OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Earth Sciences 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The youngest matrix of 234 Ma of the Kanguer accretionary mélange containing blocks of N-MORB basalts: constraints on the northward subduction of the Paleo-Asian Kanguer Ocean in the Eastern Tianshan	34
Ultrapotassic magmatism in the heyday of the Variscan Orogeny: the story of the Třebíč Pluton, the largest durbachitic body in the Bohemian Massif	30
Petrogenesis and tectonic implications of the Maladob ring complex in the South Eastern Desert, Egypt: new insights from mineral chemistry and whole-rock geochemistry	26
Sedimentology and petrophysical analysis of pre-salt lacustrine carbonate reservoir from the Santos Basin, southeast Brazil	22
Timing and kinematics of flow in a transpressive dextral shear zone, Maures Massif (Southern France)	21
Baltica and the Cadomian orogen in the Ediacaran–Cambrian: a perspective from SE Poland	21
The birth of the Alps: Ediacaran to Paleozoic accretionary processes and crustal growth along the northern Gondwana margin	19
Tectono-metamorphic evolution of the Calabria continental lower crust: the case of the Sila Piccola Massif	19
Latest Carboniferous to early Permian volcano-stratigraphic evolution in Central Europe: U–Pb CA–ID–TIMS ages of volcanic rocks in the Thuringian Forest Basin (Germany)	19
Tectonic controls on late Cambrian-Early Ordovician deposition in Cordillera oriental (Northwest Argentina)	18
Karst bauxite formation during Miocene Climatic Optimum (central Dalmatia, Croatia): mineralogical, compositional and geochronological perspectives	18
Petrology and geochemistry of the Pan-African high-K calc-alkaline to shoshonitic–adakitic Bapé plutonic suites (Adamawa-Yade block, Cameroon): evidence of a hot oceanic crust subduction	17
Geochemistry and Sm–Nd isotopic sources of Late Ediacaran siliciclastic series in the Ossa–Morena Complex: Iberian–Bohemian correlations	17
Miocene syn-rift evolution of the North Croatian Basin (Carpathian–Pannonian Region): new constraints from Mts. Kalnik and Požeška gora volcaniclastic record with regional implications	17
The Grès Singuliers of the Mont Blanc region (France and Switzerland): stratigraphic response to rifting and crustal necking in the Alpine Tethys	16
Characteristics and timing of hydrothermal fluid circulation in the fossil Pyrenean hyperextended rift system: new constraints from the Chaînons Béarnais (W Pyrenees)	16
Effect of high temperature and strain rate on the elastic modulus of rocks: a review	15
Environmental significance of trace fossil assemblages in a tide‒wave-dominated shallow-marine carbonate system (Lower Cretaceous), northern Neo-Tethys margin, Kopet-Dagh Basin, Iran	15
Late Neogene evolution of the Peruvian margin and its ecosystems: a synthesis from the Sacaco record	14
Seawater-dominated, tectonically controlled and volcanic related geothermal systems: the case of the geothermal area in the northwest of the island of Euboea (Evia), Greece	13
The Volsci Volcanic Field (central Italy): eruptive history, magma system and implications on continental subduction processes	13
Silurian to early Permian slab melting and crustal growth in the southern Altaids: insights from adakites and associated mineral deposits in the Dananhu arc, Eastern Tianshan, NW China	12
Millennial-scale ocean redox and δ13C changes across the Permian–Triassic transition at Meishan and implications for the biocrisis	12
Two-stage regional rare-element pegmatite formation at Tysfjord, Norway: implications for the timing of late Svecofennian and late Caledonian high-temperature events	12
Provenance analysis of Devonian peripheral foreland basins in SW Gondwana, case of the Gualilán Group, Precordillera Argentina	12

Middle and Late Devonian paleogeography of the eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco)	12
Lithospheric density structure of the southern Central Andes constrained by 3D data-integrative gravity modelling	12
Deciphering the Jurassic–Cretaceous evolution of the Hamadan metamorphic complex during Neotethys subduction, western Iran	12
Structural style and neotectonic activity along the Harz Boundary Fault, northern Germany: a multimethod approach integrating geophysics, outcrop data and numerical simulations	12
A Paleoproterozoic nappe on Meso-Archean gneisses exhumed by a Cretaceous metamorphic core complex in northeastern North China Craton	11
Geochronology and petrogenesis of the Pan-African granitoids from Mbondo-Ngazi Tina in the Adamawa-Yadé Domain, Central Cameroon	11
Supergene nonsulfide Zn–Pb mineralization in the Mehdiabad world-class sub-seafloor replacement SEDEX-type deposit, Iran	11
Redox conditions and climate control on organic matter accumulation and depletion during the Toarcian in the Qiangtang Basin, eastern Tethys	11
Palaeoenvironmental reconstitutions at the Carboniferous–Permian transition south of the Paris Basin, France: implications on the stratigraphic evolution and basin geometry	10
Ordovician tectonics of the South European Variscan Realm: new insights from Sardinia	10
Permian A-type granites of the Western Carpathians and Transdanubian regions: products of the Pangea supercontinent breakup	10
Late Palaeozoic extensional volcanism along the northern margin of Gondwana in southern Turkey: implications for Palaeotethyan development	10
Formation of a Late Jurassic carbonate platform on top of the obducted Dinaridic ophiolites deduced from the analysis of carbonate pebbles and ophiolitic detritus in southwestern Serbia	10
Early Paleozoic structural and metamorphic evolution of the Transpatagonian Orogen related to Gondwana assembly	10
Mesozoic deposits of SW Gondwana (Namibia): unravelling Gondwanan sedimentary dispersion drivers by detrital zircon	10
Early Mississippian precollisional, peri-Gondwanan volcanic arc in NE-Mexico: Aserradero Rhyolite from Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas	10
Paleogeographic evolution of a segmented oblique passive margin: the case of the SW Iberian margin	10
From Cadomian back-arc basin to Rheic Ocean closure: the geochronological records of the Kurtoğlu Massif, eastern Sakarya Zone, Turkey	10
Early Miocene larger benthic foraminifera from the northwestern Tethyan Seaway (NW Iran): new findings on Shallow Benthic Zone 25	10
The Upper Jurassic Garedu Red Bed Formation of the northern Tabas Block: elucidating Late Cimmerian tectonics in east-Central Iran	10
The Saharides: Turkic-type orogeny in Afro-Arabia	10
Cenozoic thermal evolution of the Central Rhodope Metamorphic Complex (Southern Bulgaria)	10
Dating of detrital zircons and tracing the provenance of quartzites from the Bystrzyckie Mts: implications for the tectonic setting of the Early Palaeozoic sedimentary basin developed on the Gondwana	10
The Curinga–Girifalco Line in the framework of the tectonic evolution of the remnant Alpine chain in Calabria (southern Italy)	9
Evolution of the Lower Permian Rochlitz volcanic system, Eastern Germany: reconstruction of an intra-continental supereruption	9
Grain size distribution and sedimentology in volcanic mass-wasting flows: implications for propagation and mobility	9
Structural and geochronological constraints on the magmatic and tectonic events in the pre-Alpine basement of the central parts of the Balkan fold–thrust belt (Central Stara Planina Mountains, Bulgari	9
Combining 3D seismics, eyewitness accounts and numerical simulations to reconstruct the 1888 Ritter Island sector collapse and tsunami	9
Oxygen isotopes in ophicalcites: an ever-lasting controversy?	9
Remote sensing techniques and geochemical constraints on the formation of the Wadi El-Hima mineralized granites, Egypt: new insights into the genesis and accumulation of garnets	9
Sedimentary stratigraphy of Lake Chalco (Central Mexico) during its formative stages	9
Clustering analysis of seismicity in the space–time–depth–magnitude domain preceding the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, Southwestern Japan	9
Traces of intra-oceanic arcs recorded in sandstones of eastern Kazakhstan: implications from U–Pb detrital zircon ages, geochemistry, and Nd–Hf isotopes	9
Evolution of diagenetic conditions and burial history in Buntsandstein Gp. fractured sandstones (Upper Rhine Graben) from in-situ δ18O of quartz and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of K-feldspar overgrowths	9
Exhumation of an anatectic complex by channel flow and extrusion tectonics: structural and metamorphic evidence from the Porto–Viseu Metamorphic Belt, Central-Iberian Zone	9
Geochronology and sedimentology of the Huashan Group in the northern Yangtze Block: implications for the initial breakup of the South China	9
Cenozoic tectonic rotations in different parts of the NE Pamir: implications for the evolution of the arcuate orogen	9
Precursor extension to final Neo-Tethys break-up: flooding events and their significance for the correlation of shallow-water and deep-marine organisms (Anisian, Eastern Alps, Austria)	8
Petrographic and geochemical characterization of the Middle‒Upper Jurassic Fe–Mn crusts and mineralizations from Monte Inici (north-western Sicily): genetic implications	8
Organic metamorphism as a key for reconstructing tectonic processes: a case study from the Austroalpine unit (Eastern Alps)	8
Exploring possible links between Quaternary aggradation in the Upper Rhine Graben and the glaciation history of northern Switzerland	8
Classification of soft-sediment deformation in carbonates based on the Lower Cretaceous Vigla Formation, Kastos, Greece	8
Comprehensive thermal maturity assessment in shales: a case study on the upper cretaceous Qingshankou formation (Songliao Basin, NE China)	8
Architectural evolution of a mixed-influenced deltaic succession: Lower-to-Middle Ordovician Armorican Quartzite in the southwest Central Iberian Zone, Penha Garcia Formation (Portugal)	8
Polyphase extensional basins: interplay between tectonics and sedimentation in the Neogene Siena-Radicofani Basin (Northern Apennines, Italy)	8
Provenance of Oligocene–Miocene sedimentary rocks in the Cuu Long and Nam Con Son basins, Vietnam and early history of the Mekong River	8
Reconsidering Carboniferous–Permian continental paleoenvironments in eastern equatorial Pangea: facies and sequence stratigraphy investigations in the Autun Basin (France)	8
Compaction control on diagenesis and reservoir quality development in red bed sandstones: a case study of Permian Rotliegend sandstones	8
Triassic evaporites and the structural architecture of the External Hellenides and Albanides (SE Europe): controls on the petroleum and geoenergy systems of Greece and Albania	8
Early Cretaceous bimodal volcanic rocks in the Yinshan belt, North China Craton: age, petrogenesis, and geological significance	8

Reassessing the polyphase Neoproterozoic evolution of the Punta del Este Terrane, Dom Feliciano Belt, Uruguay	8
New constraints on the exhumation history of the western Tauern Window (European Alps) from thermochronology, thermokinematic modeling, and topographic analysis	8
Sedimentology and basin-fill history of the Cenozoic succession of the Sylhet Trough, Bengal Basin, Bangladesh	8
The Late Carboniferous deeply eroded Tharandt Forest caldera–Niederbobritzsch granite complex: a post-Variscan long-lived magmatic system in central Europe	8
Biomarker and compound-specific isotope records across the Toarcian CIE at the Dormettingen section in SW Germany	8
Late Oligocene—Early Miocene shortening in the Thrace Basin, northern Aegean	8
The influence of variations in crustal composition and lithospheric strength on the evolution of deformation processes in the southern Central Andes: insights from geodynamic models	8
Employing geochemistry and geochronology to unravel genesis and tectonic setting of iron oxide-apatite deposits of the Bafq-Saghand metallogenic belt, Central Iran	8
Planktic foraminiferal response to an early Paleocene transient warming event and biostratigraphic implications	8
Contrasting Neoproterozoic and Mesozoic granitoids in Zaranda complex (Nigeria): insights into the distinct origins, tectonic settings and mineralization potential	7
Ophicalcites from the Upper Tectonic Unit on Tinos, Cyclades, Greece: mineralogical, geochemical and isotope evidence for their origin and evolution	7
Mushroom rock, inselberg, and butte desert landforms (Gebel Qatrani, Egypt): evidence of wind erosion	7
Sedimentological and stratigraphic constraints on Oligo–Miocene deposition in the Mogod Mountains, northern Tunisia: new insights for paleogeographic evolution of North Africa passive margin	7
Geochemical and Sr–Nd isotopic features of the Zaro volcanic complex: insights on the magmatic processes triggering a small-scale prehistoric eruption at Ischia island (south Italy)	7
Thrust tectonics in the Wetterstein and Mieming mountains, and a new tectonic subdivision of the Northern Calcareous Alps of Western Austria and Southern Germany	7
Sedimentology and detrital zircon geochronology of the Nanpihe Formation in the central zone of the Changning–Menglian Belt in western Yunnan, China: revealing an allochthon emplaced during the closur	7
Relationship between channel flow initiation and crustal viscosity in convergent settings: an analog modeling approach	7
Depositional history of the uppermost Albian–Turonian Sarvak Formation in the Izeh Zone (SW Iran)	7
Biostratigraphy and facies description of Middle Triassic rift-related volcano-sedimentary successions at the junction of the Southern Alps and the Dinarides (NW Croatia)	7
Comment on “Ultrapotassic magmatism in the heyday of the Variscan Orogeny: the story of the Třebíč Pluton, the largest durbachitic body in the Bohemian Massif” by Janoušek et al.	7
Paleospring freshwater tufa carbonates of the Kurkur Oasis Geosite (southern Egypt): archives for paleoenvironment and paleoclimate	7
Pre-Alpine high-pressure metamorphism in the Gemer unit: mineral textures and their geodynamic implications for Variscan Orogeny in the Western Carpathians	7
Lu–Hf geochronology of ultra-high-pressure eclogites from the Tromsø-Nappe, Scandinavian Caledonides: evidence for rapid subduction and exhumation	7
Cooling rates of pyroclastic deposits inferred from mineral magnetic investigations: a case study from the Pleistocene Mýtina Maar (Czech Republic)	7
Surface microtextures and new U–Pb dating of detrital zircons from the Eocene Strihovce sandstones in the Magura Nappe of the External Western Carpathians: implications for their provenance	7
Early Permian during the Variscan orogen collapse in the equatorial realm: insights from the Cantabrian Mountains (N Iberia) into climatic and environmental changes	7
Sequence stratigraphy of the Late Oligocene carbonate system on the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea	7
The Ediacaran volcano-sedimentary succession in the Western Skoura inlier (Central High Atlas, Morocco): facies analysis, geochemistry, geochronology and geodynamic implications	7
Impact of Late Cretaceous to Neogene plate tectonics and Quaternary ice loads on supra-salt deposits at Eastern Glückstadt Graben, North German Basin	7
From subduction to strike slip-related volcanism: insights from Sr, Nd, and Pb isotopes and geochronology of lavas from Sivas–Malatya region, Central Eastern Anatolia	7
Two-phase late Paleozoic magmatism (~ 313–312 and ~ 299–298 Ma) in the Lusatian Block and its relation to large scale NW striking fault zones: evidence from zircon U–Pb CA–ID–TIMS geochronology, bulk	7
Permo–Triassic metamorphism in the Mérida Andes, Venezuela: new insights from geochronology, O-isotopes, and geothermobarometry	6
Yam Seep at Four-Way Closure Ridge: a prominent active gas seep system at the accretionary wedge SW offshore Taiwan	6
3D gravity modelling of Colorado and Claromecó basins: new evidences for the evolution of the southwestern margin of Gondwana	6
Differentiation of subglacial conditions on soft and hard bed settings and implications for ice sheet dynamics: a case study from north-central Poland	6
Reuniting the Ötztal Nappe: the tectonic evolution of the Schneeberg Complex	6
New CA-ID-TIMS U–Pb zircon ages for the Altenberg–Teplice Volcanic Complex (ATVC) document discrete and coeval pulses of Variscan magmatic activity in the Eastern Erzgebirge (Eastern Variscan Belt)	6
Geological evolution of a tectonic and climatic transition zone: the Beyşehir-Suğla basin, lake district of Turkey	6
Timing of rapid cooling and erosional decay of two volcanic islands of the Canary Archipelago: implications from low-temperature thermochronology	6
First high-precision U–Pb age from the Pennsylvanian-Permian of the continental Saar–Nahe Basin, SW Germany	6
Tectonic vs. climate controls on the evolution of a miocene intermontane basin, Patagonian Andean foreland, Argentina	6
Geochemical constraints on the genesis of the Ekou banded iron formation, Shanxi Province, North China	6
Sequences, discontinuities and water stratification in a low-energy ramp: the Early Albian sedimentation in central Tunisia	6
Amphibolite–granulite facies mid-crustal basement in Deccan Large Igneous Province and its implication on Precambrian crustal evolution: evidence from Killari borehole studies	6
Direct and indirect surface geochemical methods in petroleum exploration: a case study from eastern part of the Polish Outer Carpathians	6
Active tectonics along the Sheladiz seismogenic fault in the Western Zagros fold-thrust belt, Kurdistan, Northern Iraq	6
Contemporaneous opening of the Alpine Tethys in the Eastern and Western Alps: constraints from a Late Jurassic gabbro intrusion age in the Glockner Nappe, Tauern Window, Austria	5
Tectonic link between the Neoproterozoic dextral shear fabrics and Cenozoic extension structures of the Mekelle basin, Northern Ethiopia	5
The late-Variscan high-temperature collisional episode in the southwestern Moldanubian Zone (Bohemian Massif)	5
Miocene to Recent collapse calderas of the southern and central volcanic zones of the Andes and their tectonic constraints	5
Flow of the partially molten crust in the Variscan foreland revealed by U–Th–Pb dating of metamorphism, magmatism and deformation (Agly Massif, Eastern Pyrenees)	5
Structural styles and tectonic evolution of Cretaceous to Cenozoic faults in the Linhe Depression of Hetao Basin, China: implications for petroleum traps	5
Syntectonic magmatism and reactivation of collisional structures during late-Variscan shearing (SW Sardinia, Italy)	5
Kinematic partitioning in the Southern Andes (39° S–46° S) inferred from lineament analysis and reassessment of exhumation rates	5
Geophysical investigation of the down-dip extension of the Lombador massive sulphide deposit, Neves-Corvo, Portugal	5
Ophiolite derived material as parent rocks for Late Jurassic bauxite: evidence for Tithonian unroofing in the Northern Calcareous Alps (Eastern Alps, Austria)	5
Geochemical characterization of clastic sediments sheds light on energy sources and on alleged anthropogenic impacts in cave ecosystems	5
Tectono-stratigraphic evolution and architecture of the Miocene Rio del Rey basin (Cameroon margin, Gulf of Guinea)	5
Ocean resurge-induced impact melt dynamics on the peak-ring of the Chicxulub impact structure, Mexico	5
Origin, timing and paleogeographic implications of Paleogene karst bauxites in the northern Transdanubian range, Hungary	5
Phase relations and in-situ U-Th-Pbtotal monazite geochronology of Banded Iron Formation, Bundelkhand Craton, North-Central India, and their geodynamic implications	5
Seismic data denoising under the morphological component analysis framework by dictionary learning	5
Quantitative kinematic analyses of the Darizhun shear zone within the hinterland of the Zagros orogenic belt, Iran	5
Cadomian to Cenerian accretionary orogenic processes in the Alpine basement: the detrital zircon archive	5
Basement and cover architecture in the Central Pyrenees constrained by gravity data	5
Structure and chronology across the Achankovil terrain boundary shear zone system (South India), and its Madagascar connection in the Gondwanaland	5
Revealing exhumation of the central Alps during the Early Oligocene by detrital zircon U–Pb age and fission-track double dating in the Taveyannaz Formation	5
Mineral chemistry and monazite chemical Th–U–total Pb dating of the Wadi Muweilha muscovite pegmatite, Central Eastern Desert of Egypt: constraints on its origin and geodynamic evolution relative to t	5
Detrital zircon provenance of Carboniferous sandstones of the Variscan Externides (SW Poland) – record of the eastern Variscides exhumation	5
Implications for sedimentary transport processes in southwestern Africa: a combined zircon morphology and age study including extensive geochronology databases	5