OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Terra Nova is 3. 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.)

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Continental and island arc segmentation: Implications for retro‐arc and pro‐arc foreland basin and backarc basin geometries and sediment distributions	34
Variations in magmatism and the state of tectonic compensation of the Mariana subduction system	24
Origin of Helium and Associated Fluid in Fault‐Related Hydrothermal Systems of the Eastern Pyrenees	23
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Lithospheric Deformation of Far‐Field Terranes in Response to the India–Asia Collision	16
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Monazite Beats Zircon Regarding Dating of Young Metamorphic Events—An Example From Polycyclic Granitic Gneiss of the Pohorje Mountains, Slovenia	15
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Loss of loess in the geological record due to poor preservation	12
Variable exhumation history between the central and eastern Xigaze fore‐arc basin, south Tibet: Implications for underthrusting Indian slab dynamics	11
Assessing the robustness of carbonate‐associated sulfate during hydrothermal dolomitization of the Latemar platform, Italy	11
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Broken Beds, but better science; using multiple hypotheses to interpret geological data	11
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Ridge jump reorientation of the South China Sea revealed by high‐resolution magnetic data	10
Thermal regime and slab dehydration beneath the Izu‐Bonin arc: Implications for fast and slow subduction earthquakes	10
Contrasting thermal histories for the Indian passive margins during syn‐ and post‐Gondwana break‐up: Insights from apatite fission‐track thermochronology	10
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Seismic roulette: Hazards and risks	9
Three dimensional crustal P‐wave structure beneath the central south segment of the Tanlu Fault Zone determined by local earthquake travel‐time tomography	9
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Structural fabrics of carbon grains in a natural fault gouge reactivated by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake	8
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Source‐to‐sink tandem geochronology reveals tectonic influences on the Cambrian Transcontinental Arch of Laurentia	7
A new type of saidenbachite with pseudomorphs after coesite phenocrysts from the north‐western Bohemian Massif, Germany	7

Dispersal of endolithic microorganisms in vesicular volcanic rock: Distribution, settlement and pathways revealed by 3D X‐ray microscopy	7
The leaky chronometer: Evidence for systematic cryptic Pb loss in laser ablation U‐Pb dating of zircon relative to CA‐TIMS	7
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Widespread Involvement of Low‐Abundance KREEP in the Mantle of Chang'e‐5 and Its Surrounding Units	6
Mongolian micro‐continental blocks in Columbia/Nuna: Zircon U–Pb–Hf isotopic evidence for long‐lasting Mongolia–Western Siberia connection	6
Active faulting in the Beagle Channel (Tierra del Fuego)	6
Rainfall‐induced ground deformation in southern Africa	6
Miocene tectonic activity at the boundary between NE Pannonian and NW Transylvanian basins (Romania): Insight from new seismic data	6
High heat flow at the SW passive margin of the Gulf of California	5
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Formation of the Yangtze Three Gorges: Insights from detrital apatite fission‐track dating of sediments from the Jianghan Basin	5
Eocene (48.7 Ma) eclogite at Chepelare, Central Rhodopes, Bulgaria: A key to the tectonics of the Rhodopes	5
Metallogenic age of the world‐class giant huoshaoyun non‐sulphide Zn–Pb deposit in Karakoram Area, Xinjiang, Northwest China	5
Detrital apatite Lu–Hf and U–Pb geochronology applied to the southwestern Siberian margin	5
High positive carbonate carbon isotope excursion identified in the North China Craton: Implications for the Lomagundi–Jatuli Event	5
Large igneous provinces track fluctuations in subaerial exposure of continents across the Archean–Proterozoic transition	5
Limitations of provenance diagnoses and maximum‐depositional‐age constraints based on detrital‐zircon geochronology: the fertility bias	5
Mixed metamorphic and fluid graphite deposition in Palaeoproterozoic supracrustal rocks of the Lewisian Complex, NW Scotland	5
When did the Pyrenean shortening end? Insight from U–Pb geochronology of syn‐faulting calcite (Corbières area, France)	5
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Linking rifted margin crustal shape with the timing and volume of magmatism	4
Direct dating rodingitization in the northern North China Craton using garnet U–Pb geochronometry	4
Holocene slip rates and their implications for seismic hazard along the Himalayan Frontal Thrust in western Himalayan Nahan salient	4
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Eclogite dehydration and melt‐induced embrittlement at high‐pressure conditions	4
Pleistocene glaciomarine laminated muds in the Central Basin of the northwestern Ross Sea and their palaeoceanographic records	4
Seismic evidence for ductile necking of the mid‐lower crust beneath the Columbrets Basin (Western Mediterranean)	4
Timing of partial melting and granulite formation during the genesis of high to ultra‐high temperature terranes: Insight from numerical experiments	4
Pleistocene–Holoceneout‐of‐sequence faulting along theMedlicott‐WadiaThrust in theNWHimalaya	4
Petrologic relationship between lamprophyres, carbonatites, and heavy rare‐earth element enriched breccias at Hicks Dome	4
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	4
Short‐wavelength Bouguer gravity anomaly and active fault distribution in the northeastern Japan arc	4
Imaging of post‐collisional deformations on the NE Tisza continental unit using ambient seismic noise: A case study from the Țicău area, Romania	4
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Why is Denali (6,194 m) so big? Caught inside the tectonic wake of a migrating restraining bend	3
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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	3
Accretion of the NW Himalayan foreland pre‐dates Late Cenozoic climate change	3
Exhumation of the high‐pressure Richarddalen Complex in NW Svalbard: Insights from ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology	3
LA‐ICP‐MS U–Pb dating of calcite cement in Upper Triassic tight‐gas sandstone reservoirs, western Sichuan Basin, SW China	3
Energy facies: A global view of pyroclastic currents from vent to deposit	3
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Ocean expansion: The role of detachment faults	3
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Subduction signature in the Internal Ligurian units (Northern Apennine, Italy): Evidence from P–T metamorphic peak estimate	3
The Fagradalsfjall and Sundhnúkur Fires of 2021–2024: A single magma reservoir under the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland?	3
Water storage in cratonic mantle	3
The Louisiade ophiolite: A missing link in the western Pacific	3

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Constraining modes and rates of horizontal deformation along east Qinling fault system from rotated river basins	3
Iron from continental weathering dictated soft‐part preservation during the Early Ordovician	3
Thermal history of the Epiligurian Marzabotto wedge‐top basin records the tectonic development of the Northern Apennines (Italy)	3
Sediment provenance signal of the discontinuous retroarc topography in the northern Andes during the Early Cretaceous	3
Hydrous Asthenosphere Underneath the Northern Pannonian Basin	3
Tectonically dominant surface denudation and topography in the Himalaya: Evidence from coupling between bedrock channel and valley hillslope topographies	3