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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

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	56
Geologic map of central Panamint Range, California, USA	26
Geologic map of Slate Range Crossing area, California, USA	25
Identifying sources of non-unique detrital age distributions through integrated provenance analysis: An example from the Paleozoic Central Colorado Trough	23
Timing and evolution of structures within the southeastern Greater Caucasus and Kura Fold-Thrust Belt from multiproxy sediment provenance records	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
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
Redefinition of the Petersburg batholith and implications for crustal inheritance in the Dinwiddie terrane, Virginia, USA	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
Tectonostratigraphy and major structures of the Georgian Greater Caucasus: Implications for structural architecture, along-strike continuity, and orogen evolution	19
Bolide impact effects on the West Florida Platform, Gulf of Mexico: End Cretaceous and late Eocene	16
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	16
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
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
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
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	15
Igneous, hydrothermal, or both? Exploring the origin of pegmatites and aplites at the Amis intrusion, Namibia	14
Early Ordovician seamounts preserved in the Canadian Cordillera: Implications for the rift history of western Laurentia	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
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
A late Eocene lamprophyre-carbonatite association in the SE Tibetan Plateau: Rapid basalt-induced H2O-saturated partial melting of the upper crust	14
Oligocene–Miocene development and evolution of the south Dome Rock Mountains basin, lower Colorado River corridor, Arizona, USA	14
Volcanic crustal structure of the western Hikurangi Plateau (New Zealand) from marine seismic reflection imaging	13

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	12
A systematic approach to mapping tectonic faults and documenting supporting geomorphology	11
NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL: Stratigraphy of the Eocene–Oligocene Titus Canyon Formation, Death Valley, California, and Eocene extensional tectonism in the Basin and Range	11
A kinematic model linking the Sevier and Laramide belts in the Idaho-Montana fold-thrust belt, U.S. Cordillera	10
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
The Cenozoic evolution of the Intrarif (Rif, Morocco)	9
Chronostratigraphic correlation of the Upper Silurian Salina Group for the Michigan and Appalachian Basins through coupled (δ13Ccarb) chemostratigraphy and subsurface geophysical analyses	9
Tectonics, geochronology, and petrology of the Walker Top Granite, Appalachian Inner Piedmont, North Carolina (USA): Implications for Acadian and Neoacadian orogenesis	9
Geoscience academic hiring networks reinforce historic patterns of inequity	8
Geologic map of southern Panamint Valley, southern Panamint Range, and central Slate Range, California, USA	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
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	8
Multi-stage construction of the Little Cotton wood stock, Utah, USA: Origin, intrusion, venting, mineralization, and mass movement	8
Seismotectonics of the San Andreas Fault System in the San Gorgonio Pass region: A synthesis	8
Critical workforce skills for bachelor-level geoscientists: An analysis of geoscience job advertisements	8
Numerical models of Farallon plate subduction: Creating and removing a flat slab	8
The eight architectural zones of nonmarine basins	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
A gigantic Miocene landslide in the Wasatch Range, Utah, USA	7
Volcano-pluton connections at the Lake City magmatic center (Colorado, USA)	7
Development of the Whitehorse trough as a strike-slip basin during Early to Middle Jurassic arc-continent collision in the Canadian Cordillera	7
New insights into the age and origin of two small Cretaceous seamount chains proximal to the Northwestern Hawaiian Ridge	7
Numerical modeling of subduction: State of the art and future directions	7
Seismic attenuation tomography of the Sn phase beneath the Turkish-Iranian Plateau and the Zagros mountain belt	7
Unravelling the dance of earthquakes: Evidence of partial synchronization of the northern San Andreas fault and Cascadia megathrust	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
Precursors to a continental-arc ignimbrite flare-up: Early central volcanoes of the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, USA	7
Illuminating geology in areas of limited exposure using texture shading of lidar digital terrain models	7
Evaluating how well active fault mapping predicts earthquake surface-rupture locations	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
Kilometer-scale recumbent folding, tectonic attenuation, and rotational shear in the western Anaconda Range, southwestern Montana, USA	6
The Cretaceous-Paleogene contact in the Tornillo Group of Big Bend National Park, West Texas, USA	6
Multiple sediment incorporation events in a continental magmatic arc: Insight from the metasedimentary rocks of the northern North Cascades, Washington (USA)	6
Emplacement history of volcaniclastic turbidites around the central Azores volcanic islands: Frequencies of slope landslides and eruptions	6
Late Cretaceous to early Paleogene syntectonic deposition of the Show Goat formation in the northern Chiricahua Mountains, southeast Arizona	6
A global database of Mars-relevant hydrovolcanic environments on Earth with potential biosignature preservation	6
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
Petrogenesis of voluminous silicic magmas in the Sierra Madre Occidental large igneous province, Mexican Cordillera: Insights from zircon and Hf-O isotopes	6
Crustal-to-mantle shifting in SiO2-rich upper crustal magmas through zircon and bulk rock compositions in the Famatinian arc, Argentina	6
Impact of bending-related faulting and oceanic-plate topography on slab hydration and intermediate-depth seismicity	6
Ultrahigh-temperature granulite-facies metamorphism and exhumation of deep crust in a migmatite dome during late- to post-orogenic collapse and extension in the central Adirondack Highlands (New York,	5
Beyond boundaries: Depositional environment controls on erodibility, process, and form in rivers incising sedimentary bedrock	5
Foreland basin development in response to Proto-Tethyan Ocean closure, western North China Block	5
Permo-Carboniferous crustal structure and state of strain in the New England Appalachians, USA	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
Distribution and timing of lithospheric breakup across the Gulf of Mexico: The role of seaward-dipping reflectors, spreading propagators, and crustal shear zones	5
Arc-arc amalgamation during accretionary orogenesis: Insights from mid-Paleozoic tectono-magmatic records in eastern Junggar, NW China	5

Joint flexural-density modeling of the Taltal, Copiapó, and Iquique hotspot ridges and the surrounding oceanic plate, offshore Chile	5
Zircon age spectra to quantify magma evolution	5
The Pondosa fault zone: A distributed dextral-normal-oblique fault system in northeastern California, USA	5
Kinematics and paleogeology of the western United States and northern Mexico computed from geologic and paleomagnetic data: 0 to 48 Ma	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
The building blocks of igneous sheet intrusions: Insights from 3-D seismic reflection data	5
Seismostratigraphic analysis of Lake Cahuilla sedimentation cycles and fault displacement history beneath the Salton Sea, California, USA	5
Landsliding follows signatures of wildfire history and vegetation regrowth in a steep coastal shrubland	5
The “Nazas Arc” is a continental rift province: Implications for Mesozoic tectonic reconstructions of the southwest Cordillera, U.S. and Mexico	5
Spatiotemporally heterogeneous deformation, indirect tectonomagmatic links, and lithospheric evolution during orogenic activity coeval with an arc flare-up	5
Chronostratigraphy of Miocene strata in the Berkeley Hills (California Coast Ranges, USA) and the arrival of the San Andreas transform boundary	5
Evidence for a more extensive Greenland Ice Sheet in southwestern Greenland during the Last Glacial Maximum	5
A temporal dissection of late Quaternary volcanism and related hazards within the Rio Grande rift and along the Jemez lineament of New Mexico, USA	5
Thick- and thin-skinned contractional styles and the tectonic evolution of the northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado, USA	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
The geometry of fault reactivation and uplift along the central part of the Maacama Fault Zone, Northern California Coast Ranges (USA)	5