Mario Zarroca

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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Rogelio Linares

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Carles Roqué i Pau

University of Girona

Francisco Gutiérrez

Universidad de Zaragoza

Domingo Carbonel

Universidad de Zaragoza

Jesús Guerrero

Universidad de Zaragoza

J. A. P. Rodriguez

Planetary Science Institute

Victor R. Baker

University of Arizona

Jeffrey S. Kargel

Planetary Science Institute

Xavier Comas

Florida Atlantic University

D. C. Berman

Planetary Science Institute

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Planetary Science Institute

Universidad de Zaragoza

Universidad de Cantabria

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

University of Arizona

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Ames Research Center

Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

United States Geological Survey

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Detecting Astrobiologically Significant Ocean Floor Sediments in the Tsunami-Battered Coasts of Early Mars

J. A. P. Rodriguez Mario Zarroca Rogelio Linares G. Komatsu Dorothy Z. Oehler

Seabed

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Granite caves in the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula: Artificial hypogea versus tafoni

Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie (2011)

Carles Roqué i Pau Rogelio Linares Roberto Rodríguez Mario Zarroca

Peninsula

10.1127/0372-8854/2011/0043

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Subsurface initiation of tafoni in granite terrains — Geophysical evidence from NE Spain: Geomorphological implications

Geomorphology (2012)

Carles Roqué i Pau Mario Zarroca Rogelio Linares

Subaerial

Outcrop

Electrical Resistivity Tomography

Ground-Penetrating Radar

10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.06.015

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Reconstructing the internal structure and long-term evolution of hazardous sinkholes combining trenching, electrical resistivity imaging (ERI) and ground penetrating radar (GPR)

Geomorphology (2017)

Ivan Fabregat Francisco Gutiérrez Carles Roqué i Pau Xavier Comas Mario Zarroca

Sinkhole

Ground-Penetrating Radar

Electrical Resistivity Tomography

10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.02.024

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Exploring the evidence of Middle Amazonian aquifer sedimentary outburst residues in a Martian chaotic terrain

Scientific Reports (2023)

J. A. P. Rodriguez Mary Beth Wilhelm B. J. Travis Jeffrey S. Kargel Mario Zarroca

The quest for past Martian life hinges on locating surface formations linked to ancient habitability. While Mars' surface is considered to have become cryogenic ~3.7 Ga, stable subsurface aquifers persisted long after this transition. Their extensive collapse triggered megafloods ~3.4 Ga, and the resulting outflow channel excavation generated voluminous sediment eroded from the highlands. These materials are considered to have extensively covered the northern lowlands. Here, we show evidence that a lacustrine sedimentary residue within Hydraotes Chaos formed due to regional aquifer upwelling and ponding into an interior basin. Unlike the northern lowland counterparts, its sedimentary makeup likely consists of aquifer-expelled materials, offering a potential window into the nature of Mars' subsurface habitability. Furthermore, the lake's residue's estimated age is ~1.1 Ga (~3.2 Ga post-peak aquifer drainage during the Late Hesperian), enhancing the prospects for organic matter preservation. This deposit's inferred fine-grained composition, coupled with the presence of coexisting mud volcanoes and diapirs, suggest that its source aquifer existed within abundant subsurface mudstones, water ice, and evaporites, forming part of the region's extremely ancient (~ 4 Ga) highland stratigraphy. Our numerical models suggest that magmatically induced phase segregation within these materials generated enormous water-filled chambers. The meltwater, originating from varying thermally affected mudstone depths, could have potentially harbored diverse biosignatures, which could have become concentrated within the lake's sedimentary residue. Thus, we propose that Hydraotes Chaos merits priority consideration in future missions aiming to detect Martian biosignatures.

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10.1038/s41598-023-39060-2

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Chronology and paleoenvironmental interpretation of talus flatiron sequences in a sub‐humid mountainous area: Tremp Depression, Spanish Pyrenees

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (2013)

Carles Roqué i Pau Rogelio Linares Mario Zarroca Joan Rosell Xavier M. Pellicer

ABSTRACT Talus flatirons are debris‐covered relict slopes, disconnected from the source area, which are relatively common in arid and semi‐arid areas. Talus flatiron sequences record the alternation of accumulation and incision phases. These chronosequences may be used for infer temporal changes in the morphogenetic processes acting on the slopes as well as information on the local paleoclimatic history. Talus flatiron sequences developed in the Tremp Depression, eastern Spanish Pyrenees, are analysed from the geomorphological, chronological and paleoenvironmental perspective. The two groups of relict slopes differentiated by means of detailed geomorphological mapping have been dated by optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and radiocarbon dating at 25–20 kyr (S3) and 5·4–1·7 cal kyr (S2). The talus flatiron group S3 is correlated with a fluvial terrace of the Noguera Pallaresa River ( c . 23 kyr bp ). The comparison of the ages obtained in the Tremp Depression with chronologies published for talus flatiron sequences in semi‐arid areas and other paleoclimatic proxies suggests that the aggradation phases in the slopes occurred during periods with higher humidity and vegetation cover. The chronological differences observed between semi‐arid Spain and the Tremp Depression may be partly related to the more humid climate of the latter mountain area. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Thermokarst

10.1002/esp.3391

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Descoberts nous registres paleoclimàtics a la Conca de Tremp

UAB divulga (2014)

Mario Zarroca

La Conca de Tremp posseeix un dels registres paleoclimatics mes complets i diversificats del Pleistoce mitja i de l’Holoce de la regio pirenaica. Als ja coneguts, inclosos en sediments lacustres d’origen glaciar i carstic i en diposits periglacials i toves calcaries, cal afegir les facetes triangulars de vessant, formes relictes que normalment apareixen en regions arides i semiarides. L’estudi d’aquestes estructures confirma que els cicles d’erosio i d’acumulacio tambe depenen d’oscil·lacions climatiques en regions humides.

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Tsunami waves extensively resurfaced the shorelines of a receding, early Martian ocean

AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (2015)

Alberto González Fairén A. Palmero Rodriguez Rogelio Linares Mario Zarroca T. Platz

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The application of GPR and ERI in combination with exposure logging and retrodeformation analysis to characterize sinkholes and reconstruct their impact on fluvial sedimentation

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (2016)

Mario Zarroca Xavier Comas Francisco Gutiérrez Domingo Carbonel Rogelio Linares

Abstract This work illustrates the practicality of investigating sinkholes integrating data gathered by ground penetrating radar (GPR), electrical resistivity imaging (ERI) and trenching or direct logging of the subsidence‐affected sediments in combination with retrodeformation analysis. This mutidisciplinary approach has been tested in a large paleosinkhole developed during the deposition of a Quaternary terrace on salt‐bearing evaporites. The subsidence structure, exposed in an artificial excavation, is located next to Puilatos, a village that was abandoned in the 1970s due to severe subsidence damage. Detailed logging of the exposure revealed that the subsidence structure corresponds to an asymmetric sagging and collapse paleosinkhole with no clear evidence of recent activity. The sedimentological and structural relationships together with the retrodeformation analysis indicate that synsedimentary subsidence controlled channel location, the development of a palustrine environment and local changes in the channel pattern. GPR profiles were acquired using an array of systems with different antenna frequencies, including some recently developed shielded antennas with improved vertical resolution and penetration depth. Although radargrams imaged the faulted sagging structure and provided valuable data on fault throw, they did not satisfactorily image the complex architecture of the fluvial deposit. ERI showed lower resolution but higher penetration depth when compared to GPR, roughly capturing the subsidence structure and yielding information on the thickness of the high‐resistivity alluvium and the nature of the underlying low‐resistivity karstic residue developed on top of the halite‐bearing evaporitic bedrock. Data comparison allows the assessment of the advantages and limitations of these complementary techniques, highly useful for site‐specific sinkhole risk management. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Sedimentation

Ground-Penetrating Radar

10.1002/esp.4069

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Late Holocene evolution of playa lakes in the central Ebro depression based on geophysical surveys and morpho-stratigraphic analysis of lacustrine terraces

Geomorphology (2012)

Francisco Gutiérrez Blas L. Valero‐Garcés Gloria Desir Valén Penélope González‐Sampériz M. Gutiérrez

Bedrock

Terrace (agriculture)

Aggradation

River terraces

10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.02.013

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