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Links
These links relate to books and articles by author Michael Quentin Morton, including In the Heart
of the Desert, Black Gold and Frankincense, Buraimi
Al Hajar magazine of the Geological
Society of Oman:
• Geological Exploration in Oman - The Early Years - an article by the author (4th edition,
Nov. 2004, pp.1-4)
• Review of In the Heart of the Desert by Dr Alan Heward (10th edition, Dec. 2006, p. 8)
• New Omani Chitinozoa - naming fossils after Mike Morton and Don Sheridan (issue 17, October 2010,
pp. 15-16)
A Lucky Eclipse - an article by the author about Tony Altoynan's expedition to Mahra country
in 1946, British-Yemeni Society journal, vol. 8. 2010
BP Archive, Warwick University - files and photographs from the Iraq Petroleum Company
Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula - J.E. Peterson's website
British Yemeni Society journal - review of In the Heart of the Desert by Julian Paxton
Can You Identify this Wellington? - links to a forum which discusses the identity of the Wellingon
aircraft that Mike and his colleagues took on their journey between Riyan and Salalah in February, 1948
Fahud 50 Years On - Jan Schreurs is a geologist who, while based in Oman, went on many field
trips, including one to Jebel Fahud in January 2006 to mark the spudding-in of Fahud No.1 oil well
From Pearls to Oil - How the Oil Industry came to the UAE: David Heard's book about the early days of oil on the Trucial Coast reviewed in The National
newspaper
Hejaz Railway - a webpage from Nabataea.net which includes two of Mike Morton's photographs
and commentary from his 1947 diary
I.B. Tauris - website of the publisher of Buraimi:
the Struggle for Power, Influence and Oil in South-eastern Arabia
Iraq: Oil and Gas Industry in the Twentieth Century: book by Ghanim Anaz about the history of the oil business in Iraq
Iraq Petroleum Company - Wikipedia
Iraq Petroleum Company - Al Mashriq website
Narrowing the Gulf - article on Anglo American relations and Arabian oil 1928-74 by the author
published in the Liwa journal, vol.3, no.6, Dec. 2011, p. 38
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