OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Geology Review 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
Geochemistry and tectonic significance of the Fannuj-Maskutan SSZ-type ophiolite (Inner Makran, SE Iran)	23
Neoproterozoic hybrid forearc – MOR ophiolite belts in the northern Arabian-Nubian Shield: no evidence for back-arc tectonic setting	21
Petrogenesis and tectonic setting of the Paleoproterozoic Kelle Bidjoka iron formations, Nyong group greenstone belts, southwestern Cameroon. Constraints from petrology, geochemistry, and LA-ICP-MS zi	18
Mesozoic intracontinental deformation of the Alxa Block in the middle part of Central Asian Orogenic Belt: A review	18
Applying Popperian falsifiability to geodynamic hypotheses: empirical testing of the episodic crustal/zircon production hypothesis and selective preservation hypothesis	14
Geochronology and petrogenesis of the Late Neoproterozoic granitic gneisses of Golpayegan metamorphic complex: a new respect for Cadomian crust in the Sanandaj-Sirjan zone, Iran	14
Geology and geochronology of the volcanogenic massive sulphide polymetallic deposits in Altay Orogenic Belt, Xinjiang, Northwest China: examples from the Kelan Basin	14
Evidence for Neoproterozoic terrane accretion in the central Borborema Province, West Gondwana deduced by isotopic and geophysical data compilation	14
Pacific-type transform and convergent margins: igneous rocks, geochemical contrasts and discriminant diagrams	14
Review of the Geology of Afghanistan and its water resources	14
Geochronology and geochemistry of late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous volcanic rocks in the southern Great Xing’an range, NE China: constraints for late Mesozoic tectono-magmatic evolution	13
Geochronology, geochemistry, and Hf isotopic compositions of Triassic igneous rocks in the easternmost segment of the East Kunlun Orogenic Belt, NW China: implications for magmatism and tectonic evolu	13
The Balkan terranes: a missing link between the eastern and western segments of the Avalonian–Cadomian orogenic belt?	12
Neoproterozoic geodynamics in NW India – evidence from Erinpura granites in the South Delhi Fold Belt	12
Petrogenesis and tectonic implications of cambrian Nb-enriched I- and aluminous A-type granites in the North Qilian suture zone	12
Sedimentary tectonic pattern of Wufeng and Longmaxi Formations in the northern margin of Sichuan Basin, South China	12
Tethyan oceans reconstructions with emphasis on the ‎Early ‎‎Carboniferous Pir-Eshagh A-‎‎type rhyolite and the ‎Late Palaeozoic magmatism in Iran	11
Late Neoproterozoic evolution of the southwestern margin of the Siberian Craton: evidence from sedimentology, geochronology and detrital zircon analysis	10
Volcanic rocks of the Elashan Formation in the Dulan-Xiangride Basin, East Kunlun Orogenic Belt, NW China: Petrogenesis and implications for Late Triassic geodynamic evolution	10
Geochronology and geochemistry of Devonian magmatism in the Frontal cordillera (Argentina): geodynamic implications for the pre-Andean SW Gondwana margin	10
The Siah Cheshmeh-Khoy-Misho-Tabriz fault (NW Iran) is a cryptic neotethys suture: evidence from detrital zircon geochronology, Hf isotopes, and provenance analysis	10
Unravelling slab δ34S compositions from in-situ sulphide δ34S studies of high-pressure metamorphic rocks	10
Tectonostratigraphy of the Mérida Massif reveals a new Cadomian suture zone exposure in Gondwana (SW Iberia)	10
Cryogenian crustal evolution in western Nigeria shield: whole-rock geochemistry, Sr-Nd and zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopic evidence from Bakoshi-Gadanya granites	10
Review of the polyorogenic Palaeozoic basement of the Argentinean North Patagonian Andes: age, correlations, tectonostratigraphic interpretation and geodynamic evolution	10

Diachronous initiation of Arabia–Eurasia collision from eastern Anatolia to the southeastern Zagros Mountains since middle Eocene time	10
Altenberg–Teplice Caldera sourced Westphalian fall tuffs in the central and western Bohemian Carboniferous basins (eastern Variscan belt)	10
Late Cadomian rifting of the NW Gondwana margin and the reworking of Precambrian crust – evidence from bimodal magmatism in the early Paleozoic Moroccan Meseta	10
Detrital zircon provenance evidence for an early Permian longitudinal river flowing into the Midland Basin of west Texas	9
Oligocene-Early Miocene exhumation and shortening along the Anninghe fault in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau: insights from zircon and apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology	9
A unique blueschist facies metapelite with Mg-rich chloritoid from the Badajoz-Córdoba Unit (SW Iberian Massif): correlation of Late Devonian high-pressure belts along the Variscan Orogen	9
Sedimentological, geochemical, and geochronological constraints on the origin of the Neoproterozoic Luoquan Formation at the Southern Margin of the North China Craton	9
Neoproterozoic to Jurassic tectono-metamorphic events in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Massif, Colombia: insights from zircon U-Pb geochronology and trace element geochemistry	9
Age and composition of Neoproterozoic diabase dykes in North Altyn Tagh, northwest China: implications for Rodinia break-up	9
Role of Late Cretaceous volcanic-sedimentary melanges, specifically the Aladağ melange, E Turkey, in the rift-drift-subduction-accretion-emplacement history of the Tethyan Inner Tauride ocean	8
Spatial-temporal distribution and tectonic setting of Mesozoic W-mineralized granitoids in the Xing-Meng Orogenic Belt, NE China	8
Late Silurian to early Devonian development of the Chingiz accretion arc, West Junggar: insights into accretion arc evolution in the Central Asia Orogenic Belt	8
Multiple mantle melting events for two overlapping ca. 2.21-2.18 Ga mafic dyke swarms in the Dharwar craton, India	8
Detrital zircon U-Pb ages of the late Mesoproterozoic–Neoproterozoic Qiaotou formation in the Liao-Ji area of the North China Craton: implications for Rodinia reconstruction	8
Petrogenesis of the peralkaline Dutsen Wai and Ropp complexes in the Nigerian younger granites: implications for crucial metal enrichments	8
Petrogenesis and tectonic setting of the early-middle triassic subduction-related granite in the eastern segment of East Kunlun: evidences from petrology, geochemistry, and zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopes	8
Variation of crustal thickness in central west Junggar orogenic belt: insight into its Late Palaeozoic tectonic evolution	8
The Marifil Volcanic Complex at Sierra de Pailemán: implications for the Early Jurassic magmatic evolution of the Eastern North Patagonian Region	8
Trondhjemite leucosomes generated by partial melting of a hornblende-gabbro (Alvand plutonic complex, Hamedan, NW Iran)	8
The dismembering of the Adria platforms following the Late Cretaceous-Eocene abortive rift: a review of the tectono-stratigraphic record in the southern Apennines	8
Contrasting Early Palaeozoic provenance of the Yemaquan and Harlik arcs in the SW Altaids (NW China): identification of cryptic sutures in accretionary orogens	8
Ordovician supra-subduction, oceanic and within-plate ocean island complexes in the Tekturmas ophiolite zone (Central Kazakhstan): age, geochemistry and tectonic implications	8
The Sierra de Juárez Complex: a new Gondwanan Neoproterozoic-early Palaeozoic metamorphic terrane in southern Mexico	8
Progressive development of E-W extension across the Tibetan plateau: A case study of the Thakkhola graben, west-central Nepal	7
The Numidian formation and its Lateral Successions (Central-Western Mediterranean): a review	7
Opening and closure of Cadomian peri-Gondwanan oceans: age and evolution of the Mérida Ophiolite (SW Iberia)	7
Structural setting and fluid composition of gold mineralization along the central segment of the Keraf suture, Neoproterozoic Nubian Shield, Sudan: implications for the source of gold	7
Late Cretaceous to Oligocene overlapping plutonic magmatism episodes in the eastern Mesa Central province of Mexico	7
Tectono-metamorphic evolution of UHP Zermatt-Saas serpentinites: a tool for vertical palaeogeographic restoration	7
Anatomy of a deformed upper crust fragment from western Alpine Corsica (France): insights into continental subduction processes	7
Eocene magmatism and associated Fe-Cu mineralization in northeastern Turkey: a case study of the Karadağ skarn	7
Evidence of late Palaeozoic and Middle Triassic magmatism in the Sakar-Strandzha Zone, SE Bulgaria: Regional geodynamic implications	7
Late Palaeozoic magmatism of Northern Taimyr: new insights into the tectonic evolution of the Russian High Arctic	7
Early Palaeozoic alkaline trachytes in the North Daba Mountains, South Qinling Belt: petrogenesis and geological implications	7
Late Cambrian tonalite-trondhjemite association in the eastern segment of North Qilian suture zone: petrogenesis and geodynamic implications	7
Archean to paleoproterozoic crustal evolution in the Phan Si Pan zone, Northwest Vietnam: evidence from the U-Pb geochronology and Sr-Nd-Hf isotopic geochemistry	7
The tectonic links between Palaeozoic eclogites and mafic magmatic Cu-Ni-Co mineralization in East Kunlun orogenic belt, western China	6
Mafic-ultramafic rocks in the Buqingshan Complex of the East Kunlun Orogen, northern Tibetan Plateau: remnants of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean	6
Late Carboniferous intrusions along the Kalamaili suture zone, southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB): implications for a tectonic switch from subduction to collision	6
Geochemistry, sulfur and lead isotopic composition of hydrothermal sulfide from the Duanqiao hydrothermal field on the Southwest Indian Ridge: implications for ore genesis	6
Cooling history of the Biella pluton and implication for Oligocene to Miocene tectonics of the Sesia-Lanzo Zone, Austroalpine, Western Alps	6
Tectonic significance of the late Eocene (Bartonian) calc-alkaline granitoid body in the Marivan area, Zagros suture zone, northwest Iran	6
The Peltetec ophiolitic belt (Ecuador): a window to the tectonic evolution of the Triassic margin of western Gondwana	6
The Mojiawan I-type granite of the Kangding Complex in the western Yangtze Block: new constraint on the Neoproterozoic magmatism and tectonic evolution of South China	6
Pegmatite magmatic evolution and rare metal mineralization of the Dahongliutan pegmatite field, Western Kunlun Orogen: Constraints from the B isotopic composition and mineral-chemistry	6
Diachronous subduction of the Proto-Tethys Ocean along the northern margin of East Gondwana: Insights from SHRIMP and LA-ICP-MS zircon geochronology in the West Kunlun Orogenic Belt, Northwestern Chin	6
History of western Tethys Ocean and the birth of the circum-mediterranean orogeny as reflected by source-to-sink relations	6
Early Precambrian geological events in the Zhongtiao Mountain, China: implication for the evolution of Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic crust in the southern segment of North China Craton	6
The evolution of the southern Namibian Karoo-aged basins: implications from detrital zircon geochronologic and geochemistry data	6
Soft rocks, hard rocks: the world’s resources and reserves of Ti and Zr and associated critical minerals	6

U-Pb ages of detrital zircons in lower Palaeozoic quartzites of the Taebaeksan Basin, eastern Sino–Korean Block: sediment provenance response to relative sea-level changes	6
Volcanism from different eruption cycles during the Early Cretaceous in the Changling fault depression of the songliao basin, NE China, and their implications for timing of lithospheric thinning	6
Melt-rock interaction in the subarc mantle: records from the plagioclase peridotites of the southern Palawan Ophiolite, Philippines	6
Diverse early diagenetic processes of ferromanganese nodules from the eastern Pacific Ocean: evidence from mineralogy and in-situ geochemistry	6
Geodynamic experiments suggest that mantle plume caused Late Permian Emeishan Large Igneous Province in Southern China	6
Paleoproterozoic S-type granites in the Lengshui complex, South China: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Yangtze Block	6
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	6
Dharwar stratigraphy revisited: new age constraints on the ‘oldest’ supracrustal rocks of western Dharwar craton, southern India	6
The early Palaeogene transition from thin-skinned to thick-skinned shortening in the Potosí uplift, Sierra Madre Oriental, northeastern Mexico	6
Late Palaeozoic–Early Mesozoic southward subduction of the Mongol–Okhotsk oceanic slab: geochronological, geochemical, and Hf isotopic evidence from intrusive rocks in the Erguna Massif (NE China)	6
Early Cretaceous rapid exhumation processes in the southern Great Xing’an Range, NE China: implications for extensional geodynamics	6
Neogene Kinematics of the Potwar Plateau and the Salt Range, NW Himalayan Front: A Paleostress Inversion and AMS study	5
Petrogenesis of the meta-igneous rocks of the Sierra El Arco and coeval magmatic rocks in Baja California: Middle Jurassic-Early Cretaceous (166-140 Ma) island arc magmatism of NW México	5
The Late Cretaceous magmatic arc of the south Aegean: Geodynamic implications from petrological and geochemical studies of granitoids from Anafi island (Cyclades – Greece)	5
Geochronology, geochemistry and tectonic setting of the Cadomian (Ediacaran–Cambrian) magmatism in the Istranca (Strandja) Massif: new insights into magmatism along the northern margin of Gondwana in	5
A review of geological characteristics and time–space distribution of cobalt deposits in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Xinjiang, Northwest China	5
Deformation and cooling history of the Central Qiangtang terrane, Tibetan Plateau and its tectonic implications	5
Triassic igneous activities in the east flank of the East Kunlun orogenic belt: the Daheba complex example	5
Ages and tectonic attributes of Late Palaeozoic stratigraphic units in the Tarbagatay, West Junggar (NW China): revisited	5
Zircon U–Pb geochronology and Sr–Nd–Hf isotopic compositions of the felsic dykes from the Dalat zone, southern Vietnam: petrogenesis and geological significance	5
Early Cretaceous extension in South China: constraints from east–west-trending A-type granite belts and growth strata in terrigenous basins	5
A Silurian-Devonian active margin in the proto-Andes – new data on an old conundrum	5
Geochronology and geochemistry of exotic blocks of Cadomian crust from the salt diapirs of SE Zagros: the Chah-Banu example	5
Carbon dioxide emission from monogenetic volcanoes in the Mt. Changbai volcanic field, NE China	5
Dynamics of Cambro–Ordovician rifting of the northern margin of Gondwana as revealed by the timing of subsidence and magmatism in rift-related basins	5
Multiple intrusion stages and mantle sources of the Paleozoic Kuznetsk Alatau alkaline province, Southern Siberia: geochemistry and Permian U–Pb, Sm–Nd ages in the Goryachegorsk ijolite-foyaite intrus	5
The nature of Early Palaeozoic Kwangsian orogenic event in the South China Block: constraints from detrital zircons in Cambrian strata	5
Late miocene silicic subvolcanic plumbing system related to oblique rifting in the Pacific-North American plate boundary, Sonora, Mexico: geodynamic implication in a regional context	5
Age and implication of Late Ediacaran dykes in the İstanbul-Zonguldak Tectonic Unit (NW Turkey): Implications for the rifting of the Rheic Ocean	5
Provenance of Middle Jurassic sequences in the Northern Qiangtang: implications for Mesozoic exhumation of the Central Tibetan Mountain Range	5
Late Ediacaran post-collisional magmatism in the Guéra Massif, South-Central Chad	5
Rare earth elements in the iron-oxide apatite (IOA) deposit: insights from apatite	5
Huge sedimentary hiatus in the southern margin of the North China Craton from mid-Mesoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic	5
Late Eocene slab retreat, extension, and mantle upwelling inferred from mantle signatures in potassium-rich magmatism in NE Iran	5
Polymetamorphic events in the Jiao-Liao-Ji Belt, North China Craton：Evidence from integrated zircon, xenotime, and monazite LA–ICP–MS U–Pb dating	5
Triassic granitoids in the East Kunlun Orogenic Belt, Northwestern China: magmatic source and implications for geodynamic evolution	5
Incompatible element-enriched mantle lithosphere beneath kimberlitic pipes in Priazovie, Ukrainian shield: volatile-enriched focused melt flow and connection to mature crust?	4
A complex accretionary assembly of Pangea developed in the range c. 400–340 Ma: the four successive events of high-P/ultra-high-P metamorphism of the Variscan Orogen	4
Geochronology and geochemistry of the palaeoproterozoic mafic dikes in the Jiaobei terrane: implications for tectonic evolution of the Jiao-Liao-Ji Belt, eastern North China Craton	4
First evidence for the subduction initiation and boninitic magmatism from the Armutlu Peninsula (NW Turkey): geodynamic significance for the Cadomian magmatic arc system of the Gondwanan margin	4
Meso‑Cenozoic lithospheric thermal structure and its significance in the evolution of the lithosphere in the Ordos Basin, WNCC, China	4
Petrogenesis of the early Permian A-type granites in the Halajun region, southwest Tianshan, western Xinjiang, NW China: implications for geodynamics of Tarim large igneous province	4
Marginal basins of the NW Pacific and Eastern Eurasia	4
Geochemistry and petrogenesis of Raviz-Shanabad intrusions (SE UDMB): an evidence for Late Eocene magmatism	4
Miocene extension and magma generation in the Apuseni Mts. (western Romania): a review	4
Petrogenesis of neo-Tethyan ophiolites from the Indo-Myanmar ranges: a review	4
Detrital zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopes and whole-rock geochemistry of Ediacaran - Silurian clastic sediments of the Uzbek Tienshan: sources and tectonic implications	4
Paleoproterozoic to Cenozoic zircon U–Pb ages with Hf signatures from metamorphic rocks and granodiorite of Tokunoshima: constraints on the geotectonic subdivision of the Ryukyu island arc, Southwest	4
Types, characteristics, distribution, and genesis of pockmarks in the South China Sea: insights from high-resolution multibeam bathymetric and multichannel seismic data	4
Amphibolites from makran accretionary complex record Permian-Triassic Neo-Tethyan evolution	4
Contrasting latest Permian intracontinental gabbro and Late Triassic arc gabbro–diorite in the Gangdese constrain the subduction initiation of the Neo-Tethys	4
Review of the regional nomenclature and tectonic setting for mesozoic gold deposits in the Malanyu Anticline area of Eastern Hebei Province, North China	4
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	4
Two ophiolite belts in the East Kunlun Orogenic Belt record evolution from the Proto-Tethys to Paleo-Tethys Oceans	4
Late Paleozoic multi-stage subduction accretion of the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: insights from the Late Carboniferous-Early Permian granites in the southern West Junggar, NW China	4
The rise and fate of a long-lived deep crustal ‘hot zone’ beneath the neogene-quaternary Cordillera de San Buenaventura in the Southern Puna Plateau (NW Argentina)	4
New ages from the Shackleton Glacier area and their context in the regional tectonomagmatic evolution of the Ross orogen of Antarctica	4
Tectonic and petrogenetic settings of the Eocene Challis-Kamloops volcanic belt of western Canada and the northwestern United States	4
Early Cretaceous basalts record the modification of the North China Craton lithospheric mantle: implications for lithospheric thinning	4
Mineralogy and PGE geochemistry of chromitites and peridotites of the sapat complex in the indus suture zone, northern Pakistan: implications for magmatic processes in the supra-subduction zone	4
Triassic magmatism in Northeast China: Implications for spatiotemporal distribution, continental crustal accretion, and geodynamic evolution	4
Detrital zircon U–Pb ages of metasedimentary rocks from the Neoproterozoic Zhoutan Group in the northern Cathaysia Block (South China): Provenance and tectonic implications	4
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	4
Multiple tectonomagmatic reactivation of the unexposed basement in the northern Siberian craton: from Paleoproterozoic orogeny to Phanerozoic kimberlite magmatism	4
A Late Cretaceous Adakitic intrusion from Northern Haiti: additional evidence for slab melting and implications for migration of ridge-trench-trench triple junction during the Cretaceous in the Greate	4