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 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
Deformation and faulting in the Bellingham basin and southern Georgia Strait, western United States and Canada	21
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
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
Redefinition of the Petersburg batholith and implications for crustal inheritance in the Dinwiddie terrane, Virginia, USA	15
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
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
Subsurface thermal gradients along the Queen Charlotte plate boundary from a regional mapping of bottom simulating reflectors	14
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
Structural styles and kinematic evolution of the Front Ranges of the Southern Canadian Rockies	12
A late Eocene lamprophyre-carbonatite association in the SE Tibetan Plateau: Rapid basalt-induced H2O-saturated partial melting of the upper crust	11
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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