Balanced cross-sections are offering the chance of better understanding of areas of complex geological structures that are insufficiently understood. Detailed field study and structural analysis by employing geometric ...

The "Simisma Member" from the Ras Laffan area in North Qatar is mainly composed of dolomites of shallow marine origin. Clay minerals contained in the dolomite (average 4%) are mainly palygorskites. There is no indication ...

Dubai creek can be considered as the focal point of Dubai. It has great importance for trading and aesthetic values. Total and leachable heavy metals (Cd, Co, Ni, Pb and Zn), organic carbon and total carbonate were studied ...

A number of 15 Vertical Electrical Soundings were carried out in the Delta of Wadi Wardan, on the western coastal zone of Sinai, about 55 km south of Suez. The study objectives were to find out the change in thickness of ...

The Holocene palaeozoogeography of southern Iraq (Southern Mesopotamian Basin) have been studied according to the distribution of thirteen species of shallow marine ostracoda belonging to twelve genera. Their distributary ...

One hundred and thirty nine new chemical analyses of major and trace elements for 26 plutons and masses pertaining to the Egyptian Younger Granites are presented together with the chemical analyses of 13 biotites, 32 ...

The water quality of some wells, wadis and springs in the area west of Karak City has been evaluated for irrigation and domestic uses, by the application ofWilcox (1955) and Doneen (1961) methods, as well as the standards ...

The rocks of the Zabara district include ophiolitic and non-ophiolitic sequences. The ophiolitic ones are metagabbro and metabasalt associated with metasediments, whereas the non -ophiolitic sequence includes intermediate ...

Glaciations affected the Arabian Peninsula three times. This was during the Late Ordovician, the Late Carboniferous-Early Permian, and the Pleistocene. Recorded evidence of Paleozoic glaciations in Arabia, includes tillites, ...

The only rocks of igneous origin known to be exposed in Qatar are those of Halul and Shra'Auh Islands. They occur within a salt diapir and the age of these rocks is uncertain. They have generally been assigned to the Hormuz ...