Congratulations to Bruna Pandolpho, who successfully defended her PhD on October 13! “The sedimentary record of seafloor uplift: a geomorphological archive of vertical movement”
Her work reveals how the seafloor records its own vertical movements — from slow tectonic uplift to rapid vent formation and submarine landslides.
In her thesis, “The sedimentary record of seafloor uplift: a geomorphological archive of vertical movement,” Bruna Pandolpho investigates the different origins, evolution, and impacts of various uplifting mechanisms on deep-water sedimentary records. By integrating geomorphological and geophysical data, she links sedimentary and morphological patterns to diverse uplift mechanisms, including tectonics, magmatism, halokinesis, and fluid migration she establish a framework for constraining the timing and dynamics of vertical deformation events across multiple spatial and temporal scales..
Her research spans a broad range of marine settings — from the Norwegian-Greenland Sea, where she reconstructed bottom current circulation during the Early Cenozoic, to the western Ionian Sea, where she identified two distinct uplift mechanisms in the Calabrian accretionary wedge.
She also contributed to understanding extreme submarine mass movements and the evolution of hydrothermal vent complexes.
Bruna and Morelia after the defense.
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