Uchitha Nissanka Arachchige

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Uchitha Nissanka Arachchige

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20132022

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Uchitha is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow conducting research on crustal scale mulit-stage basin formation and inversion focusing on North Australian Cratons (NAC). His Focus is on understanding the dynamics, complex fault and rift patterns form during oblique rifting and inversion by 3D analogue models to get insights into NAC and worlwide basins. 

Uchitha received his PhD from Monash University in 2021 focusing on complex, non-planar magamtic sill intrusions by experimental analogue models at the Geodynamic laboratory at the School of Earth, Atmospher and Environment. He has obtained his MSc in Geophysics at California State University, Northridge (USA) focusing on the formation of intra-plate linear seamount chains in the Asthenosphere.

Research interests

Geology; Structural geology; Volcanology

Analog modelling of magmatic intrusions

Analog modelling of basins and rift zones

Rheological analysis of complex materials

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 13 - Climate Action
  • SDG 15 - Life on Land

Research area keywords

  • Rheology
  • Magmatic and Eruptive Processes
  • Analogue modelling
  • Basin and rift zones