OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of South African Journal of Geology is 5. 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
3.63 Ga grey gneisses reveal the Eoarchaean history of the Zimbabwe craton	9
Palaeoarchaean TTGs of the Pilbara and Kaapvaal cratons compared; an early Vaalbara supercraton evaluated	9
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
Exploring our current understanding of the geological evolution and mineral endowment of the Zimbabwe Craton	8
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
Pillow Talk: Volcanic rocks of the Karoo that formed many leagues under the Gondwanan Sea	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