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Dr. Miquel Poyatos-Moré

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Associate Professor

Principle Investigator

Academic interests:

My main field of research is the study of shallow to deep marine sedimentary systems, but I am also actively involved in multi-disciplinary projects which aim to understand the preservation and propagation of allogenic and autogenic signals in the stratigraphic record.


Education:

  • Ph.D. in Geology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2014

  • M.Sc. in Geology and Exploration of Sedimentary Reservoirs, University of Barcelona, 2009

  • B.Sc. in Geology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2008


Professional Experience:

  • Associate Professor, Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona, 2024 -

  • Tenure-eligible Lecturer, Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona, 2021 - 2024

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Researcher, University of Oslo, 2017 - 2021

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Manchester, 2013 - 2017

miquel.poyatos@uab.cat

CSS Publications

Peploe, T. G. E., Nesbit, P. R., Englert, R. G., Poyatos-Moré, M., Romans, B. W., Stright, L., & Hubbard, S. M. (2026). Integrating field-based and digital datasets to improve geometric accuracy of geologic cross sections constructed from outcrop. Sedimentologika, 4(2)

https://doi.org/10.57035/journals/sdk.2026.e42.2385

Hage, S., Romans, B.W., Peploe, T.G.E., Poyatos-Moré, M., Ardakani, O.H., Bell, D., Englert R.G., Kaempfe, S.A., Nesbit, P.R., Sherstan, G., Synnott, D.P. and Hubbard, S.M. (2022) – High rates of organic carbon burial in submarine deltas maintained on geological timescales. Nature Geoscience, 15, 919-924.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01048-4

Peploe, T. G. E., Nesbit, P. R., Englert, R. G., Poyatos-Moré, M., Romans, B. W., Stright, L., & Hubbard, S. M. (2026). Integrating field-based and digital datasets to improve geometric accuracy of geologic cross sections constructed from outcrop. Sedimentologika, 4(2).

https://doi.org/10.57035/journals/sdk.2026.e42.2385

Additional Relevant non-CSS Publications

  • Taylor, W., Hodgson, D.M., Peakall, J., Kane, I., Flint, S.S., Bouwmeester, M., Soutter, E., Marsh, J., Keavney, E., Poyatos-Moré, M., McArthur, A., Brunt, R. and Valdez Buso, V. (2025) – Evolution and architecture of an overbank in an ocean-facing canyon-fill. Geosphere. https://doi.org/10.31223/X5CQ5Z

  • Rodriguez-Blanco, L., Poyatos-Moré, M., Midtkandal, I. and Anell, I. (2026) – Steep nested clinoforms in the mixed siliciclastic-carbonate Sobrarbe Deltaic Complex (Eocene, Aínsa Basin, Spain). Sedimentary Geology.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2025.107019

  • Ayckbourne, A., Poyatos-Moré, M., Watkinson, M., Burnham, B., Kane, I., Soutter, E., Bouwmeester, M., Smith, K., Taylor, K and Jerrett, R. (2025) – Depositional processes and stratigraphic architecture of an exhumed retrogradational to progradational submarine slope succession (Eocene, Ainsa Basin, Spain). Journal of Sedimentary Research. https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2024.140

  • Spychala, Y.T., Poyatos-Moré, M., Blumenberg, M., Scheeder, G. and Winsemann J. (2025) – Enrichment of organic carbon in a deep-water sand-prone turbidite system: A study from the Aínsa Basin. Sedimentology, 72, 2301–2322. https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fsed.70041

  • Bouwmeester, M., Kane, I., Hodgson, D.M., Flint, S.S., Taylor, W., Soutter, E., McArthur, A., Poyatos-Moré, M., Marsh, J., Keavney, E., Brunt, R. and Valdez Buso, V. (2024) – Evolution and architecture of an exhumed ocean-facing coarse-grained submarine canyon fill, Baja California, Mexico. Sedimentology. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.13231

  • Ayckbourne, A., Jerrett, R., Watkinson, M., Poyatos-Moré, M., Kane, I., Covey-Crump, S. and Taylor, K. (2024) – Initiation and evolution of an epicontinental shelf-slope margin in actively contracting deep-water basin: the Eocene Aínsa Basin Southern Pyrenees (Spain). Basin Research. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bre.12884

  • McArthur, A.D., Tek, D.E., Poyatos-Moré, M., Colombera, L. and McCaffrey, W.D. (2024) – Deep-ocean channel-wall collapse order of magnitude larger than any other documented. Nature Communications Earth & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01311-z

  • Soutter, E., Martínez-Doñate, A., Kane, I., Poyatos-Moré, M., Taylor, W.J., Hodgson, D.M., Bouwmeester, M. and Flint, S.S. (2024) – Exceptional preservation of three-dimensional dunes on an ancient deep-marine seafloor: implications for sedimentary processes and depositional environments. Sedimentologika. https://doi.org/10.57035/journals/sdk.2024.e21.1067

  • Anell, I., Olsen, S. G., Haugen, M., Jahren, J., Midtkandal, I., and Poyatos-Moré, M. (2023) – A discourse on factors influencing the formation of sigmoidal and linear slope-geometries in the deltaic clinoforms of the calciclastic Sobrarbe Delta, Ainsa Basin, Spain. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 153, 106287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106287

  • Martínez-Doñate, A., Soutter, E., Kane, I., Poyatos-Moré, M., Hodgson, D.M., Ayckbourne, A.J.M., Taylor, W.J., Bouwmeester, M. and Flint, S.S. (2023) – Submarine crevasse lobes controlled by lateral slope failure in tectonically-active settings: an exhumed example from the Eocene Aínsa depocentre (Spain). Sedimentologika.  https://doi.org/10.57035/journals/sdk.2023.e11.1068

  • Boulesteix, K., Poyatos-Moré, M., Flint, S.S., Hodgson, D.M. and Taylor, K.T. (2022) – Sedimentological and stratigraphic criteria to distinguish between basin-floor and slope mudstones: implications for the delivery of mud to deep-water environments. The Depositional Record, 8 (2), 958-988. http://doi.org/10.1002/dep2.191

  • Kane, I.A., Hodgson, D.M., Hubbard, S.M., McArthur, A., Poyatos-Moré, M., Soutter, E., Flint, S.S. and Matthews, W. (2022) – Deep-water tectono-stratigraphy at a plate boundary constrained by n-detrital zircon and micropaleontological approaches: Peninsular Ranges Forearc, Baja California, Mexico. The Sedimentary Record, 20 (1). https://doi.org/10.2110/001c.37652

  • Ayckbourne, A., Jerrett, R., Poyatos-Moré, M., Watkinson, M., Kane, I. and Taylor, K. (2022) – The influence of creeping slope failures on turbidity current behaviour. Sedimentology, 70 (2), 335-361. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.13049

  • Tek, D.E., McArthur, A.D., Poyatos-Moré, M., Colombera, L., Craven, B., Patacci, M. and McCaffrey, W.D. (2021) - Relating seafloor geomorphology and subsurface architecture: how mass-transport deposits and knickzones build the deep-water stratigraphy of the Hikurangi Channel (offshore New Zealand). Sedimentology, 68 (7), 3141-3190. Willey  https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12890

  • Tek, D.E., McArthur, A.D., Poyatos-Moré, M., Colombera, L., Allen, C., Patacci, M. and McCaffrey, W.D. (2021) - Controls on the architectural evolution of deep-water channel overbank sediment wave fields: insights from the Hikurangi Channel, New Zealand. In: Understanding Sedimentary Systems of the Hikurangi Subduction Margin, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, Special Publications. https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2021.1978509

  • Tek, D.E., Poyatos-Moré, M., Patacci, M., McArthur, A.D., Colombera, L., Cullen, T.M. and McCaffrey, W.D. (2020) – Syn-depositional tectonics and mass-transport deposits control channelized, bathymetrically-complex deep-water clastic systems (Eocene Aínsa Basin, Spain). Journal of Sedimentary Research, 90 (7), 729–762. https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2020.38

  • Boulesteix, K., Poyatos-Moré, M., Flint, S.S., Hodgson, D.M. and Taylor, K.T. (2020) – Fringe or background: characterizing deep-water mudstones beyond the basin-floor fan sandstone pinchout. Journal of Sedimentary Research. https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2020.048

  • Cosgrove, G., Poyatos-Moré, M., Hodgson, D.M., McCaffrey, W.D. and Mountney, N. (2019) – Intra-clinothem variability in sedimentary texture and process-regime recorded down slope profiles. Sedimentology, 67, 431-456. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12648

  • Poyatos-Moré, M., Jones, G.D., Brunt, R.L., Tek, D., Hodgson, D.M. and Flint, S.S. (2019) - Clinoform architecture and facies distribution through an erosional to accretionary basin margin transition. Basin Research, 31, 920-947. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12351

  • Boulesteix, K., Poyatos-Moré, M., Flint, S.S., Taylor, K.T. and Hodgson, D.M. (2019) - Transport and deposition of mud in deep-water environments: processes and stratigraphic implications. Sedimentology, 66, 2894-2925.  https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12614

  • Brooks, H.L., Hodgson, D.M., Brunt, R.L., Peakall, J., Poyatos-Moré, M. and Flint, S.S. (2018) - Disconnected submarine lobes as a record of stepped slope evolution over multiple sea-level cycles. Geosphere, 14 (4), 1753-1779. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01618.1

  • Cosgrove, G., Hodgson, D.M., Poyatos-Moré, M., McCaffrey, W.D. and Mountney, N. (2018) - Filter or conveyor? Establishing relationships between clinoform rollover trajectory, sedimentary process regime, and grain character within intrashelf clinothems, offshore New Jersey, USA. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 88 (8), 917-941. https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2018.44

  • Chanvry, E., Deschamps, R., Joseph, P., Puigdefàbregas, C., Poyatos-Moré, M., Serra-Kiel, J., Garcia, D. and Teinturier, S. (2018) - Impact of intrabasinal tectonics in the stratigraphic evolution of piggyback basin fills: an example from the Eocene South-Pyrenean Foreland Basin (Spain). Sedimentary Geology, 377, 34-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2018.09.007

  • Bell, D., Hodgson, D.M., Kane, I.A., Stevenson J. and Poyatos-Moré, M. (2018) – Topographic controls on the development of contemporaneous but contrasting basin-floor depositional architectures. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 88 (10), 1166-1189. https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2018.58

  • Hodgson, D.M., Browning, J.V., Miller, K.G., Hesselbo, S., Poyatos-Moré, M., Mountain, G.S. and Proust, J.-N. (2018) - Sedimentology, stratigraphic context, and implications of Miocene intrashelf bottomset deposits, offshore New Jersey. Geosphere, 14 (1), 95-114. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01530.1

  • Gomis-Cartesio, L.E., Poyatos-Moré, M., Hodgson, D.M. and Flint, S.S. (2018) - Shelf-margin clinothem progradation, degradation and readjustment: Tanqua depocentre, Karoo Basin (South Africa). Sedimentology, 65, 809-841. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12406

  • Poyatos-Moré, M., Jones, G.D., Brunt, R.L., Hodgson, D.M., Wild, R.J. and Flint, S.S. (2016) – Mudstone-dominated basin margin progradation: processes and implications. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 86 (8), 863-878. https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2016.57

  • Gomis-Cartesio, L.E., Poyatos-Moré, M., Flint, S.S., Hodgson, D.M., Brunt, R.L. and Wickens, H. de V. (2016) - Anatomy of a mixed-influence shelf-edge delta, Karoo Basin, South Africa. In: Hampson, G. J., Reynolds, A. D., Kostic, B. & Wells, M. R. (eds.), Sedimentology of Paralic Reservoirs: Recent Advances. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 444, 393-418. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP444.5

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