Cordilleran Benioff zones

Implications of Plate Tectonics for the Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of Western North America

1970 • 1,915 citations

Seismology and the new global tectonics

1968 • 1,448 citations

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

1971 • 1,002 citations

Plate Motions and Deep Mantle Convection

1972 • 817 citations

The North Pacific: an Example of Tectonics on a Sphere

1967 • 789 citations

Implications of Continental Drift to the Earth Sciences

1974 • 536 citations

Mesozoic California and the Underflow of Pacific Mantle

1969 • 525 citations

Subduction and Accretion in Trenches

1975 • 495 citations

Sevier Orogenic Belt in Nevada and Utah

1968 • 488 citations

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

1970 • 429 citations

Rb-Sr and K-Ar geochronometry of Mesozoic granitic rocks and their Sr isotopic composition, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho

1977 • 344 citations

The relationship between andesitic volcanism and seismicity in Indonesia, the Lesser Antilles, and other island arcs

1969 • 329 citations

Tertiary Pacific Plate Motion Deduced from the Hawaiian-Emperor Chain

1973 • 303 citations

Buoyant zones, great earthquakes, and unstable boundaries of subduction

1976 • 278 citations

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

1975 • 264 citations

Widths of modern arc-trench gaps proportional to past duration of igneous activity in associated magmatic arcs

1973 • 183 citations

Implications of Continental Drift to the Earth Sciences

1973 • 181 citations

Late Cenozoic Evolution of the Great Basin, Western United States, as an Ensialic Interarc Basin

1971 • 174 citations

Tectonic implications of space-time patterns of Cenozoic magmatism in the western United States

1976 • 162 citations

Evolving Subduction Zones in the Western United States, as Interpreted from Igneous Rocks

1971 • 144 citations

Some observations on the Cenozoic volcano-tectonic evolution of the Great Basin, western United States

1972 • 98 citations

Dips of Downgoing Lithospheric Plates Beneath Island Arcs

1970 • 93 citations

Potassium-Argon Geochronometry of Mesozoic Igneous Rocks in Nevada, Utah, and Southern California

1973 • 91 citations

Reconnaissance geology of coastal Sonora between Puerto Lobos and Bahia Kino

1977 • 83 citations

Plate Tectonics and Magmatic Evolution

1971 • 82 citations

K-Ar Apparent Ages, Peninsular Ranges Batholith, Southern California and Baja California

1975 • 71 citations

East-west patterns of Cenozoic igneous rocks, aeromagnetic anomalies, and mineral deposits, Nevada and Utah

1977 • 69 citations

Regional Characteristics of Porphyry Copper Deposits of the Southwest

1974 • 62 citations

Cordilleran Tectonic Transitions and Motion of the North American Plate

1971 • 54 citations

Timing of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Plutonic Events in Circum-Pacific North America

1973 • 35 citations

K-Ar Dating of the Beginning of Tertiary Volcanism in the Mojave Desert, California

1973 • 27 citations

Compression and crustal shortening in Andean-type orogenesis

1976 • 17 citations

Plate Tectonics and Foreland Basement Deformation: Comment

1974 • 2 citations