Publications

Articles in peer-reviewed international journals

Mezri, L, García-Pintado, J, Pérez-Gussinyé, M, Liu, Z, Bach, W and Cannat, M (2024) Tectonic controls on melt production and crustal architecture during magma-poor seafloor spreading. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 628. 118569. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118569

Pérez-Gussinyé, M, Xin, Y, Cunha, T, Ram, R, Andrés-Martínez, M, Dong, D and García-Pintado, J (2024) Synrift and post-rift thermal evolution of rifted margins: a re-evaluation of classic models of extension. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 547(1). doi:10.1144/sp547-2023-128

Jiménez‐Díaz, A, Negredo, AM, Kirby, JF, Sánchez‐Pastor, P, Fullea, J, Ruiz, J, Pérez‐Gussinyé, M and Yu, C (2023) The mechanical nature of the lithosphere beneath the Eastern Central Atlantic hotspots. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 24(3). doi:10.1029/2022GC010608

Liu, Z, Pérez-Gussinyé, M, García-Pintado, J, Mezri, L and Bach, W (2023) Mantle serpentinization and associated hydrogen flux at North Atlantic magma-poor rifted margins. Geology, 51(3). 284-289. doi:10.1130/G50722.1

McClay, K., Khalil, S.M., Bosworth, W. & Pérez-Gussinyé, M., Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the northwestern Red Sea Egypt - a review, The Red Sea - Volume 2 Geology, edited by N. Rasul & I. Stewart, published by Taylor & Francis, 2023.

Pérez-Gussinyé, M, Collier, JS, Armitage, JJ, Hopper, JR, Sun, Z and Ranero, CR (2023) Towards a process-based understanding of rifted continental margins. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 4(3). 166-184. doi:10.1038/s43017-022-00380-y

Raghuram, G, Pérez-Gussinyé, M, Andrés-Martínez, M, García-Pintado, J, Neto Araujo, M and Morgan, JP (2023) Asymmetry and evolution of craton-influenced rifted margins. Geology. doi:10.1130/G51370.1

Araujo, MN, Pérez-Gussinyé, M and Muldashev, I (2022) Oceanward rift migration during formation of Santos–Benguela ultra-wide rifted margins. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 524(1). doi:10.1144/SP524-2021-123

Liu, Z, Pérez-Gussinyé, M, Rüpke, L, Muldashev, IA, Minshull, TA and Bayrakci, G (2022) Lateral coexistence of ductile and brittle deformation shapes magma-poor distal margins: An example from the West Iberia-Newfoundland margins. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 578. 117288. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117288

Muldashev, IA, Pérez‐Gussinyé, M and Sobolev, SV (2022) Modeling of continental normal fault earthquakes. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23(12). doi:10.1029/2022GC010615

Pérez‐Gussinyé, M and Liu, Z (2022) Numerical Modeling of Rifting: An Overviewx. In: Peron-Pinvidic, G (ed.) Continental Rifted Margins 1. Wiley ISTE Ltd., 265-307. doi:10.1002/9781119986928.ch5

Albers, E, Bach, W, Pérez-Gussinyé, M, McCammon, C and Frederichs, T (2021) Serpentinization-Driven H2 production from continental break-up to mid-ocean ridge spreading: Unexpected high rates at the West Iberia margin. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9. doi:10.3389/feart.2021.673063

Muldashev, IA, Pérez-Gussinyé, M and Cavalcanti de Araújo, MN (2021) KineDyn: Thermomechanical forward method for validation of seismic interpretations and investigation of dynamics of rifts and rifted margins. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 317. 106748. doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2021.106748

Lamb, S, Moore, JDP, Perez‐Gussinye, M and Stern, T (2020) Global whole lithosphere isostasy: implications for surface elevations, structure, strength, and densities of the continental lithosphere. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21(10). doi:10.1029/2020GC009150

Morgan, JP, Taramón, JM, Araujo, M, Hasenclever, J and Perez-Gussinye, M (2020) Causes and consequences of asymmetric lateral plume flow during South Atlantic rifting. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(45). 27877-27883. doi:10.1073/pnas.2012246117

Pérez‐Gussinyé, M, Andrés‐Martínez, M, Araújo, M, Xin, Y, Armitage, J and Morgan, JP (2020) Lithospheric strength and rift migration controls on synrift stratigraphy and breakup unconformities at rifted margins: examples from numerical models, the Atlantic and South China Sea margins. Tectonics, 39(12). doi:10.1029/2020TC006255

Andrés‐Martínez, M, Pérez-Gussinyé, M, Armitage, J and Morgan, JP (2019) Thermomechanical implications of sediment transport for the architecture and evolution of continental rifts and margins. Tectonics, 38(2). 641-665. doi:10.1029/2018TC005346

Armitage, JJ, Petersen, KD and Pérez-Gussinyé, M (2018) The role of crustal strength in controlling magmatism and melt chemistry during rifting and breakup. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19(2). 534-550. doi:10.1002/2017GC007326

Zhao, Z, Sun, Z, Liu, J, Pérez-Gussinyé, M and Zhuo, H (2018) The continental extension discrepancy and anomalous subsidence pattern in the western Qiongdongnan Basin, South China Sea. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 501. 180-191. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2018.08.048

Brune, S, Heine, C, Clift, PD and Pérez-Gussinyé, M (2017) Rifted margin architecture and crustal rheology: Reviewing Iberia-Newfoundland, Central South Atlantic, and South China Sea. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 79. 257-281. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2016.10.018

Melnick, D, Yıldırım, C, Hillemann, C, Garcin, Y, Çiner, A, Pérez-Gussinyé, M and Strecker, MR (2017) Slip along the Sultanhanı Fault in Central Anatolia from deformed Pleistocene shorelines of palaeo-lake Konya and implications for seismic hazards in low-strain regions. Geophysical Journal International, 209(3). 1431-1454. doi:10.1093/gji/ggx074

Ros, E, Pérez-Gussinyé, M, Araújo, M, Thoaldo Romeiro, M, Andrés-Martínez, M and Morgan, JP (2017) Lower crustal strength controls on melting and serpentinization at magma-poor margins: potential implications for the South Atlantic. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 18(12). 4538-4557. doi:10.1002/2017GC007212

Bayrakci, G, Minshull, TA, Sawyer, DS, Reston, TJ, Klaeschen, D, Papenberg, C, Ranero, C, Bull, JM, Davy, RG, Shillington, DJ, Pérez-Gussinyé, M and Morgan, JK (2016) Fault-controlled hydration of the upper mantle during continental rifting. Nature Geoscience, 9(5). 384-388. doi:10.1038/NGEO2671

Andrés-Martínez,M., Morgan,J.P., Pérez-Gussinyé,M., Rüpke,L. (2015). A new free-surface stabilization algorithm for geodynamical modelling: Theory and numerical tests. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 246, 41-51. doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2015.07.003 .

Brune, S., Heine, C., Pérez-Gussinyé, M., Sobolev, S. V. (2014): Rift migration causes continental margin asymmetry and crustal hyper-extension. In: Nature Communications, 5, 4014, doi: 10.1038/ncomms5014

Jimenez-Diaz, A., Ruiz J., Pérez-Gussinyé, M., Álvarez-Gómez, Kirby, Tejero R., Capote R. (2014): Spatial variations of effective elastic thickness and mechanical anisotropy of the lithosphere in Central America and surrounding regions. In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 391, 55–66. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.01.042

Deng, Y.F., Zhang, Z.J., Fan, W.M., Pérez-Gussinyé, M. (2013): Multitaper spectral method to estimate the elastic thickness of South China and its implications for intracontinental deformation. In: Geoscience Frontiers, Volume 5, Issue 2, 193-203. doi: 10.1016/j.gsf.2013.05.002

Pérez-Gussinyé M. (2013): A tectonic model for hyperextension at magma-poor rifted margins: an example from the West Iberia–Newfoundland conjugate margins. In: Geological Society., London, Spec. Publ., 369. doi:10.1144/SP369.19

Rüpke LH., Schmid DW., Pérez-Gussinyé M., Hartz E. (2013): Interrelation between rifting, faulting, sedimentation, and mantle serpentinization during continental margin formation—including examples from the Norwegian Sea. In: G-cubed, Volume 14, Issue 10, 4351–4369. doi: 10.1002/ggge.20268

Manea, V., Pérez-Gussinyé, Manea M. (2012): Chilean flat-slab subduction controlled by overriding plate thickness and trench roll-back. In: Geology, 40 (1), 35-38, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1130/G32543.1

Jiménez-Munt, Fernàndez, Vergés, Garcia-Castellanos, Pérez-Gussinyé (2011): Decoupled accommodation of convergence between Africa and Eurasia. Modelling the lithospheric structure across the Gorringe Bank and the NW Morrocan margin. In: Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 116, Issue B8. https://doi.org/10.1029/2010JB008105

Lowry, Pérez-Gussinyé (2011): The role of crustal quartz in controlling Cordilleran deformation. In: Nature, Vol. 471, p. 353-357, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09912

Ranero, Pérez-Gussinyé* (2010): Sequential faulting explains the asymmetry and extension discrepancy of conjugate margins. In: Nature, Vol. 468, p. 294-299, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09520. * authors have contributed equally to this work.

Pérez-Gussinyé, M., M. Metois, M. Fernández, J. Vergés, J. Fullea & A.R. Lowry (2009): Effective Elastic Thickness of Africa and its relationship to other proxies for lithospheric structure and surface tectonics. In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 287, 152-167, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2009.08.004

Pérez-Gussinyé, M., C. Swain, J. Kirby & A.R. Lowry (2009): Spatial variations of the effective elastic thickness using multitaper spectral estimation and wavelet method: examples from synthetic data and application to South America. In: G-cubed, 10, Q04005, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1029/2008GC002229

Pérez-Gussinyé, M., A.R. Lowry, J. Phipps Morgan & A. Tassara (2008): Effective Elastic Thickness along the Andean margin and their relationship to subduction geometry. In: G-cubed, Volume 9, Issue 2, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1029/2007GC001786

Pérez-Gussinyé, M., A.R. Lowry, A.B. Watts (2007): Effective Elastic Thickness of South America and its implications for intracontinental deformation. In: G-cubed, Volume 8, Issue 5, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GC001511

Reston T.J & M. Pérez-Gussinyé (2007): Lithospheric extension from rifting to continental break-up at magma-poor margins: rheology, serpentinisation and symmetry. In: Int. Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 96, Issue 6, pp 1033–1046, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-006-0161-z

Pérez-Gussinyé, M., J.P. Morgan, T.J Reston & C.R. Ranero (2006): The rift to drift transition at non-volcanic margins: Insights from numerical modelling. In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 244, 458-473, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2006.01.059

Pérez-Gussinyé, M. & A.B. Watts (2005): The long-term strength of Europe and its implications for plate forming processes. In: Nature 436, 381-384, 2005. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature03854

Pérez-Gussinyé, M., A.R. Lowry, A.B. Watts & I. Velicogna (2004): On the recovery of the effective elastic thickness using spectral methods: Examples from synthetic data and from the Fennoscandian Shield. In: Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, 2004. https://doi.org/10.1029/2003JB002788

Reston, T.J., C.R. Ranero, O. Ruoff, M. Pérez-Gussinyé & J.J. Danobeitia (2004): Geometry of extensional faults developed at slow-spreading centers from pre-stack depth migration of seismic reflection data in the Central Atlantic. In: Geophysical Journal International, 159, 591-606, 2004. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02444.x

Pérez-Gussinyé, M., C.R. Ranero, T.J. Reston & D. Sawyer (2003): Mechanisms of extension at nonvolcanic margins: Evidence from the Galicia Interior basin, west of Iberia. In: Journal of Geophysical Research, 108, 2003. https://doi.org/10.1029/2001JB000901

Pérez-Gussinyé, M., T.J. Reston & J.P. Morgan (2001): Serpentinization and magmatism during extension at non-volcanic margins: the effect of initial lithospheric structure, in Non-volcanic rifting of continental margins: a comparison of evidence from land and sea. In: Geological Society Special Publ., 187, 551-576, 2001. https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2001.187.01.27

Pérez-Gussinyé, M. & T.J. Reston (2001): Rheological evolution during extension at nonvolcanic margins: Onset of serpentinization and development of detachments leading to continental breakup. In: Journal of Geophysical Research, 106, 3961-3975, 2001. https://doi.org/10.1029/2000JB900325

Reston, T.J., J. Pennel, A. Stubenrauch, I. Walker & M. Pérez-Gussinyé (2001): Detachment faulting, mantle serpentinization, and serpentinite-mud volcanism beneath the Porcupine Basin, southwest Ireland. In: Geology, 29, 587-590, 2001. https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029%3C0587:DFMSAS%3E2.0.CO;2