Laura Rosell

Complete address:

Departament of Mineralogy, Petrology and Applied Geology
Faculty of Earth Sciences
Universitat de Barcelona
08028 Barcelona
Tel. 34-93-402 14 08
e-mail: lrosell@ub.edu

Research Group: Grup de recerca de Geologia Sedimentària (Roques evaporítiques)

Main research interest:

  • Sedimentology, petrology and diagenesis of evaporites (sulphates and chlorides).
  • Sedimentology, petrology and diagenesis of evaporitic borates.
  • Geochemistry of evaporites and brines.

Main publications:

  • Ortí, F.; Rosell, L.; García-Veigas, J; Helvacı, C. (2016). Sulfate-borate association (glauberite-probertite) in the Emet Basin: implications for evaporite sedimentology (Middle Miocene, Turkey). Journal of Sedimentary Research. 86: 448-475.
  • Ortí, F.; Rosell, L.; Gibert, L.; Moragas, M.; Playà, E.; Inglès, M.; Rouchy, J.M.; Calvo, J.P.; Gimeno, D., 2014, Evaporite sedimentation in a tectonically active basin: the lacustrine Las Minas Gypsum unit (Late Tortonian, SE Spain). Sedimentary Geology. 311: 17-42.
  • Carrillo, E.; Rosell, L.; Ortí, F., 2014, Multiepisodic evaporite sedimentation as an indicator of palaeogeographical evolution in foreland basins (South-eastern Pyrenean basin, Early-Middle Eocene). Sedimentology. 61: 2086-2112.
  • García-Veigas, J.; Cendón, D.I.; Rosell, L.; Ortí, F.; Torres Ruiz, J.; Martín, J.M.; Sanz, E. (2013). Salt deposition and brine evolution in the Granada Basin (Late Tortonian, SE Spain). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology , Palaeoecology. 369: 452-465.
  • Ortí, F.; Rosell, L.; Playà, E.; Salvany, J.M. (2012). Meganodular anhydritization: a new mechanism of gypsum to anhydrite conversion (Palaeogene-Neogene, Ebro Basin, North-east Spain). Sedimentology. 59: 1257-1277.
  • García-Veigas, J.; Rosell, L.; Ortí, F.; Gündogan, I.; Helvacıi, C. (2011). Mineralogy, diagenesis and hydrochemical evolution in a probertite-glauberite-halite saline lake (Miocene, Emet Basin, Turkey). Chemical Geology. 280: 352-364.
  • García-Veigas, J., Rosell, L., Zak, I., Playà, E., Ayora, C., Starinsky, A. (2009). Evidence of potash salt formation in the Pliocene Sedom Lagoon (Dead Sea Rift, Israel). Chemical Geology. 265: 499-511.
  • Gibert, Ll.; Ortí, F.; Rosell, L. (2007). Plio-Pleistocene lacustrine evaporites of the Baza Basin (Betic Chain, SE Spain). Sedimentary Geology. 200: 89-116.
  • Playà, E.; Rosell, L. (2005). The celestite problem in gypsum Sr geochemistry: an evaluation of the purifying methods of gypsiferous samples. Chemical Geology. 221: 102-116.
  • Ortí, F.; Rosell, L.; Anadón, P. (2003). Deep to shallow lacustrine evaporites in the Libros Gypsum (southern Teruel Basin, Miocene, NE Spain): an occurrence of pelletal gypsum rhythmites. Sedimentology. 50: 361-386.
  • Playà, E.; Ortí, F.; Rosell, L. (2000). Marine to non-marine sedimentation in the upper Miocene evaporites of the Eastern Betics, SE Spain: sedimentological and geochemical evidence. Sedimentary Geology. 133: 135-166.
  • Ortí, F.; Rosell, L. (2000). Evaporative systems and diagenetic patterns in the Calatayud Basin (Miocene, central Spain). Sedimentology. 47: 665-685.
  • Rosell, L.; Ortí, F.; Kasprzyk, A.; Playà, E.; Peryt, T.M. (1998). Strontium geochemistry of Miocene primary gypsum: Messinian of SE Spain and Sicily and Badenian of Poland. Journal of Sedimentary Research. 68: 63-79.
  • Rosell, L.; Pueyo, J.J. (1997). Second Marine Evaporitic Phase in the South Pyrenean Foredeep: The Priabonian Potash Basin. In: G. Busson and B.C. Schreiber (Eds.) Sedimentary Deposition in Rift and Foreland Basins in France and Spain (Paleogene and Lower Neogene). Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 358-387.
  • Anadón, P.; Rosell, L.; Talbot, M.R. (1992). Carbonate replacements of lacustrine gypsum deposits in two Neogene continental basins, eastern Spain. Sedimentary Geology. 78: 201-216.