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Roger Urgeles is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to the fields of Geophysics, Environmental Chemistry, Geology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Landslides and related hazards

Roger Urgeles has published extensively, with their frequent publication venues being:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Marine Geology
  • Geological Society London Special Publications
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Basin Research

Selected recent papers from their body of work include:

  • Probabilistic mapping of earthquake-induced submarine landslide susceptibility in the South-West Iberian margin, 2020, Marine Geology
  • Seismic Diffraction Imaging to Characterize Mass-Transport Complexes: Examples From the Gulf of Cadiz, South West Iberian Margin, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Tectonic evolution, geomorphology and influence of bottom currents along a large submarine canyon system: The São Vicente Canyon (SW Iberian margin), 2020, Marine Geology
  • On the Inference of Tsunami Uncertainties From Landslide Run-Out Observations, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Sensitivity of Tsunami Scenarios to Complex Fault Geometry and Heterogeneous Slip Distribution: Case-Studies for SW Iberia and NW Morocco, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

Collaborations are a consistent feature of their research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Derek E. Sawyer
  • P. B. Flemings
  • Jan H. Behrmann
  • Cédric M. John
  • Gerardo J. Iturrino

Best Publications

  • Slope failures on the flanks of the western Canary Islands

    D.G Masson;A.B Watts;M.J.R Gee;R Urgeles

  • Slope failure dynamics and impacts from seafloor and shallow sub-seafloor geophysical data: case studies from the COSTA project

    M. Canals;G. Lastras;R. Urgeles;J.L. Casamor

  • Triggering mechanisms of slope instability processes and sediment failures on continental margins: a geotechnical approach

    Nabil Sultan;Pierre Cochonat;M Canals;Antonio Cattaneo

  • Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences

    Yasuhiro Yamada;Kiichiro Kawamura;Ken Ikehara;Yujiro Ogawa

  • Deep sea-floor evidence of past ice streams off the Antarctic Peninsula

    Miquel Canals;Roger Urgeles;Antoni M. Calafat

  • Submarine landslides of the Mediterranean Sea: Trigger mechanisms, dynamics, and frequency-magnitude distribution

    Roger Urgeles;Angelo Camerlenghi

  • Historical and pre-historical tsunamis in the Mediterranean and its connected seas: Geological signatures, generation mechanisms and coastal impacts

    Gerassimos A. Papadopoulos;Eulàlia Gràcia;Roger Urgeles;Valenti Sallares

  • The most recent megalandslides of the Canary Islands: El Golfo debris avalanche and Canary debris flow, west El Hierro Island

    Roger Urgeles;Miquel Canals;Jesús Baraza;Belén Alonso

  • The Balearic Promontory geomorphology (western Mediterranean): morphostructure and active processes

    Juan Acosta;Miquel Canals;Jerónimo López-Martı́nez;Araceli Muñoz

  • The morphology of the submarine flanks of volcanic ocean islands. A comparative study of the Canary and Hawaiian hotspot islands

    Neil C Mitchell;Douglas G Masson;Anthony B Watts;Martin J.R Gee

  • Recurrent large‐scale landsliding on the west flank of La Palma, Canary Islands

    Roger Urgeles;Douglas G. Masson;Miquel Canals;Anthony B. Watts

  • A walk down the Cap de Creus canyon, Northwestern Mediterranean Sea: Recent processes inferred from morphology and sediment bedforms

    G. Lastras;G. Lastras;M. Canals;R. Urgeles;D. Amblas

  • New constraints on the Messinian sealevel drawdown from 3D seismic data of the Ebro Margin, western Mediterranean

    Roger Urgeles;Angelo Camerlenghi;Angelo Camerlenghi;Daniel Garcia-Castellanos;Ben De Mol

  • Shallow slides and pockmark swarms in the Eivissa Channel, western Mediterranean Sea

    G. Lastras;M. Canals;R. Urgeles;J. E. Hughes-Clarke

  • Postglacial sedimentary processes on the Storfjorden and Kveithola trough mouth fans: Significance of extreme glacimarine sedimentation

    R.G. Lucchi;A. Camerlenghi;A. Camerlenghi;M. Rebesco;E. Colmenero-Hidalgo;E. Colmenero-Hidalgo

  • Subglacial morphology and glacial evolution of the Palmer deep outlet system, Antarctic Peninsula

    Eugene Domack;David Amblàs;Robert Gilbert;Stefanie Brachfeld

  • Seafloor evidence of a subglacial sedimentary system off the northern Antarctic Peninsula

    M. Canals;J.L. Casamor;R. Urgeles;A.M. Calafat

  • A review of undulated sediment features on Mediterranean prodeltas: distinguishing sediment transport structures from sediment deformation

    Roger Urgeles;Antonio Cattaneo;Pere Puig;Camino Liquete

  • Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences : 6th International Symposium

    Sebastian Krastel;Jan-Hinrich Behrmann;David Völker;Michael Stipp

  • Analysis of slope failures in submarine canyon heads: An example from the Gulf of Lions

    Nabil Sultan;Matthieu Gaudin;Matthieu Gaudin;Serge Berne;Miquel Canals

Frequent Co-Authors

Angelo Camerlenghi
Angelo Camerlenghi National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics
Miquel Canals
Miquel Canals University of Barcelona
Michele Rebesco
Michele Rebesco National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics
Galderic Lastras
Galderic Lastras University of Barcelona
Jacques Locat
Jacques Locat Université Laval
Antonio Cattaneo
Antonio Cattaneo French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Douglas G. Masson
Douglas G. Masson Seascape Consultants (United Kingdom)
Jan Sverre Laberg
Jan Sverre Laberg University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Daniel García-Castellanos
Daniel García-Castellanos Spanish National Research Council
Michael Strasser
Michael Strasser University of Innsbruck

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