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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Detrital zircon provenance of north Gondwana Palaeozoic sandstones from Saudi Arabia	30
Every zircon deserves a date: selection bias in detrital geochronology	26
Fieldwork and disability: an overview for an inclusive experience	25
Origin, tectonic environment and age of the Bibole banded iron formations, northwestern Congo Craton, Cameroon: geochemical and geochronological constraints	22
The Tumblagooda Sandstone revisited: exceptionally abundant trace fossils and geological outcrop provide a window onto Palaeozoic littoral habitats before invertebrate terrestrialization	22
Tracing multiple sources of sediments using trace element and Nd isotope geochemistry: provenance of the Mesozoic succession in the Kutch Basin, western India	19
Geochemical and metamorphic record of the amphibolites from the Tuting–Tidding Suture Zone ophiolites, Eastern Himalaya, India: implications for the presence of a dismembered metamorphic sole	19
Triassic magmatism in the European Southern Alps as an early phase of Pangea break-up	15
Disaster microconchids from the uppermost Permian and Lower Triassic lacustrine strata of the Cis-Urals and the Tunguska and Kuznetsk basins (Russia)	15
Large trilobites in a stress-free Early Ordovician environment	15
Constructional and functional anatomy of Ediacaran rangeomorphs	15
Geochronological and geochemical constraints on the origin of highly ¹³C_carb-depleted calcite in basal Ediacaran cap carbonate	14
The response of water column and sedimentary environments to the advent of the Messinian salinity crisis: insights from an onshore deep-water section (Govone, NW Italy)	14
Graphite from Palaeoproterozoic enhanced carbon burial, and its metallogenic legacy	14
An Upper Ediacaran Glacial Period in Cadomia: the Granville tillite (Armorican Massif) – sedimentology, geochronology and provenance	14
Palaeobiology of the reclining rangeomorph Beothukis from the Ediacaran Mistaken Point Formation of southeastern Newfoundland	14
Late Jurassic – earliest Cretaceous prolonged shelf dysoxic–anoxic event and its possible causes	14
Late Jurassic Changmar Complex from the Shyok ophiolite, NW Himalaya: a prelude to the Ladakh Arc	14
Asian dust from land to sea: processes, history and effect from modern observation to geological records	13
Precise early Cambrian U–Pb zircon dates bracket the oldest trilobites and archaeocyaths in Moroccan West Gondwana	13
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	12
Acritarchs from the Duolbagáisá Formation (Cambrian Series 2, Miaolingian) on the Digermulen Peninsula, Finnmark, Arctic Norway: towards a high-resolution Cambrian chronostratigraphy	12
Following the logic behind biological interpretations of the Ediacaran biotas	12
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	12
Enigma variations: characteristics and likely origin of the problematic surface texture Arumberia, as recognized from an exceptional bedding plane exposure and the global record	12

Tectonic evolution of the Caledonian orogeny in Scotland: a review based on the timing of magmatism, metamorphism and deformation	11
The propagation paths of fluid-driven fractures in layered and faulted rocks	11
Late Ediacaran organic microfossils from Finland	11
The Central Sudetic Ophiolite (European Variscan Belt): precise U–Pb zircon dating and geotectonic implications	11
Deciphering the geodynamic evolution of the Dinaric orogen through the study of the ‘overstepping’ Cretaceous successions	11
Petrogenesis of a rare Ediacaran tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite suite, Egypt, and implications for Neoproterozoic Gondwana assembly	10
A large pteranodontid pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Eastern Europe	10
Thermal maturation of a complete magmatic plumbing system at the Sierra de Velasco, Northwestern Argentina	10
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	10
Hidden diversity of small predators: new thorny lacewings from mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Neuroptera: Rhachiberothidae: Paraberothinae)	10
Structural setting of a transpressive shear zone: insights from geological mapping, quartz petrofabric and kinematic vorticity analysis in NE Sardinia (Italy)	10
Phased evolution and variation of the South Asian monsoon, and resulting weathering and surface erosion in the Himalaya–Karakoram Mountains, since late Pliocene time using data from Arabian Sea core	9
U–Pb dating of calcite in ancient carbonates for age estimates of syn- to post-depositional processes: a case study from the upper Ediacaran strata of Finnmark, Arctic Norway	9
Protracted late Neoproterozic – early Palaeozoic deformation and cooling history of Sør Rondane, East Antarctica, from ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar and U–Pb geochronology	9
Phyllozoon and Aulozoon: key components of a novel Ediacaran death assemblage in Bathtub Gorge, Heysen Range, South Australia	9
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	9
Uppermost Cambrian carbon chemostratigraphy: the HERB and undocumented TOCE events are not synonymous	9
Introvert and pharynx ofMafangscolex, a Cambrian palaeoscolecid	9
Enrichment of heavy REE and Th in carbonatite-derived fenite breccia	9
U–Pb detrital zircon ages from Gorgoglione Flysch sandstones in Southern Apennines (Italy) as provenance indicators	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
Clay-fraction strontium and neodymium isotopes in the Indus Fan: implications for sediment transport and provenance	9
Taxonomy and palaeoenvironmental distribution of palaeopascichnids	9
The identity and significance of the high-latitude Early Ordovician Mediterranean brachiopod Province	8
Revisiting the tectonic evolution of the Triassic Palaeo-Tethys convergence zone in northern Thailand inferred from detrital zircon U–Pb ages	8
Neoproterozoic active margin in the northwestern Yangtze Block, South China: new clues from detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology and geochemistry of sedimentary rocks from the Hengdan Group	8
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	8
Genesis of gabbroic intrusions in the Arabian Shield, Saudi Arabia: mineralogical, geochemical and tectonic fingerprints of the Neoproterozoic arc magmatism	8
A new, remarkably preserved, enantiornithine bird from the Upper Cretaceous Qiupa Formation of Henan (central China) and convergent evolution between enantiornithines and modern birds	8
Open-system behaviour of detrital zircon during weathering: an example from the Palaeoproterozoic Pretoria Group, South Africa	8
Forsterite reprecipitation and carbon dioxide entrapment in the lithospheric mantle during its interaction with carbonatitic melt: a case study from the Sung Valley ultramafic–alkaline–carbonatite com	8
First freshwater gastropod preserved in amber suggests long-distance dispersal during the Cretaceous Period	8
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	8
O–H–Sr–Nd isotope constraints on the origin of the Famatinian magmatic arc, NW Argentina	8
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	7
Tectonic controls on sedimentary provenance and basin geography of the Mesoproterozoic Wilton package, McArthur Basin, northern Australia	7
Active deformation and Plio-Pleistocene fluvial reorganization of the western Kura fold–thrust belt, Georgia: implications for the evolution of the Greater Caucasus Mountains	7
New horseshoe crab fossil from Germany demonstrates post-Triassic extinction of Austrolimulidae	7
Detrital zircon age and biostratigraphic and chemostratigraphic constraints on the Ediacaran–Cambrian transitional interval in the Irkutsk Cis–Sayans Uplift, southwestern Siberian Platform	7
The petrogenesis of Early–Middle Jurassic magmatism in southern and central Mexico and its role during the break-up of Western Pangaea	7
High morphological disparity of neuropteran larvae during the Cretaceous revealed by a new large species	7
Early Jurassic palaeopolar marine reptiles of Siberia	7
Subduction-accretion complex with boninitic ophiolite slices and Triassic limestone seamounts: Ankara Mélange, central Anatolia	7
Carbon isotope chemostratigraphy and sea-level history of the Hirnantian Stage (uppermost Ordovician) in the Oslo–Asker district, Norway	7
A new ammonite from the Penarth Group, South Wales and the base of the Jurassic System in SW Britain	7
New detrital zircon U–Pb insights on the palaeogeographic origin of the central Sanandaj–Sirjan zone, Iran	7
Natural fractures in tight gas sandstones: a case study of the Upper Triassic Xujiahe Formation in Xinchang gas field, Western Sichuan Basin, China	7
Ediacaran survivors in the Cambrian: suspicions, denials and a smoking gun	6
A new nektaspid euarthropod from the Lower Ordovician strata of Morocco	6
Depleted and ultradepleted basalt and picrite in the Davis Strait: Paleocene volcanism associated with a transform continental margin	6

Lithospheric mantle, asthenosphere, slab and crustal contribution to petrogenesis of Eocene to Miocene volcanic rocks from the west Alborz Magmatic Assemblage, SE Ahar, Iran	6
Subduction zone processes and crustal growth mechanisms at Pacific Rim convergent margins: modern and ancient analogues	6
Lower Cambrian facies architecture and sequence stratigraphy, NW France: framework for evaluation of basin-wide processes of sedimentation	6
Flood basalt structures and textures as guides to cooling histories and palaeoclimates: the Deccan Traps of Saurashtra, western India	6
Tectonic evolution of the South Altyn, NW China: constraints by geochemical, zircon U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotopic analysis of the Palaeozoic granitic plutons in the Mangya area	6
Asian monsoon and vegetation shift: evidence from the Siwalik succession of India	6
⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar age constraints for an early Alpine metamorphism of the Sakar unit, Sakar–Strandzha zone, Bulgaria	6
Life-cycle analysis of coesite-bearing garnet	6
In siturare earth element analysis of a lower Cambrian phosphate nodule by LA-ICP-MS	6
Terrestrial kaolin deposits trapped in Miocene karstic sinkholes on planation surface remnants, Transdanubian Range, Pannonian Basin (Hungary)	6
Effect of inherited structural highs on the structure and kinematics of the South Dezful Embayment, SW Iran	6
Middle Jurassic arc reversal, Victoria–Katha Block and Sibumasu Terrane collision, jadeite formation and Western Tin Belt generation, Myanmar	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
Influence of differential structural deformation on shale reservoirs: a case study of the lower Silurian Longmaxi Shale in north Guizhou, Southern China	6
Petrological and geochemical characterization of the arc-related Suru–Thasgam ophiolitic slice along the Indus Suture Zone, Ladakh Himalaya	6
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	6
Formation, diagenesis and fauna of cold seep carbonates from the Miocene Taishu Group of Tsushima (Japan)	6
Distribution and correlation ofSabellidites cambriensis(Annelida?) in the basal Cambrian on Baltica	6
Carbon isotope (δ¹³C_carb) stratigraphy of the Early–Middle Ordovician (Tremadocian–Darriwilian) carbonate platform in the Tarim Basin, NW China: implications for global correlati	6
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
Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) radiolarians from the Crawford Group, Scotland	5
Scratching the discs: evaluating alternative hypotheses for the origin of the Ediacaran discoidal structures from the Cerro Negro Formation, La Providencia Group, Argentina	5
Probable deinonychosaur tracks from the Upper Cretaceous Wapiti Formation (upper Campanian) of Alberta, Canada	5
Reply to ‘Uppermost Cambrian carbon chemostratigraphy: the HERB and undocumented TOCE events are not synonymous’	5
Zircon U–Pb ages and petrogenesis of late Miocene adakitic rocks from the Sari Gunay gold deposit, NW Iran	5
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
Revisiting the phosphorite deposit of Fontanarejo (central Spain): new window into the early Cambrian evolution of sponges and the microbial origin of phosphorites	5
Genesis of the Bagenheigeqier Pb–Zn skarn deposit in Inner Mongolia, NE China: constraints from fluid inclusions, isotope systematics and geochronology	5
Cadomian orogenic collapse in the Ibor and Alcudia anticlines of the Central Iberian Zone, Spain	5
Exceptionally preserved hyolithids from the middle Cambrian of North China	5
Ediacaran algal cysts from the Doushantuo Formation, South China	5
How sensitive are intraplate inherited structures? Insight from the Cévennes Fault System (Languedoc, SE France)	5
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	5
Carbonate fabric diversity and environmental heterogeneity in the late Mesoproterozoic Era	5
The chemostratigraphy and environmental significance of the Marlstone and Junction Bed (Beacon Limestone, Toarcian, Lower Jurassic, Dorset, UK)	5
Ontogeny of the trilobite Redlichia from the lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 4) Ramsay Limestone of South Australia	5
Genesis of high-Ni olivine phenocrysts of the Dali picrites in the Central Emeishan large igneous province	5
Influence of multi-trend major fault reactivation during multiphase rifting: Beier Depression, Hailar Basin, NE China	5
Early Permian to Late Triassic tectonics of the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: geochronological and geochemical constraints from gabbros and granites in the northern Alxa area, NW China	5
Malformed individuals of the trilobiteEstaingia bilobatafrom the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale and their palaeobiological implications	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
Palaeomagnetism of the uppermost carbonate units of the Purana basins in southern India: new demagnetization results from the Kaladgi and Bhima basins, Karnataka	5
Shales of Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic Vindhyan Basin, central India: insight into sedimentation dynamics of Proterozoic shelf	5
Shallow-marine serpentinization-derived fluid seepage in the Upper Cretaceous Qahlah Formation, United Arab Emirates	4
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	4
Zircon in mantle eclogite xenoliths: a review	4
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	4
Fractures in the Niagara Escarpment in Ontario, Canada: distribution, connectivity, and geohazard implications	4
Geochemical, Sr–Nd–Pb and zircon U–Pb–Hf isotopic constraints on the Late Carboniferous back-arc basin basalts from the Chengjisihanshan Formation in West Junggar, NW China	4
Comparative studies on two phases of Archaean TTG magmas from different blocks of the North China Craton: petrogenesis and constraints on crustal evolution	4
Uranium–lead geochronology applied to pyrope garnet with very low concentrations of uranium	4
Late Ediacaran occurrences of the organic-walled microfossilsGranomarginataand flask-shapedLagoenaforma collarisgen. et sp. nov.	4
Middle Miocene climate transition in the Tibetan Plateau: identification and significance	4
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	4
Beyond ‘crumple zones’: recent advances, applications and future directions in deformable plate tectonic modelling	4
Mesozoic exhumation of the Jueluotage area, Eastern Tianshan, NW China: constraints from (U–Th)/He and fission-track thermochronology	4
New Cretaceous crickets of the subfamilies Nemobiinae and Podoscirtinae (Orthoptera, Grylloidea: Trigonidiidae, Oecanthidae) attest the antiquity of these clades	4
Redescription of the cheloniellid euarthropodTriopus draboviensisfrom the Upper Ordovician of Bohemia, with comments on the affinities ofParioscorpio venator	4
Depositional processes and environmental settings in rock shelters: the case of the prehistoric Oscurusciuto site (Southern Italy)	4
Mafic rocks with back-arc E-MORB affinity from the Chotanagpur Granite Gneiss Complex of India: relicts of a Proterozoic Ophiolite suite	4
Dickinsonia: mobile and adhered	4
A review of natural hydrofractures in rocks	4
Sedimentology and palaeontology of the Upper Karoo Group in the Mid-Zambezi Basin, Zimbabwe: new localities and their implications for interbasinal correlation	4
Petrological implications of element redistribution during metamorphism: insights from meta-granite of the South Delhi Fold Belt, Rajasthan, India	4
Meso-Cenozoic negative inversion model for the Linhe Depression of Hetao Basin, China	4
Major and rare earth element mineral chemistry of low-grade assemblages inform dynamics of hydrothermal ocean-floor metamorphism in the Dinaridic Neotethys	4
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)	4
A mid-Palaeozoic ocean–continent transition in the Mazongshan subduction–accretion complex, Beishan, NW China: new structural, chemical and age data constrain the petrogenesis and tectonic evolution	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
Uncommon preservation of dinosaur footprints in a tidal breccia: Eubrontes giganteus from the Early Jurassic Mongisty tracksite of Aveyron, southern France	4
Two stages of Late Carboniferous to Triassic magmatism in the Strandja Zone of Bulgaria and Turkey	4
Dinaric up-thrusts in the Pliocene evolution of the Central Apennines thrust belt of Italy: the Montagna dei Fiori structure	4
Ore-forming mechanism and its relationship with deformational and metamorphic episodes at Haimur gold mine, Nubian Shield, Egypt	4
Sedimentary evolution of the Pennsylvanian–Permian Mulargia–Escalaplano molassic basin (Sardinia, Italy): the most complete record in the Southern Variscan Realm	4
A new small soft-bodied non-trilobite artiopod from the Cambrian Stage 4 Guanshan Biota	4
Timing of fluorite mineralization and exhumation events in the east Central Alborz Mountains, northern Iran: constraints from fluorite (U–Th)/He thermochronometry	4
Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) conodonts from southern Tibet, the Indian passive margin: implications for the age and correlation of the roof of the world	4
Lowermost Jurassic dinosaur ecosystem from the Bleymard Strait (southern France): sedimentology, mineralogy, palaeobotany and palaeoichnology of the Dolomitic Formation	4
Failure modes in fluid saturated rocks: deformation processes and mode-switching	4
The first Early Ordovician graptolites and marine incursions in eastern Alborz, Iran	4