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Ricardo Arenas is affiliated with the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to the subfields of Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Archeology, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Paleontology.

The main topics covered in Arenas's work include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Archaeological and Geological Studies

Arenas has published extensively, contributing a total of 118 publications in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Notable recent papers include:

  • 100 myr cycles of oceanic lithosphere generation in peri-Gondwana: Neoproterozoic-Devonian ophiolites from the NW African-Iberian margin of Gondwana and the Variscan Orogen, 2020, Geological Society London Special Publications
  • Opening and closure of Cadomian peri-Gondwanan oceans: age and evolution of the Mérida Ophiolite (SW Iberia), 2022, International Geology Review

Other recent papers by Arenas's collaborators and in related topics with frequent coauthors include works published in the International Journal of Earth Sciences, Gondwana Research, and International Geology Review. Selected recent relevant publications are:

  • Geochemistry and Sm-Nd isotopic sources of Late Ediacaran siliciclastic series in the Ossa-Morena Complex: Iberian-Bohemian correlations, 2021, International Journal of Earth Sciences
  • U-Pb geochronology and isotopic geochemistry of adakites and related magmas in the Ediacaran arc section of the SW Iberian Massif: The role of subduction erosion cycles in peri-Gondwanan arcs, 2022, Gondwana Research
  • Tectonostratigraphy of the Mérida Massif reveals a new Cadomian suture zone exposure in Gondwana (SW Iberia), 2021, International Geology Review

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Rubén Díez Fernández, Sonia Sánchez Martínez, Esther Rojo-Pérez, Antonio García-Casco, and Irene Novo-Fernández. These coauthors have contributed notably across numerous publications.

Ricardo Arenas's publications appear predominantly in venues such as DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council), International Geology Review, Zenodo (CERN), Geological Society London Special Publications, and Gondwana Research, reflecting a diverse engagement in both national and international scientific platforms.

Best Publications

  • Diachronous Variscan tectonothermal activity in the NW Iberian Massif: Evidence from 40Ar/39Ar dating of regional fabrics

    R.D. Dallmeyer;J.R.Martínez Catalán;R. Arenas;J.I. Gil Ibarguchi

  • Space and time in the tectonic evolution of the northwestern Iberian Massif: Implications for the Variscan belt

    José R. Martínez Catalán;Ricardo Arenas;Florentino Díaz García;Pablo González Cuadra

  • A rootless suture and the loss of the roots of a mountain chain: The Variscan belt of NW Iberia

    José R. Martínez Catalán;Ricardo Arenas;Jacobo Abati;Sonia Sánchez Martínez

  • Variscan accretionary complex of northwest Iberia: Terrane correlation and succession of tectonothermal events

    José R. Martínez Catalán;Ricardo Arenas;Florentino Díaz García;Jacobo Abati

  • Variscan exhumation of a subducted Paleozoic continental margin: The basal units of the Ordenes Complex, Galicia, NW Spain

    José R. Martínez Catalán;Ricardo Arenas;Florentino Díaz García;Francisco J. Rubio Pascual

  • U–Pb ages of detrital zircons from the Basal allochthonous units of NW Iberia: Provenance and paleoposition on the northern margin of Gondwana during the Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic

    Rubén Díez Fernández;José R. Martínez Catalán;Axel Gerdes;Jacobo Abati

  • Correlation of the nappe stack in the Ibero-Armorican arc across the Bay of Biscay: a joint French–Spanish project

    Michel Ballèvre;José R. Martínez Catalán;Alicia López-Carmona;Pavel Pitra

  • Tectonothermal evolution associated with Variscan crustal extension in the Tormes Gneiss Dome (NW Salamanca, Iberian Massif, Spain)

    J.Escuder Viruete;R. Arenas;J.R.Martínez Catalán

  • Early Ordovician orogenic event in Galicia (NW Spain): evidence from U–Pb ages in the uppermost unit of the Ordenes Complex

    J Abati;G.R Dunning;R Arenas;F Dı́az Garcı́a

  • High‐pressure micro‐inclusions and development of an inverted metamorphic gradient in the Santiago Schists (Ordenes Complex, NW Iberian Massif, Spain): evidence of subduction and syncollisional decompression

    R. Arenas;F. J. Rubio Pascual;F. Diaz Garcia;J. R. Martinez Catalan

  • The Vila de Cruces Ophiolite: A Remnant of the Early Rheic Ocean in the Variscan Suture of Galicia (Northwest Iberian Massif)

    Ricardo Arenas;José R. Martínez Catalán;Sonia Sánchez Martínez;Javier Fernández‐Suárez

  • Ediacaran to Cambrian oceanic rocks of the Gondwana margin and their tectonic interpretation

    Jürgen F. von Raumer;Gérard M. Stampfli;Ricardo Arenas;Sonia Sánchez Martínez

  • Magmatism and early-Variscan continental subduction in the northern Gondwana margin recorded in zircons from the basal units of Galicia, NW Spain

    Jacobo Abati;Axel Gerdes;Javier Fernández Suárez;Ricardo Arenas

  • Tectonic Evolution of the Careón Ophiolite (Northwest Spain):A Remnant of Oceanic Lithosphere in the Variscan Belt

    Florentino Díaz García;Ricardo Arenas;José R. Martínez Catalán;José González del Tánago

  • Tectonic evolution of Variscan Iberia: Gondwana-Laurussia collision revisited

    Rubén Díez Fernández;Rubén Díez Fernández;Ricardo Arenas;M. Francisco Pereira;Sonia Sánchez-Martínez

  • Two-stage collision: Exploring the birth of Pangea in the Variscan terranes

    Ricardo Arenas;Rubén Díez Fernández;Rubén Díez Fernández;Sonia Sánchez Martínez;Axel Gerdes;Axel Gerdes

  • The Late Devonian Variscan suture of the Iberian Massif: A correlation of high-pressure belts in NW and SW Iberia

    Rubén Díez Fernández;Ricardo Arenas

  • Tectonic evolution of the upper allochthon of the Órdenes complex (northwestern Iberian Massif): Structural constraints to a polyorogenic peri-Gondwanan terrane

    Juan Gómez Barreiro;José R. Martínez Catalán;Ricardo Arenas;Pedro Castiñeiras

  • Variscan-Appalachian dynamics: The building of the late Paleozoic basement

    Jose R. Martinez Catalán;Robert D. Hatcher;Ricardo Arenas;Florentino Díaz García

  • Careón ophiolite, NW Spain: Suprasubduction zone setting for the youngest Rheic Ocean floor

    Sonia Sánchez Martínez;Ricardo Arenas;Florentino Díaz García;José Ramón Martínez Catalán

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacobo Abati
Jacobo Abati Complutense University of Madrid
José R. Martínez Catalán
José R. Martínez Catalán University of Salamanca
Axel Gerdes
Axel Gerdes Goethe University Frankfurt
Javier Fernández-Suárez
Javier Fernández-Suárez Complutense University of Madrid
Antonio García-Casco
Antonio García-Casco University of Granada
Teresa E. Jeffries
Teresa E. Jeffries Natural History Museum
Jan Wijbrans
Jan Wijbrans Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Julian A. Pearce
Julian A. Pearce Cardiff University
Martin J. Whitehouse
Martin J. Whitehouse Swedish Museum of Natural History
Sven C. Vogel
Sven C. Vogel Los Alamos National Laboratory

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