The College of Science at the University of Basrah discussed a PhD thesis entitled (Sedimentary, mineral and geochemical study of the sediments of the lower Mesopotamia, southern Iraq).
The thesis of researcher Khalil Jabbar Mawla aims to identify the texture of the sediments, identify the heavy and light minerals and the clay minerals of the sediments, determine the source and origin of the sediments through the behavior of the main oxides and trace elements in the sediments, and the possibility of knowing the marine progress in the study area.
The study found that the sediments of the study area were distinguished by the control of mechanical weathering processes and that the climate of the area was dry to semi-dry and most of the main elements in the sediments of the study area, which are (SiO2, Al2O3, Fe2O3, MgO, Na2O, and K2O) in the main phase within the crystal lattice of clay minerals.
