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PhD Assistant Professor

Signature of papers: Suarez-Gonzalez, P.

Address

Departamento de Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y Paleontología
Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas
Universidad Complutense
José Antonio Nováis, 12. 3th floor. Office 14A
28040 Madrid, Spain

• Phone: +34 91 394 xxxx
• e-mail: pablosuarez@ucm.es

Research lines

Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, Carbonates, Microbialites, Basin Analysis, Tectonics-Sedimentation, Geomicrobiology.

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Researcher ID (publons):AAM-4217-2020

Orcid: 0000-0002-2370-5017

Scopus Author ID:55661626700

 

Background

I studied undergraduate degrees in Geology (2003-2008) and in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature (2009-2014), at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). There I studied also my master’s degree in Environmental Geology and Geological Resources (2008-2009), specializing in Sedimentary Basins and Energy Resources. Between 2010 and 2015 I conducted my PhD in the Stratigraphy Department of the UCM, studying a Cretaceous mixed carbonate-siliciclastic unit from the Cameros Basin, with a significant tectonic control and a complex sedimentology, due to the coastal nature of the deposits, including both continental and marine features. During my PhD I visited some months the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, USA), collaborating with Robert Riding, and the University of Aix-Marseille (Aix-en-Provence, France), to work with Gilbert Camoin. A remarkable feature of the deposits I studied for my PhD is their unusual abundance and diversity of microbialites, which made me eager to understand better the relationships between microbial communities and sedimentary processes. Thanks to a Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Humboldt Foundation (2016-2018) I was able to study those relationships in modern, Triassic and Precambrian microbialites, working in the research group of Joachim Reitner, at the Geobiology Department of the University of Göttingen (Germany). I have been Assistant Professor at the Geology Department of the Rey Juan Carlos University (2018-2020) and currently at the Geodynamics, Stratigraphy and Paleontology Department of the UCM, where I have been able to continue my research of sedimentary deposits and processes, with special emphasis in the sedimentology of microbialites from different environments and deposits throughout the stratigraphic record.

Key Publications

• Benito, M.I.; Suarez-Gonzalez, P.; Quijada, I.E.; Campos-Soto, S.; Rodríguez-Martínez, M. (2020) Constraints of applying strontium isotope stratigraphy in coastal and shallow marine environments: insights from Lower Cretaceous carbonates deposited in an active tectonic setting (N Iberian Basin, Spain).Journal of Iberian Geology. Link 
• Quijada, I.E.; Benito, M.I.; Suarez-Gonzalez, P.; Rodríguez-Martínez, M.; Campos-Soto, S. (2020) Challenges to carbonate-evaporite peritidal facies models and cycles: Insights from Lower Cretaceous stromatolite-bearing deposits (Oncala Group, N Spain). Sedimentary Geology408: 105752. Link
• Shen, Y.; Thiel, V.; Suarez-Gonzalez, P.; Rampen, S.W; Reitner, J. (2020) Sterol preservation in hypersaline microbial mats. Biogeosciences17: 649-666. Link
• Suarez-Gonzalez, P.; Benito, M.I.; Quijada, I.E.; Mas, R.; Campos-Soto, S. (2019) ‘Trapping and binding’: A review of the factors controlling the development of fossil agglutinated microbialites and their distribution in space and time. Earth-Science Reviews194: 182-215. Link
• Suarez-Gonzalez, P.; Arenas, C.; Benito, M.I.; Pomar, L. (2019) Interplay between biotic and environmental conditions in pre-salt Messinian microbialites of the western Mediterranean (Upper Miocene, Mallorca, Spain). Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology533: 109242. Link
• Campos-Soto, S.; Benito, M.I.; Cobos, A.; Caus, E.; Quijada, I.E.; Suarez-Gonzalez, P.; Mas, R.; Royo-Torres, R.; Alcalá, L. (2019) Revisiting the age and palaeoenvironments of the Upper Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous? dinosaur-bearing sedimentary record of eastern Spain: implications for Iberian palaeogeography. Journal of Iberian Geology45: 471-510. Link
• Mas, R.; Arribas, E.; González-Acebrón, L.; Quijada, I.E.; Campos-Soto, S.; Suarez-Gonzalez, P.; Sacristán-Horcajada, S.; Arribas, J.; Benito, M.I.; Pérez-Garrido, C.; Alonso, A. (2019) Coastal wetlands as markers of transgression in proximal extensional systems (Berriasian, W Cameros Basin, Spain). Journal of Iberian Geology45: 1-27. Link
• Campos-Soto, S.; Cobos, A.; Caus, E.; Benito, M.I.; Fernández-Labrador, L.; Suarez-Gonzalez, P.; Quijada, I.E.; Mas, R.; Royo-Torres, R.; Alcalá, L. (2017) Jurassic Coastal Park: A great diversity of palaeoenvironments for the dinosaurs of the Villar del Arzobispo Formation (Teruel, eastern Spain). Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology584: 154-177. Link
• Suarez-Gonzalez, P.; Quijada, I.E.; Benito, M.I.; Mas, R. (2016) Do stromatolites need tides to trap ooids? Insights from a Cretaceous system of coastal-wetlands. In: Tessier, B., Reynaud, J.Y. (eds) Contributions to Modern and Ancient Tidal Sedimentology. IAS Special Publication 47: 161-190. Link
• Suarez-Gonzalez, P.; Benito, M.I.; Mas, R.; Quijada, I.E.; Campos-Soto, S. (2016) Influence of Keuper and late-variscan structure on the architecture of syn-extensional units of the northern margin of the Cameros Basin.Geo-Temas 16 (1): 185-188. Link
• Suarez-Gonzalez, P.; Quijada, I.E.; Benito, M.I.; Mas, R. (2015) Sedimentology of ancient coastal wetlands: Insights from a Cretaceous multifaceted depositional system. Journal of Sedimentary Research85: 95-117. Link
• Suárez González, P. (2015) Sedimentology and paleogeography of the coastal wetland systems of the Leza Fm (Early Cretaceous, Cameros Basin): implications on the origin and development of associated microbial deposits. PhD Thesis, 363 pp. ISBN: 978-84-608-3251-5. Link
• Suarez-Gonzalez, P.; Quijada, I.E.; Benito, M.I.; Mas, R.; Merinero, R.; Riding, R. (2014) Origin and significance of lamination in Lower Cretaceous stromatolites and proposal for a quantitative approach. Sedimentary Geology300: 11-27. Link
• Quijada, I.E.; Suarez-Gonzalez, P.; Benito, M.I.; Lugli, S.; Mas, R. (2014) From carbonate-sulphate interbeds to carbonate breccias: the role of tectonic deformation and diagenetic processes (Cameros Basin, Lower Cretaceous, N Spain). Sedimentary Geology312: 76-93. Link
• Suarez-Gonzalez, P.; Quijada, I.E.; Benito, M.I.; Mas, R. (2013) Eustatic versus tectonic control in an intraplate rift basin (Leza Fm, Cameros Basin). Chronostratigraphic and paleogeographic implications for the Aptian of Iberia. Journal of Iberian Geology39: 285-312. Link
• Quijada, I.E.; Suarez-Gonzalez, P.; Benito, M.I.; Mas, R. (2013) Depositional depth of laminated carbonate deposits: insights from the Lower Cretaceous Valdeprado Formation (Cameros Basin, northern Spain).Journal of Sedimentary Research 83: 241-257. Link