OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of the Geological Society 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How do tectonics influence the initiation and evolution of submarine canyons? A case study from the Otway Basin, SE Australia	69
Using U–Pb carbonate dating to constrain the timing of extension and fault reactivation within the Bristol Channel Basin, SW England	51
Age and provenance of the Middle Jurassic Norphlet Formation of south Texas: stratigraphic relationship to the Louann Salt and regional significance	51
Early Neoproterozoic (Tonian) subduction-related magmatism and tectonothermal activity in Shetland and northern mainland Scotland: implications for the tectonic evolution of NE Laurentia and Rodinia r	36
Geology, geochemistry and zircon SHRIMP U–Pb geochronology of Mesoarchean high-Mg granitoids: constraints on petrogenesis, emplacement timing and deformation of the Água Limpa suite in the Carajás Pro	30
Marine eutrophication within the Tarim Platform in sync with Middle to Late Ordovician climatic cooling	29
Earth's earliest forest: fossilized trees and vegetation-induced sedimentary structures from the Middle Devonian (Eifelian) Hangman Sandstone Formation, Somerset and Devon, SW England	27
Forensic geology and gold traceability: a case study from the Yanomami Indigenous Land	23
Meteorites that produce K-feldspar-rich ejecta blankets correspond to mass extinctions	20
Palaeomagnetic investigations across Hinlopenstretet border zone: from Caledonian metamorphosed rocks of Ny Friesland to foreland facies of Nordaustlandet (NE Svalbard)	19
Exhumation of the crustal-scale Gaoligong strike-slip shear belt in SE Asia	19
New onshore insights into the role of structural inheritance during Mesozoic opening of the Inner Moray Firth Basin, Scotland	18
Two-phase intracontinental deformation mode in the context of India–Eurasia collision: insights from a structural analysis of the West Kunlun–Southern Junggar transect along the NW margin of the Tibet	17
⁴⁰ Ar/ ³⁹ Ar eruption ages of Turkana Basin tuffs: millennial-scale resolution constrains palaeoclimate proxy tuning models and hominin fossil	17
Granitioids record the final assembly of the China-Mongolia Block	16
Improving quantitative ventifact analysis for climate investigations using the Dyngjusandur sandsheet in Iceland as a planetary analogue	14
Salt extrusion kinematics: insights from existing data, morphology and InSAR modelling of the active emergent Anguru diapir in the Zagros fold and thrust belt, Iran	13
The Ouarzazate Supergroup and its plutonic keel: the relicts of an Ediacaran silicic large igneous province in North Africa	12
Igneous layering and magma dynamics in alkaline intrusions: textural evidence for gravitational settling and compaction within cumulates	12
A conceptual geological model for offshore wind sites in former ice stream settings: the Utsira Nord site, North Sea	12
Jurassic tectonics of northeastern Gondwana: evidence from the detrital zircon record of the Nambour Basin	12
Early Cretaceous ocean-island basalt-type magmatism in northern Guangdong: implications for lithospheric thinning in the South China Block	12
Early Neoproterozoic magmatism and Caledonian metamorphism recorded by the Mårma terrane, Seve Nappe Complex, northern Swedish Caledonides	11
Discoidal carbonaceous compressions from the early Mesoproterozoic Gaoyuzhuang Formation: a fossil example of microbial biofilm	11
Where and when the Palaeo-Asian Ocean was closed: new evidence from the Tuquan ophiolite	11

Reassessing the timing of high-strain deformation in the Strangways Metamorphic Complex, Central Australia, by in situ mica Rb–Sr and titanite U–Pb geochronology	11
High-precision U–Pb geochronology of the Lundy igneous complex: implications for North Atlantic volcanism and the far-field Paleocene–Eocene ash record	11
The Life of Mary Anning, Fossil Collector of Lyme Regis: a Contemporary Biographical Memoir by George Roberts	10
Ordovician tectonics and crustal evolution at the Gondwana margin (Central Iberian Zone)	10
Multiple stages of continental rifting in Eastern Peninsular Malaysia: new insights from Jurassic–Cretaceous granitoids	10
Paleogene drainage system evolution in the NE Faroe–Shetland Basin	10
Jurassic–Cretaceous arc magmatism along the Shyok–Bangong Suture of NW Himalaya: formation of the peri-Gondwana basement to the Ladakh Arc	10
U–Pb age constraints on the protolith, cooling and exhumation of a Variscan middle crust migmatite complex from the Central Iberian Zone: insights into the Variscan metamorphic evolution and Ediacaran	10
Enhanced chemical weathering of the continents promoted fast Late Cretaceous nearshore glaucony formation: implications from the Danubian Cretaceous Group, Germany	9
The making of Mt Everest: channel flow and low-angle normal faults in the compressional Himalayan orogen	9
Mars as a time machine to Precambrian Earth	9
Multiproxy sediment provenance analysis of two megafans in the Owambo Basin, northern Namibia	9
Indicative meanings of geological sea-level indicators in the Solent region and Sussex coast (south coast of England) and implications for uplift rates	9
Modelling sulfate concentrations in the global ocean through Phanerozoic time	9
Aeromagnetic data reveals buried Quaternary drainage patterns in the Gulf of St Lawrence (Canada)	9
Age, duration and spatial distribution of ocean shields and rejuvenated volcanism: Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, Eastern Canaries	9
Recognition and characterization of small-scale sand injectites in seismic data: implications for reservoir development	9
Interaction of surface processes and crustal flow in the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis	8
A salty snapshot: extreme variations in basal erosion patterns preserved in a submarine channel	8
Transpressional inversion and fold superimposition in the southern Eastern Desert of Egypt, East African Orogenic Belt	8
Direct dating of deposition and rift-related alteration of fossil-barren red bed units in the North Sea	8
A detective duo of apatite and zircon geochronology for East Avalonia, Johnston Complex, Wales	8
Long runout distance of a block breccia density flow along a half-graben axis: latest Jurassic rift climax in East Greenland	8
Correlation and stratigraphic implications of the lowermost Cambrian small shelly fossils from new sites of South China	8
3D structure and genesis of syn-rift uplift within the Baiyun Sag, northern South China Sea	8
Palaeoenvironment and taphonomy of the Hypsilophodon Bed, Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation, Isle of Wight	8
Sedimentological responses to initial continental collision: triggering of sand injection and onset of mass movement in a syn-collisional trench basin, Saga, southern Tibet	8
Timing and tectonic setting of sediment-hosted Pb-Zn mineralisation in Paleoproterozoic northern Australia: a review and comparison with Mississippi Valley-and Irish-type deposits	8
In situ garnet Lu–Hf geochronology and constraints on metamorphism in the northernmost Norwegian Caledonides	8
Revisiting Ediacaran to early Cambrian depositional history of western North China: did it remain passive until the mid-Paleozoic?	7
Tracing Pb from Nolans Bore thorianite through Alice Springs thorite to radiogenic galena: EPMA and LA-ICP-MS study of time and space	7
U−Pb geochronology and microstructural analysis of apatite within a Proterozoic crustal-scale shear zone, Outer Hebrides, NW Scotland	7
Sulfur isotope fractionation derived from reaction-transport modelling in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific	7
Significance of c . 1 Ga granites from the South Delhi Fold Belt, NW India: implications for palaeogeographical reconstructions of Rodinia	7
Katian volcanism in Central Armorican Domain (France) and Central Iberian Zone (Portugal): a single monogenetic basaltic field?	7
Late Eocene Lu–Hf ages on Carayaca (Puerto Cabello) eclogites: reconstructing the history of the Cordillera de la Costa Central, northern Venezuela	7
Architectural modelling of the fractal-like Ediacaran rangeomorph C harnia masoni	7
Carboniferous sedimentary provenance and tectonic setting in the Darbut region of Western Junggar (NW China): evidence from mineralogy, geochemistry and detrital zircon U–Pb dating	7
Transcrustal magmatic systems: evidence from andesites of the southern Taupo Volcanic Zone	7
Global volcano monitoring through the Normalized Hotspot Indices (NHI) system	7
Multiple carbon isotope excursions during the Carnian (Late Triassic) pluvial event: implications for global and regional perturbation	7
Hf isotopes in detrital zircon grains of the Sierra Albarrana Domain (SW Iberian Massif): Eburnean v. Archean basement signatures	7
Pedostratigraphic age model for Devonian red beds of NW China	7
Mid-Ordovician stratigraphy and volcanism in the Hølonda area, Scandinavian Caledonides: complex tectonomagmatic development following arc–continent collision near the Laurentian margin of Iapetus	7
Is the Ibero-Armorican Arc primary or secondary? An analysis of the contraction required to form it by rotation around a vertical axis	6
A Quaternary carbonate contourite drift system on the Eyre Terrace, Great Australian Bight: implications for the origin of prograding shelf-edge–upper slope clinoforms, southern Australian passive mar	6
Recognizing different types of ocean plate stratigraphy in the southeastern South Qilian Accretionary Belt, northeastern Tibet Plateau	6
LPIA palaeo-fjords: new insights from northern Namibia	6
A gradual Proterozoic transition from an unstable stagnant lid to the modern plate tectonic system	6
Structural and geomorphological constraints on the activity of the Sparta Fault (Greece)	6

We don't know when plate tectonics began	6
The early evolution of the Neotethys in the eastern Mediterranean area: implication of new evidence from the Levant basin and margin	6
A thermal event in the Dolpo region (Nepal): a consequence of the shift from orogen perpendicular to orogen parallel extension in central Himalaya?	6
Latest Oligocene adakitic rocks in western Iran: implications for early crustal thickening and tectonic evolution of the Iran Block	6
Geometric morphometric analysis of Idiognathodus species across the Atokan–Desmoinesian boundary in north-central New Mexico, USA	5
Conjugate extrusion with dextral oblique-slip faulting in SE Tibet: new insights into Oligo-Miocene deformation	5
Morphometric analysis and taxonomy of the Idiognathodus sagittalis Kozitskaya, 1978 group and the I . swadei	5
Jurassic tectonic regime transition of the southwestern Yangtze block, SW China: evidence from sedimentary provenance analysis	5
The Charnwood Terrane revisited: an integrated petrogenetic and petrophysical model for crustal structure in southern Britain	5
Vast sediment dispersal in an inland sea: detrital zircon geochronology of the lower Cambrian Mickwitzia Sandstone (southern Sweden) indicates a Timanian source	5
Tectonic evolution of the Alxa region, NW China: from a Precambrian continental ribbon to a Paleozoic–early Triassic accretionary orogen	5
Surface rupture history and 18 kyr long slip rate along the Pazarcık segment of the East Anatolian Fault	5
Pleistocene deformation of the Malargüe fold–thrust belt from structural modelling and geochronology of syntectonic sedimentation	5
Monitoring CO ₂ , CO and CH ₄ , affected or not by ventilation and anthropogenic activities, in the galleries of the Underground R	5
Lithofacies and depositional model of organic-rich lacustrine mudstone: a case study of the second member of the Eocene Liushagang Formation in the Weixinan Sag, Beibuwan Basin, China	5
Metamorphosed mélange in the eastern Himalayan syntaxis: constraint for the India–Asia collision in the Eocene	5
The illite and organic matter archive of the Late Palaeozoic to Mesozoic tectonothermal evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula	5
Different effects of serpentinite-derived and slab-derived fluids on arc magmatism in the Chinese Eastern Tianshan: evidence from Mg–B isotopic systematics	5
An integrated convolutional neural network prediction framework for in situ shale oil content based on conventional logging data	5
Deep- versus shallow-marine sandstone provenance in the mid-Carboniferous Clare Basin, western Ireland	5
Mineral chemistry and melt evolution of the mantle wedge peridotites in the Late Cretaceous Zagros Belt ophiolites (Iran): clues for the subduction initiation-induced forearc magmatism	5
Emplacement and landscape controls on ancient submarine volcanism: 3D seismic geomorphological analysis of Cretaceous volcanic activity in the Browse Basin, Australian North West Shelf	5
Record of Late Oligocene silicic volcanism in the Hrvatsko Zagorje Basin, Croatia: insights from U–Pb zircon geochronology and volcanology	5
On the anatomy and structural control of a dyke swarm that fed caldera-forming ignimbrite eruptions	5
Palmatolepis gracilis expansa Zone and Bispathodus aculeatus aculeatus Zone conodonts from the Three Lick Bed at the type locality, Ohio Shale, Upper	5
Thermal history of the southern Antarctic Peninsula during Cenozoic oblique subduction	5
New biostratigraphic data and U-Pb geochronology for the Middle Permian to Triassic Succession of the South Qiangtang Block, Xizang	5
Structural styles of the Tierra del Fuego fold–thrust belt foothills, Argentina	4
Chemostratigraphy of the extrusive sequence of a Late Cretaceous Neotethyan ophiolite in southern Iran and its significance for the mode and tempo of subduction initiation magmatism and melt evolution	4
On the Statherian–Calymmian palaeogeography of northwestern Laurentia	4
The naming of the Permian System	4
The journey of the Band-e-Zeyarat ophiolite (Makran Accretionary Wedge, SE Iran) from the mid-ocean ridge to the accretionary complex: new insights from its sedimentary cover and associated basaltic d	4
Depositional sequences in northern Peru: new insights on the palaeogeographic and palaeotectonic reconstruction of western Gondwana during late Permian and Triassic	4
Fold-and-thrust belts and associated basins: a perspective on their structure, sedimentation, and dynamics	4
Organic matter enrichment and palaeo-sedimentary environment reconstruction of lacustrine shale in the second member of the Middle Jurassic Qiketai Formation in the Shengbei Sub-sag, Turpan–Hami Basin	4
New holozoans with cellular resolution from the early Ediacaran Weng'an Biota, SW China	4
U–Pb ages from felsic rocks of the External Ligurian sedimentary mélange (Northern Apennine, Italy): tracing the pre-Jurassic history of the hyperextended Adria continental margin	4
Anatomy of a 300 Myr old fjord in Namibia	4
Neotectonics on the Namuncurá (Burdwood) Bank: unveiling seafloor strike-slip processes along the North Scotia Ridge	4
Paleozoic sedimentation and Caledonian terrane architecture in NW Svalbard: indications from U–Pb geochronology and structural analysis	4
First identification of late Mesozoic intraplate magmatism in the Chinese north Tianshan: implications for the orogenic architecture and crustal evolution	4
Significance of the Paleocene olistostrome–turbidite belt (Abant Formation) along the Intra-Pontide Suture, northern Turkey	4
Miocene tuffs from the Dinarides and Eastern Alps as proxies of the Pannonian Basin lithosphere dynamics and tropospheric circulation patterns in Central Europe	4
Editorial	4
The High Arctic Large Igneous Province: first seismic-stratigraphic evidence for multiple Mesozoic volcanic pulses on the Lomonosov Ridge, central Arctic Ocean	4
Early Paleozoic ductile deformation of the South China Block: the polyphase shear zones in the eastern Jiangnan belt	4
Reply to discussion on ‘Acheulian and Tephra from Upland Western Maharashtra, (Deccan Volcanic Province), Peninsular India', by Deo et al. 2021 ( SP	4
Constraining the relative positions of island arc terranes in the Canadian Cordillera using conodont oxygen isotope thermometry	4
Open–closed–open palaeofluid system conditions recorded in the tectonic vein networks of the Parmelan anticline (Bornes Massif, France)	4
The Gogo Formation Lagerstätte: a view of Australia's first great barrier reef	4
The impact of faulting-induced uplift and subsidence on terrace formation and abandonment: a case study of the Huangshui River, NE Tibetan Plateau	4
Intracontinental deformation around the fixed tip of the continental-scale, strike-slip Tan–Lu fault zone in eastern China	4
Under-thrusting of continental lithospheric mantle controls the architecture of crustal deformation: numerical modelling of the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau	4
Th–U–Pb dating of euhedral monazites in radiolarian-bearing deposits: implication for the tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the Meliatic mélange in the Western Carpathians	4