Carles Martín-Closas
Complete address:
Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i l'Oceà
Facultat de Ciències de la Terra.
Universitat de Barcelona
08028 Barcelona
Tel. 34-93-4021381
e-mail: cmartinclosas@ub.edu
Grup de recerca: Geologia Sedimentària. Paleobiologia dels Medis Continetals.
Main research interests:
- Micropaleontology. Charophyte biostratigraphy, paleoecology and evolution in the Cretaceous and Paleogene.
- Paleobotany. Reconstruction of plant communities in lakes and wetlands through geological time
Main publications:
- Martín-Closas, C. (1996). A phylogenetic system of Clavatoraceae (Charophyta), Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 94, 259-293
- Riveline J., Berger J.-P., Feist M., Martín-Closas C., Schudack M.E. & Soulié- Märsche I. (1998). European Mesozoic-Cenozoic charophyte biozonation, Bulletin Société Géologique de France, 167, 453-468.
- Martín-Closas, C. (2003). The fossil record and evolution of freshwater plants. A review. Geologica Acta, 1, 315-338.
- Martín-Closas, C.; Galtier, J. (2005). Plant Taphonomy and Paleoecology of Late Pennsylvanian intramontane Wetlands in the Graissessac-Lodève Basin (Languedoc, France). Palaios, 20, 249-265.
- Martín-Closas, C. & Wang, Q. (2008). Historical biogeography of the lineage Atopochara trivolvis PECK 1941 (Cretaceous Charophyta). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 260, 435-451.
- Martín-Closas, C., Clavel, B., Charollais, J., Conrad, M.-A. (2009). Charophytes from the Barremian-lower Aptian of the Northern Subalpine Chains and Jura Mountains, France: correlation with associated marine assemblages. Cretaceous Research, 30, 49-62
- Villalba-Breva, S.; Martín-Closas, C.; Marmi, J.; Gomez, B.; Fernandez-Marron, M.T. (2012). Peat-forming plants in the Maastrichtian coals of the Eastern Pyrenees. Geologica Acta, 10, 189-207.
- Sanjuan, J. & Martín-Closas, C. (2012). Charophyte palaeoecology in the Upper Eocene of the Eastern Ebro basin (Catalonia, Spain). Biostratigraphic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 365-366, 247-262.
- Ortuño, M.; Martí, A.; Martín-Closas, C.; Jiménez-Moreno, G.; Martinetto, E.; Santanach, P. (2013). Palaeoenvironments of the Late Miocene Prüedo Basin: implications for the uplift of the Central Pyrenees. Journal of the Geological Society, 170, 79 -92.
- Gomez, B.; Daviero-Gomez V.; Coiffard C.; Martín-Closas C.; Dilcher, D.L. (2015). Montsechia, an ancient aquatic angiosperm. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - PNAS, 112, 10985-10988.
- Martín-Closas, C. (2015). Cosmopolitanism in Northern Hemisphere Cretaceous Charophyta (Clavatoroidae). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 438, 9-23.
- Vicente, A.; Martín-Closas, C.; Arz, J.A.; Oms, O. (2015). Maastrichtian-basal Paleocene charophyte biozonation and its calibration to the Global Polarity Time Scale in the southern Pyrenees(Catalonia, Spain). Cretaceous Research. 52, 268 - 285.
- Li, S.; Wang, Q.; Zhang, H.; Lu H.; Martín-Closas, C. (2016). Charophytes from the Cretaceous Paleogene transition in the Pingyi Basin (Eastern China) and their Eurasian correlation. Cretaceous Research. 59, 179 - 200.
