The Department of Geology at the College of Science discussed a doctoral thesis entitled (Study, mineral and geochemical for the sediments of the lower Mesopotamia, southern Iraq). Researcher Khalil Jabbar Mawla's thesis aims to identify the texture of the sediments, identify the heavy and light minerals and clay minerals of the sediments, determine the source and origin of the sediments through the behavior of the main oxides and trace elements in the sediments, and the possibility of knowing the marine progress in the study area.

The study included distinguishing the sediments of the study area by the control of mechanical weathering processes and that the climate of the region was dry to semi-dry and most of the main elements in the sediments of the study area, which are (SiO2, Al2O3, Fe2O3, MgO, Na2O, and K2O) in the main phase within the crystalline network of clay minerals.

This study recommends the necessity of conducting extensive studies in all disciplines to reach the maximum limits of marine progress in southern Iraq by drilling deeper wells in the study area that penetrate the sediments of the entire Quaternary age for the purpose of conducting a comprehensive study of these deposits.