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Carlos Villaseca is affiliated with the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant emphasis on Geophysics, which encompasses the majority of their publications. Additional subfields include Atmospheric Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, Paleontology, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include:

  • David Orejana
  • Cecilia Pérez-Soba Aguilar
  • Javier García Serrano
  • Cristina de Ignacio
  • Juan A. Moreno

Villaseca's work appears extensively in several publication venues, with the most frequent being Geoscience Frontiers, Lithos, and Minerals. Other venues include Earth-Science Reviews and Frontiers in Earth Science.

Recent papers include the following:

  • The evolution of the subcontinental mantle beneath the Central Iberian Zone: Geochemical tracking of its mafic magmatism from the Neoproterozoic to the Cenozoic, 2022, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Geochemistry and geochronology of mafic rocks from the Spanish Central System: Constraints on the mantle evolution beneath central Spain, 2020, Geoscience Frontiers
  • Pyroxenites and Megacrysts From Alkaline Melts of the Calatrava Volcanic Field (Central Spain): Inferences From Trace Element Geochemistry and Sr-Nd Isotope Composition, 2020, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Depleted lherzolite xenoliths from the leucititic Morrón de Villamayor volcano (Calatrava volcanic field, Spain), 2020, Lithos
  • Subduction-related metasomatism in the lithospheric mantle beneath the Calatrava volcanic field (central Spain): constraints from lherzolite xenoliths of the Cerro Gordo volcano, 2020, International Geology Review

Best Publications

  • A re-examination of the typology of peraluminous granite types in intracontinental orogenic belts

    Carlos Villaseca;Luis Barbero;Victor Herreros

  • Crustal origin of Hercynian peraluminous granitic batholiths of Central Spain: petrological, geochemical and isotopic (Sr, Nd) constraints

    C Villaseca;L Barbero;G Rogers

  • Nature and Composition of the Lower Continental Crust in Central Spain and the Granulite–Granite Linkage: Inferences from Granulitic Xenoliths

    C. Villaseca;H. Downes;C. Pin;L. Barbero

  • Geochemical and isotopic disequilibrium in crustal melting: An insight from the anatectic granitoids from Toledo, Spain

    L. Barbero;C. Villaseca;G. Rogers;P. E. Brown

  • Occurrence and Origin of Andalusite in Peraluminous Felsic Igneous Rocks

    DB Clarke;M. Dorais;B. Barbarin;D. Barker

  • Petrogenetic relationships between Variscan granitoids and Li-(F-P)-rich aplite-pegmatites in the Central Iberian Zone: Geological and geochemical constraints and implications for other regions from the European Variscides

    E. Roda-Robles;C. Villaseca;A. Pesquera;P.P. Gil-Crespo

  • Residence and redistribution of REE, Y, Zr, Th and U during granulite-facies metamorphism: behaviour of accessory and major phases in peraluminous granulites of central Spain

    C. Villaseca;C. Martı́n Romera;J. De la Rosa;L. Barbero

  • Petrogenesis of Permian alkaline lamprophyres and diabases from the Spanish Central System and their geodynamic context within western Europe

    D. Orejana;C. Villaseca;K. Billström;B. A. Paterson

  • SHRIMP U-Pb zircon dating of anatexis in high-grade migmatite complexes of Central Spain: implications in the Hercynian evolution of Central Iberia

    Pedro Castiñeiras;Pedro Castiñeiras;Carlos Villaseca;Luis Barbero;Cristina Martín Romera

  • Contrasting chemical and isotopic signatures from Neoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks in the Central Iberian Zone (Spain) of pre-Variscan Europe: Implications for terrane analysis and Early Ordovician magmatic belts

    C. Villaseca;E. Merino;R. Oyarzun;D. Orejana

  • Ediacaran-Cambrian paleogeography and geodynamic setting of the Central Iberian Zone: constraints from coupled U-Pb-Hf isotopes of detrital zircons

    David Orejana;Enrique Merino Martínez;Carlos Villaseca;Carlos Villaseca;Tom Andersen

  • The Layos Granite, Hercynian Complex of Toledo (Spain): an example of parautochthonous restite-rich granite in a granulitic area

    L. Barbero;C. Villaseca

  • The Cambro-Ordovician Ollo de Sapo magmatism in the Iberian Massif and its Variscan evolution: A review

    Marcos García-Arias;Alejandro Díez-Montes;Carlos Villaseca;Idael Francisco Blanco-Quintero

  • Geochronology and trace element chemistry of zircon and garnet from granulite xenoliths: Constraints on the tectonothermal evolution of the lower crust under central Spain

    David Orejana;Carlos Villaseca;Richard A. Armstrong;Teresa E. Jeffries

  • Eclogite facies relics in metabasites from the Sierra de Guadarrama (Spanish Central System):P-T estimations and implications for the Hercynian evolution

    L. Barbero;C. Villaseca

  • THE COMPOSITION OF ZIRCON IN THE PERALUMINOUS HERCYNIAN GRANITES OF THE SPANISH CENTRAL SYSTEM BATHOLITH

    Cecilia Pérez-Soba;Carlos Villaseca;José González Del Tánago;Lutz Nasdala

  • Caracteres generales del Cinturón Hercínico en el Sector Oriental del Sistema Central Español

    M. Peinado;J.M. Fúster;F. Bellido;C. Capote

  • Gahnite, chrysoberyl and beryl co-occurrence as accessory minerals in a highly evolved peraluminous pluton: The Belvís de Monroy leucogranite (Cáceres, Spain)

    E. Merino;E. Merino;C. Villaseca;C. Villaseca;D. Orejana;T. Jeffries

  • Origin, ore forming fluid evolution and timing of the Logrosán Sn–(W) ore deposits (Central Iberian Zone, Spain)

    Eva Chicharro;Marie-Christine Boiron;José Ángel López-García;Dan N. Barfod

  • Zircon Hf signatures from granitic orthogneisses of the Spanish Central System: Significance and sources of the Cambro-Ordovician magmatism in the Iberian Variscan Belt

    C. Villaseca;C. Villaseca;E. Merino Martínez;D. Orejana;T. Andersen

  • Recycled metaigneous crustal sources for S- and I-type Variscan granitoids from the Spanish Central System batholith: Constraints from Hf isotope zircon composition

    Carlos Villaseca;David Orejana;Elena A. Belousova

  • Multiple crustal sources for post-tectonic I-type granites in the Hercynian Iberian Belt

    Carlos Villaseca;F. Bellido;C. Pérez-Soba;K. Billström

Frequent Co-Authors

Elena Belousova
Elena Belousova Macquarie University
Teresa E. Jeffries
Teresa E. Jeffries Natural History Museum
José María González-Jiménez
José María González-Jiménez University of Granada
Suzanne Y. O'Reilly
Suzanne Y. O'Reilly Macquarie University
Tom Andersen
Tom Andersen University of Oslo
Norman J. Pearson
Norman J. Pearson Macquarie University
William L. Griffin
William L. Griffin Macquarie University
Carlos J. Garrido
Carlos J. Garrido Spanish National Research Council
Fernando Gervilla
Fernando Gervilla University of Granada
Richard Armstrong
Richard Armstrong Australian National University

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