Surface plates and thermal plumes: Separate scales of the mantle convective circulation

Nd isotopic variations and petrogenetic models

1976 • 1,167 citations

Origin of the Earth and Moon

1979 • 1,055 citations

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

1971 • 1,002 citations

Non-linear properties of thermal convection

1978 • 930 citations

The composition and evolution of the continental crust: rare earth element evidence from sedimentary rocks

1981 • 853 citations

The impulse response of a Maxwell Earth

1974 • 820 citations

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

1974 • 671 citations

Finite amplitude convective cells and continental drift

1967 • 625 citations

Flexural rigidity, thickness, and viscosity of the lithosphere

1970 • 586 citations

Mantle convection and the thermal structure of the plates

1978 • 540 citations

Glacial-Isostatic Adjustment-I. The Forward Problem

2007 • 523 citations

Dynamics of laboratory diapir and plume models

1975 • 482 citations

Geochemical modeling of mantle differentiation and crustal growth

1979 • 444 citations

Viscous gravitational relaxation

1982 • 418 citations

On the interaction of two scales of convection in the mantle

1975 • 385 citations

Low-stress high-temperature creep in olivine single crystals

1974 • 379 citations

Isostatic response to loading of the crust in Canada

1970 • 357 citations

The physics and chemistry of minerals and rocks

1977 • 347 citations

Speculations on the Thermal and Tectonic History of the Earth

2007 • 329 citations

Glacial-Isostatic Adjustment-II. The Inverse Problem

2007 • 314 citations

Convection in a compressible fluid with infinite Prandtl number

1980 • 279 citations

Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth

1975 • 273 citations

Thermoelastic bending of the lithosphere: implications for basin subsidence

1983 • 242 citations

Two-dimensional Rayleigh-Benard convection

1973 • 213 citations

Mantle convection as a boundary layer phenomenon

1982 • 189 citations

Models of earth structure inferred from neodymium and strontium isotopic abundances

1979 • 188 citations

Glacial isostasy and relative sea level: A global finite element model

1978 • 186 citations

Pleistocene deglaciation and the Earth's rotation: implications for mantle viscosity

1981 • 172 citations

Parameterized mantle convection and the Earth's thermal history

1978 • 156 citations

The subcontinental versus suboceanic debate, I Lead-neodymium-strontium isotopes in primary alkali basalts from a shield area the Ahaggar volcanic suite

1981 • 134 citations

The viscosity of the asthenosphere

1937 • 126 citations

A thermal history model for the Earth with parameterized convection

1979 • 120 citations

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

1977 • 119 citations

A boundary layer model for mantle convection with surface plates

1980 • 109 citations

Finite-amplitude thermal convection in a spherical shell

1974 • 101 citations

Fast viscous bénard convection

1979 • 98 citations

Ice Age Geodynamics

1981 • 93 citations

Melting of the mantle past and present: isotope and trace element evidence

1978 • 87 citations

Activation Volume for Creep in the Upper Mantle

1979 • 85 citations

Mantle plumes: A boundary layer approach for Newtonian and non-Newtonian temperature-dependent rheologies

1976 • 83 citations

The role of large bodies in the formation of the earth and moon.

1976 • 69 citations

Mantle Convection Models

1978 • 65 citations

On the existence of a second scale of convection in the upper mantle

1981 • 61 citations

Compositional convection and the gravitationally powered dynamo

1983 • 60 citations

Convection Currents in the Earth's Mantle

1976 • 47 citations

Penetrative convection in the planetary mantle

1973 • 46 citations

Two-dimensional mantle flow beneath a rigid accreting lithosphere

1978 • 46 citations

Oceanic bathymetry profiles flattened by radiogenic heating in a convecting mantle

1980 • 38 citations

The thermal boundary layer and seismic focal mechanisms in mantle convection

1976 • 5 citations