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Muñoz Martín, Alfonso

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Alfonso
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Muñoz Martín
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/75220
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Ciencias Geológicas
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Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y Paleontología
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Geodinámica Interna
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    Sobre el origen de la asimetría en el patrón general del relieve en el interior de la Península Ibérica: nuevos resultados obtenidos mediante modelación análoga
    (Geogaceta, 2010) Fernández Lozano, Javier; Sokoutis, Dimitrios; Willingshofer, Ernst; Muñoz Martín, Alfonso; De Vicente Muñoz, Gerardo; Cloetingh, Sierd
    Analogue modelling contributes to the interpretation of lithosphere scale folds in Iberia as a result of largescale convergence during Oligocene-Miocene times between the Iberian and European Plates. Different tectonothermal events affected the microplate since late Paleozoic and resulted in lateral strength variations of the Iberian lithosphere. An old and cold lithosphere, Variscan in age, can be found in the westernmost part of Iberia whereas a relative weak and hot Mesozoic lithosphere affected by episodes of rifting and basin inversion during Mesozoic- Tertiary times covers the area of the Iberian Chain. Our study aims at deciphering whether deformation and topography evolution in Iberia are related to lateral strength variations and/or the inherited structural grain stemming from Variscan deformation. We also have studied the strength of the lithosphere to gain insights into the effects of rheological variations related to local thrusting or primary strength variations along the Iberian lithosphere.
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    Modelos estructurales de elementos finitos sobre la nucleación de las deformaciones compresivas en la Sierra de Altomira (España Central)
    (Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, 1999) Muñoz Martín, Alfonso; De Vicente Muñoz, Gerardo
    En este trabajo se realizan una serie de modelos estructurales de elementos finitos sobre la geometría en profundidad del cinturón de pliegues y cabalgamientos alpinos de la Sierra de Altomira. El objetivo de estos modelos es comprobar numéricamente la hipótesis de que una geometría en escalón del basamento, asociado a una falla normal, es capaz de nuclear y concentrar las deformaciones de la cobertera situada por encima. La geometría utilizada ha sido un segmento simplificado de un corte geológico equilibrado basado en datos estructurales y geofísicos (gravimetría y perfiles sísmicos de reflexión). Los modelos incluyen tres tipos de materiales: un basamento elástico y resistente indeformado, una cobertera elástica y menos resistente que se desplaza de E a O, y un nivel de despegue poco resistente y al cual se le han supuesto dos tipos de comportamiento mecánico diferentes: a) elástico y b) elástico-plástico. Los dos modelos indican que la presencia del escalón nuclea las deformaciones en la cobertera, concentrando los desplazamientos verticales y los máximos valores de esfuerzo de cizalla. El modelo con nivel de despegue elástico predice una máxima deformación inicial en la cobertera al E de la falla en el basamento. Por el contrario, en el modelo con nivel de despegue elástico-plástico las deformaciones se concentran justo encima del escalón en el basamento, tal y como sugieren los datos geofísicos. Estos resultados amplían y completan el modelo previo (Van Wees, 1994) que asociaba la formación de la Sierra de Altomira con la desaparición de las facies Keuper (Triásico Superior). Lo más probable es que la presencia de la falla en el basamento no sólo controle el espesor de los materiales triásicos y jurásicos, sino también las facies, por lo que ambos factores pueden haber actuado conjuntamente en la nucleación de las deformaciones que dieron lugar a la formación de la Sierra de Altomira.
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    Spectral analysis of the gravity and elevation along the western Africa–Eurasia plate tectonic limit: Continental versus oceanic lithospheric folding signals
    (Tectonophysics, 2010) Muñoz Martín, Alfonso; De Vicente Muñoz, Gerardo; Fernández Lozano, Javier; Cloetingh, Sierd; Willingshofer, Ernst; Sokoutis, Dimitrios; Beekman, Fred
    Large-scale folding is a key mechanism of lithospheric deformation and has been described in many parts of the Earth, both for the continental and oceanic lithospheres. Some aspects of this process such as the presence of coupling/decoupling between the crustal deformation and the mantle lithosphere, or between different lithospheres, make it necessary to accurately control the periodic characteristics of the elevation and of the gravity signal. 1D spectral analysis of gravity and topography profiles is sensitive to a series of factors: the location, length and orientation of the profiles, as well as the number of samples taken. We carry out a systematic analysis of the periodicities in the topography and gravity, both 1D and 2D, along the western border of the Africa–Eurasia plate tectonic boundary. We analyze the sensitivity of the 1D and 2D spectral analysis in order to compare the results along a plate boundary where oceanic and continental lithospheres are in contact with different tectonic, kinematic and rheological aspects. Our 1D spectral results indicate that the greater the profile length, the longer the wavelength peaks that are found. Nevertheless there are some periodic signals that appear in almost all the analyzed profiles: 100–250 km for the N–S profiles across oceanic plate boundary and 150–250 km where the plate boundary is developed over continental lithospheres. The 2D spectral analysis avoids the problems found in relation to the particular location of the profile but the resulting wavelengths are slightly higher than those obtained from the 1D spectral analysis. The wavelengths estimated for both oceanic and continental lithospheres at the Africa–Eurasia boundary (N250 km) show low values of mean mantle strength (b1013 Pa m). he presence of lithospheric folds means that the continental and oceanic lithospheres are mechanically oupled. This had previously been suggested for Iberia but not for the limit between S Iberia and the Terceira riple Junction. The orientation of the lithospheric folds is NW–SE at the contact between continental lithospheres and NNE–SSW at the contact between oceanic lithospheres. This difference is also reflected in the signal anisotropy and must be related to the rotation of the tectonic stresses in the same direction. A large periodic signal (wavelength N600 km) was also detected both in 1D and 2D spectral results. After drawing the filtered values, the resulting maps indicate that this signal is related to the transition between continental and oceanic lithospheres and to the significant changes in crustal and/or lithospheric thickness from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to the continental margins of western Eurasia.