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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
How do tectonics influence the initiation and evolution of submarine canyons? A case study from the Otway Basin, SE Australia	108
Palaeomagnetic investigations across Hinlopenstretet border zone: from Caledonian metamorphosed rocks of Ny Friesland to foreland facies of Nordaustlandet (NE Svalbard)	73
Age and provenance of the Middle Jurassic Norphlet Formation of south Texas: stratigraphic relationship to the Louann Salt and regional significance	29
Cambrian (Stage 4–Drumian) non-trilobite arthropods from the Murero biota (Spain)	28
The structural development of the strike-slip Água Bonita Basin, Brazil, using receiver function and the HVSR method	28
⁴⁰ Ar/ ³⁹ Ar eruption ages of Turkana Basin tuffs: millennial-scale resolution constrains palaeoclimate proxy tuning models and hominin fossil	27
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	23
Marine eutrophication within the Tarim Platform in sync with Middle to Late Ordovician climatic cooling	22
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	21
Using U–Pb carbonate dating to constrain the timing of extension and fault reactivation within the Bristol Channel Basin, SW England	19
Forensic geology and gold traceability: a case study from the Yanomami Indigenous Land	17
Earth's earliest forest: fossilized trees and vegetation-induced sedimentary structures from the Middle Devonian (Eifelian) Hangman Sandstone Formation, Somerset and Devon, SW England	17
Emerging knowledge on the evolution, structure and resource distribution of the northern South China Sea continental margin	16
Geology and genesis of the Siahouki intermediate-sulfidation epithermal Cu–Au–Ag deposit, SE Iran: constraints from fluid inclusions and S–O–C isotopes	16
A conceptual geological model for offshore wind sites in former ice stream settings: the Utsira Nord site, North Sea	15
Granitoids record the final assembly of the China–Mongolia block	15
Where and when the Palaeo-Asian Ocean was closed: new evidence from the Tuquan ophiolite	15
Tonian intra-oceanic magmatism as the source of the Goiás porphyry copper–gold system in the Brasília orogenic belt: petrogenesis and metallogenetic implications	14
Early Neoproterozoic magmatism and Caledonian metamorphism recorded by the Mårma terrane, Seve Nappe Complex, northern Swedish Caledonides	14
Discoidal carbonaceous compressions from the early Mesoproterozoic Gaoyuzhuang Formation: a fossil example of microbial biofilm	14
The Ouarzazate Supergroup and its plutonic keel: the relicts of an Ediacaran silicic large igneous province in North Africa	14
Dolomitization process of oolites in the Lower Triassic Feixianguan Formation, northeastern Sichuan Basin, China: evidence from magnesium isotopes	14
Igneous layering and magma dynamics in alkaline intrusions: textural evidence for gravitational settling and compaction within cumulates	13
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	13
Multiple stages of continental rifting in Eastern Peninsular Malaysia: new insights from Jurassic–Cretaceous granitoids	13

Foreland deformation of Brasiliano orogens at the eastern and western margins of the São Francisco Craton: K–Ar illite dating of the Araçuaí and Brasília fold-and-thrust belts	13
High-precision U–Pb geochronology of the Lundy igneous complex: implications for North Atlantic volcanism and the far-field Paleocene–Eocene ash record	12
Paleoproterozoic intrusive and sedimentary rocks of the Sidi Ifni Inlier (Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco) and their correlatives in West Africa–Amazonia	12
Early Cretaceous ocean-island basalt-type magmatism in northern Guangdong: implications for lithospheric thinning in the South China Block	12
Improving quantitative ventifact analysis for climate investigations using the Dyngjusandur sandsheet in Iceland as a planetary analogue	12
Multiproxy sediment provenance analysis of two megafans in the Owambo Basin, northern Namibia	11
Mars as a time machine to Precambrian Earth	11
Jurassic tectonics of northeastern Gondwana: evidence from the detrital zircon record of the Nambour Basin	11
The making of Mt Everest: channel flow and low-angle normal faults in the compressional Himalayan orogen	11
The Life of Mary Anning, Fossil Collector of Lyme Regis: a Contemporary Biographical Memoir by George Roberts	11
Enhanced chemical weathering of the continents promoted fast Late Cretaceous nearshore glaucony formation: implications from the Danubian Cretaceous Group, Germany	10
Paleogene drainage system evolution in the NE Faroe–Shetland Basin	10
Correction to: ‘Late Eocene Lu–Hf ages on Carayaca (Puerto Cabello) eclogites: reconstructing the history of the central Cordillera de la Costa, northern central Venezuela’ (2025) by Pindell	10
Ordovician tectonics and crustal evolution at the Gondwana margin (Central Iberian Zone)	10
Aeromagnetic data reveals buried Quaternary drainage patterns in the Gulf of St Lawrence (Canada)	10
Indicative meanings of geological sea-level indicators in the Solent region and Sussex coast (south coast of England) and implications for uplift rates	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
In situ garnet Lu–Hf geochronology and constraints on metamorphism in the northernmost Norwegian Caledonides	9
Timescales of Barrovian metamorphism, ductile deformation and near-isothermal decompression in the Lhagoi Kangri gneiss dome, south–central Tibet	9
Long runout distance of a block breccia density flow along a half-graben axis: latest Jurassic rift climax in East Greenland	9
Age, duration and spatial distribution of ocean shields and rejuvenated volcanism: Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, Eastern Canaries	9
Katian volcanism in Central Armorican Domain (France) and Central Iberian Zone (Portugal): a single monogenetic basaltic field?	9
Modelling sulfate concentrations in the global ocean through Phanerozoic time	9
Revisiting Ediacaran to early Cambrian depositional history of western North China: did it remain passive until the mid-Paleozoic?	8
A detective duo of apatite and zircon geochronology for East Avalonia, Johnston Complex, Wales	8
Neoproterozoic arc–continent and continent–continent collision in the Northern Brasília Orogen: insights from U–Pb detrital zircon provenance and metamorphic modelling	8
Timing and tectonic setting of sediment-hosted Pb–Zn mineralization in Palaeoproterozoic northern Australia: a review and comparison with Mississippi Valley- and Irish-type deposits	8
Post-collisional magmatism and crust–mantle interaction during Gondwana assembly: insights from the Araçuaí orogen, southeastern Brazil	8
Multiple carbon isotope excursions during the Carnian (Late Triassic) pluvial event: implications for global and regional perturbation	8
Interaction of surface processes and crustal flow in the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis	8
3D structure and genesis of synrift uplift within the Baiyun Sag, northern South China Sea	8
Correlation and stratigraphic implications of the lowermost Cambrian small shelly fossils from new sites of South China	8
Upper-crustal structure of the transition zone between Recôncavo and Camamu basins in Itaparica Island, NE Brazil revealed by 3D inversion of magnetotelluric data	7
Transpressional inversion and fold superimposition in the southern Eastern Desert of Egypt, East African Orogenic Belt	7
Global volcano monitoring through the Normalized Hotspot Indices (NHI) system	7
U−Pb geochronology and microstructural analysis of apatite within a Proterozoic crustal-scale shear zone, Outer Hebrides, NW Scotland	7
Significance of c . 1 Ga granites from the South Delhi Fold Belt, NW India: implications for palaeogeographical reconstructions of Rodinia	7
Sulfur isotope fractionation derived from reaction-transport modelling in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific	7
We don't know when plate tectonics began	7
Direct dating of deposition and rift-related alteration of fossil-barren red bed units in the North Sea	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
Hf isotopes in detrital zircon grains of the Sierra Albarrana Domain (SW Iberian Massif): Eburnean v. Archean basement signatures	7
Structural and geomorphological constraints on the activity of the Sparta Fault (Greece)	7
Pedostratigraphic age model for Devonian red beds of NW China	7
Recognizing different types of ocean plate stratigraphy in the southeastern South Qilian Accretionary Belt, northeastern Tibet Plateau	7
U–Pb detrital zircon ages from the Dhanjori and Chaibasa formations, Singhbhum Craton, eastern India, and its regional stratigraphic and global implications	7
Palaeoenvironment and taphonomy of the Hypsilophodon Bed, Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation, Isle of Wight	7
A salty snapshot: extreme variations in basal erosion patterns preserved in a submarine channel	7
Late Eocene Lu–Hf ages on Carayaca (Puerto Cabello) eclogites: reconstructing the history of the central Cordillera de la Costa, northern central Venezuela	7
Lagerstätten: Ediacaran soft-bodied fossils from the Nama Group	7

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	7
Architectural modelling of the fractal-like Ediacaran rangeomorph C harnia masoni	7
Chemical evolution of the Mid-Paleozoic Earth system and biotic response	7
Thermal history of the southern Antarctic Peninsula during Cenozoic oblique subduction	6
Zacarias Au–(Ag–barite) deposit, Neoproterozoic Goiás magmatic arc, Brasília Orogen, Central Brazil: constraints on the metallogenesis of a gold-rich quartz–barite exhalite related to volcanogenic mas	6
Morphometric analysis and taxonomy of the Idiognathodus sagittalis Kozitskaya, 1978 group and the I . swadei–I	6
Metamorphosed mélange in the eastern Himalayan syntaxis: constraint for the India–Asia collision in the Eocene	6
A gradual Proterozoic transition from an unstable stagnant lid to the modern plate tectonic system	6
Surface rupture history and 18 kyr long slip rate along the Pazarcık segment of the East Anatolian Fault	6
LPIA palaeo-fjords: new insights from northern Namibia	6
On the anatomy and structural control of a dyke swarm that fed caldera-forming ignimbrite eruptions	6
Latest Oligocene adakitic rocks in western Iran: implications for early crustal thickening and tectonic evolution of the Iran Block	6
Conjugate extrusion with dextral oblique-slip faulting in SE Tibet: new insights into Oligo-Miocene deformation	6
Jurassic tectonic regime transition of the southwestern Yangtze block, SW China: evidence from sedimentary provenance analysis	6
Vast sediment dispersal in an inland sea: detrital zircon geochronology of the lower Cambrian Mickwitzia Sandstone (southern Sweden) indicates a Timanian source	6
Geometric morphometric analysis of Idiognathodus species across the Atokan–Desmoinesian boundary in north-central New Mexico, USA	6
Different effects of serpentinite-derived and slab-derived fluids on arc magmatism in the Chinese Eastern Tianshan: evidence from Mg–B isotopic systematics	6
Concurrent volcanic and thermogenic emissions from a large mafic complex intersecting a petroleum system in the Oslo Rift, Norway	6
Mid-Ordovician stratigraphy and volcanism in the Hølonda area, Scandinavian Caledonides: complex tectonomagmatic development following arc–continent collision near the Laurentian margin of Iapetus	6
New biostratigraphic data and U–Pb geochronology for the Middle Permian to Triassic succession of the South Qiangtang Block, Xizang	6
Correction to: ‘Anatomy of a 300 Myr old fjord in Namibia’ (2025), by Le Heron et al.	6
Emplacement and landscape controls on ancient submarine volcanism: 3D seismic geomorphological analysis of Cretaceous volcanic activity in the Browse Basin, Australian North West Shelf	6
The early evolution of the Neotethys in the eastern Mediterranean area: implication of new evidence from the Levant basin and margin	6
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	6
Pleistocene deformation of the Malargüe fold–thrust belt from structural modelling and geochronology of syntectonic sedimentation	6
Conditions of ultra-high-temperature metamorphism and its retrogression in the Neoproterozoic Anápolis–Itauçu Complex of the Brasília Fold Belt	6
Monitoring CO ₂ , CO and CH ₄ , affected or not by ventilation and anthropogenic activities, in the galleries of the Underground R	6
Under-thrusting of continental lithospheric mantle controls the architecture of crustal deformation: numerical modelling of the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau	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
An overview of textural, compositional and genetic relationships between magmatic enclaves and their host granitic rocks	5
Synchronous Cretaceous magmatism and migmatization in the Lohit and Dibang valleys, easternmost Himalaya	5
Triassic outliers in the Peak District, central England, and a stratigraphical revision of the Miocene Brassington Formation	5
The illite and organic matter archive of the Late Paleozoic–Mesozoic tectonothermal evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula	5
Palmatolepis gracilis expansa Zone and Bispathodus aculeatus aculeatus Zone conodonts from the Three Lick Bed at the type locality, Ohio Shale, Upper	5
First identification of late Mesozoic intraplate magmatism in the Chinese north Tianshan: implications for the orogenic architecture and crustal evolution	5
Fold-and-thrust belts and associated basins: a perspective on their structure, sedimentation, and dynamics	5
Tectonic evolution of the Alxa region, NW China: from a Precambrian continental ribbon to a Paleozoic–early Triassic accretionary orogen	5
Record of Late Oligocene silicic volcanism in the Hrvatsko Zagorje Basin, Croatia: insights from U–Pb zircon geochronology and volcanology	5
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	5
Drainage response to superimposed deformation of the Weiyuan anticline in the southwestern Sichuan basin, China	5
Eocene back-arc basin basalt-type diabases from the southern part of the Eastern Pontides (NE Turkey): new evidence for prolonged subduction of Paleo-Tethys oceanic lithosphere	5
Significance of the Paleocene olistostrome–turbidite belt (Abant Formation) along the Intra-Pontide Suture, northern Turkey	5
Intracontinental deformation around the fixed tip of the continental-scale, strike-slip Tan–Lu fault zone in eastern China	5
Fluid inclusion and stable isotope fingerprints of the Paraná emerald deposit, Borborema Province, northeastern Brazil: implications for a tectonic–magmatic origin	5
An integrated convolutional neural network prediction framework for in situ shale oil content based on conventional logging data	5
The impact of faulting-induced uplift and subsidence on terrace formation and abandonment: a case study of the Huangshui River, NE Tibetan Plateau	5
The Charnwood Terrane revisited: an integrated petrogenetic and petrophysical model for crustal structure in southern Britain	5
Editorial	5
Origin and tectono-metamorphic history of the Riffelberg-Garten meta-sedimentary ophiolitic unit, Western Alps	4
Constraining the relative positions of island arc terranes in the Canadian Cordillera using conodont oxygen isotope thermometry	4
Unravelling the complex record of magma flow and solidification in sills	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
Structural evolution of the reactivated Møre–Trøndelag Fault Complex, Fosen Peninsula, Norway	4
Pattern of British–Irish Ice Sheet advance and retreat: geochemical insights from an offshore transect	4
Prolonged (629–578 Ma) post-collisional syenite–monzonite magmatism on the verge of the post-orogenic period: the Arroio do Silva Pluton, southernmost Brazil	4
A baptism by fire: fossil charcoal from eastern Euramerica reveals the earliest (Homerian) terrestrial biota evolved in a flammable world	4
Late Paleozoic intra-oceanic arc and its accretionary complex in East Junggar (NW China): implications for multiple arc amalgamation in the southern Altaids	4
Anatomy of a 300 Myr old fjord in Namibia	4
Marine redox dynamics and biotic response to the mid-Silurian Ireviken Extinction Event in a mid-shelf setting	4
Neotectonics on the Namuncurá (Burdwood) Bank: unveiling seafloor strike-slip processes along the North Scotia Ridge	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
A prototype Mars regolith simulant (P_TO_MARS-1) exploiting the geology of the Piedmont region (NW Italy)	4
Detrital zircon ages from the Paleoproterozoic Tanque Novo–Ipirá Complex, Itabuna–Salvador–Curaçá Orogen, northern São Francisco Craton, Brazil: records from the Kenorland and Columbia supercontinents	4
Structural styles of the Tierra del Fuego fold–thrust belt foothills, Argentina	4
⁴⁰ Ar/ ³⁹ Ar geochronology and petrophysics of Ediacaran granites, northern Borborema Province, Brazil: implications for cooling of the Brasil	4
Mantle plume activity in the Mirovoi Ocean: evidence from accreted oceanic slices in North Wales	4
Is plate tectonics a post-Archean phenomenon? A petrological perspective	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
The High Arctic Large Igneous Province: first seismic-stratigraphic evidence for multiple Mesozoic volcanic pulses on the Lomonosov Ridge, central Arctic Ocean	4
On the Statherian–Calymmian palaeogeography of northwestern Laurentia	4
Reassessing Gondwana rifting during the Early Cretaceous: biostratigraphic and tectonic implications of the Abaiara Formation, Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil	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
Early Paleozoic ductile deformation of the South China Block: the polyphase shear zones in the eastern Jiangnan belt	4
Correction to: ‘Late Cenozoic sedimentary records of the uplift of the Karlik Mountains and aridification of the Hami Basin, Central Asia’ (2025), by D. Zhang et al.	4
Cretaceous–Paleogene tectonic reconstructions of the South Scotia Ridge and implications for the initiation of subduction in the Scotia Sea	4
Controls on the genesis of a giant sand injection complex; insights into the Paleogene evolution of the stress of northern and central California	4
Far-field tectonic effects of the High Arctic Eurekan Orogeny from an indenting Greenland Plate during the Palaeogene	4
Redox changes in the Iapetus Ocean during the Late Ordovician extinction crises	4