Publications

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• Garcia-Castellanos, Daniel, Hanneke Heida, Dan V. Palcu, Francesca Bulian, Francisco Sierro, 2025. Kilometric sea-level changes during the Messinian salinity crisis caused by river erosion and climate. Science Advances. DOI:10.1126/sciadv.ads9752

• Agiadi, K., N. Hohmann, E. Gliozzi, D. Thivaiou, F.R. Bosellini, M. Taviani, G. Bianucci, A Collareta, L Londeix, C Faranda, F Bulian, E Koskeridou, F Lozar, A M Mancini, S. Dominici, P. Moissette, I. Bajo Campos, E Borghi, G Iliopoulos, A Antonarakou, G Kontakiotis, E Besiou, S Zarkogiannis, M Harzhauser, F J Sierro, M Coll, I Vasiliev, A Camerlenghi, D García-Castellanos,  2024. The marine biodiversity impact of the Late Miocene Mediterranean salinity crisis. Science. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp3703. My contribution: Conceptualization, funding acquisition, writing original draft.

• Agiadi, K., N. Hohmann, E. Gliozzi, D. Thivaiou, F.R. Bosellini, M. Taviani, G. Bianucci, A Collareta, L Londeix, C Faranda, F Bulian, E Koskeridou, F Lozar, A M Mancini, S. Dominici, P. Moissette, I. Bajo Campos, E Borghi, G Iliopoulos, A Antonarakou, G Kontakiotis, E Besiou, S Zarkogiannis, M Harzhauser, F J Sierro, M Coll, I Vasiliev, A Camerlenghi, D García-Castellanos,  2024. Late Miocene transformation of Mediterranean Sea biodiversity. Science Advances. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp1134. My contribution: Conceptualization, funding acquisition, writing, visualization.

• Amarathunga, U., J.J. Brocks, P.T. Meijer, J.M. Hope, W. Zachariasse, R. Hennekam, I. van der Hoeven,U. Roehl, S. Rule, U. Troitzsch, S. Haberle, A. Sluijs, K.M. Grant, W. Krijgsman, D. Garcia-Castellanos, A.M. Hogg, G. Reichart, A.P. Roberts, E.J. Rohling, 2025. Transient oxygenation of the Mediterranean after the Zanclean megaflood. PNAS, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (34) e2505429122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2505429122

• Yu, Yuanchao, A. Griera, E. Gomez-Rivas, P. D. Bons, D. Garcia-Castellanos, B. Hao, R. A. Lebensohn, C. Seltzer, M.-G. Llorens, 2025. Microstructure and CPO evolution of dynamically recrystallized olivine during complex deformation conditions: a full-field numerical modeling approach, Journal of Structural Geology, 199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105500.

• Viaplana-Muzas, M., J. Vergés, I. Jiménez-Munt, M. Torné, ramon y cL. Struth, D. Cruset, M. Najafi, E. Bravo-Gutiérrez, D. Garcia-Castellanos, 2025. From landscape to mantle: Decoding the geomorphic expression of lithospheric subduction and tearing under the Betic Cordillera (southeast Spain), Geomorphology, v. 486. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2025.109891.

• Garcia-Castellanos, Daniel & Hanneke Heida, 2025. Numerical model of the Messinian Mediterranean combining hydrological water balance, river erosion, and flexural isostasy. TISC code and input dataset for the Lago-Mare. Dryad. DOI: 10.5061/dryad.r2280gbpf

• Micallef, A., Barreca, G., Hübscher, C. et al. Land-to-sea indicators of the Zanclean megaflood. Commun Earth Environ 5, 794 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01972-w

• Butturini, A. R. Benaiges-Fernandez, O. Fors, D. Garcia-Castellanos, 2025. Potential habitability of present-day Mars subsurface for terrestrial-like methanogens. AstroBiology. https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2024.0100

• Agiadi, K., N. Hohmann, E. Gliozzi, D. Thivaiou, F.R. Bosellini, M. Taviani, G. Bianucci, A Collareta, L Londeix, C Faranda, F Bulian, E Koskeridou, F Lozar, A M Mancini, S. Dominici, P. Moissette, I. Bajo Campos, E Borghi, G Iliopoulos, A Antonarakou, G Kontakiotis, E Besiou, S Zarkogiannis, M Harzhauser, F J Sierro, M Coll, I Vasiliev, A Camerlenghi, D García-Castellanos,  2024. The marine biodiversity impact of the Late Miocene Mediterranean salinity crisis. Science. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp3703. My contribution: Conceptualization, funding acquisition, writing original draft.

• Agiadi, K., N. Hohmann, E. Gliozzi, D. Thivaiou, F.R. Bosellini, M. Taviani, G. Bianucci, A Collareta, L Londeix, C Faranda, F Bulian, E Koskeridou, F Lozar, A M Mancini, S. Dominici, P. Moissette, I. Bajo Campos, E Borghi, G Iliopoulos, A Antonarakou, G Kontakiotis, E Besiou, S Zarkogiannis, M Harzhauser, F J Sierro, M Coll, I Vasiliev, A Camerlenghi, D García-Castellanos,  2024. Late Miocene transformation of Mediterranean Sea biodiversity. Science Advances. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp1134. My contribution: Conceptualization, funding acquisition, writing, visualization.

• Yu, Y., Griera, A., Gómez-Rivas, E., Bons, P. D., García-Castellanos, D., Hao, B., R. A. Lebensohn,  Llorens, M.-G., 2024. Dynamic Recrystallization of Olivine During Simple Shear: Evolution of Microstructure and Crystallographic Preferred Orientation From Full-Field Numerical Simulations. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023GC011212

• Bravo-Gutiérrez, E., J. Vergés, M. Torne, D. García-Castellanos, A.M. Negredo, W. Zhang, D. Cruset, M. Viaplana-Muzas, I. Jiménez-Munt, 2024. Pre-shortening reconstruction of the Adria microplate: Balanced and restored cross-sections through the Southern Apennines–Dinarides (Central Mediterranean Sea), Marine and Petroleum Geology, 169, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2024.107055. 

• Agiadi, K, N. Hohmann, E.Gliozzi, D.Thivaiou, F.Bosellini, M.Taviani, G.Bianucci, A.Collareta, L.Londeix, C.Faranda, F.Bulian, E.Koskeridou, F.Lozar, A.M.Mancini, S.Dominici, P.Moissette, I.Bajo Campos, E.Borghi, G.Iliopoulos, A.Antonarakou, G.Kontakiotis, E.Besiou, Stergios Zarkogiannis, M.Harzhauser, F.Javier Sierro, A.Camerlenghi, D. Garcia-Castellanos, 2024. A revised marine fossil record of the Mediterranean before and after the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Earth System Science Data, 16, 4767–4775. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-75

• Heida, H., D. García-Castellanos, I. Jiménez-Munt, F. Estrada, G. Ercilla, D. Do Couto, A. Ammar, 2024. Seaway restriction, sea level drop and erosion in the Alboran Basin from a paleotopographic reconstruction for the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Marine Geology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2024.107300

• Boonma, K., D. Garcia-Castellanos, I. Jiménez-Munt, T. Gerya, 2023. Thermomechanical modelling of lithospheric slab tearing and its topographic response. Frontiers in Earth Science, 11, 1095229. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2023.1095229

• Raad, F., Ebner, R., Heida, H., Meijer, P., Lofi, J., Maillard, A., & Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2023. A song of volumes, surfaces and fluxes: The case study of the Central Mallorca Depression (Balearic Promontory) during the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Basin Research, 00, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12702

• Zhang, W., Jiménez-Munt, I., Torne, M., Vergés, J., Bravo-Gutiérrez, E., Negredo, A.M., Carminati, E., García-Castellanos, D., Fernàndez, M., 2022. Geophysical-Petrological Model for Bidirectional Mantle Delamination of the Adria Microplate Beneath the Northern Apennines and Dinarides Orogenic Systems. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127 (12), art. no. e2022JB024800. DOI: 10.1029/2022JB024800

• Gvirtzman, Z., Heida, H., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Bar, O., Zucker, E., Enzel, Y., 2022. Limited Mediterranean sea-level drop during the Messinian salinity crisis inferred from the buried Nile canyon. Communications Earth and Environment, 3 (1), art. no. 216. 10.1038/s43247-022-00540-4

• Yang, Z., Liu, W., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Ruan, H., Luo, J., Zhou, Y., Sang, Y, 2022. Geomorphic response of outburst floods: Insight from numerical simulations and observations––The 2018 Baige outburst flood in the upper Yangtze River. Science of the Total Environment, 851, 158378. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158378

• Llorens, M.-G., Griera, A., Bons, P.D., Weikusat, I., Prior, D.J., Gomez-Rivas, E., De Riese, T., Jimenez-Munt, I., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Lebensohn, R.A., 2022. Can changes in deformation regimes be inferred from crystallographic preferred orientations in polar ice? Cryosphere, 16 (5), pp. 2009-2024. DOI: 10.5194/tc-16-2009-2022

• Maillard, A., Raad, F., Chanier, F., Heida, H., Lofi, J., Mas, G., Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2022. Plio-Quaternary strike-slip tectonics in the Central Mallorca Depression, Balearic Promontory: Land–sea correlation. Tectonophysics, 829, art. no. 229295. 10.1016/j.tecto.2022.229295

• Hassan, Wajid, Fenghuan Su, Weiming Liu, Javed Hassan, Muzammil Hassan, Nazir Ahmed Bazai, Hao Wang, Zewen Yang, and Daniel Garcia-Castellanos, 2022. Impact of Glacier Changes and Permafrost Distribution on Debris Flows in Badswat and Shishkat Catchments, Northern Pakistan. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4204639 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4204639

• Heida, H., F. Raad, D. Garcia-Castellanos, I. Jiménez-Munt, A. Maillard, J. Lofi, 2022. Flexural-isostatic reconstruction of the Western Mediterranean during the Messinian Salinity Crisis: Implications for water level and basin connectivity. Basin Research, https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12610

• de Felipe, Irene; Juan Alcalde, Eldar Baykiev, Isabel Bernal, Kittiphon Boonma, Ramon Carbonell, Stephanie Flude, Arnau Folch, Javier Fullea, Daniel García-Castellanos, Adelina Geyer, Santiago Giralt, Armand Hernández, Ivone Jiménez-Munt, Ajay Kumar, Maria-Gema Llorens, Joan Martí, Cecilia Molina, Andrés Olivar-Castaño, Andrew Parnell, Martin Schimmel, Montserrat Torné, Sergi Ventos, 2022, Towards a Digital Twin of the Earth System: Geo-Soft-CoRe, a Geoscientific Software & Code Repository. Frontiers in Earth Science (Review). 10.3389/feart.2022.828005.  

• Boonma, K., D. Garcia-Castellanos, I. Jiménez-Munt, T. Gerya, 2021. Thermomechanical modelling of lithospheric slab tearing and its topographic response. Earth and Space Science Open Archive. https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10506598.1

• Diaz, J., M. Torne, J. Vergés, I. Jiménez-Munt, J. Martí, R. Carbonell, M. Schimmel, A. Geyer, M. Ruiz, D. García-Castellanos, J. Alvarez-Marrón, D. Brown, A. Villaseñor, C. Ayala, I. Palomeras, M. Fernandez, J. Gallart, 2021, Four decades of geophysical research on Iberia and adjacent margins, Earth-Science Reviews, 222, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103841.

• Struth, L., D. García-Castellanos, L. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, M. Viaplana-Muzas, J. Vergés, A. Jiménez-Díaz, 2021. Topographic, lithospheric and lithologic controls on the transient landscape evolution after the opening of internally-drained basins. Modelling the North Iberian Neogene drainage. BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin, vol. 210013. https://doi.org/10.1051/bsgf/2021036

• Norris, S.L., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Jansen, J.D., Carling, P.A., Margold, M., Woywitka, R.J., Froese, D.G., 2021. Catastrophic Drainage From the Northwestern Outlet of Glacial Lake Agassiz During the Younger Dryas. Geophysical Research Letters, 48 (15), art. no. e2021GL093919, doi:10.1029/2021GL093919 

• Hopfenblatt, J. A. Geyer, M. Aulinas, A.M. Álvarez-Valero, G. Gisbert, G. Kereszturi, G. Ercilla, M. Gómez-Ballesteros, A. Márquez, D. García-Castellanos, D. Pedrazzi, H. Sumino, A. Höskuldsson, S. Giralt, C. Angulo-Preckler, 2021. Formation of Stanley Patch volcanic cone: New insights into the evolution of Deception Island caldera (Antarctica), Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Vol. 415, 2021, 107249, ISSN 0377-0273, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2021.107249.

• Andreetto, F., G. Aloisi, F. Raad, H. Heida, R. Flecker, K. Agiadi, J. Lofi, S. Blondel, F. Bulian, A. Camerlenghi, A. Caruso, R. Ebner, D. Garcia-Castellanos, V. Gaullier, L. Guibourdenche, Z. Gvirtzman, T.M. Hoyle, P.T. Meijer, J. Moneron, F.J. Sierro, G. Travan, A. Tzevahirtzian, I. Vasiliev, W. Krijgsman, 2021. Freshening of the Mediterranean Salt Giant: controversies and certainties around the terminal (Upper Gypsum and Lago-Mare) phases of the Messinian Salinity Crisis, Earth-Science Reviews, Volume 216, 2021, 103577, ISSN 0012-8252, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103577.

• 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]