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Cearreta, Alejandro, et al.. (2017). El registro geológico antropoceno en el Abra de Bilbao: evidencias de su historia natural y humana. Geogaceta. 11–14.1 indexed citations
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Zourarah, Bendahhou, Mohamed Maanan, Maria Conceição Freitas, et al.. (2016). Environmental changes in the Moulay Bousselham lagoon (Morocco) during the last 7 000 years using a multiproxy approach. EGUGA.1 indexed citations
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Cearreta, Alejandro. (2015). La definición geológica del Antropoceno según el Anthropocene Working Group (AWG). Enseñanza de las ciencias de la tierra: Revista de la Asociación Española para la Enseñanza de las Ciencias de la Tierra. 23(3). 263–271.
Cearreta, Alejandro, et al.. (2011). Regeneración ambiental de marismas a partir de ocupaciones antrópicas de zonas costeras: interés de su estudio en el escenario actual de ascenso marino. Geogaceta. 161–164.2 indexed citations
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Ríos-Garaizar, Joseba, Diego Gárate Maidagán, Eneko Iriarte, Alejandro Cearreta, & María José Iriarte Chiapusso. (2010). Los yacimientos de Mendieta I y II (Sopelana, Bizkaia): dos ocupaciones al aire libre del Paleolítico Inferior y Medio. 7–18.5 indexed citations
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Leorri, Eduardo, Francisco Fatela, João Moreno, et al.. (2009). Intertidal foraminifera in the mira estuary, SW Portugal, and their use as sea-level proxies. Geogaceta. 71–74.
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Cearreta, Alejandro, et al.. (2009). El registro geológico de la transformación ambiental de la ría de Bilbao durante el Holoceno y el Antropoceno. NC Digital Online Collection of Knowledge and Scholarship (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro). 13–172.1 indexed citations
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Cearreta, Alejandro, et al.. (2009). Las marismas costeras como archivos geológicos de las variaciones recientes en el nivel marino. Geogaceta. 109–112.5 indexed citations
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Cearreta, Alejandro, et al.. (2008). Quantitative tools for environmental reconstructions of the recent estuarine infill using benthic foraminifera. Geogaceta. 67–70.1 indexed citations
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Cearreta, Alejandro, Eduardo Leorri, & Luisa Santos. (2006). The stratigraphic significance of reworked Quaternary microfossils in the Holocene of the Bilbao estuary (northern Spain). Revista española de micropaleontología. 38(2). 207–217.2 indexed citations
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Iriarte, Eneko, et al.. (2006). Paleoambiente y procesos de formación de un depósito paleolítico al aire libre: El yacimiento arqueológico de Mendieta (Sopelana, Bizkaia). Geogaceta. 215–218.1 indexed citations
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Cearreta, Alejandro, et al.. (2004). Evolución morfológica de un campo dunar costero en regeneración: playa de Laida (Reserva de la Biosfera de Urdaibai, País Vasco). Geotemas ( Madrid ). 251–254.2 indexed citations
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Iriarte, Eneko, et al.. (2003). Regeneración dunar en la Reserva de la Biosfera de Urdaibai (Bizkaia, País Vasco). Geogaceta. 119–122.1 indexed citations
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Cearreta, Alejandro, et al.. (2001). Cambios ambientales en el estuario del Bidasoa hace 2000 años: evidencias geológicas. 22–23.1 indexed citations
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Cearreta, Alejandro. (1993). CAMBIOS MEDIOAMBIENTALES EN LA RÍA DE BILBAO DURANTE EL HOLOCENO. 435–454.8 indexed citations
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