The Phanerozoic Geology and Natural Resources of Egypt

《埃及的顯生宙地質與自然資源》包含了一系列由高素質研究者撰寫的章節，他們的專業知識不僅在埃及受到認可和讚賞，也在全球範圍內廣受推崇。這些章節涵蓋了廣泛的地質子學科，包括構造學、古地理學、地層學、沉積學、古生物學、地下水以及能源資源等。就此而言，本書為讀者提供了關於埃及自前寒武紀以來迷人且始終引人入勝的地質各個面向的豐富知識。對於初級研究者或地球科學學生而言，本書是一部全面的多學科一站式資源，未來數年他們將持續參考和依賴它。對於更有經驗的科學家，本書總結了當前的知識狀態，突顯了埃及及東北非地質的複雜性，並揭示了未來研究應該指向的潛在領域。本書使用簡單易懂的英語撰寫，並包含非常有用的高品質插圖。最後但同樣重要的是，《埃及的顯生宙地質與自然資源》已由來自埃及、歐洲和美國的世界級高排名地球科學家進行審閱和編輯。

Zakaria Hamimi is a structural geologist spent the majority of his academic careerer at Benha University (Egypt) along with some years at Sana'a University (Yemen, ) and King Abdulaziz University (Saudi Arabia). He has graduated (1984) from Assiut University (distinction with honor degree), and holds the M.Sc. (1988) from Zagazig University (Egypt) and the Ph.D. in Structural Geology and Tectonics (1992) from Cairo University. His research interests focus on Structural Geology, Microstructures and Tectonics. He has worked in many field-related sub-disciplines of Earth Sciences including geologic mapping, microstructural analysis, strain analysis, paleostress reconstruction, active tectonics, tectonic geomorphology, crustal deformation and image processing. He used all these fields to study key areas in the Arabian-Nubian Shield, and to decipher their deformation history. Zakaria Hamimi is the president, and one of the founding team, of the Arabian Geosciences Union since 2012.

He has received the medal of the Egyptian Geological Society of Egypt in 2015, and also the medal of the Arab Mining and Petroleum Association in 2016. He has co-published 50 research articles in national and international indexed and refereed journals and authored several books. In 2016, Zakaria Hamimi (1) joined the AJGS as Associate Editor responsible for evaluating submissions in the fields of Structural Geology, Microstructures and Tectonics, (2) selected as a Member of the Egyptian Universities Promotion Committee, the Supreme Council for Universities (SCU, Egypt), (3) nominated as a Secretary of the National Committee for Geological Sciences, Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, and (4) designated as the IUGS-Representative for Egypt. November 2017, he attended the Gondwana 16 International Conference held at Bangkok, Thailand, as the Representative of the National Committee for Geological Sciences, Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Egypt. September 15, 2020, Zakaria Hamimi nominated as the President of the Egyptian National Committee for Geological Sciences, Academy of Scientific Research and Technology.

Hassan Khozayem is an associate professor at Aswan University, Egypt. He got his PhD Degree from University of Lausanne, Switzerland in 2013 and was appointed as a lecturer in the Geology Department of Aswan University. He is invited as visitor professor for Princeton University and Lausanne University. In 2015 he awarded the state prize of encouragement from the Egyptian government (Egyptian Science and Technology Academy) in geosciences, and in 2017 he got the first class concession is provided by the Egyptian president. His work mainly on geochemistry and sedimentology of Paleogene sediments in Egypt, India, and Spain. His research interests focus on global climatic and paleo-environmental changes associated with warming events, with high-resolution bio-, and chemostratigraphy.

Currently, he is interested in the current global climatic changes and its impact on the environment using different geochemical proxies (stable isotope, mineralogy, and geochemistry). He is a member in several geo-societies as well as reviewer in several geoscience journals.

Thierry Adatte is Professor and head of the geochemistry and mineralogy sedimentary laboratory at the Institute of Earth Sciences of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He received his Ph.D. in Mineralogy and Sedimentary Geology from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. 1989-1990: Postdoctoral fellow (FNS), Mexican Petroleum Institute (IMP). 1990-1993: Postdoctoral fellow (FNS), Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Mexico and Neuchâtel University, Switzerland. 1993-2004: Maître assistant ("Assistant professor"), head of the Mineralogical and Geochemical Laboratory, Geological Institute, Neuchâtel University, Switzerland. 2004--2012: Associate Professor,"Chargé de cours et d'enseignement" (paleontology, sedimentary-environmental mineralogy, general geology), Geological Institute, Neuchâtel University, Switzerland. 2008- 2018:

Researcher at the Institute des Sciences de la Terre (ISTE), Lausanne University, Head of the geochemistry sedimentary lab (XRD, CHN-Rock-Eval, Phosphorus). 2017-2018: Privat Docent at the Institute des Sciences de la Terre (ISTE), Lausanne University 2018-: Professor remplaçant at the Institute des Sciences de la Terre (ISTE), Lausanne University. His research interests are in the fields of global environmental change and extinction events, and his involvement in the deciphering of the events around the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary event is documented by a series of publications (from 1997to 2019). He also explored the sedimentary documents of the PETM the Paleocene-Eocene boundary event (from 2000 to 2019). He is also involved in the study of oceanic anoxic event (from 2001 to 2018). His interests are in the use of geochemical and mineralogical proxies, such as stable carbon and oxygen isotopes, organic matter, clay minerals and recently also trace metal distributions as indicators of environmental and climatic change at the time of the extinction events. One of his main actual interest is the link between LIPS activity and mass extinction events, in particular during the KPg mass extinction. His team provided the most accurate dating of the Deccan activity and highlighted its crucial role in the KPg extinction. The use of mercury as a tracer of volcanic activity is also part his research. Acidification linked with these events is also one of his recent interest, more particularly for the KPg mass extinction. Since 1987, active participation (oral presentations and posters) of nearly 1112 meetings and symposia (GSA, AGU, EUG, IAS, SNOWBIRD, réunion spécialisées SGF) Convenor and co-convenor of sessions on Mass Extinctions, Volcanism, Impacts, and Catastrophic Environmental Changes at EGU Meetings since 2013 to 2018. Convenor and co-convenor of sessions on mass extinctions at GSA meetings in 2009, 2016 and 2017.

Fadi Henri Nader is currently a research project leader and geosciences expert at IFPEN Energy Resources (France) and Professor (by special appointment) of "Multiscale Fluid-Rock Interactions" in the Department of Earth Sciences at Utrecht University (The Netherlands).

Prof. NADER has more than 20 years of experience in fundamental and applied Earth sciences research. He is expert in sedimentology, characterisation and modelling of sedimentary basins and reservoirs/aquifers (clastics and carbonate rocks, fluid flow, diagenesis), integrated stratigraphy, seismic interpretation, structural geology and geochemistry.

In 2011/2012 he was appointed as the senior geology consultant at the directorate of petroleum (Ministry of Energy and Water, Rep. of Lebanon): building up the Ministry's data room, assisting in the preparation for the bidding rounds for offshore gas exploration.

He was in charge of Business Development for Geosciences at IFP Energy nouvelles from 2017 to 2020. His duties included the preparation of technical-commercial proposals, management of specific partner/client portfolios, negotiation of contracts and elaboration of business models. In addition, strategy planning for the presence and visibility of IFPEN at international conferences and coaching a pool of technical advisors and project leaders. He graduated from the American University of Beirut (Lebanon) in Geology (BSc., MSc. -1994/2000), got his PhD at the KU Leuven University (Belgium, 2003), and HDR (Habilitation de Direction de la Recherche) at the Paris-Sorbonne University France (2015), appointed professor at Utrecht University in 2019.

Prof. NADER supervised 30 MSc, 11 PhD, and 3 postdoc students. He is co-author of more than 70 publications in peer reviewed international journals. He is very active in several international scientific and professional societies such as the Geological Society, London (GSL), the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), the International Lithosphere Program (ILP - IUGS-IUGG).

Francisca Oboh-Ikuenobe is a professor and past interim chair in the Department of Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering at Missouri University of Science and technology. She obtained a PhD degree in Geology from the University of Cambridge through a Commonwealth Scholarship, and MS and BS (First Class) degrees from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Dr. Oboh-Ikuenobe teaches courses about the evolution of the earth, stratigraphy, basic and advanced paleontology, and paleoclimatology. She uses her training in sedimentology to conduct research in palynology, a sub-discipline of paleontology that uses organic-walled microfossils such as pollen, spores, dinoflagellates and acritarchs, to unravel the history of the Earth.

Dr. Oboh-Ikuenobe is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Geological Society of America (GSA), and a 2019 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement inductee. She is an active member of several professional associations, serving as a director of the Association for Women Geoscientists Foundation, member of several GSA committees (including co-chairing the Diversity in the Geosciences Committee which introduced the On To The Future Scholarships), and as President of the AASP - The Palynological Society. A Fulbright Specialist Roster Candidate from 2010-2015, Dr. Oboh-Ikuenobe is an African Scientific Institute Fellow and member of the International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) Scientific Board (Global Change Group) of UNESCO/International Union of Geological Sciences. She is the recipient of more than 30 professional and civic awards and honors.

Mohamed Zobaa is an Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Head at the UT-Permian Basin, USA. He leads the sedimentaryorganic matter research group focusing primarily on the accumulation, distribution, and diagenesis of sedimentary organic matter in time and space and how they can be employed to characterize petroleum systems through the interpretation of depositional paleoenvironments, kerogen type, and organic thermal maturity. Dr. Zobaa's research also includes the identification and delineation of key paleoclimatic and biostratigraphic events in the earth's history that were responsible for the production and preservation of large organic matter quantities in some of the world's hydrocarbon most producing sedimentary basins.

Mohamed Zobaa utilizes palynology and palynofacies analyses as primary proxies in his research but engages other disciplines and integrates a variety of tools to support and corroborate his research findings. These include, for example, Rock-Eval Pyrolysis, XRD, XRF, Vitrinite Reflectance, Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS), and Organic Petrology. Dr. Zobaa has about 18 years of research experience studying the stratigraphy, palynology, and sedimentary organic matter content of many of the most important hydrocarbon generating sedimentary provinces in the world (e.g., Deep-water Gulf of Mexico, the Permian Basin in Texas, the San Juan Basin in New Mexico, the Williston Basin in North Dakota, and the north Western Desert of Egypt). Additionally, his research results and methodologies have been published and documented in top-tier, prestigious and widely circulated professional journals both in the United States and internationally. Some of these include the Geological Society of America Bulletin, Geosphere, Sedimentary Geology, and Marine and Petroleum Geology.

Dr Haytham El Atfy is associate professor at Mansoura University, Egypt, from which he has received a BSc in geology and an MSc in palynology. He has obtained his PhD in geosciences (palynology and organic geochemistry) from Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, in 2014. Recently, he has received a Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Institute of Geosciences, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany. His research interests span all aspects of palynology and its applications in hydrocarbon exploration, age dating and paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic reconstructions, particularly of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic and, to a lesser extent, the Paleozoic.

He has more recently become involved in organic geochemistry, mainly vitrinite reflectance and organic petrography and TOC and Rock-Eval pyrolysis.

Dr El Atfy is a petroleum palynologist specializing in palynology and organic geochemistry with more than 15 years of academic and some industrial experience covering both conventional and unconventional resources. His expertise covers many basins in the MENA region and outside, for example; north Western Desert, Nile Delta and Gulf of Suez basins in Egypt; Sirte Basin in Libya; Rumaila, Zubair and Subbaoil fields in southern Iraq; Jordan; Germany, France, North Sea and Brazil. His scientific contribution is resulted in a number of more than 30 articles that have been mostly published in international, peer-reviewed journals that have a good scientific reputation. In addition, he has also strong skills in laboratory work including, palynology, palynofacies analyses, thermal maturation index, spore-pollen coloration index (SCI) and organic petrography. He is also a Visiting Researcher at the Senckenberg Research Institute, Germany and UNIVATES, Brazil.

Beyond his research interests, he is a trainer in academic skills, such as academic writing, writing for funding, proposal writing and quality assurance and accreditation since 2018. He is also a member of the Palynological Society (AASP), the Micropalaeontological Society (TMS), Arbeitskreis für Paläobotanik und Palynologie (APP) and some other local geoscience societies. Throughout his career Haytham has received several awards such as Egyptian State Incentive Award, Bernd Rendel-Prize from the German Science Foundation (DFG), TMS - Alan Higgins Award for Applied Micropalaeontology and many others.

Zakaria Hamimi 是一位結構地質學家，他的大部分學術生涯都在埃及的本哈大學度過，並在也門的薩那大學和沙烏地阿拉伯的阿卜杜勒阿齊茲國王大學工作過幾年。他於1984年畢業於阿斯尤特大學（以優異成績畢業），並於1988年獲得埃及扎卡齊克大學的碩士學位，1992年在開羅大學獲得結構地質學和構造學的博士學位。他的研究興趣集中在結構地質學、微觀結構和構造學上。他在地球科學的許多與現場相關的子學科中工作，包括地質測繪、微觀結構分析、應變分析、古應力重建、活動構造學、構造地貌學、地殼變形和影像處理。他利用這些領域來研究阿拉伯-努比亞盾的關鍵區域，並解讀其變形歷史。自2012年以來，Zakaria Hamimi 是阿拉伯地球科學聯盟的會長及創始團隊成員之一。

他於2015年獲得埃及地質學會的獎章，並於2016年獲得阿拉伯礦業和石油協會的獎章。他共同發表了50篇在國內外索引和審核期刊上的研究文章，並著作了幾本書籍。2016年，Zakaria Hamimi (1) 加入AJGS擔任副編輯，負責評估結構地質學、微觀結構和構造學領域的投稿，(2) 被選為埃及大學晉升委員會成員，埃及高等教育最高委員會 (SCU)，(3) 被提名為科學研究與技術學院地質科學國家委員會的秘書，(4) 被指定為埃及的IUGS代表。2017年11月，他作為埃及科學研究與技術學院地質科學國家委員會的代表，參加了在泰國曼谷舉行的Gondwana 16國際會議。2020年9月15日，Zakaria Hamimi 被提名為埃及科學研究與技術學院地質科學國家委員會的會長。

Hassan Khozayem 是埃及阿斯旺大學的副教授。他於2013年在瑞士洛桑大學獲得博士學位，並被任命為阿斯旺大學地質系的講師。他曾受邀擔任普林斯頓大學和洛桑大學的訪問教授。2015年，他獲得埃及政府（埃及科學與技術學院）頒發的地球科學鼓勵國家獎，2017年獲得埃及總統頒發的一級獎勵。他的研究主要集中在埃及、印度和西班牙的古新世沉積物的地球化學和沉積學上。他的研究興趣集中在與全球氣候變化和古環境變化相關的暖化事件，並使用高解析度的生物和化學層序學。

目前，他對當前的全球氣候變化及其對環境的影響感興趣，並使用不同的地球化學指標（穩定同位素、礦物學和地球化學）進行研究。他是多個地球科學學會的成員，並擔任多個地球科學期刊的審稿人。

Thierry Adatte 是瑞士洛桑大學地球科學研究所的教授及沉積物地球化學和礦物學實驗室主任。他在瑞士納沙泰爾大學獲得礦物學和沉積地質學的博士學位。1989-1990年：墨西哥石油研究所（IMP）博士後研究員（FNS）。1990-1993年：墨西哥新萊昂自治大學和瑞士納沙泰爾大學的博士後研究員（FNS）。1993-2004年：瑞士納沙泰爾大學地質學院礦物學和地球化學實驗室主任（助理教授）。2004-2012年：副教授，負責教學（古生物學、沉積環境礦物學）。