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Belén Alonso is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research expertise spans Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Geophysics and Earth-Surface Processes, along with contributions to Atmospheric Science. Additionally, they have engaged in fields related to Medicine, notably Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Infectious Diseases.

The scientist's work encompasses multiple topics including Geological formations and processes, Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, earthquake and tectonic studies, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research.

Among the recent publications authored or coauthored by Belén Alonso are:

  • Multiple factors controlling the deep marine sedimentation of the Alboran Sea (SW Mediterranean) after the Zanclean Atlantic Mega-flood, 2020, Marine Geology
  • Plio-Quaternary tectonic evolution of the southern margin of the Alboran Basin (Western Mediterranean), 2020, Solid Earth
  • Offshore Geological Hazards: Charting the Course of Progress and Future Directions, 2021, Oceans
  • Distribution and origin of submarine landslides in the active margin of the southern Alboran Sea (Western Mediterranean Sea), 2022, Marine Geology
  • The CCR5-delta32 variant might explain part of the association between COVID-19 and the chemokine-receptor gene cluster, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Belén Alonso frequently publishes in several research venues, including:

  • Marine Geology
  • Solid Earth
  • Oceans
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Medical Virology

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Belén Alonso's scientific activity. Frequent coauthors include Gemma Ercilla, David Casas, N. López-González, J.T. Vázquez, and Carmen Juan.

Best Publications

  • The most recent megalandslides of the Canary Islands: El Golfo debris avalanche and Canary debris flow, west El Hierro Island

    Roger Urgeles;Miquel Canals;Jesús Baraza;Belén Alonso

  • HEAT FLOW IN THE ALBORAN SEA, WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN

    B.G. Polyak;M. Fernàndez;M.D. Khutorskoy;J.I. Soto

  • Pliocene‐Pleistocene Seismic Stratigraphy of the Ross Sea: Evidence for Multiple Ice Sheet Grounding Episodes

    Belén Alonso;John B. Anderson;José I. Díaz;Louis R. Bartek

  • Alboran Sea late cenozoic tectonic and stratigraphic evolution

    A. Maldonado;A. C. Campillo;A. Mauffret;B. Alonso

  • Significance of bottom currents in deep-sea morphodynamics: An example from the Alboran Sea

    Gemma Ercilla;Carmen Juan;F. Javier Hernández-Molina;Miguel Bruno

  • History of mud diapirism and trigger mechanisms in the Western Alboran Sea

    F. Pérez-Belzuz;B. Alonso;G. Ercilla

  • Geological framework of the Ebro continental margin and surrounding areas

    Juan José Dañobeitia;Belén Alonso;Andrés Maldonado

  • Impact of pulsed Atlantic water inflow into the Alboran Basin at the time of the Zanclean flooding

    Ferran Estrada;Gemma Ercilla;Christian Gorini;Belén Alonso

  • Turbidity current sediment waves on irregular slopes: observations from the Orinoco sediment–wave field

    Gemma Ercilla;Belén Alonso;Russell B Wynn;Jesús Baraza

  • Storminess control over African dust input to the Moroccan Atlantic margin (NW Africa) at the time of maxima boreal summer insolation: a record of the last 220 kyr

    Graziella Bozzano;Holger Kuhlmann;Belén Alonso

  • Seafloor characterization and backscatter variability of the Almería Margin (Alboran Sea, SW Mediterranean) based on high-resolution acoustic data

    Claudio Lo Iacono;Eulàlia Gràcia;Susana Diez;Graziella Bozzano

  • Sedimentary evolution of the northwestern Alboran Sea during the Quaternary

    G. Ercilla;B. Alonso;J. Baraza

  • Sedimentary evolution of the Pliocene and Pleistocene Ebro margin, northeastern Spain

    Belén Alonso;Michael E Field;James V Gardner;Andrés Maldonado

  • Post-Calabrian sequence stratigraphy of the northwestern Alboran Sea (southwestern Mediterranean)

    G Ercilla;B Alonso;J Baraza

  • Contourite vs gravity-flow deposits of the Pleistocene Faro Drift (Gulf of Cadiz): Sedimentological and mineralogical approaches

    Belén Alonso;Gemma Ercilla;David Casas;Dorrik A.V. Stow

  • Interaction between seabed morphology and water masses around the seamounts on the Motril Marginal Plateau (Alboran Sea, Western Mediterranean)

    Desirée Palomino;Juan-Tomás Vázquez;Gemma Ercilla;Belén Alonso

  • The Magdalena Turbidite System (Caribbean Sea): present-day morphology and architecture model

    Gemma Ercilla;Belén Alonso;Ferran Estrada;Francesco L Chiocci

  • Pliocene-Quaternary tectonic-sedimentary evolution of the NE Alboran Sea (SW Mediterranean Sea)

    F. Estrada;G. Ercilla;B. Alonso

  • The Ebro Continental Margin, Western Mediterranean Sea: Interplay Between Canyon-Channel Systems and Mass Wasting Processes

    M. Canals;J.L. Casamor;R. Urgeles;G. Lastras

  • Plio-Quaternary margin growth patterns in a complex tectonic setting: Northeastern Alboran Sea

    B. Alonso;A. Maldonado

  • Late Quaternary sedimentation patterns of the Ebro turbidite systems (northwestern Mediterranean): two styles of deep-sea deposition

    Belén Alonso;Andrés Maldonado

  • Seismic evidence of current-controlled sedimentation in the Alboran Sea during the Pliocene and Quaternary: Palaeoceanographic implications

    Carmen Juan;Carmen Juan;Gemma Ercilla;F. Javier Hernández-Molina;Ferran Estrada

  • The Al-Borani submarine landslide and associated tsunami. A modelling approach

    J. Macías;J.T. Vázquez;L.M. Fernández-Salas;J.M. González-Vida

Frequent Co-Authors

Gemma Ercilla
Gemma Ercilla Spanish National Research Council
Elia d'Acremont
Elia d'Acremont Sorbonne University
Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar
Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar University of Granada
Andrés Maldonado
Andrés Maldonado University of Granada
Francisco Javier Hernandéz-Molina
Francisco Javier Hernandéz-Molina Royal Holloway University of London
Estefanía Llave
Estefanía Llave Instituto Geológico y Minero de España
Francesco Latino Chiocci
Francesco Latino Chiocci Sapienza University of Rome
Miquel Canals
Miquel Canals University of Barcelona
Christian Gorini
Christian Gorini Sorbonne University
Roger Urgeles
Roger Urgeles Spanish National Research Council

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