College of Science/Earth Science Department at the University of Basrah organized a seminar on the uses of light and heavy metals as indicators of the depositional environment.  

The seminar aimed to show how metals can be used to determine the depositional environment through the stability of metals and their resistance to mechanical and chemical weathering factors.  

The seminar, presented by Dr. Zainab Munther Abdulwahab, Dr. Nael Abdulimam, and M.M. Heba Khalid, also highlighted the extent to which metals are used to identify the depositional environment through their stability and resistance to mechanical and chemical weathering, as well as the types of heavy and light metals. It also touched on how metals can serve as a fingerprint for transport distance and depositional conditions, and how sedimentary cycles can be studied based on the physical properties of particles such as shape and size—which affect texture—and chemical properties, which affect the chemical composition of the particles.