| Model for predicting evaporation from a row crop with incomplete cover | Water Resources Research | 1972 | 1.5K |
| Deformation of the Earth by surface loads | Reviews of Geophysics | 1972 | 1.2K |
| Plate convergence, transcurrent faults, and internal deformation adjacent to Southeast Asia and the western Pacific | Journal of Geophysical Research | 1972 | 1.1K |
| EFFECTS OF SIZE AND CONCENTRATION OF FOOD PARTICLES ON THE FEEDING BEHAVIOR OF THE MARINE PLANKTONIC COPEPOD CALANUS PACIFICUS1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1972 | 1K |
| Oxygen isotope exchange between quartz and water | Journal of Geophysical Research | 1972 | 973 |
| Systematics of Sulfur and Carbon Isotopes in Hydrothermal Ore Deposits | Economic Geology | 1972 | 914 |
| THE SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF PARTICLES IN THE OCEAN1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1972 | 805 |
| U-Th-Pb systematics in three Apollo 14 basalts and the problem of initial Pb in lunar rocks | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1972 | 696 |
| Mechanism of tsunami earthquakes | Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors | 1972 | 646 |
| Paraglacial Sedimentation: A Consideration of Fluvial Processes Conditioned by Glaciation | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1972 | 639 |
| Sea-Floor Spreading in the North Atlantic | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1972 | 624 |
| Pitch-angle diffusion of radiation belt electrons within the plasmasphere | Journal of Geophysical Research | 1972 | 616 |
| Cohesive force across the tip of a longitudinal-shear crack and Griffith's specific surface energy | Journal of Geophysical Research | 1972 | 580 |
| The general linear inverse problem: Implication of surface waves and free oscillations for Earth structure | Reviews of Geophysics | 1972 | 534 |
| Time-dependent friction in rocks | Journal of Geophysical Research | 1972 | 525 |
| Selective Sorption and Fixation of Cations by Clay Minerals: A Review | Clays and Clay Minerals | 1972 | 521 |
| Vertical and areal distribution of Saharan dust over the western equatorial north Atlantic Ocean | Journal of Geophysical Research | 1972 | 500 |
| The point-load strength test | International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences | 1972 | 424 |
| Plate Motions and Deep Mantle Convection | Memoir of the Geological Society of America | 1972 | 422 |
| Satellite observations of energetic heavy ions during a geomagnetic storm | Journal of Geophysical Research | 1972 | 419 |
| Melting Relations of Basalt with Equilibrium Water Pressure Less Than Total Pressure | Journal of Petrology | 1972 | 395 |
| World-Wide Correlation of Mesozoic Magnetic Anomalies, and Its Implications | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1972 | 384 |
| Dynamics of flood frequency | Water Resources Research | 1972 | 381 |
| Thermal conductivity of Earth materials at high temperatures | Journal of Geophysical Research | 1972 | 370 |
| Major and Trace Element Abundances in Volcanic Rocks of Orogenic Areas | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1972 | 359 |
