OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Geosphere is 6. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Geologic and geomorphic evidence for multi-phase history of strands of the San Andreas fault through the San Gorgonio Pass structural knot, southern California	62
Geologic map of central Panamint Range, California, USA	51
Timing and evolution of structures within the southeastern Greater Caucasus and Kura Fold-Thrust Belt from multiproxy sediment provenance records	49
Geologic map of Slate Range Crossing area, California, USA	28
Frenchman Mountain Dolostone: A new formation of the Cambrian Tonto Group, Grand Canyon and Basin and Range, USA	23
Latest Quaternary slip rates of the San Bernardino strand of the San Andreas fault, southern California, from Cajon Creek to Badger Canyon	22
Linking exhumation, paleo-relief, and rift formation to magmatic processes in the western Snake River Plain, Idaho, using apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology	22
Identifying sources of non-unique detrital age distributions through integrated provenance analysis: An example from the Paleozoic Central Colorado Trough	22
Contrasting constraints on the temporal and spatial extents of normal faults from the Hilltop and Lewis mining districts, northern Shoshone Range, Nevada, USA	21
Tectonostratigraphy and major structures of the Georgian Greater Caucasus: Implications for structural architecture, along-strike continuity, and orogen evolution	21
Bolide impact effects on the West Florida Platform, Gulf of Mexico: End Cretaceous and late Eocene	21
Redefinition of the Petersburg batholith and implications for crustal inheritance in the Dinwiddie terrane, Virginia, USA	20
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	19
Geological and seismic evidence for the tectonic evolution of the NE Oman continental margin and Gulf of Oman	18
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	18
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	17
Andean-type, bivergent crustal shortening in the Rinkian orogen: New constraints on the tectonic evolution of Laurentia–West Greenland in the Paleoproterozoic	17
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	17
A late Eocene lamprophyre-carbonatite association in the SE Tibetan Plateau: Rapid basalt-induced H2O-saturated partial melting of the upper crust	15
Formation and evolution of a magmatic system in the Indian passive margin: Insights from the Triassic Yumai Complex from the eastern Tethyan Himalaya	15
Structural styles and kinematic evolution of the Front Ranges of the Southern Canadian Rockies	15
Early Ordovician seamounts preserved in the Canadian Cordillera: Implications for the rift history of western Laurentia	14
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	14
NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL: Stratigraphy of the Eocene–Oligocene Titus Canyon Formation, Death Valley, California, and Eocene extensional tectonism in the Basin and Range	14
A systematic approach to mapping tectonic faults and documenting supporting geomorphology	14

Picture Gorge Basalt: Internal stratigraphy, eruptive patterns, and its importance for understanding Columbia River Basalt Group magmatism	13
Tectonomagmatic evolution of southwestern Laurentia: Insights from zircon U-Pb geochronology and hafnium isotopic composition of the Red Bluff Granite Suite, west Texas, USA	13
A kinematic model linking the Sevier and Laramide belts in the Idaho-Montana fold-thrust belt, U.S. Cordillera	13
Volcanic crustal structure of the western Hikurangi Plateau (New Zealand) from marine seismic reflection imaging	13
Oligocene–Miocene development and evolution of the south Dome Rock Mountains basin, lower Colorado River corridor, Arizona, USA	13
Multi-stage construction of the Little Cotton wood stock, Utah, USA: Origin, intrusion, venting, mineralization, and mass movement	12
Chronostratigraphic correlation of the Upper Silurian Salina Group for the Michigan and Appalachian Basins through coupled (δ13Ccarb) chemostratigraphy and subsurface geophysical analyses	12
Insights from the geological record of deformation along the subduction interface at depths of seismogenesis	12
The Cenozoic evolution of the Intrarif (Rif, Morocco)	12
Tectonics, geochronology, and petrology of the Walker Top Granite, Appalachian Inner Piedmont, North Carolina (USA): Implications for Acadian and Neoacadian orogenesis	12
Is drainage reorganization a plausible explanation for late Cenozoic incision of Yosemite Valley and within the Kings and Kaweah watersheds (Sierra Nevada, California)?	12
Seismotectonics of the San Andreas Fault System in the San Gorgonio Pass region: A synthesis	11
Heterogenous late Miocene extension in the northern Walker Lane (California-Nevada, USA) demonstrates vertically decoupled crustal extension	11
Geologic map of southern Panamint Valley, southern Panamint Range, and central Slate Range, California, USA	11
Critical workforce skills for bachelor-level geoscientists: An analysis of geoscience job advertisements	11
The eight architectural zones of nonmarine basins	11
Geoscience academic hiring networks reinforce historic patterns of inequity	11
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	10
Numerical models of Farallon plate subduction: Creating and removing a flat slab	10
Numerical modeling of subduction: State of the art and future directions	10
Illuminating geology in areas of limited exposure using texture shading of lidar digital terrain models	9
Storm-driven sedimentation and dynamics of a sediment slug in an ephemeral stream: Influence on sediment-routing systems within source areas	9
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	9
Volcano-pluton connections at the Lake City magmatic center (Colorado, USA)	9
Late Cretaceous upper-crustal thermal structure of the Sevier hinterland: Implications for the geodynamics of the Nevadaplano	8
Seismic attenuation tomography of the Sn phase beneath the Turkish-Iranian Plateau and the Zagros mountain belt	8
Precursors to a continental-arc ignimbrite flare-up: Early central volcanoes of the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, USA	8
Development of the Whitehorse trough as a strike-slip basin during Early to Middle Jurassic arc-continent collision in the Canadian Cordillera	8
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	8
The missing ridge Enigma: A new model for the Tuamotu Plateau conjugate and Peruvian flat slab	8
Bringing sedimentology and stratigraphy into the StraboSpot data management system	8
Evaluating how well active fault mapping predicts earthquake surface-rupture locations	7
New insights into the age and origin of two small Cretaceous seamount chains proximal to the Northwestern Hawaiian Ridge	7
A global database of Mars-relevant hydrovolcanic environments on Earth with potential biosignature preservation	7
Metamorphism of the Sierra de Maz and implications for the tectonic evolution of the MARA terrane	7
Emplacement history of volcaniclastic turbidites around the central Azores volcanic islands: Frequencies of slope landslides and eruptions	7
Kilometer-scale recumbent folding, tectonic attenuation, and rotational shear in the western Anaconda Range, southwestern Montana, USA	7
Detrital zircon geothermochronology reveals pre-Alleghanian exhumation of regional Mississippian sediment sources in the southern Appalachian Valley and Ridge Province	7
Ulungarat Basin: Record of a major Middle Devonian to Mississippian syn-rift to post-rift tectonic transition, eastern Brooks Range, Arctic Alaska	7
Chronostratigraphy of Miocene strata in the Berkeley Hills (California Coast Ranges, USA) and the arrival of the San Andreas transform boundary	7
A graphic method for depicting basin evolution and changes in the dominant hydrodynamic process from paleocurrent data	7
Petrogenesis of voluminous silicic magmas in the Sierra Madre Occidental large igneous province, Mexican Cordillera: Insights from zircon and Hf-O isotopes	7
The Cretaceous-Paleogene contact in the Tornillo Group of Big Bend National Park, West Texas, USA	7
Mantle control on magmatic flare-ups in the southern Coast Mountains batholith, British Columbia	6
Seeing is believing: Climate change graph design and user judgments of credibility, usability, and risk	6
Kinematics and paleogeology of the western United States and northern Mexico computed from geologic and paleomagnetic data: 0 to 48 Ma	6
Evidence for a more extensive Greenland Ice Sheet in southwestern Greenland during the Last Glacial Maximum	6
The Pondosa fault zone: A distributed dextral-normal-oblique fault system in northeastern California, USA	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
Impact of bending-related faulting and oceanic-plate topography on slab hydration and intermediate-depth seismicity	6

Spatiotemporally heterogeneous deformation, indirect tectonomagmatic links, and lithospheric evolution during orogenic activity coeval with an arc flare-up	6
Large-scale, crustal-block vertical extrusion between the Hines Creek and Denali faults coeval with slip localization on the Denali fault since ca. 45 Ma, Hayes Range, Alaska, USA	6
Multiple sediment incorporation events in a continental magmatic arc: Insight from the metasedimentary rocks of the northern North Cascades, Washington (USA)	6
Crustal-to-mantle shifting in SiO2-rich upper crustal magmas through zircon and bulk rock compositions in the Famatinian arc, Argentina	6
Beyond boundaries: Depositional environment controls on erodibility, process, and form in rivers incising sedimentary bedrock	6
Foreland basin development in response to Proto-Tethyan Ocean closure, western North China Block	6