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Luis Pomar was a researcher affiliated with the University of the Balearic Islands in Spain. Their work focused on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant emphasis on Paleontology and related subfields such as Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, and Oceanography.

The research topics covered in their publications included:

  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition
  • Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis

A number of recent papers authored or coauthored by Luis Pomar illustrated the varied research interests and contributions made:

  • "Middle Miocene short-lived Tethyan seaway through the Zagros foreland basin: Facies analysis and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of mixed siliciclastic-carbonate deposits of Mishan Formation, Dezful Embayment, SW Iran," 2022, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • "Stratigraphic model of a Middle-Late Jurassic carbonate system (Mozduran Ridge, Kopet Dagh area, NE Iran)," 2021, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • "Columnar microbialites of the upper Miocene of Mallorca (Spain): A new morphogenetic model based on concurrent accretion and bioturbation - uncommon or overlooked?," 2021, Sedimentology
  • "The submarine dune field of the Bolognano Fm: depositional processes and the carbonate reservoir potential (Chattian to Burdigalian, Majella Carbonate Platform)," 2020, Geological Field Trips and Maps
  • "The sedimentary response of mixed lithoclastic-bioclastic Lower- Pleistocene shallow-marine systems to tides and waves in the south Apennine foredeep (Basilicata, southern Italy) Tidalites Field Trips Special Volume - Tidalites, Matera, Field Trip T3," 2021, Geological Field Trips and Maps

Frequent coauthors in their body of work included:

  • Sergio G. Longhitano
  • Domenico Chiarella
  • Guillem Mateu-Vicens
  • Hossein Mohammadkhani
  • Mahboubeh Hosseini-Barzi

Luis Pomar published regularly in the following venues:

  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Geological Field Trips and Maps
  • Sedimentology
  • Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
  • Journal of African Earth Sciences

Best Publications

  • Towards the standardization of sequence stratigraphy

    Octavian Catuneanu;V. Abreu;J. P. Bhattacharya;M. D. Blum

  • Reply to the comments of W. Helland-Hansen on "Towards the standardization of sequence stratigraphy" by Catuneanu et al. (Earth-Sciences Review 92(2009)1-33)

    Octavian Catuneanu;V. Abreu;J. P. Bhattacharya;M. D. Blum

  • Types of carbonate platforms: a genetic approach

    L. Pomar

  • Carbonate Factories: A Conundrum in Sedimentary Geology

    L. Pomar;Pamela Hallock

  • Ecological control of sedimentary accommodation: evolution from a carbonate ramp to rimmed shelf, Upper Miocene, Balearic Islands

    Luis Pomar

  • Internal Waves, an Under-Explored Source of Turbulence Events in the Sedimentary Record

    L. Pomar;M. Morsilli;P. Hallock;B. Bádenas

  • Reef geometries, erosion surfaces and high-frequency sea-level changes, upper Miocene Reef Complex, Mallorca, Spain

    Luis Pomar

  • Environmental factors influencing skeletal grain sediment associations: a critical review of Miocene examples from the western Mediterranean

    Luis Pomar;Marco Brandano;Hildegard Westphal

  • Late Pleistocene-Holocene sediments on the Spanish continental shelves: Model for very high resolution sequence stratigraphy

    F.J Hernández-Molina;L Somoza;J Rey;L Pomar

  • Reef building and carbonate production modes in the west-central Tethys during the Cenozoic

    Luis Pomar;Juan I. Baceta;Pamela Hallock;Guillem Mateu-Vicens

  • Architecture of Carbonate Platforms: A Response to Hydrodynamics and Evolving Ecology

    Luis Pomar;Christopher G St.C. Kendall

  • Upper Miocene Reef Complex of the Llucmajor Area, Mallorca, Spain

    Luis Pomar;William C. Ward;Darryl G. Green

  • The Calcarenite di Gravina Formation in Matera (Southern Italy): New Insights for Coarse-Grained, Large-Scale, Cross-Bedded Bodies Encased in Offshore Deposits

    Luis Pomar;Marcello Tropeano

  • Sub-wavebase cross-bedded grainstones on a distally steepened carbonate ramp, Upper Miocene, Menorca, Spain

    Luis Pomar;Antonio Obrador;Hildegard Westphal

  • Impact of carbonate producing biota on platform architecture: Insights from Miocene examples of the Mediterranean region

    Luis Pomar;Philip Bassant;Marco Brandano;Cyril Ruchonnet

  • Carbonate ramp evolution during the Late Oligocene (Chattian), Salento Peninsula, southern Italy

    Luis Pomar;Guillem Mateu-Vicens;Michele Morsilli;Marco Brandano

  • Changes in coral-reef structure through the Miocene in the Mediterranean province: Adaptive versus environmental influence

    Luis Pomar;Pamela Hallock

  • Mesophotic Coral Buildups in a Prodelta Setting (Late Eocene, Southern Pyrenees, Spain): a Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic System

    Michele Morsilli;Francesca R. Bosellini;Luis Pomar;Pamela Hallock

  • Response of a late Miocene Mediterranean reef platform to high-frequency eustasy

    Luis Pomar;William C. Ward

  • High-Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy in Prograding Miocene Carbonates: Application to Seismic Interpretation: Chapter 15

    L. Pomar

Frequent Co-Authors

Pamela Hallock
Pamela Hallock University of South Florida
Hildegard Westphal
Hildegard Westphal Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology
Bilal U. Haq
Bilal U. Haq Smithsonian Institution
Octavian Catuneanu
Octavian Catuneanu University of Alberta
André Strasser
André Strasser University of Fribourg
Ronald J. Steel
Ronald J. Steel The University of Texas at Austin
Henry W. Posamentier
Henry W. Posamentier Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Brian R. Pratt
Brian R. Pratt University of Saskatchewan
Janok P. Bhattacharya
Janok P. Bhattacharya McMaster University
William E. Galloway
William E. Galloway The University of Texas at Austin

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