OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of the Geological Society 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Using U–Pb carbonate dating to constrain the timing of extension and fault reactivation within the Bristol Channel Basin, SW England	80
Geology, geochemistry and zircon SHRIMP U–Pb geochronology of Mesoarchean high-Mg granitoids: constraints on petrogenesis, emplacement timing and deformation of the Água Limpa suite in the Carajás Pro	60
Exhumation of the crustal-scale Gaoligong strike-slip shear belt in SE Asia	56
Age and provenance of the Middle Jurassic Norphlet Formation of south Texas: stratigraphic relationship to the Louann Salt and regional significance	35
Palaeomagnetic investigations across Hinlopenstretet border zone: from Caledonian metamorphosed rocks of Ny Friesland to foreland facies of Nordaustlandet (NE Svalbard)	34
Earth's earliest forest: fossilized trees and vegetation-induced sedimentary structures from the Middle Devonian (Eifelian) Hangman Sandstone Formation, Somerset and Devon, SW England	32
Early Neoproterozoic (Tonian) subduction-related magmatism and tectonothermal activity in Shetland and northern mainland Scotland: implications for the tectonic evolution of NE Laurentia and Rodinia r	22
How do tectonics influence the initiation and evolution of submarine canyons? A case study from the Otway Basin, SE Australia	20
Two-phase intracontinental deformation mode in the context of India–Eurasia collision: insights from a structural analysis of the West Kunlun–Southern Junggar transect along the NW margin of the Tibet	19
Marine eutrophication within the Tarim Platform in sync with Middle to Late Ordovician climatic cooling	18
⁴⁰ Ar/ ³⁹ Ar eruption ages of Turkana Basin tuffs: millennial-scale resolution constrains palaeoclimate proxy tuning models and hominin fossil	17
Forensic geology and gold traceability: a case study from the Yanomami Indigenous Land	16
New onshore insights into the role of structural inheritance during Mesozoic opening of the Inner Moray Firth Basin, Scotland	15
Meteorites that produce K-feldspar-rich ejecta blankets correspond to mass extinctions	15
Granitoids record the final assembly of the China–Mongolia block	14
Palaeoproterozoic intrusive and sedimentary rocks of the Sidi Ifni Inlier (Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco) and their correlatives in West Africa-Amazonia	14
Multiple stages of continental rifting in Eastern Peninsular Malaysia: new insights from Jurassic–Cretaceous granitoids	13
Reassessing the timing of high-strain deformation in the Strangways Metamorphic Complex, Central Australia, by in situ mica Rb–Sr and titanite U–Pb geochronology	13
A conceptual geological model for offshore wind sites in former ice stream settings: the Utsira Nord site, North Sea	13
Discoidal carbonaceous compressions from the early Mesoproterozoic Gaoyuzhuang Formation: a fossil example of microbial biofilm	13
Jurassic tectonics of northeastern Gondwana: evidence from the detrital zircon record of the Nambour Basin	13
The Life of Mary Anning, Fossil Collector of Lyme Regis: a Contemporary Biographical Memoir by George Roberts	13
The Ouarzazate Supergroup and its plutonic keel: the relicts of an Ediacaran silicic large igneous province in North Africa	12
Early Neoproterozoic magmatism and Caledonian metamorphism recorded by the Mårma terrane, Seve Nappe Complex, northern Swedish Caledonides	12
Early Cretaceous ocean-island basalt-type magmatism in northern Guangdong: implications for lithospheric thinning in the South China Block	12

Igneous layering and magma dynamics in alkaline intrusions: textural evidence for gravitational settling and compaction within cumulates	11
Age, duration and spatial distribution of ocean shields and rejuvenated volcanism: Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, Eastern Canaries	11
Where and when the Palaeo-Asian Ocean was closed: new evidence from the Tuquan ophiolite	11
High-precision U–Pb geochronology of the Lundy igneous complex: implications for North Atlantic volcanism and the far-field Paleocene–Eocene ash record	11
Multiproxy sediment provenance analysis of two megafans in the Owambo Basin, northern Namibia	11
Improving quantitative ventifact analysis for climate investigations using the Dyngjusandur sandsheet in Iceland as a planetary analogue	11
Dolomitization process of oolites in the Lower Triassic Feixianguan Formation, Northeastern Sichuan Basin: Evidence from magnesium isotopes	11
Aeromagnetic data reveals buried Quaternary drainage patterns in the Gulf of St Lawrence (Canada)	11
Paleogene drainage system evolution in the NE Faroe–Shetland Basin	10
Mars as a time machine to Precambrian Earth	10
The making of Mt Everest: channel flow and low-angle normal faults in the compressional Himalayan orogen	10
Jurassic–Cretaceous arc magmatism along the Shyok–Bangong Suture of NW Himalaya: formation of the peri-Gondwana basement to the Ladakh Arc	10
Indicative meanings of geological sea-level indicators in the Solent region and Sussex coast (south coast of England) and implications for uplift rates	10
Ordovician tectonics and crustal evolution at the Gondwana margin (Central Iberian Zone)	10
U–Pb age constraints on the protolith, cooling and exhumation of a Variscan middle crust migmatite complex from the Central Iberian Zone: insights into the Variscan metamorphic evolution and Ediacaran	10
Enhanced chemical weathering of the continents promoted fast Late Cretaceous nearshore glaucony formation: implications from the Danubian Cretaceous Group, Germany	10
Modelling sulfate concentrations in the global ocean through Phanerozoic time	10
Post-Collisional Magmatism and Crust-Mantle Interaction during Gondwana Assembly: Insights from the Araçuaí Orogen, Southeastern Brazil	9
3D structure and genesis of synrift uplift within the Baiyun Sag, northern South China Sea	9
Timing and tectonic setting of sediment-hosted Pb–Zn mineralization in Palaeoproterozoic northern Australia: a review and comparison with Mississippi Valley- and Irish-type deposits	9
Transpressional inversion and fold superimposition in the southern Eastern Desert of Egypt, East African Orogenic Belt	9
Long runout distance of a block breccia density flow along a half-graben axis: latest Jurassic rift climax in East Greenland	9
Palaeoenvironment and taphonomy of the Hypsilophodon Bed, Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation, Isle of Wight	8
In situ garnet Lu–Hf geochronology and constraints on metamorphism in the northernmost Norwegian Caledonides	8
Interaction of surface processes and crustal flow in the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis	8
A salty snapshot: extreme variations in basal erosion patterns preserved in a submarine channel	8
A detective duo of apatite and zircon geochronology for East Avalonia, Johnston Complex, Wales	8
Direct dating of deposition and rift-related alteration of fossil-barren red bed units in the North Sea	8
Multiple carbon isotope excursions during the Carnian (Late Triassic) pluvial event: implications for global and regional perturbation	8
Recognition and characterization of small-scale sand injectites in seismic data: implications for reservoir development	8
Correlation and stratigraphic implications of the lowermost Cambrian small shelly fossils from new sites of South China	8
Katian volcanism in Central Armorican Domain (France) and Central Iberian Zone (Portugal): a single monogenetic basaltic field?	8
Timescales of Barrovian metamorphism, ductile deformation, and near-isothermal decompression in the Lhagoi Kangri gneiss dome, south-central Tibet	7
Hf isotopes in detrital zircon grains of the Sierra Albarrana Domain (SW Iberian Massif): Eburnean v. Archean basement signatures	7
Sulfur isotope fractionation derived from reaction-transport modelling in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific	7
A thermal event in the Dolpo region (Nepal): a consequence of the shift from orogen perpendicular to orogen parallel extension in central Himalaya?	7
Revisiting Ediacaran to early Cambrian depositional history of western North China: did it remain passive until the mid-Paleozoic?	7
Tracing Pb from Nolans Bore thorianite through Alice Springs thorite to radiogenic galena: EPMA and LA-ICP-MS study of time and space	7
Recognizing different types of ocean plate stratigraphy in the southeastern South Qilian Accretionary Belt, northeastern Tibet Plateau	7
Transcrustal magmatic systems: evidence from andesites of the southern Taupo Volcanic Zone	7
Late Eocene Lu–Hf ages on Carayaca (Puerto Cabello) eclogites: reconstructing the history of the central Cordillera de la Costa, northern central Venezuela	7
Global volcano monitoring through the Normalized Hotspot Indices (NHI) system	7
We don't know when plate tectonics began	7
A gradual Proterozoic transition from an unstable stagnant lid to the modern plate tectonic system	7
U−Pb geochronology and microstructural analysis of apatite within a Proterozoic crustal-scale shear zone, Outer Hebrides, NW Scotland	7
Mid-Ordovician stratigraphy and volcanism in the Hølonda area, Scandinavian Caledonides: complex tectonomagmatic development following arc–continent collision near the Laurentian margin of Iapetus	6
Structural and geomorphological constraints on the activity of the Sparta Fault (Greece)	6
Different effects of serpentinite-derived and slab-derived fluids on arc magmatism in the Chinese Eastern Tianshan: evidence from Mg–B isotopic systematics	6
New biostratigraphic data and U–Pb geochronology for the Middle Permian to Triassic succession of the South Qiangtang Block, Xizang	6
Significance of c . 1 Ga granites from the South Delhi Fold Belt, NW India: implications for palaeogeographical reconstructions of Rodinia	6

Pedostratigraphic age model for Devonian red beds of NW China	6
On the anatomy and structural control of a dyke swarm that fed caldera-forming ignimbrite eruptions	6
Architectural modelling of the fractal-like Ediacaran rangeomorph C harnia masoni	6
Jurassic tectonic regime transition of the southwestern Yangtze block, SW China: evidence from sedimentary provenance analysis	6
A Quaternary carbonate contourite drift system on the Eyre Terrace, Great Australian Bight: implications for the origin of prograding shelf-edge–upper slope clinoforms, southern Australian passive mar	6
The early evolution of the Neotethys in the eastern Mediterranean area: implication of new evidence from the Levant basin and margin	6
Is the Ibero-Armorican Arc primary or secondary? An analysis of the contraction required to form it by rotation around a vertical axis	5
Geometric morphometric analysis of Idiognathodus species across the Atokan–Desmoinesian boundary in north-central New Mexico, USA	5
Mineral chemistry and melt evolution of the mantle wedge peridotites in the Late Cretaceous Zagros Belt ophiolites (Iran): clues for the subduction initiation-induced forearc magmatism	5
Emplacement and landscape controls on ancient submarine volcanism: 3D seismic geomorphological analysis of Cretaceous volcanic activity in the Browse Basin, Australian North West Shelf	5
The Charnwood Terrane revisited: an integrated petrogenetic and petrophysical model for crustal structure in southern Britain	5
Synchronous Cretaceous magmatism and migmatization in the Lohit and Dibang valleys, easternmost Himalaya	5
Paleozoic sedimentation and Caledonian terrane architecture in NW Svalbard: indications from U–Pb geochronology and structural analysis	5
The impact of faulting-induced uplift and subsidence on terrace formation and abandonment: a case study of the Huangshui River, NE Tibetan Plateau	5
Metamorphosed mélange in the eastern Himalayan syntaxis: constraint for the India–Asia collision in the Eocene	5
Pleistocene deformation of the Malargüe fold–thrust belt from structural modelling and geochronology of syntectonic sedimentation	5
Monitoring CO ₂ , CO and CH ₄ , affected or not by ventilation and anthropogenic activities, in the galleries of the Underground R	5
Conjugate extrusion with dextral oblique-slip faulting in SE Tibet: new insights into Oligo-Miocene deformation	5
Drainage response to superimposed deformation of the Weiyuan anticline in the southwestern Sichuan Basin, China	5
Significance of the Paleocene olistostrome–turbidite belt (Abant Formation) along the Intra-Pontide Suture, northern Turkey	5
The illite and organic matter archive of the Late Paleozoic–Mesozoic tectonothermal evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula	5
An integrated convolutional neural network prediction framework for in situ shale oil content based on conventional logging data	5
Thermal history of the southern Antarctic Peninsula during Cenozoic oblique subduction	5
Surface rupture history and 18 kyr long slip rate along the Pazarcık segment of the East Anatolian Fault	5
Morphometric analysis and taxonomy of the Idiognathodus sagittalis Kozitskaya, 1978 group and the I . swadei–I	5
Latest Oligocene adakitic rocks in western Iran: implications for early crustal thickening and tectonic evolution of the Iran Block	5
Vast sediment dispersal in an inland sea: detrital zircon geochronology of the lower Cambrian Mickwitzia Sandstone (southern Sweden) indicates a Timanian source	5
Under-thrusting of continental lithospheric mantle controls the architecture of crustal deformation: numerical modelling of the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau	5
Fluid inclusion and stable isotope fingerprints of the Paraná emerald deposit, Borborema Province, northeastern Brazil: implications for a tectonic–magmatic origin	5
Palmatolepis gracilis expansa Zone and Bispathodus aculeatus aculeatus Zone conodonts from the Three Lick Bed at the type locality, Ohio Shale, Upper	5
LPIA palaeo-fjords: new insights from northern Namibia	5
Reassessing Gondwana Rifting During the early Creataceous: Biostratigraphic and Tectonic Implications of the Abaiara Formation, Araripe Basin, Northeastern Brazil	4
The Gogo Formation Lagerstätte: a view of Australia's first great barrier reef	4
Lithofacies and depositional model of organic-rich lacustrine mudstone: a case study of the second member of the Eocene Liushagang Formation in the Weixinan Sag, Beibuwan Basin, China	4
First identification of late Mesozoic intraplate magmatism in the Chinese north Tianshan: implications for the orogenic architecture and crustal evolution	4
On the Statherian–Calymmian palaeogeography of northwestern Laurentia	4
Editorial	4
Structural evolution of the reactivated Møre–Trøndelag Fault Complex, Fosen Peninsula, Norway	4
U–Pb ages from felsic rocks of the External Ligurian sedimentary mélange (Northern Apennine, Italy): tracing the pre-Jurassic history of the hyperextended Adria continental margin	4
The High Arctic Large Igneous Province: first seismic-stratigraphic evidence for multiple Mesozoic volcanic pulses on the Lomonosov Ridge, central Arctic Ocean	4
In situ laser ablation Lu–Hf geochronology of garnet across the Western Gneiss Region: campaign-style dating of metamorphism	4
A prototype Mars regolith simulant (P_TO_MARS-1) exploiting the geology of the Piedmont region (NW Italy)	4
Unravelling the complex record of magma flow and solidification in sills	4
Tectonic evolution of the Alxa region, NW China: from a Precambrian continental ribbon to a Paleozoic–early Triassic accretionary orogen	4
Open–closed–open palaeofluid system conditions recorded in the tectonic vein networks of the Parmelan anticline (Bornes Massif, France)	4
Th–U–Pb dating of euhedral monazites in radiolarian-bearing deposits: implication for the tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the Meliatic mélange in the Western Carpathians	4
Anatomy of a 300 Myr old fjord in Namibia	4
Reply to discussion on ‘Acheulian and Tephra from Upland Western Maharashtra, (Deccan Volcanic Province), Peninsular India', by Deo et al. 2021 ( SP	4
New holozoans with cellular resolution from the early Ediacaran Weng'an Biota, SW China	4
Constraining the relative positions of island arc terranes in the Canadian Cordillera using conodont oxygen isotope thermometry	4
Origin and tectono-metamorphic history of the Riffelberg-Garten meta-sedimentary ophiolitic unit, Western Alps	4
Chemostratigraphy of the extrusive sequence of a Late Cretaceous Neotethyan ophiolite in southern Iran and its significance for the mode and tempo of subduction initiation magmatism and melt evolution	4
Intracontinental deformation around the fixed tip of the continental-scale, strike-slip Tan–Lu fault zone in eastern China	4
Fold-and-thrust belts and associated basins: a perspective on their structure, sedimentation, and dynamics	4
The journey of the Band-e-Zeyarat ophiolite (Makran Accretionary Wedge, SE Iran) from the mid-ocean ridge to the accretionary complex: new insights from its sedimentary cover and associated basaltic d	4
Record of Late Oligocene silicic volcanism in the Hrvatsko Zagorje Basin, Croatia: insights from U–Pb zircon geochronology and volcanology	4
Neotectonics on the Namuncurá (Burdwood) Bank: unveiling seafloor strike-slip processes along the North Scotia Ridge	4
Is plate tectonics a post-Archean phenomenon? A petrological perspective	4
Early Paleozoic ductile deformation of the South China Block: the polyphase shear zones in the eastern Jiangnan belt	4
Marine redox dynamics and biotic response to the mid-Silurian Ireviken Extinction Event in a mid-shelf setting	4
Organic matter enrichment and palaeo-sedimentary environment reconstruction of lacustrine shale in the second member of the Middle Jurassic Qiketai Formation in the Shengbei Sub-sag, Turpan–Hami Basin	4