Geology

Biography

Muhamed Fakhri Omer is a Lecturer at Geology Department-Salahaddin University in Erbil-Iraq since 2002. He got M.Sc.in 2000 and Ph.D. in 2012 at Baghdad University on Paleozoic Formations which are exposed at mountains of Northern Iraq. He is expert in cathodoluminescence and scanning electron microscopy that was obtained through three months training course at Aarhus University in Denmark in 2011. He got Postdoctoral scholarships for one year at Warsaw University, Poland in 2014. He participated in many local and international conferences with oral presentations; the last one was the 2nd international conference on GEOShale held in Warsaw (Poland) in September 2014. He published many papers in the Journal of African Earth Science in 2014 and 2015. He has been serving as a reviewer in many international journals.

Abstract

Abstract : Cathodoluminescence petrography for provenance studies of the sandstones of Ora Formation (Devonian-Carboniferous), Iraqi Kurdistan Region, Northern Iraq