OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Geological Magazine is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Every zircon deserves a date: selection bias in detrital geochronology	30
Origin, tectonic environment and age of the Bibole banded iron formations, northwestern Congo Craton, Cameroon: geochemical and geochronological constraints	23
Geochronological and geochemical constraints on the origin of highly ¹³C_carb-depleted calcite in basal Ediacaran cap carbonate	17
Enigma variations: characteristics and likely origin of the problematic surface textureArumberia, as recognized from an exceptional bedding plane exposure and the global record	17
Disaster microconchids from the uppermost Permian and Lower Triassic lacustrine strata of the Cis-Urals and the Tunguska and Kuznetsk basins (Russia)	17
Graphite from Palaeoproterozoic enhanced carbon burial, and its metallogenic legacy	17
An Upper Ediacaran Glacial Period in Cadomia: the Granville tillite (Armorican Massif) – sedimentology, geochronology and provenance	16
Following the logic behind biological interpretations of the Ediacaran biotas	16
Taxonomy and palaeoenvironmental distribution of palaeopascichnids	15
How the geochemistry of syn-kinematic calcite cement depicts past fluid flow and assists structural interpretations: a review of concepts and applications in orogenic forelands	14
Magmatic record of the Mesozoic geology of Hainan Island and its implications for the Mesozoic tectonomagmatic evolution of SE China: effects of slab geometry and dynamics in continental tectonics	14
Tectonic evolution of the Caledonian orogeny in Scotland: a review based on the timing of magmatism, metamorphism and deformation	14
The propagation paths of fluid-driven fractures in layered and faulted rocks	14
Late Ediacaran organic microfossils from Finland	14
Ediacaran initial subduction and Cambrian slab rollback of the Junggar Ocean: New evidence from igneous tectonic blocks and gabbro enclave in Early Palaeozoic accretionary complexes, southern West Jun	13
Geology of the recently discovered massive and stockwork sulphide mineralization at Semblana, Rosa Magra and Monte Branco, Neves–Corvo mine region, Iberian Pyrite Belt, Portugal	13
Enrichment of heavy REE and Th in carbonatite-derived fenite breccia	13
Asian monsoon and vegetation shift: evidence from the Siwalik succession of India	12
Understanding pre- and syn-orogenic tectonic evolution in western Himalaya through age and petrogenesis of Palaeozoic and Cenozoic granites from upper structural levels of Bhagirathi Valley, NW India	12
Open-system behaviour of detrital zircon during weathering: an example from the Palaeoproterozoic Pretoria Group, South Africa	11
Ediacaran survivors in the Cambrian: suspicions, denials and a smoking gun	10
First freshwater gastropod preserved in amber suggests long-distance dispersal during the Cretaceous Period	10
Phyllozoon and Aulozoon: key components of a novel Ediacaran death assemblage in Bathtub Gorge, Heysen Range, South Australia	10
Zinc, sulfur and cadmium isotopes and Zn/Cd ratios as indicators of the origin of the supergiant Broken Hill Pb–Zn–Ag deposit and other Broken Hill-type deposits, New South Wales, Australia	10
Tourmaline growth and evolution in S-type granites and pegmatites: constraints from textural, chemical and B-isotopic study from the Gangpur Schist Belt granitoids, eastern India	10

Natural fractures in tight gas sandstones: a case study of the Upper Triassic Xujiahe Formation in Xinchang gas field, Western Sichuan Basin, China	10
Subduction-accretion complex with boninitic ophiolite slices and Triassic limestone seamounts: Ankara Mélange, central Anatolia	10
A large pteranodontid pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Eastern Europe	10
The identity and significance of the high-latitude Early Ordovician Mediterranean brachiopod Province	9
Carbon isotope chemostratigraphy and sea-level history of the Hirnantian Stage (uppermost Ordovician) in the Oslo–Asker district, Norway	9
A new, remarkably preserved, enantiornithine bird from the Upper Cretaceous Qiupa Formation of Henan (central China) and convergent evolution between enantiornithines and modern birds	9
Effect of inherited structural highs on the structure and kinematics of the South Dezful Embayment, SW Iran	9
High morphological disparity of neuropteran larvae during the Cretaceous revealed by a new large species	9
A review of natural hydrofractures in rocks	9
Middle Jurassic arc reversal, Victoria–Katha Block and Sibumasu Terrane collision, jadeite formation and Western Tin Belt generation, Myanmar	9
Shales of Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic Vindhyan Basin, central India: insight into sedimentation dynamics of Proterozoic shelf	9
Late Ordovician fore-arc ophiolitic mélange in the southern margin of the Bainaimiao arc: constraints from zircon U–Pb–Hf isotopes and geochemical analyses	9
New detrital zircon U–Pb insights on the palaeogeographic origin of the central Sanandaj–Sirjan zone, Iran	9
The Pre-Grenvillian assembly of the southeastern Laurentian margin through the U–Pb–Hf detrital zircon record of Mesoproterozoic supracrustal sequences (Central Grenville Province, Quebec, Canada)	9
Major and rare earth element mineral chemistry of low-grade assemblages inform dynamics of hydrothermal ocean-floor metamorphism in the Dinaridic Neotethys	9
The petrogenesis of Early–Middle Jurassic magmatism in southern and central Mexico and its role during the break-up of Western Pangaea	8
Ediacaran algal cysts from the Doushantuo Formation, South China	8
Early Jurassic palaeopolar marine reptiles of Siberia	8
Detrital zircon age and biostratigraphic and chemostratigraphic constraints on the Ediacaran–Cambrian transitional interval in the Irkutsk Cis–Sayans Uplift, southwestern Siberian Platform	8
Tectonic controls on sedimentary provenance and basin geography of the Mesoproterozoic Wilton package, McArthur Basin, northern Australia	8
New horseshoe crab fossil from Germany demonstrates post-Triassic extinction of Austrolimulidae	8
Flood basalt structures and textures as guides to cooling histories and palaeoclimates: the Deccan Traps of Saurashtra, western India	8
Genesis of gabbroic intrusions in the Arabian Shield, Saudi Arabia: mineralogical, geochemical and tectonic fingerprints of the Neoproterozoic arc magmatism	8
Petrogenesis, W metallogenic and tectonic implications of granitic intrusions in the southern Great Xing’an Range W belt, NE China: insights from the Narenwula Complex	8
Malformed individuals of the trilobiteEstaingia bilobatafrom the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale and their palaeobiological implications	8
Distribution and correlation ofSabellidites cambriensis(Annelida?) in the basal Cambrian on Baltica	8
Probable deinonychosaur tracks from the Upper Cretaceous Wapiti Formation (upper Campanian) of Alberta, Canada	7
Subduction zone processes and crustal growth mechanisms at Pacific Rim convergent margins: modern and ancient analogues	7
A new small soft-bodied non-trilobite artiopod from the Cambrian Stage 4 Guanshan Biota	7
Life-cycle analysis of coesite-bearing garnet	7
Petrological and geochemical characterization of the arc-related Suru–Thasgam ophiolitic slice along the Indus Suture Zone, Ladakh Himalaya	7
Zircon U–Pb ages and petrogenesis of late Miocene adakitic rocks from the Sari Gunay gold deposit, NW Iran	7
Ontogeny of the trilobite Redlichia from the lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 4) Ramsay Limestone of South Australia	6
Mafic rocks with back-arc E-MORB affinity from the Chotanagpur Granite Gneiss Complex of India: relicts of a Proterozoic Ophiolite suite	6
How sensitive are intraplate inherited structures? Insight from the Cévennes Fault System (Languedoc, SE France)	6
U–Pb geochronology of Upper Triassic – Lower Jurassic detrital sequences from SE margin of the South China Block: implications for Palaeo-Pacific subduction and tectonic evolution	6
Late Triassic dinosaur tracks from Penarth, south Wales	6
Repeated brittle reactivations of a pre-existing plastic shear zone: combined K–Ar and ⁴⁰Ar–³⁹Ar geochronology of the long-lived (>700 Ma) Himdalen–Ørje Deformation Zone, SE N	6
Exceptionally preserved hyolithids from the middle Cambrian of North China	6
Uranium–lead geochronology applied to pyrope garnet with very low concentrations of uranium	6
Lowermost Jurassic dinosaur ecosystem from the Bleymard Strait (southern France): sedimentology, mineralogy, palaeobotany and palaeoichnology of the Dolomitic Formation	6
New Cretaceous crickets of the subfamilies Nemobiinae and Podoscirtinae (Orthoptera, Grylloidea: Trigonidiidae, Oecanthidae) attest the antiquity of these clades	6
Two stages of Late Carboniferous to Triassic magmatism in the Strandja Zone of Bulgaria and Turkey	6
Zircon U–Pb ages, geochemistry and Sr–Nd isotopes of the Golshekanan granitoid, Urumieh–Dokhtar magmatic arc, Iran: evidence for partial melting of juvenile crust	6
Scratching the discs: evaluating alternative hypotheses for the origin of the Ediacaran discoidal structures from the Cerro Negro Formation, La Providencia Group, Argentina	6
Carbonate fabric diversity and environmental heterogeneity in the late Mesoproterozoic Era	6
U–Pb and Hf isotope study of detrital zircon and Cr-spinel in the Banavara quartzite and implications for the evolution of the Dharwar Craton, south India	6
Mineralogy controls fracture containment in mechanically layered carbonates	6
Early Silurian granitic rocks and associated enclaves as evidence of rapid cooling in a cognate magma system: the case of the Xuehuading–Panshanchong pluton, South China Block	5
The first Early Ordovician graptolites and marine incursions in eastern Alborz, Iran	5

Zircon in mantle eclogite xenoliths: a review	5
Petrogenesis and tectonic implication of the lower Silurian high-Sr/Y subvolcanic rocks from the South Qilian suture zone in the Qilian Orogen, NW China	5
Neo-Tethyan subduction triggered Eocene–Oligocene magmatism in eastern Iran	5
Age and petrogenesis of mafic granulites from central Madurai block, south India: implications on regional tectonics	5
Fractures, fluid flow and inherited structures in geothermal systems: inputs from the Fe-ore deposits of eastern Elba Island (Northern Apennines, Italy)	5
Influence of fluid pressure changes on the reactivation potential of pre-existing fractures: a case study in the Archaean metavolcanics of the Chitradurga region, India	5
Morphological variation in the rangeomorph organism Fractofusus misrai from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland, Canada	5
New insights into the early evolution of horizontal spiral trace fossils and the age of the Brioverian series (Ediacaran–Cambrian) in Brittany, NW France	5
Far-field brittle deformation record in the eastern Paris Basin (France)	5
Mesozoic exhumation of the Jueluotage area, Eastern Tianshan, NW China: constraints from (U–Th)/He and fission-track thermochronology	5
Dinaric up-thrusts in the Pliocene evolution of the Central Apennines thrust belt of Italy: the Montagna dei Fiori structure	5
Geochemistry of the Laiyang Group from outcrops and Lingke-1 core on Lingshan Island, Shandong Province, Eastern China: implications for provenance, tectonic setting and palaeo-environment	5
Joint inversion of tectonic stress and magma pressures using dyke trajectories	5
Influence of multi-trend major fault reactivation during multiphase rifting: Beier Depression, Hailar Basin, NE China	5
Timing of fluorite mineralization and exhumation events in the east Central Alborz Mountains, northern Iran: constraints from fluorite (U–Th)/He thermochronometry	5
Meso-Cenozoic negative inversion model for the Linhe Depression of Hetao Basin, China	5
Geochronology, geochemistry and tectonic implications of early Carboniferous plutons in the southwestern Alxa Block	5
Palaeomagnetism of the uppermost carbonate units of the Purana basins in southern India: new demagnetization results from the Kaladgi and Bhima basins, Karnataka	5
The chemostratigraphy and environmental significance of the Marlstone and Junction Bed (Beacon Limestone, Toarcian, Lower Jurassic, Dorset, UK)	5
Revisiting the phosphorite deposit of Fontanarejo (central Spain): new window into the early Cambrian evolution of sponges and the microbial origin of phosphorites	5
Fractures in the Niagara Escarpment in Ontario, Canada: distribution, connectivity, and geohazard implications	5
Cadomian orogenic collapse in the Ibor and Alcudia anticlines of the Central Iberian Zone, Spain	5
Geochronology and formal stratigraphy of the Sturtian Glaciation in the Adelaide Superbasin	5
Using fractured outcrops to calculate permeability tensors: implications for geothermal fluid flow and the influence of seismic-scale faults	5
Late Ediacaran occurrences of the organic-walled microfossilsGranomarginataand flask-shapedLagoenaforma collarisgen. et sp. nov.	5
Petrological implications of element redistribution during metamorphism: insights from meta-granite of the South Delhi Fold Belt, Rajasthan, India	5
Evolution of Neoproterozoic Shillong Basin, Meghalaya, NE India: implications of supercontinent break-up and amalgamation	5
Mantle transition zone-derived eclogite xenolith entrained in a diamondiferous Mesoproterozoic (∼1.1 Ga) kimberlite from the Eastern Dharwar Craton, India: evidence from a coesite, K-omphacite, and ma	5
New granular rock-analogue materials for simulation of multi-scale fault and fracture processes	4
Early Cretaceous crust–mantle interaction linked to rollback of the Palaeo-Pacific flat-subducting slab: constraints from the intermediate–felsic volcanic rocks of the northern Great Xing’an Range, NE	4
Paleo-trade wind directions over the Yangtze Carbonate Platform during the Cambrian–Ordovician, Southern China	4
Silurian inverted Barrovian-type metamorphism in the Western Sierras Pampeanas (Argentina): a case of top to bottom heating?	4
Dickinsonia: mobile and adhered	4
Seawater signatures in the supracrustal Lewisian Complex, Scotland	4
Winter weathering of fractured sedimentary rocks in a temperate climate: observation of freeze–thaw and thermal processes on the Niagara Escarpment, Hamilton, Ontario	4
Eustatic and local tectonic impact on the Late Ordovician – early Silurian facies evolution on the SW margin of peri-Baltica (the southern Holy Cross Mountains, Poland)	4
Beyond ‘crumple zones’: recent advances, applications and future directions in deformable plate tectonic modelling	4
Petrogenesis of Silurian ultramafic–mafic plutons in southern Jiangxi: implications for the Wuyi–Yunkai orogen, South China	4
Early Miocene calc-alkaline felsic tuffs within deep-marine turbidites in the Kyrenia Range, north Cyprus, with a possible post-collisional eruptive centre in western Anatolia	4
Shallow-marine serpentinization-derived fluid seepage in the Upper Cretaceous Qahlah Formation, United Arab Emirates	4
Uncommon preservation of dinosaur footprints in a tidal breccia:Eubrontes giganteusfrom the Early Jurassic Mongisty tracksite of Aveyron, southern France	4
Introduction: Faults and fractures in rocks: mechanics, occurrence, dating, stress history and fluid flow	4
Sedimentary evolution of the Pennsylvanian–Permian Mulargia–Escalaplano molassic basin (Sardinia, Italy): the most complete record in the Southern Variscan Realm	4
Timing of shear deformation in the Singhbhum Shear Zone, India: implications for shear zone-hosted polymetallic mineralization	4
The Río Grío–Pancrudo Fault Zone (central Iberian Chain, Spain): recent extensional activity revealed by drainage reversal	4
The timing of blueschist-facies metamorphism in the Makrotantalon Unit on Andros Island, Greece: Cretaceous and Eocene high-pressure/low-temperature events?	4
Failure modes in fluid saturated rocks: deformation processes and mode-switching	4
Effects of chemical weathering on the exceptional preservation of mineralized insects from the Crato Formation, Cretaceous of Brazil: implications for late diagenesis of fine-grained Lagerstätten	4
Formation of ultrapotassic magma via crustal contamination and hybridization of mafic magma: an example from the Stomanovo monzonite, Central Rhodope Massif, Bulgaria	4
Tectonic transition from subduction to retreat of the palaeo-Pacific plate: new geochemical constraints from the late Mesozoic volcanic sequence in eastern Fujian Province, SE China	4
Redescription of the cheloniellid euarthropodTriopus draboviensisfrom the Upper Ordovician of Bohemia, with comments on the affinities ofParioscorpio venator	4
The origin of Patagonia: insights from Permian to Middle Triassic magmatism of the North Patagonian Massif	4
Three-dimensional stromatolites from Maastrichtian–Danian Yacoraite Formation, Argentina: modelling and assessing hydrodynamic controls on growth patterns	4
Middle Miocene climate transition in the Tibetan Plateau: identification and significance	4
New Ediacaran biota from the oldest Nama Group, Namibia (Tsaus Mountains), and re-definition of the Nama Assemblage	4