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Daniel García-Castellanos

Daniel García-Castellanos

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Earth Science

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41
Citations
5543
World Ranking
5611
National Ranking
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Overview

Daniel García-Castellanos is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily falls within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on geophysics, atmospheric science, earth-surface processes, oceanography, and environmental chemistry.

The scientist's work encompasses a wide range of topics, including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geological Formations and Processes
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research

Frequent coauthors collaborating with García-Castellanos include Ivone Jiménez-Munt, Hanneke Heida, Angelo Camerlenghi, Francesca Bulian, and Francisco Javier Sierro. Their studies have been published across various scientific journals, with repeated contributions in the following venues:

  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Marine Geology
  • Basin Research
  • Science Advances

Among García-Castellanos's recent papers are:

  • "Freshening of the Mediterranean Salt Giant: controversies and certainties around the terminal (Upper Gypsum and Lago-Mare) phases of the Messinian Salinity Crisis" (2021, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • "Catastrophic Drainage From the Northwestern Outlet of Glacial Lake Agassiz During the Younger Dryas" (2021, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • "Dates and rates of endo-exorheic drainage development: Insights from fluvial terraces (Duero River, Iberian Peninsula)" (2020, Global and Planetary Change)
  • "The marine biodiversity impact of the Late Miocene Mediterranean salinity crisis" (2024, Science)
  • "The accretion of the Levant continental shelf alongside the Nile Delta by immense margin-parallel sediment transport" (2021, Marine and Petroleum Geology)

This body of work reflects engagement with geological, oceanographic, and environmental phenomena, particularly focusing on sediment transport processes, paleoclimatic events, and marine ecosystem impacts related to geological changes.

Best Publications

  • Catastrophic flood of the Mediterranean after the Messinian salinity crisis

    Daniel Garcia-Castellanos;Ferran Estrada;I. Jimenez-Munt;Christian Gorini;Christian Gorini

  • Interplay between tectonics, climate, and fluvial transport during the Cenozoic evolution of the Ebro Basin (NE Iberia)

    Daniel Garcia-Castellanos;Jaume Vergés;Jorge Gaspar-Escribano;Sierd Cloetingh

  • Messinian salinity crisis regulated by competing tectonics and erosion at the Gibraltar arc

    D. Garcia-Castellanos;A. Villaseñor

  • Crustal-scale cross-sections across the NW Zagros belt: implications for the Arabian margin reconstruction

    Jaume Vergés;Eduard Saura;Emilio Casciello;Manel Fernandez

  • Lithospheric memory, state of stress and rheology: neotectonic controls on Europe's intraplate continental topography.

    S. Cloetingh;P.A. Ziegler;F. Beekman;P.A.M. Andriessen

  • Lithospheric folding in Iberia

    S. Cloetingh;E. Burov;F. Beekman;B. Andeweg

  • LitMod3D: An interactive 3-D software to model the thermal, compositional, density, seismological, and rheological structure of the lithosphere and sublithospheric upper mantle

    J. Fullea;Juan Carlos Afonso;Juan Carlos Afonso;J. A. D. Connolly;Manel Fernandez

  • Interplay between lithospheric flexure and river transport in foreland basins

    Daniel Garcia‐Castellanos

  • Modeling the evolution of the Guadalquivir foreland basin (southern Spain)

    Daniel García-Castellanos;Daniel García-Castellanos;Manel Fernandez;Montserrat Torné

  • New constraints on the Messinian sealevel drawdown from 3D seismic data of the Ebro Margin, western Mediterranean

    Roger Urgeles;Angelo Camerlenghi;Angelo Camerlenghi;Daniel Garcia-Castellanos;Ben De Mol

  • 3‐D lithospheric structure and regional/residual Bouguer anomalies in the Arabia–Eurasia collision (Iran)

    Ivone Jimenez-Munt;Manel Fernandez;Eduard Saura;Jaume Vergés

  • Modeling the flexural evolution of the Amiran and Mesopotamian foreland basins of NW Zagros (Iran‐Iraq)

    Eduard Saura;Daniel Garcia-Castellanos;Emilio Casciello;Vanessa Parravano

  • Cenozoic vertical motions of the Catalan coastal ranges (NE Spain): the role of tectonics, isostasy and surface transport.

    J. M. Gaspar-Escribano;J. M. Gaspar-Escribano;D. Garcia-Castellanos;E. Roca;S. Cloetingh

  • 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

  • Long-term evolution of tectonic lakes: Climatic controls on the development of internally drained basins

    Daniel Garcia-Castellanos

  • Modelling the Middle Pleistocene uplift in the Ardennes-Rhenish Massif: Thermo-mechanical weakening under the Eifel?

    Daniel Garcia-Castellanos;Sierd Cloetingh;Ronald Van Balen

  • Geophysical and geological constraints on the evolution of the Guadalquivir foreland basin, Spain

    Manel Fernandez;X. Berástegui;C. Puig;Daniel García-Castellanos

  • River transport effects on compressional belts: First results from an integrated analogue‐numerical model

    Katarina S. Persson;Daniel Garcia-Castellanos;Dimitrios Sokoutis

  • Quantification of fluvial incision in the Duero Basin (NW Iberia) from longitudinal profile analysis and terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide concentrations

    Loreto Antón;Angel Rodés;Angel Rodés;Gerardo De Vicente;Raimon Pallàs

  • Numerical modeling of foreland basin formation: a program relating thrusting, flexure, sediment geometry and lithosphere rheology

    D. Garcia-Castellanos;M. Fernàndez;M. Torne

Frequent Co-Authors

Jaume Vergés
Jaume Vergés Spanish National Research Council
Manel Fernandez
Manel Fernandez Spanish National Research Council
Angelo Camerlenghi
Angelo Camerlenghi National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics
Sierd Cloetingh
Sierd Cloetingh Utrecht University
Montserrat Torné
Montserrat Torné Spanish National Research Council
Juan Carlos Afonso
Juan Carlos Afonso University of Twente
Roger Urgeles
Roger Urgeles Spanish National Research Council
Liviu Matenco
Liviu Matenco Utrecht University
Aaron Micallef
Aaron Micallef Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Gemma Ercilla
Gemma Ercilla Spanish National Research Council

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