Abrupt Middle Eocene climatically-controlled facies shift: the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) in a shallow carbonate platform
Year: 2022
Authors: J.H. Messaoud, N. Thibault, J. Monkenbusch
21st International Sedimentologist Congress, China (2022)
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
Benthic biota (nummulites) response to a hyperthermal event: Eccentricity-modulated precession control on climate during the middle Eocene warming in the Southern Mediterranean
Year: 2023 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111712
Authors: J.H. Messaoud, N. Thibault, D.D. Vleeschouwer, J. Monkenbusch
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatoloogy, Palaeoecology, 626, (2023)
Biostratigraphy of the Numidian Formation and its underlying Tellian unit, based on calcareous nannofossils in Northern Tunisia: Implication on their stratigraphic vs. tectonic relationships
Year: 2023
Authors: I. Belhajtaher, E. Mattioli, M. Soussi, N. Ben Chaabane
Journal of African Earth Sciences, 202, 104896 (2023)
Calcareous nannoplankton response to middle-late Eocene climate and sea-level changes in the SW Neo-Tethys
Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2023.102329
Authors: J.H. Messaoud, N. Thibault, M.H Aljahdali, C. Yaich, Y. Gu

Marine Micropaleontology, 187, 102329 (2024)


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
Changes in hydrodynamic process dominance (wave, tide or river) in foreland sequences: The subalpine Miocene Molasse revisited (France)
Year: 2020 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12708
Authors: A. Kalifi, P. Sorrel, P.H. Leloup, V. Spina, B. Huet, A. Galy, J.L. Rubino, B. Pittet
Sedimentology, 63, 2455–2501 (2020)
Characterising regional evaporite seal for hydrocarbon and CO2 storage—Upper Jurassic, Arab-Hith formations, Saudi Arabia
Year: 2023
Authors: N. Boehm, F. Van Buchem, T. Finkbeiner
84th EAGE Annual Conference & Exhibition (Vol. 2023, No. 1, pp. 1-5). European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers.
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
Chronology of thrust propagation from an updated tectono-sedimentary framework of the Miocene molasse (western Alps)
Year: 2021 DOI:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-2735-2021, 2021
Authors: A. Kalifi, P.H. Leloup, P. Sorrel, A. Galy, F. Demory, V. Spina, B. Huet, F. Quillévéré, F. Ricciardi, D. Michoux, K. Lecacheur, R. Grime, B. Pittet, J.L. Rubino
Solid Earth, 12, 2735–2771 (2021)
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 
DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM CHANGE AT THE CAMPANIAN-MAASTRICHTIANBOUNDARY: FROM CHERTY PHOSPHATES AND OYSTER MOUNDS TOORGANIC-RICH SHALES (SOUTHERN TETHYS MARGIN, JORDAN)
Year: 2023
Authors: M. Ardila-Sanchez, M. Usman, J.H. Messaoud, A. Kalifi, I.S Abu-Mahfouz, F. Van Buchem, K.M Ibrahim, J.H Powell
 The IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, (2023)
Evolution of the Eocene shallow carbonate platform in Tunisia: Carbon isotopes stratigraphy and petroleum implications
Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1955221/v1
Authors: J.H. Messaoud, N. Thibault, M.H. Aljahdali, C. Yaich
Research Square (2022)
Facies distribution along salt walls: The Upper Cretaceous mixed siliciclastic-carbonate deposits of the Cotiella minibasins (Southern Pyrenees, Spain)
Year: 2023 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2022.105989
Authors: A. Kalifi, C. Ribes, P. Dietrich, E. Dujoncquoy, J.A. Munoz, J.P. Callot, J.C. Ringenbach
Marine and Petroleum Geology, 147, (2023)

Facies, depositional setting and sequence stratigraphic evolution of Cenomanian to Turonian shallow water platform carbonates from southern and central Jordan
Year: 2023
Authors: T. Chirakal, C. Grelaud, J.H. Messaoud, A. Kalifi, N. Ben Chaabane, F. Van Buchem, K. Ibrahim, J.H Powell

36th Internation Meeting of Sedimentology, Dubrovnik, Croatia, (2023)

Integrated stratigraphy of the middle-upper Eocene Souar Formation (Tunisian dorsal): Implications for the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) in the SW Neo-Tethys
Year: 2021 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110639
Authors: J.H. Messaoud, N. Thibault, B. Bamou, T. Adatte, J. Monkenbusch, J.E. Spangenberg, M.H. Aljahdali, C. Yaich
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 581, (2021)
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.
Large thrusting and late faulting shape the Aiguilles Rouges crystalline massif (Western Alps), structural implications
Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2022.229691
Authors: A. Mercier, P.H. Leloup, G. Courrioux, S. Cartig, S. Lopez, P. Grandjean, S. Passot, A. Kalifi
Tectonophysics, 873(B3): 229691 (2022)
Middle Eocene to early Oligocene biostratigraphy in the SW Neo-Tethys (Tunisia): Large-scale correlations using calcareous nannofossil events and paleoceanographic implications
Year: 2023 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2022.104805
Authors: J.H. Messaoud, N. Thibault, M.H. Aljahdali, C. Yaich
Journal of African Earth Sciences, 198, (2023)
Milankovitch cycles to detect the relation between the abundance of nummulites and the Middle Eocene warming event: Cyclostratigraphy of the carbonate oil reservoir, Siouf member, in central Tunisia
Year: 2022
Authors: J.H. Messaoud, N. Thibault, J. Monkenbusch
12th International Conference on Climate and Biotic Events of the Paleongene (CBEP12), Universität Bremen, Germany, (2022)