[3] Pre-war geological investigations in Iraq had been suspended as a result of civil disturbances, and were not resumed until 1946 when 'a planned campaign of stratigraphic research was set afoot'.

Deeper wells were drilled to locate older deposits: this resulted in oil being discovered in the Middle Cretaceous at Ain Zalah, Kirkuk and Bai Hasan.

[4] In 1952, Morton and his colleagues discovered the articulated anterior half of an ichthyosaur (lacking the rostrum) at Chia Gara, Armadia, in Kurdistan, which was transported to the Natural History Museum in London.

[5] Otherwise, Morton held various exploration posts in the Middle East, covering Syria, Jordan, Yemen, Oman, Qatar and Abu Dhabi.

However, a leading proponent of the 'in-situ' theory, Hugh Wilson, observed that the major displacement surfaces were not prominent in the field and that he had seen more evidence of extension than compression in the Oman Mountains.

[14] In 1971, after retiring from IPC, Morton was appointed deputy leader of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) expedition to the Musandam Peninsula in Oman.