OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Geology 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
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
The Segmented Zambezi Sedimentary System from Source to Sink: 2. Geochemistry, Clay Minerals, and Detrital Geochronology	8
Calcareous Nannofossil Stratigraphy across the Paleocene-Eocene Transition at the Gunnah Section, Farafra Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt	8
River Terrace Evidence of Tectonic Processes in the Eastern North American Plate Interior, South Anna River, Virginia	7
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
Postcollisional Ferani Volcanics from North Arabian–Nubian Shield (South Sinai, Egypt): Petrogenesis and Implication for Ediacaran (607–593 Ma) Geodynamic Evolution	6
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
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
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