The distribution of earthquakes with depth and stress in subducting slabs

Seismicity of the Earth and Associated Phenomena

1950 • 1,640 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

Subducted slabs and the geoid: Constraints on mantle rheology and flow

1984 • 725 citations

An experiment in systematic study of global seismicity: Centroid‐moment tensor solutions for 201 moderate and large earthquakes of 1981

1983 • 723 citations

The viscosity of the earth's mantle

1975 • 612 citations

Finite element analysis of incompressible viscous flows by the penalty function formulation

1979 • 582 citations

Glacial-Isostatic Adjustment-I. The Forward Problem

2007 • 523 citations

Phase Changes in the Upper Mantle

1967 • 434 citations

Study of Elastic Shocks Caused by the Fracture of Heterogeneous Materials and its Relations to Earthquake Phenomena

1962 • 412 citations

Role of Phase Transitions in a Dynamic Mantle

2007 • 394 citations

The system Mg2SiO4Fe2SiO4 at high pressures and temperatures

1970 • 356 citations

Mantle Earthquake Mechanisms and the Sinking of the Lithosphere

1969 • 334 citations

The Viscosity of the Earth's Mantle

1976 • 327 citations

The seismicity and deep structure of Island arcs

1966 • 299 citations

Micromechanisms of flow and fracture, and their relevance to the rheology of the upper mantle

1978 • 283 citations

Dynamical models for sea floor spreading

1973 • 239 citations

The dynamical origin of subduction zone topography

1980 • 215 citations

Reflection ofP′P′ seismic waves from discontinuities in the mantle

1970 • 198 citations

Subduction zone dip angles and flow driven by plate motion

1978 • 197 citations

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

1971 • 148 citations

Focal mechanisms and seismic energy release of deep and intermediate earthquakes in the Tonga‐Kermadec Region and their bearing on the depth extent of mantle flow

1979 • 144 citations

On the scale of mantle convection

1977 • 133 citations

Structure of the Earth from Glacio-Isostatic Rebound

1973 • 122 citations

Viscosity-depth profile of the Earth's mantle: Effects of polymorphic phase transitions

1977 • 119 citations

Viscosity of the lower mantle as inferred from rotational data

1982 • 108 citations

Seismicity and rheology of subducted slabs

1982 • 105 citations

Stress and Flow beneath Island Arcs

2007 • 91 citations

Mechanics of subducted lithosphere

1980 • 85 citations

The double seismic zone in downgoing slabs and the viscosity of the mesosphere

1979 • 85 citations

Temporal variation of the activity of intermediate and deep focus earthquakes

1979 • 76 citations

The Olivine–Spinel Transition in the Earth's Mantle

1956 • 50 citations

Subduction, back-arc spreading and global mantle flow

1983 • 39 citations

The Olivine–Spinel Transition in the Earth's Mantle

1956 • 12 citations

Subducted slabs and the geoid: Constraints on mantle rheology and flow

1983 • 2 citations