OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sedimentary Geology is 6. 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
Coastal dynamics and sea-level change at 4 ka: A case study from the Wakayama Plain, Japan	37
Formation of the crust on the surface of cold-climate aeolian quartz grains – A nano-scale study	35
The underground weathering of Toarcian black shales from SE France and its paleoenvironmental, taphonomical and biogeochemical consequences	34
Seismogenic liquefaction with M ∼ 3.5 in fine-grained sediments: An experimental approach	32
Uranium–lead phosphate chronostratigraphy: A proof of concept from the mid-Carboniferous boundary	27
Maastrichtian-Danian Northpatagonian rocky shore, Argentina	26
The Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous lacustrine facies and ichnofossils of the Parnaíba Basin, Brazil: A record of bioactivity in response to post-CAMP thermal subsidence in West Gondwana	25
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Calibration of Short-Wave InfraRed (SWIR) hyperspectral imaging using Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform spectroscopy (DRIFTS) to obtain continuous logging of mineral abundances along sedi	24
Siliciclastic input controlling carbonate deposition on a low-angle ramp system: New insight from the Upper Triassic Luning Formation (Western-Central Nevada)	22
Application of blocky calcite vein LA-MC-ICP-MS U–Pb dating and geochemical analysis to the study of tectonic–fault–fluid evolutionary history of the Tabei Uplift, Tarim Basin	22
High-resolution sequence stratigraphy and facies assemblage in flood-dominated and mixed deltaic systems: Insights from early Eocene Figols Group, South-central Pyrenean basin	21
Sediment flux and early diagenesis inferred from high-resolution XRF-CS data and iron and arsenic sulfides during the last 30 kyr in Lake Urmia, Iran: Implications for studies of hypersaline lakes	20
Formation conditions of Jixian System cherts in the Qishan area, Ordos Basin: Implications for marine redox conditions and paleoecology	20
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Ediacaran cap carbonates with microbial build-ups capping barite-bearing methane seep networks in the Kaarta Mountains, Taoudeni Basin, Mali	19
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Abundance of trace fossil Phycosiphon incertum in core sections measured using a convolutional neural network	19
Lacustrine carbonate towers of Lake Abhe, Djibouti: Interplay of hydrologic and microbial processes	18
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Seasonal subglacial ponding deposits in a thick till sequence, Dösebacka drumlin, southwest Sweden	18
Evolution of a high latitude high-energy beach system (Maastrichtian–Eocene, Magallanes/Austral Basin, Chilean Patagonia)	17
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Controls on near-surface and burial diagenesis of a syn-rift siliciclastic rock succession: A study from Permian Barren Measures Formation, Southern India	17
Disentangling tectonic and eustatic controls on forearc basin stratigraphy, Talara Basin, Peru	17
Milankovitch cyclicity in the latest Cretaceous of the Gulf Coastal Plain, USA	15
Paleogene evolution of the External Rif Zone (Morocco) and comparison with other western Tethyan margins	15
A bio-chronostratigraphic study of the upper Miocene from the northern Caltanissetta Basin, Sicily (core 3AGN2S04). Implications for dating the Messinian Salinity Crisis onset	15
Microfacies and composition of ferruginous beds at the platform-foreland basin transition (Late Albian to Turonian Natih Formation, Oman Mountains): Forebulge dynamics and regional to global tectono-g	14
Particle aggregation induced by microorganisms is a key mechanism for the biostabilization of coastal sediment	14
The Young Nile	14
Origin of the As anomaly in Quaternary sediments of Southern Tuscany (Italy): New insights from geological, geochemical and fluid inclusion data from the Pecora River and Bruna River Valleys	14
Overcoming inter-dataset discrepancies in the grain size distributions of fine-grained sediments by partial least squares regression: A case study of the Belgian Boom Formation	13
Provenance changes revealed by a multi-proxy approach to sandstone analysis and its implications on palaeogeography: Mesozoic Kutch Basin, India	13
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High-precision U-Pb geochronology and Bayesian age-depth modeling of the glacial-postglacial transition of the southern Paraná Basin: Detailing the terminal phase of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age on Gond	13
Architectures of the turbidite channel in the head area of a slope-parallel directional submarine turbidite channel system: A case study of the Central Canyon Area, Qiongdongnan Basin, South China Sea	13
Reconstructing late Miocene depositional environments in the central High Plains, USA: Lithofacies and architectural elements of the Ogallala Formation	13
The formation and development of avulsions and splays of submarine channel systems: Insights from 3D seismic data from the northeastern Bengal Fan	12
Bedforms and associated facies of an Early Permian grounding-line fan: Exploring flow regime transitions of glacigenic density flows during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age	12
Facies model, cementation and sedimentary evolution of a 20th-century beach and beachrock: The Gorrondatxe wave and tidal coastal system (NE Spain)	12
The characteristics and origin of chlorite coats in the Oligocene gas sandstone reservoirs of the Upper Huagang Formation, Xihu Depression, East China Sea Shelf Basin	12
Sedimentology and seismic geomorphology of Paleocene coastal peatlands from the offshore Gippsland Basin, SE Australia	12
Tonian deltaic and storm-influenced marine sedimentation on the edge of Laurentia: The Veteranen Group of northeastern Spitsbergen, Svalbard	11
Seismites in Miocene gypsum microbialites: Multiproxy tools for paleoenvironmental reconstruction of saline lakes	11
Characteristics of quartz grains in the middle and lower reaches of the Hutubi River, NW China, and its paleo-environmental significance	11
Late Burdigalian to early Messinian environmental and climatic evolution of the central paleo Adriatic domain from the shallow water sedimentary record (Bolognano Fm, Eastern Majella, Central Apennine	11
Statistical analysis of the Hurst index indicating sedimentary processes' evolution trend in the deep lacustrine mudrock sequences: A case study of the Jiyang Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, eastern Chin	11
A tsunami deposit in the Stonewall Formation (Upper Ordovician), northeastern margin of the Williston Basin, Canada, and its tectonic and stratigraphic implications	11
Origin and significance of macroscopic organic aggregates from the lacustrine Aptian Crato Konservat-Lagerstätte	10
What hides in the beach sand? A multiproxy approach and new textural code to recognition of beach evolution on the southern and eastern Baltic Sea coast	10
Middle Jurassic evolution of a northern Tethyan carbonate ramp (Alborz Mountains, Iran)	10
Marine aragonite evolution in the oxygen-decreasing interval before the Cenomanian-Turonian Ocean anoxic event (OAE2) in the southeastern Neo-Tethys	10
New age, stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental interpretation of the Loma de los Piojos Formation (San Juan Province, Argentina) based on new palynologic and stratigraphic information	10
Benthic response to event deposition and environmental disturbance in a shoreface to subaqueous delta system: Ichnology of the Silurian-Devonian Furada Formation of Asturias, Spain	10
Testing sea-level and carbonate production effects on stratal architecture of a distally steepened carbonate ramp (Upper Miocene, Menorca): A 3D forward modelling approach	10
Corrigendum to “Separating provenance and palaeoclimatic signals from particle size and geochemistry of loess-palaeosol sequences using log-ratio transformation: Central European loess belt, Czech Rep	10
Diagenetic development of rhizoliths in the Ironshore Formation (Pleistocene) of the Cayman Islands	10
The role of physicochemical and biochemical processes on carbonate precipitation within the Laguna Timone maar in the Pali Aike Volcanic Field, southernmost extra-Andean Patagonia	10
Formation processes of paper-thin raft and coated bubble: Calcium carbonate deposition at gas–water interface	10
Analysis of lake level fluctuations in the Early Cretaceous Songliao Basin supports aquifer eustacy	10
Two-phase Himalayan extension recorded in the Late Miocene-Pleistocene Gyirong Basin, south Tibet	10
Linking environmental changes and organic matter enrichment in the middle part of the Yanchang Formation (Ordos Basin, China) to the rollback of an oceanic slab in the eastern Paleo-Tethys	9
Coarse calcite grains in hydrocarbon-rich tuffaceous mudstone in a Permian volcanic lake—An indicator for subaqueous volcanic deposition and related hydrocarbon generation	9
Seismically-induced down-sagging structures in tephra layers (tephra-seismites) preserved in lakes since 17.5 cal ka, Hamilton lowlands, New Zealand	9
Upper Cretaceous to Palaeogene successions of the Gouaro anticline: Deepwater sedimentary records of the tectonic events that led to obduction in New Caledonia (SW Pacific)	9
Sensitivity of marginal basins in recording global icehouse and regional tectonic controls on sedimentation. Example of the Cergowa Basin, (Oligocene) Outer Carpathians	9
Sediment texture and geochemistry as predictors of sub-depositional environment in a modern estuary using machine learning: A framework for investigating clay-coated sand grains	9
The environmental transformation mechanism of the coal- and oil shale-bearing interval in the Eocene Dalianhe Formation, Yilan Basin, Northeast China	9
Provenance of the early Cretaceous sediments in the southern Alxa Area: Implications for tectonic evolution of the south Central Asian Orogenic Belt	9
Unraveling overprinted formation mechanisms of massive dolostone in the Lower Triassic sequence of an isolated carbonate platform in Nanpanjiang Basin, south China	9

Understanding the origin of Cambrian marine oncoids: A petrologic, geochemical, and isotopic perspective	9
Early Carboniferous (Mississippian) intertwining sediment dispersal network across the Laurentian cratonic interior	9
Sources and composition of organic matter as a tool for understanding the complex variation in paleoenvironments and the connectivity of an epicontinental basin: The Miocene in the northern Pannonian	9
Sea-level, storms, and sedimentation – Controls on the architecture of the Andros tidal flats (Great Bahama Bank)	9
The delta-fluvial evolution of a lacustrine basin with gentle slope and low sedimentation rate: A case study of the Fudong Slope, Junggar Basin, Northwest China	9
Hybrid dry-wet interdune deposition in Precambrian aeolian systems: Galho do Miguel Formation, SE Brazil	8
Variations in water discharge at different temporal scales in a mud-prone alluvial succession: The Paleocene-Eocene of the Tremp-Graus Basin, Spain	8
Ypresian–Lutetian platform evolution in the Indus Basin, Southwestern Pakistan: An interplay between local and regional tectonic changes	8
The Upper Neoproterozoic lacustrine–fan delta depositional systems associated with braided alluvial fans in the Nubian Shield, Egypt	8
Benthic microbial mats from deep-marine flysch deposits (Oligocene Menilite Formation from S Poland): Palaeoenvironmental controls on the MISS types	8
Astronomical forced sequence infill of Early Cambrian Qiongzhusi organic-rich shale of Sichuan Basin, South China	8
Reef to island sediment connections within an inshore turbid reef island system of the eastern Indian Ocean	8
Enhanced sulfidization in a sedimentary turbidite layer from the Nansha Trough in the southern South China Sea	8
Comparison of three grain size measuring methods applied to coarse-grained gravel deposits	8
Coarse-grained submarine channels: from confined to unconfined flows in the Colombian Caribbean (late Eocene)	8
Depositional controls in an ancient, closed lake system: A high-resolution and multi-scalar case study from the Yacoraite Formation (Salta Basin, Argentina)	8
QGrain: An open-source and easy-to-use software for the comprehensive analysis of grain size distributions	8
Formation and preservation of Eocene lacustrine microbialites in the western Qaidam Basin (northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China): Petrological, mineralogical, and geochemical constraints	8
Did evaporite cements and infiltrated silts assist preservation of reptile tracks in Permian desert sediments?	8
The importance of sedimentary structures in fine-grained deposits in re-interpreting the Facies mosaic of Lower Triassic tide-influenced deltas	8
Characterization of Halimeda Bioherms of the Pre-Evaporitic Messinian of the Salento Peninsula (Southern Italy)	8
Tidal and seasonal controls on the stratigraphic architecture of blind tidal channel deposits in the fluvial-tidal transition of the macrotidal Sittaung River estuary, Myanmar	8
Litho- and biostratigraphy of the early Eocenelarger benthic foraminifera-dominated carbonates of the central Tethys domain, Zagros Foreland Basin, SW Iran	7
Provenance of the Numidian Formation deposits (Oligo-Miocene) in northern Algeria: Insights from sandstone petrography, palaeocurrent data, geochemistry, and zircon geochronology	7
Facies character and skeletal composition of heterozoan carbonates in a high-energy confined embayment (Miocene, Finale Ligure Limestone, NW Italy)	7
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Petrographic signature of the gravel fraction from late Quaternary glacigenic sediments in the Ross Sea (Antarctica): Implications for source terranes and Neogene glacial reconstructions	7
Ediacaran microbial mats and microbially induced sedimentary structures in lacustrine deposits, Arabo-Nubian Shield, Egypt	7
Distinguishing borings and burrows in intraclasts: Evidence from the Cambrian (Furongian) of North China	7
Recognizing genetically related depositional packages using 3D photogrammetric outcrop models in a fluvially dominated, tidally influenced meander-belt succession	7
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Development of a Gilbert-type delta in the kame environment: An example from NE Poland	7
First record of Anisian deposits in the Betic External Zone of southern Spain and its paleogeographical implications	7
Downslope evolution of supercritical bedforms in a confined deep-sea fan lobe, Amantea Fan, Paola Basin (Southeastern Tyrrhenian Sea)	7
Sedimentology and neoichnology of a muddy translating point bar in the fluvio-tidal transition, Serpentine River, BC, Canada	7
Shaking table simulation of soft sediment deformation structures in lacustrine sediments	7
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Pleistocene aragonite crust diagenesis mimics microbialite fabrics (Danakil Depression, Ethiopia)	7
Jurassic–Cretaceous intraplatform basins from NW Sicily fold and thrust belt: Implications for oblique rifting of the Southern Tethyan margin	7
In situ growth of modern oncoids from Salado river, Salar de la Laguna Verde Complex, Argentina	7
Properties of dolomitizing fluids indicated by rare earth elements: A case study of the Upper Miocene to Pliocene dolostone on the Xisha Islands, South China Sea	7
Field observations on the characteristics of sand ripples on tidal flats	7
A condensed chalk–marl succession on an Early Cretaceous intrabasinal structural high, Danish Central Graben: Implications for the sequence stratigraphic interpretation of the Munk Marl Bed	7
Numerical methodologies and tools for efficient and flexible unmixing of single-sample grain-size distributions: Application to late Quaternary aeolian sediments from the desert-loess transition zone	7
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Island accretion within a degraded reef ecosystem suggests adaptability to ecological transitions	7
Geochemical approach for decoding the paleoenvironmental and depositional evolution of a coastal lacustrine Konservat-Lagerstätte (Early Cretaceous, south-Central Pyrenees)	7
The source and preservation of lacustrine shale organic matter: Insights from the Qingshankou Formation in the Changling Sag, Southern Songliao Basin, China	6
Skeletal assemblages and terrigenous input in the Eocene carbonate systems of the Nummulitic Limestone (NW Europe)	6
Syn-rift sedimentary response to growth folding along a rift-margin transfer zone: An example from the early Miocene of the Gulf of Suez, Egypt	6
Sedimentological and geochemical properties of authigenic carbonates in Kyushu, Japan: Implications for the transition from semi-arid to humid climate during the Eocene	6
Effective mechanisms in the formation of pool-rimstone dams in continental carbonate systems: The case study of Huanglong, China	6
Miocene evolution of the External Rif Zone (Morocco): Comparison with similar and lateral southern Mediterranean Tethyan margins	6
Zircon-based proxies for source-rock prediction in provenance analysis: A case study using Upper Devonian sandstones, northern South China Block	6
Impact of climate-driven base-level on the diagenesis of lacustrine turbidites: Insights from Eocene Dongying Sag, Bohai Bay Basin, East China	6
Origin of hematite in the Middle Cretaceous red chalks on the eastern coast of England	6
Facies analysis of a Bartonian–Aquitanian siliciclastic‑carbonate system, Costa Rica	6
Transitional flow deposits on submarine lobe flank (Veřovice and Lhoty Fms, Albian – Cenomanian, Polish Outer Carpathians)	6
Paleoproterozoic (Huronian) valley-controlled deglacial-fluvial sedimentation, northern Cobalt Basin, Ontario, Canada	6
Provenance of low-grossular–high-pyrope detrital garnets from beach sands of East Coast of India between Gosthani and Vamsadhara rivers	6
A carbonate palustrine system with marshes and shallow ephemeral lakes (Campanian, northeastern Iberian Basin)	6
Temporal variations in Rare Earth Element distributions in the Cenozoic succession and modern sediments of the Cayman Islands	6
Reducing-condition reworked phosphorite sedimentary model: Petrographic and geochemical evidence from the Lower Cretaceous in the Thaniyat area, northern Saudi Arabia	6
Changes in fluvial architecture induced by discharge variability, Jaicós Formation (Silurian-Devonian), Parnaíba Basin, Brazil	6
Damp- to dry aeolian systems: Sedimentology, climate forcing, and aeolian accumulation in the Late Cretaceous Liyou Basin, South China	6
Petrographic and geochemical characteristics of nodular carbonate-bearing fluorapatite in the lacustrine shale of the Shahejie Formation, Dongying Depression, Bohai Bay Basin	6
Valanginian cold/warm climatic oscillation and synsedimentary tectonic interaction for drowning the carbonate platform of Southern Tethys (Sicily)	6
Aptian major changes in accommodation. New sedimentary evidence from the Maestrat Basin (E Iberia)	6
Million-year-scale changes in the provenance of the Miocene Doumsan fan-delta system, Pohang Basin, SE Korea: Separating the effects of eustasy and tectonic subsidence	6
A new type of dolomicrite envelope formed in Oligocene lacustrine sediments and its significance for preserving porosity, Bohai Bay Basin, North China	6
Linked evolution of Paleocene sea floor relief and deep marine currents in the Subbetic Zone, southern Spain	6
Microbially induced fabrics in the Upper Ediacaran coated grain dolostone, Northeast Sichuan Basin, SW China: Implications for reconstruction of the paleoceanic environment	6
Taiwan river muds from source to sink: Provenance control, inherited weathering, and offshore dispersal pathways	6
Transition from a transgressive to a regressive river-mouth sediment body in Tokyo Bay during the early Holocene: Sedimentary facies, geometry, and stacking pattern	6