OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Geology Review is 3. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Zircon and monazite U-Pb ages of the Mashan Complex of the Jiamusi Block of NE China: a link to Gondwana?	25
Energy Flow and Earth: How Earth Works	24
Machine learning for Earth sciences: using Python to solve geological problems	19
Structural evolution of the Kanggur tectonic belt: implications for the latest carboniferous to Permian orogeny in the Eastern Tianshan, NW China	17
Late Eocene slab retreat, extension, and mantle upwelling inferred from mantle signatures in potassium-rich magmatism in NE Iran	17
Petrogenesis of ultramafic rocks from the Neoproterozoic Bou Azzer Ophiolite (Morocco): new insights into a long-standing geodynamic question	14
Late Paleozoic potassic igneous rocks of the Adyrtor intrusions in the eastern Kyrgyz Tien Shan: geochemistry, isotope U-Pb zircon geochronology, and related W-Mo(-Cu-Au) mineralization	12
Discovering the unique geology of the Bergell Alps	12
Late Palaeozoic final subduction records of the southwestern Paleo-Asian Ocean revealed by ca. 286–283 Ma basaltic rocks in the West Junggar, NW China	11
Carboniferous variation of crustal thickness and subduction angles in Eastern Tianshan, NW China: evidence from the petrogenesis of the magmatic rocks in the Aqishan–Yamansu Belt	11
Large Holocene paleoseismic events and synchronized travertine formation: a case study of the Kurai fault zone (Gorny Altai, Russia)	11
Middle Triassic to Jurassic convergence at the north-western margin of Gondwana: insights from the Central Cordillera of Colombia	10
Tectono‑magmatic control on the intensity of decratonic gold mineralization in the southeastern margin of the North China Craton: A perspective from geochemical comparison	10
Buried Jurassic rift system in the middle segment of the northern Qaidam Basin: Implications for Mesozoic landforms of the northern Tibetan Plateau	10
The Cambrian explosion as a Black Box: a qualitative appreciation	10
Triassic granites in the West Qinling Orogen, China: implications for the Early Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the Paleo-Tethys ocean	10
The 1800-1770 Ma Colider silicic large igneous province in the Amazonian craton: crustal evolution using zircon in situ REE compositions, U-Pb ages and Hf isotope analyses	10
Anxiety and geology: managing acute anxiety disorder symptoms during field exercises	9
Contrasting Cu mineralization styles across the Dananhu Arc, Eastern Tianshan: insights from the geochronology, geochemistry, and Sr–Nd–Hf isotopes of Carboniferous arc rocks	9
Early cretaceous topographic evolution associated with the collapse of the Mongol-Okhotsk orogen in Western Transbaikalia: an integrated analysis	9
Cadomian tectonic evolution of Iran: records of an unusually hot and broad extensional convergent margin on the northern margin of Gondwana	9
Geochemistry and geochronology of early Triassic tephra from SW China: implications for biological evolution and tectonics	9
Age, origin and tectonic implications of Late Carboniferous-Early Permian felsic magmatic rocks from central Inner Mongolia, south-eastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt	9
A review of the main tectonic settings of Palaeo-and-Mesoarchean ore deposits in the northern São Francisco Craton, NE Brazil	9
Extremely enriched lithospheric mantle–derived magmas in the central Lhasa Terrane, southern Tibet	9

Mesozoic tectono-magmatic evolution of the Tanlu Fault zone and its relationship with the destruction of the North China Craton	8
Late Mesozoic Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the Hekimhan Basin and the environs (central eastern Anatolia): implications for the eastern Taurides and Gürün Curl	8
Neoproterozoic granitoids of northwest Vietnam and their tectonic implications	8
Petrogenesis of Late Cretaceous A-type plutonic rocks from the Eastern Pontides Orogenic Belt (NE Turkey): constraints from zircon U-Pb geochronology, zircon Lu-Hf and whole-rock Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf isotopes	8
Neogene uplift and deformation in the northeastern Bird’s Head Peninsula, West Papua, Indonesia: consequences of oblique plate convergence	8
Paleoproterozoic, Mesoproterozoic, and Paleozoic sedimentary successions of the Southwestern Amazonian craton: geochemistry, provenance, and post-sedimentary events	8
Subduction and retreat of Permian oceanic plates in the East Kunlun Orogenic Belt: evidence from mafic-ultramafic intrusive rocks	8
Subduction initiation of Paleo-Pacific Ocean and final closure of Paleo-Asian Ocean: constraints from Triassic granitoids in Jiamusi Block, NE China	7
Formation of the Permo-Triassic Ondor Sum thrust system and its constraint on Solonker Ocean closure	7
O- and H- Isotope constraints on Neogene high-K calc-alkaline and shoshonitic volcanic rocks and borates in the Kırka (Eskişehir) basin, W Anatolia	7
Provenance and Palaeogeomorphology study of the southwestern North China Craton during Middle-Late Triassic and its geological implication	7
The different roles of fluid conduits for marine gas hydrate systems: A global review	7
The Cenomanian–Turonian Boundary Event (CTBE) as recorded in the northern margin of Africa: palaeoceanography of the Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE-2), North-Central Tunisia	7
Petrogenesis of high-Mg andesites from the Proterozoic Shillong Basin, Northeast India: evidence for continuation of the Central Indian Tectonic Zone to the Assam-Meghalaya Gneissic Complex and its im	7
A major neoproterozoic crustal boundary in the Borborema province of ne Brazil	6
Whole-Rock Geochemistry, Zircon U-Pb geochronology and Lu-Hf isotopic constraints on metasedimentary rocks (Paragneisses) in Stornes Peninsula, Larsemann Hills，East Antarctica	6
Geochronological and geochemical constraints on the non-ultrahigh-pressure metasedimentary blocks of North China affinity within the Sulu ultrahigh-pressure belt, eastern China, and tectonic implicati	6
Spatiotemporal distribution and mechanism of Mesozoic magmatism in the Taiwan Strait and its adjacent areas: insights from seismic, geochemical, and geochronological data	6
Early Cretaceous provenance-depositional systems and volcano-sedimentary responses to strike-slip faulting in southern Jilin and eastern Liaoning provinces, NE China: a case study of the Tonghua Basin	6
Geochronology of a Paleoproterozoic metamorphic complex in the Shuangsheng area of Inner Mongolia: constraints on crustal evolution	6
Dynamics of Cambro–Ordovician rifting of the northern margin of Gondwana as revealed by the timing of subsidence and magmatism in rift-related basins	6
Early Cretaceous partial melting recorded by pelitic gneiss from the Nagasaki Metamorphic Complex, western Kyushu, Japan: initiation of Cretaceous high-Tmetamorphism at eastern margin of Eurasi	6
Differences in east-west thermo-rheological structure and lithospheric deformation in the Qaidam Basin, Northern Tibetan Plateau, China	6
New palaeoclimatic constraints from paleosols on the Middle-Late Jurassic landscape, Western Colorado, U.S.A	6
Reworked Neoproterozoic sub-arc lithosphere beneath the Eastern Desert (Egypt): Evidence from geochemistry and geochronology of metabasites and granitoid gneisses, Gabal Um Gunud area	6
Petrogenesis of Eocene mafic and felsic magmas in the New Caledonia ophiolite: geochemistry and geochronology constraints	6
Episodic fluid charging and mixing triggers calcite-bearing agates in the Permian Emeishan Basalt, SW China	6
Multiple Palaeozoic–Mesozoic orogenic events in the SE Yangtze Block, China: evidence from the petrogenesis and deformation of gneissic granites from the Nanwenhe metamorphic dome and regional correla	6
Geospatial analysis applied to mineral exploration: remote sensing, gis, geochemical, and geophysical applications to mineral resources	6
Thickness change of the Tibetan lithosphere since Early Cretaceous as revealed by Ce/Yb and Sm/Yb ratios of volcanic rocks	6
Metasomatized mantle under the Eastern Mexican Alkaline Province: evidence from the Oligocene Rincón Murillo Gabbro, Sierra de San Carlos-Cruillas, NE México	6
Late Triassic magmatic rocks in the southern East Kunlun Orogenic Belt, northern Tibetan Plateau: Petrogenesis and tectonic implications	6
Petrology and zircon U-Pb geochronology of mafic - intermediate dykes in the West-Central Taurides: Implications for magma source during the Late Precambrian – Early Palaeozoic	6
Cenozoic rifting and inversion of Beibuwan Basin and its linkage with the strike-slip movement along the Ailao Shan-Red River Shear Zone	5
Multiple tectonomagmatic reactivation of the unexposed basement in the northern Siberian craton: from Paleoproterozoic orogeny to Phanerozoic kimberlite magmatism	5
An outline of Paleoproterozoic-Mesoproterozoic crustal evolution of the NW Amazon craton and implications for the Columbia Supercontinent	5
Cadomian crustal evolution of Turkey, Iran, and environs	5
The May 15, 2020 M 6.5 Monte Cristo Range, Nevada, earthquake: eyes in the sky, boots on the ground, and a chance for students to learn	5
Clastic injectites and seismic-induced liquefaction in latest Quaternary travertine deposits (Serre di Rapolano, Italy)	5
Precambrian tectono-magmatic evolution of the western margin of the Yangtze block, South China: evidence from zircon U-Pb-Lu-Hf isotopes, REE and trace elements of Yuanmou-Miyi complexes	5
Mantle-hosted ophiolitic chromitites from Colombia: implications for petrogenesis and geodynamic evolution	5
U-Pb and Ar-Ar geochronological constraints on timing of deformation and peak metamorphism in the Central Africa Orogenic Belt, Yaoundé Domain, Cameroon	5
Cretaceous intraplate volcanism of Govorov Guyot and formation models of the Magellan seamounts, Pacific Ocean	5
Damaging earthquakes of the Eastern Indian subcontinent and seismic hazard potential: insights from palaeoseismology	5
Mineral potential facing socio-economic development challenges: case study of the democratic republic of Congo, a ‘geological scandal’	5
Two ophiolite belts in the East Kunlun Orogenic Belt record evolution from the Proto-Tethys to Paleo-Tethys Oceans	5
Fault control and timing of manganese deposits at Abu Ramad, South Egyptian margin of the Red Sea	5
An evolving tectonic environment of Early to Middle Permian granitic plutons in the Barkol area, East Junggar: insights from integrated zircon U–Pb ages, geochemistry, and Nd–Sr–Hf isotopes	5
Volcanic and sedimentary rocks reveal the Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Lhasa Terrane, Tibet	5
The early Paleogene strike-slip tectonic setting along the northeastern Asian margin: structural control on magmatism	5

Isotopes in economic geology, metallogenesis and exploration	5
Petrogenesis of Early-Middle Jurassic gabbros in southern Tibet with implications for crustal growth in the southern Lhasa subterrane	5
Petrogenesis, geochronology, and tectonic setting of the Calymmian 1.45–1.50 Ga basic magmatism in the Southern Ribeira Belt, Brazil: evidence of intracontinental rifting and Columbia break-up	4
Zircon xenocrysts in Late Cretaceous magmatic rocks in the Kermanshah Ophiolite: link to Iran continental crust supports the subduction initiation model	4
Late paleozoic–mesozoic subduction and accretion of the paleo-pacific plate: insights from the ocean plate stratigraphy of the wandashan accretionary complex, NE China	4
Jurassic to Early cretaceous sedimentary record: indications of Paleo-Pacific Plate subduction in Southeast China	4
Origin and palaeodepositional environment of evaporites in the Bala sub-basin, Central Anatolia, Türkiye	4
Peridotite xenoliths of Harrat ar-Rahah-Uwayrid alkaline basalts, NW Saudi Arabia: fragments of a multiply metasomatized Neoproterozoic mantle	4
Defining the Cimmerian orogeny in the West Pontides: geochronological and geochemical data from Permo-Triassic dykes in the İstanbul-Zonguldak Tectonic Unit	4
Petrogenesis of Cretaceous felsic volcanic rocks in Zhejiang province, China: insights from zircon U-Pb age and Lu-Hf isotopes	4
Evidence for Neoproterozoic terrane accretion in the central Borborema Province, West Gondwana deduced by isotopic and geophysical data compilation	4
Alpine convergence record in the Carboniferous Badstub Formation, Upper Austroalpine basement nappes, Austria	4
A review of geological characteristics and time–space distribution of cobalt deposits in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Xinjiang, Northwest China	4
A review of the main tectonic settings of Neoarchaean ore deposits and mineral occurrences in the northern São Francisco Craton, NE Brazil	4
Introduction to applied mineralogy	4
A late Neoarchean continental arc system in the northeastern North China Craton: constrain from the Guanghua mélange in the Tonghua area, southern Jilin Province	4
Groundwater quality and geochemistry in arid and semi-arid regions	4
Geochemistry and petrogenesis of ophiolitic rocks from the Indus Suture Zone (ISZ), Ladakh Himalaya: insights for depleted mantle beneath an intra-oceanic island arc complex	4
Introduction to environmental mineralogy	4
Soft rocks, hard rocks: the world’s resources and reserves of Ti and Zr and associated critical minerals	4
Bulk chemistry and Hf isotope ratios of the Almogholagh Intrusive Complex, western Iran: a consequence of an extensional tectonic regime in the Late Jurassic	4
Huge sedimentary hiatus in the southern margin of the North China Craton from mid-Mesoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic	4
A review of Neoproterozoic to early Palaeozoic rocks of the Jiamusi–Khanka Massif, NE China: a rifted fragment from the Siberian Craton?	4
Mesozoic thermal events and related gold mineralization in the еastern Mongol-Okhotsk Orogenic Belt: constraints from regional geology and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating	4
A clockwise P‐T‐t-D path of the northern Patagonia basement: implications for the Permian evolution of the Panthalassan margin of Gondwana	4
Garnetite, garnet-quartz (‘coticule’) and calc-silicate layers in high-pressure metapelitic rocks, Venezuela: metamorphosed exhalites in a Cretaceous back-arc basin	4
Late cenozoic exhumation of the Nodoushan plutonic complex constrained by low-temperature thermochronology: evidence for Arabia–Eurasia collision in the southeastern Iranian Plateau	4
Reply to discussion of ‘new insights on Franciscan complex geology, architecture, depositional age, and provenance for the western Mt. Tamalpais area, Marin County, California’ by Graymer et al. (2021	4
Early activity of the Kerguelen Mantle plume: geochronology, geochemistry and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes of mafic dykes and sills from the Tethyan Himalaya	4
Triassic magmatism in Northeast China: Implications for spatiotemporal distribution, continental crustal accretion, and geodynamic evolution	3
Petrogenesis and geochronology of the bronze fox porphyry Cu-Au deposit: Implications for the geodynamic evolution of the Gurvansaykhan Island arc, southern Mongolia	3
Tectonic controls on Late Cretaceous sedimentation on the southern Tethyan passive margin, Tunisia: new evidence of structural segmentation and early basin inversion	3
Petrogenesis of late cretaceous arc volcanism in the Eastern Pontides, NE Turkey: insight from zircon U–Pb geochronology, whole-rock geochemistry and Hf-Sr-Nd isotopes	3
Multistage metallogeny and tectonic evolution in eastern NE China and adjacent Russian Far East: geochronology, geochemistry, and Sr-Nd-Hf isotope perspectives	3
Sedimentary tectonic pattern of Wufeng and Longmaxi Formations in the northern margin of Sichuan Basin, South China	3
Comment on ‘New insights on Franciscan Complex geology, architecture, depositional age, and provenance for the western Mt. Tamalpais area, Marin County, California’ by Bero et al. (2020)	3
The Permian-Triassic succession of the Montagnola Senese Ridge (Middle Tuscan Ridge, Italy): a perspective for late Palaeozoic magmatism and continentalisation in the western Tethys	3
Middle Permian basic and acidic volcanism in the Istanbul zone (NW Turkey): evidence for post-variscan extensional magmatism	3
Tectonic development of the Ankara-Erzincan suture and the Eastern Pontide mountains, Northeast Anatolia, Turkey	3
The Marifil Volcanic Complex at Sierra de Pailemán: implications for the Early Jurassic magmatic evolution of the Eastern North Patagonian Region	3
Metamorphic P-T-t path of Triassic eclogite from the Rongcheng region, eastern China: implications for the tectonic evolution of Sulu orogenic belt	3
Chalcophile element systematics of Mariana Trough basalts and implications for sulphide saturation evolution of intra-oceanic back-arc magmatic systems	3
Geology, geochemistry, and exploration of the Central African Copperbelt: a review	3
Deep kimberlite prospecting and thrust-nappe structure: Analysis of diamond metallogenic belt in Wafangdian, China	3
U–Pb geochronology and geochemistry of dikes in the Changbaishan Tianchi volcanic field (NE China) and their relations with the coeval Jingbohu and Longgang monogenetic volcanic fields	3
Petrogenesis of the Early Silurian Renda appinite suite in the southeastern Qilian Orogen, NW China: Implications for the evolution of a Proto-Tethys magmatic arc	3
Triassic gypsum layers in Keban Metamorphics, eastern Tauride Belt, Southeastern Turkey: New data about Triassic rifting in northern Tethys margin	3
Evolved Late Mesozoic continental arc: Constraints of detrital zircons from the western East China Sea	3
Rare earth metals and minerals industries: status and prospects	3
Special issue on tectonic, magmatic and metallogenetic evolution of the central China orogenic belt	3
Late cretaceous magmatism in the Northern Lhasa subterrane, central Tibet: geodynamic implications	3
A review of 3.66 to 2.77 Ga crustal differentiation in the northern São Francisco Craton, Brazil	3
Neoproterozoic geodynamics in NW India – evidence from Erinpura granites in the South Delhi Fold Belt	3
A re-evaluation of the Meso-Cenozoic thermo-tectonic evolution of Bogda Shan (Tian Shan, NW China) based on new basement and detrital apatite fission track thermochronology	3
Paleocene to Miocene migmatization and kinematics of the deformation at the northern boundary of the Xolapa Complex: implications for the Chortís Block-southern Mexico connection	3
Petrogenesis of Neoproterozoic mafic dykes in western Yangtze Block, South China: implications for the assembly and break-up of Rodinia	3
Tectonic significance of the late Eocene (Bartonian) calc-alkaline granitoid body in the Marivan area, Zagros suture zone, northwest Iran	3
Evidence of late Palaeozoic and Middle Triassic magmatism in the Sakar-Strandzha Zone, SE Bulgaria: Regional geodynamic implications	3
Cryogenian crustal evolution in western Nigeria shield: whole-rock geochemistry, Sr-Nd and zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopic evidence from Bakoshi-Gadanya granites	3
Late Ediacaran post-collisional magmatism in the Guéra Massif, South-Central Chad	3
Magma hybridization, mingling, and recycling in the Manzanillo plutonic complex, Mexican Cordillera	3
Crustal structure of the Western Azuero Peninsula, Panama: Insights into the structure of accretionary complexes and forearc ophiolites	3
Early Carboniferous high-silica granites in the Kalejun Mountains, Chinese western Tianshan: Petrogenesis, tectonic setting and geodynamic implications for the South Tianshan Ocean	3
Origin and evolution of Li-rich geothermal waters from the Kawu geothermal system, Himalayas: based on hydrochemistry and H-O, Li isotopes	3
Miocene lamprophyre and felsic volcanics in the outer zone of SW Japan: arc building through multiple sources in an active convergent margin	3
Geological resources of scandium: a review from a Chinese perspective	3
Ordovician crustal thickening and syn-collisional magmatism of Iran: Gondwanan basement along the north of the Yazd Block (Central Iran)	3
Volatile accumulation for the mineralization of Li–Be pegmatites in the northeastern Pamir, Western Kunlun, China	3
Accretion and subduction mass transfer processes: Zircon SHRIMP and geochemical insights from the Carboniferous Western Series, Central Chile	3
Early Paleozoic tectono–magmatic evolution in the South Altun orogenic belt, northwest China: Insights from zircon U–Pb geochronology, Hf isotope and geochemistry of the granitoids	3
Geochronological and stratigraphical characterization of lower Jurassic tectonically-controlled felsic tuff ring volcanism in Northwestern Patagonia, Argentina	3
Orogen-parallel mid-lower crustal ductile flow during the late Triassic Qinling orogeny: structural geology and geochronology	3
Late Neoarchean charnockite in Daqingshan terrane, North China Craton: petrogenesis and implications for continental crustal evolution	3
Three periods of gold mineralization in the Liaodong Peninsula, North China Craton	3
Mine wastes and water, ecological engineering and metals extraction: sustainability and circular economy	3
Miocene adakitic volcanism in eastern Lhasa Terrane, Tibet: perspective from zircon U–Pb geochronology, whole-rock geochemistry and Sr–Nd–Hf isotopes	3
Transition in tectonic regime from the Paleo-Asian Ocean to Paleo-Pacific Ocean: constraints from the Jurassic adakitic and I-type granites, and calc-alkaline diorites at the northern margin of the No	3