Eduard Roca Abella

Associate professor

ORCID: 0000-0002-0827-4175

Scopus Author ID: 7006297615

Researcher ID: K-4468-2014

Knowledge area: Geodinàmica Interna

Director de l'Institut de Recerca Geomodels

Grup de Geodinàmica i Anàlisi de Conques (GGAC)

Teaching Innovation Groups: GI-DINTO - Grup d’Innovació de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l’Oceà

Contact Information
Department of Earth and Ocean Dynamics
Martí Franqués, s-n
934035912
eduardroca(a)ub.edu

Academic Training

Geología . Universitat de Barcelona . 30/06/1986 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Geología . Universitat de Barcelona . 19/03/1992 . (Ph.D.)

Research interests

Evolución y estructura de la corteza del sector oriental de Iberia

Relaciones tectónica-sedimentación en estructuras compresivas

Tectónica salina del Prebético oriental

Geodinámica y perfiles de sísmica de reflexión profunda

Projects

Geological characterization of the southern zone of the Valencia Trough . 2013 - 2013 . Ref.FBG 307105 . CAIRN EBERGY PLC . PI: EDUARD ROCA ABELLA

Structural and sedimentary evolution of the Valencia Basin, identification of petroleum systems . 2014 - 2017 . Ref.FBG307750 . PONTOISE . PI: EDUARD ROCA ABELLA

Salt tectonics modelling at KUQA foreland and thrust belt, Tarim Oilfield . 2015 - 2017 . Ref.FBG308224 . CNPC USA COORPORATION . PI: EDUARD ROCA ABELLA

Fase New Data Collection Analyses (NDCA) para el proyecto Actualización de la Caracterización Sísmica de las Centrales Nucleares Española: CN Ascó, CN Vandellós y CN Cofrentes . 2017 - 2018 . Ref.FBG309294 . Iberdrola Ingeniería y Construcción S.A. Sociedad Unipersonal . PI: EDUARD ROCA ABELLA, EULALIA MASANA, MARIA ORTUÑO

Tectónica Salina en cinturones contractivos . 2018 - 2020 . Ref.CGL2017-85532-P . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Eduard Roca Abella

Journal Publications

Roca, E.; Anadón, P.; Utrilla, R.; Vázquez, A. (1996). Rise, closure and reactivation of the Bicorb-Quesa evaporite diapir (eastern Prebetics, Spain). Journal of the Geological Society, 152(2), pp. 311 - 321 . ISSN: 0016-7649

Roca, E.; Sans, M.; Cabrera, L.; Marzo, M. (1999). Oligocene to Middle Miocene Evolution of the Central Catalan Margin (North-Western Mediterranean). Tectonophysics, 315(1-4), pp. 209 - 229 . ISSN: 0040-1951

Gaspar-Escribano, J.M.;García-Castellanos, D.; Roca, E.; Cloetingh, S. (2004). Cenozoic vertical motions of the Catalan Coastal Ranges (NE Spain): the role of tectonics, isostasy and surface transport. Tectonics, 23(TC1004), pp. 1 - 18 . ISSN: 0278-7407

Roca, E.; Sans, M.; Koyi, H. (2006). Polyphase deformation of diapiric areas in models and in the Eastern Prebetics (Spain). AAPG Bulletin, 90(1), pp. 115 - 136 . ISSN: 0149-1423

Roca, E.; Muñoz, J.A.; Ferrer, O.; Ellouz, N. (2011). The role of the Bay of Biscai Mesozoic extensional estructure in the configuration of the Pyrenean orogen: Constraints from the MARCONI deep seismic reflection survey. Tectonics, 30(2) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0278-7407

Roca, E.; Beamud, E.; Rubinat, M.; Soto, R.; Ferrer, O. (2013). Paleomagnetic and inner diapiric structural constraints on the kinematic evolution of a salt-wall: the Bicorb-Quesa and northern Navarrés salt-wall segments case (Prebetic Zone, SE Iberia). Journal of Structural Geology, 52, pp. 80 - 95 . ISSN: 0191-8141

Escosa, F.; Roca, E.; Ferrer, O. (2018). Testing thin-skinned inversion of a prerift salt-bearing passive margin (Eastern Prebetic Zone, SE Iberia). Journal of Structural Geology, 109, pp. 55 - 73 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2018.01.004 . ISSN: 0191-8141

Izquierdo-Llavall E.; Roca, E.; Xie, H.; Pla, O.; Muñoz, J.A.; Rowan, M.G.; Yuan, H.; Huang, S. (2018). Influence of overlapping décollements, syn-tectonic sedimentation and structural inheritace in the evolution of contractional system: The central Kuqa fold-and-thrust bely (Tian Shan Mountains, NW China). Tectonics, 37(8), pp. 2608 - 2632 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0278-7407

Granado, P.; Roca, E.; Strauss, P.; Pelz, K.; Muñoz, J.A. (2019). Structural styles in fold-and-thrust belts involving early salt structures: The Northern Calcareous Alps (Austria). Geology, 47(1), pp. 51 - 54 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0091-7613

Pla, O.; Roca, E.; Xie, H.; Izquierdo-Lavall, E.; Muñoz, J.A.; Rowan, M.G.; Ferrer, O.; Gratacós, O.; Yuan, N.; Huang, S. (2019). Influence of Syntectonic sedimentation and décollement rheology on the geometry and evolution of orogenic wedges: analog modelling of the Kuqa Fold-and-thrust belt (NW China). Tectonics, 38(8), pp. 2727 - 2755 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0278-7407

Relevant Activities

Miembro del Comité Editorial de la revista geológica 'Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France'

Miembro de la International Association of Structural/Tectonic Geologists

Miembro del Comité Editorial de la revista geológica 'Geologica Acta'