Four reference sections through the calcareous-siliciclastic rocks of the Lower Cretaceous Kurnub Group and the Amman and Muwaqqar formations of the Upper Cretaceous to Paleogene Belqa Group in Jordan document the various processes of accumulation and alteration of organic matter (OM). Sections at Jerash, Sultani, Wadi Isal, and in the Kharazeh area were investigated by means of sedimentary petrography/mineralogy, organic petrography, and organic chemistry, and correlated with equivalent deposits in Syria and Egypt. The impacts of oxidation potential (Eh), acidity/basicity (pH) and temperature variations during the post-depositional alteration of these organic concentrations were assessed using x-y plots. Syngenetic Aptian-Albian coaly and organic-rich amber beds near Jerash developed in a tide-dominated delta under marginally alkaline conditions and were altered under slightly acidic conditions at temperatures of less than 100°C. Environmental analysis focused on Maastrichtian-Paleocene (?), oil shales in the Sultani area that were deposited in a small restricted basin on the continental shelf of the Neo-Tethys Ocean. Abnormally high contents of vanadium (V), phosphorus (P), zinc (Zn), and uranium (U) gave rise to yellow uranium ore minerals, phosphates and zinc sulfides and so bridge the gap between OM concentrations and those of uranium. The western part of the Arabian Peninsula is known for its uraniferous phosphorites and U-bearing calcretes. Reducing conditions during deposition of syngenetic OM in the oil shales may have shifted, in places, toward more oxidizing conditions in the course of post-depositional alteration at temperatures well below 200°C. Epigenetic fault-related concentration of OM was responsible for the Wadi Isal Aptian-Albian tar sand deposit and the oil seepage system in calcareous wall rocks of the Kharazeh Fault. The alteration of the tar sands (fluvial sandstones) is designated a high-sulfidation type (introduced aluminum sulfate minerals), whereas the oil seepage in Campanian shallow-marine carbonates is a low-sulfidation type (removal of aluminum sulfate minerals). Both alteration patterns may have implications for structure-bound base- and precious-metal deposits whose emplacement involves hydrocarbons as a carrier of metals in the mineralizing fluids. The Jordanian oil shales, tar sands, and uranium mineralization are possible sources of energy. Recent economic deals on the recovery and use of oil shales and uranium in Jordan are reviewed.

Thermal history and evolution of the Palaeozoic petroleum system of the western Lower Saxony Basin as well as charge history of the Apeldorn gas field was reconstructed using 2-D forward basin modelling software. The Apeldorn gas field is located on an inverted western rim of the Lower Saxony Basin (LSB) and belongs with its relatively anomalous nitrogen content of 73.9 vol. % to one of the most unique gas accumulations in North Germany. Based on thermal calibration studies utilising both, vitrinite reflectance and corrected bottom hole temperatures as calibration parameters, a shallow burial model and an anomalous event of Coniacian high heat flow of 80 to 120 mW/m²was derived. As result, Lower Triassic and younger successions became subjected to slight changes in thermal maturity as opposed to Carboniferous and Permian successions, which show no assessable impact of the high heat flow event on the coalification pattern. The deep burial model in contrary to the shallow burial model is not supported by the structural reconstruction and backstripping in this more marginal setting. According to the modelling results, the key charge of the present Apeldorn gas field began in Tithonian (late Upper Jurassic) during the major phase of rifting in the Lower Saxony Basin. The present Westphalian coal-derived gas accumulations of the Lower Triassic Buntsandstein reservoir were sourced directly from modelled methane pools at top Rotliegend level. The hydrocarbon potential of the Westphalian source rocks became exhausted in Oxfordian (early Upper Jurassic). Reduction of the hydrostatic pressure during the Coniacian high heat flow event together with uplift during the Coniacian-Santonian inversion led to an extensive free gas exsolution. The resulting gas mixture between the exsolved free gas and the Westphalian coal-derived gas reached and saturated Buntsandstein reservoir. The structural trap became destroyed in course of the inversion leading to a sharp decrease of methane and nitrogen saturation.

Zastosowanie naturalnych olejków eterycznych o różnorodnym działaniu terapeutycznym stanowi podstawę aromaterapii klinicznej będącej jednym z filarów współczesnej fitoterapii. Wśród udokumentowanej aktywności biologicznej i farmakologicznej naturalnych olejków eterycznych opisane jest również korzystne działanie przeciwbakteryjne i przeciwgrzybicze na mikrobiom pochwy w badaniach in vivo i in vitro. Brak jest jednak współczesnych doniesień wskazującychna związek pomiędzy drobnoustrojami obecnymi w wymazie pochwy, badanym naturalnym olejkiem eterycznym a stanem fizycznym i emocjonalnym probantki. Celem pracy była: (1) analiza wpływu zastosowanych preparatów aromaterapeutycznych na stan ilościowy i jakościowy patogennej flory pochwy jak i (2) analiza stanu fizycznego i samopoczucia psychicznego probantki. Podczas gdy badania ginekologiczne wykazały objawy infekcji bakteryjnej i/lub grzybiczej sromu i pochwy. Materiał wymazowy pobrany z tylnej części pochwy posłużył do szczegółowych badań mikrobiologicznych. W wymazach mikrobiologicznych przed i po zastosowaniu preparatów aromaterapeutycznych oznaczono rodzaj lub szczep patogennych bakterii, drożdżaków jak również wykonano badania ankietowe. Otrzymane wyniki posłużyły do przygotowania preparatów aromaterapeutycznych o różnej formie aplikacji: zarówno na skórę (śluzówkę pochwy i kanał szyjkimacicy) zewnętrznych narządów płciowych jak i dopochwowo. Końcowe badania zaświadczyły o skutecznym przeciwbakteryjnym i przeciwgrzybiczym wpływie preparatów aromaterapeutycznych, w tym dedykowanych naturalnych olejków eterycznych na zaburzenia biocenozy pochwy i na znacząca redukcję dyskomfortu jak i poprawę stanu psychicznego probantki.