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Juan C. Larrasoaña is affiliated with the Instituto Geológico y Minero de España in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial body of work encompassing atmospheric science, earth-surface processes, geophysics, paleontology, and archeology.

The scientist's recent publications include studies in various fields related to geology and paleoclimatology. Notable papers are:

  • Phenomenology and geographical gradients of atmospheric deposition in southwestern Europe: Results from a multi-site monitoring network (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • A review of West African monsoon penetration during Green Sahara periods; implications for human evolution and dispersals over the last three million years (2021), published in Oxford Open Climate Change
  • Multi-aged social behaviour based on artiodactyl tracks in an early Miocene palustrine wetland (Ebro Basin, Spain) (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • Pleistocene climate fluctuations drove demographic history of African golden wolves (Canis lupaster) (2020), published in Molecular Ecology
  • Mediterranean water in the Atlantic Iberian margin reveals early isolation events during the Messinian Salinity Crisis (2023), published in Global and Planetary Change

Their frequent collaborators include Yi Zhong, Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr, Zhengyao Lu, Debo Zhao, and Wenyue Xia, reflecting interdisciplinary and international research partnerships.

Juan C. Larrasoaña has published extensively in prominent venues related to their field, such as:

  • Journal of Iberian Geology
  • Nature Communications
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Their primary fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Subfields of focus are:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Geophysics
  • Paleontology
  • Archeology

The main research topics covered in their work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

Best Publications

  • Environmental magnetism: Principles and applications

    Qingsong Liu;Andrew P. Roberts;Juan C. Larrasoaña;Subir K. Banerjee

  • Three million years of monsoon variability over the northern Sahara

    J. C. Larrasoaña;A. P. Roberts;E. J. Rohling;M. Winklhofer

  • Trends, rhythms and events in Plio-Pleistocene African climate

    Martin H. Trauth;Juan C. Larrasoaña;Manfred Mudelsee

  • Dynamics of Green Sahara Periods and Their Role in Hominin Evolution

    Juan C. Larrasoaña;Juan C. Larrasoaña;Andrew P. Roberts;Eelco J. Rohling;Eelco J. Rohling

  • What do the HIRM and S-ratio really measure in environmental magnetism?

    Qingsong Liu;Andrew P. Roberts;José Torrent;Chorng-Shern Horng

  • Diagenetic formation of greigite and pyrrhotite in gas hydrate marine sedimentary systems

    Juan C. Larrasoaña;Andrew P. Roberts;Robert J. Musgrave;Eulàlia Gràcia

  • Magnetotactic bacterial abundance in pelagic marine environments is limited by organic carbon flux and availability of dissolved iron

    Andrew P. Roberts;Andrew P. Roberts;Fabio Florindo;Giuliana Villa;Liao Chang

  • Searching for single domain magnetite in the “pseudo-single-domain” sedimentary haystack: Implications of biogenic magnetite preservation for sediment magnetism and relative paleointensity determinations

    Andrew P. Roberts;Andrew P. Roberts;Liao Chang;Liao Chang;David Heslop;Fabio Florindo

  • Closing and continentalization of the South Pyrenean foreland basin (NE Spain): magnetochronological constraints

    Elisenda Costa;Miguel Garcés;Miguel López‐Blanco;Elisabet Beamud

  • Magnetochronology of synorogenic Miocene foreland sediments in the Fars arc of the Zagros Folded Belt (SW Iran)

    Sh. Khadivi;Frédéric Mouthereau;J.C. Larrasoana;J. Vergés

  • Magnetic properties of pelagic marine carbonates

    Andrew P. Roberts;Fabio Florindo;Liao Chang;David Heslop

  • The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Lutetian Stage at the Gorrondatxe section, Spain

    Eustoquio Molina;Laia Alegret;Estibaliz Apellaniz;Gilen Bernaola

  • Magnetobiochronology of Lower Miocene (Ramblian) continental sediments from the Tudela Formation (western Ebro basin, Spain)

    Juan C. Larrasoaña;Xabier Murelaga;Miguel Garcés

  • Reliability of magnetic fabric of weakly deformed mudrocks as a palaeostress indicator in compressive settings

    Ruth Soto;Juan C. Larrasoaña;Luis E. Arlegui;Elisabet Beamud

  • Paleomagnetic, structural, and stratigraphic constraints on transverse fault kinematics during basin inversion: The Pamplona Fault (Pyrenees, north Spain)

    Juan Cruz Larrasoaña;Josep María Parés;Héctor Millán;Joaquín del Valle

  • An integrated AMS, structural, palaeo- and rock-magnetic study of Eocene marine marls from the Jaca-Pamplona basin (Pyrenees, N Spain); new insights into the timing of magnetic fabric acquisition in weakly deformed mudrocks

    Juan C. Larrasoaña;Emilio L. Pueyo;Josep M. Parés

  • A new proxy for bottom-water ventilation in the eastern Mediterranean based on diagenetically controlled magnetic properties of sapropel-bearing sediments

    Juan C. Larrasoaña;Andrew P. Roberts;Joseph S. Stoner;Carl Richter

  • Paleomagnetic and astronomical dating of sediment core BH08 from the Bohai Sea, China: Implications for glacial–interglacial sedimentation

    Zhengquan Yao;Xuefa Shi;Qingsong Liu;Yanguang Liu

  • Signatures of Reductive Magnetic Mineral Diagenesis From Unmixing of First-Order Reversal Curves

    Andrew P. Roberts;Xiang Zhao;Richard J. Harrison;David Heslop

  • Magnetotactic bacterial response to Antarctic dust supply during the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum

    Juan C. Larrasoana;Juan C. Larrasoana;Andrew P. Roberts;Andrew P. Roberts;Liao Chang;Liao Chang;Stephen A. Schellenberg

  • Paleoclimate Variability in the Mediterranean and Red Sea Regions during the Last 500,000 Years Implications for Hominin Migrations

    Eelco J. Rohling;Katharine M. Grant;Andrew P. Roberts;Juan-Cruz Larrasoaña

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew P. Roberts
Andrew P. Roberts Australian National University
Miguel Garcés
Miguel Garcés University of Barcelona
Liao Chang
Liao Chang Peking University
Eelco J. Rohling
Eelco J. Rohling Utrecht University
Luigi Jovane
Luigi Jovane Universidade de São Paulo
Fabio Florindo
Fabio Florindo National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
David Heslop
David Heslop Australian National University
Francisco Javier Sierro
Francisco Javier Sierro University of Salamanca
Qingsong Liu
Qingsong Liu Southern University of Science and Technology
Blas L. Valero-Garcés
Blas L. Valero-Garcés Spanish National Research Council

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