Geology of Iraq / edited by Saad Z. Jassim and Jeremy C. Goff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jassim, Saad Z.

Goff, J. C. (Jeremy C.)

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hydrogeology.

Iraq.

Geology--Iraq.

Geology.

Hydrogeology--Iraq.

Physical Description:

341 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 31 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Prague : Dolin ; Brno : Moravian Museum, 2006.

Contents:

Introduction ; Late precambrian development of the Arabian Plate ; Phanerozoic development of the Northern Arabian Plate / Saad Z. Jassim

Tectonic framework ; Units of the stable shelf ; Units of the unstable shelf and the Zagros Suture / Saad Z. Jassim and Tibor Buday

Seismicity / Sahil A. Alsinawi

Palaeozoic megasequences (API-AP-5) / Saad Z. Jassim

Late Permian-Liassic megasequence AP6 / Saad Z. Jassim [and others]

Late Toarcian-early Tithonian (mid-late Jurassic) megasequence AP7 ; Late Tithonian-early Turonian megasequence AP8 ; Late Turonian-Danian megasequence AP9 ; Middle palaeocene-eocene megasequence (AP10) ; Latest eocene-recent megasequence AP11 / Saad Z. Jassim and Tibor Buday

Quaternary deposits / Adnan A.M. Aqrawi, Jaroslav Domas and Saad Z. Jassim

Tectonostratigraphy of the Zagros Suture / Saad Z. Jassim, Tibor Buday

Magmatism and metamorphism in the Zagros Suture / Saad Z. Jassim, Miloš Suk and Jarmila Waldhausarová

Hydrocarbons / Saad Z. Jassim and Mohammad Al-Gailani

Hydrogeology / Jiři Krásný, Saad Alsam and Saad Z. Jassim

Metallic and industrial rocks and minerals / Khaldoun S. Al-Bassam and Jaroslav Hak).

Notes:

Errata sheet inserted.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-318) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

8070282878

9788070282878

OCLC:

276296601