OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Geosphere 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
Intrarift fault fabric, segmentation, and basin evolution of the Lake Malawi (Nyasa) Rift, East Africa	37
Extreme metamorphism and metamorphic facies series at convergent plate boundaries: Implications for supercontinent dynamics	34
Detrital zircons and sediment dispersal in the eastern Midcontinent of North America	30
Deep decoupling in subduction zones: Observations and temperature limits	30
Multiple veining in a paleo–accretionary wedge: The metamorphic rock record of prograde dehydration and transient high pore-fluid pressures along the subduction interface (Western Series, central Chil	28
Porphyry copper deposit formation in arcs: What are the odds?	26
Advances in the thermal and petrologic modeling of subduction zones	24
Creating virtual geologic mapping exercises in a changing world	23
Numerical modeling of tectonic underplating in accretionary wedge systems	22
Numerical modeling of subduction: State of the art and future directions	22
Extraformational sediment recycling on Mars	20
Systematic characterization of morphotectonic variability along the Cascadia convergent margin: Implications for shallow megathrust behavior and tsunami hazards	20
Late Quaternary slip rate of the Aksay segment and its rapidly decreasing gradient along the Altyn Tagh fault	19
Detrital zircon record of Phanerozoic magmatism in the southern Central Andes	18
From Ordovician nascent to early Permian mature arc in the southern Altaids: Insights from the Kalatage inlier in the Eastern Tianshan, NW China	18
Secular variations of magma source compositions in the North Patagonian batholith from the Jurassic to Tertiary: Was mélange melting involved?	15
Early syn-rift igneous dike patterns, northern Kenya Rift (Turkana, Kenya): Implications for local and regional stresses, tectonics, and magma-structure interactions	13
The Chief Joseph dike swarm of the Columbia River flood basalts, and the legacy data set of William H. Taubeneck	12
Late Holocene coseismic uplift of the Kaikōura coast, New Zealand	12
Slow slip in subduction zones: Reconciling deformation fabrics with instrumental observations and laboratory results	12
The “Nazas Arc” is a continental rift province: Implications for Mesozoic tectonic reconstructions of the southwest Cordillera, U.S. and Mexico	12
Tectonic geomorphology and Plio-Quaternary structural evolution of the Tuzgölü fault zone, Turkey: Implications for deformation in the interior of the Central Anatolian Plateau	12
Thermal history modeling techniques and interpretation strategies: Applications using HeFTy	11
The effect of along-strike variation in dip on rupture propagation on strike-slip faults	11
Constraints on the timescales and processes that led to high-SiO2 rhyolite production in the Searchlight pluton, Nevada, USA	11

The Cenozoic evolution of the Intrarif (Rif, Morocco)	10
Assessing the effect of melt extraction from mushy reservoirs on compositions of granitoids: From a global database to a single batholith	10
Detrital zircon geochronology and Hf isotope geochemistry of Mesozoic sedimentary basins in south-central Alaska: Insights into regional sediment transport, basin development, and tectonics along the	10
Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Ecemiş fault zone and adjacent basins, central Anatolia, Turkey, during the transition from Arabia-Eurasia collision to escape tectonics	10
Paleoproterozoic–Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Longshou Shan, western North China craton	10
Subduction of trench-fill sediments beneath an accretionary wedge: Insights from sandbox analogue experiments	10
A tale of five enclaves: Mineral perspectives on origins of mafic enclaves in the Tuolumne Intrusive Complex	10
Evaluating the Shinumo-Sespe drainage connection: Arguments against the “old” (70–17 Ma) Grand Canyon models for Colorado Plateau drainage evolution	10
The rise and demise of deep accretionary wedges: A long-term field and numerical modeling perspective	10
Holocene to latest Pleistocene incremental slip rates from the east-central Hope fault (Conway segment) at Hossack Station, Marlborough fault system, South Island, New Zealand: Towards a dated path of	9
Quaternary basaltic volcanic fields of the American Southwest	9
Marine sedimentary records of chemical weathering evolution in the western Himalaya since 17 Ma	9
Tectonostratigraphy and major structures of the Georgian Greater Caucasus: Implications for structural architecture, along-strike continuity, and orogen evolution	9
The Permian Monos Formation: Stratigraphic and detrital zircon evidence for Permian Cordilleran arc development along the southwestern margin of Laurentia (northwestern Sonora, Mexico)	8
Giant meandering channel evolution, Campos deep-water salt basin, Brazil	8
Focused fluid flow and methane venting along the Queen Charlotte fault, offshore Alaska (USA) and British Columbia (Canada)	8
Measuring change at Earth’s surface: On-demand vertical and three-dimensional topographic differencing implemented in OpenTopography	8
Pyroclastic deposits of Ubehebe Crater, Death Valley, California, USA: Ballistics, pyroclastic surges, and dry granular flows	8
Impact of bending-related faulting and oceanic-plate topography on slab hydration and intermediate-depth seismicity	8
Evolution of mafic lavas in Central Anatolia: Mantle source domains	8
GMDE: Extracting quantitative information from geologic maps	8
Detrital zircon provenance and depositional links of Mesozoic Sierra Nevada intra-arc strata	7
Intra-oceanic submarine arc evolution recorded in an ~1-km-thick rear-arc succession of distal volcaniclastic lobe deposits	7
Prehistoric earthquakes on the Banning strand of the San Andreas fault, North Palm Springs, California	7
Progradational slope architecture and sediment distribution in outcrops of the mixed carbonate-siliciclastic Bone Spring Formation, Permian Basin, west Texas	7
Detrital-zircon analyses, provenance, and late Paleozoic sediment dispersal in the context of tectonic evolution of the Ouachita orogen	7
Geochronology of the Wrangell Arc: Spatial-temporal evolution of slab-edge magmatism along a flat-slab, subduction-transform transition, Alaska-Yukon	7
Thermal history modeling techniques and interpretation strategies: Applications using QTQt	7
Insights from the geological record of deformation along the subduction interface at depths of seismogenesis	7
Detrital zircon petrochronology of central Australia, and implications for the secular record of zircon trace element composition	7
The western Hayfork terrane: Remnants of the Middle Jurassic arc in the Klamath Mountain province, California and Oregon	7
Seismic attenuation tomography of the Sn phase beneath the Turkish-Iranian Plateau and the Zagros mountain belt	7
A robust age model for the Cryogenian Pocatello Formation of southeastern Idaho (northwestern USA) from tandem in situ and isotope dilution U-Pb dating of volcanic tuffs and epiclastic detrital zircon	6
Carbon isotope and sequence stratigraphy of the upper Isachsen Formation on Axel Heiberg Island (Nunavut, Canada): High Arctic expression of oceanic anoxic event 1a in a deltaic environment	6
Evolution of the Late Cretaceous Nanaimo Basin, British Columbia, Canada: Definitive provenance links to northern latitudes	6
Quantifying shortening across the central Appalachian fold-thrust belt, Virginia and West Virginia, USA: Reconciling grain-, outcrop-, and map-scale shortening	6
U-Pb geochronology and paleogeography of the Valanginian–Hauterivian Neuquén Basin: Implications for Gondwana-scale source areas	6
Suprasubduction zone ophiolite fragments in the central Appalachian orogen: Evidence for mantle and Moho in the Baltimore Mafic Complex (Maryland, USA)	6
The building blocks of igneous sheet intrusions: Insights from 3-D seismic reflection data	6
Feldspar recycling across magma mush bodies during the voluminous Half Dome and Cathedral Peak stages of the Tuolumne intrusive complex, Yosemite National Park, California, USA	6
Differences between soil and air temperatures: Implications for geological reconstructions of past climate	6
A major Miocene deepwater mud canopy system: The North Sabah–Pagasa Wedge, northwestern Borneo	6
Cretaceous to Oligocene magmatic and tectonic evolution of the western Alaska Range: Insights from U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology	6
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	6
Lithologic, geomorphic, and permafrost controls on recent landsliding in the Alaska Range	6
Detrital sanidine 40Ar/39Ar dating confirms <2 Ma age of Crooked Ridge paleoriver and subsequent deep denudation of the southwestern Colorado Plateau	6
Subducting oceanic basement roughness impacts on upper-plate tectonic structure and a backstop splay fault zone activated in the southern Kodiak aftershock region of the Mw 9.2, 1964 megathrust ruptur	5
Jurassic–Cenozoic tectonics of the Pequop Mountains, NE Nevada, in the North American Cordillera hinterland	5
Late Pleistocene and early Holocene sea-level history and glacial retreat interpreted from shell-bearing marine deposits of southeastern Alaska, USA	5
Zircon (U-Th)/(He-Pb) double-dating constraints on the interplay between thrust deformation and foreland basin architecture, Sevier foreland basin, Utah	5

Eocene dike orientations across the Washington Cascades in response to a major strike-slip faulting episode and ridge-trench interaction	5
Metamorphism of the Sierra de Maz and implications for the tectonic evolution of the MARA terrane	5
Evidence for a late glacial advance near the beginning of the Younger Dryas in western New York State: An event postdating the record for local Laurentide ice sheet recession	5
Latest Quaternary slip rates of the San Bernardino strand of the San Andreas fault, southern California, from Cajon Creek to Badger Canyon	5
Low-temperature thermochronology constraints on the evolution of the Eastern Kunlun Range, northern Tibetan Plateau	5
Testing local and extraregional sediment sources for the Late Cretaceous northern Nanaimo basin, British Columbia, using 40Ar/39Ar detrital K-feldspar thermochronology	5
Mantle control on magmatic flare-ups in the southern Coast Mountains batholith, British Columbia	5
Cooling of the continental plate during flat-slab subduction	5
Plutonic record of a caldera-forming silicic eruption: The shatter zone of the Cadillac Mountain granite, coastal Maine	5
Fast Pliocene integration of the Central Anatolian Plateau drainage: Evidence, processes, and driving forces	5
Coseismic deformation of the ground during large-slip strike-slip ruptures: Finite evolution of “mole tracks”	5
The remarkable volcanism of Shastina, a stratocone segment of Mount Shasta, California	5
New geodetic constraints on southern San Andreas fault-slip rates, San Gorgonio Pass, California	5
Reconstructing the tectono-sedimentary evolution of the Early–Middle Jurassic Tlaxiaco Basin in southern Mexico: New insights into the crustal attenuation history of southern North America during Pang	5
Geochemical indications for the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) and Eocene Thermal Maximum 2 (ETM-2) hyperthermals in terrestrial sediments of the Canadian Arctic	5
Early Pennsylvanian sediment routing to the Ouachita Basin (southeastern United States) and barriers to transcontinental sediment transport sourced from the Appalachian orogen based on detrital zircon	5
Post-Laramide, Eocene epeirogeny in central Colorado—The result of a mantle drip?	5
Tectonostratigraphic record of late Miocene–early Pliocene transtensional faulting in the Eastern California shear zone, southwestern USA	5
Volcano-pluton connections at the Lake City magmatic center (Colorado, USA)	5