2008 Top Reviewer Award in Journal of Structural Geology, Elsevier
Place and date of birth: Lourenço Marques (currently Maputo), Mozambique, 22.10.1954
Nationality: Portuguese
Institutional Address: Departamento de Geologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Edifício C6, Piso 2, 1749-016 Lisboa Portugal
Mobile: + 351 962838150
E-mail: fomarques@fc.ul.pt and fomarques@gmail.com
Skype: fmogmarques
Main scientific areas of research
Structural Geology, Tectonics, Experimental and Numerical Modelling, Tectonophysics, Geodynamics
Academic degrees
Habilitation – Lisbon University, 2003
Ph.D. in Geology, Internal Geodynamics, Summa Cum Laude – Lisbon University, 1994
M.Sc. in Geology – Lisbon University, 1989
Graduation in Geology, with final average mark of 17 out of 20 – Lisbon University, 1985
Academic career
Assistant Professor – since April 1994
Assistant – 1989 to 1994
Assistant in training – 1986 to 1989
Geology student – 5 years course completed in 5 years, from 1980/81 to 1984/85
Present position
Assistant Professor with Habilitation at the University of Lisbon
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Recent and current activity
2019
01st June to 01st August in Brazil - collaboration with the Universities of Natal (UFRN) and Campina Grande (UFCG), including fieldwork in the Rio do Peixe Basin
2020
12th January to 16th February in Brazil - collaboration with the Universities of Natal (UFRN) and Campina Grande (UFCG), including fieldwork in the Rio do Peixe Basin
As of 1st March ... - with no classes and quarantined at home, I am taking this unique opportunity to write down the manuscripts I had quarantined for too long, especially the ones I did not write in 2017
Countdown to retirement ... 9 months left! A new life will begin!
My house in Santa Maria Island, Azores, where I will start a new adventure
Sunrise photographed from my bedroom in Santa Maria Island, Azores
[104] Akker, I.V., Tajčmanová, L., Marques, F.O., Burg, J.-P., 2020. U-Pb zircon geochronology and phase equilibria modelling of HP-LT rocks in the Ossa-Morena Zone, Portugal. International Journal of Earth Sciences, in press.
2015
[86] Sibrant, A.L.R., Marques, F.O., Hildenbrand, A., 2015. Reply to the comment by Quartau et al. on "Construction and destruction of a volcanic island developed inside an oceanic rift: Graciosa Island, Terceira Rift, Azores", J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res. 284, 32-45, by Sibrant et al. (2014). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 303, 193-198.
[85] Costa, A.C.G., Hildenbrand, A., Marques, F.O., Sibrant, A.L.R., Santos de Campos, A., 2015. Catastrophic flank collapses and slumping in Pico Island during the last 130 kyr (Pico-Faial ridge, Azores Triple Junction). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 302, 33-46.
[84] Marques, F.O., Machek, M., Roxerová, Z., Burg, J.-P., Almqvist, B.S.G., 2015. Mechanics, microstructure and AMS evolution of a synthetic porphyritic calcite aggregate deformed in torsion. Tectonophysics 655, 41-57.
[83] Sibrant, A.L.R., Hildenbrand, A., Marques, F.O., Weiss, B., Boulesteix, T., Hübscher, C.. Lüdmann, T., Costa, A.C.G., Catalão, J.C., 2015. Morpho-structural evolution of a volcanic island developed inside an active oceanic rift: S. Miguel Island (Terceira Rift, Azores). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 301, 90-106.
[82] Marques, F.O., Catalão, J., Hildenbrand, A., Madureira, P., 2015. Ground motion and tectonics in the Terceira Island: tectonomagmatic interactions in an oceanic rift (Terceira Rift, Azores Triple Junction). Tectonophysics 651-652, 19-34.
[81] Nogueira, F.C.C., Marques, F.O., Bezerra, F.H.R., de Castro, D.L., Fuck, R.A., 2015. Cretaceous intracontinental rifting and post-rift inversion in NE Brazil: insights from the Rio do Peixe Basin. Tectonophysics 644-645, 92-107.
[80] Sibrant, A.L.R., Hildenbrand, A., Marques, F.O., Costa, A.C.G., 2015. Volcano-tectonic evolution of the Santa Maria Island (Azores): implications for palaeostress evolution at the western Eurasia-Nubia plate boundary. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 291, 49-62.
2014
[79] Hildenbrand, A, Weis, D., Madureira, P., Marques, F.O., 2014. Recent plate re-organization at the Azores Triple Junction: evidence from combined geochemical and geochronological data on Faial, S. Jorge and Terceira volcanic islands. Lithos 210-211, 27-39.
[78] Sibrant, A.L.R., Marques, F.O., Hildenbrand, A., 2014. Construction and destruction of a volcanic island developed inside an oceanic rift: Graciosa Island, Terceira Rift, Azores. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 284, 32-45.
[77] Marques, F.O., Catalão, J., Hildenbrand, A., Costa, A.C.G., Dias, N.A., 2014. The 1998 Faial earthquake, Azores: Evidence for a transform fault associated with the Nubia-Eurasia plate boundary? Tectonophysics 633, 115-125.
[76] Marques, F.O., Nogueira, F.C.C., Bezerra, F.H.R., de Castro, D.L., 2014. The Araripe Basin in NE Brazil: An intracontinental graben inverted to a high-standing horst. Tectonophysics 630, 251-264.
[75] Machek, M., Roxerová, Z., Závada, P., Silva, P.F., Henry, B., Dědeček, P., Petrovský, E., Marques, F.O., 2014. Intrusion of lamprophyre dyke and related deformation effects in the host rock salt: a case study from the Loulé diapir, Portugal. Tectonophysics 629, 165-178.
[74] Silva, P.F., Marques, F.O., Machek, M., Henry, B., Hirt, A.M., Roxerová, Z., Madureira, P., Vratislav, S., 2014. Evidence for non-coaxiality of ferrimagnetic and paramagnetic fabrics, developed during magma flow and cooling in a thick mafic dyke. Tectonophysics 629, 155-164.
[73] Marques, F.O., Mandal, N., Taborda, R., Antunes, J., Bose, S., 2014. The behaviour of deformable and non-deformable inclusions in viscous flow. Earth Science Reviews 134, 16-69.
[72] Marques, F.O., Cabral, F.R., Gerya, T.V., Zhu, G., May, D.A., 2014. Subduction initiates at straight passive margins. Geology 42, 331-334.
[71] Costa, A.C.G., Marques, F.O., Hildenbrand, A., Sibrant, A.L.R., Catita, C.M.S., 2014. Large-scale flank collapses in a steep volcanic ridge: Pico-Faial Ridge, Azores Triple Junction. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 272, 111–125.
[70] Marques, F.O., 2014. Comment on: "Are subduction zones invading the Atlantic? Evidence from the southwest Iberia margin", by Duarte et al., Geology doi:10.1130/G34100.1. Geology 42, e327.
[69] Métrich, N., Zanon, V., Créon, L., Hildenbrand, A., Moreira, M., Marques, F.O., 2014. Is the “Azores hotspot” a wetspot? Insights from the geochemistry of fluid and melt inclusions in olivine of Pico basalts. Journal of Petrology 55, 377-393.
[68] Marques, F.O., Catalão, J.C., DeMets, C., Costa, A.C.G., Hildenbrand, A., 2014. Corrigendum to "GPS and tectonic evidence for a diffuse plate boundary at the Azores Triple Junction" [Earth and Planetary Science Letters 381 (2013), 177-187]. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 387, 1-3.