[Gill, William Daniel] / Sahabi, Fereydoun.

The Subsurface Geology of the Wafra Field (Kuwait-Saudi Arabia neutral zone). [Personal copy of eminent geologist William Daniel Gill / Excellent Association – copy with inscription of Sahabi to Gill]. With special reference to the stratigraphy of the Cenomanian. Original Thesis (printed with hand-coloured sections) submitted for the Degree of Master of Science of the University of London.

London, Oil Technology Department of the Imperial College, 1966. Quarto. Pagination: 25 pages text with 23, often large (!) fold-out-maps (some hand-coloured). Hardcover / Private cloth-binding. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Provenance: This set belonged to William Daniel Gill who held it at one point in the Watts Library. It was sold to us from the private collection of geologist Dave Naylor who had this set gifted to him by William Daniel Gill. Inscribed by Fereydoun Sahabi on the endpaper: “To Professor W.D.Gill with best compliments – F. Sahabi – Jan. 1967”. One of the extremely Rare publications on the Geology of Kuwait !

Includes: History of the Oil Development in the Neutral Zone / General Geology of the Neutral Zone and Surrounding Regions / Regional Structural Geology / Regional Stratigraphy / Regional Petroleum Geology / Stratigraphy of the Wafra Field / Regional Stratigraphy of the Middle and Lower Cretaceous / Ratawi Formation / Zubair Formation / Thamama Formation / Wasia Group / Mauddud Formation / Burghan Formation (Third Sand Zone) / The Aruma Group / Hasa Group / Kuwait Group (Miocene-Pliocene) /
The Structure of the Wafra Field / The Origin of the Wafra Anticline / Stratigraphy of the Cenomanian Oil Sand / Origin of the Wafra Sand /

With stunning Maps of the Region, detailed Maps of Geology and Sediment Deposits etc.:

Maps include:

1.Regional Setting of the Area (The Kuwait-Saudi Arabia Neutral Zone in its regional Setting (see Illustration)
2. Distribution Map of the Middle East Oil Fields (!!)
3. Diagramatic cross section through the Middle East Geosyncline
4. Diagramatic section in South Iran
5. Stratigraphic Succession in neutral Zone
6. North-South Litho-Stratigraphical Section through the Neutral Zone
7. East-West Stratigraphic and structural cross section in Neutral Zone
8. First Sand Zone-orbitolina concava limestone contact
9. Structure contour map on Base of Mauddud Formation in Wafra Field
10. Structure contour map on top of Cenomanian in Wafra Field
11. Structure contour map on top of Maestruchtian in Wafra Field
12. Structure contour map on top of First Anhydrite
13. Usapach of internal between top of Maestruchtian and top of Cenomanian
14.Isapach map of Wara Fromation
15. Summary of structural history in Neutral Zone
16. Stratigraphical classification of the Cenomanian in Wafra Field
17. The Dimensional correlation of Cenomanian in Wafra Field etc. etc.



Fereydun Sahabi (born 1937 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian academic, writer, translator, and social activist. He was the first president of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and the second in the administration of President of Iran after the Iranian revolution.
He was the third son of Yadollah Sahabi and the brother of Ezzatollah Sahabi. Fereydun Sahabi was born in Iran in 1937. He did an MPhil in geology and exploration of petroleum from the University of London.
After returning to Iran, he worked as a professor at the University of Tehran. Sahabi was a member of the National Front at the University of Tehran. He was active in the European Student Confederation. He was elected as a member of the Freedom Movement of Iran in 1979. After the Iranian Revolution, he was elected as the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Energy and the first president of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Gill, William Daniel (1916–92), geologist, was born 29 June 1916 at Hillam, Yorks., second child among three sons and three daughters of Richard Wells Gill, farmer, and Eva Gill (née Hesselgrave). He was educated at Castleford Grammar School and Leeds University, where he had a successful undergraduate career and received a degree in geology (1938). Robert George Spencer Hudson was his professor, and the two men remained close friends for the next thirty years.

On leaving Leeds he joined the Attock Oil Company (1938) as a field geologist and palaeontologist. During the second world war he worked as a development geologist and petroleum engineer in India (including the Punjab, later part of Pakistan) and Burma, and became a leading expert on Himalayan geology. In 1948 he left the oil industry for academia and a lectureship in geology at Nottingham University. Two years later he was awarded a D.Sc. (1950) by Leeds University for his publications on Himalayan geology, and in 1953 he was appointed professor of geology and mineralogy at TCD, the first non-Irish holder of the position since 1883. Under his direction and with the aid of funds from the earl of Iveagh (qv) and oil industry contacts, the geology department experienced a period of expansion. A vibrant postgraduate school of research was initiated, which led eventually to an increase in staff numbers. The museum building, which housed the department, was internally reconstructed to include new research and teaching facilities. Unfortunately many of the original museum’s historic rock collections were discarded in the move.

In Ireland his research interests focused on the Upper Carboniferous rocks of Co. Clare, and particularly on the deformation features of soft sedimentary structures so clearly exposed there. He published a significant paper on sand volcanoes with P. H. Keunen (1958) and brought his Clare work together in a later publication of the Geological Survey of Ireland (1979). He was in his element in the field, where his enthusiasm for his subject was said to be more eloquent than in the lecture theatre. As oil and mineral exploration was initiated in Ireland in the 1950s, he took on the role of consultant, and, with his students, was involved in regional geological mapping. He expanded his consultancy role to oil companies in Libya and Greece and in 1961 resigned from Trinity to accept the chair of oil technology at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London, later becoming professor of petroleum geology (1976). Hudson, his original professor, replaced him at TCD (1961–6) in the chair of geology.

In London Gill introduced the M.Sc. course in petroleum geology and established the first UK-based organic geochemistry laboratory for the study of petroleum-source rocks (1969). He continued to consult with oil companies and governments in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, and Canada. His extraordinary memory and ability to assimilate and synthesise information and data led to successful oil finds in newly explored areas. As a geologist he was most interested in the concepts of large-scale tectonic processes in such places as the Alps, the Himalayas, and the east African rift. However, his impatience with detail meant his publication record never quite kept pace with his achievements. During his career he was elected FTCD (1958), fellow of the Geological Society of London and of the Institute of Petroleum (London), MRIA (1955), and member of the RDS (vice-president 1959, 1961).

A self-confident and flamboyant man with a large physical presence, he is said to have had grandiose plans which did not always come to pass. Known as ‘Dan’, he was popular with both students and staff and was viewed as warm-hearted and straightforward. University politics, however, were not his strong point. On the death of Hudson (1966), Gill professed an interest in returning to Trinity, provided he did not have to submit a formal application form. However, TCD did not respond.

He married (1946) in India Margaret ‘Betty’ Torrance, whom he had met in the Yorkshire dales when he was mapping as a student; they had two daughters. Their houses (16 Garville Avenue, Rathgar, Dublin, and 85 Platt’s Lane, Hampstead, London) were the frequent hub of late-night parties, where Dan would sing and play the piano. An active sportsman, he loved cricket and was president of the Trinity boat and rugby clubs. In 1978 he retired to Glusburn Green, Glusburn, Yorks., but continued consultancy work in the Middle East for some time afterwards. His wife died in 1987; five years later, he died (29 October 1992) in Yorkshire.

Sources

RIA list of members (1966–94); Ir. Times, 3 Nov. 1992; Independent, 7 Nov. 1992; Patrick Wyse Jackson, In marble halls: geology in Trinity College, Dublin (1994); information from David Naylor, TCD Staff Office, and Tij Braidwood (daughter) (Source: Dictionary of Irish Biography)

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