OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Geosphere is 5. 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
Identifying sources of non-unique detrital age distributions through integrated provenance analysis: An example from the Paleozoic Central Colorado Trough	49
Postcaldera intrusive magmatism at the Platoro caldera complex, Southern Rocky Mountain volcanic field, Colorado, USA	48
Geologic and geomorphic evidence for multi-phase history of strands of the San Andreas fault through the San Gorgonio Pass structural knot, southern California	44
Magnetostratigraphy and magnetic properties of the Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Girón Group (northern Andes, Colombia)	33
Late Cretaceous upper-crustal thermal structure of the Sevier hinterland: Implications for the geodynamics of the Nevadaplano	23
Evidence for transpression in the Picuris orogen: The deformation record of the Marqueñas Formation metaconglomerate, Picuris Mountains, New Mexico, USA	23
Slow slip in subduction zones: Reconciling deformation fabrics with instrumental observations and laboratory results	20
Perception doesn't match reality: Unraveling gender disparities in Earth scientists' productivity during work-from-home initiatives	19
Precision and accuracy of modal analysis methods for clastic deposits and rocks: A statistical and numerical modeling approach	19
Prehistoric earthquakes on the Banning strand of the San Andreas fault, North Palm Springs, California	18
Stratigraphy and depositional history of the Aguja Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Campanian) of West Texas, southwestern USA	17
Diverse intrusion modes during the construction of a high-silica magma reservoir: Evidence from La Obra–Cerro Blanco intrusive suite (central Chile)	17
Deposition, deformation, and flexure in a transpressional trough, Queen Charlotte fault, offshore Haida Gwaii (British Columbia, Canada)	17
Evaluating the effectiveness of spatial training for introductory geology students	16
Reconstructing the erosional and tectonic record of Laramide contraction to Rio Grande rift extension, southern Indio Mountains, western Texas, USA	16
Pliocene subsurface fluid flow driven by rapid erosional exhumation of the Colorado Plateau, southwestern USA	16
Volcano-pluton connections at the Lake City magmatic center (Colorado, USA)	16
Upper-plate response to ridge subduction and oceanic plateau accretion, Washington Cascades and surrounding region: Implications for plate tectonic evolution of the Pacific Northwest (USA and southwes	16
Structure and provenance of the Cretaceous Pingshanhu Basin in the Hexi Corridor: Implications for Mesozoic tectonics in the northern Tibetan Plateau	15
Late Cretaceous tectonothermal events of the Gangdese belt, southern Tibet	15
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	14
Integrated geologic and geophysical modeling across the Bartlett Springs fault zone, northern California (USA): Implications for fault creep and regional structure	14
Storm-driven sedimentation and dynamics of a sediment slug in an ephemeral stream: Influence on sediment-routing systems within source areas	13
Identification of seasonal varves in the lower Pliocene Bouse Formation, lower Colorado River Valley, and implications for Colorado Plateau uplift	12
Deformation between the highly oblique Yakutat–North American plate boundary and the Eastern Denali fault	12

Evolution of mafic lavas in Central Anatolia: Mantle source domains	12
Thermochronological transect across the Basin and Range/Rio Grande rift transition: Contrasting cooling histories in contiguous extensional provinces	12
Petrogenesis of the 91-Mile peridotite in the Grand Canyon: Ophiolite or deep-arc fragment?	11
Geologic map of central Panamint Range, California, USA	11
Testing local and extraregional sediment sources for the Late Cretaceous northern Nanaimo basin, British Columbia, using 40Ar/39Ar detrital K-feldspar thermochronology	11
Timing and evolution of structures within the southeastern Greater Caucasus and Kura Fold-Thrust Belt from multiproxy sediment provenance records	11
Development of the Whitehorse trough as a strike-slip basin during Early to Middle Jurassic arc-continent collision in the Canadian Cordillera	10
The rise and demise of deep accretionary wedges: A long-term field and numerical modeling perspective	10
Stratigraphy of the Eocene–Oligocene Titus Canyon Formation, Death Valley, California (USA), and Eocene extensional tectonism in the Basin and Range	10
Geologic map of Slate Range Crossing area, California, USA	10
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	10
Precursors to a continental-arc ignimbrite flare-up: Early central volcanoes of the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, USA	10
Linking exhumation, paleo-relief, and rift formation to magmatic processes in the western Snake River Plain, Idaho, using apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology	10
Late Triassic tectonic stress field of the southwestern Ordos Basin and its tectonic implications: Insights from finite-element numerical simulations	10
The missing ridge Enigma: A new model for the Tuamotu Plateau conjugate and Peruvian flat slab	10
Frenchman Mountain Dolostone: A new formation of the Cambrian Tonto Group, Grand Canyon and Basin and Range, USA	9
Thermal history modeling techniques and interpretation strategies: Applications using QTQt	9
Latest Quaternary slip rates of the San Bernardino strand of the San Andreas fault, southern California, from Cajon Creek to Badger Canyon	9
Evidence for regionally continuous Early Cretaceous sinistral shear zones along the western flank of the Coast Mountains, coastal British Columbia, Canada	9
Mafic magma-driven magmatic processes and compositional variation in granitic pluton construction: The Buya intrusion of West Kunlun, Northwestern China	9
Shallow and deep subsurface sediment remobilization and intrusion in the Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Agardhfjellet Formation (Svalbard)	9
Jurassic–Cenozoic tectonics of the Pequop Mountains, NE Nevada, in the North American Cordillera hinterland	9
Tracking the spatial and temporal links between late Cenozoic extension and magmatism in the Death Valley region (California, USA)	8
Boudinage and the rheology of syntectonic migmatites in the high-strain Taili deformation zone, NE China	8
Seismic attenuation tomography of the Sn phase beneath the Turkish-Iranian Plateau and the Zagros mountain belt	8
Evidence of early Miocene synextensional volcanism and deposition in the northern Calico Mountains, central Mojave metamorphic core complex, southern California, USA	8
Extreme metamorphism and metamorphic facies series at convergent plate boundaries: Implications for supercontinent dynamics	8
Geometrical Breakdown Approach to interpretation of depositional sequences	8
Illuminating geology in areas of limited exposure using texture shading of lidar digital terrain models	8
Quaternary basaltic volcanic fields of the American Southwest	8
Model for sinistral offset of the Cretaceous magmatic arc of southwestern North America along the Nacimiento fault system	7
Open AR-Sandbox: A haptic interface for geoscience education and outreach	7
The Cretaceous-Paleogene contact in the Tornillo Group of Big Bend National Park, West Texas, USA	7
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	7
Timing of and pressure-temperature constraints on deformation in the Toxaway dome, eastern Blue Ridge: Evidence for continuous deformation from the Neoacadian orogeny to the Alleghanian orogeny	7
Ulungarat Basin: Record of a major Middle Devonian to Mississippian syn-rift to post-rift tectonic transition, eastern Brooks Range, Arctic Alaska	7
Augmenting geological field mapping with real-time, 3-D digital outcrop scanning and modeling	7
Bolide impact effects on the West Florida Platform, Gulf of Mexico: End Cretaceous and late Eocene	7
Revisiting the 1899 earthquake series using integrative geophysical analysis in Yakutat Bay, Alaska, USA	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
Quantitative mapping of dolomitization using close-range hyperspectral imaging: Kimmeridgian carbonate ramp, Alacón, NE Spain	6
E/I-corrected inclination shallowing in Cenozoic redbeds from the northern Tarim Basin, NW China: Possible causes and paleogeographic implications	6
Detrital zircon geochronology and provenance of the Middle to Late Jurassic Paradox Basin and Central Colorado trough: Paleogeographic implications for southwestern Laurentia	6
Thermal architecture of the Salmon River suture zone, Idaho, USA: Implications for the structural evolution of a ductile accretionary complex during arc-continent collision	6
Metamorphism of the Sierra de Maz and implications for the tectonic evolution of the MARA terrane	6
Tectonostratigraphy and major structures of the Georgian Greater Caucasus: Implications for structural architecture, along-strike continuity, and orogen evolution	6
The spatial and temporal evolution of the Portland and Tualatin forearc basins, Oregon, USA	6
Emplacement history of volcaniclastic turbidites around the central Azores volcanic islands: Frequencies of slope landslides and eruptions	6
Evolution of an earthquake-induced landslide complex in the South Island of New Zealand: How fault damage zones and seismicity contribute to slope failures	6
Cooling of the continental plate during flat-slab subduction	6

Bringing sedimentology and stratigraphy into the StraboSpot data management system	6
The effects of pre-stress assumptions on dynamic rupture with complex fault geometry in the San Gorgonio Pass, California, region	6
New insights into the age and origin of two small Cretaceous seamount chains proximal to the Northwestern Hawaiian Ridge	5
Superposition of two kinematically distinct extensional phases in southern Death Valley: Implications for extensional tectonics	5
Geochronology of the Wrangell Arc: Spatial-temporal evolution of slab-edge magmatism along a flat-slab, subduction-transform transition, Alaska-Yukon	5
Intra-oceanic submarine arc evolution recorded in an ~1-km-thick rear-arc succession of distal volcaniclastic lobe deposits	5
Post-Laramide, Eocene epeirogeny in central Colorado—The result of a mantle drip?	5
Lithium in garnet as a tracer of subduction zone metamorphic reactions: The record in ultrahigh-pressure metapelites at Lago di Cignana, Italy	5
A constraint on post–6 Ma timing of western Grand Canyon (Arizona, USA) incision removed: Local derivation indicated by ca. 5.4 Ma fluvial deposits below Shivwits Plateau basalts north of Grand Canyon	5
Eocene dike orientations across the Washington Cascades in response to a major strike-slip faulting episode and ridge-trench interaction	5
Fluid-driven cyclic reorganization in shallow basaltic fault zones	5
Strategies for effective unmanned aerial vehicle use in geological field studies based on cognitive science principles	5
Early Pennsylvanian sediment routing to the Ouachita Basin (southeastern United States) and barriers to transcontinental sediment transport sourced from the Appalachian orogen based on detrital zircon	5
Spatially variable syn- and post-Alleghanian exhumation of the central Appalachian Mountains from zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology	5
Upper-plate structure and tsunamigenic faults near the Kodiak Islands, Alaska, USA	5
Enclaves as mushy magma strain archives: New perspectives on composite magmatic fabrics in plutons	5