| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Subcommission on geochronology: Convention on the use of decay constants in geo- and cosmochronology | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1977 | 8,753 |
| 2 | Approximation of terrestrial lead isotope evolution by a two-stage model | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1975 | 7,879 |
| 3 | A Guide to the Chemical Classification of the Common Volcanic Rocks | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1971 | 5,913 |
| 4 | A Scale of Grade and Class Terms for Clastic Sediments | Journal of Geology | 1922 | 4,708 |
| 5 | EROSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF STREAMS AND THEIR DRAINAGE BASINS; HYDROPHYSICAL APPROACH TO QUANTITATIVE MORPHOLOGY | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1945 | 4,437 |
| 6 | Distribution of the Elements in Some Major Units of the Earth's Crust | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1961 | 4,227 |
| 7 | Some remarks on the development of sedimentary basins | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1978 | 3,542 |
| 8 | Friction of rocks | Pure and Applied Geophysics | 1978 | 3,506 |
| 9 | Zircon saturation revisited: temperature and composition effects in a variety of crustal magma types | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1983 | 3,466 |
| 10 | Tectonic discrimination of granitoids | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1989 | 3,436 |
| 11 | World-Wide Delivery of River Sediment to the Oceans | Journal of Geology | 1983 | 3,289 |
| 12 | Geomorphic/Tectonic Control of Sediment Discharge to the Ocean: The Importance of Small Mountainous Rivers | Journal of Geology | 1992 | 3,051 |
| 13 | Trace element and isotopic effects of combined wallrock assimilation and fractional crystallization | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1981 | 3,020 |
| 14 | Tectonic setting of basic volcanic rocks determined using trace element analyses | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1973 | 2,997 |
| 15 | Chemical differentiation of the Earth: the relationship between mantle, continental crust, and oceanic crust | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1988 | 2,941 |
| 16 | The Lu-Hf isotope geochemistry of chondrites and the evolution of the mantle-crust system | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1997 | 2,905 |
| 17 | HYPSOMETRIC (AREA-ALTITUDE) ANALYSIS OF EROSIONAL TOPOGRAPHY | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1952 | 2,591 |
| 18 | The Lu–Hf and Sm–Nd isotopic composition of CHUR: Constraints from unequilibrated chondrites and implications for the bulk composition of terrestrial planets | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2008 | 2,524 |
| 19 | Propagating extrusion tectonics in Asia: New insights from simple experiments with plasticine | Geology | 1982 | 2,372 |
| 20 | The 176Lu decay constant determined by Lu–Hf and U–Pb isotope systematics of Precambrian mafic intrusions | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2004 | 2,358 |
| 21 | Major and trace element composition of the depleted MORB mantle (DMM) | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2005 | 2,325 |
| 22 | The ICS International Chronostratigraphic Chart | Episodes | 2013 | 2,225 |
| 23 | Unraveling the effects of potassium metasomatism in sedimentary rocks and paleosols, with implications for paleoweathering conditions and provenance | Geology | 1995 | 2,220 |
| 24 | A plate tectonic model for the Paleozoic and Mesozoic constrained by dynamic plate boundaries and restored synthetic oceanic isochrons | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2002 | 2,216 |
| 25 | Cenozoic geological and plate tectonic evolution of SE Asia and the SW Pacific: computer-based reconstructions, model and animations | Journal of Asian Earth Sciences | 2002 | 2,194 |
| 26 | Cosmic ray labeling of erosion surfaces: in situ nuclide production rates and erosion models | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1991 | 2,183 |
| 27 | Chemical subdivision of the A-type granitoids:Petrogenetic and tectonic implications | Geology | 1992 | 2,135 |
| 28 | Towards a paleogeography and tectonic evolution of Iran | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1981 | 2,058 |
| 29 | EVOLUTION OF DRAINAGE SYSTEMS AND SLOPES IN BADLANDS AT PERTH AMBOY, NEW JERSEY | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1956 | 2,019 |
| 30 | Least squares fitting of a straight line with correlated errors | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1968 | 1,986 |
| 31 | Fault zone architecture and permeability structure | Geology | 1996 | 1,981 |
| 32 | Empirical Correction Factors for the Electron Microanalysis of Silicates and Oxides | Journal of Geology | 1968 | 1,948 |
| 33 | Experimentally based water budgets for dehydrating slabs and consequences for arc magma generation | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1998 | 1,932 |
| 34 | Ti-V plots and the petrogenesis of modern and ophiolitic lavas | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1982 | 1,927 |
| 35 | STATISTICS FOR SPATIAL DATA | Terra Nova | 1992 | 1,926 |
| 36 | REVISED CARBONATE-WATER ISOTOPIC TEMPERATURE SCALE | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1953 | 1,876 |
| 37 | The application of a ThHfTa diagram to problems of tectonomagmatic classification and to establishing the nature of crustal contamination of basaltic lavas of the British Tertiary Volcanic Province | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1980 | 1,836 |
| 38 | Mineralogy and Sedimentation of Recent Deep-Sea Clay in the Atlantic Ocean and Adjacent Seas and Oceans | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1965 | 1,812 |
| 39 | Sm-Nd isotopic evolution of chondrites | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1980 | 1,806 |
| 40 | Computation of phase equilibria by linear programming: A tool for geodynamic modeling and its application to subduction zone decarbonation | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2005 | 1,796 |
| 41 | Fault rocks and fault mechanisms | Journal of the Geological Society | 1977 | 1,789 |
| 42 | ROLE OF FLUID PRESSURE IN MECHANICS OF OVERTHRUST FAULTING | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1959 | 1,733 |
| 43 | Formation of the 1300-km-wide intracontinental orogen and postorogenic magmatic province in Mesozoic South China: A flat-slab subduction model | Geology | 2007 | 1,704 |
| 44 | Magnitude and Frequency of Forces in Geomorphic Processes | Journal of Geology | 1960 | 1,640 |
| 45 | Implications of Plate Tectonics for the Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of Western North America | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1970 | 1,623 |
| 46 | Landslides caused by earthquakes | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1984 | 1,612 |
| 47 | Holocene climatic instability: A prominent, widespread event 8200 yr ago | Geology | 1997 | 1,602 |
| 48 | A Sm-Nd isotopic study of atmospheric dusts and particulates from major river systems | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1984 | 1,572 |
| 49 | Gondwana dispersion and Asian accretion: Tectonic and palaeogeographic evolution of eastern Tethys | Journal of Asian Earth Sciences | 2013 | 1,563 |
| 50 | A high-resolution, absolute-dated Holocene and deglacial Asian monsoon record from Dongge Cave, China | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2005 | 1,562 |
| 51 | Carbon isotope fractionation between dissolved bicarbonate and gaseous carbon dioxide | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1974 | 1,492 |
| 52 | Nb and Pb in oceanic basalts: new constraints on mantle evolution | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1986 | 1,492 |
| 53 | Channel-reach morphology in mountain drainage basins | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1997 | 1,492 |
| 54 | Pleistocene Temperatures | Journal of Geology | 1955 | 1,459 |
| 55 | Plate Tectonics and Geochemical Composition of Sandstones | Journal of Geology | 1983 | 1,456 |
| 56 | Water in the oceanic upper mantle: implications for rheology, melt extraction and the evolution of the lithosphere | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1996 | 1,436 |
| 57 | Petrogenesis of Mesozoic granitoids and volcanic rocks in South China: A response to tectonic evolution | Episodes | 2006 | 1,421 |
| 58 | Geochronology of the Phanerozoic granitoids in northeastern China | Journal of Asian Earth Sciences | 2011 | 1,404 |
| 59 | Uniform-sense normal simple shear of the continental lithosphere | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1985 | 1,389 |
| 60 | Plate Tectonics and the Evolution of the Alpine System | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1973 | 1,384 |
| 61 | Determination of Tectonic Setting of Sandstone-Mudstone Suites Using SiO2 Content and K2O/Na2O Ratio | Journal of Geology | 1986 | 1,384 |
| 62 | Mantle plumes from ancient oceanic crust | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1982 | 1,383 |
| 63 | The snowball Earth hypothesis: testing the limits of global change | Terra Nova | 2002 | 1,373 |
| 64 | Geochemical approaches to sedimentation, provenance, and tectonics | Special Paper of the Geological Society of America | 1993 | 1,371 |
| 65 | Slab breakoff: A model of lithosphere detachment and its test in the magmatism and deformation of collisional orogens | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1995 | 1,364 |
| 66 | Variation of seawater 87Sr/86Sr throughout Phanerozoic time | Geology | 1982 | 1,356 |
| 67 | Provenance of North American Phanerozoic sandstones in relation to tectonic setting | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1983 | 1,332 |
| 68 | Topographic ooze: Building the eastern margin of Tibet by lower crustal flow | Geology | 2000 | 1,326 |
| 69 | Continuous deformation of the Tibetan Plateau from global positioning system data | Geology | 2004 | 1,323 |
| 70 | Sources and settings of granitic rocks | Episodes | 1996 | 1,323 |
| 71 | Remnants of ≥3800 Ma crust in the Chinese part of the Sino-Korean craton | Geology | 1992 | 1,312 |
| 72 | Viscosity of magmatic liquids: A model | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2008 | 1,309 |
| 73 | Nature and significance of the Early Cretaceous giant igneous event in eastern China | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2005 | 1,291 |
| 74 | Geochemical and geodynamical constraints on subduction zone magmatism | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1991 | 1,267 |
| 75 | The stable isotopic composition of modern soil carbonate and its relationship to climate | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1984 | 1,244 |
| 76 | Strontium Isotope Stratigraphy: LOWESS Version 3: Best Fit to the Marine Sr‐Isotope Curve for 0–509 Ma and Accompanying Look‐up Table for Deriving Numerical Age | Journal of Geology | 2001 | 1,240 |
| 77 | Mechanism of burial metamorphism of argillaceous sediment: 1. Mineralogical and chemical evidence | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1976 | 1,194 |
| 78 | Strike-slip faults | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1988 | 1,193 |
| 79 | Use of U–Pb ages of detrital zircons to infer maximum depositional ages of strata: A test against a Colorado Plateau Mesozoic database | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2009 | 1,192 |
| 80 | Two contrasting granite types: 25 years later | Australian Journal of Earth Sciences | 2001 | 1,186 |
| 81 | Formation and Diagenesis of Weathering Profiles | Journal of Geology | 1989 | 1,171 |
| 82 | Weathering and Global Denudation | Journal of Geology | 1993 | 1,164 |
| 83 | Dynamics of orogenic wedges and the uplift of high-pressure metamorphic rocks | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1986 | 1,143 |
| 84 | The Lhasa Terrane: Record of a microcontinent and its histories of drift and growth | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2011 | 1,141 |
| 85 | Analysis of daily, monthly, and annual burned area using the fourth‐generation global fire emissions database (GFED4) | Journal of Geophysical Research G: Biogeosciences | 2013 | 1,140 |
| 86 | Implications of mantle plume structure for the evolution of flood basalts | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1990 | 1,110 |
| 87 | African climate change and faunal evolution during the Pliocene–Pleistocene | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2004 | 1,107 |
| 88 | GEOCARB III: A revised model of atmospheric CO2 over Phanerozoic time | Numerische Mathematik | 2001 | 1,103 |
| 89 | Hot and cold granites? Implications of zircon saturation temperatures and preservation of inheritance | Geology | 2003 | 1,099 |
| 90 | I- and S-type granites in the Lachlan Fold Belt | Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh | 1992 | 1,098 |
| 91 | 238U234U230Th232Th systematics and the precise measurement of time over the past 500,000 years | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1987 | 1,097 |
| 92 | Detrital zircon record and tectonic setting | Geology | 2012 | 1,096 |
| 93 | Simulation of Ground Motion Using the Stochastic Method | Pure and Applied Geophysics | 2003 | 1,093 |
| 94 | The Distinction between Grain Size and Mineral Composition in Sedimentary-Rock Nomenclature | Journal of Geology | 1954 | 1,081 |
| 95 | Improvements in 230Th dating, 230Th and 234U half-life values, and U–Th isotopic measurements by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2013 | 1,079 |
| 96 | Global patterns of loss of life from landslides | Geology | 2012 | 1,071 |
| 97 | Sediment Accumulation Rates and the Completeness of Stratigraphic Sections | Journal of Geology | 1981 | 1,070 |
| 98 | Strain variation in shear belts | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1970 | 1,064 |
| 99 | Time-dependent friction and the mechanics of stick-slip | Pure and Applied Geophysics | 1978 | 1,054 |
| 100 | Marine calcifiers exhibit mixed responses to CO2-induced ocean acidification | Geology | 2009 | 1,053 |
