Prof. M. A. Khalifa
Faculty of Science
Menoufia University, Egypt
Professor
Email:kh_cycle@yahoo.co.uk, Mohamed.khalifa@science.menofia.edu.eg
Qualifications
1982 Ph.D., Cairo University, Egypt
1978 M.S., Cairo University,Egypt
1972 B.S., Cairo University, Egypt
Publications (Selected)
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Khalifa, M. A. (1983): Origin and occurrence of glauconite
in the green sandstone associated with unconformity Bahariya Oasis, Western
Desert, Egypt. Journal of African Earth Sciences, vol. 3\4, pp. 321-325.ISSN:
1464-343X. Available from: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-african-earth-sciences/
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Abdel Wahab, S. ; Khalifa, M. A. 1984. The Lower Eocene dolomitized El-Nashfa
Formation in west Beni Mazar area, Western Desert, Egypt. J. African Earth
Sciences, Vol. 2, No 4, pp. 333-340.ISSN: 1464-343X. Available from: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-african-earth-sciences/
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Khalifa, M.A. and Zaghloul, S.A.(1990) : Carbonate
lithofacies and depositional environments of the Lower Eocene Farafra Oasis,
Western Desert, Egypt. Journal of
African Earth Sciences, Vol. 11 , pp. 281-289.ISSN: 1464-343X. Available
from: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-african-earth-sciences/
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Khalifa, M. A. (1992): Contribution to the
lithostratigraphy of the Middle-Upper Triassic rocks of Al-Mustawi- Al Asyah
stretch northeast of Al Qasim Province, Saudi Arabia. Geology of the Arab World
Vol.5 p.241-256.
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Khalifa, M.A. (1993): Lithostratigraphic classification
and depositional history of the Permian rocks, Al-Qasim Province, Saudi Arabia.
Journal of African-Earth Sciences, vol. 16
No. 3,pp. 329-340.ISSN: 1464-343X. Available from: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-african-earth-sciences/
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Khalifa, M.A. (1993): Anz Formation: A new Ordovician rock
unit in Al-Qasim Province, Saudi Arabia. Egyptian Journal of Geology. Vol. 37
,pp. 1-15.
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Khalifa, M. A. and
Abu El-Hassan, M. M. (1993): Lithofacies, diagenesis, cyclicity and
depositional environment of the Upper Cenomanian El-Heiz Formation, Bahariya
Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. Journal of African Earth Sciences, Vol.17, pp.555-570.ISSN:
1464-343X. Available from: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-african-earth-sciences/
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Khalifa, M. A. (2005): Lithofacies ,diagenesis, and
cyclicity of the lower member of the Khuff Formation, Al Qasim Province, Saudi
Arabia. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Vol.25, pp. 719-734. ISSN: 1367-9120 Available from: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-asian-earth-sciences/
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Khalifa, M.A., Soliman, H., Wanas, H. (2006): The Cambrian
Araba Formation in north-Eastern Egypt .Facies and depositional environments.
Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Vol. 27, pp. 873-884.ISSN: 1367-9120 Available from: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-asian-earth-sciences/
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Catineanu O. ,Khalifa, M.A., Wanas, H. (2006): Sequence
stratigraphy of the Bahariya Formation, Bahariya Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt.
Sedimentary Geology, 190:121-137.
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Khalifa, M.A., (2007): Triassic-Jurassic boundary on the
southern margin of Tethys: Implications
of facies, tectonics and volcanism.. . In: Lucas, S.G. and Spielmann, J.A.,
(Eds.), The Global Triassic. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Bulletin 41: 110-119.
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Khalifa, M.A., Catinueanu, O. (2008): Sedimentology of the
fluvial and fluvio-marine Facies of the Bahariya Formation (Early Cenomanian)
Bahariya Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. Journal of African Earth Sciences, Vol. 51, pp.89-103.ISSN: 1464-343X. Available from: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-african-earth-sciences/
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Khalifa, M. A., Kumon, F. ; Yoshida, K. (2009). Calcareous duricrust, Al Qasim
Province, Saudi Arabia: Occurrence and
origin. Quaternary International, Vol. 209, pp.163-174.ISSN:
1040-6182.Available from: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/quaternary-international/
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Lawrence
H. Tanner ; Mohamed A. Khalifa (2010) .Origin of ferricretes in fluvial-marine
deposits of the Lower Cenomanian Bahariya Formation, Bahariya Oasis, Western
Desert, Egypt Journal of African Earth Sciences, Vol.56, pp. 179-189.ISSN:
1464-343X. Available from: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-african-earth-sciences/
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Khalifa,
M.A. (2010): Revised lithostratigraphic classification of Upper Permian–Lower
Triassic strata in Saudi-Arabia: regional correlation and depositional history.
Paläontologie, Stratigraphie, Fazies (18), Freiberger Forschungshefte, C 536:
157–181, Freiberg.
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Farouk,
S. & Khalifa, M.A. (2010): Facies tracts and sequence development of the
Middle Eocene–Middle Miocene successions of the southwestern Qattara
Depression, northern Western Desert, Egypt. Paläontologie, Stratigraphie,
Fazies (18), Freiberger Forschungshefte, C 536: 195–215; Freiberg.
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Khalifa,
M.A. (2012). Peritidal to intrashelf basin, facies transition of the Adgham
Formation (Late Triassic) Al Qasim Province, Saudi Arabia. Carbonates and
evaporates, 27: 299-319. ISSN: 0891-2556. Available from: http://link.springer.com/journal/13146
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Elicki1
O., Khalifa M. A., Farouk S. (2013).
Cambrian ichnofossils from northeastern Egypt. N. Jb. Geol. Palaont. Abh.
270/2- 129-149.
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Khalifa,
M. A. ; Abu El Ghar, Al Aasam, I. 2014. Linking carbonate cyclicity in
platforms to depositional and diagenetic overprints: an example from the Lower
Eocene Drunka Formation west of Assiut-Minia stretch Western Desert, Egypt.
Arabian Journal of Geosciences, Vol. 7, pp. 5159- 5170. ISSN: 1866-7511 (Print)
1866-7538 (Online). Available from: http://link.springer.com/journal/12517
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Khalifa,
M. A. ; Abu El Ghar, M. S. ; Helal, S.; Wagih, A. (2014) Sequence stratigraphy
of the Cenomanian Galala Formation, northeast Eastern Desert, Egypt. Journal of
African Earth Sciences, Vol. 89, pp. 133-148. ISSN: 1464-343X. Available from: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-african-earth-sciences/
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Abu El Ghar, M. S. ; Khalifa, M. A. ; Wagih, A. (2014): Diagenesis of the mixed
clastic–carbonate rocks of the Cenomanian Galala Formation, northeastern
Desert, Egypt. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, ISSN: 1464-343X. Available from: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-african-earth-sciences/
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Khalifa,
M. A. 2015. Glacial and post-glacial deposits of the Unayzah Formation
(Carboniferous-Permian), Al Qasim Province, Saudi Arabia. Carbonates and
Evaporites. ISSN: 0891-2556. Available from: http://link.springer.com/journal/13146
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Khalifa, M. A. 2015. The Ediacaran-Cambrian and
Ordovician of Al Qasim Province, Saudi Arabia: Facies, depositional history
and regional correlation. Journal of African Earth Sciences. ISSN: 1464-343X.
Available from: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-african-earth-sciences