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Antonio Azor is affiliated with the University of Granada in Spain and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research largely focuses on Geophysics, contributing extensively to the understanding of tectonic and geological processes.

Their published works cover a range of topics within Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, and Geological and Geophysical Studies worldwide. Additional topics addressed in their research include Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America, and Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond.

The recent papers authored or co-authored by Antonio Azor include:

  • Evolution of the South-Iberian paleomargin: From hyperextension to continental subduction, 2020, Journal of Structural Geology
  • Tectonic Evolution of the Eastern Moroccan Meseta: From Late Devonian Forearc Sedimentation to Early Carboniferous Collision of an Avalonian Promontory, 2020, Tectonics
  • Transcurrent displacement of the Cadomian magmatic arc, 2021, Precambrian Research
  • Systematics of detrital zircon U-Pb ages from Cambrian-Lower Devonian rocks of northern Morocco with implications for the northern Gondwanan passive margin, 2021, Precambrian Research
  • Syn-collisional detrital zircon source evolution in the northern Moroccan Variscides, 2021, Gondwana Research

Antonio Azor frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Cristina Accotto, D. Martínez Poyatos, A. Jabaloy, Antonio Pedrera, and Noreen J. Evans.

Their work is published in a number of scientific venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Gondwana Research
  • Journal of Structural Geology
  • Tectonics
  • Precambrian Research
  • Lithosphere

Best Publications

  • Active tectonics in the Sierra Nevada (Betic Cordillera, SE Spain): Insights from geomorphic indexes and drainage pattern analysis

    José Vicente Pérez-Peña;Antonio Azor;José Miguel Azañón;José Miguel Azañón;Edward A. Keller

  • Geomorphic indicators of active fold growth: South Mountain-Oak Ridge anticline, Ventura basin, southern California

    Antonio Azor;Edward A. Keller;Robert S. Yeats

  • Crustal structure of the transpressional Variscan orogen of SW Iberia: SW Iberia deep seismic reflection profile (IBERSEIS)

    J. F. Simancas;R. Carbonell;F. González Lodeiro;A. Pérez Estaún

  • CalHypso: An ArcGIS extension to calculate hypsometric curves and their statistical moments. Applications to drainage basin analysis in SE Spain

    J. V. Pérez-Peña;J. M. Azañón;A. Azor

  • Testing the sensitivity of geomorphic indices in areas of low-rate active folding (eastern Betic Cordillera, Spain)

    Antonio Pedrera;José Vicente Pérez-Peña;Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar;Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar;José Miguel Azañón;José Miguel Azañón

  • The tectonic frame of the Variscan–Alleghanian orogen in Southern Europe and Northern Africa

    J. Fernando Simancas;Abdelfatah Tahiri;Antonio Azor;Francisco González Lodeiro

  • Spatial analysis of stream power using GIS: SLk anomaly maps.

    J. V. Pérez-Peña;J. M. Azañón;A. Azor;J. Delgado

  • Tectonic evolution of the boundary between the Central Iberian and Ossa-Morena zones (Variscan belt, southwest Spain)

    Antonio Azor;Francisco González Lodeiro;J. Fernando Simancas

  • Differentiating geology and tectonics using a spatial autocorrelation technique for the hypsometric integral

    J. V. Pérez-Peña;J. M. Azañón;J. M. Azañón;G. Booth-Rea;A. Azor

  • Structural and geochronological constraints on the evolution of the Bou Azzer Neoproterozoic ophiolite (Anti-Atlas, Morocco)

    H. El Hadi;J F Simancas;D. Martinez-Poyatos;A Azor

  • Rheic Ocean ophiolitic remnants in southern Iberia questioned by SHRIMP U-Pb zircon ages on the Beja-Acebuches amphibolites

    A. Azor;D. Rubatto;J. F. Simancas;F. González Lodeiro

  • The structure of a major suture zone in the SW Iberian Massif: the Ossa-Morena/Central Iberian contact

    J.F. Simancas;D.Martı́nez Poyatos;I. Expósito;A. Azor

  • Tectonic relationships of Southwest Iberia with the allochthons of Northwest Iberia and the Moroccan Variscides

    José Fernando Simancas;Antonio Azor;David Martínez-Poyatos;Abdelfatah Tahiri

  • Influence of strike-slip fault segmentation on drainage evolution and topography. A case study: the Palomares Fault Zone (southeastern Betics, Spain)

    Guillermo Booth-Rea;José Miguel Azañón;Antonio Azor;Víctor García-Dueñas

  • Geochronological data on the Rabat–Tiflet granitoids: Their bearing on the tectonics of the Moroccan Variscides

    A. Tahiri;P. Montero;H. El Hadi;D. Martínez Poyatos

  • Regional-scale high-plasticity clay-bearing formation as controlling factor on landslides in Southeast Spain

    José M. Azañón;Antonio Azor;Jesús Yesares;Meaza Tsige

  • Testing the Avalonian affinity of the South Portuguese Zone and the Neoproterozoic evolution of SW Iberia through detrital zircon populations

    Irene Pérez-Cáceres;David Martínez Poyatos;José Fernando Simancas;Antonio Azor

  • Quaternary landscape evolution and erosion rates for an intramontane Neogene basin (Guadix-Baza basin, SE Spain)

    José Vicente Pérez-Peña;José Miguel Azañón;José Miguel Azañón;Antonio Azor;Paola Tuccimei

  • Human-driven coastline changes in the Adra River deltaic system, southeast Spain

    Antonio Jabaloy-Sánchez;Francisco José Lobo;Antonio Azor;Patricia Bárcenas

  • Late Quaternary large-scale rotational slides induced by river incision : The Arroyo de Gor area (Guadix basin, SE Spain)

    José M. Azañón;Antonio Azor;J. Vicente Pérez-Peña;José M. Carrillo

Frequent Co-Authors

José Miguel Azañón
José Miguel Azañón University of Granada
Ramón Carbonell
Ramón Carbonell Spanish National Research Council
Andrés Pérez-Estaún
Andrés Pérez-Estaún Spanish National Research Council
Guillermo Booth-Rea
Guillermo Booth-Rea University of Granada
Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar
Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar University of Granada
Noreen J. Evans
Noreen J. Evans Curtin University
Christopher Juhlin
Christopher Juhlin Uppsala University
Montserrat Torné
Montserrat Torné Spanish National Research Council
Fernando Bea
Fernando Bea University of Granada
Edward A. Keller
Edward A. Keller University of California, Santa Barbara

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