OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Facies 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Facies analysis and environmental interpretation of a late Pleistocene coastal lagoon sedimentary sequence containing a Coprinisphaera-bearing terrestrial episode (Kisimayo, southern Somalia)	16
The colourful optical appearance of centric diatom fossil frustules with diagenetic nanocrystalline calcite fill	15
Palaeoenvironmental implications and genesis of lacustrine Lower Triassic giant ooids	11
Late Aptian carbonate platform evolution and controls (south Tethys, Tunisia): response to sea-level oscillations, palaeo-environmental changes and climate	9
Palaeoenvironments of an Upper Cretaceous mixed carbonate-siliciclastic shelf of the external Prebetic domain (Valencia, SE Spain)	9
Bryoherms from the lower Sarmatian (upper Serravallian, Middle Miocene) of the Central Paratethys	8
Benthic response to the strong Silurian climatic fluctuations—implications from Gotland (Sweden)	7
The paleo-community of the Sciacca red coral	7
Palaeoecology of calcified microfossils from the Lower Devonian (Pragian-Emsian) of Sierra Morena (SW Spain)	7
Sedimentology, geochemistry and palaeoenvironments of Jurassic oolitic ironstones from the eastern Tethys (Indus Basin, northwestern Himalayas, Pakistan)	7
Evolution of coniacian facies and environments in the Iberian basin: a longshore current controlling siliciclastic sand distribution on a carbonate platform	7
Contrasting reef patterns during the evolution of the carboniferous azrou-khenifra basin (Moroccan Meseta)	6
High-frequency sequence stratigraphy of Pennsylvanian-Lower Permian carbonate successions of the Robledo Mountains, New Mexico and the Carnic Alps, Austria: a record of the acme and demise of the late	5
Molecular fossils in reefal carbonates and sponges of the deep fore reef of Mayotte and Mohéli, Comoro Islands, western Indian Ocean	5
Revisiting the upper Visean mud mounds from Derbyshire (UK): the role of brachiopods in their growth	5
Ribbon rocks revisited: the upper Cambrian (Furongian) Hwajeol Formation, Taebaek Group, Korea	5
Depositional setting and limiting factors of early Late Cretaceous glaucony formation: implications from Cenomanian glauconitic strata (Elbtal Group, Germany)	5
Facies analysis of the Upper Ordovician Xiazhen Formation, southeast China: Implications for carbonate platform development in South China prior to the onset of the Hirnantian glaciation	5
Facies character and evolution of a mixed carbonate–siliciclastic shelf: Upper Triassic–Lower Jurassic succession in the eastern Northern Calcareous Alps (Stumpfmauer, Austria)	5
Correction: Middle Triassic stepwise deepening and stratigraphic condensation associated with Illyrian volcanism in the Durmitor Mountain, Montenegro	5
Intelligent identification of carbonate components based on deep learning	5
A “cool-water”, non-tropical, mixed volcaniclastic–carbonate ramp from the Early Cretaceous of southern Chile (45°40’S)	5
Early Cretaceous marine microbiofacies from the South Atlantic Ocean (Sergipe–Alagoas Basin, Brazil): palaeobiogeographical and palaeoceanographical inferences	4
Attached and free-living crustose coralline algae and their functional traits in the geological record and today	4
Age, microfacies and depositional environment of the Middle to Late Paleocene shallow-marine carbonates in the Sirt Basin of Libya (Upper Sabil Formation): “Are Intisar domal structures pinnacle reefs	4

Cambrian reefs in the lower Poleta Formation: a new occurrence of a thick archaeocyathan reef near Gold Point, Nevada, USA	3
Progradation of a shallow carbonate platform developed on a fault-block in the Western Tethys (lower Aptian, Sierra de Bedmar-Jódar, Prebetic of Jaén, Spain)	3
Upper Triassic–Lower Jurassic continental carbonates from the Apuseni Mountains, Romania: facies, lithology and paleoenvironments	3
Charophyte communities in Barremian Iberian wetlands	3
Preferential dolomitization in Mio–Pliocene bioclastic clinoforms, Bonaire Island, South Caribbean: insights from petrographic and geochemical analyses	3
Evolution of a Miocene canyon and its carbonate fill in the pre-evaporitic eastern Mediterranean	2
Sedimentary aspects of the onset of Middle Triassic continental rifting in the western end of Neotethys; inferences from the Silica and Torna Nappes, NE Hungary: a review	2
40Ar/39Ar dating and palaeoenvironments at the boundary of the early-late Badenian (Langhian-Serravallian) in the northwest margin of the Pannonian basin system	1
Depositional and stratigraphic architecture of a mixed carbonate–siliciclastic depositional system in the Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous) of the Southern Midcontinent, Oklahoma, USA	1
Bioerosion and encrustation in Late Triassic reef corals from Iran	1
Evolution of eastern passive margin of Adria recorded in shallow- to deep-water successions of the transition zone between the Alps and the Dinarides (Ivanščica Mt., NW Croatia)	1
Morphogenesis of crystal fan fabrics of the Wolfenden cool water tufa deposit in western Canada	1
The Jurassic–Cretaceous transition in deep- and shallow-water carbonate depositional settings: a case study from the easternmost Getic Carbonate Platform (Southern Carpathians, Romania)	1
Devonian to Carboniferous continental-scale carbonate turnover in Western Laurentia (North America): upwelling or climate cooling?	1
Changing depositional environments in the semi-restricted Late Jurassic Lemeš Basin (Outer Dinarides; Croatia)	1
Stratigraphical, microfacies, and ichnological characteristics and depositional environments of the Permo‒Carboniferous Aheimer Formation, western side of the Gulf of Suez, Egypt	1
The “Orbitolina Limestone” of central Iran: new data about microfacies, orbitolinid biostratigraphy, and palaeogeography	1
The sub-fossil red coral of Sciacca (Sicily Channel, Mediterranean Sea): colony size and age estimates	1
Census-based estimates of Mediterranean Oligocene–Miocene reef carbonate production	1
Facies and diagenesis of early Cambrian patch-reefs in the inner Siberian Craton (Nepa-Botuoba anteclise)	1
Sedimentology and distribution of late quaternary calciturbidites and calcidebrites in the Mozambique Channel (Southwest Indian Ocean)	1
Controls on mesophotic carbonate facies and sediment distribution across the Maltese shelf, central Mediterranean Sea	1
Unattached carbonate platform evolution across the Aptian–Albian boundary: facies, magnetic susceptibility and sequence stratigraphy in the Constantine area of northeast Algeria	1
Palaeozoic stromatoporoid diagenesis: a synthesis	1