OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of South African Journal of Geology is 4. 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
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
Late Quaternary deep marine sediment records off southern Africa	8
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
Palynomorph composition and palynofacies analysis of the Cenomanian Bahariya Formation in the north Western Desert of Egypt: Depositional palaeoenvironment and sequence stratigraphic implications	7
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
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
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