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Papers

(The median citation count of Geological Magazine is 2. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Long duration ∼600–500 Ma high-T metamorphism ended with early Ordovician rapid intermediate-T cooling and stabilization of Sri Lanka in central Gondwana	25
Cenozoic evolution of the Tripolitza carbonate platform in the Tethyan realm: new age constraints on deposition, diagenesis, metamorphism and nappe emplacement based on U-Pb and Rb-Sr dating (External	21
The genesis of calcite and dolomite carbonatite-forming magma by liquid immiscibility: a critical appraisal	21
Geochemistry and Sr–Nd isotopic characteristics of ferroan-magnesian metaluminous granites of the NW Sanandaj–Sirjan zone, Iran: granite formation in a compressional–extensional setting during Late Ju	21
Petrogenesis of Early Cretaceous adakites from the Liaodong Peninsula: insight into the lithospheric thinning of the North China Craton	21
Submarine volcanic activity and giant amygdale formation along the Panama island arc as a precursor to 6000-year-old agate exploitation on Pedro González Island	20
Fractures in the Niagara Escarpment in Ontario, Canada: distribution, connectivity, and geohazard implications	19
Petrogenesis and tectonic implications of the Early Carboniferous shoshonitic to calc-alkaline magmatic rocks of the southern Yili terrane, western Tianshan	18
⁴⁰Ar–³⁹Ar geochronology and palaeostress analysis using lamprophyre dikes and quartz veins in the Sizhuang gold deposit: new implications for Early Cretaceous stress regime in th	18
Mesozoic exhumation of the Jueluotage area, Eastern Tianshan, NW China: constraints from (U–Th)/He and fission-track thermochronology	17
Early Devonian (Lochkovian) eurypterids from the Yunnan province of southwest China	17
Pre-folding fracturing in a foredeep environment: insights from the Carseolani Mountains (central Apennines, Italy)	16
Stratigraphy and faunas of the Durness Group (Cambrian–Middle Ordovician) of Northwest Scotland: constraints on tectonic models and the development of the Great American Carbonate Bank	15
Hydrothermal injection breccia with organic carbon and nitrogen in the fossil hydrothermal system of Harghita Bãi, East Carpathians, Romania: an example of magmatic and non-magmatic element mobility i	14
Structure of the Assynt window, Moine Thrust Zone and relationship of thrusts to alkaline igneous complexes, Caledonian orogeny, NW Scotland	14
What continued after the mass extinction: insights from carbonate microfacies and biological evolution around the Permian–Triassic boundary in the middle Upper Yangtze Platform, SW China	14
Superposed fracture networks	14
Role of fluids on deformation in mid-crustal shear zones, Raft River Mountains, Utah	13
Geochemistry of upper Palaeozoic ‘thin-layer’ limestones in the southern North China Craton: implications for closure of the northeastern Palaeotethys Ocean	13
Mantle transition zone-derived eclogite xenolith entrained in a diamondiferous Mesoproterozoic (∼1.1 Ga) kimberlite from the Eastern Dharwar Craton, India: evidence from a coesite, K-omphacite, and ma	13
Zircon-monazite geochronology, petrogenesis and deformation of the Gyangarh-Anjana monzogranites (Aravalli Craton): records of two Proterozoic orogenic events in Northwestern India	13
GEO volume 159 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	13
Petrogenesis and tectonic implications of the early Mesozoic granitoids in the northern Alxa region, Central Asian Orogenic Belt	12
Mafic to felsic dyke swarms in coastal Guangdong, China: geochemical and geochronological constraints on the latest Mesozoic geodynamics on the southern margin of the South China Block	12
Petrology of Palaeoarchaean mafic–ultramafic rock suites of the western Iron Ore Group, Singhbhum Craton, eastern India, using the chemistry of minerals	12

Tracing wedge-internal deformation by means of strontium isotope systematics of vein carbonates	12
U–Pb geochronology of Upper Triassic – Lower Jurassic detrital sequences from SE margin of the South China Block: implications for Palaeo-Pacific subduction and tectonic evolution	11
Late Permian to early Triassic gabbro in North Lhasa, Tibet: evidence for plume - subduction-zone interaction of the Palaeo-Tethys ocean – RETRACTION	11
GEO volume 159 issue 8 Cover and Back matter	11
New insight into the tectonic setting of fault-bounded Indian Gondwana coal basins from U–Pb detrital zircon provenance ages of the Bokaro and Jharia basins, central east India	11
Nature of the Shyok (Northern) Suture Zone between India and Asia: petrology, geochemistry and origin of the Tirit granitoids and associated dykes (Nubra Valley Ladakh Himalaya, NW India)	10
Grain-size-reducing- and mass-gaining processes in different hydrothermal fault rocks	10
Reconstructing sedimentary processes in a Permian channel–lobe transition zone: an outcrop study in the Karoo Basin, South Africa	10
First confident evidence of moulting in eodiscid trilobites from the Cambrian Stage 3 of South China	10
A new species of the Ordovician horseshoe crab Lunataspis	10
A new, remarkably preserved, enantiornithine bird from the Upper Cretaceous Qiupa Formation of Henan (central China) and convergent evolution between enantiornithines and modern birds	10
Reactive and resilient: the contrasting behaviour of monazite and titanite during deformation (the Forno-Rosarolo shear zone; Ivrea-Verbano Zone)	10
Petrogenesis of a nepheline syenite from parts of the Chotanagpur Granite Gneissic Complex: implications for Neoproterozoic crustal extension in the East Indian Shield	9
GEO volume 159 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	9
Geochemical characteristic of the Lutetian black shale (Bayburt, NE-Turkey): amount, nature, origin of organic matter and palaeo-environment conditions	9
A revised chemical weathering and sediment provenance history for the Late Miocene to recent Laxmi Basin, Arabian Sea	9
GEO volume 159 issue 7 Cover and Front matter	9
Clastic sedimentary record impacted by carbonate bioclasts in the Late Ediacaran	9
A new small soft-bodied non-trilobite artiopod from the Cambrian Stage 4 Guanshan Biota	9
Repeated brittle reactivations of a pre-existing plastic shear zone: combined K–Ar and ⁴⁰Ar–³⁹Ar geochronology of the long-lived (>700 Ma) Himdalen–Ørje Deformation Zone, SE N	8
Emplacement conditions and exhumation of the Varvarco Tonalite and associated plutons from the Cordillera del Viento, Southern Central Andes	8
GEO volume 158 issue 12 Cover and Back matter	8
GEO volume 160 issue 10 Cover and Front matter	8
Sb–Au-bearing chalcedonies in hot geothermal systems: insights from the jasperoids of Poggio Peloso (southern Tuscany, Italy)	8
Garnet chemical zoning: a clue for the tectono-metamorphic history of the Proterozoic Mayombe chain (West Congo Belt), Congo-Brazzaville	8
GEO volume 159 issue 11-12 Cover and Front matter	8
Revisiting the Phanerozoic rock–diversity relationship	8
Cambrian and earliest Ordovician fauna and geology of the Sông Đà and adjacent terranes in Việt Nam (Vietnam)	7
Nd–Sr–Pb isotopes systematics of the Jurassic Evros ophiolite, eastern Circum-Rhodope Belt, NE Greece	7
GEO volume 160 issue 9 Cover and Back matter	7
Geochemistry of the Laiyang Group from outcrops and Lingke-1 core on Lingshan Island, Shandong Province, Eastern China: implications for provenance, tectonic setting and palaeo-environment	7
The identity and significance of the high-latitude Early Ordovician Mediterranean brachiopod Province	7
The physical volcanology of large-scale effusive and explosive silicic eruptions in southeastern Saurashtra, Deccan Traps	7
Zinc, sulfur and cadmium isotopes and Zn/Cd ratios as indicators of the origin of the supergiant Broken Hill Pb–Zn–Ag deposit and other Broken Hill-type deposits, New South Wales, Australia	7
Magnetic shape fabric analysis from syntectonic granites: a study based on the eigenvalue method	7
Microvertebrates from the Rhaetian bone beds at Blue Anchor Bay, Somerset	7
GEO volume 159 issue 6 Cover and Back matter	7
Establishing the occurrence of late Neoarchaean – earliest Palaeoproterozoic magmatism in the Daqingshan area, northwestern North China Craton: SIMS U–Pb zircon dating, Lu–Hf and Sm–Nd isotopes and wh	6
Understanding pre- and syn-orogenic tectonic evolution in western Himalaya through age and petrogenesis of Palaeozoic and Cenozoic granites from upper structural levels of Bhagirathi Valley, NW India	6
Life and land engulfed in the late Early Jurassic Karoo lavas of southern Gondwana	6
Early biomineralization and exceptional preservation of the first thrombolite reefs with archaeocyaths in the lower Cambrian of the western Anti-Atlas, Morocco	6
Sinuous stromatolites of the Chandi Formation, Chattisgarh Basin, India: their origin and implications for Mesoproterozoic seawater	6
Subducted oceanic slab break-off in a post-collisional setting: Constraints from petrogenesis of Late Carboniferous dykes in central West Junggar, Xinjiang, NW China	6
Zircon geochronology and Hf isotopic study from the Leo Pargil Dome, India: implications for the palaeogeographic reconstruction and tectonic evolution of a Himalayan gneiss dome	6
Planktonic foraminifera document palaeoceanographic changes across the middle Cenomanian carbon-isotope excursion MCE 1: new evidence from the UK chalk	6
Formation of ultrapotassic magma via crustal contamination and hybridization of mafic magma: an example from the Stomanovo monzonite, Central Rhodope Massif, Bulgaria	6
GEO volume 160 issue 6 Cover and Back matter	6
Linking the impact of seismicity on palaeogeographic evolution and sedimentary architecture: A case study from Middle Jurassic succession of Spiti Himalaya	6
Continuous versus punctuated vein widening in the Marcellus Formation, USA: the fine line between pressure fringes and hydraulic fractures	6
Granitic magmatism associated with gold mineralization: evidence from the Baizhangzi gold deposit, in the northern North China Craton	6

Geochemistry and new zircon U–Pb geochronology of Mesoproterozoic Punugodu granite pluton, SE India: implications for anorogenic magmatism along the western margin of Nellore Schist Belt, India	5
“Geochronology and geochemistry of pelitic granulite from the South Delhi Terrane of the Aravalli Delhi Mobile Belt, NW India: implications for petrogenesis and geodynamic model”	5
GEO volume 160 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	5
Fractures, fluid flow and inherited structures in geothermal systems: inputs from the Fe-ore deposits of eastern Elba Island (Northern Apennines, Italy)	5
GEO volume 160 issue 9 Cover and Front matter	5
Decoupling between Nd-Hf isotopic evolution of Permian to Triassic granitoids and crustal thickness variation in the westernmost Mongol-Okhotsk Orogen	5
Detrital zircon geochronology of the Permian Lower Shihezi Formation, northern Ordos Basin, China: time constraints for closing of the Palaeo-Asian Ocean	5
Triassic trachytic volcanism in the Bangong–Nujiang Ocean: geochemical and geochronological constraints on a continental rifting event	5
GEO volume 159 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	5
Discussion of ‘Reply to “Uppermost Cambrian carbon chemostratigraphy: the HERB and undocumented TOCE events are not synonymous”’	5
Hydroclimatic conditions and sediment provenance in the northeastern Arabian Sea since the late Miocene: insights from geochemical and environmental magnetic records at IODP Site U1457 of the Laxmi Ba	5
GEO volume 159 issue 6 Cover and Front matter	5
GEO volume 160 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	5
Late Silurian event stratigraphy and facies of South Wales and the Welsh Borderland, United Kingdom	5
The influence of palaeogeography and tectonic events on trilobite distributions in Morocco and northwestern Algeria	5
Rapid exhumation of young granites in an extensional domain: the example of the Giglio Island pluton (Tuscany)	5
GEO volume 158 issue 10 Cover and Back matter	5
Ordovician matground and mixground ecosystems in shoreface–offshore and barrier-island environments from Central Iran, northern Gondwana	5
GEO volume 160 issue 6 Cover and Front matter	4
Geochemical constraints on the petrogenesis of mafic rocks (metadolerites) from the Proterozoic Shillong Basin, Northeast India: implications for growth of the Greater Indian Landmass	4
The onset of Neo-Tethys subduction in the Early Jurassic: evidence from the eclogites of the North Shahrekord Metamorphic Complex (Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone, W Iran)	4
The megathermal ant genus Gesomyrmex (Formicidae: Formicinae), palaeoindicator of wide latitudinal biome homogeneity during the PETM	4
High-pressure metamorphism of Precambrian continental crust in the southwestern part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (South Kazakhstan and North Tien Shan) and tectonic implications for the evoluti	4
The propagation paths of fluid-driven fractures in layered and faulted rocks	4
GEO volume 158 issue 9 Cover and Back matter	4
The latest encrinurid trilobites from the Lower Devonian of Xinjiang, Northwest China	4
Silurian inverted Barrovian-type metamorphism in the Western Sierras Pampeanas (Argentina): a case of top to bottom heating?	4
Climate-controlled organic matter accumulation as recorded in the Upper Jurassic Argiles de Châtillon Formation, a shallow-marine counterpart of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation	4
Petrogenesis and metallogenesis of the Qieganbulake carbonatite-related phosphate deposit associated with the mafic–ultramafic–carbonatite complex in the Kuluketage block, northeastern Tarim Craton	4
A stable isotope (S, C and O) study of metamorphosed polymetallic sulphide deposits in the Bergslagen district, Sweden: The Stollberg example	4
GEO volume 160 issue 12 Cover and Front matter	4
Timing of shear deformation in the Singhbhum Shear Zone, India: implications for shear zone-hosted polymetallic mineralization	4
Death by ammonite: fatal ingestion of an ammonoid shell by an Early Jurassic bony fish	4
Enigma variations: characteristics and likely origin of the problematic surface textureArumberia, as recognized from an exceptional bedding plane exposure and the global record	4
Geology and microstructural evolution of syn- to late-tectonic granitoids from Capo Vaticano Promontory (southern Calabria, Italy)	4
Detrital U-Pb ages for the first well-preserved vascular plant Cooksonia from the UK and Irish macrofossil record.	4
GEO volume 159 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	4
The effect of parent rocks on river sediment composition and implication for regional tectono-magmatic events: a case from two tributaries of the Songhua River, NE China	4
Zircon U-Pb chronology, geochemistry and geological significance of the Tongjiang-Fuyuan Mesozoic magmatic rocks, NE China	4
The oldest-known Lestidae (Odonata) from the late Eocene of Tibet: palaeoclimatic implications	4
Geochemistry, U-Pb geochronology and Nd-Hf isotopes of leucocratic dykes in the Cape Spencer area, southern New Brunswick, Canada: insights into the Alleghanian orogeny in the northern Appalachians	4
Winter weathering of fractured sedimentary rocks in a temperate climate: observation of freeze–thaw and thermal processes on the Niagara Escarpment, Hamilton, Ontario	4
Petrogenesis and tectonic implications of Hongliutan Precambrian metamorphic rocks in the Tashikuergan-Tianshuihai Terrane, Northwest Tibet, China: insights from geochemical and geochronological studi	4
High primary productivity in an Ediacaran shallow marine basin influenced by strong seasonal to perennial upwelling	4
Mineral chemistry and thermobarometry of Jurassic arc granitoids: implications for petrotectonic and unroofing history of the southern Colombian Andes	4
Origin, tectonic environment and age of the Bibole banded iron formations, northwestern Congo Craton, Cameroon: geochemical and geochronological constraints	4
The 1126 Ma volcanic event in the Dechang Area, SW Yangtze Block, and its significance	3
GEO volume 159 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	3
The prevalence of invertebrate bioerosion on Mesozoic marine reptile bone from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of the United Kingdom: new data and implications for taphonomy and environment	3
Rus detachment in Dammam Dome, Eastern Saudi Arabia: a new soft-sediment structure as a ‘sensitive stress sensor’ for the Zagros collision	3
Geochemistry, zircon U–Pb geochronology and Hf isotope of the early Permian gabbro and high-Mg diorites from the Zhusileng–Hangwula Belt in the northern Alxa area: Petrogenesis and tectonic implicatio	3
Mineralogy controls fracture containment in mechanically layered carbonates	3
Reconstruction of cyclic Mesozoic–Cenozoic stress development in SE Germany using fault-slip and stylolite inversion	3
Revisiting the phosphorite deposit of Fontanarejo (central Spain): new window into the early Cambrian evolution of sponges and the microbial origin of phosphorites	3
Scale discrepancy paradox between observation and modelling in fractured reservoir models in oil and gas industry	3
Palaeopteridium andrenelii sp. nov., a new noeggerathialean species from the Middle Pennsylvanian of Portugal with new insights on the Noeggerathiales	3
Fluid evolution and ore genesis of Cu–Pb–Zn veins in the Panjiaduan deposit, Great Xing’an Range, NE China: evidence from fluid inclusion and H–O–He–Ar isotopes	3
Special issue, ‘The Ediacaran System and the Ediacaran–Cambrian Transition’: Preface	3
Late Palaeozoic tectonic evolution of the eastern Palaeo-Asian Ocean: new evidence from the early Permian arc magmatic suites in the Kulun region	3
New Cretaceous crickets of the subfamilies Nemobiinae and Podoscirtinae (Orthoptera, Grylloidea: Trigonidiidae, Oecanthidae) attest the antiquity of these clades	3
The affinity of microcontinents in northern East Gondwana in the Silurian: Hainan Island response to the closure of the Proto-Tethys Ocean	3
Effects of chemical weathering on the exceptional preservation of mineralized insects from the Crato Formation, Cretaceous of Brazil: implications for late diagenesis of fine-grained Lagerstätten	3
GEO volume 158 issue 10 Cover and Front matter	3
Mid-Neoproterozoic magmatism in the South Qilian Belt, NE Tibetan Plateau and its tectonic implications	3
GEO volume 158 issue 12 Cover and Front matter	3
Major and rare earth element mineral chemistry of low-grade assemblages inform dynamics of hydrothermal ocean-floor metamorphism in the Dinaridic Neotethys	3
Methods for determining the characteristics of weathered granite reservoirs: application to Binxian Uplift, Dongying Sag, Bohai Bay Basin	3
Zircon U–Pb–Hf snapshots on the crustal evolution of the Serbo-Macedonian massif: new insights from Ammouliani island (Northern Greece)	3
GEO volume 159 issue 9 Cover and Back matter	3
Precessional hydroclimatic synchronicity changes in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool driven by the intertropical convergence zone over the past 450 kyr	3
The Ladinian–Carnian conodont fauna at Yize, Yunnan, southwestern China, with implications for conodont palaeoecology and palaeogeography	3
Morphological variation in the rangeomorph organism Fractofusus misrai from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland, Canada	3
Fracture stratigraphy of Mesozoic platform carbonates, Agri Valley, southern Italy	2
Complementary in situ garnet Lu-Hf geochronology and monazite U(-Th)-Pb petrochronology: an example from the Archean Slave craton, Northwest Territories, Canada	2
Geochronological and geochemical constraints on the origin of highly ¹³C_carb-depleted calcite in basal Ediacaran cap carbonate	2
Characteristics and application of present in situ stress field of a strike-slip fault: a 3D finite-element simulation study	2
Contextual relationship between mechanical heterogeneity and dyking: constraints from magma emplacement dynamics of the ca. 2.21 Ga Anantapur–Kunigal mafic dyke swarm, Dharwar Craton, India	2
GEO volume 160 issue 11 Cover and Front matter	2
GEO volume 160 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	2
GEO volume 158 issue 9 Cover and Front matter	2

The final closure time of the eastern segment of the Paleo-Asian Ocean: Insights from geochronology and geochemistry of Permian-Triassic sedimentary sequence in Wangqing, Jilin Province, China	2
Joint inversion of tectonic stress and magma pressures using dyke trajectories	2
Ediacaran survivors in the Cambrian: suspicions, denials and a smoking gun	2
Decoding imprints of hydrothermal alteration around Imalia polymetallic sulphide deposit, Central Indian Tectonic Zone, and its implications on ore genesis.	2
Redescription of the cheloniellid euarthropodTriopus draboviensisfrom the Upper Ordovician of Bohemia, with comments on the affinities ofParioscorpio venator	2
Petrogenesis of contrasting magmatic suites in the Abu Kharif area, Northern Eastern Desert, Egypt: implications for Pan-African crustal evolution and tungsten mineralization	2
Structural, lithostratigraphic and thermal features of a Permian lower crust from the Western Italian Alps (Valpelline Series, Valle d’Aosta)	2
Neo-Tethyan subduction triggered Eocene–Oligocene magmatism in eastern Iran	2
Were the Newdigate Earthquakes, Southern England, of 2018–2019 triggered by oil extraction?	2
Late Ordovician fore-arc ophiolitic mélange in the southern margin of the Bainaimiao arc: constraints from zircon U–Pb–Hf isotopes and geochemical analyses	2
The Río Grío–Pancrudo Fault Zone (central Iberian Chain, Spain): recent extensional activity revealed by drainage reversal	2
GEO volume 159 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	2
Tectonics of the Indian Subcontinent by Arvind K. Jain , Dhiraj M. Banerjee , and Vivek S. Kale ; Springer Nature, Switzerland; 2020; ISBN 978-3-030-42844-0	2
High morphological disparity of neuropteran larvae during the Cretaceous revealed by a new large species	2
A review of natural hydrofractures in rocks	2
Structural styles and tectonic evolution of Mesozoic–Cenozoic faults in the Eastern Depression of Bayanhaote Basin, China: implications for petroleum traps	2
Post-depositional history of the lower Palaeocene interval using petrographic, CL and geochemical data in the East Tethys: Kopet-Dagh Basin, northeast Iran	2
Provenance of a Late Permian retroarc foreland basin along the eastern Gondwanan margin: northern Sydney Basin, eastern Australia	2
The Maz Metasedimentary Series (Western Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina). A relict basin of the Columbia supercontinent?	2
A global reference for black shale geochemistry and the T-OAE revisited: upper Pliensbachian – middle Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) chemostratigraphy in the Cleveland Basin, England	2
GEO volume 160 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	2
Late Neoarchaean tectonic environment in the Anshan-Benxi area: evidence of metamorphic supracrustal rocks	2
GEO volume 160 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	2
Preservation of Membrana Testacea in titanosaurid dinosaur eggshells from the Upper Cretaceous Deccan volcano-sedimentary strata of Central India	2
Geology Bites podcast by Oliver Strimpel	2