A BRIEF SUMMARY OF OUR PRESENT DAY UNDERSTANDING OF THE EFFECT OF VOLATILES AND PARTIAL MELT ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF THE UPPER MANTLE

Theory of Propagation of Elastic Waves in a Fluid-Saturated Porous Solid. I. Low-Frequency Range

1956 • 7,672 citations

The viscosity of suspensions of rigid spheres

1952 • 1,060 citations

Elasticity and Anelasticity of Metals

1949 • 937 citations

Experimental Evidence of the Viscous Behavior of Grain Boundaries in Metals

1947 • 768 citations

Density distribution and constitution of the mantle

1964 • 668 citations

Experimental melting studies on a model upper mantle composition at high pressure under water-saturated and water-undersaturated conditions

1973 • 660 citations

Hydrolytic Weakening of Quartz and Other Silicates*

2010 • 594 citations

High Temperature Flow of Dunite and Peridotite

1970 • 589 citations

On the rheology of the upper mantle

1973 • 526 citations

Quartz: Anomalous Weakness of Synthetic Crystals

1965 • 481 citations

Flow and Fracture of Rocks

1972 • 461 citations

Melt squirt in the asthenosphere

1975 • 434 citations

Attenuation of seismic energy in the upper mantle

1965 • 414 citations

Melting of a Hydrous Mantle: I. Phase Relations of Natural Peridotite at High Pressures and Temperatures with Controlled Activities of Water, Carbon Dioxide, and Hydrogen

1975 • 389 citations

Low-stress high-temperature creep in olivine single crystals

1974 • 379 citations

New analysis of attenuation in partially melted rock

1969 • 357 citations

The physics and chemistry of minerals and rocks

1977 • 347 citations

The earth’s crust and upper mantle

1970 • 345 citations

Nonhydrostatic thermodynamics and its geologic applications

1973 • 341 citations

Partial melting in the upper mantle

1970 • 297 citations

Defects in the alkaline earth oxides

1968 • 296 citations

Physical mechanisms of seismic‐wave attenuation

1970 • 260 citations

High pressure research—applications in geophysics

1978 • 259 citations

Composition and Evolution of the Upper Mantle

2011 • 247 citations

Variations of Upper Mantle Structure under the Pacific Ocean

1974 • 232 citations

The effect of temperature and partial melting on velocity and attenuation in a Simple Binary System

1968 • 228 citations

Velocity and attenuation of seismic waves in imperfectly elastic rock

1968 • 218 citations

Theory of the Elasticity of Polycrystals with Viscous Grain Boundaries

1941 • 208 citations

Role of water in magma generation and initiation of diapiric uprise in the mantle

1971 • 160 citations

A model of hydrolytic weakening in quartz

1974 • 156 citations

Water content of some nominally anhydrous silicates

1973 • 153 citations

Oceanic lithosphere and asthenosphere: Thermal and mechanical structure

1976 • 151 citations

Phase equilibria and elastic properties of a pyrolite model for the oceanic upper mantle

1976 • 146 citations

The 3000–3900 cm−1 absorption bands and anelasticity in crystalline α-quartz

1965 • 132 citations

Seismic-wave attenuation and partial melting in the upper mantle of North America

1972 • 126 citations

Initial melting at grain boundaries of quartz and feldspar in gneisses and granulites

1973 • 120 citations

Density and Composition of the Upper Mantle: First Approximation as an Olivine Layer

2011 • 118 citations

Plasticity of Single Crystals of Synthetic Quartz

2011 • 114 citations

The Structure of the Upper Mantle under the United States from the Dispersion of Rayleigh Waves

1974 • 111 citations

Effect of Water on the Experimental Deformation of Olivine

2011 • 109 citations

DEFORMATION AND FLOW OF SOLIDS

1965 • 105 citations

Lithospheric thickness in the western Pacific

1975 • 99 citations

Mechanical deformation of quartz

1970 • 97 citations

Pore Pressure in Geophysics

2011 • 94 citations

Higher approximations of relaxation spectra

1952 • 94 citations

Role of hydrogen and deuterium on the<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mi>V</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo>−</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:msup></mml:mrow></mml:math>-center formation in MgO

1975 • 86 citations

Viscoelasticity: Phenomenological aspects

1960 • 86 citations

Fluid Precipitates in Rocks from the Earth's Mantle

1975 • 85 citations

Velocity and internal friction in partial melts

1975 • 76 citations

Melting in the deep crust and upper mantle and the nature of the low velocity layer

1970 • 73 citations

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

1975 • 72 citations

Thermodynamic equilibrium across a coherent interface in a stressed crystal

1974 • 64 citations

Thorium, uranium and potassium abundances in peridotite inclusions and their host basalts

1968 • 63 citations

Reactions between Vacancies and Impurities in Magnesium Oxide. II. Mn4+-Ion and OH−-Ion Impurities

1967 • 61 citations

Some implications on mantle and crustal structure from G waves and love waves

1959 • 59 citations

Inversion Schemes for Surface Wave Attenuation and Q in the Crust and the Mantle

1975 • 59 citations

A theoretical analysis of sea‐ice strength

1958 • 59 citations

Studies of OH− and OD− Ions in Magnesium Oxide. I. Distribution and Annealing of Hydroxyl and Deuteroxyl Ions

1971 • 53 citations

Variation of Elastic Wave Velocity and Attenuative Property near the Melting Temperature

1964 • 46 citations

Viscous phase in rocks and the low-velocity zone

1971 • 45 citations

Elastic properties of a tungsten-silver composite above and below the melting point of silver

1965 • 36 citations

Hydroxyl impurity and the formation and distribution of cavities in melt-grown MgO crystals

1975 • 36 citations

Anelastic properties of the Earth

1966 • 32 citations

Geophysical constraints on radial and lateral temperature variations in the upper mantle

1976 • 31 citations

Creep in the earth and planets

1972 • 23 citations

SECTION 8: INTERNAL FRICTION IN ROCKS

1966 • 21 citations

Q and mantle creep

1974 • 16 citations

The Effect of Small Viscous Inclusions on the Mechanical Properties of an Elastic Solid

1956 • 15 citations

The formation of hydrogen-filled cavities in MgO crystals annealed in reducing atmospheres

1975 • 15 citations

Compressive creep rates of partially melted Al-Ga alloys

1975 • 9 citations

Variation of velocity and attenuation of longitudinal waves during the solid-liquid and liquid-solid transition in Wood's alloy

1965 • 8 citations

Velocity of sound in two-component systems

1959 • 7 citations

Geophysical measurements and experimental petrology

1976 • 7 citations

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON THE INFLUENCE OF CO2 AND H2O IN THE UPPER MANTLE

1977 • 5 citations

Melting of granite under effective confining pressure.

1967 • 5 citations