A seminar in Basrah University  on (Geochemical assessment of elements in the recent sediments for selected areas in  Maysan city- southern Iraq)  held in the College of Science in Geology Department,  The postgraduate student, Sarah Talib Kattab ,  demonstrated the most important objectives of the study: the mineralogical study with knowledge of the main clay minerals of surface deposits in the city of Amara, southern Iraq and the  geochemical study contains more than attractive concentrations of major elements and trace elements