Antonio B. Rodriguez


Adjunct Professor


B.A. 1994, Hamilton College;
Ph.D. 1999, Rice University
E-mail: arodriguez@geo.ua.edu

Research Interests

Professor Rodriguez's research interests are in sedimentology, depositional processes and environments, sequence stratigraphy, and seismic stratigraphy. He is particularly interested in understanding how coastal systems respond to climate, sea level, and oceanographic fluctuations. His research focuses on the evolution of modern and ancient coastal environments located within estuaries and on the continental shelf in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Most of his research projects require collecting and examining lithologic, seismic, and paleontologic data.

Representative Publications


2000, Anderson, J.B., and Rodriguez, A.B., Differences in late Quaternary highstand, lowstand, and transgressive fluvial channels of the east Texas shelf: implications for shelf-upper slope reservoir models, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 50.

2000, Rodriguez, A.B., Anderson, J.B., Banfield, L.A., Taviani, M., Abdulah, K., and Snow, J.N. Identification of a -15 m middle Wisconsin shoreline on the Texas inner continental shelf, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v. 159, p. 25-43.

2000, Rodriguez, A.B., Hamilton, M.D., and Anderson, J.B., Evolution and facies architecture of the Brazos Delta, Texas: wave versus flood influence, Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 70, p. 283-295.

1999, Rodriguez, A.B., and Anderson, J.B., Response of Gulf of Mexico coastal systems to Holocene sea-level rise and implications for the future of our coasts, in Fletcher, C.H. and Matthews, J.V., eds: The non-steady state of the inner shelf and shoreline: coastal change on the time scale of decades to millennia in the late Quaternary, International Geological Correlation Program #437, p. 171-173.

1999, Domack, E.W., Taviani, M., and Rodriguez, A.B., Recent sediment remolding on a deep shelf, Ross Sea: implications for radiocarbon dating of Antarctic marine sediments, Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 18, p. 1445-1451.

1999, Rodriguez, A.B., Anderson, J.B., Siringan, F.P., and Taviani, M., Sedimentary facies and genesis of Holocene sand banks on the East Texas inner continental shelf, in Bergman, K.M., and Snedden, J.W., eds: Isolated Shallow Marine Sand bodies: Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis and Sedimentologic Interpretation, SEPM Special Publication, v. 64, p. 165-178.

1998, Rodriguez, A.B., Anderson, J.B., and Bradford, J., Holocene tidal deltas of the Trinity incised valley: analogs for exploration and production, in Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 48, p. 373-380.

1997, Banfield, L.A., Rodriguez, A.B., Snow, J.N., Anderson, J.B., Abdulah, K.C., Eckles, B.J., Sarzalejo, S., and Carney, J.L., Using high-resolution sequence stratigraphic studies of Quaternary strata to develop realistic models for predicting the stratigraphic occurrence of reservoirs, in Gulf Coast Section Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Foundation 18th Annual Research Conference, Program and Abstracts, 21-31.