Monumental rock art illustrates that humans thrived in the Arabian Desert during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition
Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63417-y
Authors: M. Guagnin, C. Shipton, F. Al-Jibreen, G. Losi, A. Kalifi, S. J. Armitage, F. Stileman, M. Stewart, F. Al-Tamimi, P. S. Breeze, F. Van Buchem, N. Drake, M. Al-Shamry, A. Al-Shammari, J. Al-Wadani, A. M. Alsharekh, M. Petraglia
Nat Commun 16, 8249 (2025)
Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the Late Cretaceous-Eocene of Jordan and implications for the Arabian Plate convergent margin phase
Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2025.107525
Authors: A. Kalifi, J.H. Messaoud, G. Baby, K. Ibrahim, J.H Powell, F. Van Buchem
Marine and Petroleum Geology, Volume 181 (2025)
Relation between sediment distribution and halokinetic geometries along salt structures: a review and new insights from field studies
Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2025.105177
Authors: A. Kalifi, C. Ribes
Earth-Science Reviews, Volume 269 (2025)
Integrated carbon isotope stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of Cenomanian to Turonian carbonates from Jordan – An updated age model and sequence stratigraphic correlations with Oman
Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106207
Authors: T. Chirakal, J.H. Messaoud, A. Alibrahim, K. Ibrahim, C. Grelaud, A. Kalifi, J.H Powell, F. Van Buchem
Cretaceous Research, Volume 177 (2026)
Aptian sequences, sea-level, siliciclastic flux and climate change in the Neo-Tethys domain (Tunisia, N. Spain and S. France)
Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2025.105049
Authors: N. Ben Chaabane, J.H. Messaoud, F. Khemiri, F. Van Buchem
Global and Planetary Change, Volume 255 (2025)
Monsoonal imprint on late Quaternary landscapes of the Rub’ al Khali Desert
Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02224-1
Authors: Abdullah S. Zaki, Antoine Delaunay, Guillaume Baby, Negar Haghipour, Cecile Blanchet, Anne Dallmeyer, Pietro Sternai, Sam Woor, Omar Wani, Hany Khalil, Mathieu Schuster, Michael Petraglia, Florence Sylvestre, Giovan Peyrotty, Mohamed Ali, F. Van Buchem, Abdulkader M. Afifi, Sebastien Castelltort
Commun Earth Environ 6, 255 (2025)
Organic and inorganic geochemical cyclicity of a Maastrichtian oceanic open-shelf carbonate source rock
Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-99832-w
Authors: M. Usman, M. Ardila-Sanchez, E. Idiz, I.S Abu-Mahfouz, F. Van Buchem, V. Vahrenkamp
Sci Rep 15, 15993 (2025)
Chronostratigraphy of the mixed Upper Cretaceous deposits at the northern margin of the Arabian Plate (Jordan)
Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1127/nos/2025/0858
Authors: J.H. Messaoud, A. Kalifi, A. Alibrahim, K. Ibrahim, T. Chirakal, M. Ardila-Sanchez, W. Abu Leila, N. Ben Chaabane, C. Grelaud, J.H Powell, F. Van Buchem
Newsletters on Stratigraphy (2025)
Middle–upper eocene sediments and sea-level dynamics in central Tunisia
Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s42990-024-00147-1
Authors: J.H. Messaoud, C. Yaich
Med. Geosc. Rev. (2024)
Turonian carbonate succession in central-southern Tunisia: Insights into depositional environments, sequence stratigraphy and south Tethyan margin correlations
Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2024.106074
Authors: D. J. Salmouna, N. Ben Chaabane, F. Dhahri, A. Salmouna
Cretaceous Research, Volume 168, 2025, 106074, ISSN 0195-6671,
Orbital pacing of the early Eocene source rock deposition in Tunisia (Bou Dabbous Formation): Astrobiochronological insights into cyclicities through surface-subsurface integration
Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2024.107225
Authors: J.H. Messaoud, H. F. Ben Jemai, C. Yaich
Marine and Petroleum Geology, Volume 172, 2025, 107225, ISSN 0264-8172
Chronostratigraphy of the mixed Upper Cretaceous deposits at the northern margin of the Arabian Plate
Year: 2024
Authors: J.H. Messaoud, A. Kalifi, A. Alibrahim, K. Ibrahim, T. Chirakal, M. Ardila-Sanchez, W. Abu Leila, N. Ben Chaabane, C. Grelaud, J.H Powell, F. Van Buchem
Conference Abstract, The 11th International Conference of the Jordanian Geologists Association 2024, Amman Jordan 
Tectonic Evolution of the Upper Cretaceous-Eocene of Jordan (Southern Neotethys Margin)
Year: 2024
Authors: A. Kalifi, J.H. Messaoud, M. Ardila-Sanchez, T. Chirakal, A. Alibrahim, Y. Kaprielov, F. Van Buchem, P. Ibrahim, J.H Powell

Conference Abstract, The 11th International Conference of Jordanian Geologists Association 2024, Amman Jordan (Oral Presentation)

Cenomanian and Turonian Shallow Water Carbonates from the Western Arabian Plate Margin (Jordan): Facies, Sequence- & Chemo-Stratigraphy
Year: 2024
Authors: T. Chirakal, C. Grelaud, J.H. Messaoud, A. Kalifi, F. Van Buchem, P. Ibrahim, J.H Powell
Conference Abstract, AAPG ICE, Muscat Oman, 2024
Prediction of Sediment Distribution and Stratigraphic Traps Along Salt Structures: A Review and Insights from Field Cases
Year: 2024
Authors: A. Kalifi, C. Ribes, P. Dietrich
Conference Abstract, AAPG ICE 2024, Muscat Oman (Poster Presentation)
Tectonostratigraphic Evolution of the Upper Cretaceous-Eocene of Jordan (Southern Neotethys Margin)
Year: 2024
Authors: A. Kalifi, J.H. Messaoud, M. Ardila-Sanchez, T. Chirakal, A. Alibrahim, Y. Kaprielov, F. Van Buchem, P. Ibrahim, J.H Powell
Conference Abstract, AAPG ICE 2024, Muscat Oman (Oral Presentation)
An integrated sedimentological, geochemical and rock mechanical facies classification for the Evaporite Facies of the Hith and Arab Formation (Saudi Arabia) - Implications for Seal Integrity
Year: 2024
Authors: N. Boehm, M. Aldossary, J.A Marquez, M.S Hernandez, Y. Kaprielov, F. Van Buchem, T. Finkbeiner
Conference Abstract, AAPG ICE 2024, Muscat Oman
Characterization of an Upper Jurassic Seal in Saudi Arabia: Anhydrites of the Hith and Arab Formations
Year: 2024
Authors: N. Boehm, M. Aldossary, J.A Marquez, M.S Hernandez, Y. Kaprielov, F. Van Buchem, T. Finkbeiner
Conference Abstract, Fourth EAGE/AAPG Hydrocarbon Seals Workshop
Integrated surface-subsurfacereservoir zonation of the earlyBartonian nummulitic limestonein central Tunisia and easternTunisian offshore
Year: 2024 DOI:DOI 10.3389/feart.2024.1452977
Authors: J.H. Messaoud, N. Thibault, B. Bomou, T. Adatte, M.H. Aljahdali, C. Yaich
Front. Earth Sci. 12:1452977.
Rock Strength Prediction for CCS of Hith and Arab Evaporite Seals Based on Wireline Log Signature
Year: 2023
Authors: N. Boehm, T. Finkbeiner, F. Van Buchem, M.S Hernandez, J.A Marquez
Fifth EAGE Conference on Petroleum Geostatistics (Vol. 2023, No. 1, pp. 1-5). European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers