Publications List (2020-Present)

2024

Van de Vyver, C., Carpentier, C., Ford, M., Vergés, J., Melinte‐Dobrinescu, M., 2024. Sedimentology and structure of the Paleogene Nummulitic series of Corsica: Reconstruction of the southern termination of the western Alpine foreland basin. Basin Res. 36. http://doi.org/:10.1111/bre.12898

Cruset, D., Vergés, J., 2024. Dating of the syn-folding Vaca Muerta-Quintuco system based on Sr isotopic ratios of low-Mg shells. New time constraints on an intraplate contractional pulse in the Neuquén basin. Mar. Pet. Geol. 170, 107095. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2024.107095

Bravo-Gutiérrez, E., Vergés, J., Torne, M., García-Castellanos, D., Negredo, A.M., Zhang, W., Cruset, D., Viaplana-Muzas, M., Jiménez-Munt, I., 2024. Pre-shortening reconstruction of the adria microplate: Balanced and restored cross-sections through the Southern Apennines–Dinarides (Central Mediterranean Sea). Mar. Pet. Geol. 169, 107055. http://doi.ord/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2024.107055

Madanipour, S., Najafi, M., Nozaeim, R., Vergés, J., Heydari, I., Soudmand, Z., Aghajari, L., 2024. THE ARABIA – EURASIA COLLISION ZONE IN IRAN: TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHIC AND STRUCTURAL SYNTHESIS. J. Pet. Geolgoy 47, 123–171. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpg.12854 

Lashgari, A., Najafi, M., Beamud, E., Maestre, E., Vergés, J., 2024. Age of folding in NW Lurestan arc across the Khanaqin fault by magnetostratigraphy on Aghawth strata, Zagros folded belt. Mar. Pet. Geol. 164, 106828.                     https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2024.106828 

Vergés, J., Casini, G., Ruh, J., Cosgrove, J., Sherkati, S., Najafi, M., Casciello, E., Saura, E., Fard, I.A., Piryaei, A., de Lamotte, D.F., Letouzey, J., Goodarzi, H., Soleimany, B., Jahani, S., 2024. STRUCTURAL STYLE AND TIMING OF NW‐SE TRENDING ZAGROS FOLDS IN SW IRAN: INTERACTION WITH NORTH‐SOUTH TRENDING ARABIAN FOLDS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PETROLEUM GEOLOGY. J. Pet. Geol. 47, 3–74. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpg.12850 

Zhang, W., Jiménez‐Munt, I., Torne, M., Vergés, J., Bravo‐Gutiérrez, E., Negredo, A.M., García‐Castellanos, D., 2024. The Lithosphere and Upper Mantle of the Western‐Central Mediterranean Region From Integrated Geophysical‐Geochemical Modeling. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth 129. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB028435

2023

Ruiz, M., Díaz, J., Canari, A., Ortuño, M., Vergés, J., 2023. Seismic activity at the eastern Pyrenean termination. Tectonophysics 862, 229977. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2023.229977

Cruset, D., Vergés, J., Muñoz-López, D., Moragas, M., Cantarero, I., Travé, A., 2023. Fluid evolution from extension to compression in the Pyrenean Fold Belt and Basque-Cantabrian Basin: A review.                                         Earth-Science Rev. 243, 104494.                                                     https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104494

Moragas, M., Baqués, V., Martín-Martín, J.D., Sharp, I., Lapponi, F., Hunt, D., Zeller, M., Vergés, J., Messager, G., Gindre-Chanu, L., Swart, R., Machado, V., 2023. Paleoenvironmental and diagenetic evolution of the Aptian Pre-Salt succession in Namibe Basin (Onshore Angola). Mar. Pet. Geol. 150, 106153.                                                 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106153 

Torne, M., Jiménez-Munt, I., Negredo, A.M., Fullea, J., Vergés, J., Marzán, I., Alcalde, J., Gómez-Rivas, E., de la Noceda, C.G., 2023. Advances in the modeling of the Iberian thermal lithosphere and perspectives on deep geothermal studies. Geotherm. Energy 11, 3. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40517-023-00246-6 

Casini, G., Vergés, J., Drzewiecki, P., Ford, M., Cruset, D., Wright, W., Hunt, D., 2023. Reconstructing the Iberian Salt‐Bearing Rifted Margin of the Southern Pyrenees: Insights From the Organyà Basin. Tectonics 42. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022TC007715  

Díaz, J., Ventosa, S., Schimmel, M., Ruiz, M., Macau, A., Gabàs, A., Martí, D., Akin, Ö., Vergés, J., 2023. Mapping the basement of the Cerdanya Basin (eastern Pyrenees) using seismic ambient noise. Solid Earth 14, 499–514. https://doi.org/10.5194/se-14-499-2023

2022

Spina, V., Ringenbach, J.C., Ballard, J.F., Vergés, J., 2022. Exploration in a thick to thin-skinned transition: Faja Plegada triangle zone. Neuquén, Argentina, in: Andean Structural Styles. Elsevier, pp. 441–457. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-85175-6.00035-3

Peral, M., Fernàndez, M., Vergés, J., Zlotnik, S., Jiménez-Munt, I., 2022. Numerical modelling of opposing subduction in the Western Mediterranean. Tectonophysics 830, 229309.                 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2022.229309

Khomsi, S., Roure, F., Vergés, J., 2022. Hinterland and foreland structures of the eastern Maghreb Tell and Atlas thrust belts: tectonic controlling factors, pending questions, and oil/gas exploration potential of the Pre-Triassic traps. Arab. J. Geosci. 15, 462. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-022-09707-x

Ford, M., Masini, E., Vergés, J., Pik, R., Ternois, S., Léger, J., Dielforder, A., Frasca, G., Grool, A., Vinciguerra, C., Bernard, T., Angrand, P., Crémades, A., Manatschal, G., Chevrot, S., Jolivet, L., Mouthereau, F., Thinon, I., Calassou, S., 2022. Evolution of a low convergence collisional orogen: a review of Pyrenean orogenesis. BSGF - Earth Sci. Bull. 193, 19. http://doi.org/10.1051/bsgf/2022018

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. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth 127. http://org.doi/10.1029/2022JB024800

Muñoz-López, D., Cruset, D., Vergés, J., Cantarero, I., Benedicto, A., Mangenot, X., Albert, R., Gerdes, A., Beranoaguirre, A., Travé, A., 2022. Spatio-temporal variation of fluid flow behavior along a fold: The Bóixols-Sant Corneli anticline (Southern Pyrenees) from U–Pb dating and structural, petrographic and geochemical constraints. Mar. Pet. Geol. 143, 105788.              http://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2022.105788

Muñoz-López, D., Cruset, D., Vergés, J., Cantarero, I., Benedicto, A., Baqués, V., Mangenot, X., Albert, R., Gerdes, A., Beranoaguirre, A., Travé, A., 2022. U-Pb dating and geochemical dataset of fracture-filling calcite veins from the Bóixols-Sant Corneli anticline (Southern Pyrenees). Data Br. 45, 108636.                       http://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.108636

2021

Cruset, D., Vergés, J., Benedicto, A., Gomez‐Rivas, E., Cantarero, I., John, C.M., Travé, A., 2021. Multiple fluid flow events from salt‐related rifting to basin inversion (Upper Pedraforca thrust sheet, SE Pyrenees). Basin Res. 33, 3102–3136.           http://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12596

Struth, L., García-Castellanos, D., Rodríguez-Rodríguez, L., Viaplana-Muzas, M., Vergés, J., Jiménez-Díaz, A., 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 Sci. Bull. 192, 45. http://doi.org/10.1051/bsgf/2021036

Razmjooei, M.J., Shahryari, S., Kani, A., Ullmann, C. V, Jamali, A.M., Rahimi, S., Vergés, J., Thibault, N., 2021. Integrated bio- and carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Campanian–Danian sedimentary succession in Lurestan (Zagros Basin, Iran): Implications for syntectonic facies distribution and basin evolution. J. Asian Earth Sci. 214, 104779. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2021.104779 

Heydarzadeh, K., Hajialibeigi, H., Gharabeigli, G., Vergés, J., 2021. Active Deformation analysis in the Dehdasht Structural Basin Based On Geomorphic Features. J. Sci. Islam. Repub. Iran.

Ford, M., Vergés, J., 2021. Evolution of a salt-rich transtensional rifted margin, eastern North Pyrenees, France. J. Geol. Soc. London. 178, jgs2019-157. http://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2019-157

Najafi, M., Beamud, E., Ruh, J., Mouthereau, F., Tahmasbi, A., Bernaola, G., Yassaghi, A., Motamedi, H., Sherkati, S., Goodarzi, M.G.H., Vergés, J., 2021. Pliocene growth of the Dowlatabad syncline in Frontal Fars arc: Folding propagation across the Zagros Fold Belt, Iran. GSA Bull. 133, 1381–1403. http://doi.org/10.1130/B35748.1 

Heydarzadeh, K., Hajialibeigi, H., Vergés, J., Gharabeigli, G., 2021. Tectono-sedimentary evolution of the Dehdasht structural basin (Central Zagros, Iran). Tectonophysics 806, 228791. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.228791 

Diaz, J., Torne, M., Vergés, J., Jiménez-Munt, I., Martí, J., Carbonell, R., Schimmel, M., Geyer, A., Ruiz, M., García-Castellanos, D., Alvarez-Marrón, J., Brown, D., Villaseñor, A., Ayala, C., Palomeras, I., Fernandez, M., Gallart, J., 2021. Four decades of geophysical research on Iberia and adjacent margins. Earth-Science Rev. 222, 103841. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103841

Kumar, A., Fernàndez, M., Vergés, J., Torne, M., Jiménez‐Munt, I., 2021. Opposite Symmetry in the Lithospheric Structure of the Alboran and Algerian Basins and Their Margins (Western Mediterranean): Geodynamic Implications. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth 126. http://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB021388 

Cruset, D., Vergés, J., Rodrigues, N., Belenguer, J., Pascual-Cebrian, E., Almar, Y., Pérez-Cáceres, I., Macchiavelli, C., Travé, A., Beranoaguirre, A., Albert, R., Gerdes, A., Messager, G., 2021. U–Pb dating of carbonate veins constraining timing of beef growth and oil generation within Vaca Muerta Formation and compression history in the Neuquén Basin along the Andean fold and thrust belt. Mar. Pet. Geol. 132, 105204.                    http://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2021.105204

Khelil, M., Khomsi, S., Roure, F., Vergés, J., Zargouni, F., 2021. Structural styles of the Tellian fold-and-thrust belt of Tunisia based on structural transects: Insights on the subsurface oil and gas pre-salt plays. Arab. J. Geosci. 14, 1985. http://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-021-08308-4 

2020

Etemad-Saeed, N., Najafi, M., Vergés, J., 2020. Provenance evolution of Oligocene–Pliocene foreland deposits in the Dezful embayment to constrain Central Zagros exhumation history. J. Geol. Soc. London. 177, 799–817. http://doi.org/1144/jgs2019-206 

Cruset, D., Vergés, J., Albert, R., Gerdes, A., Benedicto, A., Cantarero, I., Travé, A., 2020. Quantifying deformation processes in the SE Pyrenees using U–Pb dating of fracture-filling calcites. J. Geol. Soc. London. 177, 1186–1196. http://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-014 

Kumar, A., 2020. Thermal and Chemical Imaging of the Upper Mantle Anomalies: Application To Western Mediterranean. PhD Thesis Univ. Barcelona 1–185. 

Kendall, J., Vergés, J., Koshnaw, R., Louterbach, M., 2020. Petroleum tectonic comparison of fold and thrust belts: the Zagros of Iraq and Iran, the Pyrenees of Spain, the Sevier of Western USA and the Beni Sub-Andean of Bolivia. Geol. Soc. London, Spec. Publ. 490, 79–103. http://doi.org/10.1144/SP490-2018-102 

Moragas, M., Baqués, V., Travé, A., Martín‐Martín, J.D., Saura, E., Messager, G., Hunt, D., Vergés, J., 2020. Diagenetic evolution of lower Jurassic platform carbonates flanking the Tazoult salt wall (Central High Atlas, Morocco). Basin Res. 32, 546–566. http://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12382 

Peral, M., Ruh, J., Zlotnik, S., Funiciello, F., Fernàndez, M., Vergés, J., Gerya, T., 2020. Analog and Numerical Experiments of Double Subduction Systems With Opposite Polarity in Adjacent Segments. Geochemistry, Geophys. Geosystems 21, 1–22.             http://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009035 

Kumar, A., Fernàndez, M., Jiménez‐Munt, I., Torne, M., Vergés, J., Afonso, J.C., 2020. LitMod2D_2.0: An Improved Integrated Geophysical‐Petrological Modeling Tool for the Physical Interpretation of Upper Mantle Anomalies. Geochemistry, Geophys. Geosystems 21, e2019GC008777. http://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008777

Lashgari, A., Hayhat, M.R., Vergés, J., Beamud, E., Najafi, M., Khatib, M.M., Karimnejad, H.R., 2020. Age of synorogenic deposits and timing of folding in Dezful embayment, SW Zagros Fold Belt. Mar. Pet. Geol. 113, 104148. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.104148  

Fernàndez, M., Torne, M., Vergés, J., Casciello, E., Macchiavelli., C., 2020. Book Chapter Evidence of Segmentation in the Iberia – Africa Plate Boundary : A Jurassic Heritage ?, in: In: Liu Chenming, Editor. Earth and Its Atmosphere. Hyderabad, India: Vide Leaf. 2020. pp. 1–23.  🔗

Cruset, D., Cantarero, I., Benedicto, A., John, C.M., Vergés, J., Albert, R., Gerdes, A., Travé, A., 2020. Geochronological and geochemical data from fracture-filling calcites from the Lower Pedraforca thrust sheet (SE Pyrenees). Data Br. 31, 105896.                     http://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.105896 

Heydarzadeh, K., Ruh, J.B., Vergés, J., Hajialibeigi, H., Gharabeigli, G., 2020. Evolution of a structural basin: Numerical modelling applied to the Dehdasht Basin, Central Zagros, Iran. J. Asian Earth Sci. 187, 104088. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2019.104088  

Cruset, D., Cantarero, I., Benedicto, A., John, C.M., Vergés, J., Albert, R., Gerdes, A., Travé, A., 2020. From hydroplastic to brittle deformation: Controls on fluid flow in fold and thrust belts. Insights from the Lower Pedraforca thrust sheet (SE Pyrenees). Mar. Pet. Geol. 120, 104517. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104517 

Torne, M., Jiménez–Munt, I., Vergés, J., Fernàndez, M., Carballo, A., Jadamec, M., 2020. Regional crustal and lithospheric thickness model for Alaska, the Chukchi shelf, and the inner and outer bering shelves. Geophys. J. Int. 220, 522–540. doi:10.1093/gji/ggz424.

Vergés, J., Poprawski, Y., Almar, Y., Drzewiecki, P.A., Moragas, M., Bover‐Arnal, T., Macchiavelli, C., Wright, W., Messager, G., Embry, J., Hunt, D., 2020. Tectono‐sedimentary evolution of Jurassic–Cretaceous diapiric structures: Miravete anticline, Maestrat Basin, Spain. Basin Res. 32, 1653–1684. http://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12447 

Legeay, E., Ringenbach, J.-C., Kergaravat, C., Pichat, A., Mohn, G., Vergés, J., Kavak, K.S., Callot, J.-P., 2020. Structure and kinematics of the Central Sivas Basin (Turkey): salt deposition and tectonics in an evolving fold-and-thrust belt. Geol. Soc. London, Spec. Publ. 490, 361–396. http://doi.org/10.1144/SP490-2019-92