ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR – GEOLOGY DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA
RESEARCH
Paleoceanography, Paleoclimate, North Atlantic, Indic Ocean, planktonic and benthic foraminifera, stable isotopes, trace elements, IRD, XRF, biomarkers.
I am interested in past climatic changes and its relationship with ocean and atmospheric circulation. My research is focused on Pliocene-Pleistocene climate change at different timescales, from centennial-millennial to orbital variability, in the North Atlantic (visit the CINNAMOW website https://montsealonso82.wixsite.com/cinnamow), at high and low latitudes, and the Indian Ocean.
I use multiple proxies such as benthic and planktic oxygen and carbon isotopes, trace element analysis on foraminifers (Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca), planktic foraminifer assemblages, ice-rafted debris (IRD), x-ray fluorescence (XRF), grain-size analysis and biomarkers.
If you would like to do an undergraduate/ master/ erasmus+ project on paleoceanography and paleoclimatology, please contact me!
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PUBLICATIONS
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0241-2178
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2024
Alonso-Garcia, M., Reolid, J., Jimenez-Espejo, F.J., Bialik, O.M., Alvarez Zarikian, C.A., Laya, J.C., Carrasquiera, I., Jovane, L., Reijmer, J.J.G., Betzler, C., Eberli, G.P., 2024. Sea-level and monsoonal control on the Maldives carbonate platform (Indian Ocean) over the last 1.3 million years. Clim. Past. 20 (3), 547-571. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-547-2024.
2023
Alonso-Garcia, M., Reolid, J., Jimenez-Espejo, F.J., Bialik, O.M., Alvarez Zarikian, C.A., Laya, J.C., Carrasquiera, I., Jovane, L., Reijmer, J.J.G., Betzler, C., Eberli, G.P., 2023. Sea-level and monsoonal control on the Maldives carbonate platform (Indian Ocean) over the last 1.3 million years. Clim. Past Discuss. 2023, 1-44.
Carrasqueira, I.G.d.F., Jovane, L., Droxler, A.W., Alvarez Zarikian, C.A., Lanci, L., Alonso-Garcia, M., Laya, J.C., Kroon, D., 2023. Anomalous widespread arid events in Asia over the past 550,000 years. PNAS Nexus. DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad175
McClymont, E.L., Ho, S.L., Ford, H.L., Bailey, I., Berke, M.A., Bolton, C.T., De Schepper, S., Grant, G.R., Groeneveld, J., Inglis, G.N., Karas, C., Patterson, M.O., Swann, G.E.A., Thirumalai, K., White, S.M., Alonso-Garcia, M., Anand, P., Hoogakker, B.A.A., Littler, K., Petrick, B.F., Risebrobakken, B., Abell, J.T., Crocker, A.J., de Graaf, F., Feakins, S.J., Hargreaves, J.C., Jones, C.L., Markowska, M., Ratnayake, A.S., Stepanek, C., Tangunan, D., 2023. Climate Evolution Through the Onset and Intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation. 61, e2022RG000793. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022RG000793
Girone, A. De Astis, F.J. Sierro, I. Hernández-Almeida, M. Alonso Garcia, M.F. Sánchez Goñi, P. Maiorano, M. Marino, S. Trotta, D. Hodell, 2023. Planktonic foraminifera response to orbital and millennial-scale climate variability at the southern Iberian Margin (IODP Site U1385) during Marine Isotope Stages 20 and 19. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 615, 111450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111450
2022
Alonso-Garcia, M., Tarruella, J., Bejard, T., Azibeiro, L., Sierro, F., 2022. La micropaleontología como herramienta de datación e identificación de eventos climáticos en registros sedimentarios marinos. Cuaternario y Geomorfología 36, 171-188. https://doi.org/10.17735/cyg.v36i3-4.94120
Alvarez-Zarikian, C.A., Nadiri, D.C., Alonso-García, M., Rodrigues, T., Huang, H.M., Lindhorst, S., Kunkelova, T., Kroon, D., Betzler, C., Yasuhara, M. 2022. Ostracod response to monsoon intensification and oxygen minimum zone expansion in the Maldives, equatorial Indian Ocean, over the past 1.2 Myr. Marine Micropaleontology, 174, 102105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2022.102105.
2021
Azibeiro, L.A., Sierro, F.J., Capotondi, L., Lirer, F., Andersen, N., González-Lanchas, A., Alonso-Garcia, M., Flores, J.-A., Cortina, A., Grimalt, J.O., Martrat, B., Cacho, I., 2021. Meltwater flux from northern ice-sheets to the mediterranean during MIS 12. Quat. Sci. Rev. 268, 107108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107108.
2020
Oliveira, D., Desprat, S., Yin, Q., Rodrigues, T., Naughton, F., Trigo, R.M., Su, Q., Grimalt, J.O., Alonso-Garcia, M., Voelker, A.H.L., Abrantes, F., Sánchez Goñi, M.F., 2020. Combination of insolation and ice-sheet forcing drive enhanced humidity in northern subtropical regions during MIS 13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106573. Quat. Sci. Rev. 247, 106573.
McClymont, E.L., Ford, H.L., Ho, S.L., Tindall, J.C., Haywood, A.M., Alonso-Garcia, M., Bailey, I., Berke, M.A., Littler, K., Patterson, M., Petrick, B., Peterse, F., Ravelo, A.C., Risebrobakken, B., De Schepper, S., Swann, G.E.A., Thirumalai, K., Tierney, J.E., van der Weijst, C., White, S., 2020. Lessons from a high CO2 world: an ocean view from ~3 million years ago. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1599-2020. Past 16, 1599-1615.
2019
Alonso-Garcia, T. Rodrigues, F. Abrantes, M. Padilha, C.A. Alvarez-Zarikian, T. Kunkelova, J.D. Wright, C. Betzler. Sea surface temperature, productivity and hydrological changes in the Northern Indian Ocean (Maldives) during the interval ~575-175 ka (MIS 14 to 7) (2019) Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 536, 109376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109376
Khider, D., Emile-Geay, J., McKay, N.P., Gil, Y., Garijo, D., Ratnakar, V., Alonso-Garcia, M., Bertrand, S., Bothe, O., Brewer, P., Bunn, A., Chevalier, M., Comas-Bru, L., Csank, A., Dassié, E., DeLong, K., Felis, T., Francus, P., Frappier, A., Gray, W., Goring, S., Jonkers, L., Kahle, M., Kaufman, D., Kehrwald, N.M., Martrat, B., McGregor, H., Richey, J., Schmittner, A., Scroxton, N., Sutherland, E., Thirumalai, K., Allen, K., Arnaud, F., Axford, Y., Barrows, T.T., Bazin, L., Pilaar Birch, S.E., Bradley, E., Bregy, J., Capron, E., Cartapanis, O., Chiang, H.-W., Cobb, K., Debret, M., Dommain, R., Du, J., Dyez, K., Emerick, S., Erb, M.P., Falster, G., Finsinger, W., Fortier, D., Gauthier, N., George, S., Grimm, E., Hertzberg, J., Hibbert, F., Hillman, A., Hobbs, W., Huber, M., Hughes, A.L.C., Jaccard, S., Ruan, J., Kienast, M., Konecky, B., Le Roux, G., Lyubchich, V., Novello, V.F., Olaka, L., Partin, J.W., Pearce, C., Phipps, S.J., Pignol, C., Piotrowska, N., Poli, M.-S., Prokopenko, A., Schwanck, F., Stepanek, C., Swann, G.E.A., Telford, R., Thomas, E., Thomas, Z., Truebe, S., von Gunten, L., Waite, A., Weitzel, N., Wilhelm, B., Williams, J., Williams, J.J., Winstrup, M., Zhao, N., Zhou, Y., PaCTS 1.0: A Crowdsourced Reporting Standard for Paleoclimate Data (2019) Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34, 1570-1596. DOI: 10.1029/2019pa003632
Lanci, E. Zanella, L. Jovane, M. Alonso-Garcia, C.A. Alvarez-Zarikian, C. Betzler, O.M. Bialik, C.L. Blättler, G.P. Eberli, J.A. Guo, S. Haffen, S. Horozal, M. Inoue, D. Kroon, J.C. Laya, A.L. Hui Mee, T. Lüdmann, M. Nakakuni, B. Nagender Nath, K. Niino, L.M. Petruny, S.D. Pratiwi, J.J. G. Reijmer, J. Reolid, A.L. Slagle, C.R. Sloss, X. Su, P.K. Swart, J.D. Wright, Z. Yao, J.R. Young. Magnetic properties of Early Pliocene sediments from IODP Site U1467 (Maldives platform) reveals changes in the monsoon system (2019) Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 533, 109283.
P.K. Swart, C. L. Blättler, M. Nakakuni, G. Mackenzie, C. Betzler, G. P. Eberli, J. Reolid, M. Alonso-García, A. L. Slagle, J. D. Wright, D. Kroon, J. J.G. Reijmer, A. Ling Hui Mee J. R. Young, C. A. Alvarez-Zarikian, O. M. Bialik, J. A. Guo, S. Haffen, S. Horozal, M. Inoue, L. Jovane, L. Lanci, J. C. Laya, T. Lüdmann, B. N. Nath, Kaoru Niino, L. M. Petruny, S.D. Pratiwi, X. Su, C. R. Sloss, Z. Yao, 2019. Cyclic Anoxia and Organic Rich Carbonate Sediments on a drowned carbonate platform: Early Miocene Maldives (2019) EPSL, 521, 1-13. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.05.019
Kunkelova, T., Jung, S.J.A., de Leau, E.S., Odling, N., Thomas, A.L., Betzler, C., Eberli, G.P., Alvarez-Zarikian, C.A., Alonso-García, M., Bialik, O.M., Blättler, C.L., Guo, J.A., Haffen, S., Horozal, S., Mee, A.L.H., Inoue, M., Jovane, L., Lanci, L., Laya, J.C., Lüdmann, T., Bejugam, N.N., Nakakuni, M., Niino, K., Petruny, L.M., Pratiwi, S.D., Reijmer, J.J.G., Reolid, J., Slagle, A.L., Sloss, C.R., Su, X., Swart, P.K., Wright, J.D., Yao, Z., Young, J.R., Lindhorst, S., Stainbank, S., Rueggeberg, A., Spezzaferri, S., Carrasqueira, I., Yu, S., Kroon, D. Correction to: A two million year record of low-latitude aridity linked to continental weathering from the Maldives (2019) Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 6 (1), art. no. 21 . DOI: 10.1186/s40645-019-0259-0—
Sánchez Goñi, M.F., Ferretti, P., Polanco-Martínez, J.M., Rodrigues, T., Alonso-García, M., Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J., Dorador, J., Desprat, S. Pronounced northward shift of the westerlies during MIS 17 leading to the strong 100-kyr ice age cycles (2019) Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 511, pp. 117-129. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.01.032—
Martínez-Sánchez, M., Flores, J.-A., Palumbo, E., Alonso-Garcia, M., Sierro, F.-J., Amore, F.O. Reconstruction of surface water dynamics in the North Atlantic during the Mid-Pleistocene (~540–400 ka), as inferred from coccolithophores and planktonic foraminifera. (2019) Marine Micropaleontology. DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2019.03.002
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2018
Lüdmann, T., Betzler, C., Eberli, G.P., Reolid, J., Reijmer, J.J.G., Sloss, C.R., Bialik, O.M., Alvarez-Zarikian, C.A., Alonso-García, M., Blättler, C.L., Guo, J.A., Haffen, S., Horozal, S., Inoue, M., Jovane, L., Kroon, D., Lanci, L., Laya, J.C., Mee, A.L.H., Nakakuni, M., Nath, B.N., Niino, K., Petruny, L.M., Pratiwi, S.D., Slagle, A.L., Su, X., Swart, P.K., Wright, J.D., Yao, Z., Young, J.R. Corrigendum to “Carbonate delta drift: A new sediment drift type”(2018) Marine Geology, 406, pp. 214-215. DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2018.10.005—
Betzler, C., Eberli, G.P., Lüdmann, T., Reolid, J., Kroon, D., Reijmer, J.J.G., Swart, P.K., Wright, J., Young, J.R., Alvarez-Zarikian, C., Alonso-García, M., Bialik, O.M., Blättler, C.L., Guo, J.A., Haffen, S., Horozal, S., Inoue, M., Jovane, L., Lanci, L., Laya, J.C., Hui Mee, A.L., Nakakuni, M., Nath, B.N., Niino, K., Petruny, L.M., Pratiwi, S.D., Slagle, A.L., Sloss, C.R., Su, X., Yao, Z. Refinement of Miocene sea level and monsoon events from the sedimentary archive of the Maldives (Indian Ocean (2018) Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 5 (1), art. no. 5. DOI: 10.1186/s40645-018-0165-x—
Candy, I., Alonso-Garcia, M. A 1 Ma sea surface temperature record from the North Atlantic and its implications for the early human occupation of Britain (2018) Quaternary Research (United States), 90 (2), pp. 406-417. DOI: 10.1017/qua.2018.62—
Lüdmann, T., Betzler, C., Eberli, G.P., Reolid, J., Reijmer, J.J.G., Sloss, C.R., Bialik, O.M., Alvarez-Zarikian, C.A., Alonso-García, M., Blättler, C.L., Guo, J.A., Haffen, S., Horozal, S., Inoue, M., Jovane, L., Kroon, D., Lanci, L., Laya, J.C., Mee, A.L.H., Nakakuni, M., Nath, B.N., Niino, K., Petruny, L.M., Pratiwi, S.D., Slagle, A.L., Su, X., Swart, P.K., Wright, J.D., Yao, Z., Young, J.R. Carbonate delta drift: A new sediment drift type (2018) Marine Geology, 401, pp. 98-111. DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2018.04.011—
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2017
Rodrigues, T., Alonso-García, M., Hodell, D.A., Rufino, M., Naughton, F., Grimalt, J.O., Voelker, A.H.L., Abrantes, F. A 1-Ma record of sea surface temperature and extreme cooling events in the North Atlantic: A perspective from the Iberian Margin (2017) Quaternary Science Reviews, 172, pp. 118-130. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.07.004—
Alonso-Garcia, M., Kleiven, H.K.F., McManus, J.F., Moffa-Sanchez, P., Broecker, W.S., Flower, B.P. Freshening of the Labrador Sea as a trigger for Little Ice Age development (2017) Climate of the Past, 13 (4), pp. 317-331. DOI: 10.5194/cp-13-317-2017
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2016
Sánchez Goñi, M.F., Rodrigues, T., Hodell, D.A., Polanco-Martínez, J.M., Alonso-García, M., Hernández-Almeida, I., Desprat, S., Ferretti, P. Tropically-driven climate shifts in southwestern Europe during MIS 19, a low eccentricity interglacial (2016) Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 448, pp. 81-93. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.05.018—
Betzler, C., Eberli, G.P., Kroon, D., Wright, J.D., Swart, P.K., Nath, B.N., Alvarez-Zarikian, C.A., Alonso-Garciá, M., Bialik, O.M., Blättler, C.L., Guo, J.A., Haffen, S., Horozal, S., Inoue, M., Jovane, L., Lanci, L., Laya, J.C., Mee, A.L.H., Lüdmann, T., Nakakuni, M., Niino, K., Petruny, L.M., Pratiwi, S.D., Reijmer, J.J.G., Reolid, J., Slagle, A.L., Sloss, C.R., Su, X., Yao, Z., Young, J.R. The abrupt onset of the modern South Asian Monsoon winds (2016) Scientific Reports, 6, art. no. 29838, DOI: 10.1038/srep29838—
Betzler, C.G., Eberli, G.P., Alvarez-Zarikian, C.A., Alonso-García, M., Bejugam, N.N., Bialik, O.M., Blättler, C.L., Guo, J.A., Haffen, S., Horozal, S., Inoue, M., Jovane, L., Kroon, D., Lanci, L., Laya, J.C., Mee, A.L.H., Lüdmann, T., Nakakuni, M., Niino, K., Petruny, L.M., Pratiwi, S.D., Reijmer, J., Reolid, J., Slagle, A.L., Sloss, C.R., Su, X., Swart, P.K., Wright, J.D., Yao, Z., Young, J.R. International ocean discovery program expedition 359 preliminary report: Maldives monsoon and sea level (2016) Integrated Ocean Drilling Program: Preliminary Reports, (359), pp. 1-53. DOI: 10.14379/iodp.pr.359.2016—–
2015
Martin-Garcia, G.M., Alonso-Garcia, M., Sierro, F.J., Hodell, D.A., Flores, J.A. Severe cooling episodes at the onset of deglaciations on the Southwestern Iberian margin from MIS 21 to 13 (IODP site U1385) (2015) Global and Planetary Change, 135, pp. 159-169. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.11.001—
Singh, A.D., Verma, K., Jaiswal, S., Alonso-Garcia, M., Li, B., Abrantes, F. Planktic foraminiferal responses to orbital scale oceanographic changes off the western Iberian margin over the last 900kyr: Results from IODP site U1391 (2015) Global and Planetary Change, 135, pp. 47-56. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.10.002—
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2013
Alonso-García, M., Andrews, J.T., Belt, S.T., Cabedo-Sanz, P., Darby, D., Jaeger, J. A comparison between multiproxy and historical data (ad 1990-1840) of drift ice conditions on the East Greenland Shelf (~66°N) (2013) Holocene, 23 (12), pp. 1672-1683. DOI: 10.1177/0959683613505343—
Díez Fernández, R., Foster, D.A., Gómez Barreiro, J., Alonso-García, M. Rheological control on the tectonic evolution of a continental suture zone: The Variscan example from NW Iberia (Spain) (2013) International Journal of Earth Sciences, 102 (5), pp. 1305-1319. DOI: 10.1007/s00531-013-0885-5—
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2011
Alonso-Garcia, M., Sierro, F.J., Flores, J.A. Arctic front shifts in the subpolar North Atlantic during the Mid-Pleistocene (800-400ka) and their implications for ocean circulation (2011) Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 311 (3-4), pp. 268-280. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.09.004—
Alonso-Garcia, M., Sierro, F.J., Kucera, M., Flores, J.A., Cacho, I., Andersen, N. Ocean circulation, ice sheet growth and interhemispheric coupling of millennial climate variability during the mid-Pleistocene (ca 800-400ka) (2011) Quaternary Science Reviews, 30 (23-24), pp. 3234-3247. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.08.005——–
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Address
Geology Department – Paleontology
Faculty of Sciences, University of Salamanca
37008 Salamanca, Spain
Tfn. +34 923 294500 Ext. 6302
e-mail: montseag (at) usal.es
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