The Assignment of the New Vice-president of the Middle East Sub-commission of the International Commission for the Geological Map of the World (CGMW)

The Assignment of the New Vice-president of the Middle East Sub-commission of the International Commission for the Geological Map of the World (CGMW)

Reported by the public relations department of the Geological Survey of Iran (GSI), following the 37^th International Congress of Geological Sciences (CGS) hosted by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) in Busan, Korea; Dr. Jafar Omrani, Deputy of geology at GSI was assigned as the new vice-president of the middle east sub-commission of the International Commission for the Geological Map of the World (CGMW) previously undertaken by Dr. Abdollah Saidi.

In this regard, Dr. Omrani said, ” The CGMW is one of the oldest international organizations in the Earth sciences established in Paris in ۱۸۷۸ simultaneous with the 2nd International Geological Congress (IGC) in Bolonia, Italy as a non-profit, scientific and educational body    affiliated to the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)   and supervised by UNESCO.

Referring to IUGS as one of the biggest scientific organizations of the world, he said, “ this union is intending to increase the human welfare through the international cooperation and participation and UNESCO  recognizes it   as an A-rank NGO.

The CGMW middle east sub-commission new vice-president stated, ” this commission is responsible for the design, promotion, coordination, preparation and publication of small-scale Earth science maps of the continents, major regions of the globe, oceans, according to various themes (geology, geophysics, tectonics, minerals, natural resources, climates etc.). In accordance with its mission, the CGMW wants to play a leading role in the use and dissemination of digital mapping techniques and in the search for international standards.

Stating that this commission activities lie under the ۹ sub-commissions so that it can facilitate them, he added, “ Providing the basic geological information of the North America, Arctica & Antarctica, Europe, South America, East of Asia and middle east is within the tasks of Canada, Russia, Germany, Columbia, China and Iran respectively.

While emphasizing that the Geological Survey of Iran is responsible for the middle east geological mapping in CGMW, he noted, “ Iran as the vice-president of this sub-commission has been able to prepare many geological maps and to get them verified and approved by the commission.    

These maps include middle east geological maps (first edition of this map was prepared by late Dr. Haghipour and the second one by Dr. saidi), seismotectonic, tectonic and metallogeny maps of the middle east at ۱:۵۰۰۰۰۰۰ scale (Dr. Aghanabati), world kinematic and seismotectonic maps (when Dr. Haghipour was the vice-president of the commission), the tectonic maps of Iran، Afghanistan and Pakistan (by Dr. Haghipour), the magmatism map of the middle east (by Dr. Saidi in cooperation with some GSI experts), middle east quaternary as well as metamorphism maps.

  It is worth mentioning that Dr. Jafar Omrani, the deputy of geology at GSI, received his BSc. from Shahid Chamran university of Ahvaz, his MSc. From Tehran university and his Ph. D. from Pierre and Marie Curie of Paris. Additionaly, for the past few years he has been the head of GSI laboratories, prepared the magmatic map of Iran at ۱:۱۰۰۰۰۰۰ scale and the mineral distribution map of Iran at ۱:۱۰۰۰۰۰ scale and over ۱۰ geological maps at different scales and published more than ۳۰ papers.