Oriol Ferrer

Senior lecturer

Scopus Author ID: 57156158300

Researcher ID: K-8711-2014

Knowledge area: Geodinàmica Interna

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
Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l'Oceà, Facultat de Ciències de la Terra - Universitat de Barcelona, C/ Martí i Franquès s/n
934021388
joferrer(a)ub.edu

My profile

In 2012, he received his PhD in Earth Sciences with honors (suma cum-laude) by the University of Barcelona with the thesis entitled 'Salt tectonics in the Parentis Basin (Bay of Biscay): Origin and kinematics of salt structures in a hyperextended margin affected by subsequent contractional deformation'. During the PhD., he benefited from training stays at the Institute Français du Pétrole, Bureau of Economic Geology and the Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille 1. Between 2013-2014, he had a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Fault Dynamics Research Group (Royal Holloway University of London), where he helped further develop the modelling laboratories to include new experimental apparatus for extension, inversion and salt tectonics. This fellowship was founded by the STAR Petroleum Industry Consortium that required focused research on field and seismic specific problems. In 2014 he joined the Salt-Sediment Interaction Research Consortium (University of Texas at El Paso) comprising a research team formed by internationally recognized scientists and private consultants working in specific problems related to salt tectonics. Since 2010, he combines his research with heading up the Analogue Modelling Laboratory of the Geomodels Research Institute (UB). He has supervised all the experimental programs since 2012 and implemented innovative 3D analysis techniques. He has given invited keynote talks on analogue modelling of salt tectonics in different oil companies (Shell, Repsol, Winthersall, Total, Serica Energy, etc).

Since 2011 he has been teaching different subjects at the Geology, Geological Engineer, and Marine Sciences degrees, and in the Reservoir Geology & Geophysics and the Geology and Mines Engineering Masters. He has supervised 6 TFG and 20 TFM projects, and he is currently supervising 4 PhDs. He oversees the Educational & Scientific Cooperation Program between the Institute of Geological Sciences - Polish Academy of Sciences and the UB.

His initial work focused on the 2D/3D geometry of fault systems and salt dynamics in salt-bearing extensional basins subsequently inverted and incorporated in fold-&-thrust belts. Based on advanced analogue modelling techniques, field studies and 2D/3D seismic reflection datasets, his current research is related to the salt kinematics in different structural scenarios (rift basins, fold-&-thrust belts, basin inversion, passive margins). Part of his work has been published in different peer-reviewed journals.

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Academic Training

Llicenciat en Geologia . Facultat de Geologia - Universitat de Barcelona . 20/07/2002 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Doctor en Ciències de la Terra . Universitat de Barcelona . 13/09/2012 . (Ph.D.)

Research interests

Geodynamic analogue modeling

Seismic reflexion interpretation

Salt tectonics

Projects

Estructura y deformación de márgenes pasivos que involucran capas de sal . 2021 - 2025 . Ref.PID2020-117598GB-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Josep Antoni Muñoz de la Fuente; Jose Oriol Ferrer Garcia

A natural open museum in the Pyrenees: virtual reallity experience for dissemination and conservation of the geological and cultural heritage (VIGEOCULT) . 2021 - 2024 . Ref.PLEC2021-007903 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Josep Antoni Muñoz de la Fuente

Transición digital en Geología: Nuevos retos a partir de datos de campo y laboratorio . 2022 - 2024 . Ref.TED2021-130602B-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Eduard Roca Abella; Jose Oriol Ferrer Garcia

Study on Salt Structures of Western Greece . 2022 - 2023 . Ref.311832 . HELLENIC PETROLEUM . PI: Josep Antoni Muñoz de la Fuente; Jose Oriol Ferrer Garcia

Study on Salt Structures of Western Greece . 2020 - 2021 . Ref.310937 . HELLENIC PETROLEUM . PI: Josep Antoni Muñoz de la Fuente; Jose Oriol Ferrer Garcia

Journal Publications

Rowan, M.G.; Muñoz, J.A.; Giles, K.A.; Roca, E.; Hearon IV T.E.; Fiduk, J.C.; Ferrer, O.; Fischer, M.P. (2020). Folding and fracturing of rocks adjacent to salt diapirs. Journal of Structural Geology, 141(104187) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0191-8141

Roca, E,; Ferrer, O.; Rowan, M. G.; Muñoz, J.A.; Butillé, M.; Giles, K.; Arbués, P.; de Matteis, M. (2020). Salt tectonics and controls on halokinetic-sequence development of an exposed deepwater diapir: The Bakio Diapir, Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Pyrenees. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 123(104770) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0264-8172

Pichel, L.M.; Jackson, C.A.-L.; Peel, F.; Ferrer, O. (2021). The Merluza Graben: How a failed spreading center influenced margin structure, and salt deposition and tectonics in the Santos Basin, Brazil. Tectonics, 40(10), p. e2020TC006640 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0278-7407

Uranga, R.M.; Ferrer, O.; Zamora, G.; Muñoz, J.A.; Rowan, M.G. (2022). Salt tectonics of the offshore Tarfaya Basin, Moroccan Atlantic margin. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 138(105521) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0264-8172

Pichel, L. M.; Ferrer, O.; Jackson, C. A.-L.; Roca, E. (2022). Physical modelling of the interplay between salt-detached gravity gliding and spreading across complex rift topography, Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. Basin Research . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0950-091X

Zwaan, F.; Schreurs, G.; Buiter, S.J.H.; Ferrer, O.; Reitano, R.; Rudolf, M.; Willingshofer, E. (2022). Analogue modelling of basin inversion: a review and future perspectives. Solid Earth, 13(12), pp. 1859 - 1905 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1869-9510

Ferrer, O.; Carola, E.; McClay, K.; Bufaliza, N. (2023). Analogue modeling of domino-style extensional basement fault systems with prekinematic salt. AAPG Bulletin, 107(1), pp. 23 - 47 . https://doi.org/10.1306/08072221188 . ISSN: 0149-1423

Cofrade, G.; Cantarero, I.; Gratacós, Ò.; Ferrer, O.; Ramirez-Perez, P.; Travé, A.; Roca, E. (2023). Allochthonous salt advance recorded by the adjacent syn-kinematic sedimentation: Example from the Les Avellanes diapir (South Central Pyrenees). Global and Planetary Change, 220(104020) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0921-8181

Miró, J.; Ferrer, O.; Muñoz, J.A.; Manastchal, G. (2023). Role of inheritance during tectonic inversion of a rift system in basement-involved to salt-decoupled transition: Analogue modelling and application to the Pyrenean-Biscay system. Solid Earth, 14(4), pp. 425 - 445 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1869-9510

Ferrer, O.; Carola, E.; McClay, K. (2023). Structural control of inherited salt structures during inversion of a domino basement-fault system from an analogue modelling approach. Solid Earth, 14(5), pp. 571 - 589 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1869-9510

Others Publications

Ferrer, O.; Jackson, M.P.A.; Roca, E.; Rubinat, M. (2012). Evolution of salt structures during extension and inversion of the Offshore Parentis Basin (Eastern Bay of Biscay) . In Salt Tectonics, sediments and prospectivity . Volume. 363 . Number. 363 . (pp. 359 - 357) . Geological Society of London .

Carola, E; Tavani, S.; Ferrer, O.; Granado, P.; Quintà, A.; Butillé, M.; Muñoz, J.A. (2013). Along-strike extrusion at the transition between thin- and thick-skinned domains in the Pyrenean Orogen (northern Spain) . In Thick-Skin-Dominated Orogens: From Initial Inversion to Full Accretion . Volume. 377 . Geological Society of London .

Ferrer, O.; Santolaria, P.; Muñoz, J.A.; Granado, P.; Roca, E.; Gratacos, O.; Snidero, M. (2022). Chapter 3. Analogue modeling as a tool to assist seismic structural interpretation in the andean fold-and-thrust belt . In Andean Structural Styles. A Seismic Atlas. . (pp. 43 - 61) . Elsevier . ISBN: 9780323851756 . https://www.elsevier.com/books/andean-structural-styles/zamora/978-0-323-85175-6

Zamora, G.; Carter, B; Ferrer, O. (2022). Chapter 21. Large transport thrust in the Huallaga sub-Basin (northern Peruvian subAndean zone) . In Andean Structural Styles. A Seismic Atlas. . (pp. 275 - 284) . Elsevier . ISBN: 978-0-323-85175-6 . https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780323851756000213

Scarselli, N.; Bilal, A.; McClay, K.; Ferrer, O.; Gumprecht, S.; Paten, T. (2022). Seismic geomorphology as a tool to explore the georesource potential of slope failuresdexamples from offshore North West Shelf, Australia . In Interpreting subsurface seismic data . (pp. 33 - 59) . Elsevier . ISBN: 978-0-12-818562-9 . Publicació online (https://www.elsevier.com/books/interpreting-subsurface-seismic-data/bell/978-0-12-818562-9)