The Department of Earth Science, in cooperation with the Continuing Education Unit at the College of Science, has organized a lecture entitled “Determining the boundary between the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods in northern Iraq using Foraminifera and algae” in the presence of a number of students, professors and those concerned with history and archeology.
The lecture aimed to discuss how to use foraminifera and algae fossils in determining the life zone in the Jurassic and Cretaceous Cretaceous periods, the organisms that flourished in the two eras, the types of oraminifera fossils and the existing algae. The lecture was presented by Assist. Prof. Luay Samir Shaker and Dr. Anwar Kazim Musa, included an explanation of how to use oraminifera and algae fossils in determining the life zone, determining the boundary between the two eras, using examples of fossil images found in the two eras, giving examples of sequences of Jurassic and Cretaceous ages from sections in northern Iraq, and giving examples and pictures of all the species found in the sequences in the mentioned formations.