Lithospheric aging, instability and subduction

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

1970 • 1,915 citations

Sea-floor spreading and continental drift

1968 • 1,459 citations

Seismology and the new global tectonics

1968 • 1,448 citations

Marine magnetic anomalies, geomagnetic field reversals, and motions of the ocean floor and continents

1968 • 1,178 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

Sea-Floor Spreading in the North Atlantic

1972 • 862 citations

Tectonics of the Caribbean and Middle America Regions from Focal Mechanisms and Seismicity

1969 • 816 citations

Numerical Modelling of Instantaneous Plate Tectonics

1974 • 799 citations

The North Pacific: an Example of Tectonics on a Sphere

1967 • 789 citations

The Implications of Terrestrial Heat Flow Observations on Current Tectonic and Geochemical Models of the Crust and Upper Mantle of the Earth

1970 • 735 citations

Elevation of ridges and evolution of the central eastern Pacific

1971 • 687 citations

Reykjanes ridge crest: A detailed geophysical study

1971 • 622 citations

World-Wide Correlation of Mesozoic Magnetic Anomalies, and Its Implications

1972 • 531 citations

Temperature field and geophysical effects of a downgoing slab

1971 • 525 citations

Structure and constitution of the lower oceanic crust

1975 • 497 citations

Plate Tectonics and the Japanese Islands: A Synthesis

1974 • 445 citations

Evolution of the East: Central Indian Ocean, with Emphasis on the Tectonic Setting of the Ninetyeast Ridge

1974 • 440 citations

Sea-Floor Spreading and the Cenozoic History of the East-Central Pacific

1972 • 408 citations

A revised time scale of magnetic reversals for the Early Cretaceous and Late Jurassic

1975 • 394 citations

Late Mesozoic Evolution of the Western Pacific Ocean

1972 • 383 citations

Structural History of the Mariana Island Arc System

1971 • 381 citations

Circum-Caribbean Tectonic and Igneous Activity and the Evolution of the Caribbean Plate: Reply

1973 • 377 citations

Seismicity and tectonics of the western Pacific: Izu-Mariana-Caroline and Ryukyu-Taiwan regions

1969 • 357 citations

Seafloor Spreading in the Tasman Sea

1973 • 357 citations

Thermal regime of a downgoing slab and new global tectonics

1970 • 347 citations

Circum-Caribbean Tectonic and Igneous Activity and the Evolution of the Caribbean Plate

1972 • 331 citations

Origin and Development of the Philippine Sea

1972 • 309 citations

Focal mechanisms and plate tectonics of the southwest Pacific

1972 • 303 citations

The seismicity and deep structure of Island arcs

1966 • 299 citations

Fault plane solutions and tectonics of the South Atlantic and Scotia Sea

1975 • 281 citations

Tensional character of earthquake foci beneath the Aleutian Trench with relation to sea-floor spreading

1968 • 257 citations

Crustal structure of the Melanesian Area

1971 • 239 citations

The Earth Beneath the Continents

1996 • 236 citations

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

1973 • 234 citations

Thin Skin Distension in Tertiary Rocks of Southeastern Nevada

1971 • 216 citations

Regionality of group velocities of Rayleigh waves in the Pacific and thickening of the plate

1975 • 199 citations

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

1969 • 183 citations

Deep Sea Drilling in the South Atlantic

1970 • 180 citations

Evolution of the Downgoing Lithosphere and the Mechanisms of Deep Focus Earthquakes

2009 • 173 citations

Seismicity and tectonics of the northeast Pacific Ocean

1968 • 169 citations

Instability in the upper mantle and global plate movements

1970 • 156 citations

The seismicity of the Caribbean region

1965 • 156 citations

Structure of the olivine-spinel phase boundary in the descending lithosphere

1971 • 148 citations

Morphology and Tectonic Evolution of the East-Central Pacific

1975 • 147 citations

Geophysical tests of petrological models of the spreading lithosphere

1971 • 141 citations

Earthquake mechanisms and island arc tectonics in the Indonesian-Philippine region

1970 • 131 citations

The Seismicity of the Earth 1953-1965

1970 • 115 citations

Phase changes and mantle convection

1971 • 114 citations

Heat flow and gravity interpretation across the Rio Grande Rift in southern New Mexico and west Texas

1975 • 110 citations

Focal mechanisms along inclined earthquake zones, in the Indonesia-Philippine region

1970 • 110 citations

A geophysical study of the Chile Ridge

1969 • 104 citations

Distribution of earthquakes in the New Guinea-Solomon Islands Region

1969 • 101 citations

Seismicity and structure of North Island, New Zealand

1968 • 97 citations

Dips of Downgoing Lithospheric Plates Beneath Island Arcs

1970 • 93 citations

Plume Convection with an Upper-Mantle Temperature Inversion

1972 • 93 citations

Sediment Distribution in the Oceans: The Atlantic

1973 • 92 citations

Detailed Seismicity of the Alpine Fault Zone and Fiordland Region, New Zealand

1973 • 90 citations

Tectonics near the Junction of the Aleutian and Kuril-Kamchatka Arcs and a Mechanism for Middle Tertiary Magmatism in the Kamchatka Basin

1975 • 88 citations

Geochronology of West Indonesia and its implication on plate tectonics

1973 • 87 citations

Stress Distribution Beneath Island Arcs

1972 • 71 citations

Age of the rhyolites of the Lord Howe Rise and the evolution of the southwest Pacific Ocean

1974 • 70 citations

Fast sea-floor spreading on the Chile Ridge

1973 • 70 citations

Transitional Tectonics and Late Cenozoic Structure of the Continental Margin off Northernmost California

1971 • 64 citations

Relationship of hypocenters of earthquakes to the geology of Alaska

1966 • 59 citations

Reconnaissance Geophysical Survey of the Caroline Basin

1975 • 55 citations

Age and Evolution of the Upper Cenozoic Andesitic Volcanism in Central-South Chile

1974 • 52 citations

Consensus and Conflict in Quaternary Research

1974 • 50 citations

Earthquakes at shallow and intermediate depths in Fiordland, New Zealand

1971 • 37 citations

The segmented nature of the Chilean seismic zone

1974 • 35 citations

Tectonic lineaments on the cocos plate

1973 • 30 citations

Dynamics of the down-going lithosphere

1973 • 24 citations

Results of an aeromagnetic survey in the Gulf of Alaska

1974 • 23 citations

Apollo 17, exploration at Taurus-Littrow.

1972 • 21 citations

Migration of a pattern of plate motion

1974 • 20 citations

Seismicity and tectonics of the east Pacific Ocean

1973 • 17 citations

Geological and geophysical studies of the Canton Trough Region

1975 • 12 citations

Earthquake Activity of Peru

2011 • 8 citations

Cenozoic Motion of the Cocos Plate Relative to the Asthenosphere and Cold Spots

1974 • 7 citations