Geological and Geophysical Evidence Relating to Continental Growth and Dynamics and the Hydrosphere in Precambrian Times: a Review and Analysis

Evolution of sedimentary rocks

1971 • 1,546 citations

Seismology and the new global tectonics

1968 • 1,448 citations

The fit of the continents around the Atlantic

1965 • 1,208 citations

History of Ocean Basins

2015 • 707 citations

Magnetization changes caused by burial and uplift

1975 • 650 citations

African magmatism and tectonics

1971 • 644 citations

Continent and Ocean Basin Evolution by Spreading of the Sea Floor

1961 • 638 citations

The Fit of the Southern Continents

1970 • 590 citations

Implications of Continental Drift to the Earth Sciences

1974 • 536 citations

Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Evolution on the Primitive Earth

1968 • 498 citations

Evolution of the Appalachian/Caledonian Orogen

1969 • 436 citations

A model for the evolution of strontium and lead isotopes in a dynamic Earth

1968 • 433 citations

the early history of the earth

1976 • 367 citations

Palaeomagnetism and Plate Tectonics

1973 • 352 citations

Precambrian sedimentary carbonates: carbon and oxygen isotope geochemistry and implications for the terrestrial oxygen budget

1975 • 336 citations

Pre-Drift Continental Nuclei

1969 • 335 citations

Speculations on the Thermal and Tectonic History of the Earth

2007 • 329 citations

Growth rhythms and the history of the Earth's rotation

1975 • 319 citations

Early Archaean Age for the Isua Iron Formation, West Greenland

1973 • 314 citations

A Reappraisal of Some Aspects of Precambrian Shield Geology

1969 • 308 citations

The Grenville Province

1957 • 301 citations

Plate-tectonic Regulation of Faunal Diversity and Sea Level: a Model

1970 • 281 citations

Precambrian Columnar Stromatolite Diversity: Reflection of Metazoan Appearance

1971 • 258 citations

Factors governing the nature of submarine volcanism

1963 • 233 citations

A Discussion on the evolution of the Precambrian crust - Geochemistry of granulite facies rocks and problems of their origin

1973 • 224 citations

A Discussion on the evolution of the Precambrian crust - The evolution of the early Precambrian crust of Southern Africa

1973 • 215 citations

A Discussion on global tectonics in Proterozoic times - Late Proterozoic cratonization in southwest Saudi Arabia

1976 • 208 citations

Appalachian salients and recesses: Late Precambrian continental breakup and the opening of the Iapetus Ocean

1976 • 197 citations

The protocontinental growth of the Indian Shield and the antiquity of its rift valleys

1974 • 196 citations

Significance of Oxygen and Carbon Isotope Variations in Early Precambrian Cherts and Carbonate Rocks of Southern Africa

1972 • 193 citations

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

1964 • 188 citations

A Discussion on global tectonics in Proterozoic times - Palaeomagnetic evidence for a Proterozoic super-continent

1976 • 170 citations

A Discussion on the evolution of the Precambrian crust - Evolution of an early Proterozoic continental margin: the Coronation geosyncline and associated aulacogens of the northwestern Canadian shield

1973 • 159 citations

Precambrian mobile belts of southern and eastern africa — ancient sutures or sites of ensialic mobility? a case for crustal evolution towards plate tectonics

1977 • 144 citations

Crustal Evolution and Global Tectonics: A Petrogenic View

1974 • 144 citations

Precambrian Geologic History

1976 • 143 citations

Archean Magmatism and Crustal Thickening

1973 • 136 citations

Occurrence and mineralogic evolution of blueschist belts with time

1972 • 132 citations

Precambrian Africa and South America as a Single Continent

1973 • 131 citations

Physics of the earth.

1969 • 126 citations

The evolution of early precambrian crustal rocks at Isua, West Greenland — Geochemical and isotopic evidence

1975 • 125 citations

Paleontological evidence on the Earth's rotational history since early precambrian

1972 • 121 citations

Early Precambrian Evidence of a Primitive Ocean Crust and Island Nuclei of Sodic Granite

1972 • 116 citations

Age of Grenville Belt magnetisation: Rb-Sr and palaeomagnetic evidence from Swedish dolerites

1977 • 114 citations

PROBABLE CHANGES IN THE COMPOSITION OF SEA WATER DURING THE COURSE OF GEOLOGICAL TIME¹

1968 • 113 citations

Palaeomagnetism and plate tectonics

1974 • 96 citations

Thermal history of excavation of Archaean gneisses from the base of the continental crust

1977 • 94 citations

A Discussion on global tectonics in Proterozoic times - Proterozoic magnetostratigraphy and the tectonic evolution of Laurentia*

1976 • 92 citations

Changes in the Earth's Moment of Inertia

1964 • 91 citations

Precambrian and Early Palaeozoic Palaeomagnetism in Australia

1976 • 91 citations

Archaean high grade complexes and modern continental margins

1976 • 89 citations

Three Great Basins of Precambrian Banded Iron Formation Deposition: A Systematic Comparison

1968 • 88 citations

A Discussion on the evolution of the Precambrian crust - Crustal development in the Precambrian

1973 • 84 citations

A Discussion on the evolution of the Precambrian crust - Tectonic displacements and thermal activity in two contrasting Proterozoic mobile belts from Greenland

1973 • 84 citations

Tectonic implications of Precambrian shear belts in western Greenland

1975 • 83 citations

The Great Logan Paleomagnetic Loop — The Polar Wandering Path from Canadian Shield Rocks During the Neohelikian Era

1971 • 77 citations

Proterozoic oceanic crust at Bou Azzer

1976 • 76 citations

The paleomagnetism of Huronian red beds and Nipissing diabase; Post-Huronian Igneous Events and apparent polar path for the interval −2300 to −1500 Ma for Laurentia

1976 • 68 citations

Palaeomagnetic results and late Precambrian glaciations

1974 • 68 citations

3-Gyr-old stromatolites from South Africa

1977 • 66 citations

A Model for Plate Tectonic Evolution of Mantle Layers

1971 • 66 citations

Palaeomagnetism of a slowly cooled plutonic terrain in western Greenland

1976 • 61 citations

Paleomagnetism in Abitibi Greenstone Belt, and Abitibi and Matachewan Diabase Dikes: Evidence of the Archean Geomagnetic Field

1977 • 59 citations

A Discussion on global tectonics in Proterozoic times - Vertical movements in Proterozoic structural provinces

1976 • 58 citations

EVOLUTION OF ROCK COMPOSITION AND GEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES IN THE SEDIMENTARY SHELL OF THE EARTH*

1972 • 58 citations

Archean thermal regimes, crustal and upper mantle temperatures, and a progressive evolutionary model for the earth.

1976 • 57 citations

Early Precambrian Tidal Sedimentation in the Pongola Supergroup of South Africa

1976 • 55 citations

Mantle origin of Cordilleran granites

1977 • 53 citations

Discovery of the Hadrynian Polar Track and further study of the Grenville problem

1977 • 51 citations

DERIVATION OF AN EARTH MODEL FROM FREE OSCILLATION DATA

1967 • 50 citations

Variations in crustal level and geothermal gradient during the evolution of the Lewisian complex of northwest Scotland

1976 • 50 citations

A Discussion on the evolution of the Precambrian crust - Effects of reworking on high-grade gneiss complexes

1973 • 49 citations

Palaeomagnetism and the Origin of the Grenville Front

1972 • 46 citations

Proterozoic crustal distribution, mobile belts and apparent polar movements

1974 • 46 citations

Palaeomagnetism of the Svecofennian Loftahammar gabbro and some Jotnian dolerites in the Swedish part of the Baltic Shield

1976 • 45 citations

Precambrian Paleomagnetism: Magnetizations Reset by the Grenville Orogeny

1975 • 45 citations

Apparent polar wander paths and the joining of the Superior and Slave provinces during early Proterozoic time

1977 • 43 citations

Orogenic fold-belts and a hypothesis of earth evolution

1966 • 43 citations

The Oceans: Growth and Oxygen Isotope Evolution

1972 • 42 citations

Origin of the Moon by capture and its consequences

1970 • 42 citations

Archaean tectonics

1974 • 42 citations

Relations in space and time between major Precambrian shield units: An interpretation of Western Australian data

1973 • 41 citations

Why the Sea is Salt

1970 • 38 citations

Paleomagnetism of the Flin Flon – Snow Lake Greenstone Belt, Manitoba and Saskatchewan

1975 • 33 citations

Magnetic stratigraphy and magnetic-petrologic properties of Precambrian Gardar lavas, South Greenland

1977 • 32 citations

Crustal evolution in the early earth-moon system - Constraints from Rb-Sr studies

1976 • 32 citations

Definition of pre-2000 m.y. apparent polar movements

1976 • 27 citations

Orogenic Cycles in East Africa

1973 • 27 citations

Calc-alkaline volcanism and the thickness of the early Precambrian crust in North America

1969 • 27 citations

Palaeomagnetism of Ketilidian metamorphic rocks of SW Greenland, and 1850-1600 m.y. apparent polar movements

1976 • 24 citations

Significance of major Proterozoic high grade linear belts in continental evolution

1976 • 21 citations

A palaeomagnetic experiment on crustal uplift in West Greenland

1977 • 19 citations

On a tentative correlation between changes in the geomagnetic polarity bias and reversal frequency and the earth's rotation through Phanerozoic time.

1975 • 18 citations

A Discussion on global tectonics in Proterozoic times - Crustal shortening in the Zambezi Belt

1976 • 15 citations

Sand waves and early Earth-Moon history

1968 • 15 citations

Possible thermal explanation of contrasting Archean and Proterozoic geological regimes

1974 • 13 citations

Some consequences of horizontal displacements in the precambrian

1977 • 8 citations

Cross-bedding and ripple-marking in the main-bird series of the Witwatersrand system in the East Rand Area

1962 • 5 citations

Evolution from oceanic to continental crust in northwestern U.S.A.

1977 • 5 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations