OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A new species of Ectenosaurus (Mosasauridae: Plioplatecarpinae) from western Kansas, USA, reveals a novel suite of osteological characters for the genus¹	25
Probabilistic assessment of induced seismicity at the Alberta No. 1 geothermal project site	23
Cryostratigraphical studies of ground ice formation and distribution in a High Arctic polar desert landscape, Resolute Bay, Nunavut¹	23
Evidence for microbially mediated silver enrichment in a middle Cambrian Burgess Shale-type deposit, Mackenzie Mountains, northwestern Canada	19
NOTE OF APPRECIATION	19
Sedimentary mercury as a proxy for redox oscillations during the Cambrian SPICE event in western Newfoundland	18
Detrital zircon geochronology and provenance of the Mesoproterozoic Husky Creek Formation: a fluvial sandstone recording the waning stages of one of Earth's largest magmatic episodes	16
Understanding the Precambrian: a collection of papers in celebration of the life and work of Grant McAdam Young (1937–2020)	14
Microbial, tidal, and storm activity in a macrotidal to shallow marine shelf environment during the Paleoproterozoic era	14
Inversion of magnetic and frequency-domain electromagnetic data for investigating lithologies associated with gold mineralization in the Canadian Malartic area, Québec, Canada	13
⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar and Rb–Sr dating of gold-bearing quartz–breccia mineralization and deformation within the Gordon Lake Region, Northwest Territories, Canada: a tribute to Dr. Nick Culsh	12
Quantifying the diagenetic impact in the late Ediacaran and early Palaeozoic of the Avalon Peninsula using illite “crystallinity”	12
Comment on “Complementarity of Hf isotopes from detrital and igneous zircon: an example from the Central Gneiss Belt, Grenville Province, Ontario”	11
Rheological bridge zones: the initiation of strain localization	11
Holocene earthquake-triggered submarine landslides and turbidites in western Baffin Bay	11
Tectonic evolution of high-grade metamorphic tectonites of the Meelpaeg structure near Port aux Basques, southwestern Newfoundland during the Silurian Salinic and Early-to-Middle Devonian Acadian orog	11
Nearshore sediment transport as influenced by changing sea ice, north shore of Prince Edward Island, Canada	10
Trapped in a graben: deposition of Huronian gold-bearing conglomerates in a fault-influenced, valley-confined, fluvial system in the southern Cobalt Basin, Ontario, Canada	10
Postglacial sea-level lowstand on Cumberland Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut	10
Quantifying simulated fine sand fraction in muddy sediment using laser diffraction	10
Tectonic history of the Grenville-age Trenton Prong inlier, Central Appalachians, USA: evidence from SHRIMP U–Pb geochronology	10
Taphonomy of a monodominantGryposaurussp. bonebed from the Oldman Formation (Campanian) of Alberta, Canada	9
LA-ICP-MS zircon U–Pb ages, geochemistry, and genesis of Paleozoic granites from Biezhentao Mountain, Western Tianshan, Xinjiang	9
A reassessment of the Erie Interstade from field work in the Cayuga basin, central New York	8
Glacial erosion on a snowball Earth: testing for bias in flux balance, geographic setting, and tectonic regime	8

Petrology and age of the Lepreau River Dyke, southern New Brunswick, Canada: source of the end-Triassic Fundy Group basalts	8
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency	7
The morphologic and paleobiogeographic implications of a new early Silurian echinoid from Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada	7
There is more Wrangellia — magnetic characterization of southern Alaska crust	7
Submarine geomorphology of a glaciated active margin, British Columbia, Canada	7
Initial development and sedimentary provenance of a middle Paleozoic foreland basin: Clam Bank Formation, western Newfoundland	7
Reply to the discussion by Hadlari on “age and significance of the fire bay assemblage: an Ordovician arc fragment within the Clements Markham belt, northwestern Ellesmere Island, Canada”	7
Landscape and Seascape Responses to Canada’s Changing Climate	7
Geodynamic setting of Proterozoic massif-type anorthosites in the Eastern Canadian Shield	7
A Jiangshanian (Cambrian; Furongian) trilobite fauna from the Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland	6
Crustal thickening and uplift of the Qiangtang Terrane, Tibetan Plateau during the Late Cretaceous to early Palaeocene: geochronology and geochemistry of the Saiduopugangri granite	6
Mapping of fluid venting and attenuation of hydrate bearing sediments from offshore Oregon	6
Note of appreciation	5
“Sudbury Breccia” and “Huronian Breccia”: spatial, sedimentological, and structural evidence for separate distinct breccia-forming events	5
Theropod guild structure and the tyrannosaurid niche assimilation hypothesis: implications for predatory dinosaur macroecology and ontogeny in later Late Cretaceous Asiamerica¹	5
⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating of Paleoproterozoic shear zones in the Ellesmere–Devon crystalline terrane, Nunavut, Canadian Arctic	5
Petrochemistry, mineralogy, and Nd isotopic analyses of Tithonian alkaline lamprophyric intrusions, north-central Newfoundland, Canada	5
Seven hydrogeological terrains characteristic of southern Ontario	5
Geochronology of the Mines Gaspé porphyry deposit, Québec, Canada	5
Cumulate gabbros in the South Andaman Island ophiolite suite (India): their bearing on the tectonic setting	5
Monitoring subseafloor temperature and fluid pressure in sealed ODP/IODP boreholes to constrain in-situ hydrological state and processes in igneous oceanic crust	5
Radiocarbon dates and late Quaternary vertebrates from cave deposits in the central Canadian Rocky Mountains	5
The Devonian clastic wedge and underlying strata of southwestern Canadian Arctic Archipelago: stratigraphic revisions	4
The mid-Cretaceous Peninsular Ranges orogeny: a new slant on Cordilleran tectonics? I: Mexico to Nevada	4
Evaluation of carbon dioxide sequestration via interaction with peridotite and peridotite-hosted groundwaters: an experimental case study with Bay of Islands Ophiolite rocks, western Newfoundland, Can	4
Late history of glacial Lake Agassiz in northwestern Ontario, Canada: a case study in the Sandy Lake basin	4
A Lower Devonian age for the Corvock Granite and its significance for the structural history of South Mayo and the Laurentian margin of western Ireland	4
Alkaline picritic volcanism on northern Ellesmere Island associated with initial rifting of the Sverdrup Basin, Canadian Arctic	4
Characterization of the Wager shear zone, Nunavut, Canada: Insights from microstructures and geochronology	4
Paleoenvironmental and chemostratigraphic implications of variations in geochemical proxies across the Upper Jurassic–Lower cretaceous boundary: a case study from the Flemish Pass Basin	4
Provenance and depositional age of metasedimentary rocks in the Frontenac terrane (Grenville Province, Ontario)	4
Geochemistry, geochronology, and radiogenic isotopes of the Balmer and Confederation assemblages of the Laird Lake Area, Red Lake greenstone belt, Canada: implications for Archean tectonic evolution	4
Morphology and tectonic modification of the Sudbury impact crater: the North Range	4
Constraints on the age of Archaeozoon acadiense and evidence for hydrothermally transported zircon in the Ashburn Formation (Green Head Group), Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada	4
Lower Cambrian (Series 2) small shelly fossils from along Nares Strait (Nunavut and Greenland; Laurentia)	4
The Lower Cretaceous sequence of western Alaska—demise of the Koyukuk terrane?	4
New insights on faulting in southwest New Brunswick and northeast Maine based on marine magnetic mapping of the Ministers Island dyke	4
Tonian rift successions in Newfoundland, Canada: a window to late tectonic events in the Mesoproterozoic Laurentian margin	4
Facies analysis for the Neoarchean Itchen and Sherpa formations of the Winter Lake greenstone belt, Slave craton, Northwest Territories, Canada	4
The Terreneuvian MacCodrum Brook section, Mira terrane, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: age constraints from ash layers, organic-walled microfossils, and trace fossils	4
Discussion of “Age and significance of the fire bay assemblage: an Ordovician arc fragment within the Clements Markham belt, northwestern Ellesmere Island, Canada”	4
Geochronology, geochemistry, and Hf isotopic compositions of the Early Devonian Heihaibei granite in the East Kunlun Orogen, Northwest China	4
Discussion of “The northern Appalachian terrane wreck model”	4
Present-day kinematics of the northwest Moroccan Atlantic Margin from GNSS data: west southwest extrusion at the western end of the High Atlas	4
Petrology and lithogeochemistry of Paleozoic alkalic magmatism in the Selwyn Basin, Yukon, Canada	4
Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy of northwestern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, with new insights into the age and diachronism of the Ship Point Formation in the Foxe Basin	4
Characterization of Lower and Middle Pleistocene tephra beds in the southern plains of western Canada	3
Geophysical reassessment of the role of ancient lineaments on the development of the western Laurentian margin and its sediment-hosted Zn–Pb deposits, Yukon and Northwest Territories, Canada	3
Líl̓wat oral traditions of Qw̓elqw̓elústen (Mount Meager): Indigenous records of volcanic eruption, outburst flood, and landscape change in southwest British Columbia	3
Volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits of the Dunnage Zone of the Newfoundland Appalachians: setting, styles, key advances, and future research	3

A reinterpretation of the Snow Lake gold camp, Trans-Hudson Orogen, Canada: the use of cleavages as markers to correlate structures across deformed terranes	3
U–Pb zircon geochronology and implications of Cambrian plutonism in the Ellsworth belt, Maine	3
The mid-Cretaceous Peninsular Ranges orogeny: a new slant on Cordilleran tectonics? III: the orogenic foredeep	3
Accessory phase perspectives for ore-forming processes and magmatic sulphide exploration in the Labrador Trough, northern Quebec, Canada	3
Canada’s maritime frontier: the science legacy of Canada’s extended continental shelf mapping for UNCLOS	3
Mesoproterozoic basins (Yukon, Canada) in the evolution of supercontinent Columbia	3
Insights into the Connaught sequence of the Timiskaming varve series from Frederick House Lake, northeastern Ontario	3
Subsidence drives habitat loss in a large permafrost delta, Mackenzie River outlet to the Beaufort Sea, western Arctic Canada	3
Reply to the Discussion by Landing and Geyer on “The Terreneuvian MacCodrum Brook section, Mira terrane, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: age constraints from ash layers, organic-walled microf	3
A 500 ka record of volcanism and paleoenvironment in the northern Garibaldi Volcanic Belt, British Columbia	3
Sedimentary characteristics, lithofacies, and paleogeography of the Middle–Lower Cambrian in the Tarim Basin, NW China	3
Structure from motion used to revive archived aerial photographs for geomorphological analysis: an example from Mount Meager volcano, British Columbia, Canada	3
Origin and evolution of unconformities in a continental rift basin: a case study from the Lishu Depression in Songliao Basin, China	3
Meighen Ice Cap: changes in geometry, mass, and climatic response since 1959	3
Laurentide Ice Sheet configuration in southern Ontario, Canada during the last glaciation (MIS 4 to 2) from stratigraphic drilling and LIDAR-based surficial mapping	3
Relative timing and controls on advanced argillic and conventional alteration of the Neoarchean Onaman volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit, Ontario, Canada	3
Geochronology, petrogenesis, and mineralization potential of the syenogranites in the Yama fluorite deposit, Tataleng granitic batholith, Qilian Orogen, NW China	3
Description and revised diagnosis of Asia’s first recorded pachycephalosaurid, Sinocephale bexelli gen. nov., from the Upper Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China	3
Magnetotelluric imaging of the magmatic and geothermal systems beneath Mount Meager, southwestern Canada	3
Precise U–Pb zircon dates from silicic super-eruptions during late Ediacaran extension in the Avalonian Caledonia terrane of southern New Brunswick, Canada	3
Unravelling the fragmented sediment–landform assemblage in an area of thick Quaternary sediment, western Hudson Bay Lowland, Canada	3