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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
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	41
A review of the main tectonic settings of Neoarchaean ore deposits and mineral occurrences in the northern São Francisco Craton, NE Brazil	38
Geochronology of a Paleoproterozoic metamorphic complex in the Shuangsheng area of Inner Mongolia: constraints on crustal evolution	18
Metasomatized mantle under the Eastern Mexican Alkaline Province: evidence from the Oligocene Rincón Murillo Gabbro, Sierra de San Carlos-Cruillas, NE México	16
Huge sedimentary hiatus in the southern margin of the North China Craton from mid-Mesoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic	15
Petrogenesis of ultramafic rocks from the Neoproterozoic Bou Azzer Ophiolite (Morocco): new insights into a long-standing geodynamic question	15
Mineral potential facing socio-economic development challenges: case study of the democratic republic of Congo, a ‘geological scandal’	15
U-Pb and Ar-Ar geochronological constraints on timing of deformation and peak metamorphism in the Central Africa Orogenic Belt, Yaoundé Domain, Cameroon	15
Geology and mineral resources	14
Magnetism of rocks: concepts, geological, and everyday applications	14
Two ophiolite belts in the East Kunlun Orogenic Belt record evolution from the Proto-Tethys to Paleo-Tethys Oceans	13
Triassic granites in the West Qinling Orogen, China: implications for the Early Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the Paleo-Tethys ocean	13
Large Holocene paleoseismic events and synchronized travertine formation: a case study of the Kurai fault zone (Gorny Altai, Russia)	12
Fundamentals of Sedimentology	12
Damaging earthquakes of the Eastern Indian subcontinent and seismic hazard potential: insights from palaeoseismology	12
CORRECTION	11
Late cenozoic exhumation of the Nodoushan plutonic complex constrained by low-temperature thermochronology: evidence for Arabia–Eurasia collision in the southeastern Iranian Plateau	11
Volatile accumulation for the mineralization of Li–Be pegmatites in the northeastern Pamir, Western Kunlun, China	11
Lithium isotope fractionation in highly evolved granites and associated magmatic-hydrothermal process: the case of the Xintianling granites in the Nanling Range, South China	11
Early activity of the Kerguelen Mantle plume: geochronology, geochemistry and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes of mafic dykes and sills from the Tethyan Himalaya	10
Triassic record of Paleo-Tethyan subduction: Evidence from prograde metamorphic P–T paths of the Baqing eclogite, eastern Qiangtang, central Tibet	10
Mine wastes and water, ecological engineering and metals extraction: sustainability and circular economy	10
Geology, geochemistry, and exploration of the Central African Copperbelt: a review	10
Volcanology: processes, deposits, geology and resources	10
Late cretaceous magmatism in the Northern Lhasa subterrane, central Tibet: geodynamic implications	10

Mesozoic tectonic transition of the northeastern North China Craton: Evidence from adakitic rocks in southeastern Jilin Province, China	10
Metamorphic P-T-t path of Triassic eclogite from the Rongcheng region, eastern China: implications for the tectonic evolution of Sulu orogenic belt	10
Petrogenesis of ultramafic rocks from the Miocene Setogawa Group, Shizuoka, central Japan: insights into the Philippine Sea Plate mantle	9
Biomining technologies: extracting and recovering metals from ores and wastes	9
Petrogenesis of the late Tonian arc-related Um Balad gabbro-diorite complex (Egypt) and insight into its spatially related orogenic gold mineralization	9
Spatio-temporal distribution and geodynamic evolution of Cenozoic volcanism in northeast China: insights from a new geochronological compilation	9
Depositional response to the Emeishan mantle plume: evidence from the eastern Sichuan Basin, South China	9
Provenance analysis and thermochronology of the Chivillas Formation, Mexico: a record of basin formation and inversion in the southern Sierra Madre Oriental during the Early Cretaceous–Palaeogene	8
Time constraint on global-scale plate reorganizations using records of continental deformation	8
Structural and geochronological constraints on a Late Mesozoic tectonic transformation in the West Qinling Orogenic Belt, China	8
Isotope geochemistry	8
Paleoseismic evolution of the central section of the Serteng Shan fault at the northern Ordos Block (North China) since the Late Pleistocene	8
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	8
Large paleoearthquakes and Holocene faulting in the Southeastern Gorny Altai: implications for ongoing crustal shortening in Central Asia	8
From rifting to emplacement: Variable mantle melting preserved in the central Palawan Ophiolite peridotites, Philippines	8
Geochronology and petrogenesis of the early Silurian Zeluo mafic-ultramafic intrusion, eastern Tibet: implications for the tectonic setting and evolution of the eastern Proto-Tethys Ocean	8
Large-volume and swift magmatic response to Late Cenozoic segmentation of the subducted Neotethyan oceanic slab: evidence from the Galatian Volcanic Province, northwestern Turkey	8
Tempestites in the marine environment: review and perspectives	8
Alpine Tethys rift-related OIB-type magmatism preserved on Elba Island (Northern Apennines, Italy)	8
Early Miocene magmatism in the Western Cordillera of Colombia: implications for magma source and evolution	7
Structural record of polyorogenic pre-Alpine and Alpine deformations within a major thrust nappe close to a suture zone (Internal-External Zones Boundary of the central Betic Cordillera, S Spain)	7
The Late Cretaceous batholithic massifs of Sierra La Laguna and Sierra La Trinidad, southern Baja California, Mexico: constraints on extensional structures from geology, geochronology, and thermobarom	7
Recovery of values from low‐grade and complex minerals: development of sustainable processes	7
Anatexis of late Neoarchean-Early Paleoproterozoic and late Paleoproterozoic garnet-bearing leucogranite from the Khondalite Belt in the North China Craton	7
The dismembering of the Adria platforms following the Late Cretaceous-Eocene abortive rift: a review of the tectono-stratigraphic record in the southern Apennines	7
Early Paleozoic tectonic evolution in the central Vietnam: evidence from geochronological and geochemical constraints	7
Geochronology and geochemistry of Early Cretaceous volcanic sequences in Northwestern Peru: implications for Farallon Plate subduction	7
Late Permian rift-related volcanic rocks from the Zhongba Terrane, Southern Tibet: implications for the opening of the Neotethys	7
Paleoproterozoic thick-skinned tectonics in the Central Indian Tectonic Zone: implications on the tectonic reconstructions of cratonic nuclei	7
Using detrital zircon systematics to trace the sediment sources of Jurassic uranium-bearing sandstones in the western Ordos Basin, China: implications for uranium exploration in a sedimentary basin	7
Prograde metamorphism in the ~1.9 Ga Jiao–Liao–Ji orogenic belt of NE China Craton: implications for orogenic crustal thickening	7
Subduction-collision and rapid uplift of the NW Yangtze Block during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition: new evidence from the shoshonite series	7
A History of geochemistry and cosmochemistry, from prehistory to the end of the classical period	7
Emplacement history of the Central Anatolian Ophiolites: insights from the Felahiye Ophiolite in Central Türkiye	7
Using groundwater in the hyper-arid Atacama Desert to discover buried hydrothermal mineral deposits	7
A hidden Oligocene pluton linked to the Periadriatic Fault System beneath the Permian Bressanone pluton, eastern Southern Alps	7
Tectonic transition during the Jurassic-Cretaceous in the Jiaodong Peninsula, North China: insights from asynchronous adakitic and A-type granitic plutons	7
The Belingwe greenstone belt, Zimbabwe – some new age constraints and implications for greenstone belt evolution	7
Biogeochemistry and the environment	6
Detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology of the Murree Formation, western Himalaya, Pakistan: provenance and tectonic implications for Himalayan exhumation	6
Late Palaeozoic two-cycle orogenesis of the Qinling orogenic belt: constraints from the metamorphic P–T evolution and geochronology of the Wuguan Complex and Liuling Group in eastern Qinling, China	6
Deciphering the origin of early continental crust: insights from newly identified ~3.8 Ga granitoids in the Anshan area, North China Craton	6
Infra-Cambrian Wajid Graben and the Mozambique Suture, Saudi Arabia	6
Magmatic record of Cretaceous marginal basin termination along the western segment of the Central Cordillera of Colombia	6
Reply to comments on Bahlburg (2021), A Silurian-Devonian active margin in the proto-Andes – new data on an old conundrum: international geology review, doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2021.2012719	6
Sediment provenances of a Mesozoic intracontinental basin enclosed by multiple orogenic belts, Junggar Basin, NW China: insights from detrital ilmenite, Cr-spinel geochemistry, and zircon U–Pb geochro	6
Geology of North Africa and the Mediterranean: Sedimentary Basins and Georesources	6
Closure timing of the Nan–Uttaradit oceanic basin, Thailand: stratigraphic and magmatic constraints in the Phrae Sub-basin	6
Phase equilibrium modelling and zircon-monazite geochronology of HT-UHT granulites from Kambam ultrahigh-temperature belt, south India	6
Tectonics and geothermal gradients from subduction to collision in the NW Variscan Iberian Massif	6

Mesoarchaean mafic–ultramafic Ikauna layered intrusion, Bundelkhand craton, India: geology, U–Th–Pb age (SHRIMP) and correlation	6
Plate tectonics through Earth’s history: constraints from the thermal evolution of Earth’s upper mantle	6
Continental-scale sediment mixing and dispersal across northern Gondwana: detrital zircon U-Pb-O-Hf isotopic evidence from the Cambro-Ordovician sandstones overlying the Arabian Shield	6
Modelling a foreland fold-and-thrust petroleum system: a Permian example in the NW Sichuan Basin, Southwest China	6
Late Miocene – Pliocene eastward magmatic arc migration record in the Northern Andes at 5°N latitude, west-central Colombia	5
Geochemical insights and petrogenetic processes of ophiolitic fragments from Avajiq and Silvana: implications for Neo-Tethyan Evolution in northwest Iran	5
980-970 Ma Sette-Daban event of the Siberian craton: new geochronological and geochemical data, relationship to LIP and potential connection with other LIPs	5
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)	5
Provenance of mixed volcaniclastic-carbonaticlastic gravity-flow deposits: a case study from the Cretaceous of the southern Central Alborz (Iran)	5
Neoproterozoic granitoids of northwest Vietnam and their tectonic implications	5
Petrogenesis of Eocene mafic and felsic magmas in the New Caledonia ophiolite: geochemistry and geochronology constraints	5
Spatiotemporal distribution and mechanism of Mesozoic magmatism in the Taiwan Strait and its adjacent areas: insights from seismic, geochemical, and geochronological data	5
Geochemistry and geochronology of Early Cretaceous lamprophyres of the Sulu Orogenic Belt: implications for lithospheric evolution of Eastern China	5
Geochronology, provenance, and tectonic setting of the meta-sedimentary rocks from the North Shahrekord metamorphic Complex, Iran	5
840–820 Ma Dahongshan bimodal volcanic rocks: new constraints on the Neoproterozoic arc–back-arc basin system along the northern margin of the Yangtze Block	5
Material source, sedimentary environment, and mineralization process of Shengzhou diatomite deposit in Eastern Zhejiang Province, China	5
Remote sensing intelligent interpretation for geology: from the perspective of geological exploration	5
Anxiety and geology: managing acute anxiety disorder symptoms during field exercises	5
Energy Flow and Earth: How Earth Works	5
Basement differences control granitoid compositions: insights from zircon Hf isotopic mapping of Paleozoic granitoids in the northern Beishan orogenic collage, NW China	5
Late Carboniferous extension-related magmatism in the southwestern Alxa block of NW China: geochronology, geochemistry, and tectonic implications	5
Coastal geology	5
Mantle magmatism, metamorphism and anatexis: evidence from geochemistry and zircon U–Pb-Hf isotopes of Paleoproterozoic S-type granites, Khondalite Belt of the North China Craton	5
The late Neoproterozoic sediment-hosted Kalahari Copper Belt in Botswana: refining the genetic model with sericite Ar/Ar and in-situ LA-ICP-MS biotite Rb/Sr geochronolog	5
Pre-Alpine prograde evolution of the Upper Alpujarride (Betic-Rif belt) reveals a Paleotethys-related collision	5
The geology of Kuwait	5
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	5
Thickness change of the Tibetan lithosphere since Early Cretaceous as revealed by Ce/Yb and Sm/Yb ratios of volcanic rocks	5
Understanding orbital pacing, uplift dynamics, and oceanic influences in aeolian red clay sediments over the Chinese Loess Plateau through cyclostratigraphy insights	5
The origin of the Daly gap by fractional crystallization in a transcrustal plumbing system in the Passa Quatro alkaline complex (SE Brazil)	4
Long-lived sedimentation in the Western Tethys oceanic basin: revisiting the metasediments of Bagliacone-Riventosa Formation (Corsica, France)	4
Jurassic–cretaceous exhumation history of the Northern Qaidam Basin and its implications for Northeastern Qinghai–Tibet plateau tectonism: evidences from zircon fission track thermochronology	4
Back-arc magmatism of the Proto-Tethys Ocean in the West Kunlun Orogenic Belt: evidence from the Ordovician Nanpingxueshan Nb-enriched gabbros	4
New directions in mineral processing, extractive metallurgy, recycling and waste minimization: an EPD symposium in Honor of Patrick R. Taylor	4
Clastic injectites and seismic-induced liquefaction in latest Quaternary travertine deposits (Serre di Rapolano, Italy)	4
Did the Aleutian basin form by Plate Capture or backarc basin opening?	4
The Eocene carbonate platforms of the westernmost Tethys: a review	4
Stratigraphic variations in chromite chemistry through the UG-2 and UG-2E chromitites, bushveld igneous complex: implications for chromitite petrogenesis	4
Geochronology and Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf isotopic geochemistry of middle-late Permian granitic and volcanic rocks within the eastern margin of the Khanka Massif: petrogenesis and implications for the tectonic na	4
Late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic granitoids in the northwestern Bureya Massif, Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Timing and tectonic significance	4
Geological resources of scandium: a review from a Chinese perspective	4
Geoeducation: the key to geoheritage conservation in tourism destinations	4
Petrogenesis of Cretaceous felsic volcanic rocks in Zhejiang province, China: insights from zircon U-Pb age and Lu-Hf isotopes	4
Spatial and temporal evolution of paleo-highs/lows of the permian strata and its petroleum significance in the Sichuan basin, SW China	4
Geochronological and stratigraphical characterization of lower Jurassic tectonically-controlled felsic tuff ring volcanism in Northwestern Patagonia, Argentina	4
The Lomagundi-Jatuli carbon isotopic event recorded in the marbles from the northeast São Francisco Craton, Brazil: a review, new data, palaeogeography and phosphogenetic correlation	4
Triassic gypsum layers in Keban Metamorphics, eastern Tauride Belt, Southeastern Turkey: New data about Triassic rifting in northern Tethys margin	4
The roles of partial melting of metasomatised mantle, magma mixing at continental crust level and fractionation in calc-alkaline minette genesis, SE Spain	4
Rare earth metals and minerals industries: status and prospects	4
Paleo-geodynamics peculiarities of the Arctic Ocean Eurasian floor	4
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	4
The anorogenic late Ediacaran granite-rhyolite porphyries of Gabal Abu Durba, Sinai: termination of magmatism in the Neoproterozoic Arabian-Nubian Shield crust	4
Mesoarchaean banded iron formations of the Fennoscandian Shield: new zirconU-Pb (ID-TIMS and SHRIMP-II) isotope ages of noble metal mineralization and Nd-Sr data on whole rocks	4
Permian mountain building in the bogda mountains of NW China	4
Geochemistry and U-Pb zircon geochronology of the Nkout banded iron formations and associated metasiliciclastic rocks, NW Congo craton, southern Cameroon	4
Tectonic development of the Ankara-Erzincan suture and the Eastern Pontide mountains, Northeast Anatolia, Turkey	4
Remote sensing intelligent interpretation for geology: from perspective of geological exploration	4
Origin and evolution of Li-rich geothermal waters from the Kawu geothermal system, Himalayas: based on hydrochemistry and H-O, Li isotopes	4
Aborted oceanic basin during the Mesozoic rifting of the South-Iberian Palaeomargin and interactions with the sedimentation processes	4
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	4
Recently-discovered Bahçecik Au±Ag mineralization in the Eastern Pontides, Gümüşhane-NE Türkiye: geological and geochemical implications on the intermediate sulfidation epithermal deposit	4
Assessment of helium potential proximal to the geothermal settings	4
Correction	4
Subduction and retreat of Permian oceanic plates in the East Kunlun Orogenic Belt: evidence from mafic-ultramafic intrusive rocks	4
The role of CO₂flushing in triggering the ‘Millennium’ eruption and recent unrests at Changbaishan volcano (China/North Korea)	4
Neoproterozoic subduction-related active rifting in the South China Craton: insights from geochemical and zircon Hf isotopic data	4
Cenozoic tectono-thermal evolution of the Weihe Basin, Central China	4
Precambrian history of the Altun microcontinent: review and synthesis	4
Review of the Himalayan leucogranites: comparison between the North and South belts, from geochemistry, petrogenesis, and rare-metal mineralization	4
Sedimentary tectonic pattern of Wufeng and Longmaxi Formations in the northern margin of Sichuan Basin, South China	4
You say geotourism, I say tourism geology!	4