Journal Publications (2021 to 2025)

2025

Djamilatou DH, Gountie Dedzo M, Lenhardt N, Tsozue D, Asobo Nkengmatia E, Klamadji Ngarena M (2025). Crystallisation and petrogenesis of Cenozoic alkaline basaltic lavas on the Kapsiki Plateau (Moukoulvi, Far-North Cameroon): Unveiling the mantle's heterogeneity and HIMU signature. Solid Earth Sciences. 10(2): 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sesci.2025.100231

Lenhardt N, Omietimi EJ, Edegbai A, Schwark L, Catuneanu O, Fairhead J, Gotz A (2025). Traversing the rift: A review of the evolution of the West and Central African Rift System and its economic potential. Earth-Science Reviews. 261: 104999. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.104999

Milani L, Oosthuizen L, Owen-Smith T, Bybee G, Hayes B, Lehmann J, Jelsma H (2025). Magnetite geochemistry as a proxy for metallogenic processes: A study on sulfide mineralized mafic–ultramafic intrusions peripheral to the Kunene Complex in Angola and Namibia. Mineralium Deposita. 60(1): 551-580. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-024-01288-x

Nkosi ZH, Altermann W, Pölmann H, Doucet F (2025). Limited reactivity of pyroxene and plagioclase in batch experiments with supercritical CO2 in the presence of NaCl and NaHCO3 in the context of CO2 sequestration via carbonation. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 32(7): 4164-4180. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-025-35967-7

Omietimi EJ, Lenhardt N, Yang R, Gotz A, Edegbai A, Bumby AJ (2025). Multi-Parameter Investigation of Cretaceous to Palaeocene Sedimentary Sequences in the Anambra and Niger Delta Basins, Nigeria: Organic Matter Characterisation, Palynofacies and Implications for Palaeoclimate and Sea-Level Changes. Geological Journal. 60(1): 196-222. https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.5084

Plesiewicz B, Wiszniowski J, Karkowska K, Kijko A (2025). Seismic hazard assessment in the Podhale region, Poland—zone and smoothed seismicity approach. Acta Geophysica. 73(3): 2153-2169. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-024-01488-z

Swart D., Dippenaar MA, (2025). Weathering profile of completely weathered rock from the Dullstroom Formation, South Africa. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment. 84:223. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10064-025-04224-z

van Wyk Y, Bodin J, Witthüser K, Ubomba-Jsawa E, Dippenaar MA, Butler M. (2025). Evaluating contaminant pathways in an altered vadose zone: a multidisciplinary approach in open-pit quarry environments. Environmental Earth Sciences 84:318. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-025-12318-w

2024

Diamond R, Van Staden C, Dippenaar M (2024). Tracing Mine Water Flows in a Dolomite Quarry, South Africa, Using Hydrochemistry and Stable Isotopes. Mine Water and the Environment. 43: 278-293. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10230-024-00980-8

Biakan a Nyotok P, Gountie Dedzo M, Djamilatou DH, Lenhardt N, Klamadji M, Fosso Tchunte P, Kamgang P (2024). The Subduction-Related Metavolcanic Rocks of Maroua, Northern Cameroon: New Insights into a Neoproterozoic Continental Arc Along the Northern Margin of the Central African Fold Belt. Geosciences (Switzerland). 14(11): 1-20. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences14110298

du Toit E, Delport PWJ (2024). The progression of disclosures in the basic materials industry of South Africa. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. 31(2): 1433-1450. https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.2642

Fabris-Rotelli IN, Smit N, Potgieter C, Fatti P, Blignaut R, Hastie T, Coetzer R, Chhana Y, Ferreira JT, Smit A (2024). The South African Statistical Association and its role in science in South Africa. South African Journal of Science. 120: 1-12. https://sajs.co.za/article/view/20284/23180

Ferreira E, Lehmann J, Rodrigues JF, Hayes B, Merino-Martinez E, Milani L, Bybee GM, Owen-Smith TM, Garcia-Lobon JL, Tassinari CCG, Ueckermann H, Sato K, Bravo Silva P, Correia J, Labaredas J, Duarte L, Molekwa MA, Manuel J, Lourenco Victorino ADM (2024). Zircon U-Pb and Lu-Hf isotopes reveal the crustal evolution of the SW Angolan Shield (Congo Craton). Gondwana Research. 131: 317-342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2024.03.010

Johnson T, Oluwajana O, Omietimi EJ, Ayo-Bali A, Odondiri O, Igili C, Lenhardt N (2024). Elemental geochemistry of Cretaceous deposits in the Dahomey Basin (Nigeria): Implications for paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Journal of African Earth Sciences. 216: 105311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2024.105311

Maoyi M, Van Rooy JL, Dippenaar MA, Bush R (2024). Using rock engineering interaction matrix to assess flow behaviour through discontinuities in the unsaturated zone. (ed. Roberto Tomás, Miguel Cano, Adrián Riquelme, José Luis Pastor, David Benavente, Salvador Ordóñez) New Challenges in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. 345-350. ISBN 9781003429234. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003429234

Mohamed S, van der Merwe EM, Nkosi ZH, Altermann W, Grote W, Doucet F (2024). Reactivity of a plagioclase concentrate from the South African Bushveld Igneous Complex via extractive acid leaching vs. extractive roasting-leaching processes. Discover Materials. 4(1): 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43939-024-00125-2

Nqasha T, Khoyratty Z, Akombelwa M, Singh M, Kijko A (2024). First-order approximation towards empirical seismic vulnerability assessment of low-cost unreinforced masonry buildings in South Africa. Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk. 15(1): 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/19475705.2023.2300837

Obaido G, Achilonu O, Ogbuokiri B, Amadi C, Habeebullahi L, Ohalloran T, Chukwu C, Mienye E, Aliyu M, Omietimi EJ (2024). An Improved Framework for Detecting Thyroid Disease Using Filter-Based Feature Selection and Stacking Ensemble. IEEE ACCESS. 12: 89098-89112. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3418974

Omietimi EJ, Lenhardt N, Yang R, Gotz A, Bumby AJ, Edegbai A (2024). Geochemistry of the Late Cretaceous to Paleogene sedimentary deposits of the SW Anambra Basin (Nigeria): Implications for provenance, tectonic conditions, and hydrothermal influence. Journal of African Earth Sciences. 219: 105399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2024.105399

Tunnell J, Dippenaar MA (2024). Mineralogical Impact on the Compaction of Residual Gabbro Soils in the Construction of Platinum Tailings Storage Facilities. Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration. 14: 3609–3640. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42461-024-01071-6

Van Wyk Y, Dippenaar MA, Ubomba-Jaswa E. (2024). Enhancing hydrological analysis by incorporating environmental and artificial tracers of an altered vadose zone: A systematic review. Journal of African Earth Sciences. 212:1-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2024.105209

Viviers C, Van der Laan M, Gaffoor Z., Dippenaar M (2024). Downscaling and validating GLDAS groundwater storage anomalies by integrating precipitation for recharge and actual evapotranspiration for discharge. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies. 54:101879. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2024.101879

2023

Alimi S, Oriola E, Senbore S, Alepa V, Ologbonyo F, Idris F, Ibrahim H, Olawale L, Akinlabi O, Ogungbade O (2023). GIS-assisted Flood risk Potential Mapping of Ilorin and its Environs, Kwara State, Nigeria. Remote Sensing in Earth Systems Sciences. 6(3-4): 239-253. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41976-023-00093-w

Bilal A, Yang R, Janjuhah H, Mughal M, Li Y, Kontakiotis G, Lenhardt N (2023). Microfacies analysis of the Palaeocene Lockhart limestone on the eastern margin of the Upper Indus Basin (Pakistan): Implications for the depositional environment and reservoir characteristics. Depositional Record. 9(1): 152-173. https://doi.org/10.1002/dep2.222

Bilal A, Yang R, Lenhardt N, Han Z, Luan X (2023). The Paleocene Hangu formation: A key to unlocking the mysteries of Paleo-Tethys tectonism. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 157: 106508. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106508

Bullock L, Nkosi ZH, Vele M, Amponsah-Dacosta M (2023). Catalogue of South African mine tailings for geochemical carbon dioxide removal purposes. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. 124: 103844. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2023.103844

Catuneanu O, Mazumder R, Mazumder S, Eriksson PG (2023). Sequence stratigraphy in extraterrestrial settings: The Jezero crater, Mars. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 158: 106551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106551

Choudhuri A, Mandal S, Bumby AJ, Pillai S (2023). Glacial sedimentation in Northern Gondwana: insights from the Talchir formation, Manendragarh, India. Geological Magazine. 160(6): 1228-1240. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756823000353

Dippenaar MA (2023) The Complex Science between Water, Air, and Geology. Medicon Agriculture & Environmental Sciences. 5(2):10-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.55162/MCAES.05.128

Lenhardt N, Galerne C, Le Roux P, Gotz A, Lotter FJP (2023). Geochemistry of dolerite intrusions of the southeastern Main Karoo Basin, South Africa: Magma evolution, evidence for thermogenic gas sequestration, and potential implications for the early Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event. Gondwana Research. 113: 144-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2022.10.017

Lenhardt N, Hughes H, Viereck L, Bumby AJ, Lenhardt S, Jolayemi OO (2023). Low-grade to extremely high-grade ignimbrites and associated deposits of the uppermost Schrikkloof Formation in the Paleoproterozoic Rooiberg Group, Bushveld large igneous province, South Africa. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 443: 107927. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2023.107927

Swart D, Dippenaar MA, Van Rooy JL. (2023) Field tests for the identification of silts. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment. 82:425. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10064-023-03442-7

Triantafyllou I, Papadopoulos G, Kijko A (2023). Probabilistic Tsunami Risk Assessment from Incomplete and Uncertain Historical Impact Records: Mediterranean and Connected Seas. Pure and Applied Geophysics. 180(5): 1785-1809. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-023-03262-6

Yang R, Li Y, Fan A, Lenhardt N, De S, Chen J (2023). Syndepositional Fault Control on Sandbody Distribution at Two Eocene Confluence Deltas in the Dongying Depression, Bohai Bay Basin (Eastern China). Journal of Earth Science. 34(4): 1095-1111. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12583-022-1710-5

Yang R, Li Y, Wu X, Di J, Zhang J, Lenhardt N (2023). Base-Level Fluctuation Controls on Migration of Delta Lobes: A Case Study from the Paleogene Shahejie Formation in the Huimin Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, NE China. Processes. 11(2): 1-18. https://doi.org/10.3390/pr11020378

2022

Dippenaar MA, Jones BR, van Rooy JL, Mayoi M, Swart D (2022). The vadose zone: From theory to practise. 1st edition. South Africa, Pretoria, Water Research Commission. 144 pp. ISBN 978-0-6392-0313-3. https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/TT%20869%20final%20web.pdf

Germishuys R, Diamond RE (2022). Nitrogen isotopes of Eichhornia crassipes (water hyacinth) confirm sewage as leading source of pollution in Hartbeespoort Reservoir, South Africa. South African Journal of Science. 118(7/8): 1-6. https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2022/11098

Harris Z, Reyneke F, Merkle RKW, Delport PWJ (2022). Evaluating the potential drilling success of exploration programmes using a three-dimensional geological model - A case study. Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. 122(2): 45-58. https://doi.org/10.17159/2411-9717/1262/2022

Kijko A, Vermeulen P, Smit A (2022). Estimation Techniques for Seismic Recurrence Parameters for Incomplete Catalogues. Surveys In Geophysics. 43(2): 597-617. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-021-09672-2

Le Bras L, Milani L, Bolhar R, O'Sullivan G (2022). 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. South African Journal of Geology. 125(2): 179-190. https://doi.org/10.25131/sajg.125.0015

Li Y, Fan A, Yang R, Sun Y, Lenhardt N (2022). Braided deltas and diagenetic control on tight sandstone reservoirs: A case study on the Permian Lower Shihezi Formation in the southern Ordos Basin (central China). Sedimentary Geology. 435: 106156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2022.106156

Lotter FJP, Lenhardt N, Viereck L, Munker C, Marien C, Altigani M (2022). The Quaternary monogenetic Bayuda Volcanic Field, Sudan – Insights into mantle and crustal processes during magma petrogenesis. Lithos. 410-411: 106563. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106563

Mapuranga VP, Kijko A, Saunders I, Singh A, Singh M, Zulu S (2022). Macroseismic survey of the 6 February 2016 KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa earthquake. South African Journal of Geology. 125(1): 123-132. https://doi.org/10.25131/sajg.125.0004

Milani L, Lehmann J, Bybee G, Hayes B, Owen-Smith T, Oosthuizen L,Delport PWJ, Ueckermann H (2022). Geochemical and geochronological constraints on the Mesoproterozoic Red Granite Suite, Kunene AMCG Complex of Angola and Namibia. Precambrian Research. 379: 106821. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2022.106821

Omietimi EJ, Lenhardt N, Yang R, Gotz A, Bumby AJ (2022). Sedimentary geochemistry of Late Cretaceous-Paleocene deposits at the southwestern margin of the Anambra Basin (Nigeria): Implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 600: 111059. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111059

Samanta P, Mukhopadhyay S, Sen A, Ghosh N, Bumby AJ (2022). Precambrian fans on opposite margins of an intracratonic rift basin; palaeogeography, palaeoclimate and provenance: Neoproterozoic Badami Group, Karnataka, India. Sedimentary Geology. 428: 106050. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2021.106050

Van Vuuren JH, Dippenaar MA, Van Biljon R, Van Rooy JL (2022) Seepage through permeable interlocking concrete pavements and their subgrades using a large Infiltration Table Apparatus. International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology. 15:44-62. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42947-021-00010-8

Van Wyk Y, Ubomba-Jaswa E, Dippenaar MA (2022). Potential SARS-CoV-2 contamination of groundwater as a result of mass burial: A mini-review. Science of the Total Environment. 835. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155473

Wan Q, Fan A, Yang R, Lenhardt N (2022). Diagenetic mineralogy and its effect on the reservoir properties of the sandstones of the Permian of S120 block (Sulige gas field), Ordos Basin, NW China. Journal of Palaeogeography. 11(3): 360-386. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jop.2022.04.003

2021

Ahmed Ibin Oof M, Bumby AJ, Liégeois J, Grantham G, Armstrong R, LeRoux P (2021). The boundary between the Saharan Metacraton and the Arabian Nubian Shield: Insight from Ediacaran shoshonitic granites of the Nuba mountains (Sudan): U-Pb SHRIMP zircon dating, geochemistry and Sr-Nd isotope constraints. 1st Edition. In: Z. Hamimi & A. Fowler & J. Liégeois & A. Collins & M. Abdelsalam & M. Abd EI-Wahed (eds.), The Geology of the Arabian-Nubian Shield, Switzerland, Cham: Springer. pp. 39-62. ISBN 978-3-030-72994-3. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72995-0_2

Banerjee S, Kundu A, Eriksson PG, Sinha S (2021). Investigation on the possible control of grain size on development of ‘mud cracks': a preliminary experimental study of recent Gangetic alluvial samples, West Bengal, India. Arabian Journal of Geosciences. 14(2): 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-020-06345-z

du Toit E, Delport PWJ (2021). Supplementary Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves Reports: Readability and textual choice. Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. 121: 119-128. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2411-9717/1381/2021

Dyson LL, Pienaar N, Smit A, Kijko A (2021). An ERA-Interim HAILCAST hail climatology for southern Africa. International Journal of Climatology. 41(1): 262-277. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6619

Grantham G, Bumby AJ, Moabi N, Elburg M, Le Roux P, Reinke C, Marschall H (2021). The genesis and age of the Grunehogna Granite and Rb-Sr and Sm-Nd chemistry of the Annandagstoppane Granite, Ahlmanryggen, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. Polar Science. 30: 100717. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polar.2021.100717

Kadiri A, Kijko A (2021). Seismicity and seismic hazard assessment in West Africa. Journal of African Earth Sciences. 183: 104305. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2021.104305

Kingsbury CG, Klausen M, Soderlund U, Altermann W, Ernst R (2021). Identification of a new 485 Ma post-orogenic mafic dyke swarm east of the Pan-African Saldania-Gariep Belt of South Africa. Precambrian Research. 354: 106043. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2020.106043

Kowsari M, Ghazi H, Kijko A, Javadi H, Shabani E (2021). Estimating the maximum earthquake magnitude in the Iranian Plateau. Journal of Seismology. 25(3): 845-862. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-021-09998-9

Li Y, Fan A, Yang R, Sun Y, Lenhardt N (2021). Sedimentary facies control on sandstone reservoir properties: A case study from the Permian Shanxi Formation in the southern Ordos Basin, central China. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 129: 105083. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2021.105083

Mazumdar P, Mukhopadhyay A, Banerjee T, Thorie A, Eriksson PG (2021). Process variations of a Neoproterozoic delta system in response to the influence of mixed-energy systems and sea-level fluctuation: an insight from Simla Group, Lesser Himalaya, India. Arabian Journal of Geosciences. 14(7): 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-021-06743-x

Omietimi EJ, Chouhan A, Lenhardt N, Yang R, Bumby AJ (2021). Structural interpretation of the south-western flank of the Anambra Basin (Nigeria) using satellite-derived WGM 2012 gravity data. Journal of African Earth Sciences. 182: 104290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2021.104290

Tibane LV, Harris P, Pöllmann H, Ndongani LF, Landman BE, Altermann W (2021). Data for evaluation of the onshore Cretaceous Zululand Basin in South Africa for geological CO2 storage. Data in Brief. 39: 107679. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2021.107679

Tibane LV, Pöllmann H, Ndongani LF, Landman BE, Altermann W (2021). Evaluation of the lithofacies, petrography, mineralogy, and geochemistry of the onshore Cretaceous Zululand Basin in South Africa for geological CO2 storage. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. 109: 103364. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2021.103364

Vainer S, Matmon A, Erel Y, Hidy A, Crouvi O, de Wit MCJ, Geller Y, Aumaître G, Bourlès D, Keddadouche K (2021). Landscape responses to intraplate deformation in the Kalahari constrained by sediment provenance and chronology in the Okavango Basin. Basin Research. 33(2): 1170-1193. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12509

van Dijk D, Eriksson PG (2021). Bipedal leaping Jurassic vertebrates in Southern Africa: proposed new ichnotaxon and inferred palaeoenvironment. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 76(3): 235-245. https://doi.org/10.1080/0035919X.2021.1964104

Westgate M, Manzi M, Malehmir A, Gibson R, Andreoli M, Bumby AJ (2021). A reappraisal of legacy reflection seismic data from the western margin of the Kaapvaal craton, South Africa, with implications for Mesozoic-Cenozoic regional tectonics. Tectonophysics. 813: 228934. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.228934

Zoraghi G, Goraji K, Noura M, Rashki A, Bumby AJ (2021). An assessment of the ability of a novel mulch to stabilise sand dunes in the Sistan region of Iran. International Journal of Environmental Studies. 78(5): 759-772. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207233.2020.1864189

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