Rania Morsy
Ph.D. student
Tel +49 421 218 65253
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Since 2016 PhD student at University Bremen
Project: The Cretaceous critical intervals: Paleo-environmental
implications from black shale of Safaga area, Red Sea, Egypt, financed
by DAAD, Morsy, Kuss
Rania Morsy (DAAD-project)
In Egypt, the Upper Cretaceous – Paleocene sedimentary sequence
has possible economic importance due to the occurrence of the black shales
and phosphorites. Nowadays, black shale has gained attention as an energy
resource as the depletion and the rise of conventional resources of petroleum.
The Upper Cretaceous – Paleocene black shale is well represented
in three wells in the Safaga area, namely; Um El-Huaitat, Mohamed Rabah
and Wassief. Samples representing the complete Upper Cretaceous-Paleocene
sedimentary sequence will be studied with respect to their stable isotopic
signature (carbon and oxygen), a fundamental issue to investigate the
paleo-environmental implications and to construct a high resolution chemostratigraphic
chart. in with biostratigraphic data. The chemostratigraphic results will
be correlated with the biostratigraphic, mineralogic and geochemical characterization
of the studied formations.