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Diego Morata

Diego Morata

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Earth Science

D-Index
38
Citations
5198
World Ranking
6529
National Ranking
13

Overview

Diego Morata is affiliated with the University of Chile in Chile and has a significant publication record in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research primarily spans several subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's scholarly output includes numerous topics such as geological and geochemical analysis, geochemistry and geologic mapping, earthquake and tectonic studies, geothermal energy systems and applications, geological and tectonic studies in Latin America, geology and paleoclimatology research, and hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Recent papers by Diego Morata include the following:

  • Episodic construction of the early Andean Cordillera unravelled by zircon petrochronology, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Boron in geothermal energy: Sources, environmental impacts, and management in geothermal fluid, 2022, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Exploring the shallow geothermal resources in the Chilean Southern Volcanic Zone: Insight from the Liquiñe thermal springs, 2020, Journal of Geochemical Exploration
  • Geochronology and petrogenesis of intrusive rocks in the Coastal Cordillera of northern Chile: Insights from zircon U-Pb dating and trace element geochemistry, 2021, Gondwana Research
  • Soil CO2 flux and temperature from a new geothermal area in the Cordón de Inacaliri Volcanic Complex (northern Chile), 2020, Geothermics

Diego Morata has frequently published in several scientific venues, with the most common being:

  • Geothermics
  • Minerals
  • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including:

  • Gloria Arancibia
  • Martín Reich
  • Santiago Maza
  • Fernando Barra
  • Tomás Roquer

Best Publications

  • Geochemical and micro-textural fingerprints of boiling in pyrite

    Nelson Román;Martin Reich;Mathieu Leisen;Diego Morata

  • The Almadén mercury mining district, Spain

    A. Hernández;M. Jébrak;P. Higueras;R. Oyarzun

  • Miocene to Late Quaternary Patagonian basalts (46-47°S): Geochronometric and geochemical evidence for slab tearing due to active spreading ridge subduction

    Christèle Guivel;Diego Morata;Ewan Pelleter;Felipe Espinoza

  • Petrogenesis of the Eocene and Mio–Pliocene alkaline basaltic magmatism in Meseta Chile Chico, southern Patagonia, Chile: Evidence for the participation of two slab windows

    Felipe Espinoza;Diego Morata;Ewan Pelleter;René C. Maury

  • 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

  • Plume-subduction interaction forms large auriferous provinces

    Santiago Tassara;José María González-Jiménez;José María González-Jiménez;Martin Reich;Manuel E. Schilling

  • Tertiary volcanism during extension in the Andean foothills of central Chile (33°15′–33°45′S)

    Jan Olov Nyström;Mario Vergara;Diego Morata;Beatriz Levi

  • Environmental assessment of copper–gold–mercury mining in the Andacollo and Punitaqui districts, northern Chile

    Pablo Higueras;Roberto Oyarzun;Jorge Oyarzún;Hugo Maturana

  • Elemental concentrations of ambient particles and cause specific mortality in Santiago, Chile: a time series study

    Ana Valdés;Antonella Zanobetti;Jaana I Halonen;Jaana I Halonen;Luis Cifuentes

  • Assessment of high enthalpy geothermal resources and promising areas of Chile

    Diego Aravena;Mauricio Muñoz;Diego Morata;Alfredo Lahsen

  • Igneous Layering in Basaltic Magma Chambers

    Olivier Namur;Bénédicte Abily;Alan E. Boudreau;François Blanchette

  • The Early Andean Magmatic Province (EAMP): 40Ar/39Ar dating on Mesozoic volcanic and plutonic rocks from the Coastal Cordillera, northern Chile

    Verónica Oliveros;Gilbert Féraud;Luis Aguirre;Michel Fornari

  • Geothermal barriers, policies and economics in Chile – Lessons for the Andes

    Pablo Sanchez-Alfaro;Gerd Sielfeld;Bart Van Campen;Patrick Dobson

  • Extensional Lower Cretaceous volcanism in the Coastal Range (29°20′–30°S), Chile: geochemistry and petrogenesis

    D. Morata;L. Aguirre

  • Early Evidence (ca. 12,000 BP) for Iron Oxide Mining on the Pacific Coast of South America

    Diego Salazar;D. Jackson;J. L. Guendon;H. Salinas

  • Detrital zircons from late Paleozoic accretionary complexes in north-central Chile (28°-32°S): Possible fingerprints of the Chilenia terrane

    J. Álvarez;C. Mpodozis;C. Arriagada;Ricardo Alfredo Astini

  • Formation of Massive Iron Deposits Linked to Explosive Volcanic Eruptions

    J. Tomás Ovalle;Nikita L. La Cruz;Martin Reich;Fernando Barra

  • Bimodal back-arc alkaline magmatism after ridge subduction: Pliocene felsic rocks from Central Patagonia (47°S)

    Felipe Espinoza;Diego Morata;Mireille Polvé;Yves Lagabrielle

  • Geochemistry constraints of Mesozoic-Cenozoic calc-alkaline magmatism in the South Shetland arc, Antarctica

    A. Machado;E.F. Lima;F. Chemale;D. Morata

  • Ages and cooling history of the Early Cretaceous Caleu pluton: Testimony of a switch from a rifted to a compressional continental margin in central Chile

    Miguel A. Parada;Gilbert Féraud;Francisco Fuentes;Luis Aguirre

  • Regolith production and chemical weathering of granitic rocks in central Chile

    Mercedes Vázquez;Sebastián Ramírez;Diego Morata;Martin Reich

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Reich
Martin Reich University of Chile
Mireille Polvé
Mireille Polvé Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
José Cembrano
José Cembrano Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Gilbert Féraud
Gilbert Féraud Université Côte d'Azur
Yves Lagabrielle
Yves Lagabrielle University of Rennes
Hervé Bellon
Hervé Bellon University of Western Brittany
José María González-Jiménez
José María González-Jiménez University of Granada
Antonio García-Casco
Antonio García-Casco University of Granada
René C. Maury
René C. Maury University of Western Brittany
Adam C. Simon
Adam C. Simon University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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