Dynamics of the down-going lithosphere

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

Mesozoic California and the Underflow of Pacific Mantle

1969 • 525 citations

Temperature field and geophysical effects of a downgoing slab

1971 • 525 citations

Ridges and basins of the Tonga-Kermadec Island Arc System

1970 • 474 citations

Origin and emplacement of the ophiolite suite: Appalachian ophiolites in Newfoundland

1971 • 458 citations

Lithosphere Plate-Continental Margin Tectonics and the Evolution of the Appalachian Orogen

1970 • 443 citations

Deep earthquake zones, anomalous structures in the upper mantle, and the lithosphere

1967 • 430 citations

Relations of andesites, granites, and derivative sandstones to arc‐Trench tectonics

1970 • 429 citations

Lateral variations of attenuation in the upper mantle and discontinuities in the lithosphere

1969 • 375 citations

Tectonic contact between the Franciscan Mélange and the Great Valley Sequence-Crustal expression of a Late Mesozoic Benioff Zone

1970 • 339 citations

Thermal Structure of Island Arcs

1970 • 293 citations

Tectonic History of the Fiji Plateau

1971 • 286 citations

Great earthquakes at island arcs and the lithosphere

1971 • 212 citations

Lateral variations of seismic-wave attenuation in the upper mantle above the inclined earthquake zone of the Tonga Island Arc: Deep anomaly in the upper mantle

1971 • 206 citations

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

1969 • 183 citations

Seismological evidence for anomalous structure of island arcs with special reference to the Japanese region

1971 • 174 citations

Origin of paired metamorphic belts and crustal dilation in island arc regions

1971 • 152 citations

Descent of Lithosphere beneath New Hebrides, Tonga-Fiji and New Zealand: Evidence for Detached Slabs

1973 • 130 citations

Seismic velocity anomalies in the upper mantle beneath the Tonga-Kermadec Island Arc

1971 • 122 citations

Earthquake locations and seismic wave propagation in the upper 250 km of the Tonga island arc

1969 • 73 citations

Propagation of seismic waves through and beneath the lithosphere that descends under the Tonga Island Arc

1972 • 51 citations

PandStraveltimes in the Tonga-Fiji region: A zone of low velocity in the uppermost mantle behind the Tonga Island Arc

1972 • 36 citations