World distribution of sutures — the sites of former oceans

Cenozoic Tectonics of Asia: Effects of a Continental Collision: Features of recent continental tectonics in Asia can be interpreted as results of the India-Eurasia collision

1975 • 4,118 citations

Mountain belts and the new global tectonics

1970 • 1,585 citations

Plate Tectonics and the Evolution of the Alpine System

1973 • 1,561 citations

Sea-floor spreading and continental drift

1968 • 1,459 citations

Geology of the Himalayas

1964 • 1,356 citations

A New Class of Faults and their Bearing on Continental Drift

1965 • 1,296 citations

Rises, trenches, great faults, and crustal blocks

1968 • 1,222 citations

Did the Atlantic Close and then Re-Open?

1966 • 1,200 citations

Plume-Generated Triple Junctions: Key Indicators in Applying Plate Tectonics to Old Rocks

1973 • 926 citations

Tibetan, Variscan, and Precambrian Basement Reactivation: Products of Continental Collision

1973 • 911 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

Our Wandering Continents

1938 • 665 citations

African magmatism and tectonics

1971 • 644 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

Evolution of the Appalachian/Caledonian Orogen

1969 • 436 citations

Fossil marginal basin in the southern Andes

1974 • 420 citations

Speculations on the Thermal and Tectonic History of the Earth

2007 • 329 citations

Structural framework and evolution of the southern part of the Cordilleran orogen, western United States

1972 • 300 citations

Modern and ancient geosynclinal sedimentation

1974 • 296 citations

Hot Spots and Continental Break-up: Implications for Collisional Orogeny

1974 • 279 citations

The Uralides and the Motion of the Russian and Siberian Platforms

1970 • 279 citations

The geology of the Sudan Republic

1971 • 278 citations

Himalayan-Bengal Model for Flysch Dispersal in the Appalachian-Ouachita System

1975 • 270 citations

The Arctic Caledonides and earlier Oceans

1972 • 270 citations

Suture zone complexities: A review

1977 • 243 citations

Two plates in Africa during the Cretaceous?

1974 • 211 citations

Evolution of the Canadian Cordillera; a plate-tectonic model

1972 • 202 citations

Geology of the East Greenland Caledonides

1972 • 202 citations

Static or mobile earth: The current scientific revolution

1969 • 192 citations

Jabal al Wask, northwest Saudi Arabia: An Eocambrian back-arc ophiolite

1976 • 188 citations

Analogous Evolution of the Burma Orogen and the Scottish Caledonides

1975 • 182 citations

The Geological Evolution of Australia & New Zealand

1968 • 176 citations

Relative motion of South America with respect to North America and Caribbean tectonics

1976 • 170 citations

Early Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the western Sierra Nevada, California

1975 • 169 citations

A Discussion on the evolution of the Precambrian crust - Evolution of an early Proterozoic continental margin: the Coronation geosyncline and associated aulacogens of the northwestern Canadian shield

1973 • 159 citations

Geology of the east Greenland caledonides

1971 • 156 citations

AULACOGENS AND THEIR GENETIC RELATION TO GEOSYNCLINES, WITH A PROTEROZOIC EXAMPLE FROM GREAT SLAVE LAKE, CANADA

1974 • 154 citations

Plate Tectonics Model for the Evolution of the Arctic

1974 • 149 citations

Crustal Evolution and Global Tectonics: A Petrogenic View

1974 • 144 citations

Precambrian Geologic History

1976 • 143 citations

The Geological Evolution of Australia and New Zealand

1968 • 138 citations

Precambrian Africa and South America as a Single Continent

1973 • 131 citations

Geology of West Africa and Canary and Cape Verde Islands

1974 • 122 citations

Late Precambrian subduction and collision in the Al Amar—Idsas region, Arabian Shield, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

1976 • 115 citations

Aulacogens and Continental Breakup

1977 • 112 citations

Scandinavian Caledonides

1972 • 109 citations

Geochronology of Precambrian basement rocks from Ibadan, Southwestern Nigeria

1970 • 109 citations

Plate tectonics and the fusion of Asia

1974 • 108 citations

Late Precambrian evolution of North America: Plate tectonics implication

1976 • 105 citations

A Discussion on global tectonics in Proterozoic times - Early and Middle Proterozoic history of the Great Lakes area, North America

1976 • 103 citations

Western Boundary of the North American Continental Plate in Asia

1972 • 98 citations

The Scandinavian Caledonides

1974 • 92 citations

A precambrian suture in the Canadian shield

1971 • 91 citations

Continental Collisions in the Appalachian-Caledonian Orogenic Belt: Variations Related to Complete and Incomplete Suturing

1974 • 90 citations

Possible Precambrian Obduction and Plate Tectonics in Southeastern Africa

1972 • 88 citations

Plate Tectonics and Regional Stratigraphic-Metamorphic Relations in the Southern Part of the New Zealand Geosyncline

1972 • 87 citations

Precambrian palaeomagnetic results compatible with contemporary operation of the Wilson cycle

1976 • 87 citations

Paleomagnetism of the Haliburton Intrusions: Superimposed magnetizations, metamorphism, and tectonics in the Late Precambrian

1976 • 86 citations

Physics and geology

1960 • 80 citations

Proterozoic oceanic crust at Bou Azzer

1976 • 76 citations

Plate Tectonics Origin of the Caribbean Mountain System of Northern South America: Discussion and Proposal

1974 • 74 citations

Tectonic evolution of continents in early Proterozoic times

1974 • 73 citations

A Discussion on global tectonics in Proterozoic times - The Grenville Province in Helikian times: a possible model of evolution

1976 • 73 citations

Tectonic Evolution of the Tasman Orogenic Zone, Eastern Australia

1972 • 70 citations

Palaeozoic Oceans

1972 • 69 citations

The Damaran Episode in the Upper Proterozoic—Lower Paleozoic Structural History of Southern Africa

1967 • 64 citations

Structural investigations in the Barberton Mountian land, Eastern Transvaal

1963 • 62 citations

Palaeozoic Plate Tectonics in the Southern Tasman Geosyncline

1971 • 61 citations

The precambrian evolution of South America

1973 • 59 citations

Lead isotopic study of aplites from the Precambrian basement rocks near Ibadan, Southwestern Nigeria

1975 • 56 citations

Kibaran Metamorphic Belt in Pan-African Domain of West Africa?

1972 • 54 citations

Crustal Evolution in Silicate Planets: Implications for the Origin of Continents

1976 • 53 citations

Microplate tectonics, oblique collisions, and evolution of the Hercynian orogenic systems

1975 • 52 citations

Widespread continental rifting: Some considerations of timing and mechanism

1976 • 52 citations

The seven ages of a planet

1975 • 46 citations

Possible late Precambrian subduction zone in South West Africa

1976 • 46 citations

The Labrador geosyncline revisited

1972 • 39 citations

Carboniferous Subduction Complex in the Harz Mountains, Germany

1975 • 34 citations

The Pre-Cambrian history of Sweden

1965 • 30 citations

A major global suture in the Precambrian basement of SW Sweden?

1976 • 29 citations

Aspects of magmatism and plate tectonics in the Precambrian of England and Wales

1974 • 28 citations

Definition of pre-2000 m.y. apparent polar movements

1976 • 27 citations

The Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen

1978 • 27 citations

Implication of klippen and a new sedimentary unit at Gibi Mountain, Liberia, West Africa, in the problem of the Pan-African–Liberian age province boundary

1976 • 26 citations

LATE PRECAMBRIAN FORMATIONS IN THE WESTERN RICHTERSVELD, NORTHERN CAPE PROVINCE

1975 • 25 citations

Orogeny and Reactivation to the West and Southeast of the West African Craton

1973 • 25 citations

Collision tectonics in the Canadian Shield?

1975 • 24 citations

A Plate Tectonics Origin for Late Precambrian–Paleozoic Orogenic Belt in Morocco

1974 • 20 citations

Probable Precambrian Detrital Zircons in New Caledonia and Southwest Pacific Continental Structure

1971 • 20 citations

A Discussion on global tectonics in Proterozoic times - Heat flow and magmatic activity in the Proterozoic

1976 • 17 citations

Plate Tectonics Model for the Musgrave Block—Amadeus Basin Complex of Central Australia

1973 • 14 citations

Calc-Alkaline Volcanism and Plutonism from the Great Bear Batholith, N.W.T.

1973 • 14 citations

Studies of Appalachian Geology — Northern and Maritime

1970 • 12 citations

Les coupoles granitiques et rhyolitiques de la region de Fort-Lamy (Tchad)

1957 • 12 citations

Die Minas-Gruppe in Nordost-Bahia, Brasilien

1972 • 11 citations

Nickel occurrences in soapstone deposits, Saline County, Arkansas

1961 • 6 citations

Gondwanaland Revisited: New Evidence for Continental Drift

1969 • 3 citations

Evolution and global tectonics: Petrogenic view: Discussion and reply

1975 • 3 citations

Die Ultrabasitmassive im Präkambrium des Staates Goiäs/Brasilien

1973 • 1 citations

Geologic map of the Monrovia Quadrangle, Liberia

1974 • 1 citations