GEO 2010 Abstracts Part I

The following abstracts are a selection from those accepted for presentation at GEO 2010, the Ninth Middle East Geosciences Exhibition and Conference that was held in Bahrain on March 7-10, 2010. GEO 2010 was organized by Arabian Exhibition Management (AEM), the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) in collaboration with the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), and was supported by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), Dhahran Geoscience Society (DGS), Bahrain Geoscience Society (BGS), Geological Society of Oman (GSO) and Emirates Society of Geoscience (ESG). The abstracts that are published here by permission of the organizers represent the first group that primarily cover the stratigraphy of the Middle East. The abstracts have been slightly edited and/or reworded so as to conform to a more common style and format; for example, capitalization of formal names for formations, geological periods and stages, etc. Some abstracts required rewording to clarify the scientific content or were submitted as short papers. Every effort was made to present these as concisely and accurately as possible. GeoArabia sent the pre-press version of all the abstracts to the primary authors for their approval, but regretably some could not be reached or did not respond. In the next issues of GeoArabia, additional groups of GEO 2010 abstracts will be published so that a permanent record of these important studies is available to GeoArabia’s readers and the international geoscience community.