OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Terra Nova 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.)

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Continental and island arc segmentation: Implications for retro‐arc and pro‐arc foreland basin and backarc basin geometries and sediment distributions	28
Variations in magmatism and the state of tectonic compensation of the Mariana subduction system	22
Mixed metamorphic and fluid graphite deposition in Palaeoproterozoic supracrustal rocks of the Lewisian Complex, NW Scotland	20
Formation of the Yangtze Three Gorges: Insights from detrital apatite fission‐track dating of sediments from the Jianghan Basin	19
Broken Beds, but better science; using multiple hypotheses to interpret geological data	15
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Variable exhumation history between the central and eastern Xigaze fore‐arc basin, south Tibet: Implications for underthrusting Indian slab dynamics	14
Block motions and strain partition on active faults in Northeast Tibet and their geodynamic implications	13
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Jurassic dinosaurs on the move: Gastrolith provenance and long‐distance migration	11
Thermal regime and slab dehydration beneath the Izu‐Bonin arc: Implications for fast and slow subduction earthquakes	11
The effective elastic thickness of the lithosphere in the Amerasia Basin, Arctic Ocean	10
Loss of loess in the geological record due to poor preservation	10
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Assessing the robustness of carbonate‐associated sulfate during hydrothermal dolomitization of the Latemar platform, Italy	10
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Contrasting thermal histories for the Indian passive margins during syn‐ and post‐Gondwana break‐up: Insights from apatite fission‐track thermochronology	9
Seismic roulette: Hazards and risks	9
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Ridge jump reorientation of the South China Sea revealed by high‐resolution magnetic data	9
Structural fabrics of carbon grains in a natural fault gouge reactivated by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake	8
Dispersal of endolithic microorganisms in vesicular volcanic rock: Distribution, settlement and pathways revealed by 3D X‐ray microscopy	7
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Monazite Beats Zircon Regarding Dating of Young Metamorphic Events—An Example From Polycyclic Granitic Gneiss of the Pohorje Mountains, Slovenia	7

A new type of saidenbachite with pseudomorphs after coesite phenocrysts from the north‐western Bohemian Massif, Germany	7
Rainfall‐induced ground deformation in southern Africa	6
Source‐to‐sink tandem geochronology reveals tectonic influences on the Cambrian Transcontinental Arch of Laurentia	6
Three dimensional crustal P‐wave structure beneath the central south segment of the Tanlu Fault Zone determined by local earthquake travel‐time tomography	6
Miocene tectonic activity at the boundary between NE Pannonian and NW Transylvanian basins (Romania): Insight from new seismic data	6
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Linking rifted margin crustal shape with the timing and volume of magmatism	6
Lithospheric Deformation of Far‐Field Terranes in Response to the India–Asia Collision	5
Origin of Helium and Associated Fluid in Fault‐Related Hydrothermal Systems of the Eastern Pyrenees	5
Active faulting in the Beagle Channel (Tierra del Fuego)	5
Mongolian micro‐continental blocks in Columbia/Nuna: Zircon U–Pb–Hf isotopic evidence for long‐lasting Mongolia–Western Siberia connection	5
Eocene (48.7 Ma) eclogite at Chepelare, Central Rhodopes, Bulgaria: A key to the tectonics of the Rhodopes	5
Limitations of provenance diagnoses and maximum‐depositional‐age constraints based on detrital‐zircon geochronology: the fertility bias	5
High positive carbonate carbon isotope excursion identified in the North China Craton: Implications for the Lomagundi–Jatuli Event	5
Metallogenic age of the world‐class giant huoshaoyun non‐sulphide Zn–Pb deposit in Karakoram Area, Xinjiang, Northwest China	5
Detrital apatite Lu–Hf and U–Pb geochronology applied to the southwestern Siberian margin	5
The leaky chronometer: Evidence for systematic cryptic Pb loss in laser ablation U‐Pb dating of zircon relative to CA‐TIMS	4
Large igneous provinces track fluctuations in subaerial exposure of continents across the Archean–Proterozoic transition	4
A tectonic model for the Transcontinental Arch: Progressive migration of a Laurentian drainage divide during the Neoproterozoic–Cambrian Sauk Transgression	4
Short‐wavelength Bouguer gravity anomaly and active fault distribution in the northeastern Japan arc	4
Imaging of post‐collisional deformations on the NE Tisza continental unit using ambient seismic noise: A case study from the Țicău area, Romania	4
Pleistocene glaciomarine laminated muds in the Central Basin of the northwestern Ross Sea and their palaeoceanographic records	4
Deep crustal structure in the Taiwan–Ryukyu arc–trench system junction area: New constraints from gravity modelling	4
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When did the Pyrenean shortening end? Insight from U–Pb geochronology of syn‐faulting calcite (Corbières area, France)	4
Holocene slip rates and their implications for seismic hazard along the Himalayan Frontal Thrust in western Himalayan Nahan salient	4
Timing of partial melting and granulite formation during the genesis of high to ultra‐high temperature terranes: Insight from numerical experiments	4
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Seismic evidence for ductile necking of the mid‐lower crust beneath the Columbrets Basin (Western Mediterranean)	4
Storage in the deep aquifer: Stochastic process in time and frequency domain using groundwater level response to seismic activation of the Tohoku earthquake, Japan, 2011	4
High heat flow at the SW passive margin of the Gulf of California	4
Pleistocene–Holoceneout‐of‐sequence faulting along theMedlicott‐WadiaThrust in theNWHimalaya	4
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Water storage in cratonic mantle	3
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Energy facies: A global view of pyroclastic currents from vent to deposit	3
Why is Denali (6,194 m) so big? Caught inside the tectonic wake of a migrating restraining bend	3
Iron from continental weathering dictated soft‐part preservation during the Early Ordovician	3
Direct dating rodingitization in the northern North China Craton using garnet U–Pb geochronometry	3
Sediment provenance signal of the discontinuous retroarc topography in the northern Andes during the Early Cretaceous	3
Ocean expansion: The role of detachment faults	3
LA‐ICP‐MS U–Pb dating of calcite cement in Upper Triassic tight‐gas sandstone reservoirs, western Sichuan Basin, SW China	3
Tectonically dominant surface denudation and topography in the Himalaya: Evidence from coupling between bedrock channel and valley hillslope topographies	3
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Eclogite dehydration and melt‐induced embrittlement at high‐pressure conditions	3
Constraining modes and rates of horizontal deformation along east Qinling fault system from rotated river basins	3
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Subduction signature in the Internal Ligurian units (Northern Apennine, Italy): Evidence from P–T metamorphic peak estimate	3
The Louisiade ophiolite: A missing link in the western Pacific	3
Petrologic relationship between lamprophyres, carbonatites, and heavy rare‐earth element enriched breccias at Hicks Dome	3
Brittle basement deformation during the Caledonian Orogeny observed by K‐Ar geochronology of illite‐bearing fault gouge in west‐central Sweden	2
Thermal variation across collisional orogens: Insights from the hinterland–foreland transition zone of the Sardinian Variscan belt	2
The Fagradalsfjall and Sundhnúkur Fires of 2021–2024: A single magma reservoir under the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland?	2
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Exhumation of the high‐pressure Richarddalen Complex in NW Svalbard: Insights from ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology	2
On the influence of Variscan inheritance on rifting of the Western Iberian margin	2
The concept of tectonic provenance: Case study of the gigantic Markagunt gravity slide basal layer	2
Hydrous Asthenosphere Underneath the Northern Pannonian Basin	2
Geophysical‐petrological modelling of the crust and upper mantle structure across the North‐South Gravity Lineament in NE China: Insights into the lithospheric thinning mechanism	2
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The effects of plateau subduction on plate bending, stress and intraplate seismicity	2
Detrital zircon U‐Pb geochronology of the Jianchuan Basin, southeastern Tibetan Plateau, and its implications for tectonic and paleodrainage evolution	2
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Eastern North China Craton–North Australia Craton connection at 1.0 Ga through detrital zircon mixing modelling	2
Constraining the diagenesis of the Puga cap carbonate from U–Pb in‐situ dating of seafloor crystal fans, southern Amazonian craton, Brazil	2
Thermal history of the Epiligurian Marzabotto wedge‐top basin records the tectonic development of the Northern Apennines (Italy)	2
Detrital peridotite minerals reveal recycled arc mantle beneath Marion Rise, Southwest Indian Ridge	2
Hygrochronometry of punctuated metasomatic events during exhumation of the Cycladic blueschist unit (Syros, Greece)	2
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Accretion of the NW Himalayan foreland pre‐dates Late Cenozoic climate change	2
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Crustal block origins of the South Scotia Ridge	1
Refining vanadium hyper‐enrichment in black shales of the Late Devonian–Early Mississippian Bakken Formation (USA)	1
Late Cretaceous geodynamics of the Palaeo‐Pacific plate inferred from basin inversion structures in the Songliao Basin (NE China)	1
Pre‐eruption magma staging at the long‐lived intraplate Dunedin Volcano, New Zealand	1
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Reconstructing craton‐scale tectonic events via in situ Rb‐Sr geochronology of poly‐phased vein mineralization	1
In‐situ U‐Pb dating of calcite slickenfibre constraints on Cenozoic multiple‐phase faulting along the eastern segment of Chengkou Fault, Dabashan Fold‐and‐Thrust Belt	1
A frozen oceanic crystal mush	1
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Triassic in the northernmost Atlantic—Linking North Greenland and the southwestern Barents Sea	1
Burial in the western Central Andes through Oligocene to Miocene ignimbrite flare‐ups recorded by low‐temperature thermochronology in the Cañete Canyon, Peru	1
Duration of partial melting in the lower crust of the Limpopo collisional belt	1
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Discovery of a hidden Triassic Arc in the Southern South China Sea: Evidence for the breakaway of a ribbon continent with implications for the evolution of the Western Pacific margin	1
Long live the fault! Double inversion of a Mesozoic rift‐related fault system in the central Apennines	1
Geological record of a Cretaceous seismic event paired with multiple volcanic eruptions	1
Potential and problems in evaluating secular changes in the diversity of animal‐substrate interactions at ichnospecies rank	1
Impact of Permian mass extinctions on continental invertebrate infauna	1
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Impact of tidal friction on the motion of lithospheric plates and earthquake activity	1
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Influence of Overpressured Fluid Expulsion on Hydrocarbon Accumulation in Deep‐Buried Miocene Reservoirs of the Yinggehai Basin, Northwestern South China Sea	1
Crustal density structure and flexure mechanism of the Tarim Basin, China, constrained by latest in situ gravity observations	1
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Detrital zircon age signatures of the Mesozoic in the Lusitanian Basin and implications for the evolution of Iberia–Newfoundland conjugate margins	1
Anomalous weathering records in the Cleveland Basin (Yorkshire, UK) during the T‐OAE global warming	1
Interdependence between bacterial EPS and early grain coat development	1
Late Jurassic magmatism in the Ligurian‐Piedmont Ocean constrained by zircon ages of mafic and felsic meta‐intrusives	1
Damage evolution in layered rock masses of a mining floor under the influence of fluid–structure coupling	1
New Estimate on the Spatial Distribution of the Youngest Toba Tuff Ash	1
Uplift, deflation and marine onlap of a Jurassic rift dome, illustrated by a backstepping Middle–Upper Jurassic shelf‐to‐slope succession, Geographical Society Ø, East Greenland	1
3D sine wave‐like geometry of soft sediment deformation structures: Possible record of the Late Pleistocene seismic activity over the Teisseyre‐Tornquist Zone	1
Two Paleoproterozoic tectono‐thermal events in the Central Orogenic belt, North China craton, determined from EPMA Th–U–Pb monazite geochronology of the Zanhuang massif	1
Ambient noise tomography reveals complex crustal structure beneath eastern and northeastern Tibet: Insight into regional crustal flow	1
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A craton‐like subcontinental lithospheric mantle beneath the Trans‐North China Orogen revealed by the ca. 1.54 Ga kimberlites	1
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Active metal deposition in a giant geothermal system	1
French Guiana margin evolution: From Gondwana break‐up to Atlantic opening	1
Coeval Miocene exhumation of the Cycladic Blueschist Unit and the Cycladic Basement in the southern Cyclades, Ios and Sikinos, Greece	1
The effect of pre‐existing fabrics on plate bending and seismicity in Alaska subduction zone	1