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Essam Abd El-Motaal Mohamed عصام عبد المتعال محمد محمد

Professor

عضو هيئة تدريس

كلية العلوم
مبني 4 الدور الأرضي أب 55

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Feb 2024

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introduction/brief CV

Essam Abd El-Motaal is, from 2009 till now, a professor of Structural Geology and Plate tectonics in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Structural Geology from Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt in 1990 and 1993 respectively. He joined Al-Azhar University in Cairo in 1984 as a Demonstrator. In 1988-1989 Abd El-Motaal earned a postgraduate Diploma in Remote Sensing and geological survey from ITC, Enschede, the Netherlands. He joined Sabha University, Libya as an Associate Professor teaching Structural Geology and Geotectonics in 2004-2005. His teaching and research areas of interests include Structural Geology, Plate tectonics, Geotectonics, Geodynamics and Neotectonics.

He supervised several M.Sc. and Ph.D. dissertations and published more than 25 articles in the field of Structural Geology, Neotectonics and Geomorphology.

Prof. Dr. E. Abd El-Motaal had been awarded the Fulbright Scholarship in Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA in 2002.

areas of expertise

EXPERIENCE:

 

  • Visiting Professor taught a graduate course entitled “Neotectonics” in the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department, Saint Louis University, St. Louis MO, USA, through the Fulbright scholarship, April-December, 2002.
  • Professor of Structural Geology, Geotectonics, and Physical Geology, Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Sabha University, Sabha, Libya (2004-2006).
  • Shared a team as Structural geologist and expert to analyze the geological and neotectonic deformation in a project entitled " Natural hazards and environmental geology, El-Faiyum area, Egypt", sponsored by Saint Luis University, USA and the National Authority of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, Egypt (2002-2003).

AREAS OF INTEREST:

 

  • Structural architecture and tectonic evolution of the Red Sea Rift (specially its coastal plain).
  • Structures of the Syrian Arc System.
  • Tectonics and morphotectonics of the Gulf of Suez.
  • Neotectonics and seismotectonics of the Gulf of Suez, Gulf of Aqaba and the Nile Delta.
  • Using Remote Sensing techniques in studying the structures.
  • Assessment of the natural hazards and Land-use classification .
  • Structural Geology and its relationship with the evaluation of ore deposits.
  • Geological assessment of natural hazards.

 

 

RESEARCH GROUPS/PROJECTS:

 

  • Research Group project No. (RG-040-1434), Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University.
  • Research Group project No. (RG-1438-059), Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University.
  • Research Group project No. (RG-1438-060), Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University.
  • Research Project No. (14-SPA686-02), “Geological Setting, Mineral and Chemical Evaluation of Bauxite Ore Deposits of Az Zabirah Area, Central Northern of Saudi Arabia”, National Science, Technology and Innovation Plan.

publications
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publications
by Habes, Gh., Al Mutairi, Y., ElAraby, H., Galmed, M. and Abd El-Motaal, E
2021
Published in:
Arabian Journal of Geosciences
publications

The Tihamat-Asir area is located in southwest Saudi Arabia between the Asir Mountains and the Red Sea coast.
Herein, the Tihamat-Asir area aeromagnetic data are re-interpreted to explain the…

by Ibrahim, K., Abd El-Motaal, E., Lashin, A., Alfaifi, H., Qaysi, S. and Kahal, A.
2021
publications

The present work deals with the strain analysis and deformation of the Zalm area which is located in the central
part of the central Nabitah suture belt, which separates the continental Afif…

by Kahal, A. Y., Abd El-Motaal, E., Kassema O.M.K. and Al Ghoreiby, A.H.R.
2019

courses
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course

This course concerns with the deformation of the solid Earth and learn about structures produced by deformation in outcrops, in geologic maps, in cross-sections and seismic profiles, and under the…

course

يعرف المقرر بالخريطة الجيولوجية وأهميتها في الدراسات الجغرافية. ثم يدرس الألوان والتظليلات الاصطلاحية والعلامات والرموز المستخدمة في الخرائط الجيولوجية مع التطبيق على خرائط المملكة الجيولوجية ذات…

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مقدمة للجيولوجيا الفيزيائية والمعادن – البركنة والصخور النارية المتداخلة التجوية والتربة والرواسبب والصخور الرسبوبية - التحول والصخور المتحولة المجاري المائية و المياه الجوفية المثالج والتثلج…

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