OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Geosphere is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Timing and evolution of structures within the southeastern Greater Caucasus and Kura Fold-Thrust Belt from multiproxy sediment provenance records	27
Identifying sources of non-unique detrital age distributions through integrated provenance analysis: An example from the Paleozoic Central Colorado Trough	23
New detrital zircon U-Pb and Hf isotope constraints for the Kluane Schist, southwestern Yukon, Canada, and their implications for Cretaceous Insular terrane accretion	21
Deformation and faulting in the Bellingham basin and southern Georgia Strait, western United States and Canada	21
Frenchman Mountain Dolostone: A new formation of the Cambrian Tonto Group, Grand Canyon and Basin and Range, USA	19
Contrasting constraints on the temporal and spatial extents of normal faults from the Hilltop and Lewis mining districts, northern Shoshone Range, Nevada, USA	16
K-Mg salt distribution in the Zechstein Group of the Northern Permian Basin (UK and Norway)— Interplays with the Southern Permian Basin and implications for salt cavern development	15
Shallow deformation on the Kirby Hills fault, Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta, California (USA), revealed from high-resolution seismic reflection data and coring in a fluvial system	15
Redefinition of the Petersburg batholith and implications for crustal inheritance in the Dinwiddie terrane, Virginia, USA	15
Subsurface thermal gradients along the Queen Charlotte plate boundary from a regional mapping of bottom simulating reflectors	14
Revised geologic map and structural interpretation of the Mineral King pendant, southern Sierra Nevada, California (USA): Evidence for kilometer-scale folding and structural imbrication of a Permian t	14
Structural styles and kinematic evolution of the Front Ranges of the Southern Canadian Rockies	12
Neogene and Pleistocene landslides along the Grand Valley fault in eastern Idaho and western Wyoming, USA, and their relationship to caldera-forming eruptions of the Yellowstone hotspot	12
A late Eocene lamprophyre-carbonatite association in the SE Tibetan Plateau: Rapid basalt-induced H2O-saturated partial melting of the upper crust	11
Two phases of Cretaceous dextral shearing recorded in the plutonic rocks of NW Nevada (USA): A tectonic link between intra-arc shearing in the Sierra Nevada and Idaho batholiths	10
Formation and evolution of a magmatic system in the Indian passive margin: Insights from the Triassic Yumai Complex from the eastern Tethyan Himalaya	10
Igneous, hydrothermal, or both? Exploring the origin of pegmatites and aplites at the Amis intrusion, Namibia	10
Andean-type, bivergent crustal shortening in the Rinkian orogen: New constraints on the tectonic evolution of Laurentia–West Greenland in the Paleoproterozoic	10
Crustal structure of the Lazufre volcanic complex and the Southern Puna from 3-D inversion of magnetotelluric data: Implications for surface uplift and evidence for melt storage and hydrothermal fluid	9
Tectonomagmatic evolution of southwestern Laurentia: Insights from zircon U-Pb geochronology and hafnium isotopic composition of the Red Bluff Granite Suite, west Texas, USA	9
Early Ordovician seamounts preserved in the Canadian Cordillera: Implications for the rift history of western Laurentia	9
A kinematic model linking the Sevier and Laramide belts in the Idaho-Montana fold-thrust belt, U.S. Cordillera	9
A systematic approach to mapping tectonic faults and documenting supporting geomorphology	9
Oligocene–Miocene development and evolution of the south Dome Rock Mountains basin, lower Colorado River corridor, Arizona, USA	9
Volcanic crustal structure of the western Hikurangi Plateau (New Zealand) from marine seismic reflection imaging	9

Picture Gorge Basalt: Internal stratigraphy, eruptive patterns, and its importance for understanding Columbia River Basalt Group magmatism	9
Chronostratigraphic correlation of the Upper Silurian Salina Group for the Michigan and Appalachian Basins through coupled (δ13Ccarb) chemostratigraphy and subsurface geophysical analyses	8
Geoscience academic hiring networks reinforce historic patterns of inequity	8
A gigantic Miocene landslide in the Wasatch Range, Utah, USA	8
Tectonics, geochronology, and petrology of the Walker Top Granite, Appalachian Inner Piedmont, North Carolina (USA): Implications for Acadian and Neoacadian orogenesis	8
Rhyolitic melt production in the midst of a continental arc flare-up—The heterogeneous Caspana ignimbrite of the Altiplano-Puna volcanic complex of the Central Andes	8
Critical workforce skills for bachelor-level geoscientists: An analysis of geoscience job advertisements	8
Multi-stage construction of the Little Cotton wood stock, Utah, USA: Origin, intrusion, venting, mineralization, and mass movement	8
Is drainage reorganization a plausible explanation for late Cenozoic incision of Yosemite Valley and within the Kings and Kaweah watersheds (Sierra Nevada, California)?	8
Seismotectonics of the San Andreas Fault System in the San Gorgonio Pass region: A synthesis	8
Co-inversion of multiple thermochronometers and a paleomagnetic thermometer at a Columbia River flood basalt feeder dike (Oregon, USA) demonstrates the sensitivity of thermal history results to divers	8
The missing ridge Enigma: A new model for the Tuamotu Plateau conjugate and Peruvian flat slab	7
Unravelling the dance of earthquakes: Evidence of partial synchronization of the northern San Andreas fault and Cascadia megathrust	7
Seismic attenuation tomography of the Sn phase beneath the Turkish-Iranian Plateau and the Zagros mountain belt	7
Evaluating how well active fault mapping predicts earthquake surface-rupture locations	7
The eight architectural zones of nonmarine basins	7
Development of the Whitehorse trough as a strike-slip basin during Early to Middle Jurassic arc-continent collision in the Canadian Cordillera	7
Volcano-pluton connections at the Lake City magmatic center (Colorado, USA)	7
New insights into the age and origin of two small Cretaceous seamount chains proximal to the Northwestern Hawaiian Ridge	7
The ghost of sutures past: A para-autochthonous origin for the Mazatzal crustal province in southwestern Laurentia demonstrated by structural, geochronologic, and isotopic analysis across the Yavapai-	7
Storm-driven sedimentation and dynamics of a sediment slug in an ephemeral stream: Influence on sediment-routing systems within source areas	7
Illuminating geology in areas of limited exposure using texture shading of lidar digital terrain models	7
Precursors to a continental-arc ignimbrite flare-up: Early central volcanoes of the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, USA	7
Emplacement history of volcaniclastic turbidites around the central Azores volcanic islands: Frequencies of slope landslides and eruptions	7
Did an impact event contribute to North Atlantic igneous province flood basalt volcanism?	6
Chronostratigraphy of Miocene strata in the Berkeley Hills (California Coast Ranges, USA) and the arrival of the San Andreas transform boundary	6
The Cretaceous-Paleogene contact in the Tornillo Group of Big Bend National Park, West Texas, USA	6
Crustal-to-mantle shifting in SiO2-rich upper crustal magmas through zircon and bulk rock compositions in the Famatinian arc, Argentina	6
Multi-scale, open-system magmatic and sub-solidus processes contribute to the chemical and isotopic characteristics of the Jurassic Guadalupe Igneous Complex, Sierra Nevada, California, USA	6
Late Cretaceous to early Paleogene syntectonic deposition of the Show Goat formation in the northern Chiricahua Mountains, southeast Arizona	6
A temporal dissection of late Quaternary volcanism and related hazards within the Rio Grande rift and along the Jemez lineament of New Mexico, USA	6
Beyond boundaries: Depositional environment controls on erodibility, process, and form in rivers incising sedimentary bedrock	6
Kilometer-scale recumbent folding, tectonic attenuation, and rotational shear in the western Anaconda Range, southwestern Montana, USA	6
Fossil hydrothermal systems theoretically inverted with oxygen isotopes of constituent minerals hydrothermally reequilibrated with internally 18O-enriched fluids: Cooling and mineralizing implications	6
A global database of Mars-relevant hydrovolcanic environments on Earth with potential biosignature preservation	6
Life cycle of a giant A-type batholith in the Proterozoic and its link to mineral resources: The Pikes Peak system, Colorado	6
The Pondosa fault zone: A distributed dextral-normal-oblique fault system in northeastern California, USA	5
Permo-Carboniferous crustal structure and state of strain in the New England Appalachians, USA	5
Kinematics and paleogeology of the western United States and northern Mexico computed from geologic and paleomagnetic data: 0 to 48 Ma	5
Late Miocene sedimentation and basin evolution during initial marine flooding into the Gulf of California: Evidence from the Boleo Formation, Baja California Sur, México	5
Middle Miocene faulting and basin evolution during central Basin and Range extension: A detailed record from the upper Horse Spring Formation and red sandstone unit, Lake Mead region, Nevada, USA	5
Evidence for a more extensive Greenland Ice Sheet in southwestern Greenland during the Last Glacial Maximum	5
Seeing is believing: Climate change graph design and user judgments of credibility, usability, and risk	5
Spatiotemporally heterogeneous deformation, indirect tectonomagmatic links, and lithospheric evolution during orogenic activity coeval with an arc flare-up	5
The geometry of fault reactivation and uplift along the central part of the Maacama Fault Zone, Northern California Coast Ranges (USA)	5
Zircon age spectra to quantify magma evolution	5
U-Pb geochronology and petrography of Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian volcanic rocks in basement crustal terranes beneath the deep-water Gulf of Mexico	5
Landsliding follows signatures of wildfire history and vegetation regrowth in a steep coastal shrubland	5
Tectonic implications of transitional melting regimes from petrological, geochronological, and compositional characterization of the ophiolitic Seventymile terrane, Alaska, USA	5
Foreland basin development in response to Proto-Tethyan Ocean closure, western North China Block	5

Joint flexural-density modeling of the Taltal, Copiapó, and Iquique hotspot ridges and the surrounding oceanic plate, offshore Chile	5
Distribution and timing of lithospheric breakup across the Gulf of Mexico: The role of seaward-dipping reflectors, spreading propagators, and crustal shear zones	5
Evidence for regionally continuous Early Cretaceous sinistral shear zones along the western flank of the Coast Mountains, coastal British Columbia, Canada	4
Diverse intrusion modes during the construction of a high-silica magma reservoir: Evidence from La Obra–Cerro Blanco intrusive suite (central Chile)	4
Seismostratigraphic analysis of Lake Cahuilla sedimentation cycles and fault displacement history beneath the Salton Sea, California, USA	4
Reconstructing the erosional and tectonic record of Laramide contraction to Rio Grande rift extension, southern Indio Mountains, western Texas, USA	4
Boudinage and the rheology of syntectonic migmatites in the high-strain Taili deformation zone, NE China	4
Peri-Gondwanan sediment in the Arkoma Basin derived from the north: The detrital zircon record of a uniquely concentrated non-Laurentian source signal in the late Paleozoic	4
A juvenile Paleozoic ocean floor origin for eastern Stikinia, Canadian Cordillera	4
Tracking the spatial and temporal links between late Cenozoic extension and magmatism in the Death Valley region (California, USA)	4
Shallow and deep subsurface sediment remobilization and intrusion in the Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Agardhfjellet Formation (Svalbard)	4
Perception doesn't match reality: Unraveling gender disparities in Earth scientists' productivity during work-from-home initiatives	4
Onset and tempo of ignimbrite flare-up volcanism in the eastern and central Mogollon-Datil volcanic field, southern New Mexico, USA	4
Late Cretaceous tectonothermal events of the Gangdese belt, southern Tibet	4
Geological fingerprints of deep slow earthquakes: A review of field constraints and directions for future research	4
Effect of 3-D fault geometry on synextensional sedimentation around a Miocene metamorphic core complex, eastern California–western Arizona, USA	4
Spatiotemporal evolution of a newly recognized Late Cretaceous fold-and-thrust belt in the western slope of southern Peru: Evidence for selective inversion and hybrid thick- and thin-skinned shortenin	4
Evaluating the effectiveness of spatial training for introductory geology students	4
Arc-arc amalgamation during accretionary orogenesis: Insights from mid-Paleozoic tectono-magmatic records in eastern Junggar, NW China	4
Structural and partial melting history of the Ganderian Nashoba Formation in eastern Massachusetts: Evidence for channel flow and ductile extrusion?	4
Thick- and thin-skinned contractional styles and the tectonic evolution of the northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado, USA	4
The effects of pre-stress assumptions on dynamic rupture with complex fault geometry in the San Gorgonio Pass, California, region	4
Stratigraphy of the Eocene–Oligocene Titus Canyon Formation, Death Valley, California (USA), and Eocene extensional tectonism in the Basin and Range	4
Assessing the geometry of the Main Himalayan thrust in central Nepal: A thermokinematic approach	4
Constraining the timing of ductile shearing in the western Idaho shear zone along the Salmon River canyon, Idaho, USA	3
High-resolution geophysical and geochronological analysis of a relict shoreface deposit offshore central California: Implications for slip rate along the Hosgri fault	3
Origin of big garnet amphibolites at Gore Mountain and other localities, Adirondack Mountains, New York State, USA: Whole-rock geochemical constraints	3
Maximum depositional ages and provenance analysis of the Precambrian Manyovu redbeds, Tanzania: Implications for Neoproterozoic tectonics	3
Tectonic geomorphology and Quaternary slip history of the Fuyun fault, southwestern Altai Mountains, central Asia	3
Ibex Hollow Tuff from ca. 12 Ma supereruption, southern Idaho, identified across North America, eastern Pacific Ocean, and Gulf of Mexico	3
The South Purulia Shear Zone, eastern India: Its anatomy and implication for timing the Rodinia-age collision in the eastern part of the Central Indian Tectonic Zone	3
Post-glacial stratigraphy and late Holocene record of great Cascadia earthquakes in Ozette Lake, Washington, USA	3
Ages of boulder armored benches document varying Fremont River tributary incision rates, Teasdale-Torrey lowlands, Utah, USA	3
Distinguishing fault offset from climatically modulated channel deflections: Insights from the Pearblossom slip-rate site, Mojave section of the San Andreas fault, California, USA	3
Coupling rare earth element analyses and high-resolution topography along fault scarps to investigate past earthquakes: A case study from the Southern Apennines (Italy)	3
U-Pb and fission-track data from zircon and apatite resolve latest- and post-Alleghanian thermal histories along the Fall Line of the Atlantic margin of the southeastern United States	3
Provenance shifts in bauxitic clay from Zibo, North China Craton, links tectonics and climate to environmental perturbation	3
Early Neoproterozoic tectonics in the Marwar Crustal Block, NW India, the relevance of the Phulad Shear Zone, and implications for Rodinia reconstruction	3
Optimizing methods for Raman spectroscopy of carbonaceous material thermometry: Best practices to develop high-fidelity thermal constraints for tectonic studies	3
Foreland basin response to middle Cretaceous thrust belt evolution, southwestern Montana, USA	3
Thermal architecture of the Salmon River suture zone, Idaho, USA: Implications for the structural evolution of a ductile accretionary complex during arc-continent collision	3
ERRATA: A global database of Mars-relevant hydrovolcanic environments on Earth with potential biosignature preservation	3
Rate of E–W extension in the Volcanic Tableland, California (USA): A comparison of strain rates on two different timescales	3
Structure, chronology, kinematics, and geodynamics of tectonic extension in the greater Catalina metamorphic core complex, southeastern Arizona, USA	3
High-resolution three-dimensional seismic imaging reveals structure and slip rate of the Hosgri fault zone offshore Point Sal, California, United States	3
Evidence for a prehistoric multifault rupture along the southern Calico fault system, Eastern California Shear Zone, USA	3
Volcanism in the Comoros Archipelago, Madagascar, and the East African Rift: What is the link?	3
Oceanic intraplate faulting as a pathway for deep hydration of the lithosphere: Perspectives from the Caribbean	3
Paleozoic evolution of the Yukon-Tanana terrane of the North American Cordillera, NW British Columbia	3
Magmatic record of changing Cordilleran plate-boundary conditions—Insights from Lu-Hf isotopes in the Mojave Desert	3
Detrital zircon U-Pb and Hf isotope signature of Carboniferous and older strata of the Yukon-Tanana terrane in Yukon, Canadian Cordillera: Implications for terrane correlations and the onset of Late D	2
rmacrostrat: An R package for accessing and retrieving data from the Macrostrat geological database	2
Spilling into confinement: Submarine canyon-confined overbank processes and architecture	2
Seismic anatomy of Miocene clinoform sequences on the New Jersey (USA) shelf, and implications for sediment transport during base-level rhythms	2
Quantifying Pleistocene loess provenance in midcontinental North America using a mixing model: Implications for glacial lobe evolution along the southern Laurentide ice sheet	2
Neogene faulting, basin development, and relief generation in the southern Klamath Mountains (USA)	2
Paleogene mid-crustal intrusions in the Ruby Mountains–East Humboldt Range metamorphic core complex, northeastern Nevada, USA	2
Sediment routing systems to the Atlantic rifted margin of the Guiana Shield	2
Fluid-driven cyclic reorganization in shallow basaltic fault zones	2
Integrated geologic and geophysical modeling across the Bartlett Springs fault zone, northern California (USA): Implications for fault creep and regional structure	2
A major Miocene deepwater mud canopy system: The North Sabah–Pagasa Wedge, northwestern Borneo	2
Monazite and xenotime petrochronologic constraints on four Proterozoic tectonic episodes and ca. 1705 Ma age of the Uncompahgre Formation, southwestern Colorado, USA	2
Episodic magmatism of the Gongga batholith (eastern Tibet) revealed by detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology: Insights into phased Xianshuihe fault activity and plateau growth	2
Late Paleozoic cratonal sink: Distally sourced sediment filled the Anadarko Basin (USA) from multiple source regions	2
New detrital zircon U-Pb and Hf isotope constraints for the Kluane Schist, southwestern Yukon, Canada, and their implications for Cretaceous Insular terrane accretion: COMMENT	2
Sedimentary record of oceanic plateau accretion: Revisiting the Eocene to Miocene stratigraphy of the northern Olympic Peninsula, Washington (USA)	2
Early Triassic roll-back of subducted Paleo-Tethys oceanic lithosphere: Insights from A2-type silicic igneous rocks in the Pingxiang area, southwest China	2
The power of modern 3-D visualization of high-resolution terrain models in geologic mapping: Complex fold geometries revealed by 3-D mapping in the Panamint metamorphic complex, eastern California, US	2
Three-dimensional finite-element modeling of Coulomb stress changes on normal and thrust faults caused by pore fluid pressure changes and postseismic viscoelastic relaxation	2
Geochemical and tectonic evolution of the Ordovician Bronson Hill arc and Silurian and Devonian Connecticut Valley–Gaspé trough: Eastern Vermont and western New Hampshire, USA	2
Evolution of Miocene normal and dextral faulting in the lower Colorado River region near Blythe, California, USA	2
Using calcite deformation twins to constrain subduction-related paleostress state and deformation temperatures: A case study using the exhumed Sestola-Vidiciatico unit of the Northern Apennines, Italy	2
The Central Indian Tectonic Zone: A Rodinia supercontinent-forming collisional zone and analogy with the Grenville and Sveconorwegian orogens	2
New geochemical and geochronological insights on forearc magmatism across the Sanak-Baranof belt, southern Alaska: A tale of two belts	2