OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sedimentology 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

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Holocene seismic activity in south‐eastern Switzerland: Evidence from the sedimentary record of Lake Silvaplana	28
Revisiting the black shale depositional enigma: Transport processes and contrasting sediment sources in a heterolithic basin fill – Bowland Basin, England	27
Bedform evolution along a submarine canyon in the South China Sea: New insights from an autonomous underwater vehicle survey	25
The impact of high discharge variability on sedimentology and architecture of bar deposits in the meandering Powder River (Montana, USA)	25
Geomorphic and environmental controls on microbial mat fabrics on Little Ambergris Cay, Turks and Caicos Islands	24
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Source‐to‐sink sediment transport reversals during glacial sea‐level lowstands sustain soil formation on pericoastal carbonate terrains	23
Factors controlling carbonate mud production and accumulation on Upper Jurassic western European mixed siliciclastic–carbonate ramps	22
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Evolution from shallow‐water deltas to fluvial fans in lacustrine basins: A case study from the Middle Jurassic Shaximiao Formation in the central Sichuan Basin, China	20
Recycling control on chemical weathering indices (Yarlung River, South Tibet)	20
Unconfined gravity current interactions with orthogonal topography: Implications for combined‐flow processes and the depositional record	20
Hydrodynamic controls on sedimentary facies of tidal point bars: A case study in the Georgia coastal plain, USA	19
Genesis of island dolostones during rapid island subsidence: Example from the Xisha (Paracel) islands, South China Sea	19
Astronomical forcing paleoclimate and hydrological controls on depositional cyclicity: Genesis of organic‐rich shales in the early Cambrian of the Upper Yangtze area, China	17
Does sand promote or hinder the mobility of cohesive sediment gravity flows?	17
The role of storms and resulting sediment transport in maintaining the activity of land‐detached canyons	17
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Sedimentary dolomite in Western Australia and the dolomite problem: Genesis of channel and playa uranium deposits	16
Exploring freshwater influence in epicontinental seas through integrated sedimentology and geochemistry approaches	16
The making of pure quartzose sand in continental interiors: Paraná River (Brazil and Argentina)	16
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Origin, evolution and significance of giant buried sediment mounds near the Sahara Slide Complex, North‐west African margin	16
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Modern microbial landscape: Aerial mapping of microbially induced sedimentary structures forming in a coastal sabkha	15
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Suction dynamics‐induced bubbly sand under groundwater table fluctuations	15
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Siderite from the Tibetan Himalaya: Evidence for a low sulphate ocean during Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a (Early Aptian)	14
Spatial variability in aeolian abrasion: Ibex Dune Field, Death Valley National Park	14
Down in the dungeons: the hidden role of diatom biofilms and microbial activity in the biogeochemistry of a dynamic estuarine point bar	14
Fossilized autogenic responses of grain‐size transition to sediment supply and water discharge: Alluvial fan experiments	14
A photosynthetic, socially motile lifestyle 3.22 billion years ago: Evidence from fossilised tufted microbial mats	14
The ejection pattern of sand particles in steady‐state aeolian transport	13
Autogenic and allogenic controls on turbidite lobe stacking pattern and architecture: The case of the Turonian to Coniacian deep‐water turbidite lobe complexes (Dønna Terrace, offshore Mid‐Norway	13
Origin and composition of hydrothermally‐influenced sediments at Aurora Vent Field, southwestern Gakkel Ridge (82.9°N)	13
Evolving fill‐and‐spill patterns across linked early post‐rift depocentres control lobe characteristics: Los Molles Formation, Argentina	13
Sedimentary record of submarine gravity‐flow events in the southern Ryukyu forearc during the last 200 000 years: Archive of mega‐earthquakes and tsunamis	13
Spatial and temporal evolution of a coastal erg margin: the Middle Jurassic Page Sandstone, southern Utah, USA	13
Organic matter deposition and preservation in ancient deep‐sea levée sediments: Implications for Neoproterozoic trends in carbon burial	13
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Microbial influence on the formation and subsequent changes of vertebrate tracks: field experiments on present‐day coastal sediments	12
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Microborings reveal alternating agitation, resting and sleeping stages of modern marine ooids	12
Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a in the shallow, carbonate‐dominated intrashelf Kazhdumi Basin, Zagros Mountains	12
Formation of magnesium‐clay in a lacustrine microbialite‐bearing carbonate deposit, Eocene Green River Formation, Sanpete County, Utah	12
Soft‐bedded ice sheet in hummocky terrain of north‐central Poland: Origin of rim ridges and subglacial processes	12
Mineralogical variability of suspended sediments induced by mega‐reservoir regulation (Yellow River, China)	11
Kaolinite deposition from moving suspensions: The roles of flocculation, salinity, suspended sediment concentration and flow velocity/bed shear	11
Coastal engineering structures bifurcate intertidal eco‐morphodynamic trajectories in a sediment‐starved delta	11
Rapid growth of a carbonate island over the last millennium	11
Experimental observations of vertical segregation of sands in oscillatory flows	11
Improving predictions of the internal heterogeneity of large‐scale point‐bar deposits through geophysical logging and morphometric analysis: False River, Louisiana	11
Reply to Comment by John J.G. Reijmer on ‘Understanding carbonate factories through palaeoecological and sedimentological signals – Tribute to Luis Pomar’ by Brandano et al. (2022), Sediment	11
Unravelling megaturbidite deposition: Evidence for turbidite stacking/amalgamation and seiche influence during the 1601 ce earthquake at Lake Lucerne, Switzerland	11
A clumped isotope diagenetic framework for the Ediacaran dolomites: Insights to fabric‐specific geochemical variabilities	11
The influence of hybrid sediment gravity flows on distribution and composition of trace‐fossil assemblages: Ordovician succession of the north‐eastern Alborz Range of Iran	11
Vegetation and peat accumulation steer Holocene tidal–fluvial basin filling and overbank sedimentation along the Old Rhine River, The Netherlands	11
Palaeoclimatic and diagenetic controls based on clay mineralogy and organic matter distribution: The continental rift Cuyo Basin (Triassic), west‐central Argentina	10
Extreme events of alternate dry–wet climatic cycles and lacustrine deposits: A case study from the Yanchang Formation (Triassic), Ordos Basin, China	10
Evaporitic–lacustrine mudstone laminites and prodelta mudlobes – continuity and change in the Hartmann's Valley interval, Murray formation, Gale crater, Mars	10
Erratum to Marine carbonate factories: Review and update	10
Sediment dynamics and geomorphology of a submarine carbonate platform canyon system situated in an arid climate setting	10
Depositional environments, hematite–chamosite differentiation and origins of Middle Ordovician iron ooids in the Upper Yangtze region, South China	10
Microbial mats and thalassinid shrimp: Spatial and geochemical interactions in a modern intertidal environment	10
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The effects of bioturbation on porewater chemistry and early marine diagenesis: Evidence from a modern intertidal zone in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.	10
A depositional model for meandering rivers without land plants	9
Neoichnology and sediment distribution in tidal flats of the mud‐dominated mesotidal Mira River estuary (Portugal)	9
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New insights into the palaeoenvironmental–palaeoclimatic significance and sedimentary dynamics of carbonate Lagerstätten: The lower Albian of Pietraroja (Southern Italy)	8
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Eskers formed in the soft‐bed region – a comprehensive study of Late Saalian strata from Poland	8
Rock‐buffered versus fluid‐buffered geochemistry of structurally controlled, hydrothermal dolomite: Insights from the Sichuan Basin, China	8
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The role of fluvial and tidal currents on coal accumulation in a mixed‐energy deltaic setting: Pinghu Formation, Xihu Depression, East China Sea Shelf Basin	8
Microbial mats in the Río Mayer Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Austral Basin, Argentina: Paleoenvironmental and paleoceanographic significance	8
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Sedimentation differences and depositional model in slope‐controlled travertine precipitation stream in Huanglong, China	8
Morphodynamics of intermittent density inflow on fan‐deltas: Physical experiments and sedimentological implications	8
Late Oligocene to early Miocene delta and linked slope fan systems: Depositional architecture and sediment dispersal, the Pearl River Mouth Basin	8
Diagenesis, compaction strain and deformation associated with chert and carbonate concretions in organic‐rich marl and phosphorite; Upper Cretaceous to Eocene, Jordan	8
Seismic expression and stratigraphic preservation of a coastal plain fluvial channel belt and floodplain channels on the Gulf of Mexico inner continental shelf	8
Tracing the sedimentary response to the rifting and opening of the Meso‐Tethys Ocean	8
Where was the Yangtze River mouth during the last glacial maximum?	7
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Groundwater red beds in Holocene fluvial sediments as a product of iron and manganese redox cycling; Morava River, Czechia	7
Modern soil aggregates–colluvium generated by overland flow – stratigraphy and physical experiments	7
Sedimentological controls on the distribution and geometry of chlorite‐coated intervals in deeply buried tide‐influenced sandstones, Tilje Formation, Norwegian Continental Shelf	7
Wind‐driven hydrodynamic and depositional patterns in shallow lakes: An exploratory modelling approach based on an archetypal case of Lake Hulun	7
Sediment density flow distribution on wave‐influenced deltas	7
Seismic stratigraphy of Late Pleistocene incised valleys and adjacent environments, eastern Central Luconia Province, offshore north‐west Borneo	7
Challenges to the ancient methane seep search strategy: The Bedford Canyon Formation (Middle Jurassic, Santa Ana Mountains, California)	7
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Deep learning‐based grain‐size decomposition model: A feasible solution for dealing with methodological uncertainty	7
Transport of ‘Nama’‐type biota in sediment gravity and combined flows: Implications for terminal Ediacaran palaeoecology	7
The generation of a clotted peloidal micrite fabric by endolithic cyanobacteria in recent thrombolites from Cuatro Cienegas, northern Mexico	7
Documenting a coastal sediment routing tract in the sedimentary record: Implications for coastal palaeogeography and sand distribution patterns	7
Formation process of the gravel‐dominated deposit from the 2011 Tohoku‐oki tsunami in Ofunato, northeastern Japan, inferred by integrating sedimentology and tsunami modelling	7
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Reply to Comment: Carbonate production and reef building under ferruginous seawater conditions in the Cambrian rift branches of the Avalon Zone, Newfoundland by E. Landing and G. Geyer	6
Holocene sea‐level changes and the influence of storms on beach ridge formation in the Lower Gulf of Thailand	6
Hydrodynamic behaviour of organo‐phosphatic bioclastic sediments: An experimental study on linguliform brachiopod shell fragments	6
Facies stacking and lateral variability of travertines from the Quaternary Vega Botijuela, Salar de Antofalla Basin, Argentina	6
Planform architecture, meander evolution and grain‐size variability of a deltaic channel belt in the Rhine‐Meuse delta, The Netherlands	6
Quantitative sedimentological analysis of the aeolian–fluvial Triassic Sherwood Sandstone Group, Cheshire Basin, UK	6
Biogeochemical characterization of micritized carbonate grains in the shallow‐marine Al‐Kharrar Lagoon (Red Sea, Saudi Arabia)	6
Conditions of submarine levéed channel inception: Examination by flume experiments	6
Bed‐scale quantitative discrimination of hyperpycnites from intrabasinal turbidites—Results from a channelised slope system in the Upper Carboniferous Westward Ho! Formation, United Kingdom	6
Processes controlling rare earth element distribution in sedimentary apatite: Insights from spectroscopy, in situ geochemistry and O and Sr isotope composition	6
Universal decomposition model: An efficient technique for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from grain‐size distributions	6
Upper‐flow‐regime deposits related to glacio‐volcanic interactions in Patagonia: Insights from the Pleistocene record in Southern Andes	6
Contourite on the Limpopo Corridor, Mozambique margin: Long‐term evolution, facies distribution and Plio‐Quaternary processes	6
Cenozoic tropical carbonate platforms in the Santos Basin, SE Brazilian Margin	6
Role of microbial mats in the genesis of soft‐sediment deformation structures in a siliciclastic environment	6
Primary microfossiliferous chert in the Aptian Barra Velha Formation	6
Internal isotopic variability of Neogene carbonate concretions: Constraining formational growth mechanisms and isotopic disequilibrium	6
Sedimentology and stratigraphic architecture of Barremian synrift barrier island–estuarine depositional systems from blended field and drone‐derived data	6
The relationship between organic matgrounds and sedimentary packaging: examples from the Ediacaran and early Cambrian	6
Composition of fine‐grained sediment in the Hikurangi Trough: Evidence for intermingling among axial gravity flows, transverse gravity flows and margin‐parallel ocean currents	6
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Hemispherical MISS caused by gas‐trapping: Examples from the Trepassey and Fermeuse formations (Ediacaran) of Newfoundland	6