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Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar

Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar

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Earth Science

D-Index
51
Citations
8411
World Ranking
3282
National Ranking
45

Overview

Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar is affiliated with the University of Granada in Spain and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Geophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, Geology, and Environmental Chemistry. Their research encompasses a broad range of geological and geophysical studies worldwide, with significant attention to earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, geology and paleoclimatology research, geological and tectonic studies in Latin America, geological formations and processes, as well as methane hydrates and related phenomena.

Their recent published works include:

  • Polyphase Tectonic Evolution of Fore-Arc Basin Related to STEP Fault as Revealed by Seismic Reflection Data From the Alboran Sea (W-Mediterranean), 2020, Tectonics
  • Plio-Quaternary tectonic evolution of the southern margin of the Alboran Basin (Western Mediterranean), 2020, Solid Earth
  • Geodetic fault slip rates on active faults in the Baza sub-Basin (SE Spain): Insights for seismic hazard assessment, 2021, Journal of Geodynamics
  • High- and Low-Angle Normal Fault Activity in a Collisional Orogen: The Northeastern Granada Basin (Betic Cordillera), 2021, Tectonics
  • The Role of Faults as Barriers in Confined Seismic Sequences: 2021 Seismicity in the Granada Basin (Betic Cordillera), 2022, Tectonics

Galindo-Zaldívar frequently publishes in several scientific venues, including:

  • Tectonics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Sensors
  • Applied Sciences
  • Tectonophysics

Frequent collaborators include Gemma Ercilla, Lourdes González-Castillo, Víctor Tendero-Salmerón, Asier Madarieta-Txurruka, and Antonio J. Gil.

Best Publications

  • 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of Alpine tectonism in the Betic Cordilleras (southern Spain)

    Patrick Monie;Jesus Galindo-Zaldivar;Francisco Gonzalez Lodeiro;Bruno Goffe

  • Testing the sensitivity of geomorphic indices in areas of low-rate active folding (eastern Betic Cordillera, Spain)

    Antonio Pedrera;José Vicente Pérez-Peña;Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar;Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar;José Miguel Azañón;José Miguel Azañón

  • Progressive extensional shear structures in a detachment contact in the Western Sierra Nevada (Betic Cordilleras, Spain)

    Jesús Galindo-Zaldivar;Francisco Gonzalez-Lodeiro;Antonio Jabaloy

  • Stress and palaeostress in the Betic-Rif cordilleras (Miocene to the present)

    J. Galindo-Zaldívar;F. González-Lodeiro;A. Jabaloy

  • Inversion of moment tensor focal mechanisms for active stresses around the Microcontinent Iberia: Tectonic implications

    G. de Vicente;S.A.P.L. Cloetingh;A. Munoz-Martin;A. Olaiz

  • Active continental subduction beneath the Betic Cordillera and the Alborán Sea

    J. Morales;I. Serrano;A. Jabaloy;J. Galindo-Zaldívar

  • First evidence of high-pressure, low-temperature metamorphism in the Alpujarride nappes, Betic Cordilleras (S. E. Spain)

    B. Goffe;A. Michard;V. Garcia-Duenas;F. Gonzales-Lodeiro

  • The Alpujárride-Nevado-Fibábride extensional shear zone, Betic Cordillera, SE Spain

    Antonio Jabaloy;Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar;Francisco González-Lodeiro

  • Contourite deposits in the central Scotia Sea: the importance of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and the Weddell Gyre flows

    Andrés Maldonado;Antonio Barnolas;Fernando Bohoyo;Jesús Galindo-Zaldı́var

  • Recent and present‐day stresses in the Granada Basin (Betic Cordilleras): Example of a late Miocene‐present‐day extensional basin in a convergent plate boundary

    J. Galindo-Zaldívar;A. Jabaloy;I. Serrano;J. Morales

  • Active faulting in the internal zones of the central Betic Cordilleras (SE, Spain)

    J. Galindo-Zaldı́var;A.J. Gil;M.J. Borque;F. González-Lodeiro

  • New Magnetic Anomaly Map of the Antarctic

    A. V. Golynsky;F. Ferraccioli;J. K. Hong;D. A. Golynsky

  • PS-InSAR processing methodologies in the detection of field surface deformation—Study of the Granada basin (Central Betic Cordilleras, southern Spain)

    Joaquim J. Sousa;Joaquim J. Sousa;Antonio M. Ruiz;Ramon F. Hanssen;Luisa Bastos

  • A model of oceanic development by ridge jumping: Opening of the Scotia Sea

    Andrés Maldonado;Fernando Bohoyo;Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar;Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar;Fº. Javier Hernández-Molina

  • Tectonics of an extinct ridge-transform intersection, Drake Passage (Antarctica)

    Andrés Maldonado;Juan Carlos Balanyá;Antonio Barnolas;Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar

  • Is there an active subduction beneath the Gibraltar orogenic arc? Constraints from Pliocene to present-day stress field

    A. Pedrera;Ana Ruiz-Constan;J. Galindo-Zaldivar;A. Chalouan

  • Continental fragmentation along the South Scotia Ridge transcurrent plate boundary (NE Antarctic Peninsula)

    J. Galindo-Zaldívar;A. Jabaloy;A. Maldonado;C. Sanz de Galdeano

  • The significance of giant seismites in the Plio-Pleistocene Baza palaeo-lake (S Spain)

    Pedro Alfaro;Luis Gibert;Massimo Moretti;Francisco J. García-Tortosa

  • Integrated geophysical methods for studying the karst system of Gruta de las Maravillas (Aracena, Southwest Spain)

    F.J. Martínez-Moreno;J. Galindo-Zaldívar;J. Galindo-Zaldívar;A. Pedrera;T. Teixido

  • Ocean basins near the Scotia–Antarctic plate boundary: Influence of tectonics and paleoceanography on the Cenozoic deposits

    A. Maldonado;F. Bohoyo;J. Galindo-Zaldívar;J. Hernández-Molina

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrés Maldonado
Andrés Maldonado University of Granada
C. Sanz de Galdeano
C. Sanz de Galdeano University of Granada
Elia d'Acremont
Elia d'Acremont Sorbonne University
Luis Somoza
Luis Somoza Instituto Geológico y Minero de España
Belén Alonso
Belén Alonso Spanish National Research Council
José Miguel Azañón
José Miguel Azañón University of Granada
Gemma Ercilla
Gemma Ercilla Spanish National Research Council
Ramon F. Hanssen
Ramon F. Hanssen Delft University of Technology
Emanuele Tondi
Emanuele Tondi University of Camerino
Jason L. Roberts
Jason L. Roberts Australian Antarctic Division

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