My PhD project is a field based work focussing on the Southern margin of the Rift of Corinth. I will spend 4 years working on the Basin and Reservoir Studies (BRS) group under the supervision of Rob Gawthorpe.

I studied geology and particularly sedimentology in Bordeaux (France). I got an engineering degree in geosciences from ENSEGID in 2017. Then I graduated from the Sedimentology and Palaeoclimate Master of the University of Bordeaux in 2018. I participated in several fieldtrips in Spain, France and Morocco during the previous years. I went to an open sea oceanographic cruise targeting the carbonate Bahamian platforms and I worked on some data collected during my engineer and Master’s Thesis. For the first one, I studied two giant submarine canyons thanks to bathymetric, backscatter and VHR seismic data. During the other one, I focused on submarine slides occurring in an intra-platform basin using HR seismic and bathymetric data.

GEOV 107 

GEOV 104

Academic lecture

• Pechlivanidou, Sofia; Gawthorpe, Rob; Muravchik, Martin et al. (2023). Gravity flow deposits from the Corinth Gulf, Greece, reveal key controls on sediment delivery into the deep sea during the last glacial-interglacial cycle. (external link)
• Pechlivanidou, Sofia; Gawthorpe, Rob; Fabregas, Natacha Carine et al. (2022). Controls on deep-water, syn-rift stratigraphic development of the Corinth Rift; the role of rift segment boundaries. (external link)
• Pechlivanidou, Sofia; Gawthorpe, Rob; Fabregas, Natacha Carine et al. (2022). Rift segment boundaries as key controls on deep-water, syn-rift stratigraphy; the Corinth Rift, Greece. (external link)

Lecture

• Pechlivanidou, Sofia; Gawthorpe, Rob; Muravchik, Martin et al. (2023). Gravity flow deposits from the Corinth Gulf, Greece, reveal key controls on sediment delivery into the deep sea during glacial-interglacial cycles. (external link)

Academic article

• Mulder, T.; Cavailhes, T.; Hanquiez, V. et al. (2023). Giant deep submarine depressions: A combined dissolution-mechanical process along carbonate margins. (external link)
• Gawthorpe, Rob; Fabregas, Natacha Carine; Pechlivanidou, Sofia et al. (2022). Late Quaternary mud-dominated, basin-floor sedimentation of the Gulf of Corinth, Greece: Implications for deep-water depositional processes and controls on syn-rift sedimentation. (external link)
• Le Goff, Johan; Recouvreur, Audrey; Reijmer, John J.G. et al. (2020). Linking carbonate sediment transfer to seafloor morphology: Insights from Exuma Valley, the Bahamas. (external link)
• Recouvreur, Audrey; Fabregas, Natacha; Mulder, Thierry et al. (2020). Geomorphology of a modern carbonate slope system and associated sedimentary processes: Example of the giant Great Abaco Canyon, Bahamas. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Papers: 

Gawthorpe, R.L., Fabregas, N., Pechlivanidou, S., Ford, M., Collier, R.E.Ll., Carter, G.D.O., McNeill, L.C., Shillington, D.J., n.d.Late Quaternary mud-dominated, basin-floor sedimentation of the Gulf of Corinth, Greece: Implications for deep-water depositional processes and controls on syn-rift sedimentation. Basin Research n/a. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12671

Le Goff, J., Recouvreur, A., Reijmer, J.J.G., Mulder, T., Ducassou, E., Perellò, M., Hanquiez, V., Gillet, H., Cavailhes, T., Fabregas, N., 2021. Linking carbonate sediment transfer to seafloor morphology: Insights from Exuma Valley, the Bahamas. Sedimentology 68, 609–638. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12794

Recouvreur, A., Fabregas, N., Mulder, T., Hanquiez, V., Fauquembergue, K., Tournadour, E., Gillet, H., Borgomano, J., Poli, E., Kucharski, J., Wilk, S., 2020. Geomorphology of a modern carbonate slope system and associated sedimentary processes: Example of the giant Great Abaco Canyon, Bahamas. Sedimentology sed.12777. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12777

McNeill, L.C., De Gelder, G., Machlus, M.L., Fabregas, N., Mahoney, C., Pechlivanidou, S., Seguin, J., Gawthorpe, R.L., Shillington, D.J., Carter, G.D.O., Everest, J.D., Expedition 381 participants, 2019. Data report: summary of XRF scanning on core sections, IODP Expedition 381, in: Corinth Active Rift Development, Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program. International Ocean Discovery Program. https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.381.2019

Mulder, T., Gillet, H., Hanquiez, V., Ducassou, E., Fauquembergue, K., Principaud, M., Conesa, G., Goff, J.L., Ragusa, J., Bashah, S., Bujan, S., Reijmer, J.J.G., Cavailhes, T., Droxler, A.W., Blank, D.G., Guiastrennec, L., Fabregas, N., Recouvreur, A., Seibert, C., 2018. Carbonate slope morphology revealing a giant submarine canyon (Little Bahama Bank, Bahamas). Geology 46, 31–34. https://doi.org/10.1130/G39527.1

Mulder, T., Gillet, H., Hanquiez, V., Reijmer, J.J.G., Droxler, A.W., Recouvreur, A., Fabregas, N., Cavailhes, T., Fauquembergue, K., Blank, D.G., Guiastrennec, L., Seibert, C., Bashah, S., Bujan, S., Ducassou, E., Principaud, M., Conesa, G., Le Goff, J., Ragusa, J., Busson, J., Borgomano, J., 2018. Into the deep: A coarse-grained carbonate turbidite valley and canyon in ultra-deep carbonate setting. Marine Geology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2018.11.003

 

Conferences:

Fabregas, N., Gawthorpe, R.L., Muravchik, M., Wicker, V., Ford, M., 2022. Variability of fault-controlled deltas in rifts: Examples from southeastern Corinth Rift, Greece. Presented at the Nordic Geological Winter Meeting, Reykjavík, Iceland, p. 96.

Pechlivanidou, S., Gawthorpe, R.L., Fabregas, N., Ford, M., Collier, R.E.L., Muravchik, M., 2022. Rift segment boundaries as key controls on deep-water, syn-rift stratigraphy; the Corinth Rift, Greece. Presented at the Nordic Geological Winter Meeting, pp. 95–96.

Wicker, V., Ford, M., Gawthorpe, R., Kranis, H., Skourtsos, E., Bouilhol, P., Muravchik, M., Fabregas, N., Beaufumé, K., Beldame, H., 2022. Transition from Aegean back-arc extension to Corinth rifting. Miocene to Pleistocene interacting extensional regimes of the Northern Peloponnese.  (No. EGU22-9434). Presented at the EGU22, Copernicus Meetings. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-9434

Fabregas, N., Pechlivanidou, S., Gawthorpe, R., Ford, M., Collier, R., 2021. Deep-water syn-rift sedimentary response to alternating Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments in the Gulf of Corinth (Greece) (No. EGU21-2414). Presented at the EGU21, Copernicus Meetings. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-2414

Pechlivanidou, S., Sergiou, S., Geraga, M., Gawthorpe, R., Antoniou, D., Angelopoulou, D., Ford, M., Fabregas, N., 2020. Controls on stratigraphic variability in a semi-closed rift basin over the Late Quaternary, Gulf of Corinth, Greece. oral. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-11898

Fabregas, N., Gawthorpe, R., Ford, M., Muravchik, M., Pechlivanidou, S., Röhl, U., 2020. Variability of fine-grained basin floor turbidites and evaluation of controls on their development: Late Pleistocene, Gulf of Corinth, Greece. oral. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-8560

Mulder, Thierry, Gillet, H., Hanquiez, V., Ducassou, E., Recouvreur, A., Fauquembergue, K., Tournadour, E., Le Goff, J., Reijmer, J., Fabregas, N., Borgomano, J., 2018. Efficacité des systèmes carbonatés: de la plate-forme à l’ultra-deep. Presented at the Réunion des Sciences de la Terre, Lille.

Recouvreur, A., Fabregas, N., Mulder, T., Hanquiez, V., Tournadour, E., Borgomano, J., Joumes, M., 2018. Sediment transport from uppermost slope to abyssal plain in a carbonate environment. Presented at the Réunion des Sciences de la Terre, Lille.

Fabregas, N., Mulder, T., Gillet, H., Recouvreur, A., Busson, J., Hanquiez, V., Borgomano, J., 2018. Glissements sous-marins sur la pente d’Exuma Sound (Bahamas). Presented at the Reunion des Sciences de la Terre, Lille (France).

Fabregas, N., Mulder, T., Hanquiez, V., Gillet, H., Ducassou, E., Fauquembergue, K., Principaud, M., Conesa, G., Le Goff, J., Ragusa, J., Bashah, S., Bujan, S., Reijmer, J., Cavailhes, T., Droxler, A., Recouvreur, A., Guiastrennec, L., Blank, D., Seibert, C., 2017. Carbonate slope morphology revealing deep-sea sediment transfer in Little Bahama Bank, Bahamas. Presented at the International Meeting of Sedimentology.

Mulder, T., Gillet, H., Hanquiez, V., Ducassou, E., Fauquembergue, K., Principaud, M., Conesa, G., Goff, J.L., Ragusa, J., Bashah, S., Bujan, S., Reijmer, J.J.G., Cavailhes, T., Droxler, A.W., Blank, D.G., Guiastrennec, L., Fabregas, N., Recouvreur, A., Seibert, C., 2018. Carbonate slope morphology revealing a giant submarine canyon (Little Bahama Bank, Bahamas). Geology 46, 31–34.

Mulder, Thierry, Gillet, H., Hanquiez, V., Ducassou, E., Fauquembergue, K., Recouvreur, A., Fabregas, N., Principaud, M., Reijmer, J., Conesa, G., Droxler, A., Cavailhes, T., Le Goff, J., Ragusa, J., Bashah, S., Bujan, S., Blank, D., Guiastrennec, L., Borgomano, J., Seibert, C., 2018. Giant Canyons and Chute Pools in Deep-Sea Carbonate Environment (Bahamas). Presented at the ACE 2018 Annual Convention & Exhibition.

Recouvreur, A., Mulder, T., Hanquiez, V., Ducassou, E., Fauquembergue, K., Gillet, H., Borgomano, J., Principaud, M., Conesa, G., Le Goff, J., Bashah, S., Bujan, S., Reijmer, J.J., Cavailhes, T., Droxler, A., Blank, D., Seibert, C., Poli, E., Fabregas, N., Ragusa, J., 2018. Sediment transfer in deep sea carbonate environment (Little Bahama Bank, Bahamas). Presented at the EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts.

Mulder, T., Gillet, H., Reijmer, J., Droxler, A., Cavailhes, T., Hanquiez, V., Fauquembergue, K., Bujan, S., Blank, D., Bashah, S., Guiastrennec, L., Fabregas, N., Recouvreur, A., Seibert, C., 2017. Giant Canyons and chute pools in deep-sea carbonate environment (Bahamas). Presented at the International Meeting of Sedimentology.

Mulder, T., Gillet, H., Reijmer, J., Droxler, A., Cavailhes, T., Hanquiez, V., Fauquembergue, K., Bujan, S., Blank, D., Bashah, S., Guiastrennec, L., Fabregas, N., Recouvreur, A., Seibert, C., 2017. Into the deep: A coarse-grained carbonate turbidite thalweg generated by gigantic submarine chutes. Presented at the EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, p. 19236.

Recouvreur, A., Mulder, T., Hanquiez, V., Borgomano, J., Reijmer, J., Droxler, A., Gillet, H., Cavailhes, T., Fabregas, N., Guiastrennec, L., Fauquembergue, K., Blank, D., Bashah, S., Bujan, S., Seibert, C., Ducassou, E., Principaud, M., Conesa, G., Le Goff, J., Ragusa, J., 2017. Large carbonate-fed deep-sea turbidite fan developped at the mouth of a giant canyon along the Bahamian slope. Presented at the International Meeting of Sedimentology.