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Margarita López-Martínez is affiliated with the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada in Mexico. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, and Behavioral Neuroscience as subfields.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Archaeology and Ancient Environmental Studies

López-Martínez's publication record shows contributions to a variety of journals, with frequent publication venues as follows:

  • Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas
  • Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana
  • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • BMC Psychiatry

Recent scientific papers authored include:

  • "Interpreting and reporting 40Ar/39Ar geochronologic data," 2020, Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • "Cortisol and DHEA-S levels in pregnant women with severe anxiety," 2020, BMC Psychiatry
  • "Neotethyan Subduction Ignited the Iran Arc and Backarc Differently," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • "The Cretaceous-Eocene Mexican Magmatic Arc: Conceptual framework from geochemical and geochronological data of plutonic rocks," 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Volcanic record of the arc-to-rift transition onshore of the Guaymas basin in the Santa Rosalía area, Gulf of California, Baja California," 2020, Geosphere

Co-authors frequently collaborating with López-Martínez include:

  • Teresa Orozco-Esquivel
  • Cathy J. Busby
  • Alison Graettinger
  • Tina M. Niemi
  • Edith Fuentes-Guzmán

Best Publications

  • Space-time patterns of Cenozoic arc volcanism in central Mexico: From the Sierra Madre Occidental to the Mexican Volcanic Belt

    Luca Ferrari;Margarita López-Martínez;Gerardo Aguirre-Díaz;Gerardo Carrasco-Núñez

  • Interpreting and reporting 40Ar/39Ar geochronologic data

    Allen J. Schaen;Brian R. Jicha;Kip V. Hodges;Pieter Vermeesch

  • Ignimbrite flare‐up and deformation in the southern Sierra Madre Occidental, western Mexico: Implications for the late subduction history of the Farallon plate

    Luca Ferrari;Margarita López-Martínez;José Rosas-Elguera

  • The Acambay graben: Active intraarc extension in the trans‐Mexican volcanic belt, Mexico

    Max Suter;Odranoel Quintero-Legorreta;Margarita López-Martinez;Gerardo Aguirre-Díaz

  • The North American-Caribbean Plate boundary in Mexico-Guatemala-Honduras

    Lothar Ratschbacher;Leander Franz;Myo Min;Raik Bachmann

  • Geology, geochronology and tectonic setting of late Cenozoic volcanism along the southwestern Gulf of Mexico: The Eastern Alkaline Province revisited

    Luca Ferrari;Takahiro Tagami;Mugihiko Eguchi;Ma. Teresa Orozco-Esquivel

  • Cenozoic magmatism and extension in western Mexico: Linking the Sierra Madre Occidental silicic large igneous province and the Comondú Group with the Gulf of California rift

    Luca Ferrari;Teresa Orozco-Esquivel;Scott E. Bryan;Margarita López-Martínez

  • Late Oligocene to Middle Miocene rifting and synextensional magmatism in the southwestern Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico: The beginning of the Gulf of California rift

    Luca Ferrari;Margarita López-Martínez;Teresa Orozco-Esquivel;Scott E. Bryan

  • Late Cretaceous shortening and early Tertiary shearing in the central Sierra Madre del Sur, southern Mexico: Insights into the evolution of the Caribbean–North American plate interaction

    Mariano Cerca;Luca Ferrari;Margarita López-Martínez;Barbara Martiny

  • Subsurface stratigraphy and its correlation with the surficial geology at Los Humeros geothermal field, eastern Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt

    Gerardo Carrasco-Núñez;M. López-Martínez;J. Hernández;V. Vargas

  • Jurassic volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the La Silla and Todos Santos Formations, Chiapas: Record of Nazas arc magmatism and rift-basin formation prior to opening of the Gulf of Mexico

    Antonio Godínez-Urban;Timothy F. Lawton;Roberto S. Molina Garza;Alexander Iriondo

  • Pressure-temperature-time evolution of Paleozoic high-pressure rocks of the Acatlán Complex (southern Mexico): Implications for the evolution of the Iapetus and Rheic Oceans

    Ricardo Vega-Granillo;Oscar Talavera-Mendoza;Diana Meza-Figueroa;Joaquin Ruiz

  • Arc-rift transition volcanism in the Puertecitos Volcanic Province, northeastern Baja California, Mexico

    Arturo Martín-Barajas;Joann M. Stock;Paul Layer;Brian Hausback

  • A 40Ar39Ar geochronological study of komatiites and komatiitic basalts from the Lower Onverwacht Volcanics: Barberton Mountain Land, South Africa

    Margarita López-Martínez;Derek York;John A. Hanes

  • Chronological constraints on the thermal and tilting history of the Sierra San Pedro Mártir pluton, Baja California, México, from U/Pb, 40Ar/39Ar, and fission-track geochronology

    Amabel Ortega-Rivera;E. Farrar;J. A. Hanes;D. A. Archibald

  • Timing of rifting in the southern Gulf of California and its conjugate margins: Insights from the plutonic record

    Jose Duque-Trujillo;Luca Ferrari;Teresa Orozco-Esquivel;Margarita López-Martínez

  • Cretaceous–Eocene magmatism and Laramide deformation in southwestern Mexico: No role for terrane accretion

    Michelangelo Martini;Luca Ferrari;Margarita López-Martínez;Mariano Cerca-Martínez

  • Límites temporales de la deformación por acortamiento Laramide en el centro de México

    Mario Andrés Cuéllar-Cárdenas;Ángel Francisco Nieto-Samaniego;Gilles Levresse;Susana Alicia Alaniz-Álvarez

  • Geologic framework and geochronology of ultramafic complexes of southern Mexico

    L. A. Delgado-Argote;M. López-Martínez;D. York;C. M. Hall

  • Correlating the Arperos Basin from Guanajuato, central Mexico, to Santo Tomás, southern Mexico: Implications for the paleogeography and origin of the Guerrero terrane

    Michelangelo Martini;Luigi Augusto Solari;Margarita López-Martínez

  • Combustion at the late Early Pleistocene site of Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Río Quípar (Murcia, Spain)

    M.J. Walker;D. Anesin;D.E. Angelucci;A. Avilés-Fernández

Frequent Co-Authors

Luca Ferrari
Luca Ferrari National Autonomous University of Mexico
Scott E. Bryan
Scott E. Bryan Queensland University of Technology
Luigi Augusto Solari
Luigi Augusto Solari National Autonomous University of Mexico
Victor A. Valencia
Victor A. Valencia Washington State University
Joaquin Ruiz
Joaquin Ruiz University of Arizona
Paul R. Renne
Paul R. Renne Berkeley Geochronology Center
Peter Lonsdale
Peter Lonsdale University of California, San Diego
Derek York
Derek York University of Toronto
Agustín Cardona
Agustín Cardona National University of Colombia
George E. Gehrels
George E. Gehrels University of Arizona

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