonic slip-rate is performed in trenches on the fault scarp, or by the estimation of fault movements from the geomorphic features. In this work, we have carried out a paleoseismic analysis of the Benis Fault, located in southeast Spain, combined with a geothermal analysis inside a deep cave related t...
Characterization of heavy mineral (HM) assemblages in tsunami deposits has been applied to infer inundation and backwash phases and to establish sediment sources. In ideal conditions and due to their specific density (>2.9 g/cm3), heavy minerals are the most suitable component of a sediment assemblage that can provide information regarding flow com...
The Benis Cave is the deepest explored cave (-320m) affecting the Prebetic units of the Betic Cordillera, and
it was related to an active fault. Evidence of Upper Pleistocene paleoseismic activity and the peculiar topography of the cave, hypogenic and fault-related halls, encouraged us to monitor the daily CO2 content in the air composition at dept...
The ancient Roman city of Complutum (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid) was founded in the first century AD and
it was one of the most important cities of Hispania. Complutum was destroyed, abruptly abandoned, relocated in a new location and rebuilt in the fourth century AD. The destruction of the city and its new location is still a mystery to the archaeo...
This paper discusses possibilities to improve the Environmental Seismic Intensity Scale (ESI-07 scale), a scale based on the effects of earthquakes in the environment. This scale comprises twelve intensity degrees and considers primary and secondary effects, one of them the occurrence of tsunamis. Terminology and physical tsunami parameters corresp...
Effects of the 2010 Chilean earthquake and tsunami were evaluated at coastal sites between two zones of different coseismic deformation. Land deformation, run-up, inundation extent and deposit extent and thickness were measured in the field, providing insights into the processes and morphological changes associated with tsunami inundation and backw...
The Piedras River marshland and El Rompido spit bar is a Natural Site in close proximity to two of the most polluted rivers in the world: the Tinto and Odiel Rivers. The aim of this study is to determine the degree of contamination of this Natural Site using a variety of pollution indices. At this site the Holocene infilling sequence is recorded an...
The ancient Roman city of Complutum (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid), founded in the 1st century AD, was one of the most important cities of Hispania. The old Roman city was destroyed, abruptly abandoned, relocated close by and rebuilt during the late 4th century AD. Destruction of the city and its relocation has not yet been explained by archaeologists...
Na monografía clásica de Puig y Larraz (1896: 250-252) amiéntense delles cavidaes del Conceyu de Piloña, pero non la Cueva d’El Sidrón (Fig. 1). Esta conocíase, ensin dulda, dende la Guerra Civil y el maquis al servir d’abellugu a persiguíos políticos, y guarda una alcordanza imborrable nuna de les sos múltiples entraes, yá qu’ellí ta enterrada Olv...
This work summarizes the contribution of the Spanish working group on the Earthquake Environmental Effects (EEE) for their implementation in the ESI-2007 macroseismic Intensity Scale promoted by the INQUA Subcomission on Paleoseismology. At present the Spanish working group has classified a total amount of 20 seismic events, 7 of them instrumental...
This paper presents three examples of ancient earthquakes occurring in coastal areas of the S and SE of the Iberian Peninsula (218 BC, AD 40-60 and AD 1048) with the aim of illustrating the use of geological and archaeological data in their macroseismic characterization. Historical information for ancient earthquakes that occurred in Spain prior to...
This paper presents the preliminary results of a multidisciplinary study of the mixed wave-and-tide dominated estuary of the Piedras
River in the mesotidal coast of the Gulf of Cadix. Nineteen hand cores and three mechanical drill cores allowed reconstructing
the history of infill. Overlying the erosional surface incising the Mio-pliocene pre-estua...
El presente trabajo aborda el análisis paleogeográfico de la Depresión del Bajo Segura donde se ubicaba la antigua bahía Ibero-Romana del Sinus ilicitanus. Se confrontan datos de reconstrucciones paleogeográficas, documentos históricos con el análisis geomorfológico del sistema de acequias, azudes y canales de la zona y su desarrollo en diferentes...
Esta publicación tiene como objetivo servir de orientación y motivación para la investigación de la geomorfología del entorno costero de la Ensenada de Marbella, una zona profundamente transformada por la actividad humana pero que posee numerosas características del más alto interés para las ciencias de la Tierra y el Mar.
Los contenidos pretende...
The south-eastern part of Spain is determined by different active faults affecting limestone terrains. These terrains have been affected by endokarstic processes. The Benis Cave is the deepest explored cave in the region and it was related to an active fault. Evidence of recent paleoseismic activity and the peculiar topography of the cave, encourag...
We have carried out a paleoseismic analysis of the Benis Fault, located at the southeast part of Spain. We have estimated the last earthquake size-magnitude and time, from evidence of celling collapse and displaced broken carbonate blocks (M6 and 65 ± 18 ka BP). Our analysis suggests that the tectonic slip-rate of the Benis Fault is lesser than 0.0...
The ancient Roman city of Complutum (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid) was founded in the first century AD and it was one of the most important cities of Hispania. The old Roman city was destroyed, abruptly abandoned, relocated in a close place and rebuilt in the 4th century AD. The destruction of the city and its new location is not still explained by th...
Trying to decipher how paleoseismic activity has influenced the altitudinal disposition of interglacial deposits is one of the main challenges to be confronted before quantifying relative sea-level changes between consecutive highstands. At the same time, identifying paleoseismic features in an area with low instrumental seismic activity can comple...
The ancient Roman city of Complutum (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid) was founded in the first century AD and it was one of the most important cities of Hispania. Complutum was destroyed, abruptly abandoned, relocated in a new location and rebuilt in the fourth century AD. The destruction of the city and its new location is still a mystery to the archaeo...
At present, limited understanding of mesoscale (years–decades–centuries) back-barrier lagoon, barrier estuary behaviour is a critical shortcoming for resource managers and decision makers. In this paper, high-resolution particle size analysis of a sediment core from an intermittently open and closed barrier estuary is utilised to reconstruct a hist...
Doñana Natural Park is a good global example of the sedimentary filling of a broad tidal estuary during the Mid-Late Holocene, after the last postglacial sea-level rise. The timing of this rise is not well defined yet in the Gulf of Cádiz, since the oldest evidence of coastal sedimentation, located at the right bank of the mouth of the old Guadalqu...
Establishing the future trajectories of coastal wetlands, especially the nature of their disturbance, response and recovery regimes, is of critical importance for a wide range of stakeholders and environmental managers. Reconstructing meso-scale behaviour in coastal environments can serve to attune coastal resource management strategies to natural...
This study analyses coastal geomorphic responses to the various sea-level changes that occurred throughout the Quaternary period in the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of Spain. Particular emphasis is paid to the geomor-phic and stratigraphic record of the changes in amplitude, duration and frequency associated with the major gradual climate chan...
De acuerdo con los objetivos expuestos en los diferen-tes convenios con la Consejería de Cultura del Principado de Asturias relacionados con las intervenciones arqueo-lógicas en el yacimiento y las investigaciones derivadas, durante las campañas de 2007 a 2012 las actuaciones se han organizado en los ámbitos de la Arqueología, Geo-logía (exterior e...
Many earthquake resistant structures are observed in historical colonial buildings constructed during 16th and 17th centuries in the localities of Morelia and Patzcuaro (Michoacan, Mexico). These construction procedures can be classified as postseismic Earthquake Archaeological Effects (EAE’s). The best example is the Patzcuaro earthquake occurred...
Se ha obtenido el perfil térmico profundo de la Sima de Benis (-350 m, Cieza, SE de España), asociada a la fal'la del mismo nombre, a partir de datos puntuales de temperatura en roca durante 2 años. El perfil térmiCQ de la sima es de tipo inverso, incrementándose la temperatura con la profundidad. Con este perfil se ha estimado el gradiente geotérm...
Many on-shore studies focused on high energy marine events occurred in the Gulf of Cadiz have been published since the 1990s. Most of the findings came from sedimentary, palaeontological and geomorphological records on estuaries, marshes, beach-barriers (spit-bars), and some coastal lowlands. Recent off-shore investigations in SW Iberia considered...
