OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Geosphere is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Geologic and geomorphic evidence for multi-phase history of strands of the San Andreas fault through the San Gorgonio Pass structural knot, southern California	58
Geologic map of central Panamint Range, California, USA	27
Geologic map of Slate Range Crossing area, California, USA	25
Timing and evolution of structures within the southeastern Greater Caucasus and Kura Fold-Thrust Belt from multiproxy sediment provenance records	23
Identifying sources of non-unique detrital age distributions through integrated provenance analysis: An example from the Paleozoic Central Colorado Trough	23
Linking exhumation, paleo-relief, and rift formation to magmatic processes in the western Snake River Plain, Idaho, using apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology	22
Frenchman Mountain Dolostone: A new formation of the Cambrian Tonto Group, Grand Canyon and Basin and Range, USA	20
Tectonostratigraphy and major structures of the Georgian Greater Caucasus: Implications for structural architecture, along-strike continuity, and orogen evolution	19
Contrasting constraints on the temporal and spatial extents of normal faults from the Hilltop and Lewis mining districts, northern Shoshone Range, Nevada, USA	19
New detrital zircon U-Pb and Hf isotope constraints for the Kluane Schist, southwestern Yukon, Canada, and their implications for Cretaceous Insular terrane accretion	19
Shallow deformation on the Kirby Hills fault, Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta, California (USA), revealed from high-resolution seismic reflection data and coring in a fluvial system	17
Redefinition of the Petersburg batholith and implications for crustal inheritance in the Dinwiddie terrane, Virginia, USA	17
Bolide impact effects on the West Florida Platform, Gulf of Mexico: End Cretaceous and late Eocene	16
K-Mg salt distribution in the Zechstein Group of the Northern Permian Basin (UK and Norway)— Interplays with the Southern Permian Basin and implications for salt cavern development	16
Revised geologic map and structural interpretation of the Mineral King pendant, southern Sierra Nevada, California (USA): Evidence for kilometer-scale folding and structural imbrication of a Permian t	15
A late Eocene lamprophyre-carbonatite association in the SE Tibetan Plateau: Rapid basalt-induced H2O-saturated partial melting of the upper crust	15
Two phases of Cretaceous dextral shearing recorded in the plutonic rocks of NW Nevada (USA): A tectonic link between intra-arc shearing in the Sierra Nevada and Idaho batholiths	15
Neogene and Pleistocene landslides along the Grand Valley fault in eastern Idaho and western Wyoming, USA, and their relationship to caldera-forming eruptions of the Yellowstone hotspot	15
Igneous, hydrothermal, or both? Exploring the origin of pegmatites and aplites at the Amis intrusion, Namibia	14
Structural styles and kinematic evolution of the Front Ranges of the Southern Canadian Rockies	14
Andean-type, bivergent crustal shortening in the Rinkian orogen: New constraints on the tectonic evolution of Laurentia–West Greenland in the Paleoproterozoic	14
Formation and evolution of a magmatic system in the Indian passive margin: Insights from the Triassic Yumai Complex from the eastern Tethyan Himalaya	14
Oligocene–Miocene development and evolution of the south Dome Rock Mountains basin, lower Colorado River corridor, Arizona, USA	13
Early Ordovician seamounts preserved in the Canadian Cordillera: Implications for the rift history of western Laurentia	12
Volcanic crustal structure of the western Hikurangi Plateau (New Zealand) from marine seismic reflection imaging	12

Picture Gorge Basalt: Internal stratigraphy, eruptive patterns, and its importance for understanding Columbia River Basalt Group magmatism	12
Tectonomagmatic evolution of southwestern Laurentia: Insights from zircon U-Pb geochronology and hafnium isotopic composition of the Red Bluff Granite Suite, west Texas, USA	11
Crustal structure of the Lazufre volcanic complex and the Southern Puna from 3-D inversion of magnetotelluric data: Implications for surface uplift and evidence for melt storage and hydrothermal fluid	10
NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL: Stratigraphy of the Eocene–Oligocene Titus Canyon Formation, Death Valley, California, and Eocene extensional tectonism in the Basin and Range	10
A systematic approach to mapping tectonic faults and documenting supporting geomorphology	10
A kinematic model linking the Sevier and Laramide belts in the Idaho-Montana fold-thrust belt, U.S. Cordillera	9
Multi-stage construction of the Little Cotton wood stock, Utah, USA: Origin, intrusion, venting, mineralization, and mass movement	8
Geologic map of southern Panamint Valley, southern Panamint Range, and central Slate Range, California, USA	8
Critical workforce skills for bachelor-level geoscientists: An analysis of geoscience job advertisements	8
Seismotectonics of the San Andreas Fault System in the San Gorgonio Pass region: A synthesis	8
The Cenozoic evolution of the Intrarif (Rif, Morocco)	8
Rhyolitic melt production in the midst of a continental arc flare-up—The heterogeneous Caspana ignimbrite of the Altiplano-Puna volcanic complex of the Central Andes	8
A gigantic Miocene landslide in the Wasatch Range, Utah, USA	8
Tectonics, geochronology, and petrology of the Walker Top Granite, Appalachian Inner Piedmont, North Carolina (USA): Implications for Acadian and Neoacadian orogenesis	8
Is drainage reorganization a plausible explanation for late Cenozoic incision of Yosemite Valley and within the Kings and Kaweah watersheds (Sierra Nevada, California)?	8
The eight architectural zones of nonmarine basins	8
Numerical models of Farallon plate subduction: Creating and removing a flat slab	8
Chronostratigraphic correlation of the Upper Silurian Salina Group for the Michigan and Appalachian Basins through coupled (δ13Ccarb) chemostratigraphy and subsurface geophysical analyses	8
New insights into the age and origin of two small Cretaceous seamount chains proximal to the Northwestern Hawaiian Ridge	7
Co-inversion of multiple thermochronometers and a paleomagnetic thermometer at a Columbia River flood basalt feeder dike (Oregon, USA) demonstrates the sensitivity of thermal history results to divers	7
Development of the Whitehorse trough as a strike-slip basin during Early to Middle Jurassic arc-continent collision in the Canadian Cordillera	7
Precursors to a continental-arc ignimbrite flare-up: Early central volcanoes of the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, USA	7
Unravelling the dance of earthquakes: Evidence of partial synchronization of the northern San Andreas fault and Cascadia megathrust	7
Geoscience academic hiring networks reinforce historic patterns of inequity	7
The missing ridge Enigma: A new model for the Tuamotu Plateau conjugate and Peruvian flat slab	7
Storm-driven sedimentation and dynamics of a sediment slug in an ephemeral stream: Influence on sediment-routing systems within source areas	7
Seismic attenuation tomography of the Sn phase beneath the Turkish-Iranian Plateau and the Zagros mountain belt	7
Numerical modeling of subduction: State of the art and future directions	7
Illuminating geology in areas of limited exposure using texture shading of lidar digital terrain models	7
Volcano-pluton connections at the Lake City magmatic center (Colorado, USA)	7
Multi-scale, open-system magmatic and sub-solidus processes contribute to the chemical and isotopic characteristics of the Jurassic Guadalupe Igneous Complex, Sierra Nevada, California, USA	6
Kilometer-scale recumbent folding, tectonic attenuation, and rotational shear in the western Anaconda Range, southwestern Montana, USA	6
Petrogenesis of voluminous silicic magmas in the Sierra Madre Occidental large igneous province, Mexican Cordillera: Insights from zircon and Hf-O isotopes	6
Fossil hydrothermal systems theoretically inverted with oxygen isotopes of constituent minerals hydrothermally reequilibrated with internally 18O-enriched fluids: Cooling and mineralizing implications	6
Life cycle of a giant A-type batholith in the Proterozoic and its link to mineral resources: The Pikes Peak system, Colorado	6
The Cretaceous-Paleogene contact in the Tornillo Group of Big Bend National Park, West Texas, USA	6
Evaluating how well active fault mapping predicts earthquake surface-rupture locations	6
Chronostratigraphy of Miocene strata in the Berkeley Hills (California Coast Ranges, USA) and the arrival of the San Andreas transform boundary	6
Impact of bending-related faulting and oceanic-plate topography on slab hydration and intermediate-depth seismicity	6
A global database of Mars-relevant hydrovolcanic environments on Earth with potential biosignature preservation	6
Emplacement history of volcaniclastic turbidites around the central Azores volcanic islands: Frequencies of slope landslides and eruptions	6
Crustal-to-mantle shifting in SiO2-rich upper crustal magmas through zircon and bulk rock compositions in the Famatinian arc, Argentina	6
Late Cretaceous to early Paleogene syntectonic deposition of the Show Goat formation in the northern Chiricahua Mountains, southeast Arizona	6
A temporal dissection of late Quaternary volcanism and related hazards within the Rio Grande rift and along the Jemez lineament of New Mexico, USA	6
The geometry of fault reactivation and uplift along the central part of the Maacama Fault Zone, Northern California Coast Ranges (USA)	5
The “Nazas Arc” is a continental rift province: Implications for Mesozoic tectonic reconstructions of the southwest Cordillera, U.S. and Mexico	5
Geological fingerprints of deep slow earthquakes: A review of field constraints and directions for future research	5
Large-scale, crustal-block vertical extrusion between the Hines Creek and Denali faults coeval with slip localization on the Denali fault since ca. 45 Ma, Hayes Range, Alaska, USA	5
The Pondosa fault zone: A distributed dextral-normal-oblique fault system in northeastern California, USA	5
Landsliding follows signatures of wildfire history and vegetation regrowth in a steep coastal shrubland	5

Permo-Carboniferous crustal structure and state of strain in the New England Appalachians, USA	5
Spatiotemporally heterogeneous deformation, indirect tectonomagmatic links, and lithospheric evolution during orogenic activity coeval with an arc flare-up	5
Middle Miocene faulting and basin evolution during central Basin and Range extension: A detailed record from the upper Horse Spring Formation and red sandstone unit, Lake Mead region, Nevada, USA	5
Zircon age spectra to quantify magma evolution	5
Foreland basin development in response to Proto-Tethyan Ocean closure, western North China Block	5
Beyond boundaries: Depositional environment controls on erodibility, process, and form in rivers incising sedimentary bedrock	5
Distribution and timing of lithospheric breakup across the Gulf of Mexico: The role of seaward-dipping reflectors, spreading propagators, and crustal shear zones	5
The building blocks of igneous sheet intrusions: Insights from 3-D seismic reflection data	5
Evidence for a more extensive Greenland Ice Sheet in southwestern Greenland during the Last Glacial Maximum	5
Joint flexural-density modeling of the Taltal, Copiapó, and Iquique hotspot ridges and the surrounding oceanic plate, offshore Chile	5
Seismostratigraphic analysis of Lake Cahuilla sedimentation cycles and fault displacement history beneath the Salton Sea, California, USA	5
U-Pb geochronology and petrography of Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian volcanic rocks in basement crustal terranes beneath the deep-water Gulf of Mexico	5
Seeing is believing: Climate change graph design and user judgments of credibility, usability, and risk	5
Kinematics and paleogeology of the western United States and northern Mexico computed from geologic and paleomagnetic data: 0 to 48 Ma	5
Evaluating the effectiveness of spatial training for introductory geology students	4
Perception doesn't match reality: Unraveling gender disparities in Earth scientists' productivity during work-from-home initiatives	4
Shallow and deep subsurface sediment remobilization and intrusion in the Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Agardhfjellet Formation (Svalbard)	4
Onset and tempo of ignimbrite flare-up volcanism in the eastern and central Mogollon-Datil volcanic field, southern New Mexico, USA	4
Tracking the spatial and temporal links between late Cenozoic extension and magmatism in the Death Valley region (California, USA)	4
Thermal architecture of the Salmon River suture zone, Idaho, USA: Implications for the structural evolution of a ductile accretionary complex during arc-continent collision	4
Thick- and thin-skinned contractional styles and the tectonic evolution of the northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado, USA	4
Stratigraphy of the Eocene–Oligocene Titus Canyon Formation, Death Valley, California (USA), and Eocene extensional tectonism in the Basin and Range	4
Late Cretaceous tectonothermal events of the Gangdese belt, southern Tibet	4
Boudinage and the rheology of syntectonic migmatites in the high-strain Taili deformation zone, NE China	4
A juvenile Paleozoic ocean floor origin for eastern Stikinia, Canadian Cordillera	4
Spatiotemporal evolution of a newly recognized Late Cretaceous fold-and-thrust belt in the western slope of southern Peru: Evidence for selective inversion and hybrid thick- and thin-skinned shortenin	4
Arc-arc amalgamation during accretionary orogenesis: Insights from mid-Paleozoic tectono-magmatic records in eastern Junggar, NW China	4
Reconstructing the erosional and tectonic record of Laramide contraction to Rio Grande rift extension, southern Indio Mountains, western Texas, USA	4
Diverse intrusion modes during the construction of a high-silica magma reservoir: Evidence from La Obra–Cerro Blanco intrusive suite (central Chile)	4
Peri-Gondwanan sediment in the Arkoma Basin derived from the north: The detrital zircon record of a uniquely concentrated non-Laurentian source signal in the late Paleozoic	4
Evidence for regionally continuous Early Cretaceous sinistral shear zones along the western flank of the Coast Mountains, coastal British Columbia, Canada	4
Assessing the geometry of the Main Himalayan thrust in central Nepal: A thermokinematic approach	4
A major Miocene deepwater mud canopy system: The North Sabah–Pagasa Wedge, northwestern Borneo	3
Magmatic evolution and architecture of an arc-related, rhyolitic caldera complex: The late Pleistocene to Holocene Cerro Blanco volcanic complex, southern Puna, Argentina	3
Origin of big garnet amphibolites at Gore Mountain and other localities, Adirondack Mountains, New York State, USA: Whole-rock geochemical constraints	3
Ibex Hollow Tuff from ca. 12 Ma supereruption, southern Idaho, identified across North America, eastern Pacific Ocean, and Gulf of Mexico	3
Foreland basin response to middle Cretaceous thrust belt evolution, southwestern Montana, USA	3
Optimizing methods for Raman spectroscopy of carbonaceous material thermometry: Best practices to develop high-fidelity thermal constraints for tectonic studies	3
Magmatic record of changing Cordilleran plate-boundary conditions—Insights from Lu-Hf isotopes in the Mojave Desert	3
Lithium in garnet as a tracer of subduction zone metamorphic reactions: The record in ultrahigh-pressure metapelites at Lago di Cignana, Italy	3
High-resolution geophysical and geochronological analysis of a relict shoreface deposit offshore central California: Implications for slip rate along the Hosgri fault	3
Structure, chronology, kinematics, and geodynamics of tectonic extension in the greater Catalina metamorphic core complex, southeastern Arizona, USA	3
Provenance shifts in bauxitic clay from Zibo, North China Craton, links tectonics and climate to environmental perturbation	3
The formation of high-Sr/Y plutons in cordilleran-arc crust by crystal accumulation and melt loss	3
ERRATUM: Jurassic–Cenozoic tectonics of the Pequop Mountains, NE Nevada, in the North American Cordillera hinterland	3
Latest Triassic–Early Jurassic Stikine–Yukon-Tanana terrane collision and the onset of accretion in the Canadian Cordillera: Insights from Hazelton Group detrital zircon provenance and arc–back-arc co	3
Distinguishing fault offset from climatically modulated channel deflections: Insights from the Pearblossom slip-rate site, Mojave section of the San Andreas fault, California, USA	3
Constraints on the timescales and processes that led to high-SiO2 rhyolite production in the Searchlight pluton, Nevada, USA	3
The South Purulia Shear Zone, eastern India: Its anatomy and implication for timing the Rodinia-age collision in the eastern part of the Central Indian Tectonic Zone	3
Ages of boulder armored benches document varying Fremont River tributary incision rates, Teasdale-Torrey lowlands, Utah, USA	3
Effect of 3-D fault geometry on synextensional sedimentation around a Miocene metamorphic core complex, eastern California−western Arizona, USA	3
ERRATA: A global database of Mars-relevant hydrovolcanic environments on Earth with potential biosignature preservation	3
Rate of E–W extension in the Volcanic Tableland, California (USA): A comparison of strain rates on two different timescales	3
Maximum depositional ages and provenance analysis of the Precambrian Manyovu redbeds, Tanzania: Implications for Neoproterozoic tectonics	3
Evidence for a prehistoric multifault rupture along the southern Calico fault system, Eastern California Shear Zone, USA	3
Coupling rare earth element analyses and high-resolution topography along fault scarps to investigate past earthquakes: A case study from the Southern Apennines (Italy)	3
U-Pb and fission-track data from zircon and apatite resolve latest- and post-Alleghanian thermal histories along the Fall Line of the Atlantic margin of the southeastern United States	3
Paleozoic evolution of the Yukon-Tanana terrane of the North American Cordillera, NW British Columbia	3
Oceanic intraplate faulting as a pathway for deep hydration of the lithosphere: Perspectives from the Caribbean	3
The effects of pre-stress assumptions on dynamic rupture with complex fault geometry in the San Gorgonio Pass, California, region	3
Assessing the effect of melt extraction from mushy reservoirs on compositions of granitoids: From a global database to a single batholith	3
Post-glacial stratigraphy and late Holocene record of great Cascadia earthquakes in Ozette Lake, Washington, USA	3
Tectonic geomorphology and Quaternary slip history of the Fuyun fault, southwestern Altai Mountains, central Asia	3