Diego Villagómez Díaz
Dr. Diego Villagómez Díaz
CEO
Genereso Ltd.
Rue de Lausanne 67B
CH-1202 Geneva
Switzerland
E-mail:
diego.villagomez(at)gmail.comPersonal URL:
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Key Publications of Diego Villagómez Díaz (up to ten) :
Villagómez, D., Steffensen, C., Pindell, J., Molina-Garza, R., Gray, G., Graham, R., O'Sullivan, P.O., Stockli, D., Spikings, R. 2022. Tectono-sedimentary evolution of Southern Mexico. Implications for Cretaceous and younger source-to-sink systems in the Mexican foreland basins and the Gulf of Mexico. Earth-Science Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104066
Villagómez, D. and Pindell, J. 2020. Thermochronology of the southern Mexican Margin (Xolapa Belt), Acapulco to Puerto Angel: crustal dynamics of a trench–trench–transform triple junction. In: Martens, U., and Molina-Garza, R.S. (eds) Southern and Central Mexico: Basement Framework, Tectonic Evolution, and Provenance of Mesozoic–Cenozoic Basins, Geological Society of America Special Paper 546, Book Chapter 14, https://doi.org/10.1130/2020.2546(14)
Villagómez, D., Pindell, J.L., and Spikings, R. 2020. Thermal history of the crystalline basement from the western and southern Gulf of Mexico: Implications for rifting and later events. In: Martens, U., and Molina-Garza, R.S. (eds) Southern and Central Mexico: Basement Framework, Tectonic Evolution, and Provenance of Mesozoic–Cenozoic Basins, Geological Society of America Special Paper 546, Book Chapter 16. p. 1–18, https://doi.org/10.1130/2019.2546(16)
Villagómez, D. and Pindell, J. 2020. Cooling and uplift history of the Chiapas Massif. In: Martens, U., and Molina-Garza, R.S. (eds) Southern and Central Mexico: Basement Framework, Tectonic Evolution, and Provenance of Mesozoic–Cenozoic Basins, Geological Society of America Special Paper 546, Book Chapter 17, https://doi.org/10.1130/2020.2546(17)
Pindell, J., Villagómez, D., Molina-Garza, R., Graham, R. and Weber, B. 2020. A revised synthesis of the rift and drift history of the Gulf of Mexico and surrounding regions in the light of improved age dating of the Middle Jurassic salt. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 504. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP504-2020-43
Gray, G.G., Villagómez, D., Pindell, J., Molina-Garza, R., O'Sullivan, P., Stockli, D., Farrell, W., Blank, D. and Schuba, J. 2020. Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic thermotectonic history of eastern, central and southern Mexico as determined through integrated thermochronology, with implications for sediment delivery to the Gulf of Mexico. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 504. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP504-2019-243
Mora, A., Villagómez, D., Parra, M., Caballero, V.M., Spikings, R., Horton, B.K., Mora–Bohórquez, J.A., Ketcham, R.A. & Arias–Martínez, J.P. 2020. Late Cretaceous to Cenozoic uplift of the northern Andes: Paleogeographic implications. In: Gómez, J. & Mateus–Zabala, D. (editors), The Geology of Colombia, Volume 3 Paleogene – Neogene. Servicio Geológico Colombiano, Publicaciones Geológicas Especiales 37, p. 89–121. Bogotá. https://doi.org/10.32685/pub.esp.37.2019.04
Graham, R., Pindell, J., Villagómez, D., Molina-Garza, R., Granath, J. and Sierra-Rojas, M. 2020. Integrated Cretaceous–Cenozoic plate tectonics and structural geology in southern Mexico. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 504. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP504-2020-70
Pindell, J., Molina-Garza, R., Villagómez, D., Martens, U., Graham, R., Stockli, D., Weber, B. and Sierra-Rojas, M.I., 2020. Provenance of the Miocene Nanchital Conglomerate, western Chiapas Foldbelt, Mexico: implications for reservoir sands in the Sureste Basin, greater Campeche Province. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 504. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP504-2020-12
Bellver-Baca, M.T., Chiaradia, M., Beate, B., Beguelin, P., Deriaz, B., Mendez-Chazarra, N. and Villagómez, D. 2020. Geochemical evolution of the Quaternary Chachimbiro Volcanic Complex (frontal volcanic arc of Ecuador). Lithos, 356, p.105237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2019.105237
Pindell, J., Villagómez, D., Horn, B. W., and Molina-Garza, R. 2019. Early to Middle Jurassic tectonic models for the Gulf of Mexico in light of new Bajocian ages for proximal salt deposition. In Fiduk, C. and Rosen, N. (eds.). Salt Tectonics, Associated Processes, and Exploration Potential: Revisited 1989–2019. Transactions 37th Annual Gulf Coast Section of the Society of Economic and Paleontological Mineralogists Foundation, Perkins-Rosen Research Conference, Houston, Texas, p. 67–88.
Spikings, R.A., Cochrane, R., Vallejo, C., Villagómez, D., Van der Lelij, R., Paul, A. and Winkler, W. 2019. Latest Triassic to Early Cretaceous tectonics of the Northern Andes: Geochronology, geochemistry, isotopic tracing, and thermochronology. In: Horton and Folguera (eds.). Andean Tectonics Elsevier. p. 173-208. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-816009-1.00009-5
Suhr, N., Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Chew, D., Pinto, A.J., Villagómez, D., Toulkeridis, T., Mertz-Kraus, R. 2019. Detrital-zircon geochronology and provenance of the El Oro Metamorphic Complex, Ecuador: Geodynamic implications for the evolution of the western Gondwana margin. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 90, pp.520–539. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2018.12.010
Spikings R., Cochrane R., Villagómez D., Van der Lelij R, Vallejo C., Winkler W. 2014. The geological history of northwestern South America: From Pangaea to the early collision of the Caribbean Large Igneous Province (290 – 75 Ma). Gondwana Research. 27(1), pp.95–139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2014.06.004
Cochrane, R., Spikings, R., Gerdes, A., Ulianov, A., Mora, A., Villagómez, D., Putlitz, B., Chiaradia, M. 2014. Permo-Triassic anatexis, continental rifting and the disassembly of western Pangaea. Lithos. Volumes 190–191, March 2014, Pages 383–402, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2013.12.020
Villagómez, D., Spikings, R. 2013. Thermochronology and Tectonics of the Western and Central Cordilleras of Colombia. Lithos. Volumes 160–161, pp. 228–249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2012.12.008
Schütte, P., Chiaradia, M., Barra, F., Villagómez, D., Beate, B. 2012. Metallogenic features of Miocene porphyry Cu and porphyry-related mineral deposits in Ecuador revealed by Re-Os, 40Ar/39Ar, and U-Pb geochronology. Mineralium Deposita, Volume 47, Issue 4, pp. 383-410. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-011-0378-z
Villagómez, D., Spikings, R., Magna, T. Winkler, W., Beltrán, A., Kammer, A. 2011. Geochronology, geochemistry and tectonic evolution of the Western and Central cordilleras of Colombia. Lithos. Volume 125, Issues 3-4, pp. 875-896. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2011.05.003
Villagómez, D., Spikings, R., Mora, A., Guzmán, G., Ojeda, G., Cortes, E., Van der Lelij ,R. 2011. Vertical tectonics at a continental crust-oceanic plateau, plate boundary zone: Low temperature thermochronology of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. Tectonics. Vol. 30, TC4004, 18 pp. https://doi.org/10.1029/2010TC002835
Cardona, A., Valencia, V., Weber, M., Duque, J, Montes, C., Reiners, P., Domanik, K., Nicolescu, S., Villagómez, D. 2011. Transient Cenozoic tectonic stages in the southern margin of the Caribbean plate: U-Th/He thermochronological constraints from Paleogene plutonic rocks in the Santa Marta Massif and Jarara Serranía, Colombia. Geologica Acta, Vol.9, 3-4, p. 1-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1344/105.000001739
Van der Lelij, R., Spikings, R., Kerr, A., Kounov, A., Cosca, M., Chew, D., Villagómez, D. 2010. Thermochronology and Tectonics of the Leeward Antilles: evolution of the Southern Caribbean Plate Boundary Zone. Tectonics 29(6). 30pp. 11/2010; 29:TC6003. https://doi.org/10.1029/2009TC002654
Spikings, R., Crowhurst, P., Winkler, W., Villagómez, D. 2010. Syn- and post accretionary cooling history of the Ecuadorian Andes constrained by their in-situ and detrital thermochronometric record. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 30 (3-4) 121-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2010.04.002
Winkler, W., Villagómez, D., Spikings, R., Egüez, A., Tobler, S., Abegglen, P. 2005. The Chota basin and its significance for the inception and tectonic setting of the Inter-Andean depression in Ecuador. Journal of South America Earth Sciences. 19. 5-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2004.06.006
Expertise of Diego Villagómez Díaz:
| Expertise Category | Specific Expertise |
|---|
| Expert Type | Expert Type |
| Scientific / Fundamental Research |
| Applied Sciences / Technologies / Engineering |
| Research Interface / Management |
| Topic Lithosphere | Lithosphere |
| Tectonics |
| Sediments: Formation, Dynamics, Metamorphism |
| Magmatic Rocks: Formation, Metamorphism |
| Topic Economy/ResourceUse | Energy |
| Spatial Zones | Spatial Zones |
| Mountain / Highland |
| Coastal Zone |
| Open Ocean |
| Spatial Scale | Spatial Scale |
| Global / Hemispheric |
| Continental |
| Regional |
| National / Cultural |
| Local / Community |
| Time Frame | Time Frame |
| Past |
| Past: Historical / Archeological |
| Past: Quarternary |
| Past: Tertiary |
| Past: Cretaceous |
| Past: Jurassic |
| Past: Triassic |
| Past: Palaeozoic |
| Past: Precambrian |
| Recent / Today |
| Future |
| Time Scale | 100 kyr |
| Billenial (Mio yrs) |
| Methods | Data Collection |
| Data Collection - Measurement |
| Data Collection - Interviews, Questionnaires |
| Data Collection - Documents, Archives |
| Data Analysis |
| Literature Study |
| Modeling |
| Applied Research / Technology |
| Integrated Assessment |
| Program Coordination / Management |
| GeoForum Geo-Technology | Cartography |
| Geoinformatics |
| Geophysics |
| Seismology |
| Geotechnics, Geomatics, Geophysics |
| GeoForum Environmental-Technology | Prospection |
| Mining |
Specialties of Diego Villagómez Díaz:
Extensive geological experience and knowledge of major hydrocarbon-rich basins in Western Sub-
Saharan Africa (Niger Delta, Tano-Cote d’Ivoire and Douala basins), Mexico (both continental and the Gulf of Mexico), the Caribbean region and Northern South America.
Knowledge and understanding of several disciplines of earth sciences (geophysics, tectonics,
geochemistry) in order to create geological models of complex systems and processes aimed to improve natural resource exploration.
Last update: 11/28/22
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)
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