Áreas Docentes e Investigadoras

María Nieves Meléndez

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Senior Lecturer

Signature of paper: Meléndez, N.

Address

Departamento de Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y Paleontología
Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas
Universidad Complutense
José Antonio Nováis, 12, 3ª planta, dp.4B
28040 Madrid, Spain

Areas of Interest

Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, Basin Analysis.

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Selection of Publications (Last years)

  • Aurell, M., Fregenal-Martínez, M., Bádenas, B., Muñoz-García, M. B., Élez, J., Meléndez, N., De Santisteban, C. 2019. Middle Jurassic–Early Cretaceous tectono-sedimentary evolution of the southwestern Iberian Basin (central Spain): major palaeogeographical changes in the geotectonic framework of the Western Tethys. Earth-Science Reviews, 199, 102983. Link
  • Rodríguez-López, J. P., Liesa, C. L., Pardo, G., Meléndez, N., Soria, A. R., Skilling, I. (2016). Glacial dropstones in the western Tethys during the late Aptian–early Albian cold snap: Palaeoclimate and palaeogeographic implications for the mid-Cretaceous. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology452, 11-27. Link
  • Veloso, F. M., Liesa, C. L., Soria, A. R., Meléndez, N., Frykman, P. (2016). Facies and petrophysical modelling of a thick lower cretaceous tsunami deposit in E Spain: Up-scaling from sample to outcrop scales. Sedimentary geology343, 38-55. Link
  • Toyos, M. H., Medialdea, T., León, R., Somoza, L., González, F. J., Meléndez, N. (2016). Evidence of episodic long-lived eruptions in the Yuma, Ginsburg, Jesús Baraza and Tasyo mud volcanoes, Gulf of Cádiz. Geo-Marine Letters36(3), 197-214. Link
  • Veloso, F. M. L., Navarrete, R., Soria, A. R., & Meléndez, N. (2016). Sedimentary heteroge neity and petrophysical characterization of Barremian tsunami and barrier island/inlet deposits: The Aliaga outcrop as a reservoir analogue (Galve sub-basin, eastern Spain). Marine and Petroleum Geology73, 188-211. Link
  • RODRÍGUEZ-LÓPEZ, J. P., LIESA, C.L., MELÉNDEZ, N., SORIA, A.R. (2007). Normal fault development in a sedimentary succession with multiple detachment levels: The Lower Cretaceous Oliete sub-basin, Eastern Spain. Basin Research, 19, 409-435.
  • RODRÍGUEZ-LÓPEZ, J. P., DE BOER, P. L., MELÉNDEZ, N., SORIA, A. R., (2008). Aeolian sand-sea development along the mid-Cretaceous western Tethyan margin (Spain); erg sedimentology, paleoclimate and paleoceanographic implications. Sedimentology, 55, 1253-1292.
  • MELÉNDEZ, N., LIESA, C.L., SORIA, A.R., MELÉNDEZ, A. (2009). Lacustrine system evolution during early rifting: El Castellar Formation (Galve sub-basin, Central Iberian Chain). Sedimentary Geology, 222, 64-77.
  • RODRÍGUEZ-LÓPEZ, MELÉNDEZ, N., J. P., DE BOER, P. L., SORIA, A. R., (2010): The action of wind and water in a Mid-Cretaceous subtropical erg-margin system close to the Variscan Iberian Massif, Spain. Sedimentology, 57, 1315-1356.
  • SORIA, A. R., LIESA, C.L., RODRÍGUEZ-LÓPEZ, J. P., MELÉNDEZ, N., DE BOER, P. L., MELÉNDEZ, A. (2011). An Early Triassic evolving erg system (Iberian Chain, NE Spain): palaeoclimate implications. Terra Nova. 23, 76-84.
  • Peropadre, C., Liesa, C.L., Meléndez, N. (2013): frequency, moderate to high-amplitude sea-level oscillations during the late Early Aptian: Insights into the Mid-Aptian event (Galve sub-basin, Spain). Sedimentary Geology. 294: 233-250.