Research Interests:
- Sedimentology, mineralogy, and geochemistry
- Provenance studies and geochronology
- Bauxite genesis and parental affinities
- Energy-critical and rare earth element (REE) distribution in weathered sediments
- Paleoclimate studies
PhD Thesis:
Sedimentological, stratigraphic and geochemical analysis of the Paleocene bauxite and laterite deposits, Pakistan: Implication for parental affinities, ore genesis and paleoclimate.
Publications:
Parental Affinities and Environments of Bauxite Genesis in the Salt Range, Northwestern Himalayas, Pakistan. M Khubab, M Wagreich, A Mindszenty, S Iqbal, K Schöpfer, M Ullah, Minerals 15 (9), 993.
Effect of heterogeneity on the diffusion of Pb in apatite for petrochronological applications: A multiscale approach to characterizing the influence of apatite chemistry and anisotropy on Pb diffusion. Matee Ullah, Urs Klötzli, Ce’cile Gautheron, Laurent Tassan-Got, Fakhrul Islam, Muhammad Younas, Kamran Shehzad, Muhammad Khubab, Muhammad Ibrar, Bilal Wadood
Unravelling the geochemical and geochronological diversities of the pre-collisional magmatism: Implications for the subduction dynamics in the Kohistan island arc and Karakorum block, Pakistan. Matee Ullah, Urs Klötzli, Christian Rentenberger, Jiří Sláma, Muhammad Younas, Muhammad Khubab, Mohammad Goudarzi, Tanveer Ahmad.
Pb diffusion in perfect and defective zircon for thermo/petro-chronological investigations: An atomistic approach. Matee Ullah, Urs Klötzli, Bilal Wadood, Muhammad Khubab, Fakhrul Islam, Kamran Shehzad, Rafique Ahmad.