Focal mechanisms and seismic energy release of deep and intermediate earthquakes in the Tonga‐Kermadec Region and their bearing on the depth extent of mantle flow

Buoyancy Effects in Fluids

1973 • 2,905 citations

Seismology and the new global tectonics

1968 • 1,448 citations

Speculations on the Consequences and Causes of Plate Motions

1969 • 1,134 citations

Distribution of stresses in the descending lithosphere from a global survey of focal‐mechanism solutions of mantle earthquakes

1971 • 1,002 citations

MAGNITUDE AND ENERGY OF EARTHQUAKES

2012 • 812 citations

Magnitude and Energy of Earthquakes

1955 • 703 citations

Inferences about magma sources and mantle structure from variations of ¹⁴³Nd/¹⁴⁴Nd

1976 • 636 citations

Glacial-Isostatic Adjustment-I. The Forward Problem

2007 • 523 citations

Role of Phase Transitions in a Dynamic Mantle

2007 • 394 citations

Speculations on the Thermal and Tectonic History of the Earth

2007 • 329 citations

Tectonic History of the Fiji Plateau

1971 • 286 citations

Viscosity of the Earth's Mantle

2015 • 277 citations

Subduction of the Nazca Plate under Peru as evidenced by focal mechanisms and by seismicity

1975 • 264 citations

Dynamical models for sea floor spreading

1973 • 239 citations

Mechanism and spatial distribution of Chilean earthquakes with relation to subduction of the oceanic plate

1973 • 234 citations

Convection, composition, and the thermal state of the lower mantle

1979 • 227 citations

The behaviour of a stable salinity gradient heated from below

1968 • 212 citations

Focal Mechanisms of Deep and Shallow Earthquakes in the Tonga-Kermadec Region and the Tectonics of Island Arcs

1969 • 183 citations

Simple plate models of mantle convection

1977 • 179 citations

Whole-mantle convection and plate tectonics

1977 • 155 citations

Composition of the Mantle and Core

1977 • 154 citations

On the scale of mantle convection

1977 • 133 citations

On the 650-km seismic discontinuity

1979 • 131 citations

Stability of a chemically layered mantle

1974 • 121 citations

Precise relocations of earthquakes and seismotectonics of the New Hebrides Island Arc

1978 • 120 citations

The 650 km mantle discontinuity

1976 • 117 citations

Seismicity and structure of North Island, New Zealand

1968 • 97 citations

Seismic velocity anomalies beneath the New Hebrides Island Arc: Evidence for a detached slab in the upper mantle

1973 • 90 citations

Temporal variation of the activity of intermediate and deep focus earthquakes

1979 • 76 citations

On the driving mechanism of plate tectonics

1977 • 67 citations

The morphology and tectonics of the subducted lithosphere in the Tonga-Fiji-Kermadec region from seismicity and focal mechanism solutions

1980 • 60 citations

Seismic moments of earthquakes beneath island arcs, phase changes, and subduction velocities

1977 • 59 citations

Viscous mantle flow under moving lithospheric plates and under subduction zones

1977 • 24 citations