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Laia Alegret is a researcher affiliated with the University of Zaragoza in Spain. Their work primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specialization in areas such as Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Oceanography, Geophysics, and Ecology.

Their research topics encompass a range of subjects including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Laia Alegret's recent publications include:

  • Turnover and stability in the deep sea: Benthic foraminifera as tracers of Paleogene global change, 2020, Global and Planetary Change
  • On impact and volcanism across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, 2020, Science
  • Continental-scale geographic change across Zealandia during Paleogene subduction initiation, 2020, Geology
  • The Late Lutetian Thermal Maximum (middle Eocene): first record of deep-sea benthic foraminiferal response, 2020, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Neogene Mass Accumulation Rate of Carbonate Sediment Across Northern Zealandia, Tasman Sea, Southwest Pacific, 2022, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Thomas Westerhold
  • Claudia Agnini
  • Rupert Sutherland
  • Edoardo Dallanave
  • Gerald R. Dickens

Laia Alegret has contributed multiple articles to several publication venues, notably:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Geology

Best Publications

  • The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary

    Peter Schulte;Laia Alegret;Ignacio Arenillas;José A. Arz

  • On impact and volcanism across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

    Pincelli M. Hull;André Bornemann;Donald E. Penman;Michael J. Henehan;Michael J. Henehan

  • The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the base of the Danian Stage (Paleocene, Paleogene, "Tertiary", Cenozoic) at El Kef, Tunisia - Original definition and revision

    Eustoquio Molina;Laia Alegret;Ignacio Arenillas;Jose A Arz

  • End-Cretaceous marine mass extinction not caused by productivity collapse

    Laia Alegret;Ellen Thomas;Kyger C Lohmann

  • Rapid ocean acidification and protracted Earth system recovery followed the end-Cretaceous Chicxulub impact.

    Michael J. Henehan;Andy Ridgwell;Andy Ridgwell;Ellen Thomas;Ellen Thomas;Shuang Zhang

  • Benthic foraminiferal turnover across the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary at Agost (southeastern Spain): paleoenvironmental inferences

    Laia Alegret;Eustoquio Molina;Ellen Thomas;Ellen Thomas

  • Benthic foraminifera at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary around the Gulf of Mexico

    Laia Alegret;Eustoquio Molina;Ellen Thomas

  • The Global Stratotype Sections and Points for the bases of the Selandian (Middle Paleocene) and Thanetian (Upper Paleocene) stages at Zumaia, Spain

    Birger Schmitz;Victoriano Pujalte;Eustoquio Molina;Simonetta Monechi

  • Upper Cretaceous and lower Paleogene benthic Foraminifera from northeastern Mexico

    Laia Alegret;Ellen Thomas

  • Evidence of an abrupt environmental disruption during the mid-Paleocene biotic event (Zumaia section, western Pyrenees)

    Gilen Bernaola;Juan Ignacio Baceta;Xabier Orue-Etxebarria;Laia Alegret

  • The Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum: New data on microfossil turnover at the Zumaia section, Spain

    Laia Alegret;Silvia Ortiz;Silvia Ortiz;Xabier Orue-Etxebarria;Gilen Bernaola

  • Extinction and recovery of benthic foraminifera across the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum at the Alamedilla section (Southern Spain)

    L. Alegret;S. Ortiz;S. Ortiz;E. Molina

  • 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

  • Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary bathyal paleo-environments in the central North Pacific (DSDP Site 465), the Northwestern Atlantic (ODP Site 1049), the Gulf of Mexico and the Tethys: The benthic foraminiferal record

    Laia Alegret;Ellen Thomas;Ellen Thomas

  • Food supply to the seafloor in the Pacific Ocean after the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary event

    L. Alegret;E. Thomas;E. Thomas

  • The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Base of the Danian Stage (Paleocene, Paleogene, "Tertiary", Cenozoic): Auxiliary Sections and Correlation

    Eustoquio Molina;Laia Alegret;Ignacio Arenillas;Jose A. Arz

  • Benthic foraminifera and environmental turnover across the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary at Blake Nose (ODP Hole 1049C, Northwestern Atlantic)

    Laia Alegret;Ellen Thomas;Ellen Thomas

  • Continental-scale geographic change across Zealandia during Paleogene subduction initiation

    R Sutherland;Gerald Roy Dickens;P Blum;C Agnini

  • Foraminiferal biostratigraphy and paleoenvironmental reconstruction at the Yaxcopoil-1 drill hole (Chicxulub crater, Yucatán Peninsula)

    José A. Arz;Laia Alegret;Ignacio Arenillas

  • Palaeoenvironmental turnover across the Palaeocene/Eocene boundary at the Stratotype section in Dababiya (Egypt) based on benthic foraminifera

    Laia Alegret;Laia Alegret;Silvia Ortiz;Ignacio Arenillas;Eustoquio Molina

  • Deep-Sea environments across the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary in the eastern South Atlantic Ocean (ODP Leg 208, Walvis Ridge)

    Laia Alegret;Ellen Thomas;Ellen Thomas

Frequent Co-Authors

Ellen Thomas
Ellen Thomas Yale University
Eustoquio Molina
Eustoquio Molina University of Zaragoza
Thomas Westerhold
Thomas Westerhold University of Bremen
Andy Ridgwell
Andy Ridgwell University of California, Riverside
Simonetta Monechi
Simonetta Monechi University of Florence
Pincelli M. Hull
Pincelli M. Hull Yale University
Timothy J. Bralower
Timothy J. Bralower Pennsylvania State University
Gerald R. Dickens
Gerald R. Dickens Trinity College Dublin
Rupert Sutherland
Rupert Sutherland Victoria University of Wellington

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