RESEARCH STAFF


  JOAN MARTÍ MOLIST
  • Postal address:

    Department of Geophysics and Geohazard
    Insitute of Earth Sciences "Jaume Almera"
    C/Lluís Solé i Sabarís s/n
    08028 Barcelona, Spain

  • E-mail: joan.marti@ija.csic.es
  • Telephone: +34 93 409 54 10
  • Fax: +34 93 411 00 12
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  • Position: Professor of Research, National Research Council of Spain, CSIC and coordinator of the GVB
  • Relevant responsabilities:

    - Director of the Laboratory of Simulation of Geological Processes (SIMGEO, UB-CSIC)
    - Co-Editor in Chief of Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (Elsevier)
    - Secretary General of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth Interior (IAVCEI)

  • Research lines:

    Dynamics of magma chambers and collapse calderas, experimental and numerical modelling of volcanic processes, and volcanic hazard assessment.

     

  • Publications:

    1. MARTI, J., MUÑOZ, J.A., VAQUER, R. "Le volcanisme de l'Ordovicien superieur de la région de Ribes de Fresser -Rocabruna (Pyrénées Catalanes)". C.R. Acad. Sc. Paris, t. 302, sèrie II, nº 20 (1986): 1237-1242.

    2. CASES, J.M., MARTI, J., AYORA, C. "Importance du volcanisme dans la composition lithostratigraphique du Palèozoique infèrieur des Pyrénées Catalanes". C.R. Acad. Sc. Paris, t. 302, sèrie II, nº 19 (1986): 1193-1198.

    3. MARTI, J. and BARALDO, A. "Pre-caldera pyroclastic deposits of Deception Island (South Shetland Islands)". Antartic Science. 2(4) (1990): 345-352.

    4. MARTI, J., MITJAVILA, J. and VILLA, I. "Stratigraphy and K-Ar ages of the Cañada de Diego Hernández. Their significance on the Las Cañadas Caldera formation (Tenerife, Canary islands)". Terranova, 2 (1990): 148-153.

    5. MITJAVILA, J., RAMOS-GUERRERO, E. et MARTI, J. "Geocronologie des ignimbrites du Puig de l'Ofre, zone central de la Serra de Tramuntana de Majorque par le méthode K/Ar". C.R. Acad. Sc. Paris, t. 311, Sèrie II (1990): 687-692.

    6. MARTI, J. "Caldera-like structures related to Permo-Carboniferous volcanism of the Catalan Pyrenees (NE of Spain)". J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 45 (1991): 173-186.

    7. MARTI, J., DIEZ-GIL, J.L. and ORTIZ, R. "Conduction model for the thermal influence of lithic clasts in mixtures of hot gases and ejecta". J. Geophys. Res., 96, B13 (1991): 21879-21885.

    8. MARTI, J., MITJAVILA, J., ROCA, E. and APARICIO, A. "Cenozoic magmatism of the Valencia trough (Western Mediterranean): relation between structural evolution and Volcanism". Tectonophysics, Special Issue: Valencia Trough, 203 (1992): 145-166.

    9. VILA, J; MARTI, J; ORTIZ, R, GARCIA, A and CORREIG, A. Volcanic tremors at Deception Island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica). J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 53 (1992): 89-102.

    10. PARES, J.M., MARTI, J. and GARCES, M. 1993. Thermoremanence in red sandstone clasts and emplacement temperature of a Quaternary pyroclastic deposit (Catalan Volcanic Zone, NE Spain). Stud. Geophys. Geod, Special Issue on "New Trends in Geomagnetism". 37 (1993): 401-414.

    11. ARAÑA, V., MARTI, J., APARICIO, A., GARCIA-CACHO, L. and GARCIA-GARCIA, R. Magma mixing in alkaline magmas: An example from Tenerife (Canary Islands). Lithos, 32 (1994): 1-19.

    12. MARTI, J, MITJAVILA, J and ARAÑA, V. "Stratigraphy, structure and geochronology of the Cañadas caldera (Tenerife, Canary Islands)". Geol. Mag. (1994), 131: 715-727.

    13. MARTI, J., ABLAY, G.J., REDSHAW, L.T. and SPARKS, R.S.J. Experimental studies on collapse calderas. J. Geol. Soc. London (1994), 151: 919-929

    14. PEREZ-TORRADO, F.J., MARTI, J., QUERALT, I. and MANGAS, J. Alteration processes of the Roque Nublo ignimbrites (Gran Canaria, Canary Islands). J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 65 (1995): 191-204

    15. VILA, J., CORREIG, A.M. and MARTI, J. Attenuation and source parameters at Deception Island (Soth Shetland Islands, Antarctica). Pure and Applied Geophysics, 244 (1995): 229-250.

    16. ABLAY, G.J., ERNST, G.G.J., MARTI, J. and SPARKS, R.S.J. Volcanology, petrology and geochemistry of the 2020ybp subplinian eruption of Montaña Blanca, Tenerife (Canary Islands) Bull. Volcanol., 57 (1995): 337-355

    17. MARTI, J., VILA, J. and REY, J. Deception Island (Bransfield strait, Antarctica): an example of collapse caldera developed by extensional tectonics, in McGuire W.C., Jones, A.P. & Neuberg, J. (eds) Volcano Instability on the Earth and other Planets, Geological Society Special Publication, 10 (1996): 253-265

    18. SORIANO, C., MARTI, J. and CASAS, J.M. Palinspastic reconstruction of Permo-Carboniferous basins placed on Alpine structural units: the Estac basin in the Central Pyrenees. Geol. in Mijnbow, (1996) 75: 43-55.

    19. MARTI, J. Genesis of multiple crystal-rich volcaniclastic facies in the Permian redbeds of the Central Pyrenees (NE Spain). Sedimentary Geology, (1996) 106: 151-160

    20. MARTI, J., ABLAY, G. J. and BRYAN, S. Comment on "The Canary Islands: an example of structural control on the growth of large oceanic-island volcanoes" by J. C. Carracedo. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 72 (1996): 143-149

    21. WILDING, M. C., WEBB, S. L., DINGWELL, D. B., ABLAY, G. J. and MARTI, J. Cooling rate variation in natural volcanic glasses from Tenerife, Canary Islands. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., (1996) 125: 151-160.

    22. PEREZ-TORRADO, F.J., MARTI, J. MANGAS, J. and DAY, S. The ignimbrites of the Roque Nublo Group (Gran Canaria, Canary Islands). Bulletin of Volcanology, (1997) 58: 647-654.

    23. MITJAVILA, J., MARTI, J. and SORIANO, C. Magmatic evolution and tectonic setting of the Iberian Pyrite Belt volcanism. Journal of Petrology (1997) 38: 727-755

    24. CORREIG, A.M., URQUIZU, M., VILA, J. and MARTI, J. Analysis of the temporal occurrence of seismicity at Deception Island (Antarctica). A nonlinear approach. Pure and Applied Geophysics (1997) 149: 553-574.

    25. GUDMUNDSSON, A., MARTI, J. and TURON, A. Stress fields generating ring faults in volcanoes. Geophys. Res. Lett., (1997) 24 (13): 1559-1562

    26. MARTI, J., HURLIMANN, M., ABLAY, G.J. and GUDMUNDSSON, A. Vertical and lateral collapses in Tenerife and other ocean volcanic islands. Geology, (1997) 25: 879-882

    27. MARTI, J., "Comment on "A giant landslide on the northern flank of Tenerife, Canary Islands" by A.B. Watts and D.G. Masson". Journal of Geophysical Research, (1998) 103: 9945-9947

    28. ABLAY G.J., CARROLL M.R., PALMER M.R., MARTI J., and SPARKS R.S.J. Basanite-phonolite lineages of the Teide-Pico Viejo volcanic complex, Tenerife, Canary Islands. Journal of Petrology (1998) 39: 905-936

    29. BRYAN, S.E., CAS, R.A.F., and MARTI, J. Lithic breccias in intermediate volume phonolitic ignimbrites from Tenerife (Canary Islands): Constraints on pyroclastic flow depositional processes. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (1998), 81: 269-296.

    30. FOLCH, A., MARTI, J., CODINA, R. and VAZQUEZ, M. A numerical model for temporal variations during explosive central-vent eruptions. Journal of Geophysical Research (1998), 103: 20,883-20,899.

    31. MARTI, J., HURLIMANN, M., ABLAY, G.J. and GUDMUNDSSON, A. Vertical and lateral collapses in Tenerife and other ocean volcanic islands. Reply to the Comment by Ancochea et al., Geology, (1998), September : 862-863.

    32. BRYAN, S.E., MARTI, J. and CAS, R.A.F. Stratigraphy of the Bandas del Sur Formation: an extracaldera record of Quaternary phonolitic explosive eruptions from the Las Cañadas edifice, Tenerife (Canary Islands). Geological Magazine (1998), 135: 605-636

    33. FOLCH, A and MARTI, J. Generation of overpressure in felsic magma chambers by replenishment. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., (1998), 163: 301-314.

    34. NEUMANN, E.R., MARTI, J., MITJAVILA, J. and WULFF-PEDERSEN, E. Origin and implications of mafic xenoliths associated with Cenozoic extension-related magmatism in the Valencia trough, NE Spain. Mineralogy and Petrology (1999), 65: 113-139.

    35. GUDMUNDSSON, A., MARINONI, L and MARTI, J. Dyke injection and arrest: implication for volcanic hazards. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., (1999), 88: 1-13

    36. FOLCH, A., VAZQUEZ, M., CODINA, R. and MARTI, J. A fractional step finite element method for the Navier-Stokes equations applied to magma chamber withdrawal. Computers & Geosciences (1999) 25: 263-275

    37. HURLIMANN, M., TURON, E. and MARTI. J. Large landslides triggered by caldera collapse events in Tenerife, Canary Islands. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (1999) 24: 921-924.

    38. SORIANO, C. and MARTI, J. Facies analysis of volcano-sedimentaty successions hosting massive sulfide deposits in the Iberian Pyrite Belt, Spain. Economic Geology (1999) 94: 867-882

    39. NEUMANN, E.R., WULFF-PEDERSEN, E., SIMONSEN, S.L., PEARSON, N.J., O'REILLY, S.Y., MARTI, J. and MITJAVILA, J. Evidence for fractional crystallization of periodically refilled magma chambers in Tenerife, Canary Islands. Journal of Petrology (1999) 40: 1089-1123.

    40. HURLIMANN, M., LEDESMA, A. and MARTI, J. Conditions favouring catastrophic volcanic landslides. TerraNova (1999), 11: 106-111.

    41. MARTI, J., SORIANO, C. and DINGWELL, D.B. Tube pumices: strain markers of a ductile-brittle transition in explosive eruptions. Nature (1999) 402: 650-653.

    42. FOLCH, A., FERNÁNDEZ, J., RUNDLE, J.B., and MARTÍ, J. Ground deformation in a viscoelastic multilayered system. A comparation between analytical and numerical solutions for point and extended sources. Geophysical Journal International. (2000) 140: 37-50.

    43. MARTI, J., FOLCH, A., NERI, A., and MACEDONIO, G. Pressure evolution during explosive caldera-forming eruptions. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. (2000) 175: 275-287.

    44. HURLIMANN, M. MARTI, J. and LEDESMA, A. Mechanical relationship between catastrophic volcanic landslides and caldera collapse. Geophys. Res. Lett. (2000) 27: 2393-2396.

    45. LEGROS, F., KELFOUN, K., and MARTI, J. The influence of vent geometry on caldera- forming eruptions. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., (2000) 179: 53-61.

    46. MARTI, J. and WOLFF, J.A. Introduction: The Geology and Geophysics of Tenerife, Jorunal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, (2000) 103: 1-4.

    47. MARTI, J and GUDMUNDSSON, A. The Las Cañadas caldera (Tenerife, Canary Islands): an overlapping collapse calderas generated by magma chamber migration. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (2000) 103: 161-173.

    48. ABLAY G.J., and MARTI, J., Stratigraphy and structure of the Teide-Pico Viejo complex, Tenerife, Canary Islands. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (2000) 103: 175-208

    49. BRYAN, S.E., CAS, R.A.F. and MARTI, J. The 0.57 Ma plinian eruption of the Granadilla member, Tenerife (Canary Islands): an example of complexity in eruption dynamics and evolution. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (2000) 103: 209-238

    50. HURLIMANN, M., LEDESMA, A. and MARTI, J. Characterisation of a volcanic residual soil and its implications for large landslide phenomena: Application to Tenerife, Canary Islands, Engineering Geology (2001) 59: 115-132.

    51. FOLCH. A., CODINA, R. and MARTI, J. Numerical modelling of magma withdrawal during caldera-forming eruptions. Journal of Geophysical Research (2001) 106: 16163-16175.

    52. LEGROS, F. and MARTI, J. Formation of inversely graded basal layers in ignimbrites by progressive aggradation. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res (2001) 111: 25-33.

    53. SORIANO, C., ZAFRILLA, S,. MARTI, J., ABLAY, G.J., CAS, R.A.F and BRYAN, S., Welding and rheomorphism of ponolitic fallout deposits from the Las Cañadas caldera (Tenerife, Canary Islands). Bull. Geol. Soc. Am. (2002) 114, No. 7, 883-895

    54. EDGAR, C.J., WOLFF, J.A., NICHOLS, H.J., CAS, R.A.F., and MARTI, J. A complex Quaternary ignimbrite-forming phonolitic eruption: The Poris Member of the Diego Hernandez Formation (Tenerife, Canary Islands). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (2002) 118, 99-130.

    55. BRYAN, S.E., MARTI, J. and LEOSSON, M. Petrology and geochemistry of the Bandas del Sur Formation, Las Cañadas edifice, Tenerife (Canary Islands). Journal of Petrology (2002) 43, 1816-1853.

    56. POUS, J., HEISE, W., SCHNEGG, P, MUÑOZ, G., MARTÍ, J. and , SORIANO, C. Magnetotelluric study of the Las Cañadas caldera (Tenerife, canary islands): hydrogeological and structural implications. Earth Planetary and Science Letters (2002) 204/1-2: 251-265

    57. FOLCH, A and MARTI, J. Geometrical and mechanical constrains on the formation of ring fault calderas. Earth and planetary science letters (2004), 221: 215-225

    58. HURLIMANN, M., MARTI, J. and LEDESMA, A. Morphological and geological aspects related to large slope failures on oceanic islands. The huge La Orotava landslides on Tenerife, Canary Islands. Geomorphology (2004), 62: 143-158.

    59. PITTARI, A., CAS, R. A. F and MARTÍ, J. The occurrence and origin of prominent massive, pumice-rich ignimbrite lobes within the late Pleistocence Abrigo Ignimbrite, Tenerife, Canary Islands. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (2005), 139: 271-293

    60. GALINDO, I., SORIANO, C., MARTI, J. and PEREZ, N. Tectonic structure and evolution of the Las Cañadas edifice (Tenerife, Canary Islands): implications for active diffuse degassing. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (2005), 144: 73-87.

    61. MACEDONIO, G., NERI, A., MARTI, J. and FOLCH, A. Temporal evolution of flow conditions in sustained magmatic explosive eruptions. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (2005), 143: 153-172.

    62. PITTARI, A., CAS, R.A.F., EDGAR, C.J., NICHOLS, H.J., WOLFF., J.A. and MARTI, J. Influence of palaeotopography on the pyroclastic flow processes and facies architecture of the lithic-rich ignimbrite in a high-gradient setting: the Abrigo ignimbrite, Tenerife, Canary Islands. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (2006), 152(3-4), 273-315.

    63. SORIANO, C., GALINDO, I., WOLFF, J. A. and MARTI, J. Vent complexes and related proximal deposits in the Las Cañadas caldera, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Bulletin of Volcanology (2006), 69 (2): 217-231

    64. GOTTSMANN, J., WOOLLER, L., MARTI., FERNANDEZ, J., CMACHO, A., RYMER, H. and GARCÍA, A. Gravity changes mark reaweakeing of Spanish volcano after 100 years of dormancy. Geophysical Research Letters (2006), 33: L20311, doi 10.1029/2006GL027523

    65. GEYER, A., FOLCH, A. and MARTI, J. A relationship between caldera collapse and magma chamber withdrawal: an experimental approach. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (2006), 157: 375-386.

    66. PITTARI, A., CAS, R. A. F, MONAGHAN, J.J. and MARTÍ, J. Using instantaneous dynamic pressure to understand the behaviour of large lithic clasts at the base of a pyroclastic flow: examples from the Abrigo Ignimbrite, Tenerife, Canary Islands. Bulletin of Volcanology (2007), 69: 265-279.

    67. EDGAR, C.J. WOLFF, J.A. OLIN, P.H. NICHOLS, H.J. PITTARI, A. CAS, R.A.F. REINERS, P.W. SPELL, T.L. and MARTÍ, J. The late Quaternary Diego Hernandez Formation, Tenerife: a cycle of voluminous explosive phonolitic eruptions. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (2007), 160: 59-85.

    68. TOYOS, G. P., COLE, P. D., FELPETO, A. and MARTI, J. A GIS-based methodology for hazard mapping of small volume pyroclastic flows. Natural Hazards (2007), 41-1, 99-112.

    69. MICHON, L., STAUDACHER, T., FERRAZZINI, V., BACHÈLERY, P. MARTI, J. The April 2007 collapse of Piton de la Fournaise: a new example of caldera formation. Geophysical Research Letters VOL. 34, (2007), L21301, doi:10.1029/2007GL031248.

    70. FELPETO, A., MARTÍ, J. and ORTIZ, R. A GIS-based automatic system for volcanic hazard assessment and risk management, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, (2007), 166: 106-116.

    71. MARTI, J., SORIANO, C., GALINDO., I. and CAS, R.A.F. Resolving problems with the origin of the Las Cañadas caldera (Tenerife, Canary Islands): The Los Roques de García Formation - a major debris avalanche or an in situ stratified edifice building succession?. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2007, in press).

    72. MARTÍ, J., GEYER, A., FOLCH, A. and GOTTSMANN, J. A review on collapse calderas modeling, in Gottsmann, J and Martí, J. "Caldera Volcanism: analysis, modelling and response", Developments in Volcanology, Elsevier (in press)

    73. MARTÍ, J., GEYER, A., AND FOLCH, A. A genetic classification of collapse calderas based on field studies, analogue and theoretical modelling, in Thordarson, T. and Self, S. Volcanology: the Legacy of GPL Walker, IAVCEI-the Geological Society of London (submitted)

    74. FOLCH, A. and MARTI, J. Time-dependent vent conditions during explosive caldera-forming eruptions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters (submitted)

    75. MARTÍ, J., FELPETO, A. and ORDOÑEZ, A. Methodology for the computation of volcanic susceptibility: Application to Tenerife Island (Canary Islands) Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (submitted)

    76. MARTÍ, J., GEYER, A., ANDUJAR, J, TEIXIDO, F. and COSTA, F. Characterisation of the Teide-Pico Viejo (Tenerife, Canary Islands) explosive activity, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, (under revision)

    77. MARTÍ, J, ASPINALL, W, FELPETO, A, GEYER, A, FOLCH, A, TEIXIDÓ, F., ORDOÑEZ, A, ORTIZ, R, BAXTER, P, COLE , P, PACHECO, J, BLANCO, M.J. AND LOPEZ, C., Teide: reference eruption scenario and event tree, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, EXPLORIS Special Volume (under revision)

    78. MARTÍ J., ORTIZ R., GOTTSMANN J., GARCIA A., DE LA CRUZ-REINA, S. Defining unrest, assessing hazards and mitigating risks during the reawakening of the central volcanic complex on Tenerife, Canary Islands (2004-2007), Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, EXPLORIS Special Volume (submitted)

    79. MARTI, J., SPENCE, R., CALOGERO, E., ORDOÑEZ, A., FELPETO, A. and BAXTER, P , Estimating Building Exposure and Impact to Volcanic Hazards in Icod de los Vinos, Tenerife (Canary Islands), Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, EXPLORIS Special Volume (submitted).

    80. GEYER, A. and MARTI, J. The new worldwide collapse caldera database (CCDB): A tool for studying and understanding caldera processes. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (submitted)

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