At least six glaciations are purported to have affected North Africa and the Middle East
region over the last one billion years, including two in the Cryogenian (Neoproterozoic) …

In southern Turkey (Taurus Chain or Taurides) and southeastern Turkey (Border Folds of the
Arabian Plate), nearly complete Cambrian to Ordovician successions are preserved. Four …

Summary The Late Ordovician (Hirnantian) glaciation is examined through the North
Gondwana record. This domain extended from southern high palaeo‐latitudes …

Whereas the vast majority of discovered hydrocarbon reserves in Iraq reside in Cretaceous
and Cenozoic reservoirs, numerous oil and gas fields have been discovered recently in …

The record of the Ordovician–Silurian transition within the southern Peru–Bolivia Palaeozoic
basin (extending across Peru, Bolivia and northern Argentina) is characterized by a …

Tectonic influences on long-term climate change are of considerable current interest and
debate. This paper reviews the relationship between multi-million year periods of glaciation …

High-latitude Hirnantian diamictites (Dargaz Formation) and lower-Silurian kerogenous
black shales (Sarchahan Formation) are locally exposed in the Zagros Mountains. The …

The Lower Palaeozoic (Upper Ordovician–Silurian) succession of North Africa contains one
of the world's most prolific black shale source rocks, yet the origin of these rocks remains …

Detailed outcrop studies at the flanks of Al Kufrah Basin, Libya, reveal the nature of glacially-
related sedimentation and post-depositional deformation styles produced in association with …

ABSTRACT Rocks of Late Ordovician to Silurian age are well exposed on the western rim of
the Murzuq Basin (Ghat‐Tikiumit area, Libya) where seismic‐scale exposures allow …