Selected Publications
  1. Lourenço, N, Miranda, JM, Luis, JF, Ribeiro, A, Victor, LAM, Madeira, J, Needham, HD (1998). Morpho-tectonic analysis of the Azores Volcanic Plateau from a new bathymetric compilation of the area. Marine Geophysical Researches, 20(3), 141-156.
  2. Madureira, P, Moreira, M, Mata, J, Allègre, CJ (2005). Primitive neon isotopes in Terceira Island (Azores archipelago). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 233(3-4): 429-440.
  3. Marques, AFA, Barriga, F, Chavagnac, V, & Fouquet, Y (2006). Mineralogy, geochemistry, and Nd isotope composition of the Rainbow hydrothermal field, Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Mineralium Deposita, 41(1), 52-67.
  4. Marques, AFA, Barriga, FJAS, Scott, SD (2007). Sulfide mineralization in an ultramafic-rock hosted seafloor hydrothermal system: From serpentinization to the formation of Cu-Zn-(Co)-rich massive sulfides. Marine Geology, 245(1-4), 20-39.
  5. Yang, KH, Scott, SD (1996) Possible contribution of a metal-rich magmatic fluid to a sea-floor hydrothermal system. Nature 383, 420-23.
Submitted and accepted
  1. Dias, NA, Matias, L, Lourenço, N, Madeira, J, Gaspar, J, Carrilho, F, (2006) Crustal seismic velocity structure near Faial and Pico Islands (Azores), from local earthquake tomography. (accepted Tectonophysics).
  2. Marques, AFA, Scott, SD, Barriga, FJAS, Fouquet, Y (2008) Pre-eruption history of enriched MORB basalts from the Menez Gwen (37º50'N) and Lucky Strike (37º17'N) hydrothermal systems, Mid-Atlantic Ridge (submitted)
  3. Marques, FO, Cobbold, PR, Lourenço, N (2007) Physical models of rifting and transform faulting, due to ridge push in a wedge-shaped oceanic lithosphere. (accepted Tectonophysics)
  4. Navarro, A, Lourenço, N, Chorowicz, J, Miranda, JM, Catalão, J (2008). Analysis of geometry of volcanoes and faults in Terceira Island (Azores): Evidence for reactivation tectonics at the EUR/AFR plate boundary in the Azores Triple Junction. (accepted  tectonophysics)
  5. Navarro, A, Lourenço, N, Chorowicz, J, Miranda, JM, Catalão, J (2008) Analysis of geometry of volcanoes and faults in Terceira Island (Azores): Evidence for reactivation tectonics at the EUR/AFR plate boundary in the Azores Triple Junction. (accepted  tectonophysics)
Published
  1. Hildenbrand, A, Madureira, P, Marques, FO, Cruz, I, Henry, B, Silva, P (2008) Multi-stage evolution of a sub-aerial volcanic ridge over the last 1.3 Myr: S.Jorge Island, Azores Triple Junction Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2006) 273: 289-298
  2. Rosa, CJP, McPhie, J, Relvas, JMRS, Pereira, Z, Oliveira, T, Pacheco, N (2008) Facie analysese and volcanic setting of the giant Neves Corvo massive sulfide deposit, Iberian Pyrite Belt , Portugal. Mineralium Deposita 43: 449-466
  3. Beaudoin, Y, Scott, SD, Gorton, MP, Zajacz, Z, Halter, W (2007) Pb and other ore metals in modern seafloor tectonic environments: Evidence from melt inclusions. Marine Geology 242(4), 271-89.
  4. Beaudoin, Y, Scott, SD, Gorton, MP, Zajacz, Z, Halter, W (2007) Effects of hydrothermal alteration on Pb in the active PACMANUS hydrothermal field, ODP Leg 193, Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea: A LA-ICP-MS study. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71(17), 4256-78.
  5. Dias, ÁS, Mills, RA, Taylor, RN, Ferreira, P, Barriga, FJAS (2007) Geochemistry of a sediment push-core from the Lucky Strike hydrothermal field, Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Chemical Geology, 247: 339-351
  6. Fonseca, R., Barriga, F., Tazaki, K. (2007) - Land erosion and associated evolution of clay minerals assemblages from soils to artificial lakes in two distinct climate regimes in Portugal and Brazil. Clay Minerals 42: 153-171.
  7. Marques, AFA, Barriga, FJAS, Scott, SD (2007) Sulfide mineralization in an ultramafic-rock hosted seafloor hydrothermal system: From serpentinization to the formation of Cu-Zn-(Co)-rich massive sulfides. Marine Geology, 245 (1-4), 20-39.
  8. Catalão, J, Miranda, JM, Lourenço, N (2006) Deformation associated with the Faial (Capelinhos) 1957-58 Eruption. Inferences from 1937-1997 geodetic measurements. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research Volume 155, Issues 3-4, 151-163.
  9. Dias, Á, Barriga, FJAS (2006) Mineralogy and geochemistry of hydrothermal sediments from the serpentinite-hosted Saldanha hydrothermal field (36º34'N; 33º26'W). Marine Geology, 225, 157-175.
  10. Fernandes, RMS, Bastos, L, Miranda, JM, Lourenço, N, Ambrosius, BAC, Noomen, R, Simons, W (2006) Defining the Plate Boundaries in the Azores Region. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 156, 1-9.
  11. Marques, AFA, Barriga, F, Chavagnac, V,  Fouquet, Y (2006) Mineralogy, geochemistry, and Nd isotope composition of the Rainbow hydrothermal field, Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Mineralium Deposita, 41(1), 52-67.
  12. Monteiro Santos, FA, Trota, A, Soares, A, Luzio, R, Lourenço, N, Matos, L, Almeida, E, Gaspar, JL, Miranda, JM (2006) An audio-magnetotelluric investigation in Terceira Island (Azores). Journal of Applied Geophysics. 59 (4): 314-323 AUG 2006.
  13. Relvas JMRS, Barriga, FJAS, Ferreira, A, Noiva, PC, Pacheco, N, Barriga, G (2006) Hydrothermal alteration and mineralization in the Neves-Corvo volcanic-hosted massive sulfide deposit, Portugal: I. Geology, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry. Economic Geology 101-4: 753-790.
  14. Relvas JMRS, Barriga FJAS, and Longstaffe F (2006) Hydrothermal alteration and mineralization in the Neves-Corvo volcanic-hosted massive sulfide deposit, Portugal: II.Oxygen, Hydrogen and Carbon Isotopes. Economic Geology 101-4: 791-804.
  15. Rosa, DRN, Inverno, CMC, Oliveira, VMJ, Rosa, CJP (2006). Geochemistry and geothermometry of volcanic rocks from Serra Branca, Iberian Pyrite Belt, Portugal. Gondwana Research, 10: 328-339.
  16. Silva PF, Henry B, Marques FO, Mateus A, Madureira P, Lourenço N, Miranda J (2006) Variation of Magnetic Properties in Sedimentary Rocks Hosting the Foum Zguid dyke (Southern Marocco): Combined effects of re-crystallization and Fe-metasomatism. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 241: 978-992 (doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.10.009)
  17. Yang, KH, Scott, SD (2006) Magmatic fluids as a source of metals in seafloor hydrothermal systems. Geophysical Monograph Series 166, 1-23.
  18. Miranda, JM, Luis, JF, Lourenço, N, Santos, F (2005) Identification of the magnetization Low of the Lucky Strike Hydrothermal Vent Using Surface Magnetic Data. Journal Geophysical Research 110, B04103, DOI 10.1029/2004JB003085
  19. Cardigos, F, Colaço, A, Dando, PR, Ávila, SP, Sarradin, PM, Tempera, F, Conceição, P, Pascoal, A, Serrão Santos, R (2005) Shallow water hydrothermal vent field fluids and communities of the D. João de Castro Seamount (Azores). Chemical Geology, 224: 153-168.
  20. Goslin, J, Lourenço, N, Dziak, R, Bohnenstiehl DR, Haxel, J, Luis J. (2005) Long-term seismicity of the Reykjanes Ridge (North Atlantic) recorded by a regional hydrophone array. Geophysical Journal International. 162(2): 516 DOI 10.1111/j.1365-246X2005.02678.x
  21. Madureira, P, Moreira, M, Mata, J, Allègre, CJ (2005). Primitive neon isotopes in Terceira Island (Azores archipelago). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 233(3-4), 429-440.
  22. McConachy TF, Arculus RJ, Yeats CJ, Binns RA, Barriga FJAS, McInnes BIA, Rakau B, Sestak S, Sharpe R, Tevi T (2005) New hydrothermal activity and alkalic volcanism in the backarc Coriolis Troughs, Vanuatu. Geology 33: 61-64 (doi: 10.1130/G20870.1)
  23. Tornos F, Casquet C, Relvas JMRS (2005) Transpressional tectonics, lower crust decoupling and intrusion of deep mafic sills: a model for the unusual metallogenesis of SW Iberia. Ore Geology Reviews 27(1-4): 133-163 (doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2005.07.020)
  24. Yang, KH, Scott, SD (2005) Vigorous exsolution of volatiles in the magma chamber beneath a hydrothermal system on the modern sea floor of the eastern Manus back-arc basin, western Pacific: Evidence from melt inclusions. Economic Geology 100(6), 1085-96.
  25. Rosa DRN, Inverno CMC, Oliveira VMJ, Rosa CJP (2004) Geochemistry of volcanic rocks, Albernoa area, Iberian Pyrite Belt, Portugal. International Geology Review 46(4): 366-383
  26. Silva PF, Marques FO, Henry B, Mateus A, Lourenço N, Miranda JM (2004) Preliminary results of a study of magnetic properties in the Foum-Zguid Dyke (Morocco). Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 29: 909-920 (doi:10.1016/j.pce.2004.01.016).
  27. Yang, KH, Scott, SD (2003) Geochemical relations of felsic magmas to ore metals in massive sulfide deposits of the Bathurst Mining Cam, Iberian Pyrite Belt, Hokuroku District and the Abitibi belt. Econ. Geol. Monogr. 11, 457-78.
  28. Miranda M, Silva PF,  Lourenço N, Henry B, Costa R (2002) Tectonic setting of the Saldanha Massif (Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 36º33´N 33º26'W). Marine Geophys. Researches. 23, 299-318.
  29. Yang, KH, Scott, SD (2002) Magmatic Degassing of Volatiles and Ore Metals into a Hydrothermal System on the Modern sea Floor of the Eastern manus Back-Arc Basin, Western Pacific. Economic Geology 97, 1079-100.
  30. Lourenço, N, Miranda, M, Luis, J, Ribeiro, A, Mendes-Victor, LA, Madeira, J, Needham, DH (1998) Morpho-tectonic analysis of the Azores volcanic plateau from a new bathymetric compilation of the Area. Marine Geophysical Researches 20: 141-156.
  31. Yang, KH, Scott, SD (1996) Possible contribution of a metal-rich magmatic fluid to a sea-floor hydrothermal system. Nature 383, 420-23.
  32. Fouquet Y, Ondreas H, Charlou JL, Donval, JP, Knoery J, Costa, I,  Lourenço N, Tivey M (1995). "Atlantic lava lakes and hot vents". Nature, 377 (6546): 201.
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