Prof. Sarmad Assi Ali

Full Name : Sarmad Assi Ali

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Qualifications : PhD in Geology from the University of Lancanque in Australia

Senior Honorary Fellow in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Lancanc, Australia 2018 until now

University, College, Department: University of Lancanque, Australia / Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Scientific experience: 34 scientific research published in international scientific journals and international conferences in Germany, Italy, Japan, America, the Netherlands, Australia and Finland, and supervising many undergraduate and postgraduate students

Highest Academic Degree: Postdoctoral Degree from Lancanque University in Australia

University Information: -

Faculty : Faculty of Science

Branch or Department: Kirkuk University

Scientific Title : Professor

Degree : PhD

General Specialization : Earth Sciences

Specialization : Geochemistry

Languages: English - Kurdish - Arabic

Education:

PhD in Earth Sciences (Geochemistry) from the University of Lancanques in Australia 2012

Master of Earth Sciences from the University of Mosul 2002

Bachelor of Earth Sciences from Salahaddin University in Erbil 1990

Positions: Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Kirkuk 2003-2004

Associate Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Kirkuk 2004-2008

Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Geology, University of Kirkuk, 2012

Research Professor at the University of Lancanques in Australia for the years 2015, 2016

Full-time post-doctoral study for one year at the University of Lancanc, Australia, 2016

Senior Honorary Fellow in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Lancanc, Australia 2018 until now

Professor at the Department of Applied Gebulgiba at the University of Kirkuk 2018 until now

Number of years of service within higher education 21

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Supervising graduate students

Master student Thesis title: Mineralogy and Geochemistry of clastic rocks associated with Walash-Naopurdan Groups in Hasanbag and Qalander areas, Kurdistan region, NE Iraq.

Master student Thesis title: Petrography and Geochemistry of Sandstone in Tanjero Formation in Sulaimani Provinces, NE Iraq.

Master student Petrography and Geochemistry of Gabbroic rocks from Penjwin ophiolite complex, Kurdistan Region, NE Iraq.

Master Thesis title: Geochemistry and Mineralogy of Middle to Late Jurassic Sargelu-Naokelekan - Barsarin Formations, Kurdistan Region, NE Iraq.

Research Activities and Interests Research Activities and Interests

-The tectonic history in the Zagros Orogenic Belt.

-Mesozoic ophiolites and Neotethys evolution and closure.

-Petrology and geochemistry of the lower crust and upper mantle.

- Mineralization in the Iraqi Zagros suture zone

Published Researches:

• Nutman, A., Ali, S., Mohammad, Y. et al. The early Eocene (48 Ma) Qaladeza trondhjemite formed by wet partial remelting of mafic crust in the arc-related Bulfat Igneous Complex (Kurdistan, Iraq): constraints on the timing of Neotethys closure. Arab J Geosci 15, 679 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-022-09975-7.
• Sarmad A. Ali and Zaman R. Omer, 2021.Petrography and Geochemistry of gabbroic rock from the Penjwin ophiolite, Kurdistan Region, Northeastern Iraq, Iraqi Geological Journal, 54:24-37.
• Sarmad A. Ali , Yousif O. Mohammad, Nabaz R. Aziz, Ahmed M. Aqrawi, Fadhil A. Lawa, Rafid M. Aziz, Mohsin M. Ghazal, Mohammed M. Sofy. Irfan O. M. Yara and Imad K. Abdulzahra, Discussion of the paper by Kamal Haji Karim and Mayssaa Al-Bidry, 2020, entitled “Zagros Metamorphic Core Complex: Example from Bulfat Mountain, Qala Diza Area, Kurdistan Region, Northeast Iraq” (Jordan Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 11 (2): 113-125) 2021. Jordan Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences 12 (1): 92-98..
• Yousif O. Mohammad , Sarmad A. Ali , Nabaz R. Aziz, Kurda L. Abdulla, Irfan O. Yaraa. Comment on “Generation and exhumation of granitoid intrusions in the Penjween ophiolite complex, NW Zagros of the Kurdistan region of Iraq: Implications for the geodynamic evolution of the Arabia- Eurasia collision zone” by Ismail et al., 2020, V.376–377, 105714 Journal of Lithos, 390-391, 105915.

• Sarmad A. Ali , Yousif O. Mohammad , Khalid J. Aswad, 2020. Comment on “Genesis and tectonic setting of high-Cr podiform chromitites of the Rayat ophiolite in the Zagros Suture Zone, northeastern Iraq” by Idrees N. Ahmed, Yawooz A. Kettanah, Sabah A. Ismail [Ore Geology Review, 2020] (Submitted).

• Sarmad A. Ali , Yousif Mohammad, Fadhil A. Lawa , Mushir M. Baziany and

Ali I. Al-Juboury,2020, Early Cretaceous calciturbidites facies from Zagros Fold–Thrust belt: a key to paleogeography and environment of northeast Arabian Platform Passive Margin, examples from Kurdistan Region, Northeast Iraq: Discussion, Journal of Carbonates and Evaporites 35:81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13146-020-00617-1

• Solomon Buckman, Joshua J. Richardson, Allen P. Nutman, Sarmad A. Ali, 2020, Renewal of Late Triassic continental magmatism in the Lorne Basin of eastern Australia following the Hunter-Bowen Orogeny , Journal of Australian earth sciences (Submitted).
• Brian G. Jonesa , Youssef O. Mohammad, Sarmad A. Ali , Allen P. Nutman, Vickie C. Bennett, 2020, Provenance of Tanjero and Red Bed clastic sedimentary rocks revealed by detrital zircon SHRIMP dating, Kurdistan region, NE Iraq. Journal of African earth sciences. 172, 103981.

• Allen P. Nutman, Vickie C. Bennett, Hiroshi Hidaka, Niels Henriksen and Sarmad Ali.,.2019 The Palaeoarchaean Victoria Fjord terrane of northernmost Greenland and interpretation of Precambrian crust in and surrounding the Arctic Ocean, Journal of Geodynamics, 129,p 3-23.

• Sarmad A. Ali, Allen P. Nutman, Khalid J. Aswad, Brian G. Jones, 2019, Overview of the tectonic evolution of the Iraqi Zagros thrust zone: sixty million years of Neotethyan ocean subduction, Journal of Geodynamic,129,p 162-177.

• Ali, S. A., 2017. 39 Ma U-Pb zircon age for the Shaki-Rash gabbro in the Bulfat igneous complex, Kurdistan region, Iraqi Zagros suture zone: rifting of an intra-Neotethys Cenozoic arc. Ofioliti 42, 69-80.

• Sarmad A. Ali, Rajaa S. Sleabi, Mohammad J. A. Talabani, Brian G. Jones Provenance of the Walash-Naopurdan backarc-arc clastic sequences in the Iraqi Zagros Suture Zone.. Journal of African Earth Sciences. 125,p 73-87.

• Sabah A. Ismail, Sarmad A. Ali, Allen P. Nutman, Vickie C. Bennett, Solomon Buckman and Brian G. Jones., The Pushtashan juvenile suprasubduction zone assemblage of Kurdistan (northeastern Iraq): A Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Neo-Tethys missing link. Geoscience Frontiers, 8, 1073-1087.

• 2016 Khalid J. Aswad, Ali, S. A., Ruaa M. Al.Sheraefy, F. Jourdan, Allen P. Nutman, Solomon Buckman, Brian G. Jones., 40Ar/39Ar hornblende and biotite geochronology of the Bulfat Igneous Complex, Zagros Suture Zone, NE Iraq: New insights on complexities of Paleogene arc magmatism during closure of the Neotethys Ocean, Journal of Lithos. 266-267, p 406-413.

• 2016 Ali, S. A., Ismail, S Nutman, A Buckman, S., Jones, B. G., and., and Vickie C. Bennett , 2016, The intra-oceanic Cretaceous (~108 Ma) Kata–Rash arc fragment in the Kurdistan segment of Iraqi Zagros suture zone: Implications forNeotethys evolution and closure, Journal of Lithos, 260, p154-163.

• Ali, S. A., Fakry, M., Ahmed M. Aqrawi., (2016) Petrography, geochemistry and provenance of the Chalki rocks Kurdistan Region, North Iraq. Arabian Journal of Geosciences. 9, p 524.

• 2015 Ali, S.A. (2015) Petrogenesis of metabasalt rocks in the Bulfat complex, Kurdistan region, Iraqi zagros suture zone. Journal of Kirkuk University – Scientific Studies, V10, N3, pp242-258.

• 2014 Ali, S.A., Mohajjel, M., Aswad, K.J., Buckman, S., Jones, B.G., Ismail, S., (2014); Tectono-stratigraphy and structure of the northwestern Zagros collision zone across the Iraq-Iran border, Journal of Environment and Earth Science, Vol.4, No.4,p 92-110 .

• 2013: Ali, S. A., Buckman, S., Aswad, K. J., Jones, B. G., and Ismail, S., and Nutman, A. P., (2013), The tectonic evolution of a Neo-Tethyan (Eocene-Oligocene) island-arc (Walash- Naopurdan Group) in the Kurdistan region of the NE Iraqi Zagros Suture Zone. Journal of Island Arc, 22, p 104-125.

• 2013: Ali, S. A. and Aswad, K. J (2013), SHRIMP U-Pb dating of Zircon Inheritance in Walash Arc Volcanic Rocks (Paleogene Age) , Zagros Suture Zone,NE Iraq: New Insights into Crustal Contributions to Trachytic Andesite Generation, Iraqi National Journal of Earth Sciences, Mosul University, Iraq, V13, N1, p45-58.

• 2013: Aswad, K. , Ruaa M. Al.Sheraefy and Ali, S. A.,(2013) Pre-collisional Intrusive Magmatism in the Bulfat Complex, Wadi Rashid, Qala Deza, NE Iraq: Geochemical and Mineralogical Constraints and Implications for Tectonic Evolution of Granitoid-gabbro Suites, Iraqi National Journal of Earth Sciences, Mosul University, Iraq,V13, N1, p104-125.

• 2012 : Ali, S.A., Buckman, S., Aswad, K.J., Jones, B.G., Ismail, S.A., Nutman, A.P., (2012), Recognition of Late Cretaceous Hasanbag ophiolite-arc rocks in the Kurdistan region of the Iraqi Zagros Thrust Zone: A missing link in the paleogeography of the closing Neo-Tethys Ocean, Geological Society of America, Lithosphere, V4, N.5, p 395-410.

• 2006: Aziz, R.M. and Ali, S. A. (2005) Petrochemistry and Tectonic setting of the Naupordan Metavolcanics from Jabal Qalander, NE-Iraq, Tikrit Journal for Pure Science, V10, N2, p 227-235.

• 2004: Ali S.A (2004) Variation in Heavy Minerals as Indicator Provenances of the Recent Sediment from the Lesser River- North Iraq, Journal of Kirkuk University – Scientific Studies, V1, p 6-13.

Conferences:

1. Sarmad A. Ali. 2022. Ophiolite of Iraq: Keys to understanding the tectonic evolution of Iraqi Zagros thrust zone. Zagros geology and geochemistry with a new perspective to the mineral exploration. University of Kurdistan (Iran) and university of Sulaimani(Iraq)

2. Sarmad A. Ali. 2021. Fact and misunderstanding about the volcanic and related igneous rocks in the Kurdistan region of the Northeast Iraqi Zagros Suture Zone: implication of the tectonic evolution of the Iraqi Zagros Thrust Zone and Neotethys Ocean. Universities of Tikrit, Anbar, and Sulaimani

3.Sarmad A. Ali, Allen P. Nutman, Khalid J. Aswad, Brian G. Jones overview of the tectonic evolution of the iraqi zagros thrust zone: sixty million years of convergence in Neotethys, Conference: emc2016At: Rimini, Italy.

4. Sabah A. Ismail, Sarmad A. Ali, Allan P. Nutman , Soluman  Buckman  and Brain G.Jones, ( 2016),  The Pushtashan ophiolite: New Evidences for Iraq Zagros Suture Zone, Kurdistan Region, NE Iraq, 32nd Nordic Geological Winter Meeting, At Helsinki Finland, At Finland.

5-2012: Ali, S. A., Buckman, S., Aswad, K. J., Jones, B. G., Ismail, S. A., and Nutman, A. P., Geochemistry, Geochronology and Petrogenesis of Late Cretaceous Hasanbag Ophiolite-Arc Rocks in the Kurdistan Region of the NE Iraqi Zagros Thrust Zone, (2012). International Conference on the Geology of the Arabian Plate and the Oman Mountains, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscut, Sultanate of Oman, p 23.

Participation in Conferences :

-  International conference on geology of Middle East – Al Ain (UAA) (2006)

- New England Orogen 2010 conference held at the University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia, November (2010).

- Arabian Plate and the Oman Mountains, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscut, Sultanate of Oman (January, 2012).

- Experimental Mineralogy Petrology and Geochemistry Conference in Kiel University, Germany (March 2012).

-  EAGE Workshop on Iraq: Hydrocarbon Exploration & Field Development 29 April – 2 May 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.

- 32nd Nordic Geological Winter Meeting, At Helsinki Finland, At Finland (January 2016)

-emc2016At: Rimini, Italy

-First international conference (GEO Iraq 1) cooperation among the Departments of geology in the Universities of Tikrit, Anbar, and Sulaimani (October 2021).

-Zagros geology and geochemistry with a new perspective to the mineral exploration. University of Kurdistan (Iran) and university of Sulaimani (Iraq) (May 2022).

Scientific research in international scientific journals is evaluated within Scopus containers

Tectonics, Chemie der Erde – Geochemistry, Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Central European geosciences, Island Arc, Regional studies in marine sciences, Ore and Energy Resource Geology, Academia letters. Journal of petrology

Membership in local and international scientific organizations and civil society organizations

Member of the Iraqi Geological Society

Member of the Geological Society of America

Member of the Geological Society of Australia

Member of the Australian Academics Association

Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Geodynamics and Geochemistry

Subjects I teach to undergraduate and postgraduate students

Preliminary studies:

Subject	Lecturing	Tutorial	Marking	Laboratory
Igneous petrology	ü	ü	ü	ü
Metamorphic petrology	ü	ü	ü	ü
Geochemistry	ü	ü	ü	ü
Optical mineralogy	ü	ü	ü	ü
Mineralogy	ü	ü	ü	ü
Middle East Geology	ü	ü	ü	ü

 

Postgraduate Subjects

Subject	Lecturing	Tutorial	Marking	Laboratory
Advanced Igneous petrology	ü	ü	ü	ü
Advanced Metamorphic petrology	ü	ü	ü	ü
Middle East Geology	ü	ü	ü	ü
Mineral resource and Environmental impact	ü	ü	ü	ü
Petrogenesis of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks	ü	ü	ü	ü
Mineral resources	ü	ü	ü	ü

 

Awards and Recognitions

A certificate of appreciation from the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research to complete the requirements of the postdoctoral degree at the Australian University of Lancanon 2016

More than seventy letters of thanks and appreciation from His Excellency the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, the presidents of the University of Kirkuk and the deans of the College of Science