Evaluation of the forces that drive the plates

On the Relative Importance of the Driving Forces of Plate Motion

1975 • 1,591 citations

Sea-floor spreading and continental drift

1968 • 1,459 citations

Plate convergence, transcurrent faults, and internal deformation adjacent to Southeast Asia and the western Pacific

1972 • 1,391 citations

Rises, trenches, great faults, and crustal blocks

1968 • 1,222 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

Plate Motions and Deep Mantle Convection

1972 • 817 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

History of Ocean Basins

2015 • 707 citations

Continent and Ocean Basin Evolution by Spreading of the Sea Floor

1961 • 638 citations

High Temperature Flow of Dunite and Peridotite

1970 • 589 citations

Temperature field and geophysical effects of a downgoing slab

1971 • 525 citations

Continental Tectosphere

2015 • 520 citations

Deep earthquake zones, anomalous structures in the upper mantle, and the lithosphere

1967 • 430 citations

World seismicity maps compiled from ESSA, Coast and Geodetic Survey, epicenter data, 1961-1967

1969 • 405 citations

Low-stress high-temperature creep in olivine single crystals

1974 • 379 citations

Evidence from Islands on the Spreading of Ocean Floors

1963 • 365 citations

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

1969 • 357 citations

Focal mechanisms and plate tectonics of the southwest Pacific

1972 • 303 citations

XVIII. Radioactivity and Earth Movements

1931 • 281 citations

The present-day motions of the Caribbean Plate

1975 • 280 citations

Radioactivity and Earth Movements

1931 • 280 citations

Observation and inversion of surface-wave dispersion

1972 • 271 citations

Some simple physical models for absolute plate motions

1974 • 252 citations

Dynamical models for sea floor spreading

1973 • 239 citations

Evidence from ocean islands suggesting movement in the Earth

1965 • 220 citations

Intraplate Earthquakes, Lithospheric Stresses and the Driving Mechanism of Plate Tectonics

1973 • 216 citations

A simple mechanical model for oceanic spreading centers

1973 • 191 citations

On the Forces Driving Plate Tectonics: Inferences from Absolute Plate Velocities and Intraplate Stress

2007 • 189 citations

A theory of mountain-building

1939 • 182 citations

The viscosity of the earth's mantle

1976 • 173 citations

Instability in the upper mantle and global plate movements

1970 • 156 citations

Intraplate stress as an indicator of plate tectonic driving forces

1976 • 123 citations

Teleseismic p-wave transmission through slabs

1973 • 119 citations

Relocation of Intermediate Depth Earthquakes in the Central Aleutians by Seismic Ray Tracing

1973 • 104 citations

On the Driving Forces of Plate Tectonics

1975 • 90 citations

Magnetic Anomalies and Sea Floor Spreading on the Chile Rise

1969 • 89 citations

Global tectonic implications of anomalous seismicPtraveltimes from the nuclear explosion longshot

1972 • 89 citations

Temperature and potential temperature beneath island arcs

1970 • 83 citations

Absolute plate motions by boundary velocity minimizations

1975 • 79 citations

Moments, source dimensions and stress drops of shallow-focus earthquakes in the Tonga-Kermadec arc

1972 • 73 citations

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

1975 • 72 citations

Stress Distribution Beneath Island Arcs

1972 • 71 citations

The Viscosity of the Earth

1915 • 48 citations

Sea-floor spreading as thermal convection

1971 • 17 citations

Observation and Inversion of Surface-Wave Dispersion

1972 • 16 citations