DYNAMIC STRATIGRAPHY WORKGROUP

Anjali Fernandes

Ph. D. Candidate

Supervisors: Ron Steel & David Mohrig

Curriculum vitae

Contact information:

 

Email: anjalifernandes@mail.utexas.edu

Office Phone: 512- 471 -6955           

Location: GEO 6.134

Mailing Address: Department of Geological Sciences, 1 University Station, C1100, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712

Research Projects:

Infill architectures of well-confined and weakly confined submarine channel systems: a seismic study

Knick-point erosion by turbidity currents: Integrating data from physical experiments, geometric modeling and ocean bottom bathymetry

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Research Interests:

I am interested in the formation and evolution of channelized landscapes, and how they build stratigraphy. My dissertation focuses on processes inducing erosion and sedimentation in submarine turbidite channels, their geomorphic evolution and the resulting stratigraphy in these complex systems. I have approached my chosen research problems through integrating various sources of data such as experimental, seismic, sea-floor bathymetric and outcrop data.

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Conference Presentations:

 

Fernandes, A., Buttles, J., Mohrig, D., Steel, R., Henriksen, S., 2010, Laboratory-scale Channelization by Sheet-like Density Underflows, AAPG Annual Conference, New Orleans

Henriksen, S., Duffaut, K., Fernandes, A., Janocko, M., Jiang, S., Pontén, A., A multidisciplinary approach towards understanding the formation of sinuous deep-water channels, Statoil Internal Technology Conference, Oslo, 2010

Fernandes, A., Buttles, J., Mohrig, D., Steel, R., 2009, Laboratory-scale Channelization by Sheet-like Density Underflows, Meeting of the International Association of Sedimentologists, Alghero, Italy

Fernandes, A., Mohrig, D., Buttles, J., Peyret, A., Steel, R.,  2009, Laboratory Experimentation in Self-channelization by Turbidity Currents, AAPG Annual Conference, Denver

Fernandes, A., Steel, R., Henriksen, S., Mohrig, D., 2009, Comparing Stratal Architectures in Confined and Weakly Confined Turbidite Channel Systems, AAPG Annual Conference, Denver

Buttles, J., Fernandes, A., Mohrig, D., 2009, A Physical Model of Submarine Knickpoint Evolution and Erosion Style in a Cohesive Sediment Bed, Second Workshop on the Modeling of Turbidity Currents and Related Gravity Currents, UCSB, Santa Barbara.

 

 

 

Lateral Accretion Packages in submarine channels: Integrating 3-D seismic data, experimental observations and outcrops