OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 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
Towards a glacial subdivision of the Ediacaran Period, with an example of the Boston Bay Group, Massachusetts	14
Quantitative compaction trends of Miocene to Holocene carbonates off the west coast of Australia	11
The pollen record from marine core MD03-2607 from offshore Kangaroo Island spanning the last 125 ka; implications for vegetation changes across the Murray-Darling Basin	10
Holocene freshwater history of the Lower River Murray and its terminal lakes, Alexandrina and Albert, South Australia, and its relevance to contemporary environmental management	10
A review of major rare earth element and yttrium deposits in China	10
The tabular Strathbogie batholith in central Victoria	9
Paleosols and weathering leading up to Snowball Earth in central Australia	8
Understanding present-day stress in the onshore Canning Basin of Western Australia	7
Zircon inheritance, sources of Devonian granitic magmas and crustal structure in central Victoria	7
Holocene infill of the Anglesea Estuary, Victoria: a keep-up estuary in a geologically constrained environment	7
Detrital zircon ages, provenance and tectonic evolution in the early Paleozoic of Tasmania and Waratah Bay, Victoria	7
Effect of loess particle shape on its performance under biaxial compression	6
Geotourism and geoparks for sustainable rural development and poverty alleviation: Huanggang Dabieshan UNESCO Global Geopark, China	6
Sequence stratigraphic and petrological analyses of the Cambrian oncoids exposed in the Liaoning Province, North China Platform	6
Isotopic investigations of the Nova-Bollinger Ni–Cu–Co deposit in the Fraser Zone, Albany-Fraser Orogen, Western Australia	6
Refining the depositional model of the lower Permian Carynginia Formation in the northern Perth Basin: anatomy of an ancient mouth bar	6
Tectonic setting and mineralisation potential of the Cowley Ophiolite Complex, north Queensland	5
Paleocurrent and paleowind direction reconstruction research progress and perspectives: a review	5
Stratigraphy of the Agnew-Wiluna Greenstone Belt: review, synopsis and implications for the late Mesoarchean to Neoarchean geological evolution of the Yilgarn Craton	5
Performance measurements of machine learning and different neural network designs for prediction of geochemical properties based on hyperspectral core scans	4
Cenozoic volcanism, tectonics and mineralisation of Woodlark Island (Muyuw), eastern Papua	4
Marine depositional signatures of the Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Events in the Eastern Tethys, Lower Indus Basin, Pakistan	4
Geochemical and palynological records of rapid climatic change from the early to late Aptian: evidence from the Jiaolai Basin, eastern China	4
Element enrichment/depletion during faulting in shale-rich surface exposures of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (Mw 7.9) and implications for coseismic temperature	4
Age of magmatism and alteration of basaltic rocks cored at the base of IODP Site U1513, Naturaliste Plateau, southwestern Australia	4

Lithospheric evolution, thermo-tectonic history and source-rock maturation in the Gippsland Basin, Victoria, southeastern Australia	4
Dating initial crystallisation of some Devonian plutons in central Victoria and geological implications	4
Age and geochemistry of the Boucaut Volcanics in the Neoproterozoic Adelaide Rift Complex, South Australia	4
Middle Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous stratigraphy of the northern Great Australian Superbasin: insights from maximum depositional age constraints from the U–Pb detrital zircon record	4
Depositional environments and microfacies of the upper Turonian–Maastrichtian Kawagarh Formation, Kalachitta Range, Lesser Himalayas, Pakistan	4
Geochemical characteristics and structural setting of lithium–caesium–tantalum pegmatites of the Dorchap Dyke Swarm, northeast Victoria, Australia	3
Mafic dykes of the southeastern Gawler Craton: ca 1564 Ma magmatism with an enriched mantle source	3
A geophysical investigation of the 2018 Lake Muir earthquake sequence: reactivated Precambrian structures controlling modern seismicity	3
Planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy of the Cretaceous strata, Indus Basin, Pakistan, Eastern Tethys: implications for oceanic anoxic events	3
Hyperspectral data as a proxy for porosity estimation of carbonate rocks	3
Zircons from the Wambidgee Serpentinite Belt, southern Lachlan Orogen: evidence for oceanic crust at the Cambrian–Ordovician boundary	3
Biogeochemical status of the Paleo-Pacific Ocean: clues from the early Cambrian of South Australia	3
Aspidella and water escape structures from the ca 850 Ma (Tonian) Heavitree Formation, Amadeus Basin, Central Australia	3
Petrography of martite–goethite ore and implications for ore genesis, South Flank, Hamersley Province, Western Australia	3
Phanerozoic history of the Pilbara region: implications for iron mineralisation	3
Early Permian zircon ages from the P. confluens and P. pseudoreticulata spore-pollen zones in the southern Bonaparte and Canning basins, northwestern Australia	3
Geomechanical evaluation of a middle Cambrian unconventional oil and gas play in the southern Georgina Basin, northern Australia	3
Provenance of sandstones in the Hastings Block, southern New England Orogen: implications for tectonic setting	3
Improving geological logging of drill holes using geochemical data and data analytics for mineral exploration in the Gawler Ranges, South Australia	3
Sequence stratigraphy of the ca 1640 Ma Barney Creek Formation, McArthur Basin, Australia	3
Triassic coal measures, Tasmania: new U–Pb CA-TIMS ash bed dates and numerical calibration of palynostratigraphy	3
Nature and evolution of diagenetic fluids in the deeply buried Cambrian Xiaoerbulake Formation, Tarim Basin, China	3
Pore development in terrestrial shale reservoirs: the Permian Lucaogou Formation, Junggar Basin, northwestern China	3
Geology, geochemistry and depositional history of the Port Campbell Limestone on the eastern flank of the Otway Basin, southeastern Australia	3
Late Ordovician subsurface carbonates and fossil assemblages from the area immediately west and northwest of Peak Hill in central New South Wales and their regional correlation	2
Devonian–Carboniferous regional deformation in the northeastern Lachlan Orogen, southeastern Australia	2
Orogens and detritus: unravelling the Mesoproterozoic tectonic geography of northern Australia through coupled detrital thermo- and geo-chronometers	2
Controlling factors of hydrocarbon accumulation and differential distribution in the western Qaidam Basin, Tibet Plateau	2
Late Quaternary geological history of the Sydney estuary, Australia	2
Potential field modelling and U–Pb geochronology reveal the pluton emplacement dynamics of the Lower Devonian Tarnagulla Granodiorite, southeast Australia	2
Fluid inclusion and stable isotope constraints on the genesis of epithermal base-metal veins in the Armaqan Khaneh mining district, Tarom-Hashtjin metallogenic belt, NW Iran	2
Genesis of the Wilsons Promontory batholith of southeast Victoria, Australia: heterogeneities in the Proterozoic basement	2
Quantifying weathering intensity using chemical proxies: a weathering index AFB	2
Towards quantifying uncertainties in geological models for mineral resource estimation through outside-in deposit-scale structural geological analysis	2
The use of structural geology in the mineral exploration industry	2
The tabular Strathbogie batholith in central Victoria: Response to comments by C. D. Branch	2
Petrogenesis and tectonic setting of Early Cretaceous mafic dykes in the North Qinling Orogenic Belt, central China: constraints on the lithospheric lower crust delamination	2
Matangkaka manganese deposit, Ambitle Island, Feni Island Group, Papua New Guinea: a Quaternary epithermal stratabound manganese oxide deposit	2
Devonian ignimbrites of central Victoria: explosive magmas from multiple sources, and deep crustal structure in the Selwyn Block	2
Palynostratigraphy of the Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous strata, Upper Indus Basin, Pakistan: implication for Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary and paleoclimate in the Eastern Tethys	2
Lower Cambrian volcanism in the Hawker Group and the Billy Creek Formation, Arrowie Basin, Flinders Ranges, South Australia	2
The T0 coal seam in the Latrobe Valley: a revised age and implications to Traralgon Formation stratigraphy	2
Paleomagnetic testing of the Lachlan Orocline hypothesis: Overprinting of remanence in Paleozoic rocks of the Lachlan Orogen in southeast Australia	2
Shale brittleness within the Paleoproterozoic Isa Superbasin succession in the South Nicholson region, Northern Australia	2
Geochemistry and provenance of lower Permian sedimentary rocks, Nambucca Block, southern New England Orogen	2
In situ calcite U–Pb geochronology of carbonate and clastic sedimentary rocks from the Canning Basin, Western Australia	2
Detrital zircons in Triassic–Cretaceous sandstones, Clarence-Moreton Basin, eastern Australia: speculations upon Australia and Zealandia provenances	2
Evolution of diagenetic fluids in the deeply buried, upper Ediacaran Dengying Formation, Central Sichuan Basin, China	2
Crystallographic preferred orientation of quartz deformed at granulite conditions: the Kalinjala Shear Zone, Port Neill, South Australia	2
Reconciling the onshore/offshore stratigraphy of the Canning Basin and implications for petroleum prospectivity	2

Shale gas potential of Ordovician marine Pingliang shale and Carboniferous–Permian transitional Taiyuan-Shanxi shales in the Ordos Basin, China	2
Detrital or reset? ⁴⁰ Ar/ ³⁹ Ar dating of mica from the Lower Jurassic Precipice Sandstone and Evergreen Formation in the Surat Ba	2
Archean and Paleoproterozoic zircons in Paleozoic sandstones in southern New Zealand: evidence for remnant Nuna supercontinent and Ur continent rocks within Zealandia	2
Function and status of structural geology in the Resource industry	2
Triaxial stress and failure modes in hydrothermal mineral systems	2