Fossil

Andrew,

My name is Schuman with RCD/NFCD. Attached may look like the fossil leave your wife found during the trip to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia we took early this year. Please pass it to her. If possible please send me a photo of the fossil. I will try to put up a Cretaceous paleo-geography story.

Best regards,
Schuman
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Andrew,

Thanks for the photos. Looks great! By the way, the species is called genus Agathis. Its modern day offspring only live in restricted areas in New Zealand and Australia (both formerly belong to Gondwana). Agathis produces lots resin and abundant ambles were found in the formation (offshore wells Saudi Arabia, in Lebanon and Israel etc.). There was an Agathis forest existed in the broad Middle East Region in Mid Cretaceous (maybe was the largest in the world ever existed) and there are evidences indicating offshore oil in Khafji was originated from the Agathis coal.

Best regards,
Schuman

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Aramco Hofuf / Al-Hasa Trip 2009-04-09

We would like to share some of the pictures from our weekend trip to Hofuf / Al-Hasa area in the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. This area has an abundant underground spring about 600 feet down.

Al-Hasa is now competing with some other places to be the latest ‘World Natural Wonder’, because of its aquifer which has a flow rate of 20,000 gallons per minute.