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Francisco Javier Hernandéz-Molina

Francisco Javier Hernandéz-Molina

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Earth Science

D-Index
58
Citations
10250
World Ranking
2198
National Ranking
233

Overview

Francisco Javier Hernandéz-Molina is affiliated with Royal Holloway University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with extensive contributions to Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Geophysics, Environmental Chemistry, and Ocean Engineering.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological formations and processes, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide, Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, and Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods.

Recent publications by Hernandéz-Molina include the following papers:

  • "Channel-levee evolution in combined contour current-turbidity current flows from flume-tank experiments," 2020, Geology
  • "Contourites and bottom current reworked sands: Bed facies model and implications," 2020, Marine Geology
  • "Late Miocene contourite channel system reveals intermittent overflow behavior," 2020, Geology
  • "Contourite characterization and its discrimination from other deep-water deposits in the Gulf of Cadiz contourite depositional system," 2020, Sedimentology
  • "Diagnostic criteria using microfacies for calcareous contourites, turbidites and pelagites in the Eocene-Miocene slope succession, southern Cyprus," 2020, Sedimentology

The scientist frequently publishes in a set of key venues, including:

  • Marine Geology
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Sedimentology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Hernandéz-Molina collaborates regularly with several co-authors, notably:

  • Francisco Javier Sierro
  • Cristina Roque
  • Bárbara Balestra
  • Elda Miramontes
  • Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar

Best Publications

  • Contourites and associated sediments controlled by deep-water circulation processes: State-of-the-art and future considerations

    Michele Rebesco;F. Javier Hernández-Molina;David Van Rooij;Anna Wåhlin

  • Seabed morphology and hydrocarbon seepage in the Gulf of Cádiz mud volcano area: Acoustic imagery, multibeam and ultra-high resolution seismic data

    L Somoza

  • Vast fields of hydrocarbon-derived carbonate chimneys related to the accretionary wedge/olistostrome of the Gulf of Cádiz

    V. Dı́az-del-Rı́o;L. Somoza;J. Martı́nez-Frias;M.P. Mata

  • High-resolution stratigraphy of the Mediterranean outflow contourite system in the Gulf of Cadiz during the late Pleistocene: The impact of Heinrich events

    E. Llave;Joachim Schönfeld;F.J. Hernández-Molina;T. Mulder

  • Onset of Mediterranean outflow into the North Atlantic

    F. Javier Hernández-Molina;Dorrik A. V. Stow;Carlos A. Alvarez-Zarikian;Gary Acton

  • Contourite depositional system on the Argentine Slope: An exceptional record of the influence of Antarctic water masses

    F. Javier Hernández-Molina;Marcelo Paterlini;Roberto Violante;Patricio Marshall

  • The contourite depositional system of the Gulf of Cádiz: A sedimentary model related to the bottom current activity of the Mediterranean outflow water and its interaction with the continental margin

    F.J. Hernández-Molina;E. Llave;D.A.V. Stow;M. García

  • Late Pleistocene-Holocene sediments on the Spanish continental shelves: Model for very high resolution sequence stratigraphy

    F.J Hernández-Molina;L Somoza;J Rey;L Pomar

  • Architectural stacking patterns of the Ebro delta controlled by Holocene high-frequency eustatic fluctuations, delta-lobe switching and subsidence processes

    L. Sornoza;A. Barnolas;A. Arasa;A. Maestro

  • Morphosedimentary and hydrographic features of the northern Argentine margin: The interplay between erosive, depositional and gravitational processes and its conceptual implications

    Benedict Preu;F. Javier Hernández-Molina;Roberto Violante;Alberto R. Piola

  • The infralittoral prograding wedge: a new large-scale progradational sedimentary body in shallow marine environments.

    F. J. Hernández-Molina;L. M. Fernández-Salas;F. Lobo;L. Somoza

  • Chapter 19 Continental Slope Contourites

    F J Hernandez-Molina;E Llave;Dorrik Stow

  • Contourite erosive features caused by the Mediterranean Outflow Water in the Gulf of Cadiz: Quaternary tectonic and oceanographic implications

    M. García;F.J. Hernández-Molina;E. Llave;D.A.V. Stow

  • Along-slope oceanographic processes and sedimentary products around the Iberian margin

    Francisco Javier Hernández-Molina;Nuno Serra;Dorik A. V. Stow;Estefanía Llave

  • Contourite processes associated with the Mediterranean Outflow Water after its exit from the Strait of Gibraltar: Global and conceptual implications

    F.J. Hernandez-Molina;Estefanía Llave;B. Preu;Gemma Ercilla

  • Giant mounded drifts in the Argentine Continental Margin: Origins, and global implications for the history of thermohaline circulation

    F.J. Hernández-Molina;M. Paterlini;L. Somoza;R. Violante

  • Seismic stacking pattern of the Faro-Albufeira contourite system (Gulf of Cadiz): a Quaternary record of paleoceanographic and tectonic influences

    E. Llave;F.J. Hernández-Molina;L. Somoza;V. Díaz-del-Río

  • The Cadiz Contourite Channel: Sandy contourites, bedforms and dynamic current interaction

    Dorrik Stow;F.J. Hernandez-Molina;Estefanía Llave;M. Bruno

  • Evolution of the gulf of Cadiz margin and southwest Portugal contourite depositional system: Tectonic, sedimentary and paleoceanographic implications from IODP expedition 339

    F.J. Hernández-Molina;F.J. Sierro;E. Llave;C. Roque

  • Quaternary stratigraphic stacking patterns on the continental shelves of the southern Iberian Peninsula: their relationship with global climate and palaeoceanographic changes

    F.J Hernández-Molina;L Somoza;J.T Vazquez;F Lobo

  • Bedform-velocity matrix: the estimation of deep bottom current velocity from bedform observations

    Dorrik Stow;F J Hernandez-Molina;E Llave;M Sayago-Gil

Frequent Co-Authors

Dorrik A. V. Stow
Dorrik A. V. Stow Heriot-Watt University
Estefanía Llave
Estefanía Llave Instituto Geológico y Minero de España
Luis Somoza
Luis Somoza Instituto Geológico y Minero de España
Antje H L Voelker
Antje H L Voelker Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Gemma Ercilla
Gemma Ercilla Spanish National Research Council
Francisco Javier Sierro
Francisco Javier Sierro University of Salamanca
Francisco J Jiménez-Espejo
Francisco J Jiménez-Espejo Spanish National Research Council
David A Hodell
David A Hodell University of Cambridge
José-Abel Flores
José-Abel Flores University of Salamanca
Lucas Joost Lourens
Lucas Joost Lourens Utrecht University

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