Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

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-         specialty name

25.12.01

Paleontology and Stratigraphy

Filogeny, systematics and paleoecological-biogeochemical characteristics of the Anthropogenic mollusks Didacna of the South Caspian depression Western flank 

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-         specialty name

25.21.01

Geology, search and exploration of oil-gas deposits

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30.06.2014

-         number of scientific publications printed abroad

165

116

28

    -  number of PhD

    -  number of Doctors

1

-Proof of the occurrence of thick hydrocarbon reservoirs in the central deeply subsided part of the South Caspian basin;

-Revealing of the high frequency Caspian Sea level change in the formation of the HC reservoir architecture in the South Caspian basin;

-Thorough studies of the Pliocene Productive Series depositional environment, paleogeographic zoning of the Pliocene basin, and reservoir quality divions of the basins;

-Centimetre scale  measuring of the whole Productive Series section exposed in the Kirmaki Valley, Absheron peninsula;

-Based on the sedimentological descriptions of the mud volcanic outbursts paleogeographic reconstructions of the South Caspian basin western flank in the Eocene-Miocene. 

1. A multicomponent  anomaly in the bottom sediments and seawater of the central part of the South Caspian depression. Geochemistry International, Vol. 38, #9, 2000. 921 -928 (co-authors İ. Guliyev et. al.).

2. Sedimentation in a discharge - dominated fluvial - lacustrine system the Neogene Productive Series of the South Caspian Basin, Azerbaijan. 2004. Marine and Petroleum Geology, №21, Issue 5, 613- 638 (co-authors D.Xinds et. al.).

3. Reservoirs of the Lower Pliocene Productive series at western flank of the South Caspian basin. 2005. Lithology and Mineral Resources, Vol.40, #3, Moscow, 267-278.

4. Two deltas, two basins, one river, one sea: The modern Volga delta as an analogue of the Neogene Productive Series, South Caspian Basin. 2005. SEPM (Sedimentary Geology) Special Publication 83, River Deltas – Concepts, Models and Examples, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A,  231-256 (co-authors S. Krunenberg et. al.).

5. Development of the Kura delta, Azerbaijan: a record of Holocene Caspian sea-level changes. 2005. Marine geology, vol.223, 359-380 (co-authors J.Boels et. al.).

6. Environmental control on source rocks and reservoirs accumulation in the Jurassic series of the MCB south-western flank. Proceedings of the International Conference of European Association of Geosciences and Engineers “Petroleum Geology & Hydrocarbon Potential of Caspian and Black Sea Regions”, Baku, 2008 (co-authors A. Feyzullayev et. al.).

7. Pliocene deep reservoirs in the South Caspian basin. Proceedings of 74th EAGE Conference & Exhibition, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2012.

8. Contrasting Pliocene fluvial depositional systems within the rapidly subsiding South Caspian Basin; a case study of the palaeo-Volga and palaeo-Kura river systems in the Surakhany Suite, Upper Productive Series, onshore Azerbaijan. 2010. Marine and Petroleum Geology, №27, 2079-20106 (co-authors S.Vinsent et. al.).

9. The elemental stratigraphy of the South Caspian Lower Pliocene Productive Series. 2013. STRATI 2013. Springer Geology 2014. 827-831 (co-authors A. Alizada et. al.).

10. А magnetostratigraphic time frame for Plio-Pleistocene transgressions in the South Caspian Basin, Azerbaijan. 2013. Global and Planetary Change, Elsevier, volume 103, 119-134 (co-authors K. van Baak et. al.).

11. Onset of Maikop sedimentation and cessation of Eocene arc volcanism in the Talysh Mountains, Azerbaijan.  Geological Society London, Special publications, №428,  2015  (co-authors A. van  der Boon et. al.).

2. AAPG

Supervisor of 14 PhD and Master students

Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the International Scientific journal “Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Oil-Gas basins”

Laureate of the State Award of the Azerbaijan Republic

Oil- Gas Scientific Research and Project Institute of SOCAR, AZ1012, Baku, H. Zardabi pr, 88a.

elmira.aliyeva@socar.az