Stress in the lithosphere: Inferences from steady state flow of rocks

Speculations on the Consequences and Causes of Plate Motions

1969 • 1,134 citations

Physics of the Earth

1977 • 957 citations

Mechanical behavior of crystalline solids at elevated temperature

1968 • 927 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

Textures and Fabrics of Upper-Mantle Peridotites as Illustrated by Xenoliths from Basalts

1975 • 732 citations

Convection in the earth's mantle: towards a numerical simulation

1974 • 671 citations

Density distribution and constitution of the mantle

1964 • 668 citations

The viscosity of the earth's mantle

1975 • 612 citations

High Temperature Flow of Dunite and Peridotite

1970 • 589 citations

Flexural rigidity, thickness, and viscosity of the lithosphere

1970 • 586 citations

Dynamic recrystallization in nickel and nickel-iron alloys during high temperature deformation

1969 • 537 citations

The creep strength of the Earth's mantle

1970 • 499 citations

A pyroxene geotherm

1973 • 481 citations

Strength and structure under hot-working conditions

1969 • 454 citations

Preliminary geothermal model of the Sierra Nevada

1968 • 441 citations

Strain Induced Grain Boundary Migration in High Purity Aluminum

1950 • 434 citations

Theory and Applicability of a Recrystallized Grain Size Paleopiezometer

1977 • 421 citations

The Motion of a Viscous Fluid Under a Surface Load

1935 • 375 citations

Thermal regime of a downgoing slab and new global tectonics

1970 • 347 citations

Textures and Fabrics of Upper-Mantle Peridotites as Illustrated by Xenoliths from Basalts

1975 • 329 citations

Steady state flow of rocks

1976 • 325 citations

Crustal structure of the mid-ocean ridges: 5. Heat flow through the Atlantic Ocean floor and convection currents

1966 • 309 citations

The System MgO-Ai2O3-Si02: Solubility of Ai2O3 in Enstatite for Spinel and Garnet Peridotite Compositions

1974 • 292 citations

Recovery and recrystallization during high temperature deformation of α-iron

1973 • 266 citations

High-temperature creep of Mt. Burnet Dunite

1977 • 266 citations

Mid-ocean ridges and geotherm distribution during mantle convection

1968 • 259 citations

New Technique for Decorating Dislocations in Olivine

1976 • 223 citations

Laboratory study of dislocation climb and diffusion in olivine

1973 • 206 citations

Steady-State Flow in Marble at 500° to 800°C

1972 • 204 citations

Deformation-Induced Recrystallization Due to Progressive Misorientation of Subgrains, with Special Reference to Mantle Peridotites

1975 • 198 citations

Textures, structures and fabrics due to solid state flow in some European lherzolites

1971 • 197 citations

New Melting Law at High Pressures

1966 • 185 citations

Experimentally induced 'natural' intragranular flow in quartz and quartzite

1968 • 183 citations

New Melting Law at High Pressures

1966 • 175 citations

Steady-State Flow in Polycrystalline Halite at Pressure of 2 Kilobars

2011 • 167 citations

Slip and the clinoenstatite transformation as competing rate processes in enstatite

1971 • 154 citations

Pyroxene geotherms

1975 • 138 citations

Mechanisms of high-temperature, solid-state flow in minerals and ceramics and their bearing on the creep behavior of the mantle

1973 • 132 citations

New melting law at high pressures.

1966 • 123 citations

Finite-element folds of similar geometry

1976 • 118 citations

Sheared Iherzolites: From the point of view of rock mechanics

1975 • 105 citations

Deformation Processes in the Upper Mantle

2011 • 105 citations

Dislocation mechanisms in olivine and flow in the upper mantle

1972 • 100 citations

Viscosity and Finite Strength of the Mantle as Determined from Water and Ice Loads*

2010 • 95 citations

Structure of convection cells in the mantle

1971 • 93 citations

Single-pyroxene geothermometry and geobarometry

1976 • 84 citations

A Discussion on natural strain and geological structure - Comparison of the flow properties of rocks at crustal conditions

1976 • 77 citations

Plate motion and structure of the continental asthenosphere: A realistic model of the upper mantle

1975 • 72 citations

Crustal movement in California and Nevada

1956 • 68 citations

Numerical models of convection in the upper mantle

1975 • 66 citations

Viscosity of the Earth's Mantle

1975 • 63 citations

The flow stress of polycrystalline aluminium

1957 • 62 citations

Geothermal Gradients in Mid-Continent and Gulf Coast Oil Fields

1947 • 52 citations

Phenomenological and structural analysis of recovery-controlled creep, with special reference to the creep of single-crystal silver chloride

1975 • 47 citations

Quartz: Extreme Preferred Orientation Produced by Annealing

1967 • 42 citations

Natural peridotites: Chemical and rheological heterogeneity of the upper mantle

1977 • 35 citations

High‐temperature flow of rocks

1975 • 24 citations

Geological problems in estimating mantle geothermal gradients

1976 • 18 citations

Processes in the upper mantle

1965 • 8 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations