Abad I, Nieto F, Reolid M, Jiménez-Millán J (2022) Evidence of phyllosilicate alteration processes and clay mineral neoformation promoted by hydrothermal fluids in the Padul Fault area (Betic Cordillera, SE Spain). Applied Clay Science 230:106669. doi: 10.1016/j.clay.2022.106669

Cuevas J, Aranda P, Aróstegui J, López-Galindo A, Nieto F, Pozo M, Ruiz-Hitzky E, Suarez M (2022) Las arcillas en sociedad: reconstruyendo el pasado y modelando el futuro. La Sociedad Española de Arcillas (SEA). Encuentros Multiciplinares, 71: 1-9. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/76859

Do Campo M, Bauluz B, Nieto F (2022) Widespread hydrothermal alteration overprinting epizonal Ordovician rocks in the Puna region of Argentina (Salta and Jujuy provinces). Applied Clay Science 216:106302. doi: 10.1016/j.clay.2021.106302

González-Jiménez JM, Yesares L, Piña R, Sáez R, Ruiz de Almodóvar G, Nieto F, Tenorio S (2022) Polymetallic nanoparticles in pyrite from massive and stockwork ores of VMS deposits of the Iberian Pyrite Belt. Ore Geology Reviews 145:104875. doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2022.104875

Cifuentes GR, Jiménez-Millán J, Quevedo CP, Nieto F, Cuadros J, Jiménez-Espinosa R (2021) Low Temperature Illitization through Illite-Dioctahedral Vermiculite Mixed Layers in a Tropical Saline Lake Rich in Hydrothermal Fluids (Sochagota Lake, Colombia). Minerals 11:523. doi: 10.3390/min11050523

Nieto F, Abad I, Bauluz B, Reolid M (2021) Textural and genetic relationships between glauconite and celadonite at the nanoscale: Two different structural-compositional fields. European Journal of Mineralogy 33:503-517. doi: 10.5194/ejm-33-503-2021

Schingaro E, Ventruti G, Vinci D, Balassone G, Mondillo N, Nieto F, Lacalamita M, Leoni M (2021) New insights into the crystal chemistry of sauconite (Zn-smectite) from the Skorpion zinc deposit (Namibia) via a multi-methodological approach. American Mineralogist 106 doi: 10.2138/am-2020-7460

González-Jiménez JM, Piña R, Kerestedjian TN, Gervilla F, Borrajo I, Pablo JFd, Proenza JA, Tornos F, Roqué J, Nieto F (2021) Mechanisms for Pd–Au enrichment in porphyry-epithermal ores of the Elatsite deposit, Bulgaria. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 220:106664. doi: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2020.106664

González-Jiménez JM, Tassara S, Schettino E, Roqué-Rosell J, Farré-de-Pablo J, Saunders JE, Deditius AP, Colás V, Rovira-Medina JJ, Dávalos MG, Schilling M, Jimenez-Franco A, Marchesi C, Nieto F, Proenza JA, Gervilla F (2020) Mineralogy of the HSE in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle —An interpretive review. Lithos 372-373:105681. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105681

González-Esvertit E, Canals A, Casas JM, Nieto F (2020) Insights into the structural evolution of the pre-Variscan rocks of the Eastern Pyrenees from La Molina quartz veins; constraints on chlorite and fluid inclusion thermometry. Geologica Acta 18.18:1-20. doi: 10.1344/GeologicaActa2020.18.18

Nieto F, Do Campo M (2020) Editorial for minerals special issue “from diagenesis to low-grade metamorphism”. Minerals 10:879. doi: 10.3390/min10100879

Wierzchos J, Artieda O, Ascaso C, Nieto García F, Vítek P, Azua-Bustos A, Fairén AG (2020) Crystalline water in gypsum is unavailable for cyanobacteria in laboratory experiments and in natural desert endolithic habitats. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117:45 doi: 10.1073/pnas.2013134117

Martos-Villa R, Mata MP, Williams LB, Nieto F, Arroyo Rey X, Sáinz-Díaz CI (2020) Evidence of Hydrocarbon-Rich Fluid Interaction with Clays: Clay Mineralogy and Boron Isotope Data from Gulf of Cádiz Mud Volcano Sediments. Minerals 10:651. doi: 10.3390/min10080651

Jiménez–Franco A, González–Jiménez JM, Roqué J, Proenza JA, Gervilla F, Nieto F (2020) Nanoscale constraints on the in situ transformation of Ru–Os–Ir sulfides to alloys at low temperature. Ore Geology Reviews 124:103640. doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2020.103640

Jiménez-Millán J, Abad I, García-Tortosa FJ, Nieto F, Jiménez-Espinosa R (2020) Clay saline diagenesis in lake Plio-Pleistocene sediments rich in organic matter from the Guadix-Baza Basin (Betic Cordillera, SE Spain). Applied Clay Science 195:105739. doi: 10.1016/j.clay.2020.105739

Pérez-Cáceres I, Martínez Poyatos D, Vidal O, Beyssac O, Nieto F, Simancas JF, Azor A, Bourdelle F (2020) Deciphering the metamorphic evolution of the Pulo do Lobo metasedimentary domain (SW Iberian Variscides). Solid Earth 11:469-488. doi: 10.5194/se-11-469-2020

Balassone G, Scognamiglio V, Nieto F, Mondillo N, Boni M, Cappelletti P, Arfè G (2020) The nature of Zn-phyllosilicates in the nonsulfide Mina Grande and Cristal zinc deposits (Bongará District, Northern Peru): the TEM-HRTEM and AEM perspective. American Mineralogist 105: 1223-1241 doi: 10.2138/am-2020-7140

López-Quirós A Sánchez-Navas A, Nieto F, Escutia, C (2020) New insights into the nature of glauconite. American Mineralogist 105: 674–686 doi: 10.2138/am-2020-7341

Lopez-Quiros A, Escutia C, Sanchez-Navas A, Nieto F, Garcia-Casco A, Martin-Algarra A, Evangelinos D, Salabarnada A (2019) Glaucony authigenesis, maturity and alteration in the Weddell Sea: An indicator of paleoenvironmental conditions before the onset of Antarctic glaciation. Scientific Reports 9:13580 doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-50107-1

Lopez-Rodriguez C, De Lange GJ, Comas M, Martinez-Ruiz F, Nieto F, Sapart CJ, Mogollon JM (2019) Recent, deep-sourced methane/mud discharge at the most active mud volcano in the western Mediterranean. Marine Geology 408:1-17 doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2018.11.013

Gonzalez-Jimenez JM, Roque-Rosell J, Jimenez-Franco A, Tassara S, Nieto F, Gervilla F, Baurier S, Proenza JA, Saunders E, Deditius AP, Schilling M, Corgne A (2019) Magmatic platinum nanoparticles in metasomatic silicate glasses and sulfides from Patagonian mantle xenoliths. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 174(5) doi: 10.1007/s00410-019-1583-5

Abad I, Jimenez-Millan J, Sanchez-Roa C, Nieto F, Velilla N (2019) Neocrystallization of clay minerals in the Alhama de Murcia Fault (southeast Spain): implications for fault mechanics. Clay Minerals 54(1):1-13 doi: 10.1180/clm.2019.2

Arostegui J, Arroyo X, Nieto F, Bauluz B (2019) Evolution of Clays in Cretaceous Marly Series (Alava Block, Basque Cantabrian Basin, Spain): Diagenesis and Detrital Input Control. Minerals 9(40)doi: 10.3390/min9010040

Baurier-Aymat S, Jimenez-Franco A, Roque-Rosell J, Maria Gonzalez-Jimenez J, Gervilla F, Proenza JA, Mendoza J, Nieto F (2019) Nanoscale Structure of Zoned Laurites from the Ojen Ultramafic Massif, Southern Spain. Minerals 9(5)doi: 10.3390/min9050288

Gómez-Pugnaire MT, Nieto F, Abad I, Velilla N, Garrido CJ, Acosta-Vigil A, Barich A, Hidas K, López-Sánchez-Vizcaíno V (2019) Alpine Metamorphism in the Betic Internal Zones. In: Quesada C, Oliveira JT (eds) The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach, vol 3. Springer Nature Switzerland AG, pp 521-544

Sanchez-Roa C, Bauluz B, Nieto F, Abad I, Jimenez-Millan J, Faulkner D (2018) Micro- and nano-scale study of deformation induced mineral transformations in Mg-phyllosilicate-rich fault gouges from the Galera Fault Zone (Betic Cordillera, SE Spain). American Mineralogist 103(10):1604-1621 doi: 10.2138/am-2018-6316

Bauluz B, Nieto F (2018) Ammonium-bearing micas in very low-grade metapelites: micro- and nano-texture and composition. Clay Minerals 53(2):105-116 doi: 10.1180/clm.2018.8

Sanchez-Roa C, Vidal O, Jimenez-Millan J, Nieto F, Faulkner DR (2018) Implications of sepiolite dehydration for earthquake nucleation in the Galera Fault Zone: A thermodynamic approach. Applied Geochemistry 89:219-228 doi: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2017.11.013

Salado Paz N, Petrinovic I, Do Campo M, Brod JA, Nieto F, da Silva Souza V, Wemmer K, Payrola P, Ventura R (2018) Mineralogy, structural control and age of the Incachule Sb epithermal veins, the Cerro Aguas Calientes collapse caldera, Central Puna. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 82:239-260 doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2017.07.002

Elert K, Azañón JM, Nieto F (2018) Smectite formation upon lime stabilization of expansive marls. Applied Clay Science 158:29-36 doi: 10.1016/j.clay.2018.03.014

Sanchez-Roa C, Faulkner DR, Boulton C, Jimenez-Millan J, Nieto F (2017) How phyllosilicate mineral structure affects fault strength in Mg-rich fault systems. Geophysical Research Letters 44(11):5457-5467 doi: 10.1002/2017gl073055

Elert K, Nieto F, Azañón JM (2017) Effects of lime treatments on marls. Applied Clay Science 135:611-619 doi: 10.1016/j.clay.2016.10.047

Do Campo M, Nieto F, Albanesi GL, Ortega G, Monaldi CR (2017) Outlining the thermal posdepositional evolution of the Ordovician successions of northwestern Argentina by clay mineral analysis, chlorite geothermometry and Kubler index. Andean Geology 44(2):179-212 doi: 10.5027/andgeoV44n2-a04

Balassone G, Nieto F, Arfe G, Boni M, Mondillo N (2017) Zn-clay minerals in the Skorpion Zn nonsulfide deposit (Namibia): Identification and genetic clues revealed by HRTEM and AEM study. Applied Clay Science 150:309-322 doi: 10.1016/j.clay.2017.09.034

Villanova-de-Benavent C, Nieto F, Viti C, Proenza JA, Gali S, Roque-Rosell J (2016) Ni-phyllosilicates (garnierites) from the Falcondo Ni-laterite deposit (Dominican Republic): Mineralogy, nanotextures, and formation mechanisms by HRTEM and AEM. American Mineralogist 101(5-6):1460-1473 doi: 10.2138/am-2016-5518

Escamilla-Roa E, Nieto F, Sainz-Diaz CI (2016) Stability of the Hydronium Cation in the Structure of Illite. Clays and Clay Minerals 64(4):413-424 doi: 10.1346/Ccmn.2016.0640406

Do Campo M, Bauluz B, Nieto F, Del Papa C, Hongn F (2016) SEM and TEM evidence of mixed-layer illite-smectite formed by dissolution-crystallization processes in continental Paleogene sequences in northwestern Argentina. Clay Minerals 51(5):723-740 doi: 10.1180/claymin.2016.051.5.03

Vazquez M, Bauluz B, Nieto F, Morata D (2016) Illitization sequence controlled by temperature in volcanic geothermal systems: The Tinguiririca geothermal field, Andean Cordillera, Central Chile. Applied Clay Science 134:221-234 doi: 10.1016/j.clay.2016.04.011

Sanchez-Roa C, Jimenez-Millan J, Abad I, Faulkner DR, Nieto F, Garcia-Tortosa FJ (2016) Fibrous clay mineral authigenesis induced by fluid-rock interaction in the Galera fault zone (Betic Cordillera, SE Spain) and its influence on fault gouge frictional properties. Applied Clay Science 134:275-288 doi: 10.1016/j.clay.2016.06.023

Chinchilla D, Arroyo X, Merinero R, Pina R, Nieto F, Ortega L, Lunar R (2016) Chlorite geothermometry applied to massive and oscillatory-zoned radiated Mn-rich chlorites in the Patricia Zn-Pb-Ag epithermal deposit (NE, Chile). Applied Clay Science 134:210-220 doi: 10.1016/j.clay.2016.10.013

Nieto F, Arroyo X, Arostegui J (2016) XRD-TEM-AEM comparative study of n-alkylammonium smectites and interstratified minerals in shallow-diagenetic carbonate sediments of the Basque-Cantabrian Basin. American Mineralogist 101:385-398 doi: 10.2138/am-2016-5301

Mondillo N, Nieto F, Balassone G (2015) Micro and nano-characterization of Zn-clays in nonsulfide supergene ores of southern Peru. American Mineralogist 100: 2484–2496 doi: 10.2138/am-2015-5273

Vázquez M, Nieto F, Morata D, Droguett B, Carrillo-Rosua FJ, Morales S (2014) Evolution of clay mineral assemblages in the Tinguiririca geothermal field, Andean Cordillera of central Chile: an XRD and HRTEM-AEM study. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 282: 43-59 doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2014.05.022J.

Abad I, Nieto F, Velilla N, Suárez-Ruiz I (2014) Metamorphic evidences from the Monchique Pluton (South Portugal): contact metamorphism vs regional metamorphism under very low-grade conditions. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España 27(1):337-350 http://www.sociedadgeologica.es/publicaciones/rev/27(1).html

Do Campo M, Nieto F, del Papa C, Hongn F (2014) Syn- and post-sedimentary controls on clay mineral assemblages in a tectonically active basin, Andean Argentinean foreland. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 52:43-56 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2013.12.008

Maza SN, Collo G, Astini RA, Nieto F, Nieto JM (2014) Holocene ochreous lacustrine sediments within the Famatina Belt, NW Argentina: A natural case for fossil damming of an acid drainage system. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 52:149-165 doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2014.02.010

Martos-Villa R, Guggenheim S, Mata MP, Sainz-Díaz CI, Nieto F (2014) Interaction of methane hydrate complexes with smectites: Experimental results compared to molecular models. American Mineralogist 99: 401-414 doi: 10.2138/am.2014.4570

Nieto F, Livi KJT (2013) Minerals at the Nanoscale. Eur. Mineral. Union and Mineral. Soc. of Great Britain and Ireland, London

Pastor-Galan D, Gutierrez-Alonso G, Fernandez-Suarez J, Murphy JB, Nieto F (2013) Tectonic evolution of NW Iberia during the Paleozoic inferred from the geochemical record of detrital rocks in the Cantabrian Zone. Lithos 182: 211-228 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2013.09.007

Do Campo M, Collo G, Nieto F (2013): Geothermobarometry of very low-grade metamorphic pelites of the Vendian–Early Cambrian Puncoviscana Formation (Cordillera Oriental, NW Argentina). European Journal of Mineralogy 25: 429-451 doi: 10.1127/0935-1221/2013/0025-2284

Ureña C, Azañon JM, Corpas F, Nieto F, León C, Pérez L (2013) Magnesium hydroxide, seawater and olive mill wastewater to reduce swelling potential and plasticity of bentonite soil. Construction and Building Materials 45:289-297. doi: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2013.03.053

Sánchez-Navas A, Martín-Algarra A, Sánchez-Román M, Jiménez-López C, Nieto F, Ruiz-Bustos A (2013) Crystal Growth of Inorganic and Biomediated Carbonates and Phosphates. In: S. Ferreira (ed) Advanced Topics on Crystal Growth. 40,1-16. InTech, DOI: 10.5772/52062

Iacoviello F, Giorgetti G, Nieto F, Memmi IT (2012) Evolution with depth from detrital to authigenic smectites in sediments from AND-2A drill core (McMurdo Sound, Antarctica). Clay Minerals 47(4):481-498 doi:10.1180/claymin.2012.047.4.07

Ferreiro-Mahlmann R, Nieto F, Bozkaya O, Potel S, Turkmenoglu AG (2012) Preface: clay mineral diagenesis and very low-grade metamorphic processes. Proceedings of the 2011 Frey-Kubler symposium. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 105(2):117-120 doi:10.1007/s00015-012-0114-4

Ferreiro-Mahlmann R, Bozkaya O, Potel S, Le Bayon R, Segvic B, Nieto F (2012) The pioneer work of Bernard Kubler and Martin Frey in very low-grade metamorphic terranes: paleo-geothermal potential of variation in Kubler-Index/organic matter reflectance correlations. A review. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 105(2):121-152 doi:10.1007/s00015-012-0115-3

Arkai P, Abad I, Nieto F, Nemeth T, Horvath P, Kis VK, Judik K, Jiménez-Millán J (2012) Retrograde alterations of phyllosilicates in low-grade metapelite: a case study from the Szendro Paleozoic, NE-Hungary. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 105(2):263-282 doi:10.1007/s00015-012-0097-1

Abad I, Nieto F, Gutiérrez-Alonso G, Murphy JB, Braid JA, Rodriguez-Navarro AB (2012) Fluid-driven low-grade metamorphism in polydeformed rocks of Avalonia (Arisaig Group, Nova Scotia, Canada). Swiss Journal of Geosciences 105(2):283-297 doi:10.1007/s00015-012-0096-2

Collo G, Do Campo M, Nieto F (2011) Low-grade metamorphism of Cambro-Ordovician successions in the Famatina belt, Southern-Central Andes: Burial-inversion history linked to the evolution of the proto-Andean Gondwana margin. Andean Geology 38(2):284-318

Cuadros J, Dekov VM, Arroyo X, Nieto F (2011) Smectite Formation in Submarine Hydrothermal Sediments: Samples from the HMS Challenger Expedition (1872-1876). Clays and Clay Minerals 59(2):147-164 doi:10.1346/ccmn.2011.0590204

Suárez S, Nieto F, Velasco F, Martin FJ (2011) Serpentine and chlorite as effective Ni-Cu sinks during weathering of the Aguablanca sulphide deposit (SW Spain). TEM evidence for metal-retention mechanisms in sheet silicates. European Journal of Mineralogy 23(2):179-196 doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2011/0023-2084

Nieto, F, Arroyo, X_ (2010) Identification and characterization with microscopic methods. In: S. Fiore, J. Cuadros and F.J. Huertas (eds) _Interstratified Clay Minerals. Origin and Geochemical Significance. AIPEA Eduactional Series, v 1. 73-88 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/64224

Azañon JM, Azor A, Yesares J, Tsige M, Mateos RM, Nieto F, Delgado J, Lopez-Chicano M, Martin W, Rodríguez-Fernández J (2010) Regional-scale high-plasticity clay-bearing formation as controlling factor on landslides in Southeast Spain. Geomorphology 120(1-2):26-37 doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.09.012

Do Campo M, del Papa C, Nieto F, Hongn F, Petrinovic I (2010) Integrated analysis for constraining palaeoclimatic and volcanic influences on clay-mineral assemblages in orogenic basins (Palaeogene Andean foreland, Northwestern Argentina). Sedimentary Geology 228(3-4):98-112 doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2010.04.002

Nieto, F; Jiménez Millán, J; Gambogi Parreira, G; Chiarini Garca, H; Correa, R , Melo, N_ (2010) Electron Microscopy: SEM/TEM. In: R. Splinter (ed) _Physics in Medicine and Biology, CRC Press, 40,1-40,16 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/64241

Nieto F, Mellini M, Abad I (2010) The role of H₃O⁺ in the crystal structure of illite. Clays and Clay Minerals 58(2):238-246 doi:10.1346/ccmn.2010.0580208

Nieto F, Mellini M, Abad I (2010) Reply to the comment by Vidal, Dubacq, and Lanari on "The role of H₃O⁺ in the crystal structure of illite". Clays and Clay Minerals 58(5):721-723 doi:10.1346/ccmn.2010.0580511

Abad I, Murphy JB, Nieto F, Gutierrez-Alonso G (2010) Diagenesis to metamorphism transition in an episutural basin: the late Paleozoic St. Mary's Basin, Nova Scotia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 47(2):121-135 doi:10.1139/e09-079