AMIR KALIFI

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)
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)
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)
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)

Sequence stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous–Eocene Belqa Group of Jordan (IAS Dubrovnik)
Year: 2023
Authors: A. Kalifi, M. Ardila-Sanchez, J.H. Messaoud, W. Abu Leila, F. Van Buchem, K. Ibrahim, J.H Powell
IAS Dubrovnik June 2023, oral presentation

Sequence stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous–Eocene Belqa Group of Jordan
Year: 2023
Authors: A. Kalifi, M. Ardila-Sanchez, J.H. Messaoud, W. Abu Leila, F. Van Buchem, K. Ibrahim, J.H Powell
IGCP710 workshop Krakow August 2023, oral presentation
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)
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)

Structural and petrological characteristics of a Jurassic detachment fault from the Mont-Blanc massif (Col du Bonhomme area, France)
Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2022.104593
Authors: N. Dall’Asta, G. Hoareau, G. Manatschal, S. Centrella, Y. Denele, C. Ribes, A. Kalifi
Journal of Structural Geology, 159(1-2): 104593 (2022)
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)
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)
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)
Tectonic control on the paleogeographical evolution of the Miocene seaway along the Western Alpine foreland basin
Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1144/SP523-2021-78
Authors: A. Kalifi, P. Sorrel, P.H. Leloup, A. Galy, V. Spina, B. Huet, S. Russo, B. Pittet, J.L. Rubino
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 523, (2022)