@Article{, title={Mineralogy of Recent Sediments of AL-Teeb River Basin East Missan Governorate Southeastern Iraq}, author={Ali H. Kadhim and Maysoon O. Ali}, journal={Iraqi Journal of Science المجلة العراقية للعلوم}, volume={63}, number={10}, pages={4342-4351}, year={2022}, abstract={The main aim of this research is to define the mineralogical composition ofrecent sediments deposited around the Al-Teeb river basin in eastern Missan, tryingto determine the provenance or the source of these sediments.The study area represents the southeastern edge of the Mesopotamian Plain andis part of it. Quaternary deposits cover most of the area. It is clayey with old sea andriver deposits and part of aeolian deposits.These sediments cover 95% of the study area, while the older rocks, which dateback to the Tertiary (Late Miocene – Pliocene), exposed in the area east andnortheast of the Al-Teeb area, made up hills which back to the undifferentiatedPliocene Mukdadiya and Bai-Hassan formations.The light components of these sediments consist mainly of quartz, feldspars(potash and plagioclase feldspar), sedimentary rock fragments (carbonate rockfragments, chert rock fragments, evaporates fragments), igneous rock fragments, andmetamorphic rock fragmentsThe heaviest minerals are opaque, amphiboles, pyroxenes, chlorite, epidotes,biotite, garnet, muscovite, zircon, kyanite, staurolite, and rutile.These sediments are typically formed by sedimentary rocks (single or manycycles), low and high-rank metamorphic rocks, acidic and basic igneous rocks, andpegmatite rocks.The high percentage of opaque heavy minerals in clastic sediment refers tounstable clastic sediments. The stability issue to the areas during the study showsthat there are significant variances over the several places, indicating dissimilarsources and types of source rocks

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