OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Terra Nova 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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Metallogenic age of the world‐class giant huoshaoyun non‐sulphide Zn–Pb deposit in Karakoram Area, Xinjiang, Northwest China	26
Referee List	25
Thermal regime and slab dehydration beneath the Izu‐Bonin arc: Implications for fast and slow subduction earthquakes	25
Dispersal of endolithic microorganisms in vesicular volcanic rock: Distribution, settlement and pathways revealed by 3D X‐ray microscopy	18
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Linking rifted margin crustal shape with the timing and volume of magmatism	15
Lithospheric Deformation of Far‐Field Terranes in Response to the India–Asia Collision	15
Structural fabrics of carbon grains in a natural fault gouge reactivated by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake	15
Petrologic relationship between lamprophyres, carbonatites, and heavy rare‐earth element enriched breccias at Hicks Dome	14
Storage in the deep aquifer: Stochastic process in time and frequency domain using groundwater level response to seismic activation of the Tohoku earthquake, Japan, 2011	13
Pleistocene glaciomarine laminated muds in the Central Basin of the northwestern Ross Sea and their palaeoceanographic records	12
The effects of plateau subduction on plate bending, stress and intraplate seismicity	12
Exhumation of the high‐pressure Richarddalen Complex in NW Svalbard: Insights from ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology	12
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Brittle basement deformation during the Caledonian Orogeny observed by K‐Ar geochronology of illite‐bearing fault gouge in west‐central Sweden	11
Refining vanadium hyper‐enrichment in black shales of the Late Devonian–Early Mississippian Bakken Formation (USA)	10
Potential and problems in evaluating secular changes in the diversity of animal‐substrate interactions at ichnospecies rank	10
Geophysical‐petrological modelling of the crust and upper mantle structure across the North‐South Gravity Lineament in NE China: Insights into the lithospheric thinning mechanism	10
Discovery of a hidden Triassic Arc in the Southern South China Sea: Evidence for the breakaway of a ribbon continent with implications for the evolution of the Western Pacific margin	10
Hygrochronometry of punctuated metasomatic events during exhumation of the Cycladic blueschist unit (Syros, Greece)	10
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Late Cretaceous geodynamics of the Palaeo‐Pacific plate inferred from basin inversion structures in the Songliao Basin (NE China)	9
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Crustal block origins of the South Scotia Ridge	9

Apparent Joint Swarms Formed by the Crack‐Jump Process	8
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Crustal anisotropy beneath southeast Tibet revealed by Pms arrival times	7
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A kinematic reconstruction of Iberia using intracontinental strike‐slip corridors	7
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The mafic volcanic climax of the Paraná‐Etendeka Large Igneous Province as the trigger of the Weissert Event	7
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In situ U–Pb geochronology of Pre‐Salt carbonates reveals links between diagenesis and regional tectonics	6
Brief immersion of southern Australia by change in relative plate speed	6
A novel approach for quantifying similarities between different debris flow sites using field investigations and numerical modelling	6
The nature of the Late Syn‐rift Sag Basin (LSSB)	6
Complex iron and sulphate reducing Cretaceous sedimentary system revealed by extreme isotope values	6
Gondwana break‐up controlled by tectonic inheritance and mantle plume activity: Insights from Natal rift development (South Mozambique, Africa)	6
Schist Belts of the Benin‐Nigeria Shield Reveal a Neoproterozoic History	6
Drainage Divide Migration in Response to Asymmetric Uplift at Eastern Qinling, China	5
When did the Pyrenean shortening end? Insight from U–Pb geochronology of syn‐faulting calcite (Corbières area, France)	5
Monazite Beats Zircon Regarding Dating of Young Metamorphic Events—An Example From Polycyclic Granitic Gneiss of the Pohorje Mountains, Slovenia	5
Continuous record of Upper Ordovician (Katian) to lower Silurian (Telychian) global δ¹³C excursions in the Williston Basin	5
Continental and island arc segmentation: Implications for retro‐arc and pro‐arc foreland basin and backarc basin geometries and sediment distributions	5
Large igneous provinces track fluctuations in subaerial exposure of continents across the Archean–Proterozoic transition	5
Geo‐thermochronological analysis reveals transition from transverse to axial detrital inputs during Cretaceous rifting in the Songliao Basin, NE China	5
Physical modelling of earthquake precursor by the electro‐optical parameters of gabbro rock under compressive stress	5
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Gravity field and geothermal structure of the Corsica‐Sardinia Block	4
In‐situ U‐Pb dating of calcite slickenfibre constraints on Cenozoic multiple‐phase faulting along the eastern segment of Chengkou Fault, Dabashan Fold‐and‐Thrust Belt	4
Analysing Temporal Variations in Radon Concentrations: Identifying Trends and Changes	4
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Holocene slip rates and their implications for seismic hazard along the Himalayan Frontal Thrust in western Himalayan Nahan salient	4
Plate corner subduction and rapid localized exhumation: Insights from3Dcoupled geodynamic and geomorphological modelling	4
Crustal density structure and flexure mechanism of the Tarim Basin, China, constrained by latest in situ gravity observations	4
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Water storage in cratonic mantle	4
Direct dating rodingitization in the northern North China Craton using garnet U–Pb geochronometry	4
LA‐ICP‐MS U–Pb dating of calcite cement in Upper Triassic tight‐gas sandstone reservoirs, western Sichuan Basin, SW China	4
Impact of tidal friction on the motion of lithospheric plates and earthquake activity	4
Fold‐and‐Thrust Belt and Early Alpine Relief Recorded by Calcite U–Pb Dating of an Uplifted Paleo‐Canyon (Vercors Massif, France)	4
CO₂‐Rich Xenoliths at Mt. Vulture Volcano (Southern Italy): New Constraints on the Volcano Plumbing System	4
Hydrous Asthenosphere Underneath the Northern Pannonian Basin	4
Iron from continental weathering dictated soft‐part preservation during the Early Ordovician	4
The Fagradalsfjall and Sundhnúkur Fires of 2021–2024: A single magma reservoir under the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland?	4
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Early onset of Pyrenean collision (97–90 Ma) evidenced by U–Pb dating on calcite (Provence, SE France)	3
Large landslide of the hyperarid Central Western Andes triggered during a humid period of the Late Pleistocene (ca. 19°S; northern Chile)	3
Triassic detrital records in the western Dian‐Qiong suture, South China: Implications for the eastern Paleo‐Tethys evolution	3
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Origin of Helium and Associated Fluid in Fault‐Related Hydrothermal Systems of the Eastern Pyrenees	3
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Magmatic Records of Subduction Initiation and Early Building of the Kohistan Island Arc, Pakistan	3
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Red or green: Overprinting of the climatic signal in Miocene sediments, South China Sea (IODP Expedition 368, Site U1502)	3
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High authigenic Co enrichment in the non‐euxinic buff‐grey and black shale of the Chandarpur Group, Chhattisgarh Supergroup: Implication for the late Mesoproterozoic shallow marine redox condition	3
Quantifying the Rhythm of Ice Accumulation in East Antarctica With Varying Temperature	3
Constraining the Timing of the Closure of the Intra‐Pontide Ocean by U–Pb Dating of Syntectonic Calcite	3
Degassing of soil gas radon and its implication to fault activity in the western margin of the Ordos Block, China	3
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Predictable time preservation on passive continental margins revealed from forward stratigraphic models	3
Low‐temperature thermochronology and the timing of motion on detachment faults	3
Why is Denali (6,194 m) so big? Caught inside the tectonic wake of a migrating restraining bend	2
Mongolian micro‐continental blocks in Columbia/Nuna: Zircon U–Pb–Hf isotopic evidence for long‐lasting Mongolia–Western Siberia connection	2
The Louisiade ophiolite: A missing link in the western Pacific	2
Loss of loess in the geological record due to poor preservation	2
Circa 1.9 Ga Rae‐Hearne collision from Lu–Hf garnet chronology in eclogites	2
Constraining the diagenesis of the Puga cap carbonate from U–Pb in‐situ dating of seafloor crystal fans, southern Amazonian craton, Brazil	2
On the influence of Variscan inheritance on rifting of the Western Iberian margin	2
Tectonically dominant surface denudation and topography in the Himalaya: Evidence from coupling between bedrock channel and valley hillslope topographies	2
Seismic roulette: Hazards and risks	2
Detrital apatite Lu–Hf and U–Pb geochronology applied to the southwestern Siberian margin	2
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Detrital peridotite minerals reveal recycled arc mantle beneath Marion Rise, Southwest Indian Ridge	2
Long‐Lasting Plutonism During Orogenic Cycles: Incremental Emplacement of the Variscan Bassiès Pluton (Central Pyrenees, France)	2
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Limitations of provenance diagnoses and maximum‐depositional‐age constraints based on detrital‐zircon geochronology: the fertility bias	2
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A frozen oceanic crystal mush	2
Damage evolution in layered rock masses of a mining floor under the influence of fluid–structure coupling	2
Interdependence between bacterial EPS and early grain coat development	2
A plate tectonic view from the top of the world	1
Elevated Tropical Sea Surface Temperatures During the Globally Warm Miocene Caused Heat Stress for Caribbean Coral Reefs	1
Miocene ductile thinning below the Folegandros Detachment System, Cyclades, Greece	1
Lithospheric structure beneath the Qinling Orogenic Belt and its surrounding regions: Implications for regional lithosphere deformation	1
Episodic Late Cretaceous to Neogene crustal thickness variation in southern Tibet	1
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High positive carbonate carbon isotope excursion identified in the North China Craton: Implications for the Lomagundi–Jatuli Event	1
A new type of saidenbachite with pseudomorphs after coesite phenocrysts from the north‐western Bohemian Massif, Germany	1
Ediacaran mafic magmatism recorded in Cambrian eclogites of the Ross orogen, Antarctica: Implications for the Neoproterozoic rifting episodes along the Pacific‐Gondwana margin	1
A persistent Hadean–Eoarchean protocrust in the western Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia	1
Emplacement and associated sedimentary record of the Jurassic submarine salt allochthon of the Wurzeralm (Eastern Alps, Austria)	1
Landslide susceptibility zoning based on Rock Engineering System application to the Tehran case study	1
Insights on the uplift mechanism of the eastern Tibetan Plateau from the flexural isostasy study	1
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Paleogene–Neogene environmental evolution and the uplift‐sedimentation response of the NE Tibetan Plateau	1
Alkaline magmatism from the Lublin–Baltic area of Poland (SW slope of the East European Craton)—Manifestation of hitherto unrecognized early Carboniferous igneous province	1
Understanding volcanic margin evolution through the lens of Norway's youngest granite	1
Seismic evidence for ductile necking of the mid‐lower crust beneath the Columbrets Basin (Western Mediterranean)	1
Rainfall‐induced ground deformation in southern Africa	1
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Preservation of basement architecture in zircon Hf isotope maps	1
Supercritical‐Flow Deposits: A New Quantitative Tool to Characterise Deep‐Marine Depositional Environments (Oligocene Annot Sandstones, SE France)?	1
Numerical constraints on the one‐stage and two‐stage Greater India collision models	1
Abnormally low heat flow in Southeast China resulted from remnant slab subducted beneath the east Asian lithosphere	1
Devonian–Early Carboniferous thrust tectonics in the Old Red Sandstone Molasse Basin, North‐East Greenland	1
The effect of pre‐existing fabrics on plate bending and seismicity in Alaska subduction zone	1
Deep borehole discoveries beneath the Appalachian Basin: Broad Rodinian rift and Neoproterozoic tectonothermal event	1
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Three dimensional crustal P‐wave structure beneath the central south segment of the Tanlu Fault Zone determined by local earthquake travel‐time tomography	1
The leaky chronometer: Evidence for systematic cryptic Pb loss in laser ablation U‐Pb dating of zircon relative to CA‐TIMS	1
Time‐probabilistic approach to the late Miocene Messinian salinity crisis: Implications for a disconnected Paratethys	1
The new global tectonic map—Analyses and implications	1
3D‐seismic evidence for thick‐skinned tectonics in a ‘classic’ thin skinned tectonics region (external Alpine foreland, Switzerland)	1