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Tiago Marcos Alves

Tiago Marcos Alves

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Earth Science

D-Index
43
Citations
5612
World Ranking
5091
National Ranking
553

Overview

Tiago Marcos Alves is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, contributing extensively across various subfields including Geophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, Geology, Environmental Chemistry, and Atmospheric Science.

Alves's work covers multiple topics in geological and geophysical studies. Key areas include:

  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques

The scientist's publication record includes a substantial number of papers in several specialized venues. Frequent publication venues are:

  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • AAPG Bulletin
  • Scientific Reports

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Tiago Marcos Alves include:

  • Recent Progresses in Wearable Triboelectric Nanogenerators, 2022, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Runup of landslide-generated tsunamis controlled by paleogeography and sea-level change, 2022, Communications Earth & Environment
  • A tectono-stratigraphic review of continental breakup on intraplate continental margins and its impact on resultant hydrocarbon systems, 2020, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Rift Structure and Sediment Infill of Hyperextended Continental Crust: Insights From 3D Seismic and Well Data (Xisha Trough, South China Sea), 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Post-rift magmatism on the northern South China Sea margin, 2020, Geological Society of America Bulletin

Among frequent collaborators are:

  • Wei Li
  • Kamaldeen Olakunle Omosanya
  • Ze Tao
  • Michele Rebesco
  • Wenhuan Zhan

Best Publications

  • Jurassic tectono-sedimentary evolution of the Northern Lusitanian Basin (offshore Portugal)

    Tiago Marcos Alves;Robert L. Gawthorpe;David W. Hunt;Jose H. Monteiro

  • Prolonged post-rift magmatism on highly extended crust of divergent continental margins (Baiyun Sag, South China Sea)

    Fang Zhao;Tiago M. Alves;Shiguo Wu;Wei Li;Wei Li

  • Submarine slide blocks and associated soft-sediment deformation in deep-water basins: A review

    Tiago Marcos Alves

  • The breakup sequence and associated lithospheric breakup surface: Their significance in the context of rifted continental margins (West Iberia and Newfoundland margins, North Atlantic)

    Duarte Miguel Soares;Tiago Marcos Alves;Pedro Terrinha

  • Mesozoic–Cenozoic evolution of North Atlantic continental-slope basins: The Peniche basin, western Iberian margin

    Tiago Marcos Alves;Carlos Moita;Frode Sandnes;Tiago Cunha

  • Pitfalls and limitations in seismic attribute interpretation of tectonic features

    Kurt J. Marfurt;Tiago Marcos Alves

  • Cenozoic tectono-sedimentary evolution of the western Iberian margin

    Tiago Marcos Alves;Robert L. Gawthorpe;David W. Hunt;José H. Monteiro

  • Modelling of oil spills in confined maritime basins: The case for early response in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

    Tiago M. Alves;Eleni Kokinou;George Zodiatis;Robin Lardner

  • Diachronous evolution of Late Jurassic–Cretaceous continental rifting in the northeast Atlantic (west Iberian margin)

    Tiago Marcos Alves;Carlos Moita;Tiago Cunha;Magnar Ullnaess

  • The depositional evolution of diapir- and fault-bounded rift basins: examples from the Lusitanian Basin of West Iberia

    Tiago Marcos Alves;Giuseppe Manuppella;Robert L. Gawthorpe;David W. Hunt

  • A three-step model to assess shoreline and offshore susceptibility to oil spills: the South Aegean (Crete) as an analogue for confined marine basins.

    Tiago M. Alves;Eleni Kokinou;George Zodiatis

  • MTD distribution on a 'passive' continental margin: The Espírito Santo Basin (SE Brazil) during the Palaeogene

    Davide A. Gamboa;Tiago Marcos Alves;Joseph Albert Cartwright;Pedro Terrinha

  • Pleistocene to Recent scleractinian deep-water corals and coral facies in the Eastern Mediterranean

    M. Taviani;A. Vertino;M. López Correa;A. Savini

  • Geomorphologic features related to gravitational collapse: Submarine landsliding to lateral spreading on a Late Miocene-Quaternary slope (SE Crete, eastern Mediterranean)

    Tiago Marcos Alves;Sergio Lourenco

  • 3D Seismic examples of differential compaction in mass-transport deposits and their effect on post-failure strata

    Tiago Marcos Alves

  • Multidisciplinary oil spill modeling to protect coastal communities and the environment of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

    Tiago Marcos Alves;Eleni Kokinou;George Zodiatis;Hari Radhakrishnan

  • Free gas accumulations in basal shear zones of mass-transport deposits (Pearl River Mouth Basin, South China Sea): An important geohazard on continental slope basins

    Qiliang Sun;Tiago Alves;Xinong Xie;Jiaxiong He

  • Faulting of salt-withdrawal basins during early halokinesis: Effects on the Paleogene Rio Doce Canyon system (Espirito Santo Basin, Brazil)

    Tiago Marcos Alves;Joseph Albert Cartwright;Richard J. Davies

  • A 3-dimensional seismic method to assess the provenance of Mass-Transport Deposits (MTDs) on salt-rich continental slopes (Espírito Santo Basin, SE Brazil)

    Kamaldeen O. Omosanya;Kamaldeen O. Omosanya;Tiago Marcos Alves

  • Runup of landslide-generated tsunamis controlled by paleogeography and sea-level change

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  • Assessing the internal character, reservoir potential, and seal competence of mass-transport deposits using seismic texture: A geophysical and petrophysical approach

    Tiago Marcos Alves;Kuncho Kurtev;Gregory F. Moore;Michael Strasser

Frequent Co-Authors

Joe Cartwright
Joe Cartwright University of Oxford
Pedro Terrinha
Pedro Terrinha Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Gregory F. Moore
Gregory F. Moore University of Hawaii at Manoa
Shiguo Wu
Shiguo Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Robert L. Gawthorpe
Robert L. Gawthorpe University of Bergen
Michael Strasser
Michael Strasser University of Innsbruck
Dimitris Sakellariou
Dimitris Sakellariou Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
Paraskevi Nomikou
Paraskevi Nomikou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Kalachand Sain
Kalachand Sain Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology
Michele Rebesco
Michele Rebesco National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics

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