Lluís Gibert

Complete address:

Departament de Mineralogia, Petrologia i Geologia Aplicada
Facultat de Ciències de la Terra.
Universitat de Barcelona
08028 Barcelona
Tel. 34-93-402 14 16
e-mail: lgibert@ub.edu

Grup de recerca: Geologia Sedimentària. Geofluids i roques carbonàtiques.

Main research interest:

  • Formacions evaporítiques. Crisis de salinitat del Messinià. Ciclostratigrafia i paleoclimatologia del Neogen-Quaternari. Registre sedimentari de la regió d’Afar (Etiòpia) i altiplà Bolivià

Main publications:

  • Gibert, L., Ortí, F., Rosell, L. 2007. Plio-Pleistocene lacustrine evaporites of the Baza Basin (Betic Chain, SE Spain). Sedimentary Geology 200, 89.116.
  • Scott, G. & Gibert, L. 2009. The oldest hand axes in Europe. Nature vol 461, pp 83-86.
  • Haile-Selassiea,Y., Latimer, B., Alened, M., Deino, A., Gibert, L., Melillo, S.,  Saylorg, B., Scott, G.,  Lovejoya, O. 2010. An early Australopithecus afarensis postcranium from Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia.  PNAS, vol. 107,  no. 27: 12121–12126.
  • Gibert, L., Alfaro, P., García-Tortosa, F. & Scott, G. 2011. Superposed deformed beds produced by single earthquakes (Tecopa basin, California, USA). Sedimentary Geology 235 (2011) 148–159.                     
  • Gibert, L., Scott, G., Montoya, p., Ruiz-Sánchez, F.J., Morales, J. Luque, L., Abella, J., Lería. M. 2013. Evidence for an Afro-Iberian mammal dispersal during the pre-evaporitic Messinian. Geology; v. 41; no. 6; p. 691–694;                          
  • Ortí, F.; Rosell, L; Gibert, L; Moragas; M; Playà, E; Inglès, M.; Rouchy, J.M.; Calvo, J.P.; Gimeno, D. 2014. Evaporite sedimentation in a tectonically active basin: the lacustrine Las Minas Gypsum unit (Late Tortonian, SE Spain). Sedimentary Geology. 311, pp. 17 - 42.
  • Gibert, L.; Scott, G. R.; Scholz, D.; Budsky, A.; Ferràndez, C.; Ribot, F.; Martin, R.A.; Lería, M. Chronology
    for the Cueva Victoria fossil site (SE Spain): Evidence for Early Pleistocene Afro-Iberian dispersals. 2015 Journal of Human Evolution. 90, pp. 183 - 197.
  • García-Veigas; J.; Rosell; L.; Cendón, D.I.; Gibert; L.; Martín, J.M.; Torres-Ruiz, J.; Ortí, F. Large celestine orebodies formed by early-diagenetic replacement of gypsified stromatolites (Upper Miocene, Montevive-Escúzar deposit, Granada Basin, Spain). 909063 - Ore Geology Reviews. 64, pp. 187 - 199.
  • Gibert,  L.; Ferràndez, C; García-Veigas, J.; Scott, G. No sedimentary evidence for hydrothermal refugia in the Plio-Pleistocene deposits of the Baza Basin (SE Spain).  Quaternary Science Reviews. 112, pp. 226 - 235.
  • Haile-Selassie, Y.; Gibert, L.; Melillo, S.; Ryan, T.; Alene , M.; Deino , A.; Levin ,N.; Scott, G.; Saylor, B. 2015. New species from Ethiopia further expands middle Pliocene hominin diversity.  Nature. Volume 521 - 7553, pp.125 - 129.
  • N. Höbig,  R. Mediavilla, L. Gibert, J.I. Santisteban, D.I. Cendón, J. Ibáñez, K. Reicherter. 2016. Palaeohydrological evolution and implications for palaeoclimate since the Late Glacial at Laguna de Fuente de Piedra, southern Spain.Quaternary International, Volume 407, Part A, 2, pp. 29-46