LINKS

Al Hajar Magazine of the Geological Society of Oman
     - Geological Exploration in Oman - The Early Years - an article by Michael Quentin
        Morton (pp.1-4)
     - Review of In the Heart of the Desert by Dr Alan Heward (page 8)
     - New Omani Chitinozoa - naming fossils after Mike Morton and Don Sheridan (pp. 15-16)

BP Archive, Warwick University - files and photographs from the Iraq Petroleum Company

Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula - J.E. Peterson's website

Books on Arabia

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 joruney 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

Geoscientist - review of In the Heart of the Desert in the journal of the Geological Society, November 2007

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 publishers of Buraimi: the Struggle for Power, Influence and Oil in South-eastern Arabia

Iraq Petroleum Company - Wikipedia

Iraq Petroleum Company - Al Mashriq website

Oil Man's Life in the Desert - review in The Huddersfield Daily Examiner

RAF Khormaksar, Aden - photographs from Aden in the 1950s, including some from the Mike Morton collection

RGS Expedition to Musandam, 1971-2

Stratigraphic Lexicon of Iraq

The Geology of Oman - D.M. Morton, 5th World Petroleum Congress, 30th May - 5th June 1959

Robert Hill - A Twentieth Century Life - snapshots from the life of Robert Hill, who worked for IPC in the 1940s and 50s

UAE National Centre for Documentation and Research

The Telegraph - review of In the Heart of the Desert by Jo Parfitt

Where is Flight CW197? - the mystery of an aeroplane crash in the vicinity of the Musandam peninsular