Oriol Ferrer

Oriol Ferrer

Senior lecturer

ORCID: 0000-0001-5545-9992
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 ... + info

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 .
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)