List of recent publications related to Limnogeology and Global Change

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2008

Valero-Garcés, B. L., Moreno, A., González-Sampériz, P., Morellón, M., Navas, A., Machín, J. Delgado-Huertas, A., Mata, P. Karstic lakes as archives of environmental change: the Laguna de Taravilla record (Iberian Range, Spain), Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 259, pp. 136.156 

González-Sampériz, P., Valero-Garcés, B. L., Moreno, A., Morellón, M., Navas, A., Machín, J. Delgado-Huertas, A. Hydrological fluctuations and vegetation changes in the Central Ebro Basin (NE Spain) since the Lateglacial: potential and limitations of saline lake records. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,259, pp. 157-181                                                     

Mario Morellón, Blas Valero-Garcés, Ana Moreno, Penélope González-Sampériz, Pilar Mata, Oscar Romero, Melchor Maestro and Ana Navas. Holocene palaeohydrology and climate variability in Northeastern Spain: the sedimentary record of lake Estanya (Pre-Pyreneanrange), Quaternary Internacional, 181,(1) pp.15-31                                                     

Frigola, J., Moreno, A., Cacho, I., Canals, M., Sierro, F. J., Flores, J. A. and Grimalt, J. O. Evidences of abrupt changes in Western Mediterranean thermohaline circulation during the last 53 kyr: a high-resolution marine record from the Balearic Sea, Quaternary Internacional, 181, (1), pp. 88-104                                                   

Armand Hernández, Roberto Bao, Santiago Giralt, Melanie J. Leng, Philip A. Barker, Alberto Sáez, Juan J. Pueyo, Ana Moreno, Blas L. Valero-Garcés, Hilary J. Sloane. The palaeohydrological evolution of Lago Chungará (Andean Altiplano, northern Chile) during Late Glacial-Early Holocene transition using oxygen isotopes in diatom silica. Journal of Quaternary Science, 23 (4) 351-363                                                  

Celia Martín-Puertas, Blas L. Valero-Garcés, M. Pilar Mata, Penélope González-Sampériz, Roberto Bao, Ana Moreno and Vania Stefanova. Arid and humid phases in Mediterranean Southern Spain during the last 4000 years: The Zoñar Lake record, Córdoba, The Holocene, 18 (6)1-15   

Ana Moreno, Blas Valero-Garcés, Penélope González-Sampériz, Mario Morellón and Mayte Rico. Flood response to rainfall variability during the last 2000 years inferred from the Taravilla Lake record (Central Iberian Range, Spain), Journal of Paleolimnology (en prensa)     

Giralt, S., Moreno, A., Bao, R., Sáez, A., Prego, R., Valero Garcés, B.L., Pueyo, J.J., González-Sampériz, P. and Taberner, C. A statistical approach to disentangle environmental forcings in a lacustrine record: the Lago Chungará case (Chilean Altiplano) Journal of Paleolimnology (en prensa)     

2007

Moreno, A., Giralt, S., Valero-Garcés, B. L., Sáez, A., Bao, R., Prego, R., Pueyo, J.J.; González-Sampériz, P; Taberner, C. A 13 kyr high-resolution record from the tropical Andes: The Chungara Lake sequence (18°S, northern Chilean Altiplano). Quaternary International. 161, 4-21           

Sáez, A., Valero-Garcés, B. L., Moreno, A., Bao, R., Pueyo, J. J. González-Sampériz, P; Taberner, C., Herrera, C. y Gibert, R. O. Lacustrine sedimentation in active volcanic settings: the Late Quaternary depositional evolution of Lake Chungará (Northern Chile). Sedimentology, 54, 1191-1222    doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2007.00878.x      

Frigola, J., Moreno, A., Cacho, I., Canals, M., Sierro, F. J., Flores, J. A., Grimalt, J. O., Hodell, D. A. y Curtis, J. H. Holocene climate variability in the Western Mediterranean region from a deep water sediment record. Paleoceanography, 22 PA2209. doi:10.1029/2006PA001307 

2006

Valero-Garcés, B.L. Penélope González-Sampériz, Ana Navas, Javier Machín, Pilar Mata, Antonio Delgado-Huertas, Roberto Bao, Ana Moreno, José S. Carrión, Antje Schwalb, & Antonio González-Barrios. Human Impact since Medieval times and Recent Ecological Restoration in a Mediterranean Lake: The Laguna Zoñar (Spain). Journal of Paleolimnology, 35 (3) 24-49.    

González-Sampériz, P., Valero-Garcés, B. L., Moreno, A., Jalut, G., García-Ruiz, J. M., Martí-Bono, C., Delgado-Huertas, A., Navas, A., Otto, T., and Dedoubat J. J. High-resolution climate variability in the Spanish Pyrenees for the last 30,000 yr inferred from El Portalet peatbog sequence. Quaternary Research, 66 (1) 38-52      

2005

Balch, Deborah P., Andrew S. Cohen,, Douglas W. Schnurrenberger, Brian J. Haskell, Valero Garces, B.L., J.Warren Beck, Hai Cheng, and R. Lawrence Edwards, Ecosystem and paleohydrological response to quaternary climate change in the Bonneville basin, Utah, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 221, pp. 99-122

Moreno, A., Cacho, I., Canals, M., Grimalt, J. O., Sánchez-Goñi, M. F., Shackleton, N., y Sierro, F. J. (2005). Links between marine and atmospheric processes oscillating at millennial time-scale. A multy-proxy study of the last 50,000 yr from the Alboran Sea (Western Mediterranean Sea), Quaternary Science Reviews, 24, 1623-1636 (pdf)

2004

Valero-Garcés, B.L, Gónzalez-Sampériz, P., Navas, A., Machín, J., Delgado-Huertas, Peña-Monne, J.L., Sancho-Marcén, C., Stevenson, T., & Davis, B. (2004) Paleohydrological fluctutations and steppe vegetation during the last glacial maximum in the central Ebro valley (N.E. Spain), Quaternary International, 122, 43-55 (pdf)

Moreno, A., Cacho, I., Canals, M., Grimalt, J. O. y Sánchez-Goñi, M. F. (2004). Millennial-scale variability in the productivity signal from the Alboran Sea record, Western Mediterranean, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 211, (3), 205-219. (pdf)

Carrión, J; Yll, R; Riquelme, J.A. & González-Sampériz, P. (2004). Perspectivas del análisis polínico de coprolitos y otros depósitos biogénicos útiles en la inferencia paleoambiental. En: Miscelánea en homenaje a Emiliano Aguirre: Paleontología. Colección Zona Arqueológica nº 4, vol. II. Museo Arqueológico Regional, Alcalá de Henares: 128-139.(pdf) In Spanish!

Moreno, A., y Canals, M. (2004) The role of dust in abrupt climate change: insights from offshore Northwest Africa and Alboran Sea sediment records. Contributions to Science, 2, (4).

2003

González-Sampériz, P; Montes, L. & Utrilla, P. (2003). Pollen In Hyena Coprolites from Gabasa Cave (Northern Spain). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology nº 126: 7-15 (pdf)

Valero-Garcés, B.L, Delgado-Huertas, A., Navas, A., Edwards, L., Schwalb A. & Ratto, N. (2003), Patterns of regional hydrological variability in central southern Altiplano (18-26 S) lakes during the last 500 years, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 194, 319-338 (pdf)

Jenny, B., Wilhelm, D., and Valero-Garcés, B.L. (2003) The Southern Westerlies in Central Chile: Holocene precipitation estimates based on a water balance model for Laguna Aculeo (33°50’S), Climate Dynamics, 20, 269-280 (pdf)

Valero-Garcés, B. L., Navas, A., Mata, P., Delgado-Huertas, A., Machín, J., González-Sampériz, P., Moreno, A., Schwalb, A., Ariztegui, D., Schnellmann, M., Bao, R., and González-Barrios, A. (2003). Sedimentary facies analyses in lacustrine cores: from initial core descriptions to detailed paleoenvironmental reconstructions. A case study from Zoñar lake (Cordoba province, Spain). In: "Limnología en España: un tributo a Kerry Kelts / Limnogeology in Spain: a tribute to Kerry Kelts” (B. L. Valero-Garcés, Ed.). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, 14, 385-414.

Valero-Garcés, B.L., Grosjean, M., Schwalb, A.,Schreir, H., Kelts, K., & Messerli, B. (2003). Late Quaternary lacustrine deposition in the Chilean Altiplano (18 ° - 28 ° S). En: Gierlowski - Kordech, E., & Kelts, K. (eds), Global Geological Record of lake Basins. Volume 2, AAPG.

García-Ruiz, J.M. Valero-Garcés, B.L., Marti-Bono, C. And González-Sampériz, P., (2003), Asynchroneity of maximum glacier advances in the Central Spanish Pyrenees. Journal of Quaternary Science,18, 61-72 (pdf)

2002

González-Sampériz, P. & Sopena Vicién, M.C. (2002). Recent Holocene palaeoenvironmental evolution in the Central Ebro Basin (N.E. Spain). Quaternary International vol.93/94: 177-190 (pdf)

Jenny, B., Valero-Garcés, B.L., Villa-Martinez, R., Urrutia, R., Geyh, M. & Veit, H. (2002) Early to mid-Holocene aridity in Central Chile and the Southern Westerlies: The Laguna Aculeo record (34 S), Quaternary Research, 58, 160-170 (pdf)

Jenny, B., Valero-Garcés, B.L., Urrutia, R., Kelts, K., Veit, H., Appleby, P.G, & Geyh, M. (2002). Moisture changes and fluctuations of the westerlies in Mediterranean Central Chile during the last 2000 years: The Laguna Aculeo record (33º 50´S), Quaternary International, 87, 3-18 (pdf)

Moreno, A., Nave, S., Kuhlmann, H., Freudenthal, T., Targarona, J., Canals, M. y Abrantes, F. (2002). Productivity response in the North Canary Basin to Trade wind intensity variations during the last 250,000 years: a multi-proxy approach, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 196, 3-4, 147-159 (pdf)

Freudenthal, T , Meggers, H., Henderiks, J., Moreno, A. y Wefer G., (2002). Upwelling instensity and filament activity off Morocco during the last 250,000 years, Deep Sea Research II, 19, 3655-3674 (pdf)

Lastras, G., Canals, M., Hughes, J. E., Moreno, A., De Batist, M., Masson, D. G. y Cochonat, P. (2002). Sea-floor imagery of the BIG’95 debris flow, Western Mediterranean, Geology, 30 (10), 871-874

Moreno, A., Cacho, I., Canals, M., Prins, M. A., Sánchez-Goñi, M. F., Grimalt, J. O. y Weltje, G. J., (2002). Saharan dust transport and high latitude glacial climatic variability: the Alboran Sea record, Quaternary Research, 58, 318-328 (pdf)

2001

Valero Garcés, B.L., Arenas, C., & Delgado Huertas, (2001). Depositional environments of Quaternary lacustrine travertines and stromatolites from high altitude, Andean lakes, N.W. Argentina, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 38, 1263-1283 (pdf)

García-Ruiz, J.M, Valero-Garcés, B.L., González-Sampériz, p., Martí-Bono, C., Lorente, A., Beguería, S. & Edwards, L. (2001). Stratified Screes in The Central Spanish Pyrenees: Paleoenvironmental Implications, Permafrost and Periglacial Processest, 12, 233-242. (pdf)

Grosjean, M., van Leeuwen, J.F.N., van der Knaap, W.O., Geyh, M.A., Ammann, B., Tanner, W., Messerli, B., Valero-Garcés, B. and Veit, H. (2001). A 22000 14C yr B.P. sediment and pollen record of climate change from Laguna Miscanti (23° S), northern Chile, Global and Planetary Change, 28, 35-51 (pdf)

Moreno, A., Targarona, J., Henderiks, J., Canals, M.,. Freudenthal, T. (2001). Orbital forcing of dust supply to the North Canary Basin over the last 250 kyrs, Quaternary Science Reviews, 20 (12), 53-65 (pdf)

2000

Valero-Garcés, B.L., Navas, A., Machin, J., Stevenson, T. & Davis, B. (2000) Responses of a saline lake ecosystems in semi-arid regions to irrigation and climate variability. The history of Salada Chiprana, Central Ebro Basin, Spain, Ambio, 26 (6), 344-350.

Valero-Garcés, B.L., González-Sampériz, P., Delgado-Huertas, A., Navas, A., Machín, J. y Kelts, K. (2000). Late Glacial and Late Holocene environmental and vegetational change in Salada Mediana, Central Ebro Basin, Spain, Quaternary International, 73/74, 29-46 (pdf)

Valero-Garcés, B.L., Delgado-Huertas, A., Navas, A.. Machin, J. González, P., and Kelts, K. (2000). Quaternary paleohydrological evolution of a playa lake: Salada Mediana, central Ebro Basin, Spain, Sedimentology, 47 (6),1135-1156 (pdf)

Valero-Garcés, B.L., Delgado-Huertas, A., Navas, y Ratto, N. (2000). Paleohydrological evolution of Andean saline lakes from sedimentological and isotopic records, northwestern Argentina, Journal of Paleolimnology, 24 (3), 343-359 (pdf)

1999

Valero-Garcés, B.L., Delgado-Huertas, A., Navas, A. & Ratto, N. (1999) Large 13C enrichment in primary carbonates from Andean Altiplano lakes, Northwest Argentina. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 171, 236-266 (pdf)

Valero-Garcés, B.L., Grosjean, M.,Schreier, H., Kelts, K., & Messerli, B. (1999). Holocene lacustrine deposition in the Atacama Altiplano: facies models, climate and tectonic forcing. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 151(1-3):101-125 (pdf)

Valero-Garcés, B.L., Kelts, K., González-Sampériz, P., Delgado- Huertas, A., Navas, A., & Machín, J. (1999). Sedimentary facies analyses as paleohydrological proxies for saline lakes, Central Ebro Basin, Spain. 4th workshop of the European Lake Drilling Programme. Correlations of late Weichselian and Holocene paleoenvironment proxy data. Terra Nostra 9/10: 101-106.

Valero-Garcés, B.L. & González-Sampériz, P. (Eds) 1999. Records of environmental and climate change in the Mediterranean region. The lacustrine contribution. 1st workshop of the Southern Europe Working group. European Lake Drilling Programme. Abstract Book. Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Zaragoza, pp. 78.

Previous to 1999

García-Ruiz, J.M. and Valero-Garcés, B.L. 1998. Historical geomorphic processes and human activities in the central Spanish Pyrenees. Mountain Research and Development., 18 (4): 309-320.

Valero-Garcés, B.L., Zeroual, E., & Kelts, K. 1998. Arid phases in the western Mediterranean region during the Last Glacial Cycle reconstructed from lacustrine records. In: G. Benito, V.R. Baker and K.J. Gregory, (eds.), Paleohydrology and Environmental Change, pp. 67-80, Wiley & Sons. London.

García Ruíz J.M. & Valero Garcés, B.L. 1997. Procesos geomórficos históricos y su relación con la actividad humana en el Pirineo Central español. Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica 22-23: 35-56.

Ibañez, J.J., Valero-Garcés, B.L. & Machado, C. (Eds) 1997. El Paisaje mediterráneo a través del espacio y del tiempo: implicaciones en la desertificación. Geoforma Ediciones, Logroño, 478 p.

Valero-Garcés, B.L. & Kelts, K. 1997. Técnicas en limnogeología aplicadas al estudio del cambio climático y desertificación en la Peninsula Ibérica. In: J.J. Ibañez, B.L. Valero-Garcés & C. Machado (eds), El Paisaje mediterráneo a través del espacio y del tiempo: implicaciones en la desertificación, pp. 395-418, Geoforma Ediciones, Logroño.

Valero-Garcés, B.L. & Kelts, K. 1997. Desertificación y cambio global en la Península Ibérica durante el último ciclo glacial a partir de registros lacustres. In: J.J. Ibañez, B.L. Valero-Garcés & C. Machado, (eds), El Paisaje mediterráneo a través del espacio y del tiempo: implicaciones en la desertificación, pp. 419-437, Geoforma Ediciones, Logroño.

Valero-Garcés, B.L. & Martí-Bono, C. 1997. Degradación ambiental e impacto antrópico: técnicas y aportaciones desde la limnogeología. In: J.M. García-Ruiz & P. López-García (eds.), Acción humana y desertificación en ambientes mediterráneos, pp. 99-115. IPE-CSIC, Zaragoza.

Valero-Garcés, B.L., Laird, K., Fritz, S., Kelts, K., Ito, E. & Grimm, E. 1997. Holocene climate in the northern Great Plains inferred from sediment stratigraphy, stable isotopes, carbonate geochemistry, diatoms, and pollen at Moon Lake, North Dakota. Quaternary Research, 48: 359-369 (pdf)

Grosjean, M., Valero-Garcés, B., Geyh, M.A., Messerli, B., Schreier H., & Kelts, K. 1997. Mid and Late Holocene Limnogeology of Laguna del Negro Francisco, northern Chile and its paleoclimatic implications.The Holocene 7(2): 151-159

Valero-Garcés, B.L., Grosjean, M., Schwalb, A., Geyh, M., Messerli, B. & Kelts, K. 1996. Limnogeology of Laguna Miscanti: evidence for mid to late Holocene moisture changes in the Atacama Altiplano (northern Chile). Journal of Paleolimnology. 16: 1-21

Valero-Garcés B.L., Grosjean, M., Schwalb, A., Kelts, K., Schreier H., & Messerli B. 1996. Limnogeología de Laguna Chungará y cambio climático durante el Holoceno Superior en el Altiplano chileno septentrional. Cadernos Laboratorio Xeoloxico de Laxe 21: 271-280.

Valero Garcés, B.L.& Kelts, K. 1995. A sedimentary facies model for perennial and meromictic saline lakes: Holocene Medicine Lake Basin, South Dakota, USA. Journal of Paleolimnology, 14: 123 - 149.

Valero Garcés, B.L., Kelts K. & Ito E. 1995. Oxygen and Carbon Isotope Trends and Sedimentological Evolution of a Meromictic and Saline Lacustrine System: The Holocene Medicine Lake Basin, North American Great Plains, USA. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 117: 253 - 278

Grosjean, M., Messerli, B. , Ammann C., Geyh, M., Graf, K., Jenny, B., Kammer K., Nuñez, L., Schreier, Schotterer U., Schwalb, A., Valero-Garcés, B.L., & Vuille, M. 1995. Holocene environmental changes in the Atacama Altiplano and paleoclimatic implications. Bulletin Institut Français du Etudes Andines., 24 (3): 585-594.