Dr. Anas Salisu Muhammad

Selected Publications

• Salisu, A.M., Bello, A.M., Amao, A.O., Lander, R.H., and Al-Ramadan, K., 2025, Experimental Study of Smectite Authigenesis and its Subsequent Illitization: Insights from Modern Estuary Sediments: Journal of Sedimentary Research. Journal of Sedimentary Research (2025) doi:10.2110/jsr.2024.135.
• Salisu, A.M., Bello, A.M., Amao, A.O., and Al-Ramadan, K., 2025, The Role of Fluid Chemistry on the Diagenetic Transformation of Detrital Clay Minerals: Experimental Insights from Modern Estuarine Sediments: Minerals, 1482, 15, https://doi.org/10.3390/min15030317 (2025).
• Salisu, A.M., Algheryafi, H., Bello, A.M., Amao, A.O., Al-Otaibi, B., and Al-Ramadan, K., 2024, Depositional and diagenetic controls on the reservoir quality of marginal marine sandstones: An example from the Early Devonian Subbat Member, Jauf Formation, northwest Saudi Arabia: Marine and Petroleum Geology, p. 107147, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2024.107147.
• Salisu, A.M., Alhindi, H., Hussaini, S.R., Amao, A.O., Al-Awah, H., Al-ramadan, K., and Koeshidayatullah, A., 2024, 3D Microporosity Characterizations in the Heterogeneous Middle Jurassic Tuwaiq Mountain Formation: Insights into an Unconventional Sweet Spot: ACS Omega, v. 9, p. 36273–36290, doi:10.1021/acsomega.4c02592.
• Salisu, A.M., Alqubalee, A., Bello, A.M., Al-Hussaini, A., Adebayo, A.R., Amao, A.O., and Al-Ramadan, K., 2023, Impact of kaolinite and iron oxide cements on resistivity and quality of low resistivity pay sandstones: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 158, p. 106568, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106568.
• Bello, A.M., Salisu, A.M., Amao, A.O., Umar, M., and Al-Ramadan, K., 2025, Experimental Nucleation of Chlorite: Insights from Kaolinite Precursor: Journal of Sedimentary Research. 95, 1–24 (2025).
• Bello, A.M., Amao, A.O., Salisu, A.M., Al-Ramadan, K., 2025, Clay-driven dolomitization at moderate to high temperatures: Evidence from hydrothermal experiments. Geology doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G53737.1
• Alhindi, H.S., Salisu, A.M., Hussaini, S.R., Al-Ramadan, K., and Koeshidayatullah, A.I., 2025, Novel insights to unconventional carbonate mudstone reservoir with quantitative nanoporosity characterization and modeling of Tuwaiq Mountain Formation: Geoenergy Science and Engineering, v. 244, p. 213394, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoen.2024.213394.
• Bello, A. M., Salisu, A. M., Alqubalee, A., Amao, A. O., Al-Hashem, M., Al-Hussaini, A., & Al-Ramadan, K. (2024). Diagenetic controls on the quality of shallow marine sandstones: An example from the Cambro-Ordovician Saq Formation, central Saudi Arabia. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 215, 105295. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2024.105295
• Alqubalee, A., Salisu, A.M., Bello, A.M., Al-Hussaini, A., and Al-Ramadan, K., 2023, Characteristics, distribution, and origin of ferruginous deposits within the Late Ordovician glaciogenic setting of Arabia: Scientific Reports, v. 13, p. 18430, doi:10.1038/s41598-023-45563-9.
• Bello, A.M., Salisu, A.M., Alqubalee, A., Amao, A.O., Al-Hashem, M., Al-Hussaini, A., and Al-Ramadan, K., 2024, Diagenetic controls on the quality of shallow marine sandstones: An example from the Cambro-Ordovician Saq Formation, central Saudi Arabia: Journal of African Earth Sciences, v. 215, p. 105295, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2024.105295.
• Alqubalee, A., Muharrag, J., Salisu, A.M., and Eltom, H., 2022, The negative impact of Ophiomorpha on reservoir quality of channelized deposits in mixed carbonate siliciclastic setting: The case study of the Dam Formation, Saudi Arabia: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 140, p. 105666, doi:10.1016/J.MARPETGEO.2022.105666.
• Gaduwang, A.K., Muñoz-López, D., Salisu, A.M., Tawabini, B., Al-Ramadan, K., and Koeshidayatullah, A., 2025, Microfacies control on geomechanical properties of unconventional carbonate reservoirs: insights from a middle jurassic outcrop analogue in Saudi Arabia: Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, v. 15, p. 38, doi:10.1007/s13202-025-01930-y.
• Bello, A.M., Usman, M.B., Amao, A.O., Salisu, A.M., Al-Ramadan, K., Abubakar, U., Mukkafa, S., Kwami, I.A., Chiroma, L.U., Al-Hashem, M., et al., 2025, Linking Provenance and Diagenesis to Reservoir Quality Evolution of Sandstones: The Paleocene-Eocene Kerri-Kerri Formation, Northeastern Nigeria. Mar Pet Geol 172, 107227, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2024.107227.
• Bello, A.M., Usman, M.B., Amao, A.O., Al-Ramadan, K., Al-Hashem, M., Kachalla, A., Abubakar, U., Salisu, A.M., et al., 2024, Diagenesis and reservoir quality evolution of estuarine sandstones: Insights from the Cenomanian-Turonian Yolde Formation, northern Benue Trough, NE Nigeria: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 169, p. 107073, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2024.107073.
• Bello, A.M., Usman, M.B., Ismail, M.A., Mukkafa, S., Abubakar, U., Kwami, Al-Ramadan, K., Amao, A.O., Al-Hashem, M., Salisu, A.M., et al. 2023, Linking diagenesis and reservoir quality to depositional facies in marginal to shallow marine sequence: An example from the Campano-Maastrichtian Gombe Sandstone, Northern Benue Trough, NE Nigeria: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 155, p. 106386, doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106386.