OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sedimentology is 6. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

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Effects of clay and organic matter on calcareous nannofossil ooze erodibility	50
Recognizing key sedimentary facies and their distribution in mixed turbidite–contourite depositional systems: The case of the Pacific margin of the Antarctic Peninsula	42
Holocene seismic activity in south‐eastern Switzerland: Evidence from the sedimentary record of Lake Silvaplana	34
Intricate microbial structures: The enigma of reticulated filaments	28
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Compositional, micromorphological and geotechnical characterization of Holocene Tiber floodplain deposits (Rome, Italy) and sequence stratigraphic implications	22
Depositional and early diagenetic characteristics of modern saline pan deposits at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, USA	21
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Impact of wave, tides and fluid mud on fluvial discharge across a compound clinoform (Pliocene Orinoco Delta)	19
Rhythmic iron‐oxide bands of Navajo Sandstone concretions and Kimberley banded claystone: Formation process and buffering reaction rate by diagenetic alteration	18
Facies variability and depositional settings of Laguna Salada de Chiprana, an Iberian hypersaline lake	18
The role of siliciclastics in carbonate fabric diversity and preservation: A case study from the Neoproterozoic carbonate − siliciclastic Horse Thief Springs Formation, Death Valley	18
Early Miocene carbonate ramp development in a warm ocean, North West Shelf, Australia	18
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Pathways for sediment transport and retention in a vegetated, mid‐channel island: Connecting sediment dynamics to morphology in Meinmahla Island, Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar	17
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Bedform evolution along a submarine canyon in the South China Sea: New insights from an autonomous underwater vehicle survey	17
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Soft‐sediment deformation structures and Neptunian dykes across a carbonate system: Evidence for an earthquake‐related origin (Norian, Dolomia Principale, Southern Alps, Italy)	17
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The supercritical question for pyroclastic dune bedforms: An overview	16
Cool deltas: Sedimentological, geomorphological and geophysical characterization of ice‐contact deltas and implications for their reservoir properties (Salpausselkä, Finland)	16

Focused methane migration formed pipe structures in permeable sandstones: Insights from uncrewed aerial vehicle‐based digital outcrop analysis in Varna, Bulgaria	15
Hybrid event beds generated by erosional bulking of modern hyperpycnal flows on the Choshui River delta front, Taiwan Strait	15
The impact of high discharge variability on sedimentology and architecture of bar deposits in the meandering Powder River (Montana, USA)	15
From Patagonia to Río de la Plata: Multistep long‐distance littoral transport of Andean volcaniclastic sand along the Argentine passive margin	15
Revisiting the black shale depositional enigma: Transport processes and contrasting sediment sources in a heterolithic basin fill – Bowland Basin, England	15
Evolution and architecture of an exhumed ocean‐facing coarse‐grained submarine canyon fill, Baja California, Mexico	14
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Hydrothermal activity near the Permian–Triassic transition in the south‐western Ordos Basin, China: Evidence from carbonate cementation in Upper Permian sandstones	14
Rheological sand bed generates non‐rebounding particles	14
Spatial distribution and variability of lobe facies in a large sand‐rich submarine fan system: Neoproterozoic Zerrissene Group, Namibia	13
Distinguishing mid‐channel and bank‐attached fluvial bars by flow divergence: Implications for the interpretation of stratigraphic records	13
Reconstruction of an extreme flood hydrograph and morphodynamics of a meander bend in a high‐peak discharge variability river (Powder River, USA)	13
Constraints on dolomite formation in a Late Palaeozoic saline alkaline lake deposit, Junggar Basin, north‐west China	12
A depositional model for meandering rivers without land plants	12
Supercritical‐flow processes and depositional products: Introduction to thematic issue	12
Sedimentary record of bottom currents and internal tides in a modern highstand submarine canyon head	12
Bedload transport and deposition of mud‐grade sediments in deep‐lacustrine settings: A case study in the Triassic Yanchang Formation, Ordos Basin, China	11
Submarine slope destabilization and gully formation by water sapping: Physical simulation of an underestimated trigger of subaqueous sediment gravity flows	11
Corrigendum to: Wave‐influenced deposition of carbonate‐rich sediment on the insular shelf of Santa Maria Island, Azores	11
Breaking up and making up – reworking of Holocene calcarenite platform into rapidly‐forming beachrock breccias on a high energy coastline (St. Lucia, South Africa)	11
Geomorphic and environmental controls on microbial mat fabrics on Little Ambergris Cay, Turks and Caicos Islands	11
Lost in the wind: An integrated approach for the recognition of mixed clastic–carbonate continental aeolianites	11
Erratum to Marine carbonate factories: Review and update	11
Deep‐water sand transfer by hyperpycnal flows, the Eocene of Spitsbergen, Arctic Norway	11
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Ontogeny of a subtidal point bar in the microtidal Venice Lagoon (Italy) revealed by three‐dimensional architectural analyses	11
Palaeoclimatic and diagenetic controls based on clay mineralogy and organic matter distribution: The continental rift Cuyo Basin (Triassic), west‐central Argentina	10
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Stratigraphic change in flow transformation processes recorded in early post‐rift deep‐marine intraslope lobe complexes	10
Genesis of island dolostones during rapid island subsidence: Example from the Xisha (Paracel) islands, South China Sea	10
Recognition of a cryptic maximum flooding surface in shallow marine carbonate sequences using geochemical (Y/Ho) proxy data	10
Geochemical record of the subsurface redox gradient in marine red beds: A case study from the Devonian Prague Basin, Czechia	10
Exceptional preservation of a barred shoreline under forced‐regressive conditions (Lower Cretaceous, Neuquén Basin, Argentina)	10
Unconfined gravity current interactions with orthogonal topography: Implications for combined‐flow processes and the depositional record	10
Pearl River sediment dispersal over its associated delta–estuary–shelf system during the Holocene	10
Holocene sediment distribution in the Al Wajh platform lagoon (northern Red Sea, Saudi Arabia), a modern analogue for large rift basin carbonate platforms	10
A Deccan Large Igneous Province related Maastrichtian regolith of Lameta Formation, Central India: Insights into the genesis and development of calcrete profiles and implications for palaeoclimate var	10
Cryptic burrow traces in black shales – a petrographic Rorschach test or the real thing?	10
Correction to ‘Density stratification controls the bedform phase diagram of saline‐gravity currents versus open‐channel flows’	10
Does sand promote or hinder the mobility of cohesive sediment gravity flows?	9
Reply to the Discussion by Al‐Mufti on “On the origin and significance of composite particles in mudstones: Examples from the Cenomanian Dunvegan Formation” by Li et al. (2021), Sedimentolog	9
Hummocky sedimentary structures within rippled beds due to combined orbital waves and transverse currents	9
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Discussion of Li et al. (2021) – On the origin and significance of composite particles in mudstones: Examples from the Cenomanian Dunvegan Formation, Sedimentology, 68, 737–754	9
Spring origin of Eocene carbonate mounds in the Green River Formation, Northern Bridger Basin, Wyoming, USA	9
Source‐to‐sink response to high‐amplitude lake level rise driven by orbital‐scale climate change: An example from the Pleistocene Lake Malawi (Nyasa) Rift, East Africa	9
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Gravitational resedimentation as a fundamental process in filling fjords: Lessons from outcrops from a late Palaeozoic fjord in Namibia	9
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New insights into the palaeoenvironmental–palaeoclimatic significance and sedimentary dynamics of carbonate Lagerstätten: The lower Albian of Pietraroja (Southern Italy)	8
Controls on grain‐size distribution in an ancient sand sea	8
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Advective sorting of silt by currents: A laboratory study	8
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Three‐dimensional stratigraphic architecture, secondary pore system development and the Middle Pleistocene transition, Sandy Point area, San Salvador Island, Bahamas	8
Century‐scale sequences and density‐flow deltas of the late Holocene and modern Dead Sea coast, Israel	8
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Dues Statement	8
Geochemical evidence of provenance diversity in Holocene sandy land of Qinghai Lake Basin in the north‐eastern margin of Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and its implications for climate change	8
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Late Oligocene to early Miocene delta and linked slope fan systems: Depositional architecture and sediment dispersal, the Pearl River Mouth Basin	8
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Contrasting intensity of aragonite dissolution and dolomite cementation in glacial versus interglacial intervals of a subtropical carbonate succession	7
Sand and mud generation from continental flood basalts in contrasting landscapes and climatic conditions (Paraná–Etendeka conjugate igneous provinces, Uruguay and Namibia)	7
Quaternary lacustrine carbonate deposits of the Great Basin, USA: Impact of climate, tectonics and substrate	7
Keratose sponges in ancient carbonates – A problem of interpretation	7
The hidden biotic face of microbialite morphogenesis – a case study from Laguna de Los Cisnes, southernmost Patagonia (Chile)	7
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Multi‐scale and multi‐parametric analysis of Late Quaternary event deposits within the active Corinth Rift (Greece)	7
Lake level controls the recurrence of giant stromatolite facies	7
High‐magnesium calcite skeletons provide magnesium for burrow‐selective dolomitization in Cretaceous carbonates	7
Origin and distribution of calcite cements in a folded fluvial succession: The Puig‐reig anticline (south‐eastern Pyrenees)	7
Autogenic evolution of valley‐confined deltas during sea‐level rise: Insights from numerical and physical modelling	7
Sedimentary environment and benthic oxygenation history of the Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk Group, south Texas: An integrated ichnological, sedimentological and geochemical approach	7
Hydrodynamic controls on sedimentary facies of tidal point bars: A case study in the Georgia coastal plain, USA	7
Features and dolomitizing mechanisms in inner platform facies across the Permian–Triassic boundary (External Dinarides, Croatia)	7
Climate and sea‐level controlling internal architecture of a Quaternary carbonate ramp (Northwest Shelf of Australia)	7
Did the Younger Dryas to Holocene climate transition favour high seismicity rates in the north‐western Alps?	6
Sinuous bar fingers of digitate shallow‐water deltas: Insights into their formative processes and deposits from integrating morphological and sedimentological studies with mathematical modelling	6
Not all shell beds are made equal: Recognizing singular event‐concentrations in megalakes	6
Architecture of lacustrine deposits in response to early Carboniferous rifting and Gondwanan glaciation, Nova Scotia, south‐east Canada	6
A novel approach to discriminate sedimentary characteristics of deltaic tidal flats with terrestrial laser scanner: Results from a case study	6
Diagenesis, compaction strain and deformation associated with chert and carbonate concretions in organic‐rich marl and phosphorite; Upper Cretaceous to Eocene, Jordan	6
A typical point bar with atypical strata in the McMurray Formation, Alberta, Canada: Floods, tides and high suspended sediment concentrations	6
Freshwater microbial mud: Punctuated diagenesis during marine transgression in the Florida Everglades, USA	6
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Coupling near‐surface geomorphology with mangrove community diversity at the estuarine scale: A case study at Dongzhaigang Bay, China	6
Flow‐induced interfacial deformation structures (FIDS): Implications for the interpretation of palaeocurrents, flow dynamics and substrate rheology	6
Unidirectional and combined transitional flow bedforms: Controls on process and distribution in submarine slope settings	6
Bayhead delta succession as a stratigraphic marker of sea‐level changes during the early to late Holocene – the Nakdong valley of south‐eastern Korea	6
Exploring electron backscatter diffraction analysis as a tool for understanding stromatolite: Quantitative description of Cretaceous lacustrine stromatolite reveals formative processes and high‐resolu	6
Three‐dimensional submerged wall jets and their transition to density flows: Morphodynamics and implications for the depositional record	6
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