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Miguel Garcés is affiliated with the University of Barcelona in Spain. Their research primarily spans the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Geophysics, and Anthropology.

Their main research topics cover a variety of geological and paleontological themes such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Geological formations and processes, Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, and Geological and Geochemical Analysis.

Garcés has contributed to multiple publications in scientific journals. Some notable recent papers include:

  • 10 Myr evolution of sedimentation rates in a deep marine to non-marine foreland basin system: Tectonic and sedimentary controls (Eocene, Tremp-Jaca Basin, Southern Pyrenees, NE Spain), 2020, Basin Research
  • A revised (earliest Vallesian) age for the hominoid-bearing locality of Can Mata 1 based on new magnetostratigraphic and biostratigraphic data from Abocador de Can Mata (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula), 2022, Journal of Human Evolution
  • Magnetostratigraphy and stable isotope stratigraphy of the middle-Eocene succession of the Ainsa basin (Spain): New age constraints and implications for sediment delivery to the deep waters, 2021, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Fluvio-deltaic record of increased sediment transport during the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO), Southern Pyrenees, Spain, 2023, Climate of the past
  • Water discharge variations control fluvial stratigraphic architecture in the Middle Eocene Escanilla formation, Spain, 2023, Scientific Reports

Their frequent co-authors include Elisabet Beamud, Miguel López-Blanco, Luís Valero, Lluı́s Cabrera, and Philémon Juvany.

Garcés's work has been published repeatedly in several venues, with notable frequency in these journals and proceedings:

  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Journal of Iberian Geology
  • EDULEARN proceedings
  • Geologica Acta

Best Publications

  • A calibrated mammal scale for the Neogene of Western Europe. State of the art

    Jorge Agustí;L. Cabrera;M. Garces;W. Krijgsman

  • Magnetostratigraphy of Miocene–Pliocene Zagros foreland deposits in the front of the Push-e Kush Arc (Lurestan Province, Iran)

    Stéphane Homke;Jaume Vergés;Miguel Garcés;Hadi Emami

  • Late Cretaceous–Paleocene formation of the proto–Zagros foreland basin, Lurestan Province, SW Iran

    Stéphane Homke;Jaume Vergés;Josep Serra-Kiel;Gilen Bernaola

  • A new chronology for the middle to late Miocene continental record in Spain

    W. Krijgsman;M. Garcés;C.G. Langereis;R. Daams

  • Updated chronology for the Miocene hominoid radiation in Western Eurasia

    Isaac Casanovas-Vilar;David M. Alba;Miguel Garcés;Josep M. Robles

  • Evidence for African–Iberian exchanges during the Messinian in the Spanish mammalian record

    Jordi Agustí;Miguel Garcés;Wout Krijgsman

  • The upper Miocene mammal record from the Teruel–Alfambra region (Spain). The MN system and continental stage/age concepts discussed

    J. A. Van Dam;L. Alcalá;A. Alonso Zarza;J. P. Calvo

  • First partial face and upper dentition of the Middle Miocene hominoid Dryopithecus fontani from Abocador de Can Mata (Vallès-Penedès Basin, Catalonia, NE Spain): taxonomic and phylogenetic implications.

    Salvador Moyà-Solà;Meike Köhler;David M. Alba;Isaac Casanovas-Vilar

  • The Vallparadís section (Terrassa, Iberian Peninsula) and the latest Villafranchian faunas of Europe

    J. Madurell-Malapeira;R. Minwer-Barakat;D.M. Alba;M. Garcés

  • Chronology of the late Turolian deposits of the Fortuna basin (SE Spain): implications for the Messinian evolution of the eastern Betics

    Miguel Garcés;Wout Krijgsman;Jorge Agustı́

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

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

  • The ‘Tortonian salinity crisis’ of the eastern Betics (Spain)

    W. Krijgsman;Miguel Garcés;Jorge Agustí;I. Raffi

  • Time lag of syntectonic sedimentation across an alluvial basin: theory and example from the Ebro Basin, Spain

    Merren A. Jones;Paul L. Heller;Eduard Roca;Miguel Garcés

  • / Magnetostratigraphy of the Vallesian late Miocene in the / Valles-Penedes Basin northeast Spain ``

    M. Garcés;M. Garcés;J. Agustí;L. Cabrera;J.M. Parés

  • The Vallesian mammal succession in the Vallès-Penedès basin (northeast Spain): Paleomagnetic calibration and correlation with global events

    Jorge Agustí;Lluís Cabrera;Miguel Garces;Miguel Garces;Josep M. Parés

  • Explaining the end of the hominoid experiment in Europe.

    J Agustı́;A.Sanz de Siria;M Garcés

  • Magnetostratigraphy and detrital apatite fission track thermochronology in syntectonic conglomerates: constraints on the exhumation of the South-Central Pyrenees

    Elisabet Beamud;Elisabet Beamud;Josep Anton Muñoz;Paul G. Fitzgerald;Suzanne L. Baldwin

  • El registro sedimentario y faunístico de las cuencas de Calatayud-Daroca y Teruel. Evolución paleoambiental y paleoclimática durante el Neógeno

    L. Alcalá;Ana María Alonso-Zarza;María Ángeles Álvarez Sierra;B. Azanza

  • Paleomagnetic evidence of large footwall rotations associated with low-angle faults at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

    Miguel Garcés;Jeffrey S. Gee

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

    Juan C. Larrasoaña;Xabier Murelaga;Miguel Garcés

  • Chronostratigraphic framework and evolution of the Fortuna basin (Eastern Betics) since the Late Miocene

    M. Garcés;W. Krijgsman;J. Agusti

Frequent Co-Authors

Lluís Cabrera
Lluís Cabrera University of Barcelona
Wout Krijgsman
Wout Krijgsman Utrecht University
David M. Alba
David M. Alba Autonomous University of Barcelona
Juan C. Larrasoaña
Juan C. Larrasoaña Instituto Geológico y Minero de España
Josep Anton Muñoz
Josep Anton Muñoz University of Barcelona
Salvador Moyà-Solà
Salvador Moyà-Solà Autonomous University of Barcelona
Alberto Sáez
Alberto Sáez University of Barcelona
Jordi Agustí
Jordi Agustí Rovira i Virgili University
Oriol Oms
Oriol Oms Autonomous University of Barcelona
Jeffrey S. Gee
Jeffrey S. Gee University of California, San Diego

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