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Rodrigo González T.

Investigador Principal

Doctor en Ciencias mención Geología, magíster y geólogo de la Universidad Católica del Norte. Es académico de Geología y secretario de investigación de la Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Geológicas de la Universidad Católica del Norte.

Contacto: r_gonzalez@ucn.cl

Perfil científico.

Especialidad: Geología estructural, tectónica andina y geología regional.

2023 – F. Martínez; C. López; C. Torres; R. González; M. Peña. Understanding the initial upper plate architecture and shortening distribution in subduction-related orogens: Insights from the Central Andean forearc. Tectonophysics.

2023 – Cristopher López-Aguilera; Renato Cisternas; Sebastian Yassir Espinoza Guzman; Rodrigo González; Fernando Martínez; Rodrigo Riquelme; Daniela Montenegro; Jorge Morales. The effects of positive tectonic inversion structures on the formation of thrust systems on the western Domeyko Cordillera, northern Chile: Implications for the orogenic development of the outer Andean forearc. 

2023 – Diego Jaldín; Laura Giambiagi; Fernando Martínez; Carlos Benavente; Daniela Espinoza; Kyriaki Drymoni; Karina Luengo; Rodrigo González; Juan Rios-Contesse. The temporal and spatial relationship between strike-slip and reverse faulting in subduction-related orogenic system: Insights from the Western slope of the Puna Plateau. Tectonophysics.

2022 – Cristopher López-Aguilera; Chiara Del Ventisette; Marco Bonini; Domenico Montanari; Daniele Maestrelli; Fernando Martínez; Rodrigo González; Rodrigo Riquelme; Daniela Montenegro Fernández; Muñoz-Rojas et al. The Relationship Between Inverted Normal Faults and Pure Thrusting During the Tectonic Inversion of the Domeyko Cordillera, Northern Chile: Structural and Seismic Interpretation and Analog Modeling Experiments.

2022 – J. Cortés‐Aranda; J. González; D. Molina; L. Astudillo‐Sotomayor; A. Tassara; M. Miller; F. Álvarez‐Amado; R. González; D. Bahamondes. Linking Upper‐Plate Fault Reactivation With the Megathrust Earthquake Cycle: The Case of the Northern Chile Outer Forearc (19°S–23°S). Tectonics.

2022Rodrigo Gonzalez. Advances in scientific understanding of the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes: a review of contributing factors. Bulletin of Volcanology.

2022 – Rodrigo González. Deciphering the Late Paleozoic–Cenozoic Tectonic History of the Inner Central Andes Forearc: An Update From the Salar de Punta Negra Basin of Northern Chile. Frontiers in Earth Science.

2021Rodrigo González. Complex Basement‐Involved Contractional Structures in the Pre‐Andean Basins of Northern Chile: A Review From Seismic Data. Tectonics.

2021Rodrigo González – Neotectonic evidence for Late Quaternary reverse faulting in the northern Chile outer forearc (22.5°S-23°S): Implications for seismic hazard. Journal of South American Earth Sciences.

2021 – Rodrigo González. Gondwanan Inheritance on the Building of the Western Central Andes (Domeyko Range, Chile): Structural and Thermochronological Approach (U‐Pb and 40Ar/39Ar). Tectonics.

2020Rodrigo González. An Overview of the Mafic and Felsic Monogenetic Neogene to Quaternary Volcanism in the Central Andes, northern Chile (18-28°Lat.S).Updates in Volcanology.

2020 – Gabriel Ureta; Károly Németh; Felipe Aguilera; Rodrigo González. Features That Favor the Prediction of the Emplacement Location of Maar Volcanoes: A Case Study in the Central Andes, Northern Chile. Geosciences.

2020Rodrigo González. Evidence for two stages of back-arc compression in the late Cretaceous fold-and-thrust belt in the Precordillera of northern Chile (24°30′S–25°30′S). Journal of South American Earth Sciences.

2020 – Elizabeth J. Lam; Rodrigo Carle; Rodrigo González; Ítalo L. Montofré; Eugenio A. Veloso; Antonio Bernardo; Manuel Cánovas; Fernando A. Álvarez. A Methodology Based on Magnetic Susceptibility to Characterize Copper Mine Tailings. Minerals

2020Rodrigo González. Corrigendum to “Gas and aerosol emissions from Lascar volcano (Northern Chile): Insights into the origin of gases and their links with the volcanic activity” [J. Volcanol. Geoth. Res. 287 (2014) 51–67]. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research.

2019Rodrigo González. Arsenic and copper in Chile and the development of environmental standards. In Advances on environmental reasearch in Chile.

2019Rodrigo González. The origin of the magnetic record in Eocene-Miocene coarse-grained sediments deposited in hyper-arid/arid conditions: Examples from the Atacama Desert. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.

2019 Rodrigo González. The synrift phase of the early Domeyko Basin (Triassic, northern Chile): Sedimentary, volcanic, and tectonic interplay in the evolution of an ancient subduction-related rift basin. Basin Research.

2019Rodrigo González. The synrift phase of the early Domeyko Basin (Triassic, northern Chile): Sedimentary, volcanic, and tectonic interplay in the evolution of an ancient subduction-related rift basin. Basin Research.

2018 – Riquelme, Rodrigo; Tapia, Miguel; Campos, Eduardo; Mpodozis, Constantino; Carretier, Sebastien; Gonzalez, Rodrigo; Munoz, Sebastian; Fernandez-Mort, Alberto; Sanchez, Caroline; Marquardt, Carlos. Supergene and exotic Cumineralization occur during periods of landscape stability in the Centinela Mining District, Atacama Desert. Basin Research.

2018 – Fernando Martínez; Rodrigo González; Sebastian Bascuñan; César Arriagada. Structural styles of the Salar de Punta Negra Basin in the Preandean Depression (24°-25°S) of the Central Andes. Journal of South American Earth Sciences.

2018Rodrigo González. Geology and geochemistry of the Atacama Desert. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek.

2016 – Aguilera, Felipe; Benavente, Oscar; Gutierrez, Francisco; Romero, Jorge; Saltori, Ornella; Gonzalez, Rodrigo; Agusto, Mariano; Caselli, Alberto; Pizarro, Marcela.Eruptive activity of Planchon-Peteroa volcano for period 2010-2011, Southern Andean Volcanic Zone, Chile. Andean Geology.

2015Rodrigo González. Carta Sierra de Varas, Región de Antofagasta. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile.

2015Rodrigo González. Hybrid chitosan-Pluronic F-127 films with BaTiO3:Co nanoparticles: Synthesis and properties. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials.

2015Rodrigo González. Stress fields recorded on large-scale strike-slip fault systems: Effects on the tectonic evolution of crustal slivers during oblique subduction. Tectonophysics.

2015Rodrigo González. Eocene-Miocene Centinela basin evolution, records of palaeo-environmental/palaeo-climate conditions for supergene copper mineralization in the Precordillera, Atacama Desert. 13th SGA Biennial Meeting

2015 Rodrigo González. Magnetic properties as tools to define climatic/environmental condition for the formation of gravel hosted exotic-Cu deposits in the Atacama Desert. 13th SGA Biennial Meeting.

2015Rodrigo González. Heat and mass flux measurements using Landsat images from the 2000–2004 period, Lascar volcano, northern Chile. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research.

2015 – Menard, G.; Moune, S.; Vlastélic, I.; Aguilera, F.; Valade, S.; Bontemps, M.; González, R. Gas and aerosol emissions from Lascar volcano (Northern Chile): Insights into the origin of gases and their links with the volcanic activity. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research.

2015 – Veloso, E.E.; Hayman, N.W.; Anma, R.; Tominaga, M.; González, R.T.; Yamazaki, T.; Astudillo, N. Magma flow directions in the sheeted dike complex at superfast spreading mid-ocean ridges: Insights from IODP Hole 1256D, Eastern Pacific. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.

2015Rodrigo González. Deformation stages in Jurassic rocks of Profeta Formation in Sierra de Varas, Precordillera of Antofagasta. Bolletino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata, Vol. 54 – supplement 2, p. 86-89.

2015González, R.; Niemeyer, H. Interaction of acid and basic magmas at the emplacement level of Sierra de Varas Pluton (Cordillera de Domeyko, northern Chile) | Interracción entre magmas ácidos y básicos en el nivel de emplazamiento del Plutón Sierra de Varas (Cordillera de Domeyko, norte de Chile). Revista geológica de Chile.

2015Rodrigo González. El Plutón Cerro Fortuna y la deformación dúctil cercana al Cerro Punta Chacaya, Cordillera de la Costa de Mejillones, Región de Antofagasta. X Congreso Geológico de Chile.

2015Rodrigo González. Sedimentation in extensional basins at convergent continental margins: an example from the Andean forearc of northern Chile. Terra Nostra: 18. LAK – TU Bergakademie Freiberg, p. 86.

2015Rodrigo González. The Sierra de Varas Pluton in Domeyko Cordillera, Northern Chile: emplacement mechanism and magmatic evolution. 6th International Symposium on Andean Geodynamics ISAG

2015Rodrigo González. The Sierra de Varas Pluton in Domeyko Cordillera, Northern Chile: emplacement mechanism and magmatic evolution. International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI) meeting.

En curso

Doctorado

Doctorado en Ciencias mención Geología – Universidad Católica del Norte

Daniela Espinoza – Paleogene-Neogene tectonic evolution in the southern Andean Plateau: Insights from the Chilean Precordillera, Southern Puna and Eastern Cordillera (25-26º30’S).

María de Lucía Viton – Origen y fuentes de litio de las salmueras en los salares del Altiplano-Puna y su relación con el vulcanismo.

Maestría

Magíster en Ciencias mención Geología – Universidad Católica del Norte

Angelo Vallejos – El rol de las estructuras neógenas NW-SE en el control de la distribución y evolución de los centros volcánicos en el extremo sur de la Zona Volcánica Central, Puna Sur.

Idir Bascuñán – Interacción entre procesos eruptivos, deformación y estructuras heredadas en el intraarco del margen convergente andino: caldera La Pacana, San Pedro, Chile.

Gonzalo Moreno – Conexión entre el Sistema de fallas Icapuquio y el West-Vergent Thrust System, y su influencia en la distribución del volcanismo cuaternario en el norte de Chile.

Javier Bahamondes – Naturaleza de la deformación heredada que controló el emplazamiento del volcán monogenético El Negrito, Sierra de Almeyda, Antofagasta.

Ricardo Donoso – Reconstrucción de la historia eruptiva del volcán monogenético Corral de Coquena, caldera La Pacana, norte de Chile.

Licenciatura
Geología – Universidad Católica del Norte

Michelle Lira – Configuración estructural en el área del volcán monogenético Negrillar de Pajonales, Sierra Almeyda, Antofagasta.

Mrcos Sabariego – Relación entre alineamientos volcánicos y sistemas estructurales en el basamento del borde occidental de la Puna Sur, Atacama.

Marcelo Zelada – Distribución espacial, volumétrica y heterogeneidad petrológica de conos de escoria y flujos de lava en los conos volcánicos monogenéticos Negros de Aras y El Negrillar, norte de Chile.

Graduados

Maestría

Magíster en Ciencias mención Geología – Universidad Católica del Norte

Matías Arriagada (2025) – El rol de las estructuras heredadas en la evolución del volcanismo neógeno-cuaternario en el Área Volcánica Lazufre.

 

Licenciatura
Geología – Universidad Católica del Norte

Alyne Chávez (2025) – Interacción entre volcanismo monogenético, procesos geomorfológicos y deformación en Corral de Coquena.

Javier Bahamondes (2025) – Litoestratigrafía y análisis estructural de un anillo de lava félsico en La Pacana, norte de Chile.

Paulina Olivares (2025) – Petrografia de las Metadioritas de Bolfin-Punta Tetas y de las ortogranulitas de Cabo Jara. Antofagasta, Chile.

Ricardo Donoso (2025) – Litoestratigrafía y análisis estructural de un anillo de lava félsico en la caldera La Pacana, norte de Chile.