OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of South African Journal of Geology 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
New details on the volcanic and tectonic evolution of the Mesoarchaean Dominion Group with special reference to the Syferfontein Formation in the Ottosdal area (South Africa)	16
New palaeomagnetic results from the Mesoarchaean Nsuze flood basalts, South Africa	14
Ascent and emplacement controls of mafic magmas in the mid crust − evidence from 3D modelling of basic bodies of the Koperberg Suite, Namaqualand	13
Cenozoic stratigraphy of South Africa: current challenges and future possibilities	12
Microbial mat-induced microfacies in clastic deposits – An overview	10
Okorusu tailings – Part I: General characterisation of superficial tailings	10
Misinterpretation of zircon ages in layered intrusions	9
Andrieslombaardite, RhSbS, a new platinum-group mineral from the platiniferous Onverwacht Pipe, Republic of South Africa	9
Petroleum potential from Permian-Triassic strata of the Maniamba Basin, Mozambique: A preliminary characterisation	9
The Greater Cederberg–False Bay Large Igneous Province in South Africa: A southern node of widespread magmatism associated with South Atlantic rifting	9
The processing behaviour of the sphalerites from the Big Syncline deposit, South Africa	8
Detrital zircon in Pleistocene aeolianite of the Isipingo Formation at Cape Vidal, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, gives age and Hf isotope signatures without provenance significance	8
Uncovering the southern Bushveld Complex, using reflection seismic and gravity data	8
The inﬂuence of humic substances on the weathering of PGE in chromitite of the Bushveld Complex: An experimental simulation of the weathering environment	8
Regional variance in alluvial sedimentation and revised stratigraphy of the Klipheuwel Group and Franschhoek Formation	8
The enigmatic continental crust of North-Central Africa: Saharan Metacraton or Central Sahara Shield?	8
Case study in the Northern Cape (Loopeng area), South Africa, confirming occurrence of a collapsible sand soil structure in transported soils	7
Seismic imaging of dolerite sills and volcanic vents in the Central Karoo, South Africa: implications for shale gas potential	7
New constraints on the age of ore at Black Mountain mine, Bushmanland Ore District, South Africa	6
Timing of deformation within the Southern Structural Domain of the Pongola basin, southeast margin of the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa: constraints from field mapping and contact relationships.	6
Reprocessing potential of pegmatite tailings for rare metal extraction and brick fabrication, Uis, Namibia	6
Amphibolite facies metamorphism in lower Witwatersrand Supergroup rocks exposed in the Vredefort Dome – a Ventersdorp LIP connection	6
A Review of the geological history of the Evander Basin with new insights into the deposition of the Kimberley Formation	6
Stratigraphy and Basin Analysis of the West Rand Group, Witwatersrand Supergroup	6
Cave and rock shelter sediments of southern Africa: a review of the chronostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental record from Marine Isotope Stage 6 to 1	5

Palynomorph composition and palynofacies analysis of the Cenomanian Bahariya Formation in the north Western Desert of Egypt: Depositional palaeoenvironment and sequence stratigraphic implications	5
Cyanobacteria-ferrihydrite aggregates, BIF sedimentation and implications for Archaean- Palaeoproterozoic seawater geochemistry	5
The late Quaternary stratigraphy of coastal dunes and associated deposits in southern Africa	5
Pollen, charcoal and phytolith records from the Late Quaternary of southern Africa: vegetation and climate interpretations	5
Fossil wood from the Upper Cretaceous crater sediments of the Salpeterkop volcano, North West Province, South Africa	5
Chronostratigraphic palaeo-climate phasing based on southern African wetlands: From the escarpment to the eastern seaboard	4
Dedicated to the late Professor Nic Beukes (1945 - 2023)	4
Lateral uniformity of the Pyroxenite Marker Transition in the western Bushveld Complex, South Africa	4
Geomagnetic jerks observed in geomagnetic observatory data over southern Africa between 2017 and 2023	4
Satellite imagery reveals the nature of the Archaean granite-greenstone basement of the Kruger National Park, South Africa, including the newly discovered Olifants River Greenstone Belt	4
Preface	4
Does water transparency control the banding in shallow water iron formations?	4
A new lithostratigraphic framework for portions of the Pongola Supergroup within the Nkandla sub-basin, southern Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa; insights into Mozaan Group stratigraphy	4
Manganese carbonate-bearing mudstone of the Witwatersrand-Mozaan succession in southern Africa as evidence for bacterial manganese respiration and availability of free molecular oxygen in Mesoarchaean	4
Elemental proxy evidence for late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental change in southern African sedimentary records: interpretation and applications	4
Zircon geochronology and geochemistry of pre-Bushveld sills in the eastern Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa	4
Lithostratigraphy of the Vuurdood Subsuite, an early mafic-ultramafic phase of the Palaeoproterozoic Vioolsdrif Intrusive Suite, Richtersveld Magmatic Arc, Northern Cape Province	4
THE LAST FAREWELL	3
Towards disentangling climatic and tectonic changes of southernmost Africa using strontium isotope stratigraphy and clumped isotope thermometry	3
Combined satellite and portable XRF exploration mapping of the Zaaiplaats tin field, South Africa	3
Assessing the geological relationships between the mafic-ultramafic intrusion in the Haib area and the Vuurdood Subsuite, Richtersveld Subprovince	3
The depositional environment of the Koeris Formation in the Aggeneys-Gamsberg ore district, South Africa	3
The Puduhush gabbro in Griqualand West, South Africa: extendingca.1.89 to 1.83 Ga intraplate magmatism across the proto-Kalahari Craton	3
Tectonic and sedimentary evolution of a potential supra-detachment fault basin, Archaean Moodies Group (~3.22 Ga), central Barberton Greenstone Belt	3
A positive syn-fold test from the Neoarchaean Klipriviersberg Group of South Africa: Quo vadis Vaalbara?	3
Sub-lithospheric mantle sources for overlapping southern African Large Igneous Provinces	2
The Tennis Ball Marker in the south-eastern Bushveld Complex: comparison with the Boulder Bed of the Western Bushveld Complex and proposed genesis by disaggregation of intrusive sills in processes aki	2
Towards an astrochronological framework for the lower Paleoproterozoic Kuruman and Brockman Iron Formations	2
Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology of some metasedimentary units in the Jebba-Bode Saadu area southwestern Nigeria: Implications for northwest Africa – northeast Brazil connections in the Proterozoic	2
O- and H-isotope record of Cape Town rainfall from 1996 to 2022: the effect of increasing temperature, and the ‘water crisis’ of 2015 to 2018	2
A sedimentological record of fluvial-aeolian interactions and climate variability in the hyperarid northern Namib Desert, Namibia	2
Lithostratigraphy of the Bumbeni Complex and its associated subdivisions, South Africa	2
Zircon xenocrysts obscured the zircon date for the lower Koras Group, southern Africa	2
Factors leading to sub-surface pan silcrete formation in north-central Botswana	2
INTRODUCTION	2
Occurrence and probable source of chromium enrichment in Permian coals, South Africa	2
U-Pb detrital zircon age determination and provenance of the lower Karoo succession from the Karoo Research Initiative (KARIN) borehole KWV-1, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa	2
Stratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental interpretation of late Quaternary colluvial slope deposits in southern Africa	1
Paradise lost: large mammal remains as a proxy for environmental change from MIS 6 to the Holocene in southern Africa	1
Macroseismic survey of the 6 February 2016 KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa earthquake	1
Late Mesoproterozoic iron and manganese deposition on a deep-water carbonate platform (Penganga Group), Adilabad, India: Constraints from C, O and Sr isotopes	1
Petrogenesis of the Marginal Sill Phase and Lower Zone in the Eastern Limb of the Bushveld Complex: Incremental development of igneous layering and syn-magmatic emplacement of peridotite intrusions an	1
Dissolution of synthetic diamonds to produce morphologies similar to natural diamonds: an experimental study	1
Further evidence for Cretaceous wildfires: macro-charcoal from the Malha Formation at Wadi Budra, west-central Sinai, Egypt	1
Manganese in South Africa: its mineral economics, geology and geometallurgy	1
Heat flow in the Main Karoo Basin, South Africa	1
Stratigraphy of late Quaternary mountain slope landforms and deposits in southern Africa and their significance for the dynamics of mountain sediment systems	1
Characterising the late Quaternary facies stratigraphy of floodplains in South Africa	1
A reinterpretation of the Archaean stratigraphy south of Nkandla, southern Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa: Geophysical and stratigraphic constraints on a sheared granitoid-greenstone remnant	1
Petrogenesis of PGE mineralised intrusions in the floor of the northern Bushveld Complex	1

Review of the thermo-tectonic evolution of the Central Zone of the Limpopo Complex with implications for conflicting published geodynamic models	1
A new lithostratigraphic framework and unified nomenclature for the Nsuze Group of the Nkandla sub-basin, southern Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa	1
Geomechanical properties of the Permian black shales in the southern main Karoo Basin: lessons from compositional and petrophysical studies	1
Geochemical evolution of magmatic rocks in the Vioolsdrif Domain, Namibia	1
The surface geology of the Prince Edward Islands: refined spatial data and call for geoconservation	1
Technocomplexes and chronostratigraphy for MIS 6-1 in southern Africa	1
Tectonic setting and Pan-African structural evolution of the western Saldania Belt, South Africa	1
S- to I- to A-type magmatic cycles in granitic terranes are not globally recurring progressions. The cases of the Cape Granite Suite of Southern Africa and central Victoria in southeastern Australia	1