Publications
Selected scientific publications follow:
Butturini, A. D. García-Castellanos, C. Jordi, I. R., J. Urmeneta, 2020. (In)Habitabilidad planetaria. Fundamentos de Astrogeobiología. Ed. Marcombo. ISBN: 9788426728340. 314 pp. Link.
Garcia-Castellanos, D., Micallef, A., Estrada, F., Camerlenghi, A., Ercilla, G., Periáñez, R., Abril, J.M, 2020. The Zanclean megaflood of the Mediterranean – Searching for independent evidence. Earth-Science Reviews, 201, 103061. DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.103061 [pdf]
Zucker, E., Z. Gvirtzman, D. Granjeon, D. Garcia-Castellanos, Y. Enzel, 2021. The accretion of the Levant continental shelf alongside the Nile Delta by immense margin-parallel sediment transport, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2021, 104876, ISSN 0264-8172, doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104876
Spatola, D., del Moral-Erencia, J.D., Micallef, A., Camerlenghi, A., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Gupta, S., Bohorquez, P., Gutscher, M.-A., Bertoni, C., 2020. A single-stage megaflood at the termination of the Messinian salinity crisis: Geophysical and modelling evidence from the eastern Mediterranean Basin. Marine Geology, 430, 106337, DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2020.106337
Jiménez-Munt, I., Torne, M., Fernàndez, M., Vergés, J., Kumar, A., Carballo, A., García-Castellanos, D., 2019. Deep Seated Density Anomalies Across the Iberia-Africa Plate Boundary and Its Topographic Response. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124 (12), pp. 13310-13332. DOI: 10.1029/2019JB018445
Rodríguez-Rodríguez, L., L. Antón, Á. Rodes, R. Pallàs, D. García-Castellanos, I. Jiménez-Munt, L. Struth, L. Leanni, ASTER Team, 2020. Dates and rates of endo-exorheic drainage development: Insights from fluvial terraces (Duero River, Iberian Peninsula). Global and Planetary Change, 193, 103271, doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2020.103271. [link]
Rodríguez-Rodríguez, L., L. Antón, R. Pallàs, D. García-Castellanos, I. Jiménez-Munt, C. Pastor-Martín, 2020. A GIS method to identify flat surfaces and restore relict fluvial long-profiles from terrace remnants gives new clues on how large basins respond to endorheic–exorheic transitions (Duero basin, Iberian Peninsula). Earth Surf. Process. Landforms. DOI: 10.1002/esp.4795. [link]
Boonma, K., Kumar, A., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Jiménez-Munt, I., Fernández, M. Lithospheric mantle buoyancy: the role of tectonic convergence and mantle composition, 2019. Scientific reports, 9 (1), p. 17953 [pdf].
Periáñez, R., JM Abril, D Garcia-Castellanos, F Estrada, G Ercilla, 2019. An exploratory modelling study on sediment transport during the Zanclean flood of the Mediterranean. SN Applied Sciences 1 (4), 364.
Berry, M., van Wijk, J., Cadol, D., Emry, E., Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2019. Endorheic-Exorheic Transitions of the Rio Grande and East African Rifts. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20 (7), pp. 3705-3729. DOI: 10.1029/2018GC008176
Garcia-Castellanos, D., J. O’Connor, 2018. Outburst floods provide erodability estimates consistent with long-term landscape evolution. Scientific Reports (Nature Pub.). 8:10573. Doi:10.1038/s41598-018-28981-y [open access]
Micallef, A., Camerlenghi, A., Georgiopoulou, A., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Gutscher, M.-A., Lo Iacono, C., Huvenne, V.A.I., Mountjoy, J.J., Paull, C.K., Le Bas, T., Spatola, D., Facchin, L., Accettella, D., 2019. Geomorphic evolution of the Malta Escarpment and implications for the Messinian evaporative drawdown in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Geomorphology, 327, pp. 264-283.
Struth, L., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Viaplana-Muzas, M., Vergés, J., 2019. Drainage network dynamics and knickpoint evolution in the Ebro and Duero basins: From endorheism to exorheism. Geomorphology, 327, pp. 554-571. DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.11.033
Garcia-Castellanos, D., J. O’Connor, 2018. Outburst floods provide erodability estimates consistent with long-term landscape evolution. Scientific Reports. 8:10573. Doi:10.1038/s41598-018-28981-y [open access]
Micallef, A., Camerlenghi, Garcia-Castellanos, Cunarro Otero, Gutscher, Barreca, Spatola, Facchin, Geletti, Krastel, Gross & Urlaub, 2018. Evidence of the Zanclean megaflood in the eastern Mediterranean Basin. Scientific Reports, 8:1078 DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-19446-3. [open access]
Abril-Hernández, J.M., Periáñez, R., O'Connor, J.E., Garcia-Castellanos, D. Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations of the Late Pleistocene Lake Bonneville Flood (2018) Journal of Hydrology, 561, pp. 1-15. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.03.065
Amadori, C., Garcia‐Castellanos, D., Toscani, G., Sternai, P., Fantoni, R., Ghielmi, M. and Di Giulio, A., 2018. Restored topography of the Po Plain‐Northern Adriatic region during the Messinian base‐level drop‐implications for the physiography and compartmentalisation of the paleo‐Mediterranean basin. Basin Research. DOI:10.1111/bre.12302
Pérez-Asensio, J.N., Larrasoaña, J.C., Samankassou, E., Sierro, F.J., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Jiménez-Moreno, G., Salazar, Á., Maria Salvany, J., Ledesma, S., Mata, M.P. and Civis, J., 2018. Magnetobiochronology of Lower Pliocene marine sediments from the lower Guadalquivir Basin: Insights into the tectonic evolution of the Strait of Gibraltar area. Geological Society of America Bulletin. DOI:10.1130/B31892.1
Sternai, L. Caricchi, D. Garcia-Castellanos, L. Jolivet, T.E. Sheldrake, S. Castelltort, 2017. Nature Geoscience, doi:doi:10.1038/ngeo3032 [pdf]
Garcia-Castellanos, D., Larrasoaña, J.C., 2015. Quantifying the post-tectonic topographic evolution of closed basins: The Ebro basin (northeast Iberia). Geology, doi:10.1130/G36673.1 [pdf] [pdf]
Garcia-Castellanos, D., Jiménez-Munt, I., 2015. Topographic evolution and climate aridification during continental collision: insights from computer simulations. PLOS ONE, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0132252 [pdf] [pdf]
Carballo, A, M Fernández, I Jiménez-Munt, M Torné, J Vergés, Garcia-Castellanos, 2015. From the North-Iberian Margin to the Alboran Basin: A lithosphere geo-transect across the Iberian Plate. Tectonophysics 663, 399-418
Rabineau, M., S. Cloetingh, J. Kuroda, D. Aslanian, A. Droxler, C. Gorini, D. Garcia-Castellanos, A. Moscariello, E. Burov, F. Sierro, F. Lirer, F. Roure, P.A. Pezard, L. Matenco, Y. Hello, Y. Mart, A. Camerlenghi, A. Tripati, 2015. Probing connections between deep earth and surface processes in a land-locked ocean basin transformed into a giant saline basin: the Mediterranean GOLD project, Marine and Petroleum Geology, doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2015.03.018.
Saura, E., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Casciello, E., Parravano, V., Urruela, A., Vergés, J., 2015. Modeling the flexural evolution of the Amiran and Mesopotamian foreland basins of NW Zagros (Iran-Iraq). Tectonics. doi:10.1002/2014TC003660
Stange, K.M., Van Balen, R.T., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Cloetingh, S., 2015. Numerical modelling of Quaternary terrace staircase formation in the Ebro foreland basin, southern Pyrenees, NE Iberia. Basin Research. doi:10.1111/bre.12103.
Cloetingh, S., P.A. Ziegler, F. Beekman, E.B. Burov, D. Garcia-Castellanos, L. Matenco, 2015. 6.12 - Tectonic Models for the Evolution of Sedimentary Basins. In: Treatise on Geophysics (Second Edition), edited by Gerald Schubert, Elsevier, Oxford, 2015, Pages 513-592, ISBN 9780444538031.
Emry, E.L., D.A. Wiens, D. Garcia-Castellanos, 2014. Faulting within the Pacific plate at the Mariana Trench: Implications for plate interface coupling and subduction of hydrous minerals, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 119, doi: 10.1002/2013JB010718 [pdf]
Amblas, D., T.P. Gerber, B. De Mol, R. Urgeles, D. Garcia-Castellanos, M. Canals, L.F. Pratson, N. Robb, J. Canning, 2012. The survival of a submarine canyon during long-term outbuilding of a continental margin. Geology, doi:10.1130/G33178.1 [pdf] [pdf]
Garcia-Castellanos, D. & S. Cloetingh, 2012. Modeling the interaction between lithospheric and surface processes in foreland basins. In: Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins: Recent Advances, C. Busby & A. Azor (eds.). Blackwell Pub. Ltd., 152-181, doi:10.1002/9781444347166.ch8 [pdf]
Jiménez-Munt, I., Fernàndez, M., Saura, E., Vergés, J., Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2012. 3-D lithospheric structure and regional/residual Bouguer anomalies in the Arabia-Eurasia collision (Iran). Geophys. J. Intnl. 190, 1311-1324, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05580.x [pdf]
Matenco, L., P. Andriessen & the SourceSink Network, 2013, Quantifying the mass transfer from mountain ranges to deposition in sedimentary basins: Source to sink studies in the Danube Basin–Black Sea system, Global and Planetary Change, 103, 1-18, ISSN 0921-8181.
Bartol, J., Matenco, L., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Leever, K., 2012, Modelling depositional shifts between sedimentary basins: Sediment pathways in Paratethys basins during the Messinian Salinity Crisis, Tectonophysics, v. 536-537, doi:110-121. 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.03.007 [pdf]
Antón, L., Á. Rodés, G. De Vicente, R. Pallàs, D. Garcia-Castellanos, F.M. Stuart, R. Braucher, D. Bourlès, 2012. Quantification of fluvial incision in the Duero Basin (NW Iberia) from longitudinal profile analysis and terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide concentrations. Geomorphology, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.12.036 [pdf]
Garcia-Castellanos, D., A. Villaseñor, 2011. Messinian salinity crisis regulated by competing tectonics and erosion at the Gibraltar Arc. Nature, 480, 359-363, doi:10.1038/nature10651 [pdf] [pdf]
Estrada, F., G. Ercilla, C. Gorini, B. Alonso, J.T. Vázquez, D. Garcia-Castellanos, C. Juan, A. Maldonado, A. Ammar, M. Elabbassi, 2011. Impact of pulsed Atlantic water inflow into the Alboran Basin at the time of the Zanclean flooding. Geo-Marine Lett., 1-16. doi: 10.1007/s00367-011-0249-8 [pdf]
Jimenez-Munt, I., M. Fernàndez, J. Vergés, D. Garcia-Castellanos, J. Fullea, M. Pérez-Gussinyé & J.C. Afonso, 2011. Decoupled crust-mantle accommodation of Africa-Eurasia convergence in the NW-Moroccan margin. J. Geophys. Res., 116, doi:10.1029/2010JB008105 [pdf] [pdf]
Vergés. J., Saura, E., Casciello, E., Fernàndez, M., Villaseñor, A., Jiménez-Munt, I. & D. Garcia-Castellanos, 2011. Crustal-scale cross-section across the NW Zagros Belt: Implications for the Arabian Margin reconstruction. Geological Magazine. doi:10.1017/S0016756811000331 [pdf]
Leever, K., L. Matenco, D. Garcia-Castellanos, S.A.P.L. Cloetingh, 2011. The evolution of the Danube gateway between Central and Eastern Paratethys (SE Europe): Insight from numerical modelling of the causes and effects of connectivity between basins and its expression in the sedimentary record. Tectonophysics, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2010.01.003 [pdf]
Urgeles, R., A. Camerlenghi, D. García-Castellanos, B. De Mol, M. Garcés, J. Vergés, I. Haslam, M. Hardman, 2010. New constraints on the Messinian sealevel drawdown from 3D seismic data of the Ebro Margin, Iberian Peninsula, and implications for the evolution of the Ebro Basin. Basin Res. , doi:10.1111/j.1365-2117.2010.00477.x [pdf]. See correction [pdf].
Minshull, T.A., O. Ishizuka, D. Garcia-Castellanos, 2010. Long-term growth and subsidence of Ascension Island: Constraints on the rheology of young oceanic lithosphere. Geophys. Res. Lett. 37, L23306, doi:10.1029/2010GL045112 [pdf]
Jimenez-Munt, I., M. Fernàndez, J. Vergés, J.C. Afonso, D. Garcia-Castellanos, J. Fullea, 2010. The lithospheric structure of the Gorringe Bank: insights into its origin and tectonic evolution. Tectonics 29, TC5019, doi:10.1029/2009TC002458 [pdf]
Garcia-Castellanos, D., F. Estrada, I. Jiménez-Munt, C. Gorini, M. Fernàndez, J. Vergés, R. De Vicente, 2009. Catastrophic flood of the Mediterranean after the Messinian salinity crisis. Nature 462, 778-781 doi:10.1038/nature08555 [pdf] [link]
Fullea, J., Afonso, J.C., Connolly, J.A.D., Fernàndez, M., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Zeyen, H. 2009. LitMod3D: An interactive 3-D software to model the thermal, compositional, density, seismological, and rheological structure of the lithosphere and sublithospheric upper mantle, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 10, Q08019, doi:10.1029/2009GC002391 [pdf]
Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2007. The role of climate in high plateau formation. Insights from numerical experiments. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 257, 372-390, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.02.039 [pdf] [pdf]
Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2006. Long-term evolution of tectonic lakes: Climatic controls on the development of internally drained basins. In: Tectonics, Climate, and Landscape evolution. Eds.: S.D. Willett, N. Hovius, M.T. Brandon & D.M. Fisher. GSA Special Paper 398. 283-294. doi:10.1130/2006.2398(17) [pdf]
Jimenez-Munt, I., D. Garcia-Castellanos, A. Negredo & J. Platt, 2005, Gravitational and tectonic forces controlling the post-collisional deformation and present-day stress of the Alps. Insights from numerical modelling. Tectonics 24, doi:10.1029/2004TC001754 [pdf]
Carrapa, B. & D. Garcia-Castellanos, 2005. Western Alpine back-thrusting as subsidence mechanism in the Western Po Basin. Tectonophysics 406, 197– 212. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2005.05.021 [pdf]
Jimenez-Munt, I., D. Garcia-Castellanos & M. Fernàndez, 2005, Thin sheet numerical modelling of continental collision. Tectonophysics 407, 239-255. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2005.08.015 [pdf]
Cloetingh, S., P.A. Ziegler, F. Beekman, P.A.M. Andriessen, L. Matenco, G. Bada, D. Garcia-Castellanos, N. Hardebol, P. Dèzes & D. Sokoutis, 2005. Lithospheric memory, state of stress and rheology: Neo-Tectonic controls on Europe’s intraplate continental topography. Quaternary Sc. Rev. 24, 241-304. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.06.015 [pdf]
Fernàndez, M. Torne, D. Garcia-Castellanos, J. Vergés, W. Wheeler & R. Karpuz, 2004. Deep Structure of the Vøring Margin: the Transition from a Continental Shield to a Young Oceanic Lithosphere. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 221, 131-144. doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(04)00092-5 [pdf]
Tarapoanca, M., D. Garcia-Castellanos, G. Bertotti & S. Cloetingh, 2004. Subsidence mechanisms for the South-eastern Carpathians bend foreland. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 221, 163-180. doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(04)00068-8 [pdf]
Gaspar-Escribano, J.M., D. Garcia-Castellanos, E. Roca & S. Cloetingh, 2004. Cenozoic vertical motions of the Catalan Coastal Ranges (NE Spain): The role of tectonics, isostasy, and surface transport. Tectonics 23, doi:10.1029/2003TC001511 [pdf]
Persson, K.S., D. Garcia-Castellanos & D. Sokoutis, 2004. River transport effects on compressional belts: first results from an integrated analogue-numerical model. J. Geophys. Res. 109, B1, B01409, doi:10.1029/2002JB002274 [pdf]
Cloetingh, S., F. Horváth, C. Dinu, R.A. Stephenson, G. Bertotti, G. Bada, L. Matenco, D. Garcia-Castellanos and the TECTOP Working Group, 2003. Probing tectonic topography in the aftermath of continental convergence in Central Europe. EOS transactions 84, 89-93. [pdf]
Garcia-Castellanos, D., J. Vergés, J.M. Gaspar-Escribano & S. Cloetingh, 2003. Interplay between tectonics, climate and fluvial transport during the Cenozoic evolution of the Ebro Basin (NE Iberia). J. Geophys. Res. 108 (B7), 2347. doi:10.1029/2002JB002073 [pdf]
Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2002. Interplay between lithospheric flexure and river transport in foreland basins. Basin Res. 14 (2), 89-104, doi:10.1046/j.1365-2117.2002.00174.x [pdf]
Cloetingh, S., E. Burov, B. Andeweg, F. Beekmann, P.A.M. Andriessen, D. Garcia-Castellanos, G. de Vicente & R. Vegas, 2002. Lithospheric folding in Iberia. Tectonics 21 (5), 1041, doi:10.1029/2001TC901031 [pdf]
Garcia-Castellanos, D., M. Fernàndez & M. Torné, 2002. Modelling the evolution of the Guadalquivir foreland basin (South Spain). Tectonics 21(3), doi:10.1029/2001TC001339 [pdf]
Gaspar-Escribano, J.M., J.D. van Wees, M. ter Voorde, S. Cloetingh, E. Roca, L. Cabrera, J.A. Muñoz, P.A. Ziegler & D. Garcia-Castellanos, 2001. Three-dimensional flexural modelling of the Ebro Basin (NE Iberia). Geophys. J. Int.145, 2, 349-368. doi:10.1029/2003TC001511 [pdf]
Garcia-Castellanos, D., S.A.P.L. Cloetingh & R.T. van Balen, 2000. Modeling the middle Pleistocene uplift in the Ardennes-Rhenish Massif: Thermo-mechanical weakening under the Eifel? Global Planet. Change 27, 39-52, doi:10.1016/S0921-8181(01)00058-3 [pdf]
Garcia-Castellanos, D., M. Torné & M. Fernàndez, 2000. Slab pull effects from a flexural analysis of the Tonga and Kermadec Trenches (Pacific Plate). Geophys. J. Int. 141, 479-485, doi:10.1046/j.1365-246x.2000.00096.x [pdf]
Fernàndez, M., X. Beràstegui, C. Puig, D. García-Castellanos, M.J. Jurado, M. Torné & C. Banks, 1998. Geophysical and geological constraints on the evolution of the Guadalquivir foreland basin, Spain. In: Mascle, A., Puigdefabregas, C., Luterbacher, H. & Fernandez, M. (eds.). Cenozoic Foreland Basins of Western Europe. Geological Society of London Special Publications, 134, 29-48. [pdf] [pdf]
Garcia-Castellanos, D., 1998. Desarrollo de modelos numéricos de flexión litosférica: aplicación a fosas oceánicas y cuencas de antepaís. PhD thesis. Advisors: Manel Fernandez i Ortiga y Montserrat Torné i Escasany, Universitat de Barcelona / CSIC (in spanish only; english abstract). ISBN 84-475-2012-9, 170 pp. [pdf]
Garcia-Castellanos, D., M. Fernàndez & M. Torné, 1997. Numerical modeling of foreland basin formation: a program relating thrusting, flexure, sediment geometry and lithosphere rheology. Computers & Geosciences 23, 993-1003, doi:10.1016/S0098-3004(97)00057-5 [pdf] [pdf]