Oscar Gratacos Torra

Lecturer Professor

ORCID: 0000-0002-5328-9114

Scopus Author ID: 24779195000

Researcher ID: K-8810-2014

Knowledge area: Geodinàmica Interna

Secretary of the 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
C/Martí i Franqués s/n

ogratacos(a)ub.edu

Teaching

Numerical modelling of geological processes

Structural Geology

3D reconstruction of geological surfaces

Sequence stratigraphy - numerical modelling

Academic Training

Llicenciat en Geología . Facultat de Geología . 1999 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Doctor en Geología . Facultat de Geología . 13/12/2004 . (Ph.D.)

Research interests

Numerical modelling of geological processes

3D reconstruction of geological surfaces

Digital virtual outcrop models

Projects

3D Carbonates Deposition and 3D Mechanical Model . 2012 - 2013 . Ref.307145 . Repsol YPF, S.A. . PI: Oscar Gratacos Torra; Josep Antoni Muñoz de la Fuente

3D Conceptual Diagenesis Model . 2012 - 2013 . Ref.307123 . Repsol YPF, S.A. . PI: Josep Antoni Muñoz de la Fuente; Oscar Gratacos Torra

3D Discrete Fracture Network Modelling from Laser scanner data, including detection and characterization . 2012 - 2013 . Ref.307146 . Repsol YPF, S.A. . PI: Oscar Gratacos Torra; Pau Arbues Cazo

Caracterización estructural y geofísica de reservorios asociados a estructuras de tectónica salina de carácter contractivo . 2015 - 2017 . Ref.CGL2014-54118-C2-1-R . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Eduard Roca Abella; Alejandro Marcuello Pascual

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

Journal Publications

Gratacós, O.; Bitzer, K.; Casamor, J.L.; Cabrera, L.; Calafat, A.; Canals, M.; Roca, E. (2009). Simulating transport and deposition of clastic sediments in an elongate lacustrine basin using the SIMSAFADIM-CLASTIC program: the Camarasa artificial lake case study (NE Spain). Sedimentary Geology, 222(1-2), pp. 16 - 26 . ISSN: 0037-0738

Carmona, A.; Clavera-Gispert, R.; Gratacós, O.; Hardy, S. (2010). Modelling syntectonic sedimentation: combining a discrete element model of tectonic. Deformation and process-based sedimentary Model in 3D. Mathematical Geosciences, 42(5), pp. 519 - 534 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1874-8961

Snidero, M.; Amilibia, A.; Gratacós, O.; Blanc, E-J.P; Muñoz, J.A. (2011). The 3D reconstruction of geological structures based on remote sensing data: example from the Anaran anticline, Lurestan province, Zagros fold and thrust belt, Iran. Journal of the Geological Society, 168, pp. 769 - 782 . ISSN: 0016-7649

García-Sellés, D.; Falivene, O.; Arbués, P.; Gratacós, O.; Tavani, S.; Muñoz, J.A. (2011).

Supervised identiﬁcation and reconstruction of near-planar geological surfaces from terrestrial laser scanning

. Computers & Geosciences, 37, pp. 1584 - 1594 . ISSN: 0098-3004

Santanach, P.; Casas, J.M.; Gratacós, O.; Liesa, M.; Muñoz, J.A.; Sàbat, F. (2011). Variscan and Alpine structure of the hills of Barcelona: geology in an urban area. Journal of Iberian Geology, 37(2), pp. 121 - 136 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1698-6180

Clavera-Gispert, R.; Carmona, A.; Gratacós, O.; Tolosana-Delgado, R. (2012). Incorporating nutrients as a limiting factor in carbonate modelling. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 329-330, pp. 150 - 157 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0031-0182

Mencos, J.; Gratacós, O.; Farré, M.; Escalante, J.; Arbués, P.; Muñoz, J.A. (2012). Orientation domains: A mobile grid clustering algorithm with spherical corrections. Computers & Geosciences, 49, pp. 140 - 150 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0098-3004

Carmona A.; Gratacós O.; Clavera-Gispert R.; Muñoz J.A.; Hardy S. (2016). Numerical modelling of syntectonic subaqueous sedimentation: The effect of normal faulting and a relay ramp on sediment dispersal. Tectonophysics . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2016.06.018 . ISSN: 0040-1951

Muñoz, J.A.; Mencos. J.; Roca, E., Carrera, N.; Gratacós, O.; Ferrer, O.; Fernández, O. (2018). The structure of the South-Central-Pyrenean fold and thrust belt as constrained by subsurface data. Geologica Acta, 16(4), pp. 439 - 460 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1695-6133

Gratacós, O.; Bover-Arnal, T.; Clavera-Gispert, R.; Carmona, A.; García-Sellés, D. (2021). Forward numerical modelling constraining environmental parameters (Aptian carbonate system, E Iberia). Marine and Petroleum Geology, 124, p. 104822 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0264-8172

Others Publications

García-Sellés, D.; Gratacós, O.; Granado, P.; Carrera, N.; Muñoz, J.A.; Sarmiento, S.; Lakshmikantha, M.R.; Cordova, J.C. (2018). Fracture analog of the sub-andean devonian of southern bolivia: lidar applied to abra del condor . In Petroleum basins and hydrocarbon potential of the Andes of Peru and Bolivia, AAPG Memoir 117 . Volume. 117 . (pp. 569 - 604) . American Association of Petroleum Geologists .

Gratacós, O.; García-Sellés, D.; Escuer, J.; Muñoz, J.A. (2018). Actuacions geològiques per a la remediació dels aqüífers de la zona de Sallent-Súria .

Gratacós, O.; Muñoz, J.A; (2015). Densificació del model 3D de Catalunya a la zona del Baix Empordà .

Gratacós, O.; Sàbat, F.; Muñoz, J.A; (2008). Sector Nord del túnel AVE Girona. Tall i informe geològic .

Gratacós, O.; Muñoz, J.A; (2014). Densificació del model 3D de Catalunya - Àrea de l'Empordà .

Relevant Activities

Shelf Margins and The Generation of Turbidites. A worshop prepared by Ron Steel and Andy Petter for Norsk Hydro. Oslo (Norway)

Field Guide to the Shannon Basin, County Clare, Western Ireland

Curs de Geoestadística

Acreditació Professor Lector per l'AQU

Direcció i impartició del Fieldtrip post congrés GeoMod2018 titulat: 'Thrust and Inversion Tectonics in the Pyrenees (the Oliana - Organyà transect'