OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Geology Review 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
The 1800-1770 Ma Colider silicic large igneous province in the Amazonian craton: crustal evolution using zircon in situ REE compositions, U-Pb ages and Hf isotope analyses	39
A review of the main tectonic settings of Neoarchaean ore deposits and mineral occurrences in the northern São Francisco Craton, NE Brazil	36
Geochronology of a Paleoproterozoic metamorphic complex in the Shuangsheng area of Inner Mongolia: constraints on crustal evolution	17
Geology and mineral resources	16
Metasomatized mantle under the Eastern Mexican Alkaline Province: evidence from the Oligocene Rincón Murillo Gabbro, Sierra de San Carlos-Cruillas, NE México	15
Damaging earthquakes of the Eastern Indian subcontinent and seismic hazard potential: insights from palaeoseismology	14
Petrogenesis of ultramafic rocks from the Neoproterozoic Bou Azzer Ophiolite (Morocco): new insights into a long-standing geodynamic question	14
A major neoproterozoic crustal boundary in the Borborema province of ne Brazil	14
Fundamentals of Sedimentology	13
U-Pb and Ar-Ar geochronological constraints on timing of deformation and peak metamorphism in the Central Africa Orogenic Belt, Yaoundé Domain, Cameroon	13
Large Holocene paleoseismic events and synchronized travertine formation: a case study of the Kurai fault zone (Gorny Altai, Russia)	13
Triassic granites in the West Qinling Orogen, China: implications for the Early Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the Paleo-Tethys ocean	13
Lithium isotope fractionation in highly evolved granites and associated magmatic-hydrothermal process: the case of the Xintianling granites in the Nanling Range, South China	12
Two ophiolite belts in the East Kunlun Orogenic Belt record evolution from the Proto-Tethys to Paleo-Tethys Oceans	12
Late cenozoic exhumation of the Nodoushan plutonic complex constrained by low-temperature thermochronology: evidence for Arabia–Eurasia collision in the southeastern Iranian Plateau	12
Mineral potential facing socio-economic development challenges: case study of the democratic republic of Congo, a ‘geological scandal’	12
Huge sedimentary hiatus in the southern margin of the North China Craton from mid-Mesoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic	12
Volatile accumulation for the mineralization of Li–Be pegmatites in the northeastern Pamir, Western Kunlun, China	11
Late cretaceous magmatism in the Northern Lhasa subterrane, central Tibet: geodynamic implications	10
Metamorphic P-T-t path of Triassic eclogite from the Rongcheng region, eastern China: implications for the tectonic evolution of Sulu orogenic belt	10
Mesozoic tectonic transition of the northeastern North China Craton: Evidence from adakitic rocks in southeastern Jilin Province, China	10
Volcanology: processes, deposits, geology and resources	10
CORRECTION	10
Early activity of the Kerguelen Mantle plume: geochronology, geochemistry and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes of mafic dykes and sills from the Tethyan Himalaya	10
Structural and geochronological constraints on a Late Mesozoic tectonic transformation in the West Qinling Orogenic Belt, China	10

Mine wastes and water, ecological engineering and metals extraction: sustainability and circular economy	10
Geology, geochemistry, and exploration of the Central African Copperbelt: a review	10
Biomining technologies: extracting and recovering metals from ores and wastes	10
Isotope geochemistry	10
Petrogenesis of the late Tonian arc-related Um Balad gabbro-diorite complex (Egypt) and insight into its spatially related orogenic gold mineralization	9
Depositional response to the Emeishan mantle plume: evidence from the eastern Sichuan Basin, South China	9
Triassic record of Paleo-Tethyan subduction: Evidence from prograde metamorphic P–T paths of the Baqing eclogite, eastern Qiangtang, central Tibet	9
Geochronology and petrogenesis of the early Silurian Zeluo mafic-ultramafic intrusion, eastern Tibet: implications for the tectonic setting and evolution of the eastern Proto-Tethys Ocean	8
Large-volume and swift magmatic response to Late Cenozoic segmentation of the subducted Neotethyan oceanic slab: evidence from the Galatian Volcanic Province, northwestern Turkey	8
Alpine Tethys rift-related OIB-type magmatism preserved on Elba Island (Northern Apennines, Italy)	8
Age and implication of Late Ediacaran dykes in the İstanbul-Zonguldak Tectonic Unit (NW Turkey): Implications for the rifting of the Rheic Ocean	8
Provenance analysis and thermochronology of the Chivillas Formation, Mexico: a record of basin formation and inversion in the southern Sierra Madre Oriental during the Early Cretaceous–Palaeogene	8
Tempestites in the marine environment: review and perspectives	8
Mineralogy and PGE geochemistry of chromitites and peridotites of the sapat complex in the indus suture zone, northern Pakistan: implications for magmatic processes in the supra-subduction zone	8
From rifting to emplacement: Variable mantle melting preserved in the central Palawan Ophiolite peridotites, Philippines	8
Spatio-temporal distribution and geodynamic evolution of Cenozoic volcanism in northeast China: insights from a new geochronological compilation	8
Paleoseismic evolution of the central section of the Serteng Shan fault at the northern Ordos Block (North China) since the Late Pleistocene	8
Time constraint on global-scale plate reorganizations using records of continental deformation	8
Large paleoearthquakes and Holocene faulting in the Southeastern Gorny Altai: implications for ongoing crustal shortening in Central Asia	8
The dismembering of the Adria platforms following the Late Cretaceous-Eocene abortive rift: a review of the tectono-stratigraphic record in the southern Apennines	7
Using groundwater in the hyper-arid Atacama Desert to discover buried hydrothermal mineral deposits	7
Anatexis of late Neoarchean-Early Paleoproterozoic and late Paleoproterozoic garnet-bearing leucogranite from the Khondalite Belt in the North China Craton	7
Recovery of values from low‐grade and complex minerals: development of sustainable processes	7
Structural record of polyorogenic pre-Alpine and Alpine deformations within a major thrust nappe close to a suture zone (Internal-External Zones Boundary of the central Betic Cordillera, S Spain)	7
Using detrital zircon systematics to trace the sediment sources of Jurassic uranium-bearing sandstones in the western Ordos Basin, China: implications for uranium exploration in a sedimentary basin	7
The Late Cretaceous batholithic massifs of Sierra La Laguna and Sierra La Trinidad, southern Baja California, Mexico: constraints on extensional structures from geology, geochronology, and thermobarom	7
Late Permian rift-related volcanic rocks from the Zhongba Terrane, Southern Tibet: implications for the opening of the Neotethys	7
A History of geochemistry and cosmochemistry, from prehistory to the end of the classical period	7
Prograde metamorphism in the ~1.9 Ga Jiao–Liao–Ji orogenic belt of NE China Craton: implications for orogenic crustal thickening	7
Subduction-collision and rapid uplift of the NW Yangtze Block during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition: new evidence from the shoshonite series	7
Emplacement history of the Central Anatolian Ophiolites: insights from the Felahiye Ophiolite in Central Türkiye	7
Paleoproterozoic thick-skinned tectonics in the Central Indian Tectonic Zone: implications on the tectonic reconstructions of cratonic nuclei	7
Early Paleozoic tectonic evolution in the central Vietnam: evidence from geochronological and geochemical constraints	7
Tectonic transition during the Jurassic-Cretaceous in the Jiaodong Peninsula, North China: insights from asynchronous adakitic and A-type granitic plutons	7
Geochronology and geochemistry of Early Cretaceous volcanic sequences in Northwestern Peru: implications for Farallon Plate subduction	7
A hidden Oligocene pluton linked to the Periadriatic Fault System beneath the Permian Bressanone pluton, eastern Southern Alps	7
Early Miocene magmatism in the Western Cordillera of Colombia: implications for magma source and evolution	6
Modelling a foreland fold-and-thrust petroleum system: a Permian example in the NW Sichuan Basin, Southwest China	6
Phase equilibrium modelling and zircon-monazite geochronology of HT-UHT granulites from Kambam ultrahigh-temperature belt, south India	6
Continental-scale sediment mixing and dispersal across northern Gondwana: detrital zircon U-Pb-O-Hf isotopic evidence from the Cambro-Ordovician sandstones overlying the Arabian Shield	6
Closure timing of the Nan–Uttaradit oceanic basin, Thailand: stratigraphic and magmatic constraints in the Phrae Sub-basin	6
Deciphering the origin of early continental crust: insights from newly identified ~3.8 Ga granitoids in the Anshan area, North China Craton	6
Geochemistry and geochronology of Early Cretaceous lamprophyres of the Sulu Orogenic Belt: implications for lithospheric evolution of Eastern China	6
The Belingwe greenstone belt, Zimbabwe – some new age constraints and implications for greenstone belt evolution	6
Infra-Cambrian Wajid Graben and the Mozambique Suture, Saudi Arabia	6
Biogeochemistry and the environment	6
Sediment provenances of a Mesozoic intracontinental basin enclosed by multiple orogenic belts, Junggar Basin, NW China: insights from detrital ilmenite, Cr-spinel geochemistry, and zircon U–Pb geochro	6
Reply to comments on Bahlburg (2021), A Silurian-Devonian active margin in the proto-Andes – new data on an old conundrum: international geology review, doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2021.2012719	6
Geology of North Africa and the Mediterranean: Sedimentary Basins and Georesources	6
Late Palaeozoic two-cycle orogenesis of the Qinling orogenic belt: constraints from the metamorphic P–T evolution and geochronology of the Wuguan Complex and Liuling Group in eastern Qinling, China	6

Detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology of the Murree Formation, western Himalaya, Pakistan: provenance and tectonic implications for Himalayan exhumation	6
Plate tectonics through Earth’s history: constraints from the thermal evolution of Earth’s upper mantle	6
Tectonics and geothermal gradients from subduction to collision in the NW Variscan Iberian Massif	6
Magmatic record of Cretaceous marginal basin termination along the western segment of the Central Cordillera of Colombia	6
840–820 Ma Dahongshan bimodal volcanic rocks: new constraints on the Neoproterozoic arc–back-arc basin system along the northern margin of the Yangtze Block	6
Mesoarchaean mafic–ultramafic Ikauna layered intrusion, Bundelkhand craton, India: geology, U–Th–Pb age (SHRIMP) and correlation	6
Basement differences control granitoid compositions: insights from zircon Hf isotopic mapping of Paleozoic granitoids in the northern Beishan orogenic collage, NW China	6
Coastal geology	5
Material source, sedimentary environment, and mineralization process of Shengzhou diatomite deposit in Eastern Zhejiang Province, China	5
980-970 Ma Sette-Daban event of the Siberian craton: new geochronological and geochemical data, relationship to LIP and potential connection with other LIPs	5
The late Neoproterozoic sediment-hosted Kalahari Copper Belt in Botswana: refining the genetic model with sericite Ar/Ar and in-situ LA-ICP-MS biotite Rb/Sr geochronolog	5
Anxiety and geology: managing acute anxiety disorder symptoms during field exercises	5
Thickness change of the Tibetan lithosphere since Early Cretaceous as revealed by Ce/Yb and Sm/Yb ratios of volcanic rocks	5
Neoproterozoic granitoids of northwest Vietnam and their tectonic implications	5
Spatiotemporal distribution and mechanism of Mesozoic magmatism in the Taiwan Strait and its adjacent areas: insights from seismic, geochemical, and geochronological data	5
Late Miocene – Pliocene eastward magmatic arc migration record in the Northern Andes at 5°N latitude, west-central Colombia	5
Geochemical insights and petrogenetic processes of ophiolitic fragments from Avajiq and Silvana: implications for Neo-Tethyan Evolution in northwest Iran	5
Provenance of mixed volcaniclastic-carbonaticlastic gravity-flow deposits: a case study from the Cretaceous of the southern Central Alborz (Iran)	5
Late Carboniferous extension-related magmatism in the southwestern Alxa block of NW China: geochronology, geochemistry, and tectonic implications	5
Mantle magmatism, metamorphism and anatexis: evidence from geochemistry and zircon U–Pb-Hf isotopes of Paleoproterozoic S-type granites, Khondalite Belt of the North China Craton	5
Neoproterozoic to Jurassic tectono-metamorphic events in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Massif, Colombia: insights from zircon U-Pb geochronology and trace element geochemistry	5
Late Paleozoic potassic igneous rocks of the Adyrtor intrusions in the eastern Kyrgyz Tien Shan: geochemistry, isotope U-Pb zircon geochronology, and related W-Mo(-Cu-Au) mineralization	5
Petrogenesis of Eocene mafic and felsic magmas in the New Caledonia ophiolite: geochemistry and geochronology constraints	5
Paleo-geodynamics peculiarities of the Arctic Ocean Eurasian floor	5
Pre-Alpine prograde evolution of the Upper Alpujarride (Betic-Rif belt) reveals a Paleotethys-related collision	5
The rise and fate of a long-lived deep crustal ‘hot zone’ beneath the neogene-quaternary Cordillera de San Buenaventura in the Southern Puna Plateau (NW Argentina)	5
Remote sensing intelligent interpretation for geology: from the perspective of geological exploration	5
Geochronology, provenance, and tectonic setting of the meta-sedimentary rocks from the North Shahrekord metamorphic Complex, Iran	5
Understanding orbital pacing, uplift dynamics, and oceanic influences in aeolian red clay sediments over the Chinese Loess Plateau through cyclostratigraphy insights	5
Clastic injectites and seismic-induced liquefaction in latest Quaternary travertine deposits (Serre di Rapolano, Italy)	5
Assessment of helium potential proximal to the geothermal settings	5
Zircon and monazite U-Pb ages of the Mashan Complex of the Jiamusi Block of NE China: a link to Gondwana?	5
Review of the Himalayan leucogranites: comparison between the North and South belts, from geochemistry, petrogenesis, and rare-metal mineralization	4
Jurassic–cretaceous exhumation history of the Northern Qaidam Basin and its implications for Northeastern Qinghai–Tibet plateau tectonism: evidences from zircon fission track thermochronology	4
The anorogenic late Ediacaran granite-rhyolite porphyries of Gabal Abu Durba, Sinai: termination of magmatism in the Neoproterozoic Arabian-Nubian Shield crust	4
The Lomagundi-Jatuli carbon isotopic event recorded in the marbles from the northeast São Francisco Craton, Brazil: a review, new data, palaeogeography and phosphogenetic correlation	4
The Eocene carbonate platforms of the westernmost Tethys: a review	4
The roles of partial melting of metasomatised mantle, magma mixing at continental crust level and fractionation in calc-alkaline minette genesis, SE Spain	4
Sedimentary tectonic pattern of Wufeng and Longmaxi Formations in the northern margin of Sichuan Basin, South China	4
The role of CO₂flushing in triggering the ‘Millennium’ eruption and recent unrests at Changbaishan volcano (China/North Korea)	4
Correction	4
Energy Flow and Earth: How Earth Works	4
Petrogenesis of Cretaceous felsic volcanic rocks in Zhejiang province, China: insights from zircon U-Pb age and Lu-Hf isotopes	4
Magma hybridization and crust-mantle interaction revealed by mineralogical and geochemical footprints: a case study from the South Qilian Accretionary Belt at the northern Tibetan Plateau	4
Permian mountain building in the bogda mountains of NW China	4
Late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic granitoids in the northwestern Bureya Massif, Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Timing and tectonic significance	4
Geochemistry and U-Pb zircon geochronology of the Nkout banded iron formations and associated metasiliciclastic rocks, NW Congo craton, southern Cameroon	4
U–Pb geochronology and geochemistry of dikes in the Changbaishan Tianchi volcanic field (NE China) and their relations with the coeval Jingbohu and Longgang monogenetic volcanic fields	4
Aborted oceanic basin during the Mesozoic rifting of the South-Iberian Palaeomargin and interactions with the sedimentation processes	4
Recently-discovered Bahçecik Au±Ag mineralization in the Eastern Pontides, Gümüşhane-NE Türkiye: geological and geochemical implications on the intermediate sulfidation epithermal deposit	4
A re-evaluation of the Meso-Cenozoic thermo-tectonic evolution of Bogda Shan (Tian Shan, NW China) based on new basement and detrital apatite fission track thermochronology	4
Tectonic development of the Ankara-Erzincan suture and the Eastern Pontide mountains, Northeast Anatolia, Turkey	4
New directions in mineral processing, extractive metallurgy, recycling and waste minimization: an EPD symposium in Honor of Patrick R. Taylor	4
The geology of Kuwait	4
Geological resources of scandium: a review from a Chinese perspective	4
Spatial and temporal evolution of paleo-highs/lows of the permian strata and its petroleum significance in the Sichuan basin, SW China	4
Cenozoic tectono-thermal evolution of the Weihe Basin, Central China	4
Remote sensing intelligent interpretation for geology: from perspective of geological exploration	4
Geoeducation: the key to geoheritage conservation in tourism destinations	4
The origin of the Daly gap by fractional crystallization in a transcrustal plumbing system in the Passa Quatro alkaline complex (SE Brazil)	4
You say geotourism, I say tourism geology!	4
Long-lived sedimentation in the Western Tethys oceanic basin: revisiting the metasediments of Bagliacone-Riventosa Formation (Corsica, France)	4
Geochronological and stratigraphical characterization of lower Jurassic tectonically-controlled felsic tuff ring volcanism in Northwestern Patagonia, Argentina	4
Back-arc magmatism of the Proto-Tethys Ocean in the West Kunlun Orogenic Belt: evidence from the Ordovician Nanpingxueshan Nb-enriched gabbros	4
Origin and evolution of Li-rich geothermal waters from the Kawu geothermal system, Himalayas: based on hydrochemistry and H-O, Li isotopes	4
Did the Aleutian basin form by Plate Capture or backarc basin opening?	4
Rare earth metals and minerals industries: status and prospects	4
Subduction and retreat of Permian oceanic plates in the East Kunlun Orogenic Belt: evidence from mafic-ultramafic intrusive rocks	4
Triassic gypsum layers in Keban Metamorphics, eastern Tauride Belt, Southeastern Turkey: New data about Triassic rifting in northern Tethys margin	4
Neoproterozoic subduction-related active rifting in the South China Craton: insights from geochemical and zircon Hf isotopic data	4
Geochronology and Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf isotopic geochemistry of middle-late Permian granitic and volcanic rocks within the eastern margin of the Khanka Massif: petrogenesis and implications for the tectonic na	4
Precambrian history of the Altun microcontinent: review and synthesis	4