Peřestý, V. , Soejono, I. , Schulmann, K. , Ruffet, G. , Kylander-Clark, A. , Sláma, J. , Štípská, P. , Maierová, P. , Hanžl, P. , Aguilar, C. and 2025. Late Cambrian syn-intrusive thickening of the Ikh Mongol Arc domains in the Mongolian Collage. Tectonics. 44, e2024TC008437.
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Researcher
Dr. Carmen Mª Aguilar Gil
Alumni
Metamorphic Petrology and Geochronology
carmen.gil@geology.cz
RID:
L-4887-2014
About me
I obtained my degree in Geology (1999–2005) at the University of Granada (Spain) and I completed my Ph.D. thesis (2008–2013), entitled: “P–T–t–d constraints on the Late Variscan evolution of the Eastern Pyrenees”, at the University of Barcelona (Spain). The main goal of the thesis was to contribute to the understanding of the dynamics of the lithosphere and the origin of thermal anomalies in orogenic regimes through integrated structural, petrological and geochronological studies together with thermodynamic modelling in medium- to high-grade metamorphic rocks and in associated igneous rocks of the Variscan segment of the Pyrenees.
After completing my PhD thesis, I have worked as post-doc at the department of Earth Sciences of the University Federal of Ouro Preto (Brazil) during two years (2014–2016). The main aim of the research was to investigate the extension of the Paleoproterozoic thermal overprint in the Archean – Paleoproterozoic basement of the Southern part of São Francisco Craton and its margin through the geochronological study in accessory minerals such as titanite and monazite.
During January 2017 to September 2021, I have been working on my second post-doc at the Czech Geological Survey of Prague (Czech Republic). My research is focussed on the study of high-grade magmatic and metamorphic rocks in two different orogenic belts; the European Variscides belt and the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB). These areas are studied in detail by structural and petrological studies, involving geochemistry and thermodynamic modelling, and by means of geochronological study, especially on zircon and monazite.
Since September 2021, I work as a tenure-track lecturer at the University of Barcelona (Spain), but I am very glad to continue working on the high-grade magmatic and metamorphic rocks form the European Variscides belt and the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) in collaborating with the CLR team of the Czech Geological Survey.
Research interests
- Understanding of the dynamics of the lithosphere and the origin of thermal anomalies in orogenic collisional systems
- Constrain the P–T-d evolution of high-grade metamorphic rocks
- Contribute to the better understanding of the melting processes occurring in the deep crustal level
- Estimate the amounts of melt gained or lost/segregated in the migmatites
- Determine the timing of the tectono-metamorphic evolution of collisional orogens using U-Pb isotopic dating in mineral accessories (zircons, titanites and monazites).
Research projects
Granulite–migmatite domes - insights to Devonian and Carboniferous evolution in the Variscan belt on the examples of the Náměšť granulite and Góry Sowie massifs
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Góry Sowie granulites (Poland) represent only small portions of rocks within a large-scale migmatitic metasedimentary domain, which contrasts with other granulite complexes in the Bohemian Massif that represent metamorphosed granitic protoliths and are therefore dominated by kyanite–garnet–K-feldspar granulites. These differences in age and lithology are indicative of very different orogenic processes in Devonian and Carboniferous times in the Variscan Belt that were up to our knowledge not studied.
Publications
Aguilar, C. , Štípská, P. , Schulmann, K. , Kylander-Clark, A. , Lexa, O. , Sukhbaatar, T. , Peřestý, V. , Jiang, Y. and Hanžl, P. 2024. Carboniferous Barrovian to Permian Buchan-type metamorphic cycles in the Mongolian Altai Zone: Implication for pressure cycles in accretionary orogens. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 42, 979–1033.
DOI Google ScholarŠtípská, P. , Schulmann, K. , Soejono, I. , Peřestý, V. , Kylander-Clark, A. , Collett, S. , Aguilar, C. , Maierová, P. , Racek, M. and Hanzl, P. 2024. Supra-subduction thickening of a continental back-arc: Ediacaran–early Cambrian (Baikalian) metamorphism in the NE Baidrag block (Mongolian Collage). Gondwana Research. 135.
DOI Google ScholarŠtípská, P. , Peřestý, V. , Soejono, I. , Schulmann, K. , Kylander-Clark, A.R., Aguilar, C. , Collett, S. , Racek, M. , Míková, J. , Dorjsuren, O. and 2023. Anticlockwise metamorphic paths at ca. 890–790 Ma from the NE Baidrag block, Mongolia, indicate back-arc compression at the Rodinia periphery. Geoscience Frontiers. 14, 101520.
DOI Google ScholarSukhbaatar, T. , Lexa, O. , Schulmann, K. , Aguilar, C. , Štípská, P. , Wong, J. , Jiang, Y. , Míková, J. and Zhao, D. 2022. Paleozoic geodynamics and architecture of the southern part of the Mongolian Altai Zone. Tectonics. 41, e2022TC007498.
DOI Google ScholarJiang, Y. , Štípská, P. , Schulmann, K. , Aguilar, C. , Wang, S. , Anczkiewicz, R. , Zhang, J. , Li, P. and Chopin, F. 2021. Barrovian and Buchan metamorphic series in the Chinese Altai: P–T–t–D evolution and tectonic implications. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 40, 823–857.
DOI Google ScholarAguilar, C. , Štípská, P. , Chopin, F. , Schulmann, K. , Pitra, P. , Závada, P. , Hasalová, P. and Martelat, J.-E. 2020. Syn-deformational melt percolation through a high-pressure orthogneiss and the exhumation of a subducted continental wedge (Orlica-Śnieżnik Dome, NE Bohemian Massif). International Journal of Earth Sciences. 109, 34.
DOI Google ScholarBroussolle, A. , Sun, M. , Schulmann, K. , Guy, A. , Aguilar, C. , Štípská, P. , Jiang, Y. , Yu, Y. and Xiao, W. 2019. Are the Chinese Altai “terranes” the result of juxtaposition of different crustal levels during Late Devonian and Permian orogenesis?. Gondwana Research. 66, 183–206.
DOI Google ScholarŠtípská, P. , Hasalová, P. , Powell, R. , Závada, P. , Schulmann, K. , Racek, M. , Aguilar, C. and Chopin, F. 2019. The Effect of Melt Infiltration on Metagranitic Rocks: the Snieznik Dome, Bohemian Massif. Journal of Petrology. 60, 591–618.
Google ScholarRibeiro, M.L. et al. 2019. Variscan Metamorphism. The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach: Volume 2: The Variscan Cycle. C. Quesada and J.T. Oliveira, eds. Springer International Publishing. 431–495.
Google ScholarBroussolle, A. , Aguilar, C. , Sun, M. , Schulmann, K. , Štípská, P. , Jiang, Y. , Yu, Y. , Xiao, W. , Wang, S. and Míková, J. 2018. Polycyclic Palaeozoic evolution of accretionary orogenic wedge in the southern Chinese Altai: Evidence from structural relationships and U–Pb geochronology. Lithos. 314-315, 400–424.
DOI Google ScholarAguilar, C. , Liesa, M. , Štípská, P. , Schulmann, K. , Munoz, J. and Casas, J. 2015. P–T–t–d evolution of orogenic middle crust of the Roc de Frausa Massif (Eastern Pyrenees): A result of horizontal crustal flow and Carboniferous doming?. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 33, 273–294.
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