GeoArabia is an international quarterly journal dedicated to the publication of petroleum geoscience studies in the Middle East. GeoArabia’s papers are each rigorously reviewed by at least two anonymous referees before being considered for publication. The members of the Editorial Board are technical leaders who represent oil and gas corporations, societies, geological surveys, and universities. T
hey are nominated by their organizations in recognition for their outstanding contributions to the Middle East geosciences and their support for the journal. The journal also facilitates professional networking and technical exchanges between the members of the board, authors, reviewers and readers. GeoArabia is sponsored by corporations through advertisement pages. Additionally corporate sponsors receive many hardcopies of the journal as well as access to the papers in Adobe Acrobat portable document format (pdf) at the website www.gulfpetrolink.com. The sponsors are free to use the papers and the contained graphics in any manner whatsoever for internal purposes, including electronic copying, intranet distribution, and the preparation of inhouse graphics. Reproduction of GeoArabia’s graphics by corporate sponsors for external purposes (such as conference presentations or publications in other journals) requires the mention of the original authors followed by “courtesy of GeoArabia” in the figure caption. GeoArabia is published and printed in Bahrain by Gulf PetroLink, a company founded in 1993 to promote petroleum sciences and technology exchange in the Middle East. Paper or electronic reproduction of GeoArabia by non-sponsoring parties is allowed only by written permission from Gulf PetroLink. GeoArabia is registered with the Copyright Clearance Center and indexed in the American Geological Institute’s GeoRef, University of Tulsa’s Petroleum Abstracts and Elsevier’s databases. GeoArabia is included (from Volume 10, Number 1, 2005) in the following Thomson Scientific products: Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE) including the Web of Science, ISI Alerting Service, and Current Contents/Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences (CC/PC&ES). GeoArabia is supported by the website gulfpetrolink.com, which is used extensively in preparing reviews, editing texts and designing graphics during the pre-press phase. The website contains the Guide to Authors (see also final pages of the journal), Reviewers and Advertisers. The module “GeoArabia Documents” contains many thousands of references and abstracts that can be searched and used in preparing bibliographies for papers. For information about subscriptions and sponsorship please write to [email protected]. Editorial and Graphics Staff
Moujahed I. Al-Husseini
Editor-in-Chief, GeoArabia
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Joerg E. Mattner
Executive Editor, GeoArabia
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Hassan I. Al-Husseini
Consulting Editor, GeoArabia
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Heather M. Paul
Assistant Editor, GeoArabia
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Kathy A. Breining
Assistant Editor, GeoArabia
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Rouya Ali
Executive Administrator, GeoArabia
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Nino A. Buhay IV
Graphics Designer, GeoArabia
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Arnoldo Edgane
Graphics Designer, GeoArabia
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