OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of South African Journal of Geology 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction to the tetrapod biozonation of the Karoo Supergroup	44
Biostratigraphy of the Lystrosaurus declivis Assemblage Zone (Beaufort Group, Karoo Supergroup), South Africa	38
Biostratigraphy of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone (Beaufort Group, Karoo Supergroup), South Africa	32
Biostratigraphy of theDaptocephalusAssemblage Zone (Beaufort Group, Karoo Supergroup), South Africa	29
Biostratigraphy of the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone (Beaufort Group, Karoo Supergroup), South Africa	25
Biostratigraphy of the Massospondylus Assemblage Zone (Stormberg Group, Karoo Supergroup), South Africa	25
Biostratigraphy of the Endothiodon Assemblage Zone (Beaufort Group, Karoo Supergroup), South Africa	23
Biostratigraphy of the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone (Beaufort Group, Karoo Supergroup), South Africa	16
Biostratigraphy of theScalenodontoidesAssemblage Zone (Stormberg Group, Karoo Supergroup), South Africa	16
Precambrian tectonic evolution of Earth: an outline	16
Biostratigraphy of the Eodicynodon Assemblage Zone (Beaufort Group, Karoo Supergroup), South Africa	15
A proposed chronostratigraphic framework for the late Quaternary of southern Africa	11
Misinterpretation of zircon ages in layered intrusions	10
Palaeoarchaean TTGs of the Pilbara and Kaapvaal cratons compared; an early Vaalbara supercraton evaluated	9
3.63 Ga grey gneisses reveal the Eoarchaean history of the Zimbabwe craton	9
Exploring our current understanding of the geological evolution and mineral endowment of the Zimbabwe Craton	8
Dryland dunes and other dryland environmental archives as proxies for Late Quaternary stratigraphy and environmental and climate change in southern Africa	8
Geochemical characterization of hydrocarbon source rocks of the Triassic-Jurassic time interval in the Mandawa basin, southern Tanzania: Implications for petroleum generation potential	8
Flower structures in sandstones of the Paleozoic Inkisi Group (Brazzaville, Republic of Congo): evidence for two major strike-slip fault systems and geodynamic implications	8
Pillow Talk: Volcanic rocks of the Karoo that formed many leagues under the Gondwanan Sea	7
The late Quaternary stratigraphy of coastal dunes and associated deposits in southern Africa	7
S- to I- to A-type magmatic cycles in granitic terranes are not globally recurring progressions. The cases of the Cape Granite Suite of Southern Africa and central Victoria in southeastern Australia	7
Sub-lithospheric mantle sources for overlapping southern African Large Igneous Provinces	7
Syndepositional hydrothermalism selectively preserves records of one of the earliest benthic ecosystems, Moodies Group (3.22 Ga), Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa	7
Delineation of sandstone reservoirs of Pletmos Basin offshore South Africa into Flow Units using Core Data	7

Lu-Hf analyses of zircon from the Makoppa Dome and Amalia-Kraaipan area: implications for evolution of the Kimberley and Pietersburg blocks of the Kaapvaal Craton	6
The surface geology of the Prince Edward Islands: refined spatial data and call for geoconservation	6
On the kinematics and timing of Rodinia breakup: a possible rift–transform junction of Cryogenian age at the southwest cape of Congo Craton (northwest Namibia)	6
Place, space and time: resolving Quaternary records	5
Constraining the timescales of mafic magmatism of the Central Karoo Large Igneous Province using high precision U-Pb zircon geochronology	5
Geochemical reconnaissance of the Guéra and Ouaddaï Massifs in Chad: evolution of Proterozoic crust in the Central Sahara Shield	5
Lithostratigraphy of the Mesoproterozoic Yas-Schuitdrift Batholith, South Africa and Namibia	5
Late Quaternary deep marine sediment records off southern Africa	5
Lithostratigraphy of the Sinqeni Formation, Pongola Supergroup, South Africa	5
Occurrence and probable source of chromium enrichment in Permian coals, South Africa	5
Mid-Ordovician subduction, obduction, and eduction in western Newfoundland; an eclogite problem	5
Cave and rock shelter sediments of southern Africa: a review of the chronostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental record from Marine Isotope Stage 6 to 1	5
Multi-scale spatial distribution of K, Th and U in an Archaean potassic granite: a case study from the Heerenveen batholith, Barberton Granite-Greenstone Terrain, South Africa	5
Gliding and overthrust nappe tectonics of the Barberton Greenstone Belt revisited: A review of deformation styles and processes	5
Paradise lost: large mammal remains as a proxy for environmental change from MIS 6 to the Holocene in southern Africa	5
Lithostratigraphy of the Mesoproterozoic Twakputs Gneiss	4
Shale gas leakage in lower Ecca shales during contact metamorphism by dolerite sill intrusions in the Karoo Basin, South Africa	4
Further evidence for Cretaceous wildfires: macro-charcoal from the Malha Formation at Wadi Budra, west-central Sinai, Egypt	4
Cenozoic stratigraphy of South Africa: current challenges and future possibilities	4
Lithostratigraphy of the Mesoproterozoic Donkieboud Granodiorite (Komsberg Suite), South Africa and Namibia	4
Silicified fossil woods from the Late Permian Middleton Formation, Beaufort Group, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa and their palaeoenvironmental significance	4
Stratigraphy of late Quaternary mountain slope landforms and deposits in southern Africa and their significance for the dynamics of mountain sediment systems	4
The chronostratigraphy of the Anthropocene in southern Africa: Current status and potential	4
Palynomorph composition and palynofacies analysis of the Cenomanian Bahariya Formation in the north Western Desert of Egypt: Depositional palaeoenvironment and sequence stratigraphic implications	4
A sedimentological record of fluvial-aeolian interactions and climate variability in the hyperarid northern Namib Desert, Namibia	4
A neural network application to assess magma diversity in the Etendeka igneous province, Namibia	4
Geomechanical properties of the Permian black shales in the southern main Karoo Basin: lessons from compositional and petrophysical studies	3
Can mineral equilibrium modelling provide additional details on metamorphism of the Barberton garnet amphibolites?	3
Layered ultramafic complexes of the Barberton Greenstone Belt – age constraints and tectonic implications	3
Technocomplexes and chronostratigraphy for MIS 6-1 in southern Africa	3
Characterising the late Quaternary facies stratigraphy of floodplains in South Africa	3
Seismic imaging of dolerite sills and volcanic vents in the Central Karoo, South Africa: implications for shale gas potential	3
Lithostratigraphy of the Palaeoproterozoic Hekpoort Formation (Pretoria Group, Transvaal Supergroup), South Africa	3
Spatial variations of sills and implications for magma dispersal across the Karoo basin	3
Elemental proxy evidence for late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental change in southern African sedimentary records: interpretation and applications	3
Combined satellite and portable XRF exploration mapping of the Zaaiplaats tin field, South Africa	3
Petrogenesis of Archaean granites in the Barberton region of South Africa as a guide to early crustal evolution	3
Field, petrographical and geochemical characterization of a layered anorthosite sequence in the Upper Main Zone of the Bushveld Complex	3
A southern African perspective on the co-evolution of early life and environments	3
PGE distribution in the chromitite layers at Eastern Chrome Mine, Eastern Bushveld Complex, South Africa: A descriptive study with comparison of EPMA and LA-ICP-MS methods for detection of trace PGE i	3
Stratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental interpretation of late Quaternary colluvial slope deposits in southern Africa	3
Pollen, charcoal and phytolith records from the Late Quaternary of southern Africa: vegetation and climate interpretations	3
Archaean S-Type granites: petrology, geochemistry and geochronology of the Lekkersmaak and Willie plutons, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa	3
On the volcanic architecture, petrology and geodynamic setting of the 3.48 Ga Barberton komatiite suite, South Africa	3
The Grenvillian assembly of Rodinia: Timing of accretion on the western margin of the Kalahari (Kaapvaal) Craton	3
Manganese carbonate-bearing mudstone of the Witwatersrand-Mozaan succession in southern Africa as evidence for bacterial manganese respiration and availability of free molecular oxygen in Mesoarchaean	3
A long term baseline and variability of natural radionuclides in groundwater at the Vaalputs low-level radioactive waste disposal facility, Namaqualand, South Africa: regional implications	3
A reinterpretation of the Archaean stratigraphy south of Nkandla, southern Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa: Geophysical and stratigraphic constraints on a sheared granitoid-greenstone remnant	2
Provenance of metasedimentary rocks of the Kheis Terrane and Kakamas Domain: support for accretionary tectonics during the development of the western Namaqua-Natal metamorphic province	2
A late Mesozoic – early Cenozoic sedimentary recycling system on the Gondwana rifted margin of southeast Africa	2

Micromammals and the Late Quaternary of southern Africa	2
INTRODUCTION	2
Dating of Guperas Formation rhyolites changes the stratigraphy of the Mesoproterozoic Sinclair Supergroup of Namibia	2
Misrepresentation of early Karoo Volcanism: A critical discussion of aspects of “De Wit et al., 2020. Pillow talk: Volcanic rocks of the Karoo that formed many leagues under the Gondwanan Sea. South A	2
De Kraalen and Witrivier Greenstone Belts, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa: Characterisation of the Palaeo-Mesoarchaean evolution by rutile and zircon U-Pb geochronology combined with Hf isotopes	2
TETRAPOD BIOZONATION OF THE KAROO SUPERGROUP	2
Age of the Archaean Murchison Belt and mineralisation, South Africa	2
Petrogenesis of potassic granite suites along the southern margin of the Zimbabwe Craton	2
The depositional environment of the Koeris Formation in the Aggeneys-Gamsberg ore district, South Africa	2
Shattered crust: how brittle deformation enables Critical Zone processes beneath southern Africa	2
Zircon geochronology and geochemistry of pre-Bushveld sills in the eastern Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa	2
Enigmatic provenance signature of sandstone from the Okwa Group, Botswana	2
Metamorphic evolution for the Inyoni shear zone: Investigating the geodynamic evolution of a 3.20 Ga terrane boundary in the Barberton granitoid greenstone terrane, South Africa	2
The enigmatic continental crust of North-Central Africa: Saharan Metacraton or Central Sahara Shield?	2
A LA-ICPMS zircon record of magmatic crystallization and compositional alteration in meta-igneous rocks of the eastern Kaapvaal Craton	2
Chronostratigraphic palaeo-climate phasing based on southern African wetlands: From the escarpment to the eastern seaboard	2
Co-existing low-Ti and high-Ti dolerites in two large dykes in the Gap Dyke swarm, southeastern Karoo Basin (South Africa)	2