North Africa Region
Exploration success in Libya is driven by a world-class Silurian source rock with reservoirs developed in underlying glaciogenic strata. Understanding these two aspects of the geology underpinned CASP research in the basins of southern Libya. As biostratigraphic data are sparse, CASP investigated heavy minerals as a means of testing the lithostratigraphic framework for the region. We also collected structural observations to provide a better framework for understanding the development of these basins from formation to exploration.
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Most Recent Reports
- Summary of the Murzuq Basin Project Phase II with GIS database
- Petrographical, geochemical, geochronological and thermochronological data from Precambrian basement and Phanerozoic igneous rocks in southern Libya
- Heavy mineral data and zircon U-Pb ages from Neoproterozoic-Mesozoic sandstones of the southeastern and northern margins of the Murzuq Basin
- Petrographic study of outcrop samples from the eastern and northern margins of the Murzuq Basin
- Remote sensing analysis of the impact of the Libyan Miocene-to-Holocene Jabal Al Haruj volcanic field on drainage patterns