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Guillermo Booth-Rea

Guillermo Booth-Rea

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Earth Science

D-Index
33
Citations
3254
World Ranking
8506
National Ranking
194

Overview

Guillermo Booth-Rea is a researcher affiliated with the University of Granada in Spain, specializing primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a strong emphasis on Geophysics. Their academic work spans multiple subfields including Earth-Surface Processes, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Archeology.

Their research focuses on several key topics: Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Karst Systems and Hydrogeology, Landslides and related hazards, Archaeological and Historical Studies, and Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America.

Booth-Rea has contributed extensively to the scientific community through numerous publications, particularly in journals such as:

  • Tectonics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Nature Communications

Among their recent papers are:

  • The evolution of the westernmost Mediterranean basins, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • The Lithospheric Structure of the Gibraltar Arc System From Wide-Angle Seismic Data, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Evidence for a developing plate boundary in the western Mediterranean, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Two Cenozoic Extensional Phases in Mallorca and Their Bearing on the Geodynamic Evolution of the Western Mediterranean, 2021, Tectonics
  • Active fault segmentation in Northern Tunisia, 2020, Journal of Structural Geology

Frequent collaborators in Booth-Rea's work include:

  • José Miguel Azañón
  • Patricia Ruano
  • Fetheddine Melki
  • Jorge Pedro Galvé
  • Laura Gómez de la Peña

Best Publications

  • Crustal types and Tertiary tectonic evolution of the Alborán sea, western Mediterranean

    Guillermo Booth-Rea;César R. Ranero;José Miguel Martínez-Martínez;Ingo Grevemeyer

  • Differentiating geology and tectonics using a spatial autocorrelation technique for the hypsometric integral

    J. V. Pérez-Peña;J. M. Azañón;J. M. Azañón;G. Booth-Rea;A. Azor

  • Exhumation, doming and slab retreat in the Betic Cordillera (SE Spain): in situ40Ar/39Ar ages and P–T–d–t paths for the Nevado-Filabride complex

    Romain Augier;Philippe Agard;Patrick Monié;Laurent Jolivet

  • Geomorphic evidence of active tectonics in the Sierra Alhamilla (eastern Betics, SE Spain)

    Flavio Giaconia;Guillermo Booth-Rea;José Miguel Martínez-Martínez;José Miguel Azañón

  • Active transfer fault zone linking a segmented extensional system (Betics, southern Spain): Insight into heterogeneous extension driven by edge delamination

    José Miguel Martínez-Martínez;Guillermo Booth-Rea;José Miguel Azañón;Federico Torcal

  • Slab rupture and delamination under the Betics and Rif constrained from receiver functions

    Flor de Lis Mancilla;Guillermo Booth-Rea;Guillermo Booth-Rea;Daniel Stich;José Vicente Pérez-Peña;José Vicente Pérez-Peña

  • SwathProfiler and NProfiler

    J.V. Prez-Pea;M. Al-Awabdeh;J.M. Azan;J.P. Galve

  • Garnet lherzolite and garnet-spinel mylonite in the Ronda peridotite: Vestiges of Oligocene backarc mantle lithospheric extension in the western Mediterranean

    Carlos J. Garrido;Frederic Gueydan;Guillermo Booth-Rea;Guillermo Booth-Rea;Jacques Precigout

  • Influence of strike-slip fault segmentation on drainage evolution and topography. A case study: the Palomares Fault Zone (southeastern Betics, Spain)

    Guillermo Booth-Rea;José Miguel Azañón;Antonio Azor;Víctor García-Dueñas

  • Deformation and exhumation of the Ronda peridotite (Spain)

    Jacques Précigout;Frédéric Gueydan;Carlos J. Garrido;Nathan Cogné

  • The Alboran volcanic-arc modulated the Messinian faunal exchange and salinity crisis

    Guillermo Booth-Rea;Guillermo Booth-Rea;César R. Ranero;Ingo Grevemeyer

  • The West Melilla cold water coral mounds, Eastern Alboran Sea: Morphological characterization and environmental context

    Claudio Lo Iacono;Claudio Lo Iacono;Eulàlia Gràcia;Cesar R. Ranero;Mikhail Emelianov

  • Contrasting structural and P‐T evolution of tectonic units in the southeastern Betics: Key for understanding the exhumation of the Alboran Domain HP/LT crustal rocks (western Mediterranean)

    Guillermo Booth-Rea;Guillermo Booth-Rea;José Miguel Azañón;José Miguel Martínez-Martínez;O. Vidal

  • Movement along a low‐angle normal fault: The S reflector west of Spain

    T. J. Reston;T. J. Reston;T. Leythaeuser;G. Booth-Rea;D. Sawyer

  • Extensional tectonics in the northeastern Betics (SE Spain): case study of extension in a multilayered upper crust with contrasting rheologies

    Guillermo Booth-Rea;Jose Miguel Azañón;Vı́ctor Garcı́a-Dueñas

  • Backarc basin inversion and subcontinental mantle emplacement in the crust: kilometre-scale folding and shearing at the base of the proto-Alborán lithospheric mantle (Betic Cordillera, southern Spain)

    Károly Hidas;Guillermo Booth-Rea;Guillermo Booth-Rea;Carlos J. Garrido;José Miguel Martínez-Martínez;José Miguel Martínez-Martínez

  • Geomorphic analysis of the Sierra Cabrera, an active pop-up in the constrictional domain of conjugate strike-slip faults: The Palomares and Polopos fault zones (eastern Betics, SE Spain)

    Flavio Giaconia;G. Booth-Rea;G. Booth-Rea;J.M. Martínez-Martínez;J.M. Martínez-Martínez;J.M. Azañón;J.M. Azañón

  • Relief and drainage evolution during the exhumation of the Sierra Nevada (SE Spain): Is denudation keeping pace with uplift?

    J.M. Azañón;J.M. Azañón;J.P. Galve;J.V. Pérez-Peña;F. Giaconia

  • Late Miocene Extensional Collapse of Northern Tunisia

    G. Booth-Rea;G. Booth-Rea;S. Gaidi;F. Melki;W. Marzougui

  • Arc-parallel vs back-arc extension in the Western Gibraltar arc: Is the Gibraltar forearc still active?

    J.C Balanyá;A. Crespo-Blanc;M. Díaz-Aspiroz;I. Expósito

  • Exhumation constraints for the lower Nevado-Filabride Complex (Betic Cordillera, SE Spain): a Raman thermometry and Tweequ multiequilibrium thermobarometry approach

    Romain Augier;Guillermo Booth-Rea;Phillipe Agard;José Miguel Martínez-Martínez

Frequent Co-Authors

José Miguel Azañón
José Miguel Azañón University of Granada
Jorge Pedro Galve
Jorge Pedro Galve University of Granada
Ingo Grevemeyer
Ingo Grevemeyer GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
César R. Ranero
César R. Ranero Spanish National Research Council
Carlos J. Garrido
Carlos J. Garrido Spanish National Research Council
Claudio Marchesi
Claudio Marchesi University of Granada
Antonio Azor
Antonio Azor University of Granada
Romain Augier
Romain Augier University of Orléans
José Alberto Padrón-Navarta
José Alberto Padrón-Navarta Spanish National Research Council
Josep Gallart
Josep Gallart Spanish National Research Council

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