Publications

a- Published Papers

Boukhary, M., Abdelghany, O., Bahr, S. and Hussein-Kamel, Y.  2005: Upper Eocene larger foraminifera from the Dammam Formation in the border region of United Arab Emirates and Oman.- Micropaleontology, Vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 487-504, text- figures1-6, plates 1-7, table1. See paper.

Abdelghany, Osman, 2003: Late Campanian-Maastrichtian foraminifera from the Simsima Formation, on the Western side of the Northern Oman Mountains.- Cretaceous Research, 24 (4): 391-405. See paper.

Abdelghany, Osman, 2002a:  Lower Miocene stratigraphy of the Gebel Shabrawet area, north Eastern Desert, Egypt. Journal of African Earth Sciences  34: 203- 212. See paper.

Abdelghany, Osman, 2002b: Biostratigraphy (Turborotalia cunialensis/Cribrohantkenina inflata Concurrent-Range Zone, P16) of the Late Eocene Dammam Formation, west of the Northern Oman Mountains. Micropaleontology,  48: 209-221.

Boukhary, M., Abdelghany, O. and Bahr, S., 2002c: Nummulites alsharhani n.sp. (Late Lutetian) from Jabal Hafit and El Faiyah:  Western side of the Northern Oman Mountains, United Arab Emirates.-  Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève, 21: 575-585. See paper.

Abdelghany, O. and Piller, W. E. 1999: Biostratigraphy of the Lower Miocene sections in the Eastern Desert (Cairo-Suez district, Egypt).- Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève, 18: 607- 617.

Ismail, A.A. and Abdelghany, O., 1999: Lower Miocene Foraminifera from some exposures in Cairo-Suez district, Eastern Desert, Egypt. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 28: 507- 526. See paper.

b- Accepted Papers

Abdelghany, O. 2006 (in Press)

Early Maastrichtian larger foraminifera of the Qahlah Formation, United Arab Emirates and Sultanate of Oman borders.- Cretaceous Research, vol. 27,  

 c- Research Activities

Ongoing and planning research activities include the following:

       q          Investigating the distribution of the smaller and larger foraminifera in Ras El Kheimah area, Northern Emirates.

       q          Investigating the distribution of the smaller and larger foraminifera in the Oligocene deposits, East and northeast of the United Arab Emirates.

       q          Paleoenvironmental interpretation of the stratigraphic distribution with emphasis on the Paleogene deposits, East and northeast of the United Arab Emirates.

       q          Mapping and biostratigraphic correlation of the exposed Upper Cretaceous–Lower Tertiary deposits, East and northeast of the United Arab Emirates.

       q          Compiling of a catalogue for the identified microfossils in the United Arab Emirates.

Current Emirates Research Activities

I am involved in continuing stratigraphical work on the western side of the Northern Oman Mountains (Jabals: Hafit, Malaqet, Mundassa, Huwwayah, Qatar, El-Rawdah, Al Faiyah, Qarn El Barr and Ras El Kheimah) These studies are partly in cooperation with Dr. AbduRahman Fowler, Dr. Ashraf  Baghdady, Dr. Waheed Hashem and Dr. Mahmoud Abu Saima.

Specifically, I am involved in the following research:

       q     E. A. Abd El-Gawad, F. Sadooni, O. Abdelghany, M. Al-Azab, A. Baghdady, M. Lotfy, M. Abu Saima, W. Hashem and Z. El Wazir:

       q     Geological, Chemical and Simulation studies on the exposed source and reservoir rocks of Devonian-Permian and Jurassic-Cretaceous periods in United Arab Emirates.- Accepted by the UAE Univ. Research Affairs for funding as Interdisciplinary Research Grant Application between, Geology Department, Chemistry Department, UAE Univ. and Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO) P.O.Box 270, Abu Dhabi, UAE, (2005).

       q     Osman Abdelghany, Ashraf Baghdady and Mahmoud M. Abu Saima (2005): Facies and Depositional History of Outcropping Eocene Carbonate Strata of the United Arab Emirates. Accepted by the UAE Univ. Research Affairs for funding as Individual  Research Grant.

       q          Abdel-Rahman Fowler, Abdelghany Osman and Waheed Hashem: Geological Investigation of the pre-Tertiary Basement, East of Al-Ain, and its significance for basement-cover structural relations.- Accepted by the UAE Univ. Research Affairs for funding (2004-2005). The Principal Researcher for this project is Dr. AbduRahman Fowler, with co-researcher Dr. Waheed Hashem. This research includes the identification of planktonic and benthonic foraminifera and their biostratigraphic and paleoecologic significance. This research is financed by  the Research Council of the University 2004-2005; 2005-2006.

       q          Co-operative involvement (subject to agreement between the Faculty, University, Ministry of Energy and the British Geological Survey), in the BGS 4-year program of comprehensive remapping of the entire Emirates mountain areas.

       q          My role is to facilitate and check the redrawn stratigraphic boundaries between the different rock uints of the sedimentary succession  south and east of Al-Ain city, through to Al Dhaid.

d- Conference Presentations

 Fowler, A., Abdelghany, O., Osman, A.F., Jordan, B. and Hashem, W.A., 2006 (accepted abstract): Obduction-Related structures in the Semail Ophiolite and Underlying Units and their Reassembly during Tertiary Tectonism in the Oman Mountains East of Al-Ain, UAE.- 6th International Conference on Geology of the Middle East p.167, March, 2006..    

Abdelghany, O. and Boukhary, M., and Bahr, S., 2003 (accepted abstract) Upper Eocene larger foraminifera from the Dammam Formation, on the western side of the Northern Oman Mountains, United Arab Emirates.- The International Subcommission on Paleogene Stratigraphy (ISPS), Symposium on the Paleogene preparing for modern life and climate, Leuven, Belgium, 25-30 August, 2003.

Abdelghany, O. and Boukhary, M.,  2003 (accepted abstract) Upper Eocene larger foraminifera from Senaiya Formation, western side of the Northern Oman Mountains, United Arab Emirates.- Fifth International Conference on the Geology of the Middle East, Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.- 20- 21 January, 2003.

Abdelghany, O.,  2002  Biostratigraphy (Cribrohantkenina inflata Zone, P16) of the Late Eocene Dammam Formation, west of the Northern Oman Mountains, United Arab Emirates and Sultanate of Oman. First International Paleontological conference, Sydney, Australia, 6-10,  July, 2002, p.1.

Abdelghany, O.,  2002  Late Eocene biostratigraphy (Cribrohantkenina inflata Zone, P16) of the Buraimi- Al Ain area, western side of the Northern Oman Mountains, UAE-Oman border Zone.- Second Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society of Egypt.- 6^th of April at the Geological Survey of Egypt. p.1.

Abdelghany, O., 2000 Contribution to the Lower Miocene stratigraphy of the Gebel  Shabrawet area, northern Eastern Desert, Egypt.- 18^th Colloquium of African Geology , Graz, Austria, 3-7 July, 2000, p.2.

 Boukhary, M., Abdelghany, O. and Bahr, S.,  2002 Nummulites alsharhani n.sp. (Late Lutetian) from Jabal Hafit and El Faiyah: Western side of the Northern Oman Mountains, United Arab Emirates. First International Paleontological conference, Sydney, Australia, 6-10,  July, 2002, p.1.

Boukhary, M., Abdelghany, O. and Bahr, S.,  2002 Nummulites alsharhani n.sp. (Late Lutetian) from Jabal Hafit and El Faiyah: Western side of the Northern Oman Mountains, United Arab Emirates.5^th meeting of the Geology of the Arab world at Cairo University, Giza, Egypt,  p.177.

Piller, W. E., Abdelghany, O., Kroh, A., Mandic, O., Nebelsick, J. H. , Schlaf, J., and Schuster, F., 1998Transgressive folgen und Lumachellbildung in einer untermiozaenen Abfolge der Oestlichen Wueste (Gebel Gharra, W’Suez, Aegypten). Sediment ’98, Erlanger geol.Abh.

Abdelghany, O., Piller, W. E. and Toleiks, R., 1996 Nummulitide Foraminiferen (Gattung: Planostegina) im Unter- und Mittel-Miozaen der Paratethys und des Mediterranen Raumes.- Sediment `96, 11 Sedimentologen-treffen, 1, Wien.

Piller, W. E., Abdelghany, O. and Toleikis, R., 1995 Ueber die stratigraphische Verbreitung nummulitider Foraminiferen (Gattung: Planostegina) im Unter-und Mittel- Miozaen der Paratethys und des mediterranen  Raumes.- 2. Tagung der Oesterreichischen Palaeontologischen Gesellschaft, Kurzfassungen der Vortraege und Poster, 25-26, Graz.

Conferences Attended

2006            6^th International Conference on Geology of the Middle East, Al-Ain,  20-23 March, 2006.  

2005            The sixth annual UAE University Research Conference, Al-Ain Rotana Hotel- Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates, 24-26 April, 2005.

2005            The second International Gulf Seismic Forum, Al-Ain Hilton Hotel- Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates, 20-23 February, 2005.

2004            32^nd  International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy, 20-28 August, 2004.

2004            The fifth annual UAE University Research Conference, Al-Ain Rotana Hotel-Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates, 25-27 April, 2004.

2003            The International Conference on Oil Pollution and its Environmental impact in the Arabian Gulf Region, Al-Ain, 5-7 October, 2003.

2003            Emirates International Disaster and Trauma Congress, Abu Dhabi 12-18   April, 2003.

2002            First International Paleontological conference, Sydney, Australia, 6-10,  July, 2002.

2001            Environment 2001 exhibition and conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 4-8 February,  2001.

2000            Eighteenth colloquium of African Geology , Graz, Austria, 3-7 July,   2000. 

1998            Geology of the Arab World, 1998, Cairo Univ., Cairo, Egypt.

1998            Egyptian Society of Sedimentology, Ain Shams Univ., Cairo, Egypt.

1996-98      Annual Conferences convened by the Geological Society of  Egypt, Geol. Surv. of Egypt, Cairo.

1996            Sediment ’96 at Vienna, Austria.

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