OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Facies is 1. 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.)

Article	Citations
Palaeoenvironmental implications and genesis of lacustrine Lower Triassic giant ooids	20
On the origin of the calciturbidites in the Tortonian hemipelagic marls of the Latium-Abruzzi carbonate platform domain (Central Apennines, Italy); tectonic, sea level changes or internal waves?	14
Visualization of the skeletal structure of Palaeozoic stromatoporoids using fluorescence microscopy	11
Cyclic deposition on a Frasnian heterozoan-dominated restricted ramp (Devonian Lublin Basin, SE-Poland)	10
Progradation of a shallow carbonate platform developed on a fault-block in the Western Tethys (lower Aptian, Sierra de Bedmar-Jódar, Prebetic of Jaén, Spain)	9
Tectonic–sedimentary evolution of the Sinian-Cambrian Deyang–Anyue depression in the Sichuan Basin and its hydrocarbon geological significance	9
Morphogenesis of crystal fan fabrics of the Wolfenden cool water tufa deposit in western Canada	8
Unattached carbonate platform evolution across the Aptian–Albian boundary: facies, magnetic susceptibility and sequence stratigraphy in the Constantine area of northeast Algeria	7
Depositional and stratigraphic architecture of a mixed carbonate–siliciclastic depositional system in the Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous) of the Southern Midcontinent, Oklahoma, USA	7
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Middle Jurassic rocks in western India using benthic foraminifera	7
Calcification patterns of Rivularia-type cyanobacteria: examples from the Miocene of the North Alpine Foreland Basin	6
Sedimentology, geochemistry and palaeoenvironments of Jurassic oolitic ironstones from the eastern Tethys (Indus Basin, northwestern Himalayas, Pakistan)	5
Facies architecture and tectonic evolution of Raipur carbonate platform in Mesoproterozoic Chhattisgarh Sea, Central India	5
Bioerosion of the upper Jurassic lithographic limestone of Solnhofen (Germany) by mycorrhizal roots during the Cenozoic karstification	5
Are Miocene-age enigmatic carbonates in the incipient Red Sea of microbial origin? A morphological study	5
Methane emissions during marine environmental perturbations before the end-Triassic mass extinction	5
High-frequency sequence stratigraphy of Pennsylvanian-Lower Permian carbonate successions of the Robledo Mountains, New Mexico and the Carnic Alps, Austria: a record of the acme and demise of the late	5
An enigmatic calcified fossil in Middle Triassic strata of the southern Apennines, Italy: form, affinity and facies	5
Kasimovian (Late Pennsylvanian) phylloid algal-cement-microbial reef in Guizhou, South China: construction model and paleoenvironmental significance	4
Fluctuating seafloor oxygenation before, during and after the Frasnian/Famennian crisis: Quantitative colour analysis and geochemistry of Upper Devonian marine red beds, Montagne Noire, S. France	4
Sedimentology of Albian glaucony-bearing limestone strata, Eastern Black Sea region: new implications for palaeoenvironmental conditions and iron supply	4
A mixed carbonate-siliciclastic foreland basin system: An example from the Upper Cretaceous Muti Formation, Jabal-Akhdar Dome, Oman Mountains	4
Morphogenesis of tufa microfabrics at a very cold spring in Alberta, western Canada	4
Rare occurrence of Wetterstein limestones in the Southern Carpathians (Romania)	3
Development of reef facies during the latest Carnian–earliest Rhaetian Dachstein Carbonate Platform of the Dinaridic realm (northern Montenegro) in the context of the Late Triassic geological events	3

Exploring the influence of microbialite microfabrics and diagenetic evolution on reservoir quality: the key role of detailed petrography	3
Bioerosion and encrustation in Late Triassic reef corals from Iran	3
Middle Triassic stepwise deepening and stratigraphic condensation associated with Illyrian volcanism in the Durmitor Mountain, Montenegro	2
Lateral facies heterogeneity and carbonate productivity changes during the Lower Jurassic of the Traras Mountains (NW Algeria): local versus regional controls	2
Genesis of groundwater-fed desert lakes filled by a unique evaporitic-biotic sediment inventory (Layla Lakes, Saudi Arabia)	2
Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the upper Badenian carbonate and siliciclastic nearshore facies in the Vienna Basin (Slovakia)	2
Damage triggered by bioerosion and surface residence time in Holocene shell beds from Brazil	2
Significance of microbial binding in the formation and stabilization of a Silurian carbonate forereef slope	1
Facies and diagenesis of early Cambrian patch-reefs in the inner Siberian Craton (Nepa-Botuoba anteclise)	1
Modularity explains large-scale reef booms in Earth’s history	1
Paleoecology and paleoenvironment of an unusually depauperate Pleistocene coral reef of the Aramda Reef Member, Gujarat, Western India	1
Census-based estimates of Mediterranean Oligocene–Miocene reef carbonate production	1
Intelligent identification of carbonate components based on deep learning	1
Re-evaluation of cryptoendolithic microfossils in pillow basalt of two Variscan orogens	1
The upper Middle Jurassic to lowermost Cretaceous Shal Formation, northwest Iran: facies development, integrated stratigraphy and geodynamic implications	1
Permian and triassic limestones in the Chae Hom area, North Lampang, Sukhothai Zone, Thailand: facies, palaeoenvironments and tectonic setting	1
An integrated study of late Albian OAE1d event in Northern Tunisia: inferred stable carbon isotopes correlation with Europe and Mexico	1
Carbonate microfacies and paleoenvironmental evolution of the Romualdo Formation (late Aptian/early Albian), Araripe Basin (NE, Brazil)	1
A “cool-water”, non-tropical, mixed volcaniclastic–carbonate ramp from the Early Cretaceous of southern Chile (45°40’S)	1
Evolution of eastern passive margin of Adria recorded in shallow- to deep-water successions of the transition zone between the Alps and the Dinarides (Ivanščica Mt., NW Croatia)	1
Microporous mud-dominated facies in Upper Cretaceous carbonate sequences of the Abadan Plain, SW Iran: depositional model, diagenesis history and petrophysical properties	1
Revisiting the upper Visean mud mounds from Derbyshire (UK): the role of brachiopods in their growth	1
Impact of the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum on the evolution of larger foraminifera: a new look at an old problem	1
Palaeoecology of calcified microfossils from the Lower Devonian (Pragian-Emsian) of Sierra Morena (SW Spain)	1
Palaeoenvironments of an Upper Cretaceous mixed carbonate-siliciclastic shelf of the external Prebetic domain (Valencia, SE Spain)	1
New insights on the Permian mixed siliciclastic and carbonate deposits of southern Tunisia: Facies, palaeoenvironments, and depositional models	1
Stratigraphical, microfacies, and ichnological characteristics and depositional environments of the Permo‒Carboniferous Aheimer Formation, western side of the Gulf of Suez, Egypt	1
Molecular fossils in reefal carbonates and sponges of the deep fore reef of Mayotte and Mohéli, Comoro Islands, western Indian Ocean	1
Organic facies and depositional system evolution in an Upper Cretaceous wetland setting: evidence from the Gulf of Suez, Egypt	1
Correction: Middle Triassic stepwise deepening and stratigraphic condensation associated with Illyrian volcanism in the Durmitor Mountain, Montenegro	1
Facies analysis and depositional evolution of Lower–Middle Ordovician carbonates in the Shuntuoguole Low Uplift of Tarim Basin (NW China)	1
An Ediacaran trace-like body fossil of a Palaeopascichnus specimen from Oman under 3D micro-tomography	1