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Antonio García-Casco

Antonio García-Casco

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Overview

Antonio García-Casco is a researcher affiliated with the University of Granada in Spain. The primary focus of their work lies within Earth and Planetary Sciences, where they have contributed to 175 publications. Their research spans several subfields, including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Geochemistry and Petrology, Atmospheric Science, and Materials Chemistry.

Key topics in their research portfolio include geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and geophysical studies worldwide, geochemistry and geologic mapping, geological and tectonic studies in Latin America, and mineralogy and gemology studies.

Antonio García-Casco's publications have appeared frequently in several academic venues. These include:

  • International Geology Review
  • Lithos
  • Ore Geology Reviews
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Chemical Geology

The researcher has collaborated extensively with peers, with frequent co-authors comprising Joaquín A. Proenza, Núria Pujol-Solà, Ricardo Arenas, José María González-Jiménez, and Sonia Sánchez Martínez.

Among the recent papers contributed to by Antonio García-Casco are:

  • Multiple veining in a paleo-accretionary wedge: The metamorphic rock record of prograde dehydration and transient high pore-fluid pressures along the subduction interface (Western Series, central Chile), 2020, Geosphere
  • Episodic hydrofracturing and large-scale flushing along deep subduction interfaces: Implications for fluid transfer and carbon recycling (Zagros Orogen, southeastern Iran), 2021, Chemical Geology
  • Diamond forms during low pressure serpentinisation of oceanic lithosphere, 2020, Geochemical Perspectives Letters
  • 100 myr cycles of oceanic lithosphere generation in peri-Gondwana: Neoproterozoic-Devonian ophiolites from the NW African-Iberian margin of Gondwana and the Variscan Orogen, 2020, Geological Society London Special Publications
  • Blueschist-facies paleo-earthquakes in a serpentinite channel (Zagros suture, Iran) enlighten seismogenesis in Mariana-type subduction margins, 2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Best Publications

  • Melting Relations of MORB–Sediment Mélanges in Underplated Mantle Wedge Plumes; Implications for the Origin of Cordilleran-type Batholiths

    Antonio Castro;Taras Gerya;Taras Gerya;Antonio García-Casco;Carlos Fernández

  • Cooling and exhumation of the Western Betic Cordilleras, 40Ar/39Ar thermochronological constraints on a collapsed terrane

    P. Monié;R.L. Torres-Roldán;A. García-Casco

  • Latest Cretaceous Collision/Accretion between the Caribbean Plate and Caribeana: Origin of Metamorphic Terranes in the Greater Antilles

    Antonio García-Casco;Manuel A. Iturralde-Vinent;James Pindell

  • CSpace: an integrated workplace for the graphical and algebraic analysis of phase assemblages on 32-bit wintel platforms

    Rafael L. Torres-Roldan;Antonio Garcia-Casco;Pedro A. Garcia-Sanchez

  • Oscillatory zoning in eclogitic garnet and amphibole, Northern Serpentinite Melange, Cuba: a record of tectonic instability during subduction?

    A. García‐Casco;R. L. Torres‐Roldán;G. Millán;P. Monié

  • Late Jurassic terrane collision in the northwestern margin of Gondwana (Cajamarca Complex, eastern flank of the Central Cordillera, Colombia)

    I. F. Blanco-Quintero;A. García-Casco;L. M. Toro;M. Moreno

  • Partial Melting and Counterclockwise P–T Path of Subducted Oceanic Crust (Sierra del Convento Mélange, Cuba)

    Antonio García-Casco;Concepción Lázaro;Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte;Alfred Kröner

  • Fifty-five-million-year history of oceanic subduction and exhumation at the northern edge of the Caribbean plate (Sierra del Convento melange, Cuba)

    C. Lázaro;A. García-Casco;A. García-Casco;Y. Rojas Agramonte;A. Kröner

  • A 21 ± 2 Ma age for the termination of the ductile alpine deformation in the internal zone of the betic cordilleras, South Spain

    H.P Zeck;F Albat;B.T Hansen;R.L Torres-Roldán

  • Disequilibrium Induced by Fast Decompression in St−Bt−Grt−Ky−Sil−And Metapelites from the Betic Belt (Southern Spain)

    Antonio García-Casco;Rafael Luis Torres-Roldán

  • The role of intracontinental deformation in supercontinent assembly: insights from the Ribeira Belt, Southeastern Brazil (Neoproterozoic West Gondwana)

    Vinícius T. Meira;Antonio García-Casco;Antonio García-Casco;Caetano Juliani;Renato Paes de Almeida

  • Garnierites and garnierites: Textures, mineralogy and geochemistry of garnierites in the Falcondo Ni-laterite deposit, Dominican Republic

    Cristina Villanova-de-Benavent;Joaquín A. Proenza;Salvador Galí;Antonio García-Casco

  • A new jadeitite jade locality (Sierra del Convento, Cuba): first report and some petrological and archeological implications

    Antonio García-Casco;A. Rodríguez Vega;J. Cárdenas Párraga;M. A. Iturralde-Vinent

  • Tectonic blocks in serpentinite mélange (eastern Cuba) reveal large-scale convective flow of the subduction channel

    Idael Francisco Blanco-Quintero;Antonio García-Casco;Taras V. Gerya

  • Recycling and transport of continental material through the mantle wedge above subduction zones: A Caribbean example

    Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte;Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte;Antonio Garcia-Casco;Antonio Garcia-Casco;Anthony Kemp;Anthony Kemp;Alfred Kröner

  • HP-LT rocks exhumed during intra-oceanic subduction: the example of the Escambray massif (Cuba).

    J. Schneider;D. Bosch;P. Monié;S. Guillot

  • Paleogene Foredeep Basin Deposits of North-Central Cuba: A Record of Arc-Continent Collision between the Caribbean and North American Plates

    Manuel A. Iturralde-Vinent;Consuelo Díaz Otero;Antonio García-Casco;Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen

  • Glaucony authigenesis, maturity and alteration in the Weddell Sea: An indicator of paleoenvironmental conditions before the onset of Antarctic glaciation

    Adrián López-Quirós;Carlota Escutia;Antonio Sánchez-Navas;Fernando Nieto

  • Production of granodiorite melt by interaction between hydrous mafic magma and tonalitic crust. Experimental constraints and implications for the generation of Archaean TTG complexes

    S. López;A. Castro;A. García-Casco

  • Magmatic paragonite in trondhjemites from the Sierra del Convento mélange, Cuba

    Antonio García-Casco

  • The geology of Cuba: A brief overview and synthesis

    M. A. Iturralde-Vinent;A. García-Casco;Y. Rojas-Agramonte;J. A. Proenza

  • Disequilibrium decomposition and breakdown of muscovite in high P-T gneisses, Betic alpine belt (southern Spain)

    Antonio Garcia-Casco;Antonio Sanchez-Navas;Rafael Luis Torres-Roldan

  • Tectonomagmatic setting and provenance of the Santa Marta Schists, northern Colombia: Insights on the growth and approach of Cretaceous Caribbean oceanic terranes to the South American continent

    A. Cardona;A. Cardona;V. Valencia;C. Bustamante;A. García-Casco

Frequent Co-Authors

Joaquín A. Proenza
Joaquín A. Proenza University of Barcelona
José María González-Jiménez
José María González-Jiménez University of Granada
Samuel Angiboust
Samuel Angiboust Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Alfred Kröner
Alfred Kröner Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Johannes Glodny
Johannes Glodny University of Potsdam
Antonio Castro
Antonio Castro Spanish National Research Council
Agustín Cardona
Agustín Cardona National University of Colombia
George E. Harlow
George E. Harlow American Museum of Natural History
Ricardo Arenas
Ricardo Arenas Complutense University of Madrid
Taras Gerya
Taras Gerya ETH Zurich

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