CIMP-University of Garyounis-AGOCO Special Project


The CIMP-University of Garyounis in Benghazi- Arabian Gulf Oil Company Special Project ran in the early 1980s and resulted in two major publications dealing with Cambrian to Cretaceous palynology of the subsurface of Libya.

THUSU, B. & OWENS, B., 1985 (Eds.). The Palynostratigraphy of Northeast Libya. Journal of Micropalaeontology (Special Issue). 4, 1-168. [a collection of 10 papers]:
  • El-ARNAUTI, A. & SHELMANI, M. (1985). Stratigraphic and Structural Setting. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 4, 1-10. doi.org/10.1144/jm.4.1.1
  • MOLYNEUX, S.G. & PARIS, F., 1985. Late Ordovician Palynomorphs. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 4, 11-26.  doi.org/10.1144/jm.4.1.11
  • HILL, P.J., PARIS, F. & RICHARDSON, J.B., 1985. Silurian Palynomorphs. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 4, 27-48. doi.org/10.1144/jm.4.1.27
  • PARIS, F., RICHARDSON, J.B., RIEGEL, W., STREEL, M. & VANGUESTAINE, M., 1985. Devonian (Emsian-Famennian) Palynomorphs. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 4, 49-82. doi.org/10.1144/jm.4.1.49
  • CLAYTON, G. & LOBOZIAK, S., 1985. Early Carboniferous (Early Viséan – Serpukhovian) Palynomorphs. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 4, 83-92. doi.org/10.1144/jm.4.1.83
  • BRUGMAN, W.A., EGGINK, J.W., LOBOZIAK, S. & VISSCHER, H., 1985.Late Carboniferous – Early Permian (Ghzelian – Artinskian) Palynomorphs. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 4, 93-106. doi.org/10.1144/jm.4.1.93
  • BRUGMAN, W.A., EGGINK, J.W. & VISSCHER, H., 1985. Middle Triassic (Anisian-Ladinian) Palynomorphs. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 4, 107--112. doi.org/10.1144/jm.4.1.107
  • THUSU, B. & VIGRAN, O.J., 1985. Middle – Late Jurassic (Late Bathonian – Tithonian) Palynomorphs. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 4, 113-130. doi.org/10.1144/jm.4.1.113
  • THUSU, B. &  VAN DER EEM, J.G.L.A., 1985.Early Cretaceous (Neocomian-Cenomanian) Palynomorphs. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 4, 131-150. doi.org/10.1144/jm.4.1.131
  • BATTEN, D.J. & UWINS, P.J.R., 1985.Early-Late Cretaceous (Aptian-Cenomanian) Palynomorphs. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 4, 151- 168. doi.org/10.1144/jm.4.1.151

EL-ARNAUTI, A., OWENS, B. & THUSU, B. (Eds.), 1988. Subsurface Palynostratigraphy of Northeast Libya, Garyounis University/Agoco/CIMP, Benghazi.
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