OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Facies is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Depositional setting and limiting factors of early Late Cretaceous glaucony formation: implications from Cenomanian glauconitic strata (Elbtal Group, Germany)	13
Stable carbon and oxygen isotope data of Late Ediacaran stromatolites from a hypersaline environment in the Tarim Basin (NW China) and their reservoir potential	13
Chemical characterisation is rough: the impact of topography and measurement parameters on energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy in biominerals	11
Charophyte communities in Barremian Iberian wetlands	9
Palaeoecological analysis of maximum flooding zones from the Tithonian (Upper Jurassic) of the Kachchh Basin, western India	9
Palaeozoic stromatoporoid diagenesis: a synthesis	8
Glendonite-bearing concretions from the upper Pliensbachian (Lower Jurassic) of South Germany: indicators for a massive cooling in the European epicontinental sea	7
Bryoherms from the lower Sarmatian (upper Serravallian, Middle Miocene) of the Central Paratethys	7
Cyclic nature of the biotic attributes of macroinvertebrate communities in the Cenomanian–Turonian strata of Sinai: water depth-driven biological responses	7
Ribbon rocks revisited: the upper Cambrian (Furongian) Hwajeol Formation, Taebaek Group, Korea	7
The “Orbitolina Limestone” of central Iran: new data about microfacies, orbitolinid biostratigraphy, and palaeogeography	6
Calcilobes wangshenghaii n. gen., n. sp., microbial constructor of Permian–Triassic boundary microbialites of South China, and its place in microbialite classification	6
Late Pennsylvanian carbonate platform facies and coral reef: new insights from southern China (Guizhou Province)	6
40Ar/39Ar dating and palaeoenvironments at the boundary of the early-late Badenian (Langhian-Serravallian) in the northwest margin of the Pannonian basin system	6
Lower Triassic (Induan) stromatolites and oolites of the Bernburg Formation revisited – microfacies and palaeoenvironment of lacustrine carbonates in Central Germany	6
Cambrian reefs in the lower Poleta Formation: a new occurrence of a thick archaeocyathan reef near Gold Point, Nevada, USA	5
Late Aptian carbonate platform evolution and controls (south Tethys, Tunisia): response to sea-level oscillations, palaeo-environmental changes and climate	5
Development of coral–sponge–microbialite reefs in a coated grain-dominated carbonate ramp (Upper Jurassic, eastern Sardinia, Italy)	5
Sedimentology and distribution of late quaternary calciturbidites and calcidebrites in the Mozambique Channel (Southwest Indian Ocean)	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
Applications of fossil taxonomy in palaeoenvironmental reconstruction: a case study of ostracod identification and diversity in Permian–Triassic boundary microbialites	5
Modularity explains large-scale reef booms in Earth’s history	5
The sub-fossil red coral of Sciacca (Sicily Channel, Mediterranean Sea): colony size and age estimates	5
Contrasting reef patterns during the evolution of the carboniferous azrou-khenifra basin (Moroccan Meseta)	5
Palaeoenvironmental significance of sponge spicules in pre-Messinian crisis sediments, Northern Italy	5

Depositional and stratigraphic architecture of a mixed carbonate–siliciclastic depositional system in the Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous) of the Southern Midcontinent, Oklahoma, USA	5
Development of a Mississippian–Lower Pennsylvanian isolated carbonate platform within the basinal griotte facies of the Cantabrian Mountains, NW Spain	4
Palaeozoic stromatoporoids and chaetetids analysed using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD); implications for original mineralogy and microstructure	4
Giant subaqueous carbonate dunes: a revised interpretation of large-scale oo-bioclastic clinoforms in the middle Jurassic of the Paris Basin and its implications	4
Holocene sediments of an inundated sinkhole: facies analysis of the “Great Blue Hole”, Lighthouse Reef, Belize	4
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)	4
Devonian to Carboniferous continental-scale carbonate turnover in Western Laurentia (North America): upwelling or climate cooling?	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
Changing depositional environments in the semi-restricted Late Jurassic Lemeš Basin (Outer Dinarides; Croatia)	3
Biohermal complex dominated by microbial carbonates from the early Miaolingian (lower Cambrian) Maozhuang Formation, North China	3
The Jurassic–Cretaceous transition in deep- and shallow-water carbonate depositional settings: a case study from the easternmost Getic Carbonate Platform (Southern Carpathians, Romania)	3
Reconstruction of tectonically disrupted carbonates through quantitative microfacies analyses: an example from the Middle Triassic of Southern Italy	3
Evolution of a Miocene canyon and its carbonate fill in the pre-evaporitic eastern Mediterranean	3
Petrofacies and taphofacies analyses of coquinas as a tool for the establishment of a stratigraphic evolution model of the Morro do Chaves Formation (Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, NE Brazil)	2
Microbial mats and evaporite facies variation in a supralittoral, ephemeral lake, Red Sea coast, Saudi Arabia	2
A wet climatic terrestrial carbonate record in the middle-upper Pleistocene, north Tunisia	2