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J. Javier Álvaro is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, particularly in geophysics and paleontology. Their published work spans various subfields including Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad range with a focus on paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geological and geochemical analysis, and geological and geophysical studies worldwide. Other notable areas of study include geological formations and processes, geology and paleoclimatology research, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, as well as marine biology and ecology research.

J. Javier Álvaro has published multiple papers in significant scientific venues, reflecting a consistent presence in specialized geological and paleontological literature. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Geological Society London Special Publications
  • Geological Magazine
  • Geologica Acta
  • Spanish Journal of Palaeontology
  • The Depositional Record

Recent papers authored by J. Javier Álvaro highlight contributions to understanding magmatic events and regional geology in southwestern Europe. Selected publications are:

  • Comparative geochemical study on Furongian-earliest Ordovician (Toledanian) and Ordovician (Sardic) felsic magmatic events in south-western Europe: underplating of hot mafic magmas linked to the opening of the Rheic Ocean, 2020, Solid Earth
  • Reconstructing the pre-Variscan puzzle of Cambro-Ordovician basement rocks in the southwestern European margin of Gondwana, 2020, Geological Society London Special Publications

Other notable recent papers, coauthored by different researchers, include studies on trace fossils and Ordovician ironstone formations:

  • Non-marine invertebrate trace fossils from the Tertiary Calatayud-Teruel basin, NE Spain, 2021, Spanish Journal of Palaeontology
  • Ordovician ironstone of the Iberian margin: Coastal upwelling, ocean anoxia and Palaeozoic biodiversity, 2020, The Depositional Record
  • Non-marine invertebrate trace fossils from the Tertiary Calatayud-Teruel Basin, NE Spain. Reply, 2021, Spanish Journal of Palaeontology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with J. Javier Álvaro include:

  • Josep Maria Casas
  • Sören Jensen
  • Teresa Sánchez-García
  • Teodoro Palacios
  • J. Brendan Murphy

Best Publications

  • Palaeogeographical controls on the Cambrian trilobite immigration and evolutionary patterns reported in the western Gondwana margin

    J. Javier Álvaro;Olaf Elicki;Gerd Geyer;Adrian W.A. Rushton

  • Neoproterozoic–Cambrian stratigraphic framework of the Anti-Atlas and Ouzellagh promontory (High Atlas), Morocco

    Jose Javier Alvaro;Fouad Benziane;Robert Thomas;Gregory Walsh

  • Stratigraphic evidence for the Hirnantian (latest Ordovician) glaciation in the Zagros Mountains, Iran

    Mohammad Ghavidel-syooki;J. Javier Álvaro;Leonid Popov;Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour

  • Cambrian echinoderm diversity and palaeobiogeography

    Samuel Zamora;Bertrand Lefebvre;J. Javier Álvaro;Sébastien Clausen

  • The oldest echinoderm faunas from Gondwana show that echinoderm body plan diversification was rapid.

    Andrew B. Smith;Samuel Zamora;J. Javier Álvaro

  • Global Cambrian trilobite palaeobiogeography assessed using parsimony analysis of endemicity

    J. Javier Álvaro;Per Ahlberg;Per Ahlberg;Loren E. Babcock;Osvaldo L. Bordonaro

  • Palaeozoic Reefs and Bioaccumulations: Climatic and Evolutionary Controls

    José Javier Álvaro;Markus Aretz;Frédéric Boulvain;Axel Munnecke

  • The late Ordovician carbonate sedimentation as a major triggering factor of the Hirnantian glaciation

    Enrique Villas;Emmanuelle Vennin;José Javier Álvaro;Wolfgang Hammann

  • The Early-Cambrian Boho volcano of the El Graara massif, Morocco: Petrology, geodynamic setting and coeval sedimentation

    José Javier Álvaro;H. Ezzouhairi;Emmanuelle Vennin;M.L. Ribeiro

  • High-latitude pelmatozoan-bryozoan mud-mounds from the late Ordovician northern Gondwana platform

    E. Vennin;J. J. Álvaro;E. Villas

  • Diachronism in the late Neoproterozoic–Cambrian arc-rift transition of North Gondwana: A comparison of Morocco and the Iberian Ossa-Morena Zone

    J. Javier Álvaro;Félix Bellido;Dominique Gasquet;M. Francisco Pereira

  • Carbon chemostratigraphy of the Cambrian-Ordovician transition in a midlatitude mixed platform, Montagne Noire, France

    J. Javier Álvaro;Blanca Bauluz;Ignacio Subías;Catherine Pierre

  • Cryogenian evolution of stigmasteroid biosynthesis

    Yosuke Hoshino;Aleksandra Poshibaeva;William Meredith;Colin Snape

  • Review of the Cambrian volcanic activity in Morocco: geochemical fingerprints and geotectonic implications for the rifting of West Gondwana

    André Pouclet;Hassan El Hadi;J. Javier Álvaro;Jacques-Marie Bardintzeff

  • The Cambrian-Early Ordovician Rift Stage in the Gondwanan Units of the Iberian Massif

    T. Sánchez-García;M. Chichorro;A. R. Solá;J. J. Álvaro

  • Chronostratigraphic and palaeogeographic significance of an early Cambrian microfauna from the Heraultia Limestone, northern Montagne Noire, France

    Léa Devaere;Sébastien Clausen;Michael Steiner;J. Javier Álvaro

  • Adequacy of the Early Ordovician trilobite record in the southern Montagne Noire (France): biases for biodiversity documentation

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  • Cambrian–early Ordovician volcanism across the South Armorican and Occitan domains of the Variscan Belt in France: Continental break-up and rifting of the northern Gondwana margin

    André Pouclet;J. Javier Álvaro;Jacques-Marie Bardintzeff;Andrés Gil Imaz

  • Ediacaran–Cambrian phosphorites from the western margins of Gondwana and Baltica

    J. Javier Álvaro;Graham A. Shields-Zhou;Per Ahlberg;Sören Jensen

  • Terreneuvian Orthothecid (Hyolitha) Digestive Tracts from Northern Montagne Noire, France; Taphonomic, Ontogenetic and Phylogenetic Implications

    Léa Devaere;Sébastien Clausen;J. Javier Álvaro;John S. Peel

  • Dapingian-lower Darriwilian (Ordovician) stratigraphic gap in the Faraghan Mountains, Zagros Ranges, south-eastern Iran

    M. Ghavidel-Syooki;L.E. Popov;J.J. Álvaro;M. Ghobadi Pour

  • Pre-Hirnantian (latest Ordovician) benthic community assemblages: Controls and replacements in a siliciclastic-dominated platform of the eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco

    José Javier Álvaro;José Javier Álvaro;Emmanuelle Vennin;Enrique Villas;Jacques Destombes

Frequent Co-Authors

Leonid E. Popov
Leonid E. Popov Cardiff University
Søren Holdt Jensen
Søren Holdt Jensen University of Extremadura
André Pouclet
André Pouclet University of Orléans
Emmanuelle Vennin
Emmanuelle Vennin University of Burgundy
Andrew B. Smith
Andrew B. Smith Natural History Museum
M. Francisco Pereira
M. Francisco Pereira University of Évora
Loren E. Babcock
Loren E. Babcock The Ohio State University
Marc Poujol
Marc Poujol University of Rennes
Bruce S. Lieberman
Bruce S. Lieberman University of Kansas
Roger A. Cooper
Roger A. Cooper GNS Science

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