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Papers

(The median citation count of South African Journal of Geology 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Precambrian tectonic evolution of Earth: an outline	20
Misinterpretation of zircon ages in layered intrusions	13
3.63 Ga grey gneisses reveal the Eoarchaean history of the Zimbabwe craton	12
A proposed chronostratigraphic framework for the late Quaternary of southern Africa	11
Flower structures in sandstones of the Paleozoic Inkisi Group (Brazzaville, Republic of Congo): evidence for two major strike-slip fault systems and geodynamic implications	11
Syndepositional hydrothermalism selectively preserves records of one of the earliest benthic ecosystems, Moodies Group (3.22 Ga), Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa	10
Palaeoarchaean TTGs of the Pilbara and Kaapvaal cratons compared; an early Vaalbara supercraton evaluated	10
Exploring our current understanding of the geological evolution and mineral endowment of the Zimbabwe Craton	10
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	9
Dryland dunes and other dryland environmental archives as proxies for Late Quaternary stratigraphy and environmental and climate change in southern Africa	9
Geochemical characterization of hydrocarbon source rocks of the Triassic-Jurassic time interval in the Mandawa basin, southern Tanzania: Implications for petroleum generation potential	9
Late Quaternary deep marine sediment records off southern Africa	8
The surface geology of the Prince Edward Islands: refined spatial data and call for geoconservation	8
Sub-lithospheric mantle sources for overlapping southern African Large Igneous Provinces	8
Geochemical reconnaissance of the Guéra and Ouaddaï Massifs in Chad: evolution of Proterozoic crust in the Central Sahara Shield	8
The late Quaternary stratigraphy of coastal dunes and associated deposits in southern Africa	8
Palynomorph composition and palynofacies analysis of the Cenomanian Bahariya Formation in the north Western Desert of Egypt: Depositional palaeoenvironment and sequence stratigraphic implications	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
Cave and rock shelter sediments of southern Africa: a review of the chronostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental record from Marine Isotope Stage 6 to 1	7
Gliding and overthrust nappe tectonics of the Barberton Greenstone Belt revisited: A review of deformation styles and processes	7
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	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
Stratigraphy of late Quaternary mountain slope landforms and deposits in southern Africa and their significance for the dynamics of mountain sediment systems	6
Paradise lost: large mammal remains as a proxy for environmental change from MIS 6 to the Holocene in southern Africa	6
Petrogenesis of Archaean granites in the Barberton region of South Africa as a guide to early crustal evolution	6

Constraining the timescales of mafic magmatism of the Central Karoo Large Igneous Province using high precision U-Pb zircon geochronology	6
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
The chronostratigraphy of the Anthropocene in southern Africa: Current status and potential	5
Characterising the late Quaternary facies stratigraphy of floodplains in South Africa	5
Place, space and time: resolving Quaternary records	5
A neural network application to assess magma diversity in the Etendeka igneous province, Namibia	5
Pollen, charcoal and phytolith records from the Late Quaternary of southern Africa: vegetation and climate interpretations	4
Lithostratigraphy of the Mesoproterozoic Twakputs Gneiss	4
A southern African perspective on the co-evolution of early life and environments	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
Timing of the Cenozoic magmatic intrusions in the offshore Tanga Basin, Tanzania: correlation to age equivalent deposits in the Eyasi-Wembere Basin and their implications for petroleum potential	4
Archaean S-Type granites: petrology, geochemistry and geochronology of the Lekkersmaak and Willie plutons, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa	4
Shale gas leakage in lower Ecca shales during contact metamorphism by dolerite sill intrusions in the Karoo Basin, South Africa	4
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	4
Micromammals and the Late Quaternary of southern Africa	4
Petrogenesis of potassic granite suites along the southern margin of the Zimbabwe Craton	4
Layered ultramafic complexes of the Barberton Greenstone Belt – age constraints and tectonic implications	4
Technocomplexes and chronostratigraphy for MIS 6-1 in southern Africa	4
A sedimentological record of fluvial-aeolian interactions and climate variability in the hyperarid northern Namib Desert, Namibia	4
Geomechanical properties of the Permian black shales in the southern main Karoo Basin: lessons from compositional and petrophysical studies	4
On the volcanic architecture, petrology and geodynamic setting of the 3.48 Ga Barberton komatiite suite, South Africa	3
Seismic imaging of dolerite sills and volcanic vents in the Central Karoo, South Africa: implications for shale gas potential	3
Tectonic and sedimentary evolution of a potential supra-detachment fault basin, Archaean Moodies Group (~3.22 Ga), central Barberton Greenstone Belt	3
Chronostratigraphic palaeo-climate phasing based on southern African wetlands: From the escarpment to the eastern seaboard	3
A LA-ICPMS zircon record of magmatic crystallization and compositional alteration in meta-igneous rocks of the eastern Kaapvaal Craton	3
Zircon geochronology and geochemistry of pre-Bushveld sills in the eastern Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa	3
Age of the Archaean Murchison Belt and mineralisation, South Africa	3
Stratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental interpretation of late Quaternary colluvial slope deposits in southern Africa	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
Review of the thermo-tectonic evolution of the Central Zone of the Limpopo Complex with implications for conflicting published geodynamic models	3
A geochemical study of the Crown Formation and Bird Member lavas of the Mesoarchaean Witwatersrand Supergroup, South Africa	3
Lithostratigraphy of the Palaeoproterozoic Hekpoort Formation (Pretoria Group, Transvaal Supergroup), South Africa	3
Can mineral equilibrium modelling provide additional details on metamorphism of the Barberton garnet amphibolites?	3
INTRODUCTION	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
Petrogenesis of the Marginal Sill Phase and Lower Zone in the Eastern Limb of the Bushveld Complex: Incremental development of igneous layering and syn-magmatic emplacement of peridotite intrusions an	2
The enigmatic continental crust of North-Central Africa: Saharan Metacraton or Central Sahara Shield?	2
Ascent and emplacement controls of mafic magmas in the mid crust − evidence from 3D modelling of basic bodies of the Koperberg Suite, Namaqualand	2
Shattered crust: how brittle deformation enables Critical Zone processes beneath southern Africa	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
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
The depositional environment of the Koeris Formation in the Aggeneys-Gamsberg ore district, South Africa	2
Fossil wood from the Upper Cretaceous crater sediments of the Salpeterkop volcano, North West Province, South Africa	2
Lithostratigraphy of the Bumbeni Complex and its associated subdivisions, South Africa	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
Dating of Guperas Formation rhyolites changes the stratigraphy of the Mesoproterozoic Sinclair Supergroup of Namibia	2
A new lithostratigraphic framework for portions of the Pongola Supergroup within the Nkandla sub-basin, southern Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa; insights into Mozaan Group stratigraphy	1

New constraints on the age of ore at Black Mountain mine, Bushmanland Ore District, South Africa	1
A new lithostratigraphic framework and unified nomenclature for the Nsuze Group of the Nkandla sub-basin, southern Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa	1
A mineralogical perspective on the recovery of uranium from brannerite-rich ore at Cooke Section, West Rand Goldfield, South Africa	1
Detection of magnetite in the Roossenekal area of the Eastern Bushveld Complex, South Africa, using multispectral remote sensing data	1
A ~1.4 Ga alkaline mafic sill from the Carletonville area: connection to the Pilanesberg Alkaline Province?	1
Lithostratigraphy of the Vuurdood Subsuite, an early mafic-ultramafic phase of the Palaeoproterozoic Vioolsdrif Intrusive Suite, Richtersveld Magmatic Arc, Northern Cape Province	1
Lateral uniformity of the Pyroxenite Marker Transition in the western Bushveld Complex, South Africa	1
The petrogenesis and emplacement mechanism of layered ultramafic-mafic complexes of the Barberton Greenstone Belt: Insights from the Stolzburg Complex, South Africa	1
Amphibolite facies metamorphism in lower Witwatersrand Supergroup rocks exposed in the Vredefort Dome – a Ventersdorp LIP connection	1
The Tennis Ball Marker in the south-eastern Bushveld Complex: comparison with the Boulder Bed of the Western Bushveld Complex and proposed genesis by disaggregation of intrusive sills in processes aki	1
Macroseismic survey of the 6 February 2016 KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa earthquake	1
Applying U-Pb chronometry and trace element geochemistry of apatite to carbonatite-phoscorite complexes – as exemplified by the 2.06 Ga Phalaborwa Complex, South Africa	1
A zircon trace element and Hf isotope geochemical study of syenites and carbonatite, exemplified by the Epembe alkaline carbonatite complex, Namibia	1
Lithostratigraphy of the Naros Granite (Komsberg Suite), South Africa and Namibia	1
Okorusu tailings – Part II: REE mineralisation, and oxygen and carbon isotope variations	1
Factors leading to sub-surface pan silcrete formation in north-central Botswana	1
A Review of the geological history of the Evander Basin with new insights into the deposition of the Kimberley Formation	1
Petrogenesis of PGE mineralised intrusions in the floor of the northern Bushveld Complex	1
New details on the volcanic and tectonic evolution of the Mesoarchaean Dominion Group with special reference to the Syferfontein Formation in the Ottosdal area (South Africa)	1
Heat flow in the Main Karoo Basin, South Africa	1
A positive syn-fold test from the Neoarchaean Klipriviersberg Group of South Africa: Quo vadis Vaalbara?	1
Preface	1