Mechanisms of lithospheric extension at mid-ocean ridges

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1998 • 7,569 citations

Mechanics of fold‐and‐thrust belts and accretionary wedges

1983 • 2,547 citations

Limits on lithospheric stress imposed by laboratory experiments

1980 • 1,763 citations

Boundary Element Methods in Solid Mechanics

1983 • 840 citations

Boundary element methods in solid mechanics

1983 • 822 citations

East Pacific Rise: Hot Springs and Geophysical Experiments

1980 • 760 citations

Multi-channel seismic imaging of a crustal magma chamber along the East Pacific Rise

1987 • 744 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

Mechanics of fold‐and‐thrust belts and accretionary wedges: Cohesive Coulomb Theory

1984 • 733 citations

Mechanics of thin-skinned fold-and-thrust belts

1978 • 689 citations

Reykjanes ridge crest: A detailed geophysical study

1971 • 622 citations

Formation of oceanic crust: Some thermal constraints

1975 • 410 citations

Hydrothermal Circulation and Geochemical Flux at Mid-Ocean Ridges

1976 • 394 citations

Along-axis variations in seafloor spreading in the MARK area

1987 • 321 citations

Oceanic spreading rate and crustal thickness

1981 • 319 citations

Compositional variations of young basalts in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge rift valley near lat 36°49′N

1977 • 316 citations

Northern East Pacific Rise: Magnetic anomaly and bathymetric framework

1982 • 314 citations

Volcanic Episodicity and a Non‐Steady State Rift Valley Along Northeast Pacific Spreading Centers: Evidence From Sea MARC I

1986 • 273 citations

Necking of the lithosphere and the mechanics of slowly accreting plate boundaries

1978 • 260 citations

Sensitivity of heat flow and gravity to the mechanism of sea-floor spreading

1969 • 241 citations

Mechanisms for the origin of mid‐ocean ridge axial topography: Implications for the thermal and mechanical structure of accreting plate boundaries

1987 • 229 citations

Deep-tow studies of the structure of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge crest near lat 37°N

1977 • 221 citations

A Mid‐Ocean Ridge Thermal Model: Constraints on the volume of axial hydrothermal heat flux

1985 • 219 citations

Intraplate seismicity and stresses in young oceanic lithosphere

1984 • 210 citations

Structural geomorphology of a fast-spreading rise crest: The East Pacific Rise near 3�25?S

1977 • 198 citations

A simple mechanical model for oceanic spreading centers

1973 • 191 citations

Microearthquakes beneath the Median Valley of the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge near 23°N: Hypocenters and focal mechanisms

1985 • 178 citations

Source mechanisms of earthquakes near mid‐ocean ridges from body waveform Inversion: Implications for the early evolution of oceanic lithosphere

1984 • 174 citations

Near-bottom magnetic anomalies, asymmetric spreading, oblique spreading, and tectonics of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge near lat 37°N

1977 • 170 citations

The volcanic‐tectonic cycle of the FAMOUS and AMAR Valleys, Mid‐Atlantic Ridge (36°47′N): Evidence from basalt glass and phenocryst compositional variations for a steady state magma chamber beneath the valley midsections, AMAR 3

1984 • 165 citations

An analysis of isostasy in the world's oceans: 2. Midocean ridge crests

1979 • 158 citations

Dynamics of a passive spreading center

1976 • 127 citations

Topography and tectonics of Mid‐Oceanic Ridge axes

1979 • 118 citations

Focal depths and mechanism of Mid‐Atlantic Ridge earthquakes from body waveform inversion

1986 • 106 citations

A new isostatic model for the East Pacific Rise crest

1984 • 99 citations

"Centroid depths and mechanisms of mid‐ocean ridge earthquakes in the Indian Ocean. Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea""

1987 • 96 citations

Anomalous upper mantle beneath the Australian-Antarctic discordance

1987 • 82 citations

Three‐dimensional flow beneath a slow spreading ridge axis: A dynamic contribution to the deepening of the Median Valley toward fracture zones

1985 • 80 citations

Gloria survey of the east pacific rise near 3.5°S: Tectonic and volcanic characteristics of a fast spreading mid-ocean rise

1984 • 78 citations

Tectonics of a fast spreading center: A Deep-Tow and sea beam survey on the East Pacific rise at 19°30′ S

1987 • 73 citations

Tectonic processes on slow spreading ridges

1979 • 70 citations

Heat flow from the Mid-Ocean Ridges and sea-floor spreading

1969 • 70 citations

Volcanics and structure of the famous Narrowgate Rift: evidence for cyclic evolution: AMAR 1

1981 • 69 citations

Thermal evolution of the oceanic crust; its dependence on spreading rate and effect on crustal structure

1980 • 62 citations

Drilling the Snake Pit hydrothermal sulfide deposit on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, lat 23/sup 0/22'N

1986 • 59 citations

Modeling the oceanic magnetic source layer

1979 • 59 citations

Drilling the Snake Pit hydrothermal sulfide deposit on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, lat 23°22′N

1986 • 58 citations

On the intermittency and crystallization mechanisms of sub-seafloor magma chambers

1983 • 56 citations

Constraints from the Famous area concerning the structure of the oceanic section

1979 • 43 citations

Flexure and thickening of the lithosphere at the East Pacific Rise

1986 • 43 citations

Gravity and a model of the median valley

1980 • 42 citations

Focal depths and mechanisms of large earthquakes on the Arctic Mid‐Ocean Ridge System

1986 • 34 citations

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge Near 45 °N. XVIII. Heat Flow Measurements

1972 • 32 citations

Constraints on the structure of the East Pacific Rise from gravity

1982 • 27 citations

Black smokers on the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge

1985 • 27 citations

Isostasy, magma chambers, and plate driving forces on the East Pacific Rise

1981 • 22 citations

Tectonics of the Nereus Deep, Red Sea: A deep-tow investigation of a site of initial rifting

1986 • 21 citations

Bending earthquakes located by an ocean bottom seismograph array on the Zenisu ridge, the outer rise of the eastern Nankai trough, Japan and their tectonic implications

1987 • 7 citations