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Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso

Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso

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Earth Science

D-Index
45
Citations
8069
World Ranking
4424
National Ranking
67

Overview

Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso is affiliated with the University of Salamanca in Spain and primarily works within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans 46 publications in this main field, with a particular focus on geophysics, accounting for 39 of their works. Additional subfields include artificial intelligence, paleontology, geology, and neurology.

Their scientific investigations cover a diverse range of topics, including geological and geochemical analysis (32 publications), geological and geophysical studies worldwide (22 publications), and earthquake and tectonic studies (16 publications). They have also contributed to studies in geochemistry and geologic mapping as well as high-pressure geophysics and materials, paleontology, and stratigraphy of fossils. A subset of work emphasizes geological and tectonic studies in Latin America.

Gutiérrez-Alonso has co-authored research frequently with several collaborators. The most common coauthors include António Castro (7 joint publications), Daniel Gómez-Frutos (5), Alicia López-Carmona (5), Manuel Francisco Pereira (4), and Jacobo Abati (4).

The scientist's papers have appeared in a variety of academic venues. Notable frequent publication sources include the Geological Society of America Bulletin and Lithos, each with three publications. Other venues featuring their work multiple times are Solid Earth and Cureus, followed by Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Selected recent papers exemplify the breadth of Gutiérrez-Alonso's work:

  • Post-collisional batholiths do contribute to continental growth, 2023, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • The enigmatic curvature of Central Iberia and its puzzling kinematics, 2020, Solid Earth
  • The unique Cambro-Ordovician silicic large igneous province of NW Gondwana: Catastrophic melting of a thinned crust, 2022, Gondwana Research
  • A tectonic carpet of Variscan flysch at the base of a rootless accretionary prism in northwestern Iberia: U-Pb zircon age constrains from sediments and volcanic olistoliths, 2021, Solid Earth
  • Variscan intracrustal recycling by melting of Carboniferous arc-like igneous protoliths (Évora Massif, Iberian Variscan belt), 2021, Geological Society of America Bulletin

Best Publications

  • Evolution of the Rheic Ocean

    R. Damian Nance;Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso;J. Duncan Keppie;Ulf Linnemann

  • Origin of the Rheic Ocean: rifting along a Neoproterozoic suture?

    J. Brendan Murphy;Gabriel Gutierrez-Alonso;R. Damian Nance;Javier Fernandez-Suarez

  • Diachronous Variscan tectonothermal activity in the NW Iberian Massif: Evidence from 40Ar/39Ar dating of regional fabrics

    R.D. Dallmeyer;J.R.Martínez Catalán;R. Arenas;J.I. Gil Ibarguchi

  • A brief history of the Rheic Ocean

    R. Damian Nance;Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso;J. Duncan Keppie;Ulf Linnemann

  • Neoproterozoic-early Palaeozoic tectonostratigraphy and palaeogeography of the peri-Gondwanan terranes: Amazonian v. West African connections

    R. Damian Nance;J. Brendan Murphy;Rob A. Strachan;J. Duncan Keppie

  • The importance of along-margin terrane transport in northern Gondwana: insights from detrital zircon parentage in Neoproterozoic rocks from Iberia and Brittany

    J Fernández-Suárez;G Gutiérrez Alonso;T.E Jeffries

  • Variscan collisional magmatism and deformation in NW Iberia : constraints from U-Pb geochronology of granitoids

    J. Fernández‐Suárez;G. R. Dunning;G. A. Jenner;G. Gutiérrez‐Alonso

  • New ideas on the Proterozoic-Early Palaeozoic evolution of NW Iberia: insights from U–Pb detrital zircon ages

    J. Fernández-Suárez;G. Gutiérrez-Alonso;G.A. Jenner;M.N. Tubrett

  • Diachronous post-orogenic magmatism within a developing orocline in Iberia, European Variscides

    Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso;Javier Fernández-Suárez;Teresa E. Jeffries;Stephen T. Johnston

  • Self-subduction of the Pangaean global plate

    Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso;Javier Fernández-Suárez;Arlo B. Weil;J. Brendan Murphy

  • Terrane accretion and dispersal in the northern Gondwana margin. An Early Paleozoic analogue of a long-lived active margin

    G. Gutiérrez-Alonso;J. Fernández-Suárez;T.E. Jeffries;G.A. Jenner

  • Kinematic constraints on buckling a lithospheric-scale orocline along the northern margin of Gondwana: A geologic synthesis

    A. Brandon Weil;G. Gutiérrez-Alonso;S.T. Johnston;D. Pastor-Galán

  • Orocline triggered lithospheric delamination

    Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso;Javier Fernández-Suárez;Arlo B Weil

  • Gondwanan basement terranes of the Variscan–Appalachian orogen: Baltican, Saharan and West African hafnium isotopic fingerprints in Avalonia, Iberia and the Armorican Terranes

    Bonnie J. Henderson;William Joseph Collins;James Brendan Murphy;Gabriel Gutierrez-Alonso;Gabriel Gutierrez-Alonso

  • Lithospheric delamination in the core of Pangea: Sm-Nd insights from the Iberian mantle

    Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso;J. Brendan Murphy;Javier Fernández-Suárez;Arlo B. Weil

  • The Ediacaran–Early Cambrian detrital zircon record of NW Iberia: possible sources and paleogeographic constraints

    J. Fernández-Suárez;G. Gutiérrez-Alonso;D. Pastor-Galán;M. Hofmann

  • Oroclines: Thick and thin

    S.T. Johnston;A.B. Weil;G. Gutiérrez-Alonso

  • Provenance variability along the Early Ordovician north Gondwana margin: Paleogeographic and tectonic implications of U-Pb detrital zircon ages from the Armorican Quartzite of the Iberian Variscan belt

    J. Shaw;G. Gutiérrez-Alonso;S.T. Johnston;D. Pastor Galán

  • Dating of lithospheric buckling: 40Ar/39Ar ages of syn-orocline strike–slip shear zones in northwestern Iberia

    Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso;Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso;Alan S. Collins;Javier Fernández-Suárez;Daniel Pastor-Galán

  • Oroclines of the Variscan orogen of Iberia: Paleocurrent analysis and paleogeographic implications

    Jessica Shaw;Stephen T. Johnston;Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso;Arlo B. Weil

  • New time constraints on lithospheric-scale oroclinal bending of the Ibero-Armorican Arc: a palaeomagnetic study of earliest Permian rocks from Iberia

    Arlo Weil;Gabriel Gutiérrez-alonso;Jordan Conan

  • Evolution of the Rheic Ocean

    Erdin Bozkurt;M. Francisco Pereira;Robin Strachan;Cecilio Quesada

Frequent Co-Authors

Javier Fernández-Suárez
Javier Fernández-Suárez Complutense University of Madrid
J. Brendan Murphy
J. Brendan Murphy St. Francis Xavier University
Stephen T. Johnston
Stephen T. Johnston University of Alberta
Arlo Brandon Weil
Arlo Brandon Weil Bryn Mawr College
Mandy Hofmann
Mandy Hofmann Senckenberg Naturmuseum
Ulf Linnemann
Ulf Linnemann Senckenberg Naturmuseum
R. Damian Nance
R. Damian Nance Ohio University
Rob Strachan
Rob Strachan University of Portsmouth
George A. Jenner
George A. Jenner Memorial University of Newfoundland
Alan S. Collins
Alan S. Collins University of Adelaide

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