Antonio Garcia-Casco
Professor of Petrology and Geochemistry
http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/personal/
Director, Doctoral School of Science, Technology and Engineering,
University of Granada
http://escuelaposgrado.ugr.es/doctorado/escuelas/edcti/
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Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Granada, Spain
http://www.ugr.es/~minpet/
Andalusian Earth Science Institute, IACT, UGR-CSIC, Spain
https://www.iact.ugr-csic.es/investigacion/unidades/petrologia-y-geoquimica/grupo/petrologia-geoquimica-y-geocronologia/
Research Associate, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, American
Museum of Natural History, NY
https://www.amnh.org/research/physical-sciences/earth-and-planetary-sciences/staff
Research Group RNM302 Petrogenesis and lithospheric processes
http://www.ugr.es/~rnm302/rnm302/
Research Project Caribbean Lithosphere
http://caribbeanlithos.ub.edu/
Research Project SIBA · Stone interchanges within the Bahama
archipelago
https://siba.web.ox.ac.uk/
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Contact Info UGR:
http://sl.ugr.es/AGCdirectorio
Address: Faculty of Sciences, Avda.
Fuentenueva sn, 18071 Granada, Spain
Tel: + 34 958 246613 E-mail:
agcasco@ugr.es
Born December 13, 1962 (Quintana
de la Serena, Badajoz, Spain, a hot-nice-place with a lot of
granite quarries!).
I like the stones (The Rolling Stones, of
course!
).
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15/June/1993, PhD Geology. "Metamorphic Evolution of the Torrox
Gneiss Complex and Adjoining Series (Central Alpujárrides)". Two
volumes. Vol 1, 456 pg. Vol II: Annexes. Advisor: Rafael Torres
Roldán. (awarded with the "Doctorate Extraordinary Prize 1991/93"
University of Granada).
Full text ( ).
Or click here.
1986, MSc Geology. "Petrología, geoquímica y mineralizaciones de W
asociadas del Plutón de Santa Eufemia (Batolito de Los Pedroches,
Córdoba)" Tesis de Licenciatura. University of Granada. 2 Volumes.
343 pg. Advisors: Emilio Pascual Martínez and Purificación Fenoll
Hach-Alí.
1985 Graduate, Geology. University of Granada.
Positions and CNEAI, UGR and JA
awarded research and teaching "steps"
Since November 27, 2010, Full Professor of Petrology and
Geochemistry.
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Granada.
Since March 31, 2008, Research Associate,
Andalusian Institute of Earth Sciences (CSIC-University of
Granada).
Since July 2010,
Research Associate,
Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, American Museum of Natural
History, NY
Awarded research, teaching and management
"steps"
Research "steps" (CNEAI):
5 (6 maximum)
Teaching "steps" (UGR): 6 (6 maximum)
Research, teaching and academic management "steps" (Andalusian
Government): 5 (5 maximum)
Former positions
16/03/1995-26/10/2010, Senior Lecturer (Profesor Titular de
Universidad), University of Granada
01/10/1993-15/03/1995, Interim Senior Lecturer (Profesor Titular de
Universidad Interino), University of Granada
01/10/1989-30/9/1993, Interim Lecturer (Profesor Titular de Escuela
Universitaria Interino), University of Granada
07/1987-09/1989, Granted PhD Student (F.P.I
grant), CSIC-University of Granada
10/10/1985-30/6/1987, Assistant (Profesor
Ayudante), University of Seville (Geology
Section, La Rábida, Huelva)
Relevant academic positions
2016-present. Member
of the Senate, University of Granada.
2016-present. Board of the Faculty of Science,
University of Granada.
2015-09/2023-10. Director
of the Doctoral School in Science, Technology and Engineering,
University of Granada.
2015-09/2023-10. Member
of the Research and Transfer Commission, University of Granada.
2013-2015. Member of the Head Committee of the Doctoral School in
Science, Technology and Engineering, University of Granada
2009-2015. Member of the Advisory Council of Posgraduate School,
University of Granada.
2005-2009. Commissioner of the Doctoral Commission (in charge of
Geology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences), University of
Granada.
1995-1999. Member of the Doctoral Commission Assembly, University of
Granada.
Coordinator of Doctoral Programs
and Official Masters
1999-2015. PhD Program in "Earth Sciences". University of Granada (http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/gaia/).
Awarded with the "Quality
Grant" and "Towards Excellence Grant" of the Spanish Ministry of
Education.
2007-2010. Master "Geology·". University of Granada.
1997-1999. PhD Program “Basis and Applications of the methods and
techniques in Mineralogy and Petrology”. University of Granada.
1995-1997. PhD Program
“Crystallography-Mineralogy-Petrology-Geochemistry”. University of
Granada.
Since 2014 Member of the
Geological Society of Spain.
Since 2010 Member of the
Mineralogical Society of Spain.
Since 2002 Member of the
Cuban Geological Society. Since 2017, Emeritus Member
Since 1993 Member of the
Mineralogical Society of America.
2019.
Recognition "40 Aniversario de la Sociedad Cubana de Geología",
Sociedad Cubana de Geología, for “his contribution to the study of
the Cuban metamorphic complexes and the regional tectonics”. >>Press.
2017. Emeritus Member of the
Cuban Geological Society.
2022. Scientific Advisor EPMA, Centro de Instrumentación Científica, Universidad de Granada
Since 1985, graduate courses on Mineralogy, Igneous and Metamorphic
Petrology, Geochemistry, and Decay and Restoration of Building Stone
(Universities of Seville - Section of La Rábida, Huelva - and
Granada).
Since 1993, master and doctorate courses on Phase Equilibria and
Thermobaromentry, Igneous, Metamorphic and Sedimentary Petrology.
Resources:
http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/personal/
> Curso Pet. Metamórfica
> Geotermobarometría
> Análisis de Sistemas Hetrogéneos
> Propiedades Fisicoquímicas de los Magmas
> Restauración de Monumentos
Trabajo de Campo de Petrología (http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/campopetro/)
Master Enseñanza Secundaria, University of Granada (http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/msecgeol/)
Coordinator of Lectures and
Seminars
Since 2005, Coordinator of “Lectures and Seminars on Earth
Sciences”, University of Granada
Resources:
http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/gaia/
> Conferencias
> Seminarios
Postgraduate short courses
2014. Seminar "Análisis de sistemas homogéneos y heterogéneos:
Procedimientos de trabajo y aplicaciones geodinámicas (Análisis
petrográfico-mineralógico, imágenes de RX, Análisis algebraico,
Análisis termodinámico. Aplicaciones)". Instituto de
Geociencias, Univ. Sao Paulo, 15, 16, 29, 30 September, 2014
2010. Seminar "Petrología y Arqueología (Caribe precolombino)",
Granada, 19 March 2010
http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/tierra/ > Seminarios >
Petrología y Arqueología (Caribe precolombino) (2010)
2009. Post-Conference Course "Tools
for tectonic analysis in the Caribbean margin". Sogamozo,
Colombia.
Organized by
IGCP 546 Subduction Zones of the Caribbean.
XII Colombian Geological Congress (September 12-13, 2009).
http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/igcp546/ >> Activities >> Colombia
2009 >> Course
2009. Pre-Congress Course "Petrogénesis
Metamórfica como herramienta Geodinámica: El ejemplo de Cuba".
La Habana, Cuba, March 13-14, 2009.
Organized by Sociedad Cubana de Geología and
IGCP 546 Subduction Zones of the Caribbean.
III Cuban Convention in Earth Sciences.
http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/igcp546/ >> Activities >> Cuba 2009
>> Pre-Congress Course
2008. Workshop: "Numerical Modeling of Igneous and Metamorphic
Processes". By T. Gerya (ETH Zurich), S. Chakraborty (Bochum),
F. Bea (Granada), A. Castro (Huelva) and A. García Casco (Granada).
October 21-23, 2008, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada.
http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/tierra/ > Seminarios > Workshop
Numerical Petrology (2008)
2008. Workshop on "Thermobarometry and P-T-t paths". For
Latin American Students. By Antonio García-Casco. Activity of IGCP
546 project
Subduction Zones of the Caribbean. May 5-16, 2008. Faculty of
Sciences, University of Granada.
http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/igcp546/ > Activities > Granada
2008.
PhD
In progress. Gabriel Iglesias Ruiz. (FPI Grant). Serpentinites of the ophiolites from NW Iberian Massif: Petrological and Geochemical approach. Co-advisors: Ricardo Arenas, Sonia Sánchez Martínez (U. Complutense).
In progress. Diego Dominguez-Carretero. (FPI Grant). "Sistemas
minerales en los niveles mantélicos de ofiolitas tipo zona de
suprasubducción". Co-advisor: Joaquín Proenza (U. Barcelona).
In progress. Kenya Elvira Nuñez Cambra. "Estructura y metamorfismo
del complejo del Purial y complejos adyacentes". University of Pinar
del Río, Cuba. Researcher, Institute of Geology and
Paleontology, Cuba.
https://www.igp.minem.cu/
2022 (December 19). Poliana
Toledo.
Universidade de Campinas, Brasil. "Hydrothermal-metamorphic evolution of the Cinzento Shear Zone
region and related IOCG deposits (Carajás, Brazil)".
Capes Grant (Brazil) 03/2018-03/2021. Co-advisors: Carolina
P.N. Moreto (U. Campinas) and Vinicius Meira (U. Campinas).
RESEARCHGATE
2021 (December 20). Irene Novo Fernández (FPU Grant). "Thermodynamic modelling of high-P mineral assemblages from the Iberian Massif".
Universidad Complutense. co-advisors: Ricardo Arenas (U.
Complutense) y Rubén Díez Fernández (IGME-CSIC). Cum Laude.
International Mention.
SCOPUS
2021 (November 22). Jesus Muñoz Montecinos (co-tutelle Institut de Physique du
Globe de Paris and University of Granada). "Fluid transport in
metamorphic rocks: from field observations to the petrophysical
properties of the subduction interface". Co-advisor: Samuel
Angiboust (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris). Cum Laude.
2022- postdoct at ETH Zurich.
https://erdw.ethz.ch/en/people/profile.MzAxODIw.TGlzdC83NzMsOTI0MjA1OTI2.html.
SCOPUS.
2021 (June 30). Núria Pujol Solà (FPU Grant). Diverse origin and
processes in the formation of diamond and other exotic minerals in
ophiolitic chromitites. Universidad de Barcelona. Co-advisor: Joaquín Proenza (U.
Barcelona). Cum Laude. Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado, Universidad de Barcelona.
(https://www.ub.edu/portal/documents/5259153/0/Premios+extraordinarios+doctorado_2022/e01e8ede-814e-52a0-6b5f-8446ffa1efb7). Minerals 2021 Best Ph.D. Thesis Award
(https://www.mdpi.com/journal/minerals/awards).
2022 Postdoc "Margarita Salas" at Univ. Granada.
SCOPUS
2021 (March 19). Fabián M. Villares Jibaja (Escuela Politécnica Nacional
de Quito). Petrogenesis and age of the Peltetec Ophiolitic belt and the Tampanchi
ultramafic-mafic complex, Cordillera Real (Ecuador): Geodynamic
implications for the evolution of the Andean active margin. Universidad de Granada. Co-advisor: Idael Blanco Quintero
(U. Alicante). Cum Laude. Professor at Escuela Politécnica Nacional
de Quito.
SCOPUS
2019 (January 18). Juan Cárdenas Párraga (granted FPI contract). Mineralogy, geochemistry
and petrogenesis of a new jade deposit, Sierra del Convento Mélange,
E Cuba. University of Granada. Co-advisor: George E. Harlow (AMNH).
Cum Laude. Authonomous worker, archaeology.
SCOPUS
2018 (June 29). José Antonio Lozano Rodríguez (granted FPI
contract). Estudio petrológico geoquímico y geocronológico comparado
de las ofiolitas de Sierra de Baza con otras ofiolitas Béticas.
Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, CSIC-UGR. Co-advisors:
Encarnación Puga (IACT, CSIC), Agustín Martín Algarra
(UGR). Cum Laude. University of Granada. Researcher at Spanish Institute of Oceanography, Canary Islands Oceanographic Center (IEO-COC), Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.
SCOPUS
2018 (January 12). Lidia Butjosa Molines (granted FPI contract). The
petrogenesis of the ophiolitic mélange of central Cuba: Origin and
evolution of oceanic lithosphere from abyssal to subdution zone
setting. Universidad de Barcelona. Co-advisor: Joaquín Proenza (U.
Barcelona). Cum Laude. International Mention. Geology specialist
official, Unified Environmental Bureau (OGAU), Generalitat de Catalunya.
SCOPUS.
LINKEDIN
2014 (September 18). Thaís Nogueira Hyppolito Meira. "Metamorphism
and tectonic evolution of the Permian-Carboniferous paired
metamorphic belt of the Pichilemu region, Chilean Coastal
Cordillera, Central Chile". Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto
de Geociências. Brasil and University of Granada. Co-advisor:
Caetano Juliani (USP).
http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/44/44141/tde-26112014-145430/es.php.
Co-tutelle: UGR-USP.
SCOPUS.
2010 (September 20). Idael Francisco Blanco Quintero, "Metamorphic
and magmatic consequences of subduction of young oceanic lithosphere
and exhumation in a serpentinite subduction channel. Eastern Cuba.
University of Granada. Professor at University of Alicante,
Spain.
SCOPUS.
2009 (December 19). Ana Ibis Despaigne, "Estructura y metamorfismo
de la Cúpula de Trinidad, Escambray, Cuba Central". University of
Pinar del Río, Cuba. Co-advisor: Dámaso Cáceres Govea (U. Pinar del
Río, Cuba).
SCOPUS.
2007 (November 16). Concepción Lázaro Calisalvo, "Petrological and
Geochemical Study of a Subduction Mélange (Sierra del Convento,
eastern Cuba). A Case of Partially Melted Slab. University of
Granada. Professor at Univesity of Granada.
SCOPUS.
2001 (November 9).
Faouziya
Haissen, "Etude expérimentale de la fusion saturée et
sou-saturée en H2O des metapèlites de l’île des Pins (W Cuba)",
University of El Jadida (Morocco). Professor at University of
Casablanca, Morocco.
SCOPUS.
1995 (June 30). Jorge A. Durán Suárez, "Estudio de consolidantes y
protectivos para restauración material pétreo. Universitry of
Granada. Co-advisor: José Rodríguez Gordillo (UGR). Personal
webpage:
http://www.ugr.es/~giorgio/
Professor at University of Granada.
SCOPUS.
MSc, DEA
2022 (June).
Clothilde Minnaert (Sorbonne Université, M2 GEOP). "Tracking feedbacks between fluid-rock interactions and brittle-ductile deformation processes in mantle wedge jadeitites".
Co-advisor: Samuel Angiboust (ENS Lyon).
2021 (June). Juan Miguel Girona Fajardo, "Estudio petrográfico de
metapelitas del Complejo Alpujárride". TFG. Co-tutor: Antonio
Sánchez Navas (Univ Granada).
2017 (June). Francisco Roldán Ávila. Petrología metamórfica: Rocas
básicas de la Unidad de la Herradura. Sector Central del Complejo
Alpujárride. TFG. Co-dir: Concepción Lázaro Calisalvo (Univ.
Granada)
2015 (October). Irene Novo Fernández. "Un canal de subducción
preservado en la Mélange de Somozas: El bloque tectónico con
vulcanitas submarinas de Espasante". Dir: Ricardo Arenas Martín
(Univ Complutense Madrid), Antonio García Casco (Universidad de
Granada), Rubén Díez Fernández (Univ Complutense Madrid). Máster en
Procesos y Recursos Geológicos, Especialidad en Procesos Internos y
Recursos Minerales, Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad
Complutense de Madrid. 47 p.
2011 (December 19). José Carlos Pomo González. "Estudio petrológico
de artefactos arqueológicos de jade de culturas precolombinas
(Guadalupe y St. Eustatius, Antillas Menores)", University of
Granada.
2011 (June 17). Juan Cárdenas Párraga, "Jadeitite
jade from the Sierra
del Convento
subduction mélange (eastern Cuba)",
University of Granada.
2010 (June 18). Aratz
Beranoaguirre
"Petrology of subduction-related high-pressure migmatites
within granulites of the Cabo Ortegal complex (NW Iberian Massif)",
University of Granada.
2010 (May 25). Juan Diego Soriano
Barabino, "Guía de Petrología de la Ciudad de
Granada",
University of Granada.
2009 (September 23). Sandra Carrasquilla Ortiz, "Geología y
geoquímica del complejo Mabujina y su relación con el arco volcánico
del Caribe (Cuba Central)", University of Granada.
2008 (September).
Mónica Lobón Mazo
"Contribución a las trayectorias
presión-temperatura para las rocas de alta presión de la Serranía de
Jarara, Península de la Guajira, Colombia",
Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
2006.
(September 22).
Idael Francisco Blanco Quintero, "Caracterización
litológica y geoquímica de la mélange de La Corea, E Cuba".
University of Barcelona.
2004 (September 08). Concepción
Lázaro Calisalvo, "Caracterización litológica y geoquímica de
la mélange de la Sierra del Convento, E Cuba". University of
Granada.
1995 (April
15). Faouziya Haissen, "Granulites mafiques
des unités du groupe “Casares-Los Reales” des deux côtes du Détroit
de Gibraltar (Rif Interne et Zone Betique Occidentale)",
University
of Tetuan,
Morocco.
Mentor/Supervisor of international students internships at UGR
2023 (20/02 - 15/07).
Clothilde Minnaert-Thefo, Master student, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon.
Funding: ERASMUS+. Supervisor: Aitor Cambeses Torres. Mentor Antonio García
Casco. Granites Iran and Caribbean jade.
2022 (01/10 - 23/12). Haoyu Hu, PhD student, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.
Funding: ERASMUS+. Petrology of the Mabujina amphibolite complex,
Cuba.
2022 (19/02 - 24/04) Haoyu Hu, PhD student, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.
Funding: UniKiel. Geochemistry of the Mabujina amphibolite complex,
Cuba.
2022 (01/02 - 31/04). Clothilde Minnaert-Thefo, Master student, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon.
Funding: ENSLyon. Caribbean, Russian and Myanmar jade.
2015 (July 20). Aitor Cambeses Torres.
Universidad de Granada. PhD "Ossa-Morena Zone Variscan
‘calc-alkaline’ hybrid rocks: interaction of mantle- and
crustal-derived magmas as a result of intra-orogenic
extension-related intraplating".
2013 (November 14). Alicia López Carmona.
Universidad Complutense de Madrid. PhD "Rocas en facies de esquistos
azules del Complejo Mapica-Tui (NO del Macizo Ibérico)".
2010 (April 29). Estibalitz Ukar. The
Jackson School of Geosciences, University
of Texas at Austin (USA). PhD "P-T-t paths and
deformation of blueschist and associated graphite-schist blocks from
the Franciscan Mélange, San Simeon, California."
2010 (March 24). Jose Alberto Padrón Navarta.University of Granada.
PhD. "A coupled petrological and petrophysical study of high
pressure dehydration reactions in subduction settings: Insights from
the Betic Cordillera and the Kohistan Paleo-Arc".
2006 (December 5). Claudio Marchesi. University of Granada. PhD.
"Petrogénesis de las rocas ultramáficas y máficas del cinturón
ofiolítico Mayarí-Baracoa y del volcanismo asociado (Cuba
oriental)".
2003. Susana López Aparicio. University of Huelva (Spain), PhD.
"Procesos de generación de magmas graniticos en la corteza arcaica.
Aproximación mediante el estudio experimental de las relaciones de
fases y composición de los fundidos".
2001 (November 9).
Faouziya Haissen. University of El Jadida (Morocco). PhD
"Etude expérimentale de la fusion saturée et sou-saturée en H2O des
metapèlites de l’île des Pins (W Cuba)".
1999 Hassan El Hmidi. University of Huelva (Spain), PhD. "Petrología
y Geoquímica de los sistemas andesíticos ricos en Mg: Estudio
Petrológico y Experimental de las noritas de la banda metamórfica de
Aracena. SO España".
1999 Mohamed El Biad. University of Huelva (Spain), PhD. "Generación
de granitoides en ambientes geológicamente contrastados del Macizo
Ibérico. Limitaciones experimentales en el rango de 2 a 15 kbar."
1995 (December). Fernando Cámara Artigas. Department Mineralogy and
Petrology, University of Granada. Ph.D “Crystal-chemical study of
metamorphic minerals in mafic rocks from the Nevado- Filábride
Complex (Betic Cordilleras)".
Teaching Innovation
Projects
2012-2013. E-BOOK FOR PETROLOGY
Secretariado de Innovación Docente. University of Granada.
http://innovaciondocente.ugr.es/pages/tablon/*/programa-de-innovacion-y-buenas-practicas-docentes/2012/09/25/resolucion-del-programa-de-innovacion-y-buenas-practicas-docentes-curso-20122013
PI: Concepción Lázaro Calisalvo (Dpto. Mineralogy and Petrology,
Univ. Granada)
Reference: 604713 /
FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN – Zooming in between plates (http://www.zip-itn.eu/).
Coordinator: Philippe AGARD (University Pierre et Marie Curie
-UPMC-, Paris). Marie Curie Actions - Research Fellowship Programme,
Initial Training Networks (ITN).
http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/rcn/109119_en.html
FULL PARTNERS:1 (Coord) Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6,
UPMC, France, 2 Freie Universitaet Berlin , FUB, Germany, 3 Agencia
Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, CSIC,
Spain, 4 Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS,
France, 5 Università degli Studi di Genova, UG, Italy, 6
Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches GeoforschungsZentrum, GFZ,
Germany, 7 Universitaet Bern, UB, Switzerland, 8 Eidgenoessische
Technische Hochschule Zurich, ETH, Switzerland, 9
Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel, CAU, Germany, 10 National
Observatory of Athens, NOA, Greece
ASSOCIATED PARTNERS: 1 Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. Thermo Fisher
Germany, 2 Refinería de Petróleos de Escombreras REPSOL Spain, 3
AF-Consult Switzerland Ltd AF-Consult Switzerland, 4 Chinese Academy
of Sciences CAS China, 5 Univ. Catolica
del Norte UCN Chile, 6 CAMECASociété par Actions Simplifiées (SAS)
CAMECA France, 7 Agilent Technologies, Inc.
AGILENT France, 8 Munich Re Munich Re Germany,9
Baker Hughes Incorporate Baker Hughes United States, 10 ALS
Scandinavia AB ALS Sweden, 11 Antofagasta Minerals AMINERALS Chile,
12 IFP Energies nouvelles IFPEN France.
From 2013-10-01 to 2017-09-30.
EUR 3 735 441
Petrology.
Geochemistry. Metamorphic Petrology. Phase Equilibrium. Thermodynamics.
Experimental Petrology. Electron Microscopy. P-T-t paths. Orogenic
Evolution.
Metamorphism of pelites, basic and ultrabasic rocks in convergent
plate margins. Partial melting of metapelites and metabasites.
Development of petrologic software (algebraic analysis of phase
assemblages, multispectral analysis of XR images). Field work:
Spanish Variscan, Betic and Caribbean belts.
2000-. Researcher of the Junta de Andalucía Research Group "Petrology
and modeling of Lithospheric Processes", nº RNM-302, Leader:
Fernando Bea Barredo.
2011-. Member of
Fundación El Caño
(Dir.
Julia Mayo, Panama), for the development of archeological
studies in Panama.
1994-2000. Researcher of the Junta de Andalucía Research Group
"Metamorphism and Reaction Processes ", nº 1351, Leader: Rafael L.
Torres Roldán.
1989-1993. Researcher of the Junta de Andalucía Research Group
"Geochemistry and Petrology of the Lithosphere", nº 4072, Leader:
Encarnación Puga Rodríguez.
Leader of Research Projects
2021-2023. Principal Investigator of 2 postdoctoral research contracts (Dr. Earth Sciences Manolis Giampuras and Dr. Chemistry Joaquín Criado), 13 months/contract extended 12 months/contract (total: 25 months/contract), in the Andalusian Earth Science Institute (UGR-CSIC), funded by REPSOL EXPLORACIÓN, S.A., for the study of hydrogen sources in serpentinized peridotites. UGR-REPSOL
agreement reference: 2021/27705;.
2020-2022. Evolución tectonometamorfica pre-Alpina del Dominio
Nevado-Filábride (Cordillera Bética) y su correlación con otros
terrenos Perimediterráneos (A-RNM-186-UGR18). Programa Operativo
FEDER Andalucía 2014-2020.
2015-2016: Dating zircons in hot-spot mantle-derived igneous rocks (Archipelago of Madeira).
Co-PI: Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte. Funded by the Research Centre, Institute of Geosciences, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. VAMOS.
2012-2013: Zircon Inheritance in the Lesser Antilles intra-oceanic arc (Grenada Island), implications for the recycling of sediments in a subduction zone. Funded by Inneruniversitäre Forschungsförderung, Mainz University and Erdsystemwissenschaften. Geocycles.
Co-PIs: Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte, Stephan Buhre, Alfred Kröner.
2010-2012. Metamorphic evolution in convergent plate margins: From
onset of subduction to arc-continent collision in the margins of the
Caribbean plate. (CGL2009-12446). Ministry of Science and Innovation
(MICINN), Spain.
2007-2011. IGCP 546
Subduction zones of the Caribbean. Co-Leadership: Uwe Martens
(Stanford University). IGCP-IUGS-UNESCO.
2007-2009. Metamorphic evolution in convergent plate margins: From
onset of subduction to arc-continent collision in the northern
margin of the Caribbean plate, Cuba (CGL2006-08527/BTE) Ministry of
Education and Science (MEC), Spain.
1997-2000 Metamorphic evolution and P-T-t paths in accreted terranes
(Central Cuba), (PB96-1426) Ministry of Education and Science (MEC),
Spain.
Participation in Research Projects
2024-2027. Reciclaje y neoformación del circón en el manto y sus derivados: Un estudio petrocronológico in-situ en sistemas naturales y experimentales. PI: Aitor Cambeses (Univ. Granada). MICINU-AEI. PID2023-149105NA-I00 (Generación de Conocimiento).
2021-2025. Las ofiolitas del Macizo Iberico. PIs: Ricardo Arenas (Univ. Complutense) y Sonia Sánchez Martínez. MICINN PID2020-112489GB-C21 (Retos de la Sociedad).
2021-2023. Estabilidad del circón en sistemas máficos-ultramáficos: descifrando el enigma mediante un estudio teórico y experimental. JA. PY20_00550 (Frontera). PI: Aitor Cambeses Torres (Univ Granada).
2020-2024. Mineral resources in the lithosphere of intra-oceanic volcanics arcs: petrogenetic and ore-forming processes (MISYAP). PI: Joaquín A. Proenza Fernández (Univ. Barcelona). MICINN
PID2019-105625RB-C21 (Retos; coordinated with PID2019-105625RB-C22, PI Javier Escuder Viruete, IGME).
2018–2021: Study of the nature and origin of the deep oceanic crust associated with the Galapagos mantle plume. PI: Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia). Funding support for assistant professors, Universidad de los Andes. FAPA.
2018-2020. Estudio geológico y de potencial minero de las rocas
máficas y ultramáficas del margen occidental de la Cordillera Real,
Peltetec (Ecuador). IP Pedro Santiago Reyes Benitez. Proyecto de
Investigación Junior PIJ-16-04. Escuela Politécnica Nacional,
Ecuador.
2017-2022. SIBA.
Stone interchanges within the Bahama archipelago (SIBA). PI:
Joanna Ostapkowicz (University of Oxford) and Gareth Davies (Vrije
Universiteit, Amsterdam). Funded by Arts and Humanities Research
Council. UK.
2016-2019.
Diamond, zircon and other "exotic" minerals in ophiolitic
chromitites and associated rocks. Implications for mantle
geodynamics (DIACRO). PI: Joaquín Proenza Fernández (Univ.
Barcelona). Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO).
CGL2015-65824.
http://caribbeanlithos.ub.edu/
2015-2019. Mineralogía y Geoquímica de los Elementos de Tierras
Raras (REE) Asociados a los Depósitos de Lateritas Aluminíferas, en
la Sierra de Bahoruco, de la República Dominicana: ¿Un Nuevo Recurso
"No Convencional" de REE?”. IPs: Santiago Muñoz (Servicio Geológico
Nacional, República Dominicana), Joaquín A. Proenza Fernández (U.
Barcelona). Fondo Nacional de Innovación y Desarrollo Científico y
Tecnológico (FONDOCYT), Ministerio de Educación Superior Ciencia y
Tecnología (MESCyT), República Dominicana.
2015-2016. Datación de rocas de la Cordillera Central de República
Dominicana mediante métodos radiométricos e palinológicos:
implicaciones para la prospección y asignación de modelos de las
ocurrencias y depósitos de Au-Cu asociados a magmatismo toleítico y
calcoalcalino en la región. IPs: Santiago Muñoz (Servicio Geológico
Nacional, República Dominicana), Joaquín A. Proenza Fernández (U.
Barcelona). Fondo Nacional de Innovación y Desarrollo Científico y
Tecnológico (FONDOCYT), Ministerio de Educación Superior Ciencia y
Tecnología (MESCyT), República Dominicana.
2015-2017. Herencia de circón en procesos magmáticos. Mecanismos y
aplicaciones al estudio del reciclado cortical y la dinámica del
manto. IP: Fernando Bea (U. Granada). Ministerio de Economía y
Competitividad (MINECO).(CGL2013-40785-P).
2013-2015. Ultramafic oceanic complexes in convergent plate margins:
A petrological, geochemical and metallogenic record of global
tectonics (Caribbean region). Ministerio de Economía y
Competitividad. IP: Joaquín A. Proenza Fernández (U. Barcelona).
MINECO, CGL2012-36263.
http://caribbeanlithos.ub.edu/
2014-2020 DFG. Are zircons forever? On the problem of survival of inherited zircons in juvenile crust and lithospheric mantle. PIs: Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte, Alfred Kröner, Stephan Buhre (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany). Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany.
2014-2017. On the problem
of zircon inheritance in juvenile lithosphere (oceanic arcs and
ridges) and subcontinental mantle. DFG - Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft. IP: Yamirka Rojas Agramonte (U. Mainz).
2014-2017: Estudio de acrecimiento de la plataforma continental Ecuatoriana a través del estudio de circones heredados en el manto litosférico (islas Floreana, San Cristobal), cresta submarina (Cresta de Carnegie) y continente (Cordillera Volcánica Interandina y Real). PI: Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte. Funded by Secretaría Nacional de Educación Superior, SENESCYT, Ecuador.
2012-2014. Evolution of the paired metamorphic belt
in the Coastal Cordillera of Central Chile: Metamorphism and
tectonics of the Proto-Andean margin in South American continent.
FAPESP - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de
São Paulo. Processo 2012/01191-1. Leader: Caetano Juliani (USP).
2012-2014. Neoproterozoic orogenesis on Sao Roque/Serra do
Itaberaba, Embu and Costeiro domains, and the crustal and tectonic
evolution of Southeastern Sao Paulo State.
FAPESP - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de
São Paulo. Processo 2012/15462-7. Leader:
Caetano Juliani (USP).
2010-2014.
International Lithosphere Program (ILP)
Task Force IX "Deep
Into the Subduction Channel (DISC)". International
Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU).
Project leaders: P. Agard (U. P.M. Curie, Paris VI), A. Okay (Istanbul
Technical University), B. Hacker (U. California,
Santa Barbara), T.Gerya (ETH Zurich).
2009-2013. Magmatismo de márgenes de placa
convergentes: subductivos y colisionales. Junta
de Andalucía. Plan Andaluz de Investigación.
Proyecto de Excelencia: P09-RNM5378. Leader:
Antonio Castro Dorado (Universidad de Huelva).
2009-2012: DFG: Large Accretionary Complexes of the World: Evolution of the southern segment of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. The Tienshan mountain belt of Kyrgyzstan and NW China. Funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany. Pis: Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte, Alfred Kröner.
2008-2009. Análisis de trayectorias Presión-Temperatura-tiempo para
las rocas de alta presión de la Serranía de Jarara, Península de la
Guajira, Colombia. Leader: Marion Beatriz Weber Scharff, Universidad
Nacional de Colombia.
2006. Petrogenetic characterization of a new type of magmatism in
the Betic Cordilleras. Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. Leader:
Encarnación Puga Rodríguez.
2005-2009. Geology and Paleogeography of Cuba. Ministry of Science
Technology and Environment, Rep. de Cuba. Leader: Manuel Iturralde
Vinent (Cuba)
2002-2005. Metamorphic terranes in the northern margin of the
Caribbean plate (Cuba) (BTE2002-01011) Ministry of Science and
Technology, Spain, Leader: Rafael L. Torres Roldán (U. Granada).
2000-2004. IGCP proyect nº 433 “Caribbean Plate Tectonics”, Leaders:
Manuel Iturralde Vinent (Cuba) and Edward Lidiak (USA)
1995-1997. P-T-t paths in the Internal Zone of the Betic Cordillera
(Spain). Application of the laser probe 40Ar/39Ar dating technique
to the problem of exhumation of a high pressure mountain belt.
S.G.C.I. (MEC) Programa bilateral “Picasso”, Acciones Integradas
hispano-francesas HF228B y HF336B. Leaders: Rafael L. Torres Roldán
(Granada) y Dr. P. Monié (Montpellier).
1995-1996. The metamorphic complex of the Isle of Youth (Cuba):
Petrology, P-T-t paths and implications for the tectonic history of
Cuba and the northern margin of the Caribbean Plate. Plan Propio de
la Universidad de Granada. Leader: Rafael L. Torres Roldán.
1993-1996. Disequilibrium associations in metamorphic rocks:
reaction modeling, processes and geologic implications. DGICYT. nº
PB92-0931 (MEC), Leader: Rafael L. Torres Roldán.
1990-1992. Geochronologic 40Ar/39Ar study of the alpine
tectono-metamorphic evolution in the Betic Cordilleras. S.G.C.I.
(MEC) Programa bilateral “Picasso”, Acciones Integradas
hispano-francesas nº HF 034 y HF322. Leaders: Rafael L. Torres
Roldán (Granada) y Dr. Philippe Matte (Montpellier).
1987-1988. The high temperature peridotite complexes and the
orogenic evolution of the Betic Cordilleras. NATO. nº Grant
RG85/0691. Leaders: Rafael L. Torres Roldán (Granada) y Hubert Zeck
(Copenhague).
1989-1992. Metamorphism, magmatism and lithospheric evolution in the
western end of the Alpine Chain. D.G.I.C.Y.T. nº PB88-0017 (MEC),
Leader Encarnación Puga Rodríguez.
1987-1989. Metamorphsim and mafic-ultramafic complexes in the
Alboran Sea region. C.A.I.C.Y.T. nº PB85-0408 (MEC, Spain), Leader:
Rafael L. Torres Roldán.
I+D+i Panels
2022-07 - present. Member of the Coordinating Committee of the Eclogite Conference.
2015. Expert of the MINECO Commission for the Ramon y
Cajal research contracts. Earth Sciences.
2008-2013. Member of Panel PE10 “Earth System Science”
for the
Advanced Investigators Grants,
European
Research Council,
IDEAS programme,
FP7,
European Commission.
2008. Expert of the Commission of “Plan
Nacional de Proyectos de Investigación Fundamental”
Área de Gestión de Ciencias de la Tierra (CGL-BTE) y Recursos Hídricos
(CGL-HID), Call
2008, of the
Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MCI, former MEC).
Since April 2014, Member of the Editorial Advisory Board
"Boletin
de la Sociedad Geologica Mexicana", Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México (UNAM).
Since July 2013,
Associate Editor
"International
Geology Review", Taylor & Francis.
Since October 2008,
Management Editor "Geologica
Acta", Institut de Ciències de la Terra "Jaume Almera" (C.S.I.C.)
& Facultat de Geologia Universitat de Barcelona.
January 2007 - February 2016,
Associate Editor “Terra
Nova”, John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Regular reviewer for Andean Geology, Boletín Geológico y Minero de España,
Chemical Geology, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Earth Science
Reviews, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, ESRJ-Earth Sciences Research
Journal, Earth-Science Reviews,
Estudios Geológicos, European Journal of Mineralogy, Geologica Acta,
Geological Society of America Bulletin, Geology, Global and Planetary
Change, Gondwana Research, Geoscience Frontiers,
Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Journal of Metamorphic Geology, Journal of
South American Earth Sciences, Journal of Petrology, Journal of Structural
Geology, Lithos, Mineralogical Magazine, Mineralogy and Petrology, Revista
Geológica de América Central, Revista Geológica de Chile, Revista Mexicana
de Ciencias Geológicas, Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, Tectonophysics....
2016. GSA Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado. Pardee Keynote Symposia
P4. Geologic Evolution of Cuba. Wed., 28 Sept. 2016
Conveners: Robert Stern, Manuel Antonio Iturralde-Vinent, Antonio
Garcia-Casco, Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte, J. Brendan Murphy, Darrel S.
Cowan.
GSA International/International Interdisciplinary Interest Group;
Cuban Geological Society
http://community.geosociety.org/gsa2016/science-careers/sessions/pardee
https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2016AM/webprogram/Session40255.html
2015. Reunión de la Comisión de Petrología, Geoquímica y
Geocronología (PGG) de la Sociedad Geológica de España, Anti-Atlas,
Marruecos. Faouziya Haissen, Antonio García Casco.
http://www.ugr.es/~malmolaroko/actividades/2015Antiatlas/antiatlas2015.htm,
23-27 de marzo de 2015.
2014. Reunión de la Comisión de Petrología, Geoquímica y
Geocronología (PGG) de la Sociedad Geológica de España, Sierra de
Gredos. Antonio García Casco, Ricardo Arenas, Pilar González
Montero.
http://www.ugr.es/~malmolaroko/actividades/2014Gredos/gredos2014.htm,
24-26 de junio de 2014.
2011. Special Session "Crustal growth and modification at the
Caribbean plate margins". Medellín, Colombia 31 August 2011, in the
XIV Latin-American Geological and XIII Colombian Geological
Congresses (29 August - 2 September, 2011). Co-conveners Agustin
Cardona (Smithsonian Institution, STRI, Panama), Marion Weber
(Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Medellin)
http://www.14clg.com/simposios/1.-Crecimiento-y-modificacion-de-la-corteza-en-los-bordes-de-la-Placa-Caribe
http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/igcp546/
>> Activities >> Colombia 11
2011. Seventh Hutton Symposium on Granites and Related Rocks.
Avila, Spain, July 4-9 2011. Coordinator in charge of Scientific
Sessions (Chairman: Fernando Bea, Univ. Granada).
http://www.seventh-hutton.org/meeting/Welcome.html
2010. Course "Diamond, jade and other Gems". Granada, 16-17
March 2010. Chairman.
http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/tierra/ > Seminarios > Diamond,
jade and other Gems (2010)
2010. Workshop "Subduction Zones and Bent Orogenic Belts of the
Caribbean" and associated Field Trip "From arc growth to
orocline formation: The record from the Panama Canal and East Panama".
Joint meeting of IGCP projects 546 "Subduction Zones of the
Caribbean" and 574 "Bending and Bent Orogens, and Continental
Ribbons" Panama, February 8-11, 2010. Chairman.
http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/igcp546/
> Activities > Panama 2010
Field Trip Guide (By C. Montes et al).
2009. Session T22: "Evolution of the Caribbean
Plate: Linking its Tectonic, Magmatic, Metamorphic and Stratigraphic
Records"
AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 14-18 December 2009. Chairman
(co-leader: Uwe Martens, Univ. Stanford).
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/program/scientific_session_search.php?show=detail&sessid=448
http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/igcp546/
> Activities > San Francisco 2009
2009. Workshop "Subduction Zones of the Caribbean".
Third Cuban Convention of Earth Sciences,
Organized by Sociedad Cubana de
Geología and
IGCP 546 Subduction Zones of the Caribbean.
Havana, Cuba, 16-20 March 2009. Chairman (Co-leader: M.A.
Iturralde-Vinent - Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Cuba).
http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/igcp546/
>> Activities >> Cuba 2009.
http://www.cubacienciasdelatierra.com/index.php?module=general2
2009. Field Trip "Subduction and arc complexes of central Cuba".
Third Cuban Convention of Earth Sciences,
Organized by Sociedad Cubana de
Geología and
IGCP 546 Subduction Zones of the Caribbean.
Havana, Cuba, 21-25 March 2009. Chairman (Co-leaders: M.A.
Iturralde-Vinent - Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Cuba - and L.
Bernal Rodríguez - Instituto de Geología y Paleontología, Cuba).
http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/igcp546/
>> Activities >> Cuba 2009 >> Field Trip
http://www.cubacienciasdelatierra.com/index.php?module=general2
Field Trip Guide (By A. García Casco et al).
2008. Symposium "Caribbean Subduction in time and space: An
integrated petrological, geochemical, tectonic, and geophysical
approach".
18th Caribbean Geological Conference,
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 24–29 March 2008. Chairman
(Co-convener: Uwe Martens).
http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/igcp546/
> Activities > Dominican Rep. 2008.
2007. Session T29 “Caribbean Subduction Zones - Past and Present”.
AGU Fall Meeting. San
Francisco, 10-14 December 2007. Chairman (co-leader: Uwe Martens,
Univ. Stanford)
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm07/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=387
http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/igcp546/
> Activities > San Francisco 2007
Abstracts Oral Session:
T11D, MW:3018, Monday. "Caribbean Subduction Zones: Past and Present
I", or:
Session Information.
Abstracts Poster Session:
T13C, MS:Exh Hall B, Monday. "Caribbean Subduction Zones: Past and
Present II", or:
Session Information.
2007. Workshop “High-pressure belts of Central Guatemala: The
Motagua Suture and the Chuacús Complex”. IGCP 546
Subduction Zones of the Caribbean
Guatemala, 03 - 09 December 2007. Chairman (Co-leader: Uwe Martens,
Univ. Stanford).
http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/igcp546/
> Activities > Guatemala 2007.
Field Trip Guide
(By U. Martens et al).
2007. Workshop “Caribbean Geology” and associated Field Trip
"The Geology of Western Cuba". Second Cuban Convention of
Earth Sciences, Geological Society of Cuba Havana, Cuba, March 2007.
Chairman (Co-leader: M.A. Iturralde-Vinent - Museo Nacional de
Historia Natural, Cuba).
http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/igcp546/
>> Activities >> Cuba 2007
Field Trip Guide
(by Manuel Iturralde)
2006. Session G10 "Composition, structure and evolution of the
Caribbean lithosphere",
EGU General Assembly, Viena, Austria, 02 – 07 April 2006.
Chairman (co-leaders: Yamirka Rojas Agramonte - Univ. Mainz - and
Andrés Pérez Estaún - Instituto Jaume Almera, CSIC).
http://www.cosis.net/members/meetings/sessions/information.php?p_id=193&s_id=3430
2003. "Meeting of the Working Group
of Petrology, Geochemistry and Geochronology of Igneous and
Metamorphic Rocks in the Caribbean Realm (Carib-WGPGG)", IGCP
Project 433 “Caribbean Plate Tectonics”. University of Granada
Spain. September 30 –October 3, 2003. Chairman.
http://www.ig.utexas.edu/CaribPlate/news/granada_2003.htm
General
2013. VERA TORRES, J.A. (Coordinator) Términos del Área
Geología (excluida Paleontología). Volumen de Ciencias Geológicas y
Medioambientales. Vocabulario científico y Técnicio.
Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas,
Físicas y Naturales, 4.ª edición.
Madrid.
On line early version:
http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/personal/rac_geologia/0_rac.htm
http://vctrac.es/index.php?title=Categor%C3%ADa:Geolog%C3%ADa
Petrologic Tools
2000. TORRES ROLDÁN R.L., GARCÍA CASCO A, GARCÍA SÁNCHEZ P.A. CSpace: An
integrated workplace for the graphical and algebraic analysis of phase
assemblages on 32-bit Wintel platforms.
Computers and Geosciences 26, 779-793. DOI
10.1016/S0098-3004(00)00006-6;

Experiments
2025. Repczyńska, Molina, Cambeses, Montero, Bea, Itano; Pujol-Solà; Novo-Fernández; Barcos;
Garcia-Casco. Geochemical behaviour of biotite during interaction with aqueous and brine fluids: constraints from hydrothermal batch experiments. Chemical Geology 672, 122486. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2024.122486
2010. Castro, A.,
Gerya, T., García-Casco, A., Fernández, C., diaz-alvarado, j.,
Moreno-Ventas, I., Löw. I. Melting relations of MORB-sediment
melanges in underplated mantle wedge plumes. Implications for the origin of
cordilleran-type batholiths. Journal of Petrology, 51, 1267-1295. DOI
10.1093/petrology/egq019
2009. Castro, A.,
García-Casco, A., Fernández, C., Corretgé, L.G., Moreno-Ventas, I., Gerya,
T., Löw. I. Ordovician ferrosilicic magmas: Experimental evidence for
ultrahigh temperatures affecting a metagreywacke source.
Gondwana Research,
16, Issues 3-4, 622-632. DOI
10.1016/j.gr.2008.12.011
2009.
Castro, A., Gerya, T., Garcia-Casco,
A. Melting of subducted mélanges in mantle wedge plumes:
Eutectic-like behaviour in the generation of batholiths. Geochimica et
Cosmochimica Acta 73, p.A199. (Abstract).
2005. LÓPEZ, S., CASTRO, A., CARCÍA–CASCO, A.
Production of granodiorite melt by
interaction between hydrous mafic magma and tonalitic crust. Experimental
constraints and implications for the generation of Archaean TTG complexes.
Lithos 79 (1-2), 229-250. DOI 10.1016/j.lithos.2004.04.055;

2003. GARCÍA CASCO, A., HAISSEN, F, CASTRO, A., EL-HMIDI, H., TORRES ROLDÁN,
R.L., MILLÁN TRUJILLO, G. Synthesis of
staurolite in melting experiments of a natural metapelite: Consequences for
the phase relations in low temperature pelitic migmatites. Journal
of Petrology 44, 1727-1757. DOI
10.1093/petrology/egg056;

Inherited zircon
2024. Zircon xenocrysts from Easter Island (Rapa Nui) reveal hotspot activity since the middle Jurassic
Rojas‐Agramonte, Y., Pardo, N., van Hinsbergen, D. J. J.,…., Antonio García-Casco.
AGU Advances, 5, e2024AV001351. DOI: 10.1029/2024AV001351
2022. Zircon dates long-lived plume dynamics in oceanic islands.
Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte, Boris J.P. Kaus, Andrea Piccolo, Ian S. Willians, Axel Gerdes, Jean Wong, Hangqiang Xie, Stephan Buhre, Theofilos Toulkeridis, Pilar Montero, Antonio Garcia-Casco.
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. Paper #2022GC010485. DOI: 10.1029/2022GC010485
2018. J.A. Proenza, José M. González-Jiménez, A. García-Casco, E. Belousova,
W.L Griffin, Y. C. Talavera, Rojas-Agramonte, T. Aiglsperger, D.
Navarro-Ciurana, N. Pujol, F. Gervilla, S.Y. O’Reilly, D. Jacob. Cold plumes
trigger contamination of oceanic mantle wedges with continental
crust-derived sediments: evidence from chromitite zircons of eastern Cuban
Ophiolites.
Geoscience Frontiers 9 (6), 1921-1936. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2017.12.005
2018. Lisard Torró; Joaquín A Proenza; Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte; Antonio
Garcia-Casco; Jin-Hui Yang; YueHeng Yang. Recycling in the subduction
factory: Archaean to Permian zircons in the oceanic Cretaceous Caribbean
island-arc (Hispaniola).
Gondwana Research 54,23-37. DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2017.09.010
2017. José M. González-Jiménez, Antoni Camprubí, Vanessa Colás, William L.
Griffin, Joaquín A. Proenza, Suzanne Y. O’Reilly, Elena Centeno-García,
Antonio García-Casco, Elena Belousova, Cristina Talavera, Júlia
Farré-de-Pablo, Takako Satsukawa. The recycling of chromitites in ophiolites
from southwestern North America.
Lithos294–295, 53-72. DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2017.09.020
2017. Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte, Ian Williams, Richard Arculus, Alfred Kröner,
Antonio García-Casco, Concepción Lázaro, Stephan Buhre, Jean Wong, Helen Geng, Carlos Morales Echeverría, Teresa Jeffries, Hangqian Xie, Regina
Mertz-KrausAncient inherited zircon in young volcanic rocks of the southern
Lesser Antilles island arc. Lithos, 290–291, 228-252 DOI:
10.1016/j.lithos.2017.08.002.
2016. Rojas-Agramonte, Y., García-Casco, A., Kemp, A., Kröner, A., Proenza,
J.A., Lázaro, C., Liu, D.. Recycling and transport of continental material
through the mantle wedge above subduction zones: A Caribbean example.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 436, 93–107. DOI:
10.1016/j.epsl.2015.11.040
Diamond and SuR phases
2022. Núria Pujol-Solà, Joaquín A. Proenza, José María González-Jiménez, Fernando Gervilla, Joan Carles Melgarejo, Claudio Marchesi, Antonio Garcia-Casco.
Comments on the paper “Ti-poor high-Al chromitites of the Moa-Baracoa ophiolitic massif (eastern Cuba) formed in a nascent forearc mantle” by Rui et al. [Ore Geol. Rev., 104847]. Ore Geol. Rev.,
148, 105019. DOI: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2022.105019.
2020. Núria Pujol-Solà, Antonio Garcia-Casco, Joaquín A. Proenza, José María González-Jiménez, Adolfo del Campo, Vanessa Colás, Àngels Canals, Antonio Sánchez-Navas, and Josep Roqué-Rossell. Diamond forms during low-pressure serpentinization of oceanic lithosphere.
Geochemical Perspectives Letters 15, 19-24. DOI: 10.7185/geochemlet.2029.
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2019. Farre-de-Pablo, Julia; Proenza, Joaquin A.; Maria Gonzalez-Jimenez,
Jose; Garcia-Casco, Antonio; Colas, Vanessa; Roque-Rossell, Josep; Camprubi,
Antoni; Sanchez-Navas, Antonio. A shallow origin for diamonds in ophiolitic
chromitites: REPLY. Geology 47 (8), e477-e478.
https://doi.org/10.1130/G46602Y.1
2019. Júlia Farré-de-Pablo, Joaquin Proenza, Jose María González-Jiménez,
Antonio Garcia-Casco, Vanessa Colás, Josep Roquè Rosell, Antoni Camprubí,
and Antonio Sánchez-Navas. A shallow origin for diamonds in ophiolitic
chromitites. Geology 47, 75-78. DOI: 10.1130/G45640.1.
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Data Repository Material
2018. Núria Pujol-Solà, Joaquín A. Proenza, Antonio García-Casco, José María
González-Jiménez, Aleu Andreazini, Joan Carles Melgarejo, Fernando Gervilla.
Super-reduced (SuR) and associated minerals in chromitites from eastern Cuba
ophiolite. Minerals 8(10), 433. DOI: 10.3390/min8100433.
Special Issue: Petrology, Geochemistry and Mineralogy of the Mantle as
Tools to Read Messages from the Earth’s Interior.
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2024 Clothilde Minnaert, Samuel Angiboust; Aitor Cambeses; Johannes Glodny; Jesús Muñoz-Montecinos; Antonio García Casco.
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