The two faculty members at the College of Science at the University of Basrah, Dr. Maher Mandeel, and the teacher, Dr. Sani Elia Gerges, participated in the Fifth International Scientific Conference “Giokurdistan” at the University of Sulaymaniyah, where they presented a scientific research entitled “Microfacies and depositional model of the Shuaiba Formation (Lower Cretaceous), in selected wells, Southern Iraq”.
The research included the most important micro-facies of the Shuaiba formation in several fields from Basra Governorate in order to reach a sedimentary model that represents the Shuaiba formation environment. The results concluded that the formation was deposited in gradual environments from deep environments to restricted environments, where deep sediments, represented by the outer platform environments, covered the sediments of Al Zubair Formation, which indicated a wide and rapid marine progress that led to the rapid sinking of the platform so that the floating neighborhoods formed most of the existing facies and then the sea appeared gradually retreated during the end of the Epoch, to the clastic sediments represented by the formation of the Omar River.
