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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Palaeoenvironmental implications and genesis of lacustrine Lower Triassic giant ooids	21
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?	13
Preferential dolomitization in Mio–Pliocene bioclastic clinoforms, Bonaire Island, South Caribbean: insights from petrographic and geochemical analyses	12
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)	11
Depositional and stratigraphic architecture of a mixed carbonate–siliciclastic depositional system in the Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous) of the Southern Midcontinent, Oklahoma, USA	10
Unattached carbonate platform evolution across the Aptian–Albian boundary: facies, magnetic susceptibility and sequence stratigraphy in the Constantine area of northeast Algeria	9
Morphogenesis of crystal fan fabrics of the Wolfenden cool water tufa deposit in western Canada	8
Changing depositional environments in the semi-restricted Late Jurassic Lemeš Basin (Outer Dinarides; Croatia)	7
Calcification patterns of Rivularia-type cyanobacteria: examples from the Miocene of the North Alpine Foreland Basin	7
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Middle Jurassic rocks in western India using benthic foraminifera	7
Methane emissions during marine environmental perturbations before the end-Triassic mass extinction	6
Microbial mats and evaporite facies variation in a supralittoral, ephemeral lake, Red Sea coast, Saudi Arabia	6
Microfacies and stable isotope analyses (δ13C and δ18O) of the upper Serpukhovian-Moscovian carbonates in the Hadim Nappe, southern Turkey: an approach to document the Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA)	6
Rare occurrence of Wetterstein limestones in the Southern Carpathians (Romania)	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
Bioerosion and encrustation in Late Triassic reef corals from Iran	5
Sedimentology, geochemistry and palaeoenvironments of Jurassic oolitic ironstones from the eastern Tethys (Indus Basin, northwestern Himalayas, Pakistan)	5
Lateral facies heterogeneity and carbonate productivity changes during the Lower Jurassic of the Traras Mountains (NW Algeria): local versus regional controls	4
Damage triggered by bioerosion and surface residence time in Holocene shell beds from Brazil	4
40Ar/39Ar dating and palaeoenvironments at the boundary of the early-late Badenian (Langhian-Serravallian) in the northwest margin of the Pannonian basin system	4
Chemical characterisation is rough: the impact of topography and measurement parameters on energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy in biominerals	4
Palaeoecology of calcified microfossils from the Lower Devonian (Pragian-Emsian) of Sierra Morena (SW Spain)	3
Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the upper Badenian carbonate and siliciclastic nearshore facies in the Vienna Basin (Slovakia)	3
Carbonate factory of Pietra di Finale coastal wedge (Miocene): the unusual abundance of stylasterids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa)	3
Middle Triassic stepwise deepening and stratigraphic condensation associated with Illyrian volcanism in the Durmitor Mountain, Montenegro	3

Correction: Middle Triassic stepwise deepening and stratigraphic condensation associated with Illyrian volcanism in the Durmitor Mountain, Montenegro	3
Facies analysis and depositional evolution of Lower–Middle Ordovician carbonates in the Shuntuoguole Low Uplift of Tarim Basin (NW China)	3
The Jurassic–Cretaceous transition in deep- and shallow-water carbonate depositional settings: a case study from the easternmost Getic Carbonate Platform (Southern Carpathians, Romania)	2
Intelligent identification of carbonate components based on deep learning	2
Evolution of a Miocene canyon and its carbonate fill in the pre-evaporitic eastern Mediterranean	2
Census-based estimates of Mediterranean Oligocene–Miocene reef carbonate production	2
Revisiting the upper Visean mud mounds from Derbyshire (UK): the role of brachiopods in their growth	2
Devonian to Carboniferous continental-scale carbonate turnover in Western Laurentia (North America): upwelling or climate cooling?	2
Charophyte communities in Barremian Iberian wetlands	2
Molecular fossils in reefal carbonates and sponges of the deep fore reef of Mayotte and Mohéli, Comoro Islands, western Indian Ocean	1
Significance of microbial binding in the formation and stabilization of a Silurian carbonate forereef slope	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
Facies and diagenesis of early Cambrian patch-reefs in the inner Siberian Craton (Nepa-Botuoba anteclise)	1
Morphology and taphonomy of the gastropod Terebralia palustris from an iron age site in the Arabian Peninsula	1
Multi-technique comparison to assess the effect of bioturbation on porosity: a study case for reservoir quality in contourites	1
Palaeoenvironments of an Upper Cretaceous mixed carbonate-siliciclastic shelf of the external Prebetic domain (Valencia, SE Spain)	1
An Ediacaran trace-like body fossil of a Palaeopascichnus specimen from Oman under 3D micro-tomography	1
Modularity explains large-scale reef booms in Earth’s history	1
Benthic response to the strong Silurian climatic fluctuations—implications from Gotland (Sweden)	1
Ichnology of Lower Cretaceous prodelta and delta front deposits of the Sidi Khalif Formation, Central Tunisia	1
A “cool-water”, non-tropical, mixed volcaniclastic–carbonate ramp from the Early Cretaceous of southern Chile (45°40’S)	1
Stratigraphical, microfacies, and ichnological characteristics and depositional environments of the Permo‒Carboniferous Aheimer Formation, western side of the Gulf of Suez, Egypt	1
New insights on the Permian mixed siliciclastic and carbonate deposits of southern Tunisia: Facies, palaeoenvironments, and depositional models	1
The “Orbitolina Limestone” of central Iran: new data about microfacies, orbitolinid biostratigraphy, and palaeogeography	1