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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Precambrian tectonic evolution of Earth: an outline	19
Misinterpretation of zircon ages in layered intrusions	12
A proposed chronostratigraphic framework for the late Quaternary of southern Africa	11
3.63 Ga grey gneisses reveal the Eoarchaean history of the Zimbabwe craton	10
Flower structures in sandstones of the Paleozoic Inkisi Group (Brazzaville, Republic of Congo): evidence for two major strike-slip fault systems and geodynamic implications	10
Dryland dunes and other dryland environmental archives as proxies for Late Quaternary stratigraphy and environmental and climate change in southern Africa	9
Exploring our current understanding of the geological evolution and mineral endowment of the Zimbabwe Craton	9
Palaeoarchaean TTGs of the Pilbara and Kaapvaal cratons compared; an early Vaalbara supercraton evaluated	9
Syndepositional hydrothermalism selectively preserves records of one of the earliest benthic ecosystems, Moodies Group (3.22 Ga), Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa	8
Geochemical reconnaissance of the Guéra and Ouaddaï Massifs in Chad: evolution of Proterozoic crust in the Central Sahara Shield	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
The late Quaternary stratigraphy of coastal dunes and associated deposits in southern Africa	8
Sub-lithospheric mantle sources for overlapping southern African Large Igneous Provinces	8
Pillow Talk: Volcanic rocks of the Karoo that formed many leagues under the Gondwanan Sea	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
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	7
The surface geology of the Prince Edward Islands: refined spatial data and call for geoconservation	7
Delineation of sandstone reservoirs of Pletmos Basin offshore South Africa into Flow Units using Core Data	7
Gliding and overthrust nappe tectonics of the Barberton Greenstone Belt revisited: A review of deformation styles and processes	7
Late Quaternary deep marine sediment records off southern Africa	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
Constraining the timescales of mafic magmatism of the Central Karoo Large Igneous Province using high precision U-Pb zircon geochronology	6
Cave and rock shelter sediments of southern Africa: a review of the chronostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental record from Marine Isotope Stage 6 to 1	6
Palynomorph composition and palynofacies analysis of the Cenomanian Bahariya Formation in the north Western Desert of Egypt: Depositional palaeoenvironment and sequence stratigraphic implications	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

Petrogenesis of Archaean granites in the Barberton region of South Africa as a guide to early crustal evolution	6
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	6
The chronostratigraphy of the Anthropocene in southern Africa: Current status and potential	5
Stratigraphy of late Quaternary mountain slope landforms and deposits in southern Africa and their significance for the dynamics of mountain sediment systems	5
Paradise lost: large mammal remains as a proxy for environmental change from MIS 6 to the Holocene in southern Africa	5
Place, space and time: resolving Quaternary records	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
Lithostratigraphy of the Sinqeni Formation, Pongola Supergroup, South Africa	5
Lithostratigraphy of the Mesoproterozoic Yas-Schuitdrift Batholith, South Africa and Namibia	5
Lithostratigraphy of the Mesoproterozoic Donkieboud Granodiorite (Komsberg Suite), South Africa and Namibia	4
Shale gas leakage in lower Ecca shales during contact metamorphism by dolerite sill intrusions in the Karoo Basin, South Africa	4
A southern African perspective on the co-evolution of early life and environments	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
Archaean S-Type granites: petrology, geochemistry and geochronology of the Lekkersmaak and Willie plutons, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa	4
Layered ultramafic complexes of the Barberton Greenstone Belt – age constraints and tectonic implications	4
Silicified fossil woods from the Late Permian Middleton Formation, Beaufort Group, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa and their palaeoenvironmental significance	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
Lithostratigraphy of the Mesoproterozoic Twakputs Gneiss	4
Technocomplexes and chronostratigraphy for MIS 6-1 in southern Africa	4
Characterising the late Quaternary facies stratigraphy of floodplains in 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