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Juan Carlos Carracedo is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain and focuses on the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with an emphasis on geophysics among other subfields. Their research spans several areas, including geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, and geology and paleoclimatology research. Other topics within their scope are high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and geophysical studies worldwide, aeolian processes and effects, and traumatic ocular and foreign body injuries.

Carracedo has contributed notably to publications in various scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Geology Today
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Science Advances
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist has authored and coauthored numerous papers related mostly to volcanic and magmatic phenomena, with notable recent works including:

  • "The 2021 eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcanic ridge on La Palma, Canary Islands" (2022, Geology Today)
  • "Mantle source characteristics and magmatic processes during the 2021 La Palma eruption" (2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)
  • "Deep magma storage during the 2021 La Palma eruption" (2023, Science Advances)
  • "Oceanic intraplate explosive eruptions fed directly from the mantle" (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Magmatic Storage and Volatile Fluxes of the 2021 La Palma Eruption" (2024, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems)

Collaborations have been a significant part of Carracedo's work, with frequent coauthors including Francisco-José Pérez-Torrado, Valentín R. Troll, Frances M. Deegan, Harri Geiger, and Meritxell Aulinas. These partnerships have contributed to research productivity and multidisciplinary perspectives within their focus areas.

Best Publications

  • The Canary Islands: An example of structural control on the growth of large oceanic-island volcanoes

    J.C. Carracedo

  • Hotspot volcanism close to a passive continental margin; the Canary Islands

    J. C. Carracedo;S. Day;H. Guillou;E. Rodríguez Badiola

  • K-Ar ages and magnetic stratigraphy of a hotspot-induced, fast grown oceanic island: El Hierro, Canary Islands

    H. Guillou;J.C. Carracedo;F.Pérez Torrado;E.Rodriguez Badiola

  • Geology and volcanology of La Palma and El Hierro, Western Canaries

    J. C. Carracedo;E. R. Badiola;H. Guillou;J. de la Nuez

  • Growth, structure, instability and collapse of Canarian volcanoes and comparisons with Hawaiian volcanoes

    Juan Carlos Carracedo

  • Eruptive and structural history of Teide Volcano and rift zones of Tenerife, Canary Islands

    J.C. Carracedo;E. Rodríguez Badiola;H. Guillou;M. Paterne

  • Giant Quaternary landslides in the evolution of La Palma and El Hierro, Canary Islands

    Juan Carlos Carracedo;Simon J Day;Hervé Guillou;Francisco J Pérez Torrado

  • Cenozoic volcanism II: the Canary Islands

    Juan Carlos Carracedo;Francisco José Pérez Torrado;Eumenio Ancochea;Joaquín Meco

  • Evidence for distinct proportions of subducted oceanic crust and lithosphere in HIMU-type mantle beneath El Hierro and La Palma, Canary Islands

    James M.D. Day;James M.D. Day;D. Graham Pearson;Colin G. Macpherson;David Lowry

  • The 2021 eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcanic ridge on La Palma, Canary Islands

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  • Implications for the early shield-stage evolution of Tenerife from K/Ar ages and magnetic stratigraphy

    Hervé Guillou;Juan Carlos Carracedo;Raphael Paris;Francisco José Pérèz Torrado

  • Recent structural evolution of the Cumbre Vieja volcano, La Palma, Canary Islands: Volcanic rift zone reconfiguration as a precursor to volcano flank instability?

    S.J Day;J.C Carracedo;H Guillou;P Gravestock

  • Ar/Ar ages from transitionally magnetized lavas on La Palma, Canary Islands, and the geomagnetic instability timescale

    B. S. Singer;M. K. Relle;K. A. Hoffman;A. Battle

  • Dating of the Upper Pleistocene–Holocene volcanic activity of La Palma using the unspiked K–Ar technique

    Hervé Guillou;Juan Carlos Carracedo;Simon J. Day

  • Later stages of volcanic evolution of La Palma, Canary Islands: Rift evolution, giant landslides, and the genesis of the Caldera de Taburiente

    Juan Carlos Carracedo;Simon J. Day;Hervé Guillou;Philip Gravestock

  • Pyroxenite-rich mantle formed by recycled oceanic lithosphere: Oxygen-osmium isotope evidence from Canary Island lavas

    James M.D. Day;James M.D. Day;D. Graham Pearson;Colin G. Macpherson;David Lowry

  • The 1730–1736 eruption of Lanzarote, Canary Islands: a long, high-magnitude basaltic fissure eruption

    J.C. Carracedo;E. Rodriguez Badiola;V. Soler

  • The maximum warmings of the Pleistocene world climate recorded in the Canary Islands

    Joaquı́n Meco;Hervé Guillou;Juan-Carlos Carracedo;Alejandro Lomoschitz

  • Systematics of U-series nuclides in primitive lavas from the 1730-36 eruption on Lanzarote, Canary Islands, and implications for the role of garnet pyroxenites during oceanic basalt formations

    Olgeir Sigmarsson;Simon Carn;Juan Carlos Carracedo

  • Geomorphometric variability of “monogenetic” volcanic cones: Evidence from Mauna Kea, Lanzarote and experimental cones

    M. Kervyn;M. Kervyn;G.G.J. Ernst;J.-C. Carracedo;P. Jacobs

  • Beachrocks from the island of La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain)

    F. Calvet;M.C. Cabrera;J.C. Carracedo;J. Mangas

  • The Geology of the Canary Islands

    Juan Carlos Carracedo;Valentin R. Troll

Frequent Co-Authors

Valentin R. Troll
Valentin R. Troll Uppsala University
Hervé Guillou
Hervé Guillou Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Raphaël Paris
Raphaël Paris University of Clermont Auvergne
Vicente Soler
Vicente Soler Spanish National Research Council
Carlo Laj
Carlo Laj École Normale Supérieure
Catherine Kissel
Catherine Kissel Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
Sébastien Nomade
Sébastien Nomade Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
Andreas Klügel
Andreas Klügel University of Bremen
James M.D. Day
James M.D. Day University of California, San Diego
Martine Paterne
Martine Paterne Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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