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Pilar Montero is affiliated with the University of Granada in Spain and has contributed extensively to the Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Earth-Surface Processes. Their work spans geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, geochemistry and geologic mapping, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and geophysical studies worldwide, geology and paleoclimatology research, and geochemistry and elemental analysis.

The scientist's recent publications include notable papers such as Zircon stability grids in crustal partial melts: implications for zircon inheritance (2021) published in Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology; Zircon crystallization in low-Zr mafic magmas: Possible or impossible? (2022) in Chemical Geology; Zircon xenocryst evidence for crustal recycling at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (2020) appearing in Lithos; The Archean to Late-Paleozoic architecture of the Oulad Dlim Massif, the main Gondwanan indenter during the collision with Laurentia (2020) featured in Earth-Science Reviews; and A reassessment of the amphibole-plagioclase NaSi-CaAl exchange thermometer with applications to igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks (2020) published in American Mineralogist.

These works review various aspects of zircon behavior in geologic processes, crustal recycling, and thermometric reassessments in metamorphic rocks, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach within petrology and geochemistry.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Ф. Беа
  • J.F. Molina
  • Aitor Cambeses
  • Irene Morales
  • Antonio García-Casco

Pilar Montero has published regularly in key scientific journals with multiple contributions to:

  • Chemical Geology
  • Lithos
  • American Mineralogist
  • BOLETÍN GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Their research topics emphasize geological and geochemical analysis methods, together with earthquake and tectonic studies. This focus aligns with their extensive output within the geophysics subfield.

Montero integrates advanced techniques in artificial intelligence within the scope of geophysical and geochemical research, contributing to a broad range of scientific inquiries related to the Earth's crust and mantle dynamics as well as paleoclimatic conditions.

Best Publications

  • Behavior of accessory phases and redistribution of Zr, REE, Y, Th, and U during metamorphism and partial melting of metapelites in the lower crust: an example from the Kinzigite Formation of Ivrea-Verbano, NW Italy

    Fernando Bea;Pilar Montero

  • Platinum-group elements as petrological indicators in mafic-ultramafic complexes of the central and southern Urals: preliminary results

    G. Garuti;G. Fershtater;F. Bea;P. Montero

  • Mafic Precursors, Peraluminous Granitoids, and Late Lamprophyres in the Avila Batholith: A Model for the Generation of Variscan Batholiths in Iberia

    Fernando Bea;Pilar Montero;José F. Molina

  • A LA–ICP–MS EVALUATION OF Zr RESERVOIRS IN COMMON CRUSTAL ROCKS: IMPLICATIONS FOR Zr AND Hf GEOCHEMISTRY, AND ZIRCON-FORMING PROCESSES

    Fernando Bea;Pilar Montero;Miguel Ortega

  • Zircon Inheritance Reveals Exceptionally Fast Crustal Magma Generation Processes in Central Iberia during the Cambro-Ordovician

    F. Bea;P. Montero;F. González-Lodeiro;C. Talavera

  • The Eocene bimodal Piranshahr massif of the Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone, NW Iran: a marker of the end of the collision in the Zagros orogen

    S.A. Mazhari;F. Bea;S. Amini;J. Ghalamghash

  • Anomalous alkaline rocks of Soustov, Kola: evidence of mantle-derived metasomatic fluids affecting crustal materials

    F. Bea;A. Arzamastsev;P. Montero;L. Arzamastseva

  • Recycling of continental crust into the mantle as revealed by Kytlym dunite zircons, Ural Mts, Russia

    F. Bea;G. B. Fershtater;P. Montero;M. Whitehouse

  • Structural and geochronological constraints on the evolution of the Bou Azzer Neoproterozoic ophiolite (Anti-Atlas, Morocco)

    H. El Hadi;J F Simancas;D. Martinez-Poyatos;A Azor

  • High-Ti amphibole as a petrogenetic indicator of magma chemistry: evidence for mildly alkalic-hybrid melts during evolution of Variscan basic–ultrabasic magmatism of Central Iberia

    José F. Molina;Jane H. Scarrow;Pilar G. Montero;Fernando Bea

  • The Nature, Origin, and Thermal Influence of the Granite Source Layer of Central Iberia

    Fernando Bea;Pilar Montero;Tatiana Zinger

  • Unraveling sources of A-type magmas in juvenile continental crust: Constraints from compositionally diverse Ediacaran post-collisional granitoids in the Katerina Ring Complex, southern Sinai, Egypt

    J.A. Moreno;J.F. Molina;P. Montero;M. Abu Anbar

  • Ediacaran to Lower Ordovician age for rocks ascribed to the Schist-Graywacke Complex (Iberian Massif, Spain): Evidence from detrital zircon SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology

    Cristina Talavera;Cristina Talavera;P. Montero;D. Martínez Poyatos;I. Williams

  • Deformation-driven differentiation of granitic magma: the Stepninsk pluton of the Uralides, Russia

    F. Bea;G.B. Fershtater;P. Montero;V.N. Smirnov

  • Uralian magmatism: an overview

    G.B. Fershtater;P. Montero;N.S. Borodina;E.V. Pushkarev

  • Accurate determination of 87Rb/86Sr and 147Sm/144Nd ratios by inductively-coupled-plasma mass spectrometry in isotope geoscience: an alternative to isotope dilution analysis

    Pilar Montero;Fernando Bea

  • Zircon dating, Sr and Nd isotopes, and element geochemistry of the Khalifan pluton, NW Iran: Evidence for Variscan magmatism in a supposedly Cimmerian superterrane

    Fernando Bea;Ali Mazhari;Pilar Montero;Sadraldin Amini

  • Two distinct Late Mesoproterozoic/Early Neoproterozoic basement provinces in central/eastern Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica: The missing link, 15–21° E

    Joachim Jacobs;Joachim Jacobs;Marlina Elburg;Andreas Läufer;Ilka C. Kleinhanns

  • Pressure-Dependence of Rare Earth Element Distribution in Amphibolite- and Granulite- Grade Garnets. A LA-ICP-MS Study

    Fernando Bea;Pilar Montero;Giorgio Garuti;Federica Zacharini

  • Zircon Geochronology of the Ollo de Sapo Formation and the Age of the Cambro-Ordovician Rifting in Iberia

    P. Montero;C. Talavera;F. Bea;F. G. Lodeiro

  • Zircon ages of the metavolcanic rocks and metagranites of the Ollo de Sapo Domain in central Spain: implications for the Neoproterozoic to Early Palaeozoic evolution of Iberia

    P. Montero;F. Bea;F. González-Lodeiro;C. Talavera

Frequent Co-Authors

Fernando Bea
Fernando Bea University of Granada
Martin J. Whitehouse
Martin J. Whitehouse Swedish Museum of Natural History
Axel Gerdes
Axel Gerdes Goethe University Frankfurt
Ian S. Williams
Ian S. Williams Australian National University
Johannes Glodny
Johannes Glodny University of Potsdam
Håkon Austrheim
Håkon Austrheim University of Oslo
Antonio Azor
Antonio Azor University of Granada
Marlina Elburg
Marlina Elburg University of Johannesburg
Omar Saddiqi
Omar Saddiqi University of Hassan II Casablanca
Antonio García-Casco
Antonio García-Casco University of Granada

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