Daniel Garcia-Castellanos
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Research interests
Interaction between erosion and climate with the tectonic deformation of
the Earth's lithosphere:
Desiccation & flood of the Mediterranean
during the Messinian?
Ebro Basin evolution (Pyrenees,
Iberia) and internally-drained
basins
Lake overtopping and outburst
floods
High plateaus and climate
Messinian Salinity Crisis
Isolation of the Mediterranean by competing tectonic
uplift and erosion in Gibraltar?
code used - license
asalted by Daniel Garcia-Castellanos is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
[publication in progress; see also Urgeles et al., 2010, Basin Res.]
For the calculations we use a code written in C under Linux. The program is
called asalted and is available for download here.
Post-Messinian flood of the Mediterranean
[related scientific publications: Garcia-Castellanos et al., 2009, Nature; Urgeles et al., 2010, Basin Res.]
[related diffusion publications: ScienceNews; Science; La Recherche]
The flood that put an end to the Messinian desiccation of the Mediterranean is the largest known in
Earth's history, yet its abruptness and evolution are poorly constrained. The record in the Mediterranean
sediments indicates an abrupt change from Messinian (evaporitic) to normal (open marine) environments,
but in geosciences this can mean a transition lasting for tens of thousands of years. We used geophysical
observations in the Alboran Sea and the Gulf of Cadiz and computer modeling techniques to investigate
the feedback between water flow and erosion during the Zanclean flood.
At the ICTJA-CSIC, we developed a simple formulation that allows calculating the evolution of floods
produced by overspill of a water basin into another, incorporating feedback between sill incision and
water flow velocity. We used this formulation to model the geometry of an erosion channel crossing the
Gibraltar Strait from west to east. The 300-650 m-deep erosion seen in borehole and seismic data
(previously interpreted as the result of river erosion) are found to be consistent with erosion parameters
obtained from independent river-incision studies. According to the model predictions, feedback between
incision and water flow implied that the flood necessarily ended as a catastrophic event reaching peak
discharges of about 1000 times the present Amazon River, producing incision rates above 0.4 m/day and
a sea level rise in the Mediterranean faster than 10 m/day. Although the whole flooding process may have
lasted up to several thousand years, 90% of the water was transferred in a short period ranging between
months and a few years.
In the initial stage of our model, water starts seeping through an arbitrarily small water gate located in a
bathymetric sill separating the Atlantic and the dry Mediterranean basins. As basal shear-stress incises
the sill, water flow increases and so does the incision rate, in a feedback that leads to exponential
increase in discharge during the early model stages. All models show a long first phase with very little
incision due to the reduced amount of water flow allowed by the initial sill depth of 1 m. As the Gibraltar
gate grows deeper and wider, water flow and incision rate increase exponentially. This situation persists
until the flow reduction due to the rising level of the Western Mediterranean becomes more important than
the growth of the water gate. This event is labeled as Stage 1. Later, the effective slope S is progressively
reduced and so does the flow velocity V, the water discharge Q and the erosion rate dzs/dt. As the Sicily
Sill is reached (Stage 2), the level of the western Mediterranean remains constant while all water crossing
the Gibraltar gate is transferred to the eastern basin. After the eastern basin also fills up to the Sicily sill
(Stage 3), the whole Mediterranean will rise synchronously. Headloss across Gibraltar reduces gradually
to zero, towards an asymptotic equilibrium (Stage 4) where there is no significant level difference
between both oceans.
The figure shows an example run (this one adopting the stream unit power
approach):
Source code used for the modeling
The code (spillover) is developed for Linux platforms in C language. It's available
here. A simplified version (spreadsheet calculator) of outburst flood evolution is
available here. The model incorporates feedback between incision and water flow
using finite difference techniques and an explicit solving scheme at regular time
steps.
Publications
[pdf's here] [Scopus list]

Vergés. J., Saura, E., Casciello, E., Fernàndez, M., Villaseñor, A., Jiménez-Munt, I. & D. GarciaCastellanos, 2011. Crustal-scale cross-section across the NW Zagros Belt: Implications for the
Arabian Margin reconstruction. Geological Magazine. doi:10.1017/S0016756811000331 [pdf]
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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]
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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]

Leever, K., L. Matenco, D. Garcia-Castellanos, S.A.P.L. Cloetingh, 2010. 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]

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]
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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 Crisis. Nature 462,
778-781 doi:10.1038/nature08555 [pdf]

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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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Cloetingh, S., P.A. Ziegler, F. Beekman, P.A.M. Andriessen, L. Matenco, G. Bada, D. GarciaCastellanos, 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, 163180. 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. GarciaCastellanos 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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
Climatic controls on the formation of high plateaus
[related scientific publication here]
Computer simulations combining tectonic convergence, isostasy, erosion/sedimentation, and climate
suggest that the formation of high plateaus within orogens depends on how dry the weather was during
the early stages of orogenesis.
Further details in this article. Calculations have been performed using the tAo software. You can freely
download the program version used for this paper and the corresponding scripts and parameter files (targzipped).
The two evolutions shown below are examples of a cross-section computer model of orogen growth (time
shown in million years) differing only in climatic parameters (tectonic and lithological parameters and kept
constant). The numerical model simultaneously computes the dynamics of fault generation, precipitation,
erosion and sediment transport carried out by rivers. The two evolutions below differ only in the chosen
climatic parameters, but they result in very different orogenic structures, one of them (to the left)
developing a high plateau isolated between two cordilleras. They have been calculated using a modified
version of the software tAo using a minimum work fault criterion, a shortening rate of 5 mm/yr during 18
million years, and a river transport capacity proportional to water discharge and slope.
M1. Leftwards wind flow with
orographic rain shadow
M2. Humid weather; Non-preferential
wind direction
The horizontal axis corresponds to distance across the orogen. From top to bottom: Time in millions of
years; Precipitation (plain blue line) and evaportation (dashed blue line); River sedimet load (brown) and
water discharge (blue); Erosion rate (red) and total erosion (dashed brown); Model geometry (1:7
vertically exaggerated and 1:1): Crustal bedrock in brown, sediments in yellow, water in blue, vertical bars
are plot as markers of shortening.Schematic diagram of processes and aproximations implemented in the
numerical model. See details in the paper linked above.
Schematic diagram of processes and aproximations implemented in the numerical model. See details in
the paper linked above.
Summary of the proposed mechanism of climatic control of high plateau growth. Dry climate induces the
accumulation of sediment in closed intraorogenic basins, leading to higher pressure along the main
tectonic faults that widen the orogen.
Abstract. High plateaus are generally thought to result from tectonic compression interfering with preexisting structural heterogeneities of the crust and in association with tectonic processes promoting uplift
such as viscous lower-crustal flow or mantle delamination. Instead, results from a novel computer
modeling technique integrating climatic, erosional and tectonic processes suggest that dry climate prior to
the uplift of the Andean Altiplano was a first order process controlling orogenic deformation and the
eventual formation of a high-plateau. According to these numerical modelling results, dry climatic
parameters (particularly if imposed at the early stages of tectonic shortening) favor sediment trapping
within the orogen transferring the accommodation of tectonic shortening towards the external parts of the
orogen and eventually leading to the formation of a high plateau. This feedback operates in the following
steps: 1) Dry climatic conditions at the early stages of orogenesis favor the tectonic defeat of rivers
draining the orogen, promoting lake formation, intramountain sediment trapping, and the eventual
formation of an internally-drained (endorheic) basin; 2) Endorheism extends the life of intramountain
basins thus increasing dramatically the mass trapped within the orogen and expelling deformation
towards the external parts of it; and 3) This propagation of tectonism further isolates the central parts of
the orogen from incoming precipitation, reinforcing intramountain sediment trapping and flattening. This
feedback phenomenon predicts basic topographic, drainage, and tectonic differences between orogens
lacking a high-plateau, such as the Alps, and orogens with a well-developed high plateau like the Andes,
without invoking tectonic controls or inherited weaknesses in the crust. It also suggests that internal
drainage and high-plateaus might be a natural stage of orogeneses starting under dry climatic conditions
and/or rapid tectonic shortening rates.
Curriculum Vitae – January 2011
name: Daniel GARCIA-CASTELLANOS
position:
Staff researcher (Científico Titular)
birth:
11th July 1968, Kuwait
citizenship:
Spanish
address:
Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra Jaume Almera (CSIC),
ID#: 39689031-R
Solé i Sabarís s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
ph:
+34-934095410
email:
danielgc@ictja.csic.es
web:
https://sites.google.com/site/daniggcc/
Contents:
1. Research centres of affiliation .........................................................................10
2. Academic chronology, honors, and awards .....................................................10
3. Motivation and research lines ..........................................................................10
4. Experience ......................................................................................................11
Research projects & funding ...................................................................................................................11
Stages in research centres abroad ..........................................................................................................11
Visiting research fellows hosted ..............................................................................................................12
Technical and field work ..........................................................................................................................12
Teaching and PhD direction ....................................................................................................................12
Congress organisation ............................................................................................................................13
Other .......................................................................................................................................................13
5. Impact of research ...........................................................................................13
Societal impact / Public outreach ............................................................................................................13
Presence in the media ..........................................................................................................................13
Broadcasted and live interviews ...........................................................................................................14
Other science diffusion/outreach ..........................................................................................................14
Impact of software development..............................................................................................................14
Scientific impact of publications...............................................................................................................15
6. Publications .....................................................................................................15
Publications in the Science Citation Index ...............................................................................................15
Edited/coordinated volumes ....................................................................................................................17
Book chapters .........................................................................................................................................17
Other peer-reviewed, indexed, and relevant publications ........................................................................17
Relevant reports ......................................................................................................................................17
Published abstracts and extended abstracts ...........................................................................................18
7. Talks and seminars .........................................................................................20
Invited/solicited ........................................................................................................................................20
Other seminars and international congress presentations (selection) .....................................................21
8. Peer reviewing .................................................................................................22
Participation in reading committees (evaluation of PhD. theses).............................................................22
Paper reviews..........................................................................................................................................23
Project evaluation ....................................................................................................................................23
1. Research centres of affiliation
20082004-2008
1999-2004
1993-1998
Staff scientist (Científico Titular) at Institut de Ciències de la Terra Jaume Almera (ICTJA),
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.
Tenure-Track (Ramón y Cajal RYC-2003-007547) at ICTJA, CSIC.
Post-doc at Tectonics department. Vrije Universiteit (VU), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Doctoral studies at ICTJA, CSIC, Barcelona.
2. Academic chronology, honors, and awards
2007
2003
1999
1998
1998
1993
Stable researcher position at CSIC (Spanish Research Council). Committee’s evaluation: 28.0 points
over 30.
2nd position in the ANEP ranking (Spanish research evaluation system) among 34 Earth-science
candidates that obtained a tenure-track (Ramón y Cajal) position.
García-Siñeriz 1998 Prize: best PhD Thesis in Geophysics of Spain and Latin America.
Promising Young Scientist Award. ILP (International Lithosphere Program) meeting. 25 sept.-2 oct.
1998, Oliana, Spain.
Ph. D. Thesis in physics: Universitat de Barcelona. Advisors: M. Fernàndez and M. Torné (ICTJA,
CSIC). Maximum qualification obtained.
Degree in Physics, Universidad de Barcelona.
3. Motivation and research lines
I develop physical-mathematical models coupling the physics of plate tectonics and processes occurring
at the surface of the Earth. Solving these models with the aid of computers permits to decipher whether
the complexity of the earth's surface and interior can be explained as the interaction between a small
amount of simple processes. It allows for example the study of the interplay between river transport
and the dynamics of tectonic deformation during the formation of orogen/basin systems, incorporating
also analogue experiments and multidisciplinary existing data (GPS, thermochronology, cosmogenic
nuclides, paleogeographic, paleoclimate, and geomorphological observations). The application of these
new techniques to a variety of geological scenarios (Andean Altiplano, Alps, Pyrenees-Ebro Basin,
Moroccan Atlas, Rhenish Massif) where such data are available, is helping to address fundamental
questions on the geodynamics of orogen-basin systems and the evolution of landscape. One of the
outcomes of this research is the timing of lake transitions between endorheic and exorheic conditions,
and the realisation that climate-controlled basin connectivity has a first order role in determining the
history of sedimentary basins.
Presently I am mostly devoted to the processes that led to the desiccation of the Mediterranean during
the Messinian Salinity Crisis and the implications of this episode. An incipient line of research is the
study of floods produced by overtopping of large lakes.
4. Experience
Research projects & funding
2011-2013
TECLA: tectonic-climatic interactions in arid orogen-basin systems. P.I.: GarciaCastellanos. Funding: Spanish Governement (Plan Nacional de I+D), 60 k€. CGL2011-26670.
2008-2010
ATIZA: Atlas, TIbet, Zagros. P.I.: I. Jimenez-Munt. Funding: Spanish Governement (Plan
Nacional de I+D), 60 k€. CGL2009-09662.
2008-2009
Caracterización sísmica de la corteza y manto litosférico del alto Atlas. Acción
Complementaria granted by Spanish Ministry. CGL2008-01124-e/bte. P.I.: Jiménez-Munt. 18 k€.
2008-2009
Modelización de la deformación litosférica y evolución del relieve. P.I.: Garcia-Castellanos.
Ayuda a la incorporación de personal científico, Proyectos Intramurales Especiales (Spanish Ministry
of Science and Innovation). 30 k€.
2007-2011
WestMed / TopoMed, P.I.s: Wortel, Faccena, Fernàndez (within ESF Eurocore
TopoEurope). Funding approved by the Spanish Governement (MCINN-DGI, CGL2008-03474E/BTE) and other national European agencies.
2006-2011
Topo-Iberia. P.I.: Josep Gallart. Funding: Spanish Governement, 4.5 M€. CSD2006-00041.
2006-2010
topoAtlas: Modelado numérico de la evolución tectónica y topográfica de la cordillera del
Atlas en Marruecos. P.I.: Garcia-Castellanos. Funding: Spanish Governement (Plan Nacional de
I+D), 41.1 k€. CGL2006-05493.
2006-2009
Consolidated Research Group (Grupo de investigación consolidado) granted by the local
government (Generalitat de Catalunya), “Geofísica: estructura y procesos litosféricos”. P.I.: Ramón
Carbonell. Period: 2001-2004. 54 k€; Period: 2005-2008: 42.2 k€.
2005-2007
Visiting Researcher Fellowship. P.I.: Garcia-Castellanos. Funded by ISES (Netherlands
Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science), 27 k€.
2004-2009
Modelización numérica de la evolución del relieve y del drenaje fluvial en la Península
Ibérica. RYC-2003-007547. P.I.: Garcia-Castellanos. Funding: Spanish Governement, Programa
Ramón y Cajal 2003: 6 k€.
2004-2006
GLOBO. P.I.: Manel Fernàndez. Funding: Nork Hydro, 120 k€. Estudio global de topografía,
geoide y estructura litosférica (Deriving the lithospheric and crustal geometries at global scale based
on gravity and topographic data).
2003-2004
Drainage evolution of the Duero–Ebro transition (N Spain). Funding: ENRESA, 118 k€. P.I.:
Jaume Vergés (ICTJA, Barcelona).
2002-2004
Project of the Spanish Science Governement (Plan Nacional de I+D) on the Geodynamic
evolution of the Alborán Sea. Funding: Plan Nacional de I+D, 15 k€. P.I.: Ana Negredo (UCM,
Madrid).
2002-2003
NATO project on the geodynamic evolution of the Alborán Sea. Funding: NATO, 22.7 k€.
P.I.: M. Fernandez (Barcelona).
Stages in research centres abroad
2006
2004
Visiting Researcher Fellow invited by ISES (Netherlands Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth
Science). 2 months.
3-month stage at Australian National University (Canberra, Australia), collaborating with the
quantitative geomorphology group of Jean Braun and the geodesy-glacioisostasy group of Kurt
Lambeck. Funded by NWO (Dutch Science Fundation) and the CADI (Australia).
1996
3-month stage at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), within the modelling group of
Christopher Beaumont (Dept. of Oceanography). Funded by CIRIT (Generalitat de Catalunya,
Catalan Government).
Visiting research fellows hosted
Prof. Sierd Cloetingh. VU-Amsterdam – 4 months.
Marten ter Borgh. VU-Amsterdam – 1 month.
Dr. Geoffrey M.H. Ruiz. Geological Institute. University of Neuchatel. Switzerland.
geoffrey.ruiz@unine.ch – 3 days.
2005 Victor García. Laboratorio de Modelado Geológico (LaMoGe), Departamento de Ciencias
Geológicas, Univ. Buenos Aires. Email: victorg@gl.fcen.uba.ar - 1 week.
2005 Eliseo Tesón. Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona - 1 week.
2005 Dr. Andrés Tassara. Univ. Potsdam. andres@dgf.uchile.cl – 1 week.
2004 Dr. Sylvain Bourlange. Univ. Nancy. bourlang@crpg.cnrs-nancy.fr – 1 week.
2002 Juan Álvarez. Univ. Complutense de Madrid. 2-months stage at VU – 8 weeks.
2010
2009
2007
Technical and field work
2008
Rock sampling mission for cosmogenic isotope measures of erosion (P.I: Raimon Pallàs) in the
Duero Gorge, Salamanca, Spain, in the framework of TopoIberia project.
1996-present
Geological fieldtrips in the Dead Sea, Colombian Andes, Carpathian, Betics, Pyrenees,
Taiwan, and the Atlas.
1995 Assistance in the Refraction and Reflection Seismic Data Acquisition Survey in the Southern Urals
Transect (URALSEIS Project, PI: Andres Pérez-Estaún).
1994 Assistance in a Heat Flow Data Acquisition Survey in southern Spain (PI: Manel Fernández).
1994 Technical assistance in the Heat Flow Data Acquisition Survey in the Alborán Sea (FLUCALB
Project), on board of the Russian ship Akademic Nikolai Strakhov" (PI: Manel Fernández).
1991 Training grant in Repsol-Petróleo Refinery (Tarragona, Spain) as a technical assistant in the
Computer Department.
1990- Experience as a programmer in several languages (C, Fortran, Basic) and using Unix workstation
networks. Most of the modelling output described in this CV is the result of self-programmed
software.
Teaching and PhD direction
(See also PhD evaluations within the Peer Reviewing section)
2009-2013
PhD co-direction (together with Dr. Liviu Matenco <liviu.matenco@falw.vu.nl>) of Marten ter
Borgh (Free Universtity, Amsterdam) on the Pannonian-Carpathian system.
2009
Invited instructor of master course in Source to Sink Modelling in Danube Delta (Vrije
Universiteit & University of Bucharest). ~4 hours. Sept. 2009.
2009-2011
Master course in Geophysics at Universidad de Barcelona (link). 1 credit (~4 hours/year).
2007-2011
Master course in Geology (link) at Universidad de Barcelona & Universidad Autónoma de
Barcelona. 1 credit (~10 hours/year).
2002-2004
Teaching at masters and undergraduate levels at the Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam). Course
on Tectonic Geomorphology. Design and lecture of the 12 hours course Numerical Modelling of
Tectonics and Geomorphology.
1999-2003
PhD co-direction (Dutch co-promotor) of dr. Jorge M. Gaspar-Escribano: “Tectonic modelling
of the Catalan Coastal Ranges (NE Spain)”. Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, defended on September
25th 2003.
1993
Received a 150-hours course for high-school teaching (Curso de Aptitud Pedagógica, CAP).
Congress organisation
2005
2002
2001
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Joint Earth Science Meeting hosted by the geological
societies of Spain and France at the IFP, Rueil, December 14-16, 2005. Thrust Belts and Foreland
Basins: From Seismic Imagery and Hydrocarbon Search to the Vivid Example of Interactions
between Tectonics, Erosion/Sedimentation and Climate.
Organiser of the symposium “At the boundary between lithosphere and biosphere: Earth surface
processes: Tectonic controls on the Sediment Transport from source to sink” SE(3.01) on the
European Geophysical Society 2002 congress.
Organiser of the symposium “3D motions of the Earth surface: Interplay between tectonics and
surface processes” SE(5.05) on the European Geophysical Society 2001 congress.
Other
I'm cofounder of Wikimedia España, the association (~100 members) supporting the activities of the
Wikimedia Foundation (most significantly sustaining the Wikipedia servers) in Spain, with a particular
focus on the defence of free dissemination of knowledge.
5. Impact of research
Societal impact / Public outreach
Presence in the media
Many of the following entries are related to our 2009 publication in Nature. A Google-News search can
most quickly give a glance of the global impact of that article in the internet.
Spain (agencies): EFE 2009-12-09; Europa Press 2009-12-09; CSIC-prensa 2009-12-10
Spain (TV & radio): Cuatro, TVE1, Tele5, TV3; Canal 9; RNE, Cadena Ser, etc. All on 2009-12-10.
Spain (papers): El País, 2009-12-09, 12-10; Público, 2009-12-10; ABC, 2009-12-09, 12-10; La Vanguardia,
2009-12-10; El Mundo, 2009-12-10; Avui, 2009-12-09; El Periódico de Catalunya, 2009-12-10. El Mundo,
2011-11-08.
Germany: N-TV, 2009-12-10; Der Spiegel, 2009-12-10; Die Welt, 2009-12-10; Stuttgarter Zeitung, 2009-12-10;
Handelsblatt, 2009-12-10.
UK: BBC News, 2009-12; Nature Making the Paper, 2009-12-10; Nature Geoscience, 2009-12-10; The
Guardian, 2009-12-10; New Scientist, 2009-12-10.
France: Le Monde 2009-12-11; 2009-12-12; Liberation 2010-01-15; Agence France-Presse (AFP), 2009-12-12;
France2 News (TV, 2009-12-10 20:00); Science et Vie (2010-02); Figaro (2009-12-14); La Recherche
(2010-02-12).
Europe (other): Der Standard (Austria, 2009-12-10); Gazeta Wyborcza (Poland, 2009-12-10); Illustreret
Videnskab (all Scandinavia); La Repubblica (Italy); Corriere della Sera (Italy); VPRO Noorderlicht
(Netherlands); SPITS! (Netherlands).
USA: USA Today, 2009-12-09; NBC, 2009-12-10; NBC; Science News, 2010-01-02; Science (Science
Magazine), ScienceNOW report, 2009-12-09; American Scientist; Discovery Channel (Daily Planet);
Geoscientist (GSA pub., 2010-04).
Japan: BBNews (2009-12-10).
Other global news & science sites: Wired; Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie web site - Science
Actualités (2010-01-14); Physorg.com (2010-01-09).
Broadcasted and live interviews
Nature, Nature Podcast, UK, 2009-12-10 (audio, transcription).
Cuatro TV, Informativos, 2009-12-10, 20:30 (Iñaki Gabilondo, YouTube).
TV3 & 3/24, Informatius, 2009-12-10, 20:30 (link; youtube).
Cadena Ser, Hoy por Hoy desde Mallorca, live, 2009-12-09, 13:30
Radio Nacional de España, live interview by Toni Tapias, 2009-12-23, 11:00
Radio Nacional de España internacional, live in España en el Mar, 2009-12-29, 10:30
Canal 9 TV, València, interview 2009-12-10.
RAC1, live interview by Toni Clapés, 2010-01-12, 17:50.
Other science diffusion/outreach
2010-05-14
Joint seminar with Prof. Ricard Torrents (Institut d’Estudis Catalans, rector Universitat de
Vic). L’Atlàntida: de Plató a la Ciència actual passant per Verdaguer. Folgueroles (Barcelona, Spain).
Link.
2011-05-15
Seminar in Visual Culture 2011 (symposium Alternative worlds. A retrospective of the last
111 years), London. Organizer: Ricarda Vidal @, School of Advanced Study, University of London,
School of Advanced Study. Science and Myth of other possible Mediterraneans.
2011-06-22
Seminar on Introduction to Geosciences and the formation of the Mediterranean at the
University of Barcelona (Faculty of Geology), for last-year primary school students.
2011-10-08
Seminar at the Mediterranean Conference of the Institute of Ecotechnics, 7-10 October 2011
(Les Marronniers Conference Center, Aix-en-Provence, France). Multi-disciplinary meeting on the
Mediterranean region from the geological, biomic, and cultural.
2011-07
Consultant for the script of a National Geographic documentary on Europe’s natural history.
Impact of software development
The numerical models and the associated programs I have developed have been distributed online and
free, and have been used in a number of third-party works such as:
Dávila, F.M., Lithgow-Bertelloni, C., Giménez, M., 2010. Tectonic and dynamic controls on the
topography and subsidence of the Argentine Pampas: The role of the flat slab. Earth
Planet. Sci. Lett., 29
5, 187-194.
Prezzi, C.B., Uba, C.E., Götze, H.-J. 2009. Flexural isostasy in the Bolivian Andes: Chaco foreland
basin development. Tectonophysics 474 (3-4), 526-543.
Mikeš, D., 2009. Forward modelling of the Bureba escarpment (Rioja Trough, N-Spain), Central
European Journal of Geosciences, 1, 463-471.
Scientific impact of publications
30 papers in both SCI and Scopus databases received >450 citations (2011). Hersch Index h=14. Mean
impact of journals is 4.3 (SCI).
6. Publications
Indexed Publications
See citations in Scopus.
1. 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
2. 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 NWMoroccan margin. J. Geophys. Res., 116, doi:10.1029/2010JB008105 [pdf]
3. Vergés. J., Saura, E., Casciello, E., Fernàndez, M., Villaseñor, A., Jiménez-Munt, I. & D. GarciaCastellanos, 2011. Crustal-scale cross-section across the NW Zagros Belt: Implications for the
Arabian Margin reconstruction. Geological Magazine, . doi:10.1017/S0016756811000331
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Leever, K., L. Matenco, D. Garcia-Castellanos, S. Cloetingh, 2010. 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.
7. Jiménez-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.
8. 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 Crisis. Nature, 462, 778781. doi:10.1038/nature08555
9. 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., doi:10.1029/2009GC002391.
10. Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2007. The role of climate during high plateau formation. Insights from
numerical experiments. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.02.039.
11. Garcia-Castellanos, D., & U. Lombardo, 2007. Poles of Inaccessibility: a calculation algorithm for the
remotest places on Earth. Scott. Geogr. J., 123, 227-233. doi:10.1080/14702540801897809
12. 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).
13. Jiménez-Munt, I., D. Garcia-Castellanos, A. Negredo & J. Platt, 2005, Gravitational and tectonic
forces controlling the post-collisional deformation and the present-day stress field of the Alps.
Constraints from numerical modelling. Tectonics, 24, TC5009, doi:10.1029/2004TC001754
14. 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
15. Jiménez-Munt, I., D. Garcia-Castellanos and M. Fernàndez, 2005, Thin sheet modelling of
lithospheric deformation and surface mass transport. Tectonophysics, 407, 239-255.
doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2005.08.015
16. Cloetingh, S., P.A. Ziegler, F. Beekman, P.A.M. Andriessen, L. Matenco, G. Bada, D. GarciaCastellanos, 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
17. Andriessen, P.A.M., & D. Garcia-Castellanos, 2004. 3D motions of the Earth surface: from
measurements to physical modelling - Preface. Phys. Chem. Earth. vol. 29 (10), 663-664.
doi:10.1016/j.pce.2004.03.003
18. Fernàndez, M., 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 and Planetary Science Letters, 221, 131-144. doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(04)00092-5
19. Tarapoanca, M., D. Garcia-Castellanos, G. Bertotti & S. Cloetingh, 2004. Subsidence mechanisms
for the South-eastern Carpathians bend foreland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 221, 163-180.
doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(04)00068-8
20. 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, TC1024, doi:10.1029/2003TC001511
21. 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
22. 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
23. Cloetingh, S., F. Horváth, C. Dinu, R.A. Stephenson, G. Bertotti, G. Bada, L. Matenco, D. GarciaCastellanos, & TECTOP, 2003. Probing tectonic topography in the aftermath of continental
convergence in Central Europe. EOS transactions, 84, 89-93.
24. 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
25. 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
26. 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
27. 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
28. 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 and Planetary Change, 27, 39-52. doi:10.1016/S0921-8181(01)00058-3
29. 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.1365246x.2000.00096.x
30. 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 (9), 993-1003. doi:10.1016/S0098-3004(97)00057-5
Edited/coordinated volumes
Andriessen, P., & D. Garcia-Castellanos (Eds.), 20041. 3D motions of the Earth surface: from
measurements to physical modelling. Phys. Chem. Earth 29, issue 10.
Book chapters
Garcia-Castellanos, D. & S. Cloetingh, 2011. Modeling the interaction between lithospheric and surface
processes in foreland basins. In: Recent Advances in Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins, C. Busby
& A. Azor (eds.). Wiley-Blackwell, in press.
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).
Álvarez, J., B. Andeweg, P. Andriessen, F. Beekman, A. Burov, A. Carbó, F.J. Elorza, D. GarcíaCastellanos, J. Giner, J.M. González-Casado, N. Heredia, S. Martín-Velázquez, J. Morale, A.
Olaiz, L.R. Rodríguez-Fernández, M.A. Rodríguez-Pascua, J.L. Simón, D. Stich, J.A. Vera,
2004. Estructura Alpina del antepaís Ibérico. In: Geología de España (J.A. Vera, ed.), Sociedad
Geológica de España-IGME, Madrid, 587-630.
Other peer-reviewed, indexed, or relevant publications
Vergés, J., Saura, E., Casciello, E., Fernàndez, M., Jiménez-Munt, I., García-Castellanos, D., Homke,
S., Sharp, I., 2010. Society of Petroleum Engineers - 72nd European Association of Geoscientists
and Engineers Conference and Exhibition 2010 - Incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2010 4, 26742678.
Garcia-Castellanos, D., 1998. Desarrollo de modelos numéricos de flexión litosférica. Aplicación a
cuencas de antepaís y fosas oceánicas. PhD. thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona
(Spain), 1998. ISBN 84-475-2012-9, 170 pp. pdf file.
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.
Relevant reports
Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2001. Landscape evolution: a link between lithospheric dynamics and surface
sediment transport. In: Progress Report 1999-2001 of the Netherlands Research Centre for
Integrated Solid Earth Science (ISES), 2001. pp 40-41. (online pdf version at www.ises.nu).
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Published as Andriessen & D.G. Castellanos
Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2000. Large-scale interplay between tectonics and surface processes in the
Rhine Graben and the Rhenish Massif. In: Annual Report of the Netherlands Research School of
Sedimentary Geology, 2001. pp 32-34.
Published abstracts and extended abstracts
1. Urgeles, R., A. Camerlenghi, D. García-Castellanos, B. De Mol, M. Garcés, J. Vergés, I. Haslam, M.
Hardman, 2010. The Ebro River and margin (NW Mediterranean): transient subaereal landscapes of the
Messinian from 3D seismic reflection data. Am. Geopgys. Union fall meeting, San Francisco, 2010-12.
2. Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2010. Tectonics, fluvial transport, and long-term episodicity in landscape
evolution. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 2010-12.
3. Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2010. Tectonic uplift at the Gibraltar Arc and the desiccation of the
Mediterranean. Towards a mechanistic model for the Messinian Salinity Crisis. AGU Fall Meeting, San
Francisco, 2010-12.
4. Vergés, J., E. Saura, E. Casciello, M. Fernàndez, I. Jiménez-Munt, D. Garcia-Castellanos, S. Homke, D.
Hunt, I. Sharp. Late Cretaceous to present protracted convergence between Arabia and Iran: time and
shortening constraints from Zagros foreland basins studies. 72nd EAGE Conference & Exhibition
incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2010 Barcelona, Spain, 14 - 17 June 2010.
5. Antón, L., A. Rodés, D. Garcia-Castellanos, R. Pallàs, G. De Vicente, A. J. Oláiz, R. Braucher, D.
Bourlès, Stuart, F., 2010. Drainage reorientation and river incision in W Iberia through DEM analysis,
cosmogenic nuclide dating, and process-based numerical modelling. EGU2010-????, EGU General
Assembly 2010, Vienna.
6. Jiménez-Munt, I, M. Fernàndez, A. Villaseñor, J. Vergés, D. Garcia-Castellanos, E. Saura, J.C. Afonso.
2010. Mantle unrooting beneath the Alpine-Himalayan belt: evidences from Atlas, Zagros and Tibet.
Geophysical Research Abstracts, EGU2010-8863, EGU General Assembly 2010, Vienna.
7. Garcia-Castellanos, D., F. Estrada, C. Gorini, I. Jiménez-Munt, M. Fernàndez, J. Vergés, R. De Vicente,
2010. Catastrophic flood of the Mediterranean after the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Insights from river
incision models and geophysical evidence. EGU2010-????, EGU General Assembly 2010, Vienna.
8. Garcia-Castellanos, D., F. Estrada, C. Gorini, I. Jiménez-Munt, M. Fernàndez, J. Vergés, R. De Vicente,
2009. Catastrophic flood of the Mediterranean after the Messinian Salinity Crisis? Insights from river
incision models and geophysical evidence. Am. Geopgys. Union fall meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 2009.
9. Fernàndez, M.; I. Jiménez-Munt, A. Villaseñor, J. Vergés, D. Garcia-Castellanos, E. Saura, Afonso ,
J.C.; 2009. Catching ‘in flagrante’ mantle unrooting beneath the Alpine-Himalayan belt: evidences from
atlas, Zagros and Tibet.. AGU fall meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 2009.
10. Jiménez-Munt, Fernàndez, M.; Vergés, J.; D. Garcia-Castellanos, M. Pérez-Gussinyé, Afonso , J.C.;
Fullea, J.; 2009. Decoupled accommodation of convergence between Africa and Eurasia. Modelling the
lithospheric structure across the Gorringe bank and the NW Moroccan margin. AGU fall meeting, San
Francisco, Dec. 2009.
11. Fernàndez, M., J. Vergés, I. Jiménez-Munt, J. Fullea, H. Zeyen, M. Pérez-Gussiñé, D. GarcíaCastellanos, 2009. Integrated modeling of the crust and mantle structure in the Zagros fold and thrust
belt and the Mesopotamian foredeep. First International Petroleum Conference & Exhibition, Shiraz,
Iran, 4-6 May 2009. Extended abstract.
12. Fernàndez, M. I. Jiménez-Munt, J. Vergés, H. Zeyen, J. Fullea, J.C. Afonso, D. García-Castellanos,
2008. The lithospheric structure across the NW Moroccan margin: evidences for large scale tectonic
inversion. GeoMod 2008: Third International Geomodelling Conference, Florence. Bollettino di
Geofisica, 49, 2 suppl., 51-54.
13. Leever, K.; Garcia-castellanos, D. Matenco, L., S. Cloetingh, 2008. Causes and effects of changing
connectivity between sedimentary basins: ises numerical modelling of sediment partitioning and
landform evolution. GeoMod 2008: Third International Geomodelling Conference, Florence. Bollettino di
Geofisica, 49, 2 suppl.
14. Fullea, J., J.C. Afonso, J.A.D. Connolly, M. Fernàndez, D. García-Castellanos, S. Zlotnik, 2008.
Characterizing the lithospheric-sublithospheric upper mantle system in 3D: its thermal, compositional,
seismological, and rheological structure. EOS Trans. AGU 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., T31C-2029.
15. Jiménez-Munt, Fernàndez, M.; Vergés, J.; Zeyen, H.; Fullea, J.; Afonso , J.C.; D. Garcia-Castellanos,
2008. The lithospheric structure across the NW Moroccan margin: evidences for large scale tectonic
inversion. EGU, Vienna, April 2008. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, EGU2008-A-10212, 2008
16. Bartol, J.; Matenco, L.; Leever, K.; Garcia-castellanos, D., 2008. Modelling the connectivity between
sedimentary basins at short time scales and reduced amplitudes: inferences for Paratethys connectivity
during the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, EGU2008-A-05051,
2008.
17. Teson, E., Teixell, A., Ayarza, P., Arboleya, M.L., Alvarez-Lobato, F., D. García-Castellanos, M. Amrhar,
2006, Geometry and evolution of the Ouarzazate basin in the foreland of the High Atlas Mountains
(Morocco). Geophysical Research Abstracts, vol. 8, 01253, (EGU Meeting in Vienna, 2006).
18. Garcia-Castellanos, D., Verges, J., de Vicente, G., 2005. The fate of internally-drained basins. Two
examples from North Iberia: the Duero and Ebro basins. EGU05-A-09489. EGU General Assembly in
Wien, 2005.
19. Garcia-Castellanos, D. & M. Gerbault, 2005. A numerical model testing the role of climate in high
plateau formation. 6th International Symposium on Andean Geodynamics (ISAG 2005, Barcelona), IRD,
Extended Abstracts: 297-300.
20. Gerbault, M. & D. Garcia-Castellanos, 2005. Fluvial transport and tectonics: cyclic growth of relief in
orogenic high plateau setting. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 7, 08753.
21. Vergés, J.; Fernàndez, M.; García-Castellanos, D.; Mikes, D.; Plaza, J.; Pineda, A., 2005. River captures
along the water-divide between the Ebro and Duero drainage basins (N of Spain): Future predictions
from numerical modelling. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 7, 06296 (EGU General Assembly in
Wien).
22. Barbieri, C., & D. Garcia-Castellanos, 2004. A 3d image of the Venetian foreland basin (NE Italy)
through a 2D (planform) analysis. Bolletino di Geofysica Teoretica ed Applicata, v. 45, pp 198-202.
23. Cloetingh, S., Beekmann F., Andriessen P.A.M., Bada G., Matenco L., Ziegler P.A., Garcia-Castellanos
D., Sokoutis D., Hardebol N. & Dèzes P., 2004. Lithospheric memory, state of stress and rheology: NeoTectonic controls on Europe’s intraplate continental topography. Bolletino di Geofysica teoretica ed
applicata, v. 45, pp 198-202
24. Mikes, D.; Vergés, J.; Fernández, M.; García-Castellanos, D.; Pineda-Velasco, A.; Peña-Monné, J.L. y
Plaza, J., 2004: La evolución de los sistemas fluviales del Ebro y Duero durante el Cenozoico superior,
Geotemas, 6, 187-189.
25. Muñoz Martín, A., A. Carbó, J. Alvarez, José Luis Giner Robles, C. Paredes-Bartolomé, G. de Vicente,
Ramón Vegas Martínez, D. García Castellanos, P. Rincón, P. Andriessen, Antonio José Olaiz Campos,
José Manuel González Casado, S. Cloetingh, L. Antón, R. Pérez López, 2003. Vas Jornadas de
Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico en Gestión de Residuos Radiactivos, Vol. 4, pp. 22-37
26. Gibson, M., H. Sinclair, F. Stuart, D. Garcia-Castellanos, 2003. Investigation into the mechanisms of
post-tectonic orogenic exhumation in the Pyrenees: Constraints from low-temperature thermochronology
and 3D numerical modelling: Abstract volume, Evolution of the Earth’s Surface, MinSoc Spring Meeting,
Glasgow, Scotland (2003).
27. Garcia-Castellanos, D., D. Sokoutis. and K. Persson, 2003. River transport effects on orogen
development: results from a new analogue-numerical modeling technique. EOS Trans. AGU 84(46), Fall
Meet. Suppl., T32F-02.
28. Jimenez-Munt, I., D. Garcia-Castellanos, A. M. Negredo and J. Platt, 2003. Post-collisional deformation
of the Alps, results from numerical modelling. EOS Trans. AGU 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., T31F-0895.
29. Garcia-Castellanos, D., I. Jimenez-Munt, 2002. Drainage patterns: a link between lithospheric
deformation and sediment transport. Preliminary results from a numerical approach. Geophysical
Research Abstracts. European Geophysical Society, Katlenburg-Lindau
30. Garcia-Castellanos, D., J. Verges, J. Gaspar-Escribano, J. Juez-Larre & S. Cloetingh, 2001. Numerical
modelling of the drainage evolution of the Ebro Basin (NE Spain). Eos Trans. AGU, 82(47), Fall
Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS42A-0462.
31. Garcia-Castellanos, D., R. van Balen, S. Cloetingh, 2000. Modeling vertical movements of the
lithosphere in the Ardennes-Rheinish Massif region. In: European Geophysical Society, 25th general
assembly. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 2. European Geophysical Society, Katlenburg-Lindau.
32. Fernandez, M., Garcia-Castellanos, Torne, Verges, Gil, Karpuz, Wheeler, Kolstad, 1999. 2D
lithospheric structure and Tertiary thermal evolution of the Voring Margin (North Atlantic). In: AGU 1999
fall meeting. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union. 80; 46, Suppl., p. 1058.
33. Torne, M., Gil, M. Fernandez, Verges, Garcia-Castellanos, Karpuz, Wheeler, Egebjerg, 1999. 3D
crustal structure and Tertiary vertical movements of the Voring Margin (North Atlantic). In: AGU 1999
fall meeting. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union. 80; 46, Suppl., p. 1058.
34. García-Castellanos, D.; Fernàndez, M. and Torné, M., 1998. Numerical modelling of the evolution of
the Guadalquivir Foreland Basin (South Spain). Annales Geophysicae 16, Suppl. 1; p. 61. European
Geophysical Society, Kathlenburg-Lindau.
7. Talks and seminars
Invited/solicited
Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2011. Tectonics, fluvial transport, and long-term episodicity in landscape evolution.
ICDP workshop in Issyk-Kul “Climate Evolution in Central Asia during the past few million years: A
case study from Issyk-Kul”, Kyrgyzstan, June 12th to 17th 2011. Host: Profs. Hedi Oberhänsli and
Peter Molnar.
Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2010. Tectonics, fluvial transport, and long-term episodicity in landscape evolution.
AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 2010. Host: Dr. Liz Safran safran@lclark.edu
Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2009. Catastrophic flood of the Mediterranean after the Messinian Salinity Crisis
(MSC). Implications from river incision models and geophysical evidence. CMIMA-CSIC, Barcelona.
Host: Dr. Alcinoé Calahorrano, alcinoe@cmima.csic.es.
Garcia-Castellanos, D., M. Fernàndez, J. Vergés, J. Fullea, 2008. Geodynamic Modeling of the Cenozoic
Topographic Evolution of Iberia: What is known and what can we learn. 4th TOPO-EUROPE
Workshop, Euroforum Infantes, El Escorial (Madrid) 2008 2008-10-07. Organisers: Prof. Kai
Rankenburg, Gerardo de Vicente gdv@geo.ucm.es.
Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2006. Are high plateaus triggered by dry climate? Proposals from computer
simulations and Andean paleoclimatic data. Univ. Potsdam, 2006-06-19. Host researcher: Prof.
Onno Oncken.
Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2005. Evolución del Paisaje en escalas de tiempo geológico: interacción entre la
dinámica de la litosfera y los procesos de erosión y sedimentación. Técnicas de modelado numérico
aplicadas a la Península Ibérica y al Altiplano Andino. UCM, Madrid, 2005-12-19. Host researcher:
Dr. Gerardo de Vicente.
Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2004. Orogen-foreland basin system development: interplay between surface and
lithospheric scales.
Invited talk at the University of Kiel (Germany), July 2004. Host
researchers: Prof. Goetze, Dr. Prezzi.
Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2004. Interplay between lithosphere dynamics and surface sediment transport. New
modeling techniques and their application to orogen-basin systems. Invited talk at the University of
Rennes (France), July 2004. Host researchers: Prof. Ph. Davy, Dr. Van de Driesche.
Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2003. Interplay between surface fluvial transport and lithospheric deformation.
Invited talk at the University of Edinburgh (UK), July 2003. Host researcher: Prof. Hugh Sinclair.
Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2002. Interplay between surface fluvial transport and lithospheric deformation.
Invited talk at the Southampton Oceanography Centre (UK), 26 November 2002. Host researcher:
Dr. Tim Minshull (SOC).
Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2002. Interplay between fluvial transport and lithospheric flexure during the evolution
of orogen-basin systems. A numerical modelling approach. Seminar in Bucharest Univ., 10 June
2002. Host: Liviu Matenco (VU).
Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2000. Modelling foredeep basins: State of the art and further developments (key note
speaker). European Geophysical Society thematic conference. Amsterdam (The Netherlands), 31
Aug. - 2th Sept. 2000.
Other seminars and international congress presentations (selection)
Ángel Rodés, Loreto Antón, Fin Stuart , Raimon Pallàs, Daniel Garcia-Castellanos, Gerardo De Vicente,
Régis Braucher, Didier Bourlès. Complex-exposure domain in "banana plots" from two cosmogenic
isotope concentrations. Are burial processes required? ESF Research Conferences on Cosmogenic
Nuclides. 8 - 13 August 2011, Obergurgl, Austria.
Amblas, D., T.P. Gerber, R. Urgeles, B. De Mol, M. Canals, L.F. Pratson, A. Camerlenghi D. GarciaCastellanos, G. Lastras, 2011. Canyon development on prograding continental margins: an example
from the NW Mediterranean. AGU Chapman Conference on Source to Sink Systems Around the
World and Through Time", Oxnard, California (USA) January 2011.
Vergés, J., E. Saura, E. Casciello, M. Fernàndez, A. Villaseñor, I. Jiménez-Munt & D. García-Castellanos,
2011. Area balanced crustal cross-section across the NW Zagros Belt and Late Cretaceous Arabian
margin reconstruction: shortening and deformation sequence. AAPG, Milano.
Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2010. Tectonic uplift at the Gibraltar Arc and the desiccation of the Mediterranean.
Towards a mechanistic model for the Messinian Salinity Crisis. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco,
December 2010.
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.
CEISM, Venezia, Italy, 2010-05.
Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2009. Catastrophic flood of the Mediterranean after the Messinian Salinity Crisis
(MSC). Implications from river incision models and geophysical evidence. ICTJA-CSIC, Barcelona.
Teixell, A., M.L. Arboleya, J. Babault, E. Teson, P. Ayarza, F. Alvarez-Lobato, R. Carbonell, I. Jimenez-Munt,
D. Garcia-Castellanos and M. Fernandez. The tectonophysics of intraplate mountain belts: the Atlas
Mountains, the Tien-Shan and other examples. Ongoing research and future collaboration
perspectives. Spain-China Sysmposium on Geophysical & Geochemical Geosystems, Junio 2009,
Zaragoza, España.
Jiménez-Munt, I., D. García-Castellanos, M. Fernàndez, J. Vergés, J.P. Platt, 2009, Lithosphere-mantle
dynamics underneath the Tibetan Plateau inferred from potential fields: interplay with river transport.
Geosystems Spain-China. Zaragoza, 2009-06-22.
García-Castellanos, D. Estrada, F., C. Gorini, Fernandez, M., Vergés, 2009. Incision and uplift controlling
water flow through the strait. Towards a mechanistic model for the Messinian Salinity Crisis. 13th
Congress RCMNS, 2-6 September 2009, Naples (Italy). Earth System Evolution and the
Mediterranean area from 23Ma to the present. Session SP3
Estrada, F., C. Gorini, G. Ercilla, D. García-Castellanos, A. Ammar, Belén Alonso, Andrés Maldonado, Juan
Tomás Vázquez, 2009. New insights into the Messinian salinity crisis: Zanclean reflooding erosion in
the Gibraltar-Alboran Sea connection area. 13 Congress RCMNS 2-6 September 2009, Naples
(Italy). Earth System Evolution and the Mediterranean area from 23Ma to the present. Session SP3
M. Fernàndez, I. Jiménez-Munt, J. Vergés, H. Zeyen, J. Fullea, J.C. Afonso, D. García-Castellanos, 2008.
The lithospheric structure across the NW Moroccan margin: evidences for large scale tectonic
inversion. GeoMod 2008: Third International Geomodelling Conference, Florence. Bollettino di
Geofisica, 49, 2 suppl., 51-54.
Leever, K.; Garcia-castellanos, D. Matenco, L., S. Cloetingh, 2008. Causes and effects of changing
connectivity between sedimentary basins: ises numerical modelling of sediment partitioning and
landform evolution. GeoMod 2008: Third International Geomodelling Conference, Florence. Bollettino
di Geofisica, 49, 2 suppl.
Jiménez-Munt, D. García-Castellanos, M. Fernàndez, J. Vergés, 2007. Numerical modeling of intracontinental
mountain building and drainage evolution in the Atlas. MAPG ILP meeting, Marrakesh, Morocco.
Fernàndez, Jiménez-Munt, Vergés, Zeyen, Fullea, García-Castellanos, 2007, Structure of the Moroccan
Margin. MAPG ILP meeting, Marrakesh, Morocco.
García-Castellanos, D., I. Jiménez-Munt, A. Teixell, M. Fernàndez, M.-L. Arboleya, J. Vergés, 2007.
Numerical modelling of the topographic evolution of the Moroccan Atlas and the Gibraltar Arc. MAPG
ILP meeting, Marrakesh, Morocco, 2007.
García-Castellanos, D., 2006. Was the uplift of the Andean high plateau triggered by dry climate? Proposals
from numerical modelling. Backbone of the Americas (GSA meeting), Mendoza, Argentina, 2006.
Teson, E., Teixell, A., Ayarza, P., Arboleya, M.L., Alvarez-Lobato, F., García-Castellanos, D., 2005. Evolution
of the Ouarzazate foreland basin (Morocco). Interplay between thrust and buoyant loads. IFP-Paris,
Thrust Belts and Foreland Basins, International meeting, Rueil- Malmaison, Abstracts Volume, 389390, 2005.
Garcia-Castellanos, D.; Gerbault, M., 2005. A numerical model testing the role of climate in high plateau
formation. 6th International Symposium on Andean Geodynamics (ISAG, 2005), Barcelona.
Garcia-Castellanos, D., Gerbault, M., Tassara, A., Jiménez-Munt, I., Fernàndez, M, 2005. Climate vs.
Tectonics. What triggers the formation of intramountain basins and high plateaus? EGU05-A-08180.
EGU General Assembly in Wien, 2005.
Gerbault, M.; Garcia-Castellanos, 2005, D. Fluvial transport and tectonics: cyclic growth of relief in orogenic
high plateau setting. EGU05-A-08753. EGU General Assembly in Wien, 2005.
De Vicente, G.; Elorza, F.J.; Olaiz, A.; García-Castellanos, D.; Muñoz-Martín, A.; Vegas, R.; Alvarez, J. ,
2005. Number-size distribution invariance of Iberian Cenozoic basins. EGU05-A-04296. EGU
General Assembly in Wien, 2005.
Vergés, J.; Fernàndez, M.; García-Castellanos, D.; Mikes, D.; Plaza, J.; Pineda, A., 2005. River aptures along
the water-divide between the Ebro and Duero drainage basins (N of Spain): Future predictions from
numerical modelling. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 7, 06296 (EGU General Assembly in
Wien).
8. Peer reviewing
Participation in reading committees (evaluation of PhD. theses)
2007
2004
2004
2004
Karen Leever: “Tectonic evolution of the Carpathian Mountains”. To be defended at the Vrije
Universiteit at the end of 2007. Directors: Sierd Cloetingh, Liviu Matenco, and Giovanni Bertotti (VUAmsterdam).
Rapporteur of David Bécel “The interplay between tectonic, climate and river transport in intramountain basins: the example of the Pilcomayo river (Bolivia)”. Defended at the Université de
Grenoble (France), October 2004. Director: Jean-Louis Mugnier.
Julien Babault: “Dinámica de la erosión y evolución morfológica de los Pirineos: Influencia de la
sedimentación y del drenaje de las cuencas de ante país”. Defended at the Université de Rennes
(France), July 2004. Director: Jean Van Den Driessche.
Jurgen Foeken: “Tectono-morphology of the Ligurian Alps and adjacent basins (NW Italy)”. Defended
at the Vrije Universiteit, June 21st, 2004. Directors: Sierd Cloetingh and Giovanni Bertotti (VUAmsterdam).
2004
2000
Mihai Tarapoanca: “Architecture, 3D geometry and tectonic evolution of the Carpathians foreland
basin”. Defended at the Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam), 13 April 2004. Directors: Sierd Cloetingh,
Liviu Matenco (VU-Amsterdam).
Jurga Lazauskiene: “Quantitative modelling of the Baltic Silurian sedimentary basin”. Defended at
Vilnus University (Lithuania), 2000.
Paper reviews
A significant amount of time has been invested in reviewing articles submitted to journals including
Nature Geoscience, Geology, Basin Research, Tectonics, Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ., Tectonophysics,
and Global and Planetary Change.
Project evaluation
I have participated or have been included in these reviewing pools:
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ESF Pool of Reviewers (May 2010 - 30 April 2012).
NSF reviewing pool (2009).
Spanish PN i+d.
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (CNRS agency, France)