...Pilar Lapuente; Trinidad Nogales-Basarrate; Hernando Royo; Mauro Brilli Abstract This contribution reports the results of the archaeometric study of 51 marble sculptures and decorative elements from the capital of Roman Lusitania , Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain). These artefacts found on display...

... a. C.), in Tarteso: nuevas fronteras , S. Celestino, and E. Rodríguez González (Editors), Instituto de Arqueología de Mérida—CSIC, Mérida, Spain (in Spanish)”. All websites were last accessed November 2022. The author acknowledges that there are no conflicts of interest recorded...

... Symposium on Geodesy for Earthquake and Natural Hazards (GENAH 2014), Matsushima, Miyagi, Japan 2–6 June. 30th IUGG Conference on Mathematical Geophysics, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico http://eventos.iingen.unam.mx/IUGG2014/ 8–11 June. 2014 IRIS Workshop, Sunriver, Oregon, U.S.A. http...

... on the most extensive sand bars. The largest concentration of people on the coast is located in the central region north of Merida, the capital city of the State of Yucatan. In this area shipping activities take place in a harbor protected by a 7km-long breakwater. A secondary harbor, Yucalpeten, also located...

... Merida Andes). The stratigraphic relations of the Cogollo Group are shown in Figure 2 . The principal source rock in the Maracaibo Basin is the La Luna Formation composed of bituminous shaly and marly limestones. The Colon Formation, a predominantly shale unit, provides the regional seal...

... to be imported from other countries of the Roman Empire, the most plausible being Cyprus and northern Italy, both well-known sources during the Classic era. Cinnabar was also imported from other regions of the Empire, the most famous of which were, according to Theophrastus, Spain and ancient Colchis (present...

... Extremadura , Mérida , 435 – 452 . García-Alcalde J.L. Carls P. Pardo-Alonso M.V. Sanz López J. Soto F. Truyols-Massoni M. Valenzuela-Rios J.I. 2002 . Devonian . In : Gibbons W. Moreno T. (eds) The Geology of Spain . Geological Society , London...

... incomplete with fundamental questions about the Phanerozoic tectonic evolution lingering. Crustal blocks such as Maya, Oaxaquia, Mérida Andes, Chortís, and Coahuila were separated from the western margin of Gondwana in the early Paleozoic and subsequently incorporated into Paleozoic collisional orogens...

... area, Galaperosa, in the Illamados mountains near Almaden de La Plata, a small town 55 km from Seville, along the ancient Italica-Merida Roman road. These types of marble are known in Spain by the local term “ anasol ”. Minero-petrographic and chemical study of 8 samples (abandoned quarry...

... interaction. Microbotryoidal masses of green nontronite with impurities of kaolinite, illite, barite, amorphous silica and iron oxyhydroxides are found as vein and cavity fillings in deeply kaolinized rhyolites and rhyolitic tuffs of Precambrian age, at Oliva de Mérida in SW Spain. Clay mineral...

..., OF—Oca fault, CF—Cuisa fault, SMBF—Santa Marta–Bucaramanga fault, GU—Guajira basin, PSJ—Plato–San Jorge basin MA—Mérida Andes, BF—Boconó fault, FB—Falcon basin, WC—Western Cordillera, CC—Central Cordillera, EC—Eastern Cordillera, MV—Magdalena Valley, PB—Panamá block. In its southern part...

...M. Francisco Pereira; Carlos Fernández; Carmen Rodríguez; António Castro Abstract U–Pb ages of zircon from samples of tonalite and migmatite from the Central Iberian Zone (Spain) previously assigned to the Carboniferous were obtained using a sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe. These ages...

... factors that determined the size and number of blocks that could be transported. Spain’s earliest inland connections were the roads built by the Romans. Two roads ran very close to Madrid: one connected Emeritaugusta (today’s Mérida, in the SW of the Toledo region) and Cesaraugusta (now Zaragoza...

... that the source of this clastic material was created by some precursory orogenic movement preluding the following paroxysm. An emergence of the Cordillera de Mérida at the end of the Cretaceous period does not seem probable, since, according to Kehrer (Lit. 31) and Kündig (Lit. 38, p. 31), the outcrops...

... Venezuela: Seismic evidence for a deep origin of the Mérida Andes : Earth and Planetary Science Letters , v. 305 , p. 396 – 404 , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2011.03.024 . Masy , J. , Niu , F.L. , Levander , A. , and Schmitz , M. , 2015 , Lithospheric expression of Cenozoic...

... – Guajira block; SP-MA – Merida Andes–Sierra de Perijá block; SCC – Southern Central Cordillera of Colombia; SFB – South Florida Basin; SGB – South Georgia Basin; SM – Santander Massif block; SMx – South Mexico block; SSM-SL – Sierra de Santa Marta–San Lucas block; ST – South Texas Basin; Sw – Swannee...

...ANA M. ALONSO-ZARZA; ANDREA MARTÍN-PÉREZ; REBECA MARTÍN-GARCÍA; INMA GIL-PEÑA; ALFONSO MELÉNDEZ; ESPERANZA MARTÍNEZ-FLORES; JOHN HELLSTROM; PEDRO MUÑOZ-BARCO Abstract The Castañar Cave (central western Spain) formed in mixed carbonate–siliciclastic rocks of Neoproterozoic age. The host rock...

... and Leeward Antilles region is moving eastward at a rate of about 13–17 mm/yr (0.5–0.6 in./yr) ( Pérez et al., 2001 ). In this region, the interplate deformation zone extends approximately 600 km (372 mi) from the South Caribbean deformed belt in the Caribbean Sea to the Merida Andes ( Silver et al., 1975...