DYNAMIC STRATIGRAPHY WORKGROUP

Carla Sanchez

Ph. D. Candidate

Supervisors: Dr. Ron Steel & Dr. Craig Fulthorpe 

Curriculum vitae

 

Contact information:

 

Email: carlas@mail.utexas.edu

Office Phone: (512) 471-0334

Location: UT Institute for Geophysics. 10100 Burnet Rd. (R2200). Austin, TX 78758.

Shelf Edge Deltas, North-West Australia

 

 

My Links:

 

http://www.ig.utexas.edu/people/students/carla/

 

http://www.beg.utexas.edu/indassoc/dm2/index.htm

Research Interests:

· Subsurface mapping of depositional systems

 

· Architecture of mixed carbonate-siliciclastic systems

 

· Along-strike variability of shallow-water depositional systems and their impact on deep-water stratigraphy

 

· Shoreline and shelf-margin progradation patterns characterization

 

· Application of quantitative seismic geomorphology in shallow and deep-water deposits

Research Projects:

Publications:

 

Conference Presentations:

Sanchez, C.M.; Steel, R. ; Fulthorpe, C.S.; Austin, J.A. Jr. 2010. Miocene Shelf-Edge Delta Behavior and Influence on Deepwater Slope Morphology, Northwest Shelf of Australia. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting. New Orleans.

Sanchez, C.M.; Fulthorpe, C.S.; Austin, J.A. Jr. 2008. Three-dimensional Architecture of Neogene Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Sequences, Australian Northwest Shelf. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. San Francisco, California.

Sanchez, C.M.; Fulthorpe, C.S.; Austin, J.A. Jr. 2008. Neogene Mixed Carbonate-Siliclastic Systems in the Northwest Shelf of Australia: Influence of Siliclastics Distribution on Shallow-Water Carbonate Sedimentation. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting. San Antonio, Texas.

Sanchez, C.M.; Fulthorpe, C.S.; Austin, J.A. Jr. 2007. Northwest Shelf of Australia – The Next Step in Understanding the Role of Eustasy in the Generation and Preservation of Stratigraphy. Drilling to Decipher Long-Term Sea-Level Changes and Effects, Consortium for Ocean Leadership Workshop. Salt Lake City, UT.

Sanchez, C., and L. Wood, 2006, Quantitative Seismic Geomorphology of Pliocene and Miocene-Age Fluvio-Deltaic Reservoirs in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Shelf Province. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting Houston, Texas.

Ollarves, R., F. Audemard, P. Camacho, C.M. Sanchez, A. Cataldi, and F. Zambrano, 2004, GPR as a tool in the search for active faults: a quaternary outcrop example VIII Venezuelan Geophysical Conference, Caracas, Venezuelan Geophysical Society.

 Sanchez, C.M., and A. Peña, 2001, Structural Interpretation for Prospect Exploratory Potential Evaluation in Barua, Maracaibo Lake, IV Society for Sedimentary Geology Latin-American Section Annual Meeting Merida, Venezuela.