The following professors participated in the symposium discussions as panelists: Maria Fidela de Lima Navarro (Univ de São Paulo, Bauru, SP, Brazil); Joana Carvalho (Univ de Louvain, Louvain, Belgium); Alexandre Rezende Vieira (Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA); Mário Taba Júnior (Univ de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil); Tiago Sousa Coelho (Univ de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil);...

Acknowledgements I sincerely thank my advisor, Dr. Peter Beerel for inspiring me to take up one of the most significant academic challenges that I have taken in my life. He has been the best advisor a graduate student can wish for and without his support, guidance and patience; this work would not have been completed. I also thank his wife Janet and baby Kira for considering me as a part of the...

This paper describes and characterises the co-occurrence of ammonite and benthic foraminiferal assemblages across the São Gião outcrop (Central Portugal), a reference section for the Lower-Middle Jurassic boundary in the Lusitanian Basin. The upper Toarcian-lower Aalenian marls and marly-limestones in this section provide a precise and detailed ammonitebased biostratigraphic zonation, with a mi...

The NE Hungarian Darnó Hill is geologically complex; it is composed of an accretionary mélange complex, which contains Permian, Triassic and Jurassic sedimentary and magmatic blocks. The succession can easily be correlated with the NW Dinarides, using evidences of the different evolutionary stages of the Neotethyan Ocean (rifting, marginal basin opening, closure). Several ore indications are kn...

Plaster and mortar samples from Arslantepe (Turkey) hold potential to provide unique information about the lime production adhibition during Late Chalcolithic period (4th millennium BCE). A multi-analytical approach including polarized light microscopy (PLM), X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD), scanning electron coupled with energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM-EDS) has been applied characterize te...

The Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene Shiranish and Aliji formations have been studied in three selected wells Jambur Oil Field (Ja-50, Ja-53, Ja-67) Kirkuk, Northeastern Iraq. This study included lithostratigraphy biostratigraphy. Campanian-Maastrichtian Formation consist mainly of thin marly chalky limestone beds overlain by marl beds, with some representing an outer shelf basinal environment, ...