OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Geology is 1. 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
Detrital Zircon Geochronology of Basal Cambrian Strata in the Deep Illinois Basin, USA: Evidence for the Paleoproterozoic-Cambrian Tectonic and Sedimentary Evolution of Central Laurentia	17
Two Major Transitions in Earth History: Evidence of Two Lithospheric Strength Thresholds	17
Comparative Analysis of the Sedimentary Cover Units of the Jurassic Western Tethys Ophiolites in the Northern Apennines and Western Alps (Italy): Processes of the Formation of Mass-Transport and Chaot	13
The Segmented Zambezi Sedimentary System from Source to Sink: 1. Sand Petrology and Heavy Minerals	10
Multiple Hydrothermal Iron-Formation Upgrading Events in Southeastern São Francisco Craton	9
Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of Lower Jurassic Mafic Rock Suites in the External Rif Belt, and Chemical Geodynamics of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) in Northwest Morocco	9
Calcareous Nannofossil Stratigraphy across the Paleocene-Eocene Transition at the Gunnah Section, Farafra Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt	8
The Segmented Zambezi Sedimentary System from Source to Sink: 2. Geochemistry, Clay Minerals, and Detrital Geochronology	8
Early Paleozoic Arc Magmatism and Accretionary Orogenesis in the Indochina Block, Southeast Asia	7
New Sr-Nd Isotope Data Record Juvenile and Ancient Crust-Mantle Melt Interactions in the Vijayan Complex, Sri Lanka	7
Origins and Scales of Compositional Variations in Crustally Derived Granitic Rocks: The Example of the Dartmoor Pluton in the Cornubian Batholith of Southwest Britain	7
River Terrace Evidence of Tectonic Processes in the Eastern North American Plate Interior, South Anna River, Virginia	7
Postcollisional Ferani Volcanics from North Arabian–Nubian Shield (South Sinai, Egypt): Petrogenesis and Implication for Ediacaran (607–593 Ma) Geodynamic Evolution	6
Carnian (Upper Triassic) Lavas and Tuffites from the Mersin Mélange: Evidence for Intraoceanic Arc Rifting in the Northern Neotethys	5
Geodynamics of Late Paleozoic to Early Mesozoic Magmatism in South China: Insights from the Genesis of the Late Permian S-Type Granites in the Yunkai Massif	5
Cretaceous Forearc Sedimentation and Contemporary Basin Tectonics in Northwestern Borneo: New Sedimentological Insights from Pedawan Formation, Kuching Zone, East Malaysia	5
Tracing Late-Stage Fluid Sources and Vein Formation within Ophiolitic Mélanges from the Indus Suture Zone, Ladakh Himalaya	5
Water Content and Deformation of the Lower Crust beneath the Siberian Craton: Evidence from Granulite Xenoliths	5
Rio Apa Block: A Juvenile Crustal Fragment in the Southwest Amazonian Craton and Its Implications for Columbia Supercontinent Reconstitution	5
Proterozoic High-Temperature–Low-Pressure Metamorphism in the Mahakoshal Belt, Central Indian Tectonic Zone (India): Structure, Metamorphism, U-Th-Pb Monazite Geochronology, and Tectonic Implications	5
Magmatic Tempos in Large Hot Orogens in Comparison with Continental Margin Arcs	5
Tso Morari Eclogites, Eastern Ladakh: Isotopic and Elemental Constraints on Their Protolith, Genesis, and Tectonic Setting	5
Mesozoic Unroofing History of the Dabie Orogen, Eastern China: Evidence from Detrital Zircon Geochronology of Sediments in the Hefei Basin	5
Revised Provenance, Depositional Environment, and Maximum Depositional Age for the Baraboo (<ca. 1714 Ma) and Dake (<ca. 1630 Ma) Quartzites, Baraboo Hills, Wisconsin	5
Radiolarian Biochronology, Detrital Zircon Geochronological and Geochemical Constraints on Provenance and Depositional Environment of Cherts in the Southern Belt of the Western Yarlung Zangbo Suture Z	4

Mineralogical and Geochemical Constraints on the Postcollisional Mafic Magmatism in the Arabian-Nubian Shield: An Example from the El-Bakriya Area, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt	4
Application of Machine-Learning Algorithms to the Stratigraphic Correlation of Archean Shale Units Based on Lithogeochemistry	4
Newly Recognized Quaternary Surface Faulting and Folding Peripheral to the New Madrid Seismic Zone, Central United States, and Implications for Restraining Bend Models of Intraplate Seismic Zones	4
Young and Old Granulites: A Volatile Connection	4
Integrating Petrography, X-Ray Fluorescence, and U-Pb Detrital Zircon Geochronology to Interpret Provenance of the Mississippian Hartselle Sandstone, USA	4
The Unconformity That Isn’t: A Sequence-Stratigraphic Reinterpretation of the J-5 Unconformity and the Redwater–Windy Hill–Morrison Transition in Wyoming, USA	4
Plate Tectonics and the Alpine Orogeny: Implications of Thermometric and Kinematic Analyses of the Upper and Lower Boundaries of the Pennine Zone in the Central Alps	3
Hf Isotopes in Detrital Zircon Point to a Mesoproterozoic Orogenic Belt Bordering the Western Margin of the Río de la Plata Craton	3
Fingerprints of the Kerguelen Mantle Plume in Southern Tibet: Evidence from Early Cretaceous Magmatism in the Tethyan Himalaya	3
Formation of Sediment-Hosted Opal-A_G at Lightning Ridge (New South Wales, Australia): Refining the Deep Weathering Model	2
Early Jurassic Mafic Magmatism in the Eastern Tethyan Himalaya, Southern Tibet	2
Beyond Zircon: Incorporating Detrital Feldspar Pb Isotope Analysis into the Multiproxy Toolbox for Sedimentary Provenance Analysis—an Example from a Long-Lived Eastern Laurentian Clastic System	2
Stratigraphy, Depositional Setting, and SHRIMP U-Pb Geochronology of the Banded Iron Formation–Bearing Bailadila Group in the Bacheli Iron Ore Mining District, Bastar Craton, India	2
Early Cretaceous Exhumation of the Southern Great Xing’an Range, Northeastern China: Evidence from (U-Th)/He and Fission-Track Thermochronology	2
Distribution and Morphology of the Bedrock Basins Known as Pans in a Granitic Inselberg Landscape	2
Cooler Equatorial Climate in the Late Lopingian Estimated from Paleosols Developed on Emeishan Basalts	2
Oligocene and Miocene Global Spatial Trends of Shallow-Marine Carbonate Architecture	2
Geology and Geochemistry of the Jianshan Banded Iron Formation in Shanxi Province, China: Constraints on the Genesis	1
Garnet and Rutile Mineral Chemistry and Zircon U-Pb Ages of Modern River Sand along the Western East African Rift (Albertine Rift, Uganda)	1
Incremental Emplacement of the Sierra Nevada Batholith Constrained by U-Pb Ages and Potential Field Data	1
Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Morrison Formation in the Western Panhandle of Oklahoma with Reference to the Historical Stovall Dinosaur Quarries	1
Late Paleozoic to Early Mesozoic Evolution of Neo-Tethys: Geochemical Evidence from Early Triassic Mafic Intrusive Rocks in the Tethyan Himalaya	1
Source-to-Sink Analysis of the Gold-Hosting Mesoarchean Main and Mondeor Formations (Central Rand Group) in the Area South of Johannesburg, Witwatersrand Basin, Kaapvaal Province, South Africa	1
Demise of Organic Matter–Rich Facies and Changing Paleoenvironmental Conditions Associated with the End of Carbon Isotope Segment C5 of Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a in the North and Northeastern Iberian Pe	1
Contrasting Detrital Feldspar Pb Isotope Ratios and Zircon Geochronology to Distinguish Proximal versus Distal Transport	1
Petrogenesis of the Taishanmiao A-type Granite in the Eastern Qinling Orogenic Belt: Implications for Late Cretaceous Tectonic Transition and Mineralization	1
From Cosmic Explosions to Terrestrial Fires? A Discussion	1
Some New Concepts in the Plate Tectonics Paradigm Fifty Years after Its Inception	1
High-Resolution Pore Space Imaging, Mineralogical Characterization, and Sealing Capacity Estimates of Confining Units at a Geologic Carbon Storage Demonstration: The Illinois Basin–Decatur Project, US	1
Petrogenesis of Postcollisional High-K Calc-Alkaline and Alkaline Magmatism in Southern Sinai, Egypt: The Role of Crustal Anatexis Combined with Convective Diffusion	1
⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Dating of Phyllonite in the Southern Rocky Mountain Trench and Adjacent Rocky Mountains Unravels Kinematic Links between the Omineca and Foreland Belts of the Southern	1
Temporal Variation in the Chemical Index of Alteration in Early Cretaceous Black Shale as a Proxy for Paleoclimate	1
Evaluating the Magnitudes of Weathering and Potassium Metasomatism in Paleosols: Examples from Proterozoic, Cambrian, and Cretaceous Paleosols in Midcontinental Laurentia	1
U-Pb and Hf Isotopic Evidence on the Sources and Sinks of Grenvillian Detrital Zircons in Early Laurentia	1
A New ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Analysis Method of Volcanoclastic Strata to Determine Eruption Periods—Example of Xintaimen, China	1