OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Depositional Record is 4. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The influence of microbial mats on travertine precipitation in active hydrothermal systems (Central Italy)	34
On the delimitation of the carbonate burial realm	31
Effects of salinity, organic acids and alkalinity on the growth of calcite spherulites: Implications for evaporitic lacustrine sedimentation	14
Channel‐lobe transition zone development in tectonically active settings: Implications for hybrid bed development	13
Ordination analysis in sedimentology, geochemistry and palaeoenvironment—Background, current trends and recommendations	12
Palaeocene to Miocene southern Tethyan carbonate factories: A meta‐analysis of the successions of South‐western and Western Central Asia	12
Flow‐process controls on grain type distribution in an experimental turbidity current deposit: Implications for detrital signal preservation and microplastic distribution in submarine fans	11
Sedimentologic and stratigraphic criteria to distinguish between basin‐floor and slope mudstones: Implications for the delivery of mud to deep‐water environments	9
Quartz grain microtextures illuminate Pliocene periglacial sand fluxes on the Antarctic continental margin	9
Characteristics and controls on the distribution of sublittoral microbial bioherms in Great Salt Lake, Utah: Implications for understanding microbialite development	9
Microfacies analysis of the Palaeocene Lockhart limestone on the eastern margin of the Upper Indus Basin (Pakistan): Implications for the depositional environment and reservoir characteristics	9
Microbial EPS‐mediated amorphous calcium carbonate–monohydrocalcite–calcite transformations during early tufa deposition	8
Blood, lead and spheres: A hindered settling equation for sedimentologists based on metadata analysis	8
Flooding of a carbonate platform: The Sian Kaʼan Wetlands, Yucatán, Mexico—A model for the formation and evolution of palustrine carbonate factories around the modern Caribbean Sea and in the depositi	8
Sedimentary evolution of the Dawan travertines and their geological environmental significance, Huanglong, China	8
The Late Palaeozoic Ice Age unconformity in southern Namibia viewed as a patchwork mosaic	8
A tuffaceous volcaniclastic turbidite bed of Early Miocene age in the Temburong Formation of Labuan, North‐West Borneo and its implications for the Proto‐South China Sea subduction in the Burdigalian	7
Continental shelves as detrital mixers: U–Pb and Lu–Hf detrital zircon provenance of the Pleistocene–Holocene Bering Sea and its margins	7
Channel trajectories control deep‐water stratigraphic architecture	7
The Marinoan cap carbonate of Svalbard: Syngenetic marine dolomite with ¹⁷O‐anomalous carbonate‐associated sulphate	7
Unravelling the pore network and its behaviour: An integrated NMR, MICP, XCT and petrographical study of continental spring carbonates from the Ballık area, SW Turkey	7
Multi‐elemental chemostratigraphy of Triassic mudstones in eastern Svalbard: Implications for source rock formation in front of the World’s largest delta plain	7
Indigenous microbial communities as catalysts for early marine cements: An in vitro study	6
Digital re‐evaluation of down‐dip channel‐fill architecture in deep‐water slope deposits: Multi‐scale perspectives from UAV‐SfM	6
Resolving stratigraphic architecture and constraining ages of paralic strata in a low‐accommodation setting, Firebag Tributary, McMurray Formation, Canada	6

Channel incision into a submarine landslide on a Carboniferous basin margin, San Juan, Argentina: Evidence for the role of knickpoints	6
The sedimentological death mask of a dying glacier	5
Interaction of temperature, salinity and extracellular polymeric substances controls trace element incorporation into tufa calcite	5
The fate of a travertine record: Impact of early diagenesis on the Y‐10 core (Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, USA)	5
Reconstructing lake bottom water temperatures and their seasonal variability in the Dead Sea Basin during MIS5e	5
The Steptoean Positive Carbon Isotope Excursion (SPICE), inorganic aragonite precipitation and sea water chemistry: Insights from the Middle–Late Cambrian Port au Port Group, Newfoundland	5
A multi‐scale approach to laminated microbial deposits in non‐marine carbonate environments through examples of the Cenozoic, north‐east Iberian Peninsula, Spain	5
Proximal to distal grain‐size distribution of basin‐floor lobes: A study from the Battfjellet Formation, Central Tertiary Basin, Svalbard	5
Pioneer species of Cyanobacteria in hot springs and their role to travertine formation: The case of Aedipsos hot springs, Euboea (Evia), Greece	5
The record of sea water chemistry evolution during the Ediacaran–Cambrian from early marine cements	4
Neogene history of fluvial to shallow marine successions in the Kendari Basin, SE Sulawesi, Indonesia	4
Deep marine diagenesis, offshore Hawaii and Enewetak, with implications for older carbonates	4
Petrophysics and sediment variability in a mixed alluvial to lacustrine carbonate system (Miocene, Madrid Basin, Central Spain)	4
Calcium transfer and mass balance associated with soil carbonate in a semi‐arid silicate watershed (North Cameroon): An overlooked geochemical cascade?	4
Middle Jurassic multi‐scale transgressive–regressive cycles: An example from the Lusitanian Basin	4
Holocene progradation and retrogradation of the Central Texas Coast regulated by alongshore and cross‐shore sediment flux variability	4
Quantifying the lateral heterogeneity of distal submarine lobe deposits, Point Loma Formation, California: Implications for subsurface lateral facies prediction	4
Insights on the biomineralisation processes and related diversity of cyanobacterial microflora in thermogenic travertine deposits in Greek hot springs (North‐West Euboea Island)	4
Heavy mineral variations in mid‐Carboniferous deltaic sandstones: Records of a pre‐depositional sediment history?	4
Earth’s oldest tsunami deposit? Early Archaean high‐energy sediments in the ca 3.48 Ga Dresser Formation (Pilbara, Western Australia)	4
Non‐marine carbonate: Wherefore art thou?	4
Detrital input quantification in lacustrine petroleum systems: An example of the pre‐salt source rocks from the Lower Congo Basin (Congo)	4
Depth‐limiting resistant layers restrict dimensions and positions of estuarine channels and bars	4
Taking the heat out of British Jurassic septarian concretions	4
The role of carbonate factories and sea water chemistry on basin‐wide ramp to high‐relief carbonate platform evolution: Triassic, Nanpanjiang Basin, South China	4
Time series of δ²⁶Mg variability in precipitation of north‐west Germany	4