Enrique Sanz Rubio

Partner of Geomnia Natural Resources S.L.N.E.
Specialities: Exploration of sedimentary basins and applied petrology-mineralogy esanz@geomnia.es
Tlf: +34 620336906

Enrique has a PhD in Applied Mineralogy from the Complutense University of Madrid (1999). In his research career he was in the National Museum of Natural Sciences (CSIC) until 1999, he was part of the multidisciplinary research team of the Department of Geology led by Dr. Manuel Hoyos Gómez; the work was devoted to paleoclimatic interpretation of sedimentary records, study of evaporite facies, karst environments and conservation of natural historical heritage. From 2000 to 2001, he did postdoctoral work at the Center for Astrobiology (INTA-CSIC) where he worked on paleoclimatology and the recognition of meteorite impact features on sedimentary record.

He has worked since 1998 as a consultant on evaporites exploration for U.S. Borax Inc (RIO TINTO) and from 2003 to the beginning of 2008 he was Project Geologist for RIO TINTO industrial minerals exploration in much of the Iberian Tertiary basins, as well as in Morocco, Italy, China, Russia, Ethiopia, etc. In February 2008, he started the GEOMNIA Project.

References in internet

• Doctoral Thesis: Analysis of carbonatic and evaporitic depositional systems of the Neogene Calatayud Basin (Zaragoza). (1999). Directed by Dr. Manuel Hoyos Gómez and Dr. Jose Pedro Calvo Sorando.

• Dam, J. Van y Sanz Rubio, Enrique (2003): Late Miocene and Pliocene small mammals from the Calatayud Basin (Central Spain).

• Díaz-Martínez, E., Sanz-Rubio, E., Martínez-Frías, J.M. (2002). Sedimentary record of impact events in Spain. Geological Society of America Special Paper: 356, Chapter 40: 551-562.

• Cortés, A.L.; Díaz-Martínez, E.; Sanz-Rubio, E.; Martínez-Frías, J.M. y Fernández, C (2002). Cosmic impact vs.terrestrial origin of the Azuara structure (Spain): A review. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 37 (6): 875-894.

• Abdul-Aziz, H.; Sanz-Rubio, E.; Calvo, J.P.; Hilgen, F.J. y Krigjsman, W. (2003). Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of a middle Miocene proximal alluvial fan to cyclic shallow lacustrine depositional system in the Calatayud Basin (NE Spain). Sedimentology, 50 (2003): 211-236.