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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Evidence for microbially mediated silver enrichment in a middle Cambrian Burgess Shale-type deposit, Mackenzie Mountains, northwestern Canada	27
Facies analysis for the Neoarchean Itchen and Sherpa formations of the Winter Lake greenstone belt, Slave craton, Northwest Territories, Canada	25
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	25
Taphonomy of a monodominantGryposaurussp. bonebed from the Oldman Formation (Campanian) of Alberta, Canada	20
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	20
The morphologic and paleobiogeographic implications of a new early Silurian echinoid from Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada	19
A reassessment of the Erie Interstade from field work in the Cayuga basin, central New York	17
Quantifying simulated fine sand fraction in muddy sediment using laser diffraction	16
Accessory phase perspectives for ore-forming processes and magmatic sulphide exploration in the Labrador Trough, northern Quebec, Canada	14
Paleoenvironmental fluctuations across the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary, Scotian margin, Canada	14
Comment on “Complementarity of Hf isotopes from detrital and igneous zircon: an example from the Central Gneiss Belt, Grenville Province, Ontario”	14
Structural geology of the Mount Meager Volcanic Complex, BC, Canada: implications for geothermal energy and geohazards	13
Bellerophontid molluscs in the Grimsby Formation (Llandovery, lower Silurian), Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and their paleoecological and taphonomic implications	13
Geochronology, petrogenesis, and mineralization potential of the syenogranites in the Yama fluorite deposit, Tataleng granitic batholith, Qilian Orogen, NW China	13
Mesoproterozoic basins (Yukon, Canada) in the evolution of supercontinent Columbia	12
Lithobiotopes of the Nemegt Gobi Basin¹	11
Late history of glacial Lake Agassiz in northwestern Ontario, Canada: a case study in the Sandy Lake basin	11
Marine record of late-glacial readvance and last recession of Laurentide ice, inner Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island, Arctic Canada	11
Correction: Probabilistic assessment of induced seismicity at the Alberta No. 1 geothermal project site	11
U-Pb zircon ages from metasedimentary and plutonic rocks in the Bras d'Or terrane of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: insights into the Ediacaran–Cambrian tectonomagmatic evolution of Ganderia	10
Tectonic setting and provenance analysis of the Yaojia Formation in the northeastern Songliao Basin, NE China: constraints from sandstone geochemistry, Hf isotopes, and zircon U–Pb chronology	10
Petrogenesis and mode of emplacement of a Neoarchean tonalite–trondhjemite–diorite suite: the Eau Jaune Complex, Abitibi greenstone belt	9
Chronology and stratigraphy of the Imlay Channel in Lapeer County, Michigan, USA	9
Geochronology, geochemistry, and tectonic setting of Ordovician metavolcanic rocks in the Liberty–Orrington belt, Maine: implications for the evolution of peri-Gondwanan arcs in the northern Appalachi	9
Structure, metamorphism, and mica⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar thermochronology of the southern Purcell anticlinorium and its transition into the central Kootenay arc, Omineca belt, southeastern Bri	8

Reply to the discussion by van Staal et al. on “The northern Appalachian terrane wreck model”	8
Petrogenesis and tectonic significance of the Early Cretaceous Xizhelimu diorite in Keyouzhongqi, Inner Mongolia, China	7
Deep-Sea Borehole Fluid Pressure and Temperature Observations at Subduction Zones and their Geodynamic Implications	7
Deep long-period earthquakes near Mount Meager, British Columbia	7
The oldest occurrence of brachylophosaurin hadrosaurids in Canada	7
Seismicity and seismic monitoring of Canada’s volcanic zones	7
Seismicity at the intersection of the Coast Shear Zone and Anahim Volcanic Belt near Bella Coola, British Columbia, Canada	7
First chimaeroid fish egg capsule (Chondrichthyes, Holocephali, Chimaeriformes) from upper Eocene Carmanah Group strata, West Coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada	6
Petrogenesis of a TTG intrusive suite: the La Dauversière pluton, Abitibi greenstone belt, Canada	6
Geochronology, geochemistry, and petrogenesis of Early Cretaceous highly differentiated I-type granites in the central Great Xing’an Range, northeastern China	6
Note of appreciation	6
A new, “dwarfed” species of the phenacodontid “condylarth”Ectocionfrom the late Paleocene of Alberta, Canada, and its implications	6
Glass fission-track ages, composition, and origin of tephra beds in the Upper Cretaceous Kanguk Formation, Banks Island, Arctic Canada	6
Migrations of Devonian brine up-section and the origin of calcite-cemented sand in the Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation, Athabasca Oil Sands	6
A micromorphological perspective on the Neoproterozoic Smalfjord and Mortensnes Formation diamictites—Varangerfjord, Norway	6
A comparison of trace element concentrations in chromite from komatiites, picrites, and layered intrusions: implications for the formation of massive chromite layers	6
Tithonian mafic intrusions in north-central Newfoundland: link to Atlantic rifting?	5
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency	5
Age and geochemistry of basement complexes in the south-central New Québec Orogen: Archean history, terrane correlations, and Paleoproterozoic reactivation	5
Petrochemistry, mineralogy, and Nd isotopic analyses of Tithonian alkaline lamprophyric intrusions, north-central Newfoundland, Canada	5
Landscape and Seascape Responses to Canada’s Changing Climate	5
There is more Wrangellia — magnetic characterization of southern Alaska crust	5
Paleoenvironmental and chemostratigraphic implications of variations in geochemical proxies across the Upper Jurassic–Lower cretaceous boundary: a case study from the Flemish Pass Basin	5
Petrology and age of the Lepreau River Dyke, southern New Brunswick, Canada: source of the end-Triassic Fundy Group basalts	5
Dome-and-keel and linear accretionary architectures in the eastern Wabigoon superterrane, Canada: seismic profiling, magnetotelluric modelling, and gold endowment	5
The glacial lakes evolution south of Lac Saint-Jean (Québec) and its implications for defining the regional deglaciation pattern	5
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	5
Polyphase formation of a Neoarchean auriferous fault zone network in the Michipicoten greenstone belt, southern Superior craton	4
A record of the Steptoean Positive Carbon Isotope Excursion (SPICE; Cambrian, Paibian) from the Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland	4
Neodymium isotope mapping a polygenetic TTG batholith: failed back-arc rifting in the Central Metasedimentary Belt, southwestern Grenville Province	4
The northern Appalachian terrane wreck model	4
The Cambrian (Furongian) olenid trilobitePelturafrom Avalonian Nova Scotia, Canada, with a review of some species from Baltica	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
The Yellowknife greenstone belt and underlying Central Slave Cover Group, Slave craton, Canada: constraints and questions arising from a U–Pb dating study	4
Origin and evolution of unconformities in a continental rift basin: a case study from the Lishu Depression in Songliao Basin, China	4
Structural geology of the Cadillac Group along the Malartic segment of the Larder Lake Cadillac deformation zone, Quebec, and implications for gold mineralization	4
The promise of taphonomy as a nomothetic discipline: taphonomic bias in two dinosaur-bearing faunas in North America¹	4
In situ mica Rb–Sr geochronology and microstructural analysis to evaluate the timing and sense of shear zone movement: Shannon and d'Abbadie Faults, Yukon, Canada	4
Thermal control on the updip and downdip extents of megathrust earthquake rupture: revisiting Dr. Roy Hyndman's seminal contributions 30 years later	4
Constraining the lithostratigraphic architecture of a buried bedrock valley using surface electrical resistivity and seismic refraction tomography	4
Note of appreciation	4
Characteristics of the Albian Westgate Formation polygonal fault system	4
U–Pb zircon geochronology and implications of Cambrian plutonism in the Ellsworth belt, Maine	4
The Folster Lake Formation, Nunavut: remnant of a littoral to fluvio-deltaic source to the Paleoproterozoic-age Penrhyn basin	4
The mid-Cretaceous Peninsular Ranges orogeny: a new slant on Cordilleran tectonics? III: the orogenic foredeep	4
An experimental baseline for ice-till strain indicators	4
A revised coastal sensitivity index for Canada’s marine coasts calculated using nonparametric statistics	4
Mandibular force profiles and tooth morphology in growth series of Albertosaurus sarcophagus and Gorgosaurus libratus (Tyrannosauridae: Albertosaurinae) provide evidence for an ontogenet	4
A review of paleomagnetic studies from Northern Alaska and Yukon: implications for terrane reconstructions	4
The volcanic architecture and tectono-magmatic framework of the Mount Grace carbonatites, southeastern Canadian Cordillera	4

Coseismic Coulomb stress changes on intraplate faults in the western Quebec seismic zone following three major earthquakes in the past century	4
Exploring the Moho beneath the Northern Canadian Cordillera, with seismically constrained gravity inversion	4
Multi-criteria assessment approach of slow-moving urban landslide hazard: the case of Moulay Yacoub, Morocco	4
Geodynamic studies of southwestern Canada: subduction zone processes and backarc mantle dynamics	4
Nd isotope mapping of the Frontenac Terrane in southwestern Grenville Province	3
The lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary and lithosphere replacement as informed by mantle xenoliths and their host lavas	3
Effect of Lithospheric Thickness and Radial Mantle Viscosity Profile on Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Crustal Motions in North America	3
Reinterpretation of a major terrane boundary in the northern Svalbard Caledonides based on metamorphic fingerprinting of rocks in northern Spitsbergen	3
Calibrating geologic strata, dinosaurs, and other fossils at Dinosaur Provincial Park (Alberta, Canada) using a new CA-ID-TIMS U–Pb geochronology	3
Net evolution of subglacial sediment transport in the Quebec–Labrador sector of the Laurentide Ice Sheet	3
Multiple forms of bioimmuration in a coral–crinoid–bryozoan association from the Middle Devonian Onondaga Formation of southeastern Ontario	3
An investigation of subaqueous failures triggered by the 1935 CE M_w 6.1 Témiscaming earthquake, Quebec, Canada, as an analogue for a paleoseismic study	3
New age constraints on magmatism and metamorphism in the Morin terrane (Grenville Province, Quebec)	3
Cratonal tidal deposits of the Paleoproterozoic Mesnard Quartzite, Lake Superior region: interpretation challenges	3
The first Otodus megalodon remains from Canada and their predicted range limit	3
Sulphide petrology and ore genesis of the stratabound Sheep Creek sediment-hosted Zn–Pb–Ag–Sn prospect, and U–Pb zircon constraints on the timing of magmatism in the northern Alaska Range	3
Detrital geochronology of the Cunningham Lake formation: an overlap succession linking Cache Creek terrane to Stikinia at ∼205 Ma	3
Structural evolution and U-Pb geochronology of the metasedimentary Nemiscau subprovince, Canada: implications for Archean tectonics in the Superior Province	3
U–Pb zircon geochronology and geochemistry of the Jurassic magmatic rocks from the region of Cananea and Nacozari, northeastern Sonora, Mexico: timing and composition of the southernmost edge of the J	3
Geology of the Mesoproterozoic Pillar Lake Volcanics and Inspiration Sill, Armstrong, Ontario: evidence of early Midcontinent Rift magmatism in the northwestern Nipigon Embayment	3
New constraints on the timing and nature of metamorphism in the eastern Meguma terrane, Nova Scotia, Canada	3
A FRAMEWORK FOR ROCK PROPERTY DATA ACQUISITION, VISUALIZATION AND ANALYSIS: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE BATHURST MINING CAMP, NORTHERN NEW BRUNSWICK	3
Constraining the age and depositional framework of the late Paleoproterozoic to early Mesoproterozoic Muskwa Assemblage, northern British Columbia	3
Late Quaternary changes in sediment sources in the Labrador Sea	3
Laser ablation ICP–MS trace element composition of native gold from the Abitibi greenstone belt, Timmins, Ontario	3
NOTE OF APPRECIATION	3