Dr. Maher Mandel Mahdi and Dr. Sattar Jabbar Al-Khafaji, two teaching staff members in the College of Science, Department of Geology Sciences, University of Basrah, participated in discussing their doctoral thesis in the College of Science, Department of Applied Earth Sciences, Tikrit University, for the student Seif El-Din Amjad, about his thesis tagged (sedimentary, mineral, and stratigraphic study of the Kolosh formation in selected areas of Iraq). ) for the student Iyad Muhammad Gower. The student presented a summary of his thesis that included the sedimentary properties of the Kolosh formation as well as the mineral properties of the formation deposits in terms of separating and diagnosing heavy minerals to reach the origin of those deposits.