Estación Regional del Noroeste


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Dr. Rafael Eduardo Del Rio Salas

Formación

  • PhD in Geosciences, Geosciences Department, University of Arizona
  • Maestría en Ciencias-Geología, Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Sonora
  • Licenciatura en Geología, Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Sonora

Líneas de investigación:

  1. Geoquímica Ambiental
  2. Yacimientos Minerales

Técnicas experimentales y habilidades:

  1. Sistematica de Isótopos (Pb, Cu, Sr, S, H, O, C) y geoquímica elemental

Publicaciones recientes:

  1. Del Rio-Salas, R., Moreno-Rodríguez, V., Loredo-Portales, R., Salgado-Souto, S.A., Rader, S., Valencia-Moreno, M., Romo-Morales, D., Aguirre-Noyola, J.L, Ramos-Pérez, D, Do efflorescent salts from worn lead-acid automotive batteries represent potential non-exhaust emissions to urban pollution? A Pb isotope perspective, Journal of Hazardous Materials, enero de 2025

  2. Salgado-Souto, S.A., Escorcia-Reynoso, M.U., Del Rio-Salas, R., Talavera-Mendoza, O., Bottini-Luzardo, M.B., Núnez-Martínez, G., Aguirre-Noyola, J.L., Hernandez-Flores, G., Assessing bioaccumulation of Pb, Cd, and As in goats: Impacts of exposure to mine tailings in a polymetallic mining region, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, enero de 2025; 153, 13

  3. Del Rio-Salas, R., Moreno-Rodríguez, V., Loredo-Portales, R., Salgado-Souto, S.A., Valencia-Moreno, M., Ochoa-Landín, L., Romo-Morales, D. , Traceability and dispersion of highly toxic soluble phases from historical mine tailings: insights from Pb isotope systematics, Environmental Geochemistry and Health, agosto de 2024

  4. Chong-López, J.E., Salgado-Souto, S.A., Del Rio-Salas, R., Talavera-Mendoza, O., Sarmiento-Villagrana, A., García-Ibáñez, S., Loredo-Portales, R., Flores-Garza, R., Rader, S., Aguirre-Noyola, J.L, Bioavailability, risk assessment, and source traceability of potentially toxic elements in bivalve species widely consumed in the emblematic Acapulco Bay, Mexico, Applied Geochemistry, abril de 2024

  5. Moreno‑Rodríguez, V., Del Rio‑Salas, R., Loredo‑Portales, R., Núñez‑Ibarra, H.D., Romo‑Morales, D., Pi‑Puig, T., García‑Martínez, D., Urban mine tailings and efflorescent crusts: unveiling health implications in Nacozari de García, Mexico, Environmental Earth Sciences, enero de 2024

  6. Arroyo-Díaz, F., Salgado-Souto, S.A., Del Rio-Salas, R., Talavera-Mendoza, O., Ramírez-Guzmán, A., Ruíz, J., Sarmiento-Villagrana, A., Guzmán-Martínez, M., PTE and multi-isotope assessment of spring water used for human consumption in the historical mining region of Taxco de Alarcón in southern Mexico, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, junio de 2022; 116 online

  7. Encinas Aguirre, M.A., Ochoa Landín, L., Del Rio Salas, R., El Volcán, un depósito de hierro magmático en el NW México: distribución y características generales, Epistemus, abril de 2022

  8. Santillana-Villa, C., Valencia-Moreno, M., Ochoa-Landín, L., Del Río-Salas, R., Firmas de REE en intrusivos asociados a pórfidos de cobre en Sonora, Epistemus, abril de 2022

  9. Siqueiros Valencia, J.R, Loredo Portales, R., Moreno Rodríguez, V., Del Rio Salas, R., Uso de biomateriales como alternativa para la remediación de jales mineros, Epistemus, marzo de 2022

  10. Calmus, T., Del Rio-Salas, R., Noury, M., Introduction to the Special Issue “Geology of Sonora, northwestern Mexico: Fundamentals and new challenges”, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, diciembre de 2021; 112 online

  11. Loredo-Jasso, A.U., Villalobos, M., Ponce-Pérez, D.B., Pi-Puig, T., Meza-Figueroa, D., Del Rio-Salas, R., Ochoa-Landín, L., Characterization and pH neutralization products of efflorescent salts from mine tailings of (semi-)arid zones, Chemical Geology, octubre de 2021; 580

  12. Santillana-Villa, C., Valencia-Moreno, M., Del Rio-Salas, R., Ochoa-Landín, L., Geochemical variations of precursor and ore-related intrusive rocks associated with porphyry copper deposits in Sonora, northwestern Mexico, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, agosto de 2021

  13. Morales-Pérez, A., Moreno-Rodríguez, V., Del Rio-Salas, R., Imam, N.G., González-Méndez, B., Pi-Puig, T., Molina-Freaner, F., Loredo-Portales, R., Geochemical changes of Mn in contaminated agricultural soils nearby historical mine tailings: Insights from XAS, XRD and, SEP, Chemical Geology, julio de 2021

  14. González-León, C.M., Vázquez-Salazar, M., Sánchez Navarro, T., Solari, L.A., Nourse, J.A., Del Rio-Salas, R., Lozano-Santacruz, R., Pérez Arvizu, O., Valenzuela Chacón, J.C., Geology and geochronology of the Jurassic magmatic arc in the Magdalena quadrangle, north-central Sonora, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, junio de 2021

  15. Cruz-Jiménez, G., Loredo-Portales, R., Del Rio-Salas, R., Moreno-Rodríguez, V., Castillo-Michel, H., Ramiro-Bautista, L.R., Aquilanti, G., De La Rosa-Álvarez, Ma.G., Rocha-Amador, D.O., Multi-synchrotron techniques to constrain mobility and speciation of Zn associated with historical mine tailings , Chemical Geology, septiembre de 2020 online

  16. Bejarano-Carrillo, C., Ochoa-Landín, L., Del Rio-Salas, R., Valencia-Moreno, M., Páez-Beltrán, C., Ruiz, J., Espinoza-Maldonado, I., La Caridad Vieja: Vestiges of a removed HS-epithermal system in the La Caridad porphyry Cu–Mo system, northeastern Sonora, Mexico, based on XRD, SEM, SWIR spectral analysis and U–Pb zircon dating , Journal of South American Earth Sciences, agosto de 2020

  17. Moreno-Rodríguez, V., Del Rio-Salas, R., Loredo-Portales, R., Briseño-Beltrán, A., Romo-Morales, D., Zepeda, J., Peña-Ortega, M., Espinoza-Maldonado, I.G., de la O-Villanueva, M., Abandoned agricultural lands as a source of arsenic in semi-arid regions: Influence on human exposure and health risk assessment in vulnerable rural areas, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, agosto de 2020 online

  18. Loredo-Portales, R., Bustamante-Arce, J., González-Villa, H.N., Moreno-Rodríguez, V., Del Rio-Salas, R., Molina-Freaner, F., González-Méndez, B., Archundia-Peralta, D., Mobility and accessibility of Zn, Pb, and As in abandoned mine tailings of northwestern Mexico, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, abril de 2020

  19. De-la-Re-Vega, E., Costich-González, L.E., Del Rio-Salas, R., Castro-Longoria, R., Grijalva-Chon, J.M., Del Rio-Salas, M, Minjarez-Osorio, C., Biología reproductiva y contenido bioquímico gonadal de la cabrilla arenera, Paralabrax maculatofasciatusen la región de Bahía de Kino, Sonora, Biotecnia, marzo de 2020

  20. Romo-Morales, D., Moreno-Rodríguez, V., Molina-Freaner, F., Valencia-Moreno, M., Ruiz, J., Minjárez-Osorio, C., Hernández-Mendiola, E., Del Rio-Salas, R., Assessment of Geogenic and Anthropogenic Pollution Sources Using an Aquatic Plant Along the Sonora River Basin: Insights from Elemental Concentrations and Pb Isotope Signatures, Natural Resources Research, enero de 2020

  21. Calmus, T., Noury, M., Del Rio-Salas, R., Comment on: “Geochronology and geothermometry of the Laramide metamorphism in the Cambrian metabasalts from the Cerro Rajón Formation, Caborca region, northwest Mexico” by A. J. Barrón-Díaz, F. A. Paz-Moreno, D. P. Miggins and A. Iriondo, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, octubre de 2019; 94 online

  22. Peña-Ortega, M., Del Rio-Salas, R., Valencia-Sauceda, J., Mendívil-Quijada, H., Minjarez-Osorio, C., Molina-Freaner, F., de la O-Villanueva, M., Moreno-Rodríguez, V., Environmental assessment and historic erosion calculation of abandoned mine tailings from a semi-arid zone of northwestern Mexico: insights from geochemistry and unmanned aerial vehicles, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, junio de 2019 online

  23. Del Rio-Salas, R., Ayala-Ramírez, Y., Loredo-Portales, R., Romero, F., Molina-Freaner, F., Minjarez-Osorio, C., ... & Moreno-Rodríguez, V, Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Rural Road Dust and Nearby Mine Tailings: A Case of Ignored Pollution Hazard from an Abandoned Mining Site in Semi-arid Zone, Natural Resources Research , marzo de 2019

  24. Calmus, T., Valencia-Moreno, M.V., Del Río-Salas, R., Ochoa-Landín, L., Mendivil-Quijada, H., A multi-elemental study to establish the natural background and geochemical anomalies in rocks from the 
Sonora river upper basin, NW Mexico, Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, julio de 2018; (2), 158-167

  25. Grijalva-Rodríguez, T., Valencia-Moreno, M., Calmus, T., Del Rio-Salas, R., Balcázar-García, M., The El Horror uranium anomaly in northeastern Sonora, Mexico: Constraints from geochemical and mineralogical approaches, Jorunal of South American Earth Sciences, diciembre de 2017; 80, 107-119 online

  26. Del Rio-Salas, R; Ochoa-Landín, L; Valencia-Moreno, M; Calmus, T; Meza-Figueroa, D; Salgado-Souto, S; Kirk, J; Ruiz, J; Mendívil-Quijada, H, New U-Pb and Re-Os geochronology of Laramide porphyry copper mineralization along the Cananea lineament, northeastern Sonora, Mexico: Contribution to the understanding of the Cananea copper district, Ore Geology Reviews, marzo de 2017; 81(1), 1125-1136

  27. Ochoa-Landín, L; Valencia-Moreno, M; Calmus, T; Del Rio-Salas, R; Mendívil-Quijada, H; Meza-Figueroa, D; Flores-Vásquez, I; Zúñiga-Hernández, L, Geology and geochemistry of the Suaqui Verde deposit: A contribution to the knowledge of the Laramide porphyry copper mineralization in south central Sonora, Mexico, Ore Geology Reviews, marzo de 2017; 81(1), 1158-1171

  28. Meza-Figueroa, D., Gonzalez-Grijalva, B., Del Rio-Salas, R., Coimbra, R., Ochoa-Landin, L., Moreno-Rodriguez, V., Traffic signatures in suspended dust at pedestrian levels in semiarid zones: Implications for human exposure, Atmospheric Environment, agosto de 2016; 138(1), 4-14 online

  29. García-Rico, L; Meza-Figueroa, D; Gandolfi, AJ; Del Río-Salas, R; Romero, FM; Meza-Montenegro, MM, Dust sources in an urbanized arid zone: implications for health risk assessments., Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, abril de 2016; 3(1), 522-533 online

  30. Khwedim, K; Meza-Figueroa, D; Hussien, LA; Del Rio-Salas, R, Trace metals in topsoils near the Babylon Cement Factory (Euphrates River) and human health risk assessment, Environmental Earth Sciences, julio de 2015; 74(1), 665–673 online

  31. Moreno-Rodríguez, V., Del Rio-Salas, R., Adams, D., Ochoa-Landín, L., Zepeda, J., Gómez-Alvarez, A., Palafox-Reyes, J., Meza-Figueroa, D., Historical trends and sources of TSP in a Sonoran desert city: Can the North America Monsoon enhance dust emissions?, Atmospheric Environment, junio de 2015; 110, 111–121 online

  32. Del Rio-Salas, R; Ochoa-Landín, L; Eastoe, CJ; Ruiz, J; Meza-Figueroa, D; Valencia-Moreno, M; Zúñiga-Hernández, H; Zúñiga-Hernández, L; Moreno-Rodríguez, V; Mendívil-Quijada, H, Genesis of manganese oxide mineralization in the Boleo region and Concepción Peninsula, Baja California Sur: Constraints from Pb-Sr isotopes and REE geochemistry, Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, octubre de 2013; 30(3), 482-499

  33. Del Rio Salas, R; Ochoa-Landín, L; Ruiz, J; Eastoe, C; Zuñiga Hernández, H; Meza-Figueroa, D; Mendívil-Quijada, H; Quintanar-Ruiz, F, Geology, Stable Isotopes, and U-Pb geochronology of the Mariquita porphyry copper and Lucy Cu-Mo deposits, Cananea district, México: a contribution to regional exploration, Journal of Geochemical Exploration, octubre de 2013; 124, 140–154 online

  34. Robles Andrade, P; Ochoa-Landín, L; Valencia-Moreno, M; Del Rio-Salas, R, Caracterización geológica y mineralógica del skarn de hierro “El Garabato”, Mpio. de Suaqui Grande, Sonora, GEOMIMET, mayo de 2013, 29-36

  35. de la O-Villanueva, M; Meza-Figueroa, D; Maier, RM; Moreno, D; Gómez-Alvarez, A; Del Rio-Salas, R; Mendívil, H; Montijo, A, Procesos erosivos en jales de la Presa I de Nacozari de García, Sonora y su efecto en la dispersión de contaminantes, Boletín de la sociedad Geológica Mexicana, abril de 2013; 65(1), 27-38

  36. Del Rio-Salas, R; Ruiz, J; de la O-Villanueva, M; Valencia-Moreno, M; Moreno-Rodríguez, V; Gómez-Alvarez, A; Grijalva, T; Mendívil, H; Paz-Moreno, F; Meza-Figueroa, D, Tracing geogenic and anthropogenic sources in urban dusts: Insights from lead isotopes, Atmospheric Environment, octubre de 2012; 60, 202–210 online

  37. Meza-Montenegro, M.M., Gandolfi, A.J., Santana-Alcántar, M.E., Klimecki, W.T., Aguilar-Apodaca, M.G., Del Río-Salas, R., de la O-Villanueva, M., Gómez-Alvarez, A., Mendivil-Quijada, H., Valencia, M., Meza-Figueroa, D., Metals in residential soils and cumulative risk assessment in Yaqui and Mayo agricultural valleys, northern Mexico, Science of the Total Environment, octubre de 2012; 433, 472–481

  38. Ochoa-Landín, L., Pérez-Segura, E., Del Rio-Salas, R., Valencia-Moreno, M., Depósitos minerales de Sonora, Boletín del Instituto de Geología, octubre de 2011; 118, 299–331

  39. Del Rio Salas, R., Ruiz, J., Ochoa-Landín, L., Noriega, O., Barra, F., Meza-Figueroa, D., Paz-Moreno, F., Geology, Geochemistry and Re–Os systematics of manganese deposits from the Santa Rosalía Basin and adjacent areas in Baja California Sur, México, Mineralium Deposita, octubre de 2008; 43(4), 467–482 online