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Ángela María Gómez García

Contract Scientist (Juan de la Cierva - Incorporación)


 

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Educational Background

  • PhD in Engineering – Geophysics, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2020).

  • Master in Engineering – Geological oceanography, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2013).

  • Bsc. Petroleum engineer, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2010).

Research Interests

My current line of research focuses in the understanding of potential geohazards such as earthquakes and gas hydrates, considering data-driven configurations of the lithosphere. My workflow includes the application of innovative techniques such as the forward modelling of 3D density and structural models using satellite vertical gravity gradients and gravity anomalies. I'm also interested in the application of these realistic lithospheric-scale models in the calculation of the three-dimensional thermal field within the different geological units. The final goal is to achieve geologically-consistent and physically-meaningful rheological models that can help to unveil the relationship between background seismicity, deformation patterns, lithospheric heterogeneities and the present-day configuration of the uppermost solid Earth.

Projects

3DIntQuake: 3D lithospheric models as a basis for an integrated analysis of the spatial distribution of earthquakes.
Geophysical Study of the Afro-Arabian Rift System (collaboration with Dr. Ran Issachar, University of Kiel).
3D gravity and thermal models of the Caribbean and northern South American plates.


PUBLICATIONS

2022

 

PREVIOUS SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Gómez-García, A. M., González, Á., Cacace, M., Scheck-Wenderoth, M., Monsalve, G. Crustal seismogenic thickness and thermal structure of NW South America. (Preprint available at doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10512384.2).

Issachar R., Gómez-García, A. M., Ebbing, J. Lithosphere structure in the Red Sea: 3D density models indicate variations in rift architecture. (Under review).

Avellaneda-Jiménez, D.S., Monsalve G., León, S., Gómez-García, A.M. (2022). Insights into Moho depth beneath the northwestern Andean region from gravity data inversion. Geophysical Journal International, 229, 1964–1977. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggac041.

Gómez-García, A.M., Le Breton, E., Scheck-Wenderoth, M., Monsalve, G., and Anikiev, D. (2021) The preserved plume of the Caribbean Large Igneous Plateau revealed by 3D data integrative models. Solid Earth, 12, 275–298. https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-275-2021.

Gómez-García, A.M., Meeßen, C., Scheck-Wenderoth, M., Monsalve, G., Bott, J., Bernhardt, A., Bernal, G. (2019). 3-D Modeling of Vertical Gravity Gradients and the Delimitation of Tectonic Boundaries: The Caribbean Oceanic Domain as a Case Study. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20 (11), 5371–5393. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008340.

Gómez-García, A.M., Bernal, G., Osorio, A.F., Botero, V. (2014). Morphodynamics of a mesotidal rocky beach: Palmeras beach, Gorgona island National Natural Park, Colombia. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 54, 196-209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2014.06.002.

Bernal, G., Urrego, L.E., Gómez-García, A.M., Betancur, S., Osorio, A.F. (2014). Evolución geomorfológica y vegetación costera de playa Palmeras, Parque Nacional Natural Isla Gorgona, Pacífico Colombiano. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research. 42 (3), 622-638. DOI:103856/vol42-issue3-fulltext-19.

Software and data publications

Gómez-García, A. M., González, Á., Cacace, M., Scheck-Wenderoth, M., Monsalve, G. Hypocentral temperatures, crustal seismogenic thickness and 3D thermal model of the South Caribbean and NW South America.
https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.4.5.20202.005

Gómez-García, A.M., Le Breton, E., Scheck-Wenderoth, M., Monsalve, G., and Anikiev, D. (2020). 3D lithospheric structure of the Caribbean and north South American Plates and Rotation Files of Kinematic Reconstructions back to 90 Ma of the Caribbean Large Igneous Plateau. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.4.5.2020.003.

Gómez-García, A.M., Meeßen, C., Scheck-Wenderoth, M., Monsalve, G., Sippel, J., Bernhardt, A., Bernal, G. (2019). Average crustal densities and main terrain boundaries of the Caribbean oceanic domain inferred from the modelling of Vertical Gravity Gradients. GFZ Data Services. http://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.4.5.2019.001.

Gómez-García, A.M., Meeßen, C., Scheck-Wenderoth, M., Monsalve, G., Sippel, J., Bernhardt, A., Bernal, G. (2019). Scripts to calculate the Vertical Gravity Gradients response of a 3D lithospheric model using spherical coordinates: the Caribbean oceanic domain as a case study. GFZ Data Services. http://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.4.5.2019.002.

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