OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Geosphere is 6. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

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	53
Latest Quaternary slip rates of the San Bernardino strand of the San Andreas fault, southern California, from Cajon Creek to Badger Canyon	49
Geologic map of central Panamint Range, California, USA	45
Frenchman Mountain Dolostone: A new formation of the Cambrian Tonto Group, Grand Canyon and Basin and Range, USA	33
Timing and evolution of structures within the southeastern Greater Caucasus and Kura Fold-Thrust Belt from multiproxy sediment provenance records	24
Geologic map of Slate Range Crossing area, California, USA	21
Linking exhumation, paleo-relief, and rift formation to magmatic processes in the western Snake River Plain, Idaho, using apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology	21
Identifying sources of non-unique detrital age distributions through integrated provenance analysis: An example from the Paleozoic Central Colorado Trough	20
Bolide impact effects on the West Florida Platform, Gulf of Mexico: End Cretaceous and late Eocene	19
Tectonostratigraphy and major structures of the Georgian Greater Caucasus: Implications for structural architecture, along-strike continuity, and orogen evolution	18
Contrasting constraints on the temporal and spatial extents of normal faults from the Hilltop and Lewis mining districts, northern Shoshone Range, Nevada, USA	18
Detrital zircon geochronology and provenance of the Middle to Late Jurassic Paradox Basin and Central Colorado trough: Paleogeographic implications for southwestern Laurentia	18
Measuring change at Earth’s surface: On-demand vertical and three-dimensional topographic differencing implemented in OpenTopography	18
Spatially variable syn- and post-Alleghanian exhumation of the central Appalachian Mountains from zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology	17
Redefinition of the Petersburg batholith and implications for crustal inheritance in the Dinwiddie terrane, Virginia, USA	17
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
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	16
Geological and seismic evidence for the tectonic evolution of the NE Oman continental margin and Gulf of Oman	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
Constraints on the paleoelevation history of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia from its palynological record	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	13
Volcanic crustal structure of the western Hikurangi Plateau (New Zealand) from marine seismic reflection imaging	12
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	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 late Eocene lamprophyre-carbonatite association in the SE Tibetan Plateau: Rapid basalt-induced H2O-saturated partial melting of the upper crust	12
NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL: Stratigraphy of the Eocene–Oligocene Titus Canyon Formation, Death Valley, California, and Eocene extensional tectonism in the Basin and Range	12
A kinematic model linking the Sevier and Laramide belts in the Idaho-Montana fold-thrust belt, U.S. Cordillera	12
A systematic approach to mapping tectonic faults and documenting supporting geomorphology	12
Early Ordovician seamounts preserved in the Canadian Cordillera: Implications for the rift history of western Laurentia	11
Age and tectonic setting of the Quinebaug-Marlboro belt and implications for the history of Ganderian crustal fragments in southeastern New England, USA	11
Picture Gorge Basalt: Internal stratigraphy, eruptive patterns, and its importance for understanding Columbia River Basalt Group magmatism	11
Oligocene–Miocene development and evolution of the south Dome Rock Mountains basin, lower Colorado River corridor, Arizona, USA	11
The Cenozoic evolution of the Intrarif (Rif, Morocco)	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	11
Insights from the geological record of deformation along the subduction interface at depths of seismogenesis	11
Tectonics, geochronology, and petrology of the Walker Top Granite, Appalachian Inner Piedmont, North Carolina (USA): Implications for Acadian and Neoacadian orogenesis	11
Seismotectonics of the San Andreas Fault System in the San Gorgonio Pass region: A synthesis	10
Multi-stage construction of the Little Cotton wood stock, Utah, USA: Origin, intrusion, venting, mineralization, and mass movement	10
The eight architectural zones of nonmarine basins	10
Chronostratigraphic correlation of the Upper Silurian Salina Group for the Michigan and Appalachian Basins through coupled (δ13Ccarb) chemostratigraphy and subsurface geophysical analyses	10
Geoscience academic hiring networks reinforce historic patterns of inequity	10
Is drainage reorganization a plausible explanation for late Cenozoic incision of Yosemite Valley and within the Kings and Kaweah watersheds (Sierra Nevada, California)?	10
Postglacial slip distribution along the Teton normal fault (Wyoming, USA), derived from tectonically offset geomorphological features	9
Critical workforce skills for bachelor-level geoscientists: An analysis of geoscience job advertisements	9
Numerical models of Farallon plate subduction: Creating and removing a flat slab	9
Heterogenous late Miocene extension in the northern Walker Lane (California-Nevada, USA) demonstrates vertically decoupled crustal extension	9
Geologic map of southern Panamint Valley, southern Panamint Range, and central Slate Range, California, USA	9
Numerical modeling of subduction: State of the art and future directions	9
The missing ridge Enigma: A new model for the Tuamotu Plateau conjugate and Peruvian flat slab	8
Storm-driven sedimentation and dynamics of a sediment slug in an ephemeral stream: Influence on sediment-routing systems within source areas	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
Seismic attenuation tomography of the Sn phase beneath the Turkish-Iranian Plateau and the Zagros mountain belt	8
Precursors to a continental-arc ignimbrite flare-up: Early central volcanoes of the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, USA	8
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	8
Precision and accuracy of modal analysis methods for clastic deposits and rocks: A statistical and numerical modeling approach	8
Illuminating geology in areas of limited exposure using texture shading of lidar digital terrain models	8
Development of the Whitehorse trough as a strike-slip basin during Early to Middle Jurassic arc-continent collision in the Canadian Cordillera	8
Emplacement history of volcaniclastic turbidites around the central Azores volcanic islands: Frequencies of slope landslides and eruptions	8
Late Cretaceous upper-crustal thermal structure of the Sevier hinterland: Implications for the geodynamics of the Nevadaplano	8
Volcano-pluton connections at the Lake City magmatic center (Colorado, USA)	8
Evaluating how well active fault mapping predicts earthquake surface-rupture locations	7
New insights into the age and origin of two small Cretaceous seamount chains proximal to the Northwestern Hawaiian Ridge	7
Ulungarat Basin: Record of a major Middle Devonian to Mississippian syn-rift to post-rift tectonic transition, eastern Brooks Range, Arctic Alaska	7
Bringing sedimentology and stratigraphy into the StraboSpot data management system	7
A global database of Mars-relevant hydrovolcanic environments on Earth with potential biosignature preservation	6
Petrogenesis of voluminous silicic magmas in the Sierra Madre Occidental large igneous province, Mexican Cordillera: Insights from zircon and Hf-O isotopes	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
Multiple sediment incorporation events in a continental magmatic arc: Insight from the metasedimentary rocks of the northern North Cascades, Washington (USA)	6
Evidence for a more extensive Greenland Ice Sheet in southwestern Greenland during the Last Glacial Maximum	6
Metamorphism of the Sierra de Maz and implications for the tectonic evolution of the MARA terrane	6
Kilometer-scale recumbent folding, tectonic attenuation, and rotational shear in the western Anaconda Range, southwestern Montana, USA	6
Chronostratigraphy of Miocene strata in the Berkeley Hills (California Coast Ranges, USA) and the arrival of the San Andreas transform boundary	6
Mantle control on magmatic flare-ups in the southern Coast Mountains batholith, British Columbia	6
Detrital zircon geothermochronology reveals pre-Alleghanian exhumation of regional Mississippian sediment sources in the southern Appalachian Valley and Ridge Province	6

The Cretaceous-Paleogene contact in the Tornillo Group of Big Bend National Park, West Texas, USA	6
A graphic method for depicting basin evolution and changes in the dominant hydrodynamic process from paleocurrent data	6
Impact of bending-related faulting and oceanic-plate topography on slab hydration and intermediate-depth seismicity	6
The Pondosa fault zone: A distributed dextral-normal-oblique fault system in northeastern California, USA	6