Main Fields of Research:

• Sedimentology and stratigraphy
• Weathering, paleoclimates and sea-level fluctuations, especially during the Mesozoic, Pliocene-Pleistocene, and Holocene
• Reconstruction of the Neo-Tethys margin and basin geodynamics in the Salt Range fold and thrust belt
• Sediment geochemistry and sedimentary provenance
• Bauxite deposits, their genesis and parental affinity
• Geochemical signals tracing anthropogenic role in climate change and Anthropocene signals
• Event stratigraphy with a focus on the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary
• Seismic reflection data and well logs and their use in facies modelling and correlation

Current Projects:

UNESCO IGCP 732 - LANGUAGE of the Anthropocene

Experience and Positions held:

Current: Lecturer and Secretary, UNESCO IGCP 732 - LANGUAGE of the Anthropocene project, Department of Geology, University of Vienna, Austria

2023 - March 2024: Postdoctoral Project Assistant, Department of Geology, University of Vienna, Austria

October - November 2022: Guest Professor, Department of Geology, University of Vienna, Austria

June 2018 – April 2019: Postdoc, Department of Geology, University of Vienna, Austria

2012 – 2014: Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

2004 – 2012: Lecturer, Department of Earth Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

2003 – 2004: Geoscientist, LMKR, Islamabad, Pakistan

Publications:

2024 Jan, J, Shah, M., Rahim, H., Iqbal, S., Jahandad, S., Chaudhary, J., Shahzad, K., Study of Trace Fossils and its Impact on the Reservoir Potential of Cretaceous Lower Goru Formation, Southern Indus Basin, Pakistan. Ichnos (Submitted)

2024 Jan, J. A., Shah, M. M., Rahim, H., Iqbal, S., Jahandad, S., Jamil, M., Khalil, R., Amin, Y., Depositional and Diagenetic Studies of Clastic Reservoirs: A Case Study from Cretaceous Lower Goru Formation, Southern Indus Basin, Pakistan. Journal of Earth System Science, 133(3), 115.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-024-02333-z

2023 Iqbal, S., Bibi, M., and Wagreich, M., Geochemistry of the Triassic-Jurassic lateritic bauxites of the Salt Range: Implications for eastward extension of the Tethyan bauxite deposits into Pakistan. 112, 1527–1552.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-023-02310-9

2022 Ullah, S., Ali, N., Latif, K., Iqbal, S., Tahir, M., Hussain, H. S., Turab, S. A., Mumtaz, A., Mohibullah. Paleoenvironments and sequence stratigraphy of the Early Jurassic Datta Formation, Chichali Nala, Surghar Range, Pakistan. Himalayan Geology, Vol. 43 (1A), 111-121.

2021 Iqbal, S., Wagreich, M., Bibi, M., Jan, I. U., and Gier, S. Multi-Proxy Provenance Analyses of the Kingriali and Datta Formations (Triassic–Jurassic Transition): Evidence for Westward Extension of the Neo-Tethys Passive Margin from the Salt Range (Pakistan). Minerals, 11(6), 573.
https://doi.org/10.3390/min11060573

2021 Iqbal, S. Jurassic Climates. In: Alderton, David; Elias, Scott A. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Geology, 2nd edition. vol. 5, pp. 504-513. United Kingdom: Academic Press.
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.12018-4

2021 Khan, N., Jan, I. U., Iqbal, S., Swennen, R., Hersi, O. S., Hussain, H. S. Bulk organic geochemical and palynofacies analyses of the Hettangian Datta Formation (Potwar Basin, Pakistan): Regional comparison with the time equivalent Lathi Formation (Jaisalmer Basin, India). Journal of Earth System Science, 130(3), 1-22.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-021-01649-4

2021 Hafeez, A., Shah, M., Ehsan, M., Jamjareegulgarn, P., Ahmed, J., Tariq, M.A., Iqbal, S., and Naqvi, N.A. Possible atmosphere and ionospheric anomalies of the 2019 Pakistan earthquake using statistical and machine learning procedures on MODIS LST, GPS TEC and GIM TEC. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.
https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3119382

2021 Van, T. H., Iqbal, S., Czarniecka, U., Wysocka, A., Dong, P. P., Quoc, C. N., Ha, V. V., and Minh, T. D. Geochemistry and mineralogy of the Truc Thon Clay, Hai Duong Province, North Vietnam: implication for paleoclimatic and provenance analysis. Vietnam Journal of Earth Sciences, 43(4), 524-545.
https://doi.org/10.15625/2615-9783/16572

2020 Bibi, M., Wagreich, M., and Iqbal, S. Trace metals as markers for historical anthropogenic contamination: Evidence from the Peshawar Basin, Pakistan. Science of the Total Environment. (703) 134926.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134926.

2020 Sames, B., Wagreich, M., Conrad, P. C., and Iqbal, S. Aquifer eustasy as the main driver of short-term sea-level fluctuations during Cretaceous hothouse climate phases. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, (498)
https://doi.org/10.1144/SP498-2019-105

2020 Bibi, M., Wagreich, M., Iqbal, S., Gier, S., and Jan, U. I. Sedimentation and glaciations during the Pleistocene: Palaeoclimate reconstruction in the Peshawar basin, Pakistan. Geological Journal. (55) 671–693.
https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.3445

2019 Bibi, M., Wagreich, M., and Iqbal, S. Regional sediment sources versus the Indus River system: The Plio-Pleistocene of the Peshawar basin (NW-Pakistan). Sedimentary Geology. 389, 26-41.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2019.05.010.

2019 Iqbal, S., Wagreich, M., Jan, I, U., Kuerschner, W. M., Gier, S., and Bibi, M., Hot-house climate during the Triassic/Jurassic transition: The evidence of climate change from the southern hemisphere (Salt Range, Pakistan). Global and Planetary Change (172) 15–32.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.09.008.

2019 Khan, M. Y., Rehman, K., Wajid, A., Turab, S. A., Latif, K., and Iqbal, S. Characterization of Ground Penerating Radar (GPR) wave response in shallow subsurface for forensic investigation in controlled environment. Journal of Himalayan Earth Sciences, 52(1), 58-64.

2018 Haider, N., Khan, S., Rashid, M., Siddiqui, R. H., Zeb, J., Iqbal, S., Khan, A., and Ahmad, W. Geochemistry and Petrographical Study of Langrial Iron Ore from Tethyan Hazara Area Pakistan, with Emphasis on its Economic Characterization and Depositional Setting. Int. J. Econ. Environ. Geol. Vol. 9 (2)40-48.

2018 Iqbal, I., Tian, G., Iqbal, S., and Khan, A. Integrated Geophysical Analysis and Rock Physics Study to Confirm the Hydrocarbon Reservoir of the Bitrisim Area in Pakistan. J Geol Geophys, 7(330), 2. DOI: 10.4172/2381-8719.1000330.

2017 Iqbal, S. (collaborator in Gondwana Map Project IGCP 628) Gondwana Geological Map reconstructed to 183 Ma, scale = 1: 5,000,000
www.gondwana.geologia.ufrj.br/en/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/GondwanaMap_Bangkok2017.pdf

2017 Jan, I. U., Iqbal. S., Davies. S. J., Zalasiewicz. J. A., Stephenson, M. H., Wagreich, M., Haneef. M., Hanif, M., and Ahmad. S., A periglacial palaeoenvionment in the Upper Carboniferous-Lower Permian Tobra Formation of the Salt Range, Pakistan. Acta Geologica Sinica, English Edition. 91(3) 1063–1078.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-6724.13324

2016 Jan, I. U., Shah, A., Stephenson, M. H., Iqbal, S., Hanif, M., Wagreich, M., and Hussain, H. S. The Sedimentology of the Lower Permian Dandot Formation: A component of the Gondwana deglaciation sequence of the Salt Range, Pakistan. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia (Research In Paleontology and Stratigraphy), 122(1).
https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/6948

2016 Khan, S., Latif, Z., Hanif, M., Jan, I. U., and Iqbal, S. Velocity and Structural Modelling of Mesozoic Chiltan Limestone and Goru Formation for Hydrocarbon Evaluation in the Bitrisim Area, Lower Indus Basin, Pakistan. Acta Geologica Sinica, 90(1), 258-275.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-6724.12656

2015 Iqbal, S., Akhter, G., and Bibi, S. Structural model of the Balkassar area, Potwar Plateau, Pakistan. International Journal of Earth Sciences,104(8), 2253-2272.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-015-1180-4

2015 Iqbal, S., Jan, I. U., Akhter, M. G., and Bibi, M. Palaeoenvironmental and sequence stratigraphic analyses of the Jurassic Datta Formation, Salt Range, Pakistan. Journal of Earth System Science, 124(4), 747-766.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-015-0572-y

2014 Iqbal, S., Jan. U. I and Haneef. M. The Mianwali and Tredian formations: An example of the Triassic progradational deltaic system in the low-latitude western Salt Range, Pakistan. Arab Journal for Science and Engineering. 39(7), 5489–5507
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-013-0836-2

2014 Imraz. M, Ali. F., Haneef. M., Saboor. A., Ahmad. S. (Jr) and Iqbal, S.  Thanetian foraminiferal algal deposits of the inner ramp facies from the Lockhart Formation, Western Salt Range, Indus Basin. Arab Journal of Geosciences. 7(11), 4911–4926.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-013-1099-7