José Angel González-Delgado

• Professor
• University of Salamanca

In recent years, land subsidence has become a crucial factor affecting urban safety and sustainable development, especially in Wan’an Town. To accurately monitor and analyze the land subsidence in Wan’an Town, this study uses the PS-InSAR technique combined with an improved DEM for detailed research on land subsidence in Wan’an Town. PS-InSAR, or P...

Descubriendo el “Proyecto Geoparque de Salamanca en Arribes del Duero”

The study of the Peña Negra paleoglacier during the Last Glacial Maximum reveals its sensitivity to paleoclimatic variations. The evolutionary phases of the paleoglacier are correlated with the evolutionary models proposed for the Sierra de Béjar-Candelario and the Central Iberian System. To recognize the mechanisms of ice advance/retreat and the r...

Geoheritage constitutes a natural resource that promotes sustainable rural tourism by creating employment and activities that allow population settlement in unpopulated areas with great natural heritage. The objective of this work is to value the singularity and variety of the geosites, which show a wide geodiversity, with lithological, geomorpholo...

A detailed analysis of the Viñales National Park (VNP) was carried out to evaluate the main geosites of geomorphological interest inside the park. This allowed the selection of areas (AIG) and localities (LIG) with 20 geosites of geological interest (PIG) suitable to evaluate their importance as geoheritage. Moreover, three field trips and one virt...

The concept of geological heritage has been introduced into the protected area of the Arribes del Duero Natural Park, which is west of the Salamanca and Zamora Provinces, Spain for the purpose of developing a guide to places of geological and geomorphological interest, through which geoenvironmental itineraries were developed in order to demonstrat...

A 3D virtual geological route on Digital Earth of the geological-geomorphological and paleontological heritage in the Algarve (Portugal) is presented, assessing the geological heritage of nine representative geosites. Eighteen quantitative parameters are used, weighing the scientific, didactic and cultural tourist interest of each site. A virtual r...

Poster presented to X International ProGEO Symposium 2021: section 4-Geoturism, UG Geoparks and local development.

Geological Heritage, Geopark, Salamanca, Spain.

The municipality of Monsagro, a mountain location in Las Batuecas-Sierra de Francia Natural Park (Salamanca, Spain), has recently developed two paleontological outreach projects: a Fossil Footprints Geo-route within the urban area and a modern Centre for the Interpretation of Ancient Seas. They are based on the abundance and popular interest of Cru...

Some natural scenes of films shooting contain landscapes and other elements that are part of the geological heritage, representing an added value for the growing cultural tourism that visits them. In the SE of Burgos province (Spain), near some filming locations of the classic western movie directed by Sergio Leone (1966), “The Good, the Bad and th...

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...

Monsagro (Salamanca) es un lugar privilegiado donde enseñar Ciencias Naturales (Geología y Biología). Su peculiar paisaje de montaña junto a la Peña de Francia, la Georuta urbana, el Centro de Interpretación de los Mares Antiguos de Monsagro (CIMAM), el Parque Botánico y el Museo Cinegético-Etnográfico, proporcionan una amplia gama de actividades e...

The Lower-Middle Miocene Lagos-Portimão Formation at Portimão, southern Portugal, consists of three main heterozoan carbonate facies: mollusc-rich rudstone in a matrix of skeletal packstone/grainstone (MR), fine-to-medium skeletal pack-stone/grainstone (SPG), and quartz-rich skeletal packstone (QSP). These facies occur in different arrangements and...

From a large database generated from the geological heritage of more than 100 geosites in four natural areas of Salamanca, Ávila, and Cáceres provinces (Spain), the 13 most representative sites were selected, and their scientific, educational, and tourist/cultural interest values were determined. The natural park of Batuecas-Sierra de Francia-Cande...

This article presents the application of augmented reality through the use of devices in the valorisation of the geological heritage of six known geosites of the Jurassic or Cretaceous age, located in the South-East (SE) of the province of Burgos (Castilla y León, Spain). Using augmented reality techniques, geomatic resources have been developed th...

Summary: Geological and mining heritage of Cap Mondego (Figueira da Foz, Portugal) revealed through a virtual 3D tour • The Cape Mondego coal mine and associated industries worked for more than 200 years in the coastal cliffs of Boa Viagem calcareous massif, located near Figueira da Foz, in west Central Portugal. The explored coal beds were part of...

The Cape Mondego coal mine and associated industries worked for more than 200 years in the coastal cliffs of Boa Viagem calcareous massif, located near Figueira da Foz, in west Central Portugal. The explored coal beds were part of a highly diverse fossiliferous succession of Oxfordian age, belonging to a thick and almost continuous record of Lower...

The Cape Mondego coal mine and associated industries worked for more than 200 years in the coastal cliffs of Boa Viagem calcareous massif, located near Figueira da Foz, in west Central Portugal. The explored coal beds were part of a highly diverse fossiliferous succession of Oxfordian age, belonging to a thick and almost continuous record of Lower...

We present the "Ruta de las huellas fósiles", implemented in the village of Monsagro (Francia mountain range, Salamanca). Through six didactic and interpretative panels, we have included online access to the new technologies (smartphones, tablets, digital audio players...) and complementary information implemented in videos, QR codes, geoapps and g...

The latest generation of information technologies enables the creation of geological itineraries and virtual flights through georeferencing in free virtual globes (e.g. Google Earth), allowing tridimensional visualization (3D) by combining thematic-layers (geological, topographical map, digital terrain model). These technologies facilitate analyzin...

Eleven georeferenced sites of paleontological interest, representative of the Upper Miocene of Seville (Central Guadalquivir Basin, Spain), have been selected and their scientific, educational, and touristic cultural values assessed, ranging between 410 and 770. Most of them are very rich in benthic macroforaminifers, molluscs, large echinoids, ich...

Eight sites with geological (including palaeontological and geomorphological) interest (geosites) representative of the Lower and Middle Miocene carbonate deposits near Albufeira in central Algarve (southern Portugal) have been selected based on our extended working experience. The sites can be visited by hiking in a 1-day field trip. A virtual 3D...

RESUMEN Se estudian 11 sitios de interés paleontológico georeferenciados en el Mioceno Superior de Sevilla (Cuenca del Guadalquivir). Se ha evaluado su valor científico, educativo y turístico-cultural, oscilando entre 410 y 770. La mayoría de ellos son muy ricos en macroforaminiferos bentónicos, Moluscos, Equinodermos, grandes Ichnofosiles, Cetáce...

Rural geotourism looks at the natural resources of the territory as a means of promoting a specialized, educational, sustainable tourism. This is an increasingly sought-after activity. This paper presents a rural georoute across a high mountain village, highlighting the remarkable value of the geological heritage of biological trace fossils and phy...

Itinerario del Geolodía Salamanca 2015: es una iniciativa de divulgación de la geología relacionada con la profesión del geólogo a través de una de sus facetas más atrayente para el público en general, las excursiones de campo. Geolodía 15-Salamanca es una jornada que abre la puerta de entrada al laboratorio habitual de los geólogos: la naturaleza....

The objective of this study is to develop a methodology that enhances the value and position of the geological heritage of any natural area in the world using a 3D virtual itinerary. Field applications of this geological itinerary enable students to participate actively in teaching and learning theoretical concepts in the earth sciences and enginee...

Virtual fieldtrips in palaeontology and geology offer an expanded environment to make field sites more accessible for a broader audience. Based on extensive experience working in upper Neogene deposits in the province of Huelva, on the western edge of the Guadalquivir Basin, we have selected 10 sites for their regional palaeontological-geological i...

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...

The Messinian salinity crisis (late Miocene) is one of the most fascinating paleoceanographic events in the recent geological history of the Mediterranean Sea, defi ning a time when it partly or nearly completely dried out. However, the relative roles of tectonic processes and sea-level changes, as triggers for restriction and isolation of the Medi...

The Portuguese mainland, located in western Iberia, represents a key area for understanding the evolution of the European Atlantic margin during the Cenozoic and the establishment of relations with the Mediterranean, in particular through the transition area between those two oceans which is well documented in the Algarve region.

Acknowledgements Project CGL2009-11539/BTE of European Union (FEDER) and Spanish MICINN, UCM Research Group 910198 (Paleoclimatology and Global Change)

El área de El Abalario (Huelva) situada en la cuenca Neógena del Guadalquivir e incluida en parte dentro del Espacio Natural Doñana, constituye el sector litoral con el mayor y más completo registro de materiales eólicos aflorantes desarrollados desde el Pleistoceno Superior hasta la actualidad en la Península Ibérica.

"RUIZ, F., GONZÁLEZ-REGALADO, M.L., CIVIS, J., ABAD, M., HERNÁNDEZ, M.V., GONZÁLEZ-DELGADO, J.A., RIVAS, M.R., TOSCANO, A., GARCÍA, E.X.M. (2011). Micropaleontología del testigo “Huelva” (Huelva, SO de España) II: ostrácodos de los tramos inferior y medio. Studia Geologica Salmanticensia 47(1), 11-19. Abstract: This paper analyzes the ostracod fa...

https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=30742&osCsid=be410bfe49edb2ea0ea3239891d33244 This paper analyzes the predation evidences observed on ostracod populations collected in Holocene estuarine palaeoenvironments of southwestern Spain. The study of almost 1,000 specimens allowed extraction of seven bored valves and cara...

a b s t r a c t This paper investigates a series of small-scale, short-lived fluctuations of sea level registered in a prograding barrier spit that grew during the MIS 5e. This interglacial includes three highstands (Zazo et al., 2003) and we focus on the second highstand, of assumed duration ∼10 AE 2 ka, given that UeTh ages do not provide more ac...

Abstract (Tidal peperites in the Eastern Canary Islands (Lanzarote and Fuerteventura): a preliminary approach): Raised Pleistocene littoral deposits in the Eastern Canary Islands conspicually display the occurrence on interbedded volcanosedimentary breccias. Outcrop analyses allowed to observe syn-sedimentary interactions and clear fluidized peperi...

The “Arribes del Duero” (Western of Zamora and Salamanca Provinces, Spain) and their opposite portuguese area (Eastern of the Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro Provinces) are located geologically between the Morais allochthonous complex (Portugal) and the “Tormes Dome” in Spain. It’s a 2000 Km region with a high geodiversity, and with geomorphological...

This paper analyzes the first brachiopod record of three Neogene formations of the southwestern Guadalquivir Basin (Huelva province, SW Spain) with a wide cartographical distribution. Samples obtained in five sections of these formations have allowed to recognize three species belonging to the genera Terebratula, Maltaia and Cryptopora, the latter...

This paper analyzes the evidence for predation on ostracods observed in Neogene sediments of southwestern Spain. Eighty bored valves were extracted from the analysis of more than 2000 specimens collected in shallow marine to upper bathyal palaeoen- vironments. Bored specimens are more abundant in Neogene shallow marine areas, although very high per...

Last interglacial and Holocene deposits are particularly well developed in the southern parts of Sal Island (Cape Verde Archipelago). They primarily consist of low-elevation (≤2m above sea level [a.s.l.]) marine deposits made of a basal conglomerate embedded in carbonate mud, passing upwards to calcarenites. All deposits contain an abundant fauna w...

This paper analyzes the first brachiopod record of three Neogene formations of the southwestern Guadalquivir Basin (Huelva province, SW Spain) with a wide cartographical distribution. Samples obtained in five sections of these formations have allowed to recognize three species belonging to the genera Terebratula, Maltaia and Cryptopora, the latter...

The Gulf of Cadiz region of Spain has undergone many studies examining Holocene tsunami and storm deposits. Some of the studies aimed at determining recurrence intervals of events interpreted of tsunamigenic origin.A review of geomorphologic, sedimentary and paleontological features of these deposits suggests that only a few of them can be accurate...

Abstract: This paper analyzes the benthic foraminiferal assemblages collected in the middle part (145.8-89.3 m depth) of core "Huelva", obtained in the southwestern sector of the Guadalquivir depression. Clay sediments that compose it, of Messinian age, were deposited on an outer shelf to to epibatyal environment, with high productivity and moderat...

The present work is a systematic study of 26 species of Neogastropoda from different pliocene outcrops (Zanclean) from Huelva (Guadalquivir Bassin). Also presented are their abundance, chronostratigraphic, bathymétrie and geographic distribution together with the substrate type, nutrients and recent citations in the Spanish Pliocene. En este trabaj...

The present work is a systematic study of 29 species of Mesogastropoda (Scalacea-Tonnacea) from different pliocene outcrops (Lower Zanclean) from Huelva (Guadalquivir Bassin). Also presented are their abundance, chronostratigraphic, bathymétrie and geographic distribution together with the substrate type, nutrients and recent citations in the Spani...

Marine deposits of OIS 5e age (~135-117 Ka) are exposed in two little excavations (Classic and New Quarries of Goy et al., 2006) near La Marina-El Pinet (Alicante). In the Classic Q., oolithic (Unit 1), detrital (Units 2 and 3) and pink, gravelly (Unit 4) record sedimentation during three highstands inside OIS-5e. In the New Quarry, deposits correl...

Abstract: Lithostratigraphical and faunal analyses of five Pliocene sections located in the southwestern Guadalquivir Basin (S Spain) permit reveal three main facies, which represent shallow marine fairweather conditions (FA-1), storm events (FA-2) and littoral/fluvial environments (FA-3). The vertical disposition of these facies indicates a regres...

This paper analyzes the lithostratigraphic features and ostracod associations of the Pliocene deposits located in the western sector of the Guadalquivir basin (SW Spain). A regressive cycle is defined by the vertical distribution of five main facies (FA-1 to FA-5), which were deposited in upper bathyal to fluvial palaeoenvironments. The broad palae...

A quantitative taphonomic analysis of the fossil assemblages, together with a sedimentary study of the Pliocene deposits of the Vejer Basin (Cádiz, Spain), has been carried out. This multidisciplinary analysis has allowed us to establish with great precision the palaeoenvironmental conditions under which these materials were formed. The Pliocene de...

Detailed stratigraphic control and lateral tracing of facies between Praia da Rocha and the adjacent Praia do Vau evidenced that, although the thickness of layers remains essentially homogeneous, the internal composition, grain size and fossil contents change noticeably. Three orders of sequences were distinguished. Smaller-scaled sequences were pr...