ECOMER – Assessment and Contextualization of Methane Reservoirs in the Galician Rías in Relation to Sea-Level Variations and Environmental Changes During the Postglacial

Research Project

Funding Programme
Plan Nacional 2012 (FEDER), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Spain — Ref. CGL2012-33584
Principal Investigator
Soledad García Gil (University of Vigo, Spain)
Budget
€152,100
Project Period
Jan 2013 – Dec 2015
Type of Participation
Research team member (full-time)

Summary

ECOMER investigated methane reservoirs in the Galician rías and set them in context with postglacial sea-level change and environmental variability, combining seismic, sedimentological and geochemical data to reconstruct the recent depositional history of these coastal systems.

Objectives

  • Characterise the distribution and origin of shallow methane reservoirs in Galician ría sediments.
  • Relate methane accumulation to postglacial sea-level and environmental change in the rías.

Main Outputs

  • •García-Moreiras, I., Pospelova, V., García-Gil, S., Muñoz Sobrino, C. (2018). Climatic and anthropogenic impacts on the Ría de Vigo (NW Iberia) over the last two centuries: a high-resolution dinoflagellate cyst sedimentary record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 504, 201–218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.05.032
  • •García-Moreiras, I., Delgado, C., Martínez-Carreño, N., García-Gil, S., Muñoz Sobrino, C. (2019). Climate and vegetation changes in coastal ecosystems during the Middle Pleniglacial and the early Holocene: Two multi-proxy, high-resolution records from Ría de Vigo (NW Iberia). Global and Planetary Change 176, 100–122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.02.015
  • •García-Moreiras, I., Cartelle, V., García-Gil, S., Muñoz Sobrino, C. (2019). First high-resolution multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental record of the Late Glacial to Early Holocene transition in the Ría de Arousa (Atlantic margin of NW Iberia). Quaternary Science Reviews 215, 308–321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.05.016
  • •Muñoz Sobrino, C., García-Moreiras, I., Gómez-Orellana, L., et al. (2018). The last hornbeam forests in SW Europe: new evidence on the demise of Carpinus betulus in NW Iberia. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 27, 551–576. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-017-0654-7
  • •Muñoz Sobrino, C., García-Moreiras, I., Martínez-Carreño, N., et al. (2016). Reconstruction of the environmental history of a coastal insular system using shallow marine records: the last three millennia of the Cíes Islands (Ría de Vigo, NW Iberia). Boreas 45, 729–753. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12178
  • •Iriarte-Chiapusso, M.J., Muñoz Sobrino, C., Gómez-Orellana, L., et al. (2016). Reviewing the Lateglacial–Holocene transition in NW Iberia: A palaeoecological approach based on the comparison between dissimilar regions. Quaternary International 403, 211–236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.09.029
  • •García-Gil, S., Cartelle, V., de Blas, E., et al. (2015). Shallow gas in the Iberian continental margin. Boletín Geológico y Minero 126(2-3), 575–608. https://doi.org/10.21701/bolgeomin.126.2-3.013

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