Depositional and erosional features of Oligocene paleokarsts in the Kirkuk Group, Kurdistan Region, Northeast Iraq

Kamal Haji Karim & Polla Azad Khanaqa & Soran Osman Kharajian & Zardasht Ahmad Taha & Mushir Mustafa Baziany To see full text open this link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12517-020-5279-y Published in: Arabian Journal of Geosciences (2020) 13:270 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-020-5279-y Abstract Paleokarst features are rarely preserved in geologic history due to terrestrial erosion and later burial diagenetic changes. In […]

Early Cretaceous calciturbidites facies from Zagros Fold–Thrust belt: a key to paleogeography and environment of northeast Arabian Platform Passive Margin, examples from Kurdistan Region, Northeast Iraq

By: Kamal Haji Karim Published in: Carbonates and Evaporites (2020) 35:19 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13146-019-00544-w For full text open this link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13146-019-00544-w Abstract The study focuses on description, analysis and mapping of the thick succession of calciturbidites facies for the first time on the Early Cretaceous Arabian Platform Passive Margin from Western Zagros Fold–Thrust belt, Northeastern Iraq (Kurdistan […]

Role of facies changes in shifting trends of anticlines in the Zagros Fold-Thrust belt: Examples from Sulaimani area, Kurdistan Region, Northeastern Iraq

By: Kamal Haji Karim, Polla Azad Khanaqa, Khalid Mahmmud Ismail     published in Journal of Zankoy Sulaimani (JZS) , Vol. 22 (No. 1): 2020 The Zagros Fold Thrust Belt extends for more than 1500 kms from Oman to Turkey and passes through Kurdistan Region, northern Iraq where the studied area is located. The belt is […]

First record of the Oligocene succession (Kirkuk Group) in Duhok Governorate, Kurdistan Region, North Iraq

Chronicle (Record) of the Oligocene succession (Kirkuk Group) in Duhok Governorate, Kurdistan Region, North Iraq    Kamal Haji Karim and Briar Ahmad Hama   Accepted  for Publication in Journal of Zankoy Sulaimani (JZS) volume 21(1 ) 2019      Abstract The previous studies referred to the Duhok area as a terrestrial uplift during Oligocene while […]