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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The origin, nature and ﬂuid characteristics of the hydrothermal veining crosscutting the Yzerfontein gabbro-diorite, Cape Granite Suite, South Africa	14
A zircon trace element and Hf isotope geochemical study of syenites and carbonatite, exemplified by the Epembe alkaline carbonatite complex, Namibia	13
Mid-Ordovician subduction, obduction, and eduction in western Newfoundland; an eclogite problem	13
THE LAST FAREWELL	12
The depositional environment of the Koeris Formation in the Aggeneys-Gamsberg ore district, South Africa	10
Chronostratigraphic palaeo-climate phasing based on southern African wetlands: From the escarpment to the eastern seaboard	10
Heat flow in the Main Karoo Basin, South Africa	9
Okorusu tailings – Part I: General characterisation of superficial tailings	9
Microbial mat-induced microfacies in clastic deposits – An overview	8
Cenozoic stratigraphy of South Africa: current challenges and future possibilities	8
Dedicated to the late Professor Nic Beukes (1945 - 2023)	8
Stratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental interpretation of late Quaternary colluvial slope deposits in southern Africa	8
Atmospheric oxygenation at the onset of Earth’s Great Oxidation forced enhanced marine anoxia	7
Ascent and emplacement controls of mafic magmas in the mid crust − evidence from 3D modelling of basic bodies of the Koperberg Suite, Namaqualand	7
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)	7
New palaeomagnetic results from the Mesoarchaean Nsuze flood basalts, South Africa	7
A neural network application to assess magma diversity in the Etendeka igneous province, Namibia	6
A positive syn-fold test from the Neoarchaean Klipriviersberg Group of South Africa: Quo vadis Vaalbara?	6
Paradise lost: large mammal remains as a proxy for environmental change from MIS 6 to the Holocene in southern Africa	6
Manganese in South Africa: its mineral economics, geology and geometallurgy	6
A proposed chronostratigraphic framework for the late Quaternary of southern Africa	5
Macroseismic analysis and the determination of a focal mechanism of the 31 October 2019, KwaZulu-Natal earthquake in South Africa	5
Correlations on the southern Kaapvaal Craton Margin, 1: Ventersdorp lavas transgressed the Doornberg lineament	5
Applying U-Pb chronometry and trace element geochemistry of apatite to carbonatite-phoscorite complexes – as exemplified by the 2.06 Ga Phalaborwa Complex, South Africa	5
Geomechanical properties of the Permian black shales in the southern main Karoo Basin: lessons from compositional and petrophysical studies	5

Geochemical evolution of magmatic rocks in the Vioolsdrif Domain, Namibia	5
Andrieslombaardite, RhSbS, a new platinum-group mineral from the platiniferous Onverwacht Pipe, Republic of South Africa	4
Petrology and spatial correlation of Black Belly tuff cone basalts, Tanzania	4
Towards disentangling climatic and tectonic changes of southernmost Africa using strontium isotope stratigraphy and clumped isotope thermometry	4
On the kinematics and timing of Rodinia breakup: a possible rift–transform junction of Cryogenian age at the southwest cape of Congo Craton (northwest Namibia)	4
Dryland dunes and other dryland environmental archives as proxies for Late Quaternary stratigraphy and environmental and climate change in southern Africa	4
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	4
The Greater Cederberg–False Bay Large Igneous Province in South Africa: A southern node of widespread magmatism associated with South Atlantic rifting	4
Misinterpretation of zircon ages in layered intrusions	4
Detrital zircon ages and proposed provenance of the Koegas Subgroup of the Ghaap Group, and overlying Makganyene Formation, of the Postmasburg Group, Transvaal Supergroup	4
Application of modern seismic attributes in the characterisation of mass transport deposits: Orange Basin, South Africa	4
Tectonic and sedimentary evolution of a potential supra-detachment fault basin, Archaean Moodies Group (~3.22 Ga), central Barberton Greenstone Belt	4
The inﬂuence of humic substances on the weathering of PGE in chromitite of the Bushveld Complex: An experimental simulation of the weathering environment	4
Micromammals and the Late Quaternary of southern Africa	3
3.63 Ga grey gneisses reveal the Eoarchaean history of the Zimbabwe craton	3
Petrogenesis and tectonic implications of the Bloubergstrand basaltic andesites, Tygerberg Formation, Malmesbury Group, Pan-African Saldania Belt, southwestern Africa	3
Boron isotopes of Manganese ores from the northern part of the Kalahari Manganese Deposit, South Africa	3
Late Mesoproterozoic iron and manganese deposition on a deep-water carbonate platform (Penganga Group), Adilabad, India: Constraints from C, O and Sr isotopes	3
Geochemical reconnaissance of the Guéra and Ouaddaï Massifs in Chad: evolution of Proterozoic crust in the Central Sahara Shield	3
Case study in the Northern Cape (Loopeng area), South Africa, confirming occurrence of a collapsible sand soil structure in transported soils	3
A geochemical study of the Crown Formation and Bird Member lavas of the Mesoarchaean Witwatersrand Supergroup, South Africa	3
Petroleum potential from Permian-Triassic strata of the Maniamba Basin, Mozambique: A preliminary characterisation	3
Macroseismic survey of the 6 February 2016 KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa earthquake	3
The enigmatic continental crust of North-Central Africa: Saharan Metacraton or Central Sahara Shield?	3
INTRODUCTION	2
Petrogenesis of PGE mineralised intrusions in the floor of the northern Bushveld Complex	2
The surface geology of the Prince Edward Islands: refined spatial data and call for geoconservation	2
Petrographic and geochemical evidence of calc-silicate xenolith – magma interaction in the western Bushveld Complex, South Africa	2
Occurrence and probable source of chromium enrichment in Permian coals, South Africa	2
Assessing the geological relationships between the mafic-ultramafic intrusion in the Haib area and the Vuurdood Subsuite, Richtersveld Subprovince	2
This article is a correction to: Syn-Bushveld “granite sheets” associated with the Molopo Farms Complex intruding into Transvaal Supergroup strata in southern Botswana	2
Provenance of metasedimentary rocks of the Kheis Terrane and Kakamas Domain: support for accretionary tectonics during the development of the western Namaqua-Natal metamorphic province	2
A sedimentological record of fluvial-aeolian interactions and climate variability in the hyperarid northern Namib Desert, Namibia	2
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
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	1
Review of the thermo-tectonic evolution of the Central Zone of the Limpopo Complex with implications for conflicting published geodynamic models	1
Seismic imaging of dolerite sills and volcanic vents in the Central Karoo, South Africa: implications for shale gas potential	1
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	1
A new lithostratigraphic framework and unified nomenclature for the Nsuze Group of the Nkandla sub-basin, southern Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa	1
Uncovering the southern Bushveld Complex, using reflection seismic and gravity data	1
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	1
Constraining the timescales of mafic magmatism of the Central Karoo Large Igneous Province using high precision U-Pb zircon geochronology	1
Regional variance in alluvial sedimentation and revised stratigraphy of the Klipheuwel Group and Franschhoek Formation	1
Characterising the late Quaternary facies stratigraphy of floodplains in South Africa	1
Towards an astrochronological framework for the lower Paleoproterozoic Kuruman and Brockman Iron Formations	1
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	1
Correlations on the southern Kaapvaal Craton Margin, 2: Ventersdorp strata at T’Kuip date the end of Klipriviersberg Volcanism	1
Factors responsible for Witwatersrand gold mineralisation	1
Quartz arenites as signatures of cratonisation: examples from the Archaean Stratigraphic Record, southern 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

Further evidence for Cretaceous wildfires: macro-charcoal from the Malha Formation at Wadi Budra, west-central Sinai, Egypt	1
Stratigraphy and Basin Analysis of the West Rand Group, Witwatersrand Supergroup	1
A Review of the geological history of the Evander Basin with new insights into the deposition of the Kimberley Formation	1
The processing behaviour of the sphalerites from the Big Syncline deposit, 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