| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The importance of shale composition and pore structure upon gas storage potential of shale gas reservoirs | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2009 | 1,779 |
| 2 | Morphodynamic variability of surf zones and beaches: A synthesis | Marine Geology | 1984 | 1,502 |
| 3 | Geochemistry of Recent oxic and anoxic marine sediments: Implications for the geological record | Marine Geology | 1993 | 1,293 |
| 4 | Bathymetry of trace fossils | Marine Geology | 1967 | 903 |
| 5 | Initial reports of the deep sea drilling project | Marine Geology | 1971 | 827 |
| 6 | Marine hyperpycnal flows: initiation, behavior and related deposits. A review | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2003 | 783 |
| 7 | Pathways of organic carbon oxidation in three continental margin sediments | Marine Geology | 1993 | 680 |
| 8 | Factors controlling 13C contents of sedimentary organic compounds: Principles and evidence | Marine Geology | 1993 | 678 |
| 9 | Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs): Their past, present and future contributions to the advancement of marine geoscience | Marine Geology | 2014 | 669 |
| 10 | East Asian monsoon climate during the Late Pleistocene: high-resolution sediment records from the South China Sea | Marine Geology | 1999 | 636 |
| 11 | Worldwide distribution of submarine mud volcanoes and associated gas hydrates | Marine Geology | 2000 | 601 |
| 12 | Holocene development of the Yellow River's subaqueous delta, North Yellow Sea | Marine Geology | 2004 | 589 |
| 13 | Contourites and associated sediments controlled by deep-water circulation processes: State-of-the-art and future considerations | Marine Geology | 2014 | 582 |
| 14 | Seismic features diagnostic of contourite drifts | Marine Geology | 1999 | 558 |
| 15 | Simple kinetic models of petroleum formation. Part I: oil and gas generation from kerogen | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 1995 | 557 |
| 16 | The rise of diapirs during thin-skinned extension | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 1992 | 540 |
| 17 | Isotope paleontology: growth and composition of extant calcareous species | Marine Geology | 1991 | 519 |
| 18 | Fractures, faults, and hydrocarbon entrapment, migration and flow | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2000 | 509 |
| 19 | Instruments for particle size and settling velocity observations in sediment transport | Marine Geology | 2000 | 494 |
| 20 | Early Cenozoic two-phase extension and late Cenozoic thermal subsidence and inversion of the Bohai Basin, northern China | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 1997 | 475 |
| 21 | An abrupt drowning of the Black Sea shelf | Marine Geology | 1997 | 475 |
| 22 | A preliminary study on the pore characterization of Lower Silurian black shales in the Chuandong Thrust Fold Belt, southwestern China using low pressure N2 adsorption and FE-SEM methods | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2013 | 475 |
| 23 | Application of aromatic compounds as maturity indicators in source rocks and crude oils | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 1988 | 469 |
| 24 | Global distribution of large submarine canyons: Geomorphic differences between active and passive continental margins | Marine Geology | 2011 | 469 |
| 25 | Enzymatic iron and uranium reduction by sulfate-reducing bacteria | Marine Geology | 1993 | 467 |
| 26 | Response of Western Pacific marginal seas to glacial cycles: paleoceanographic and sedimentological features | Marine Geology | 1999 | 456 |
| 27 | The opening of Drake Passage | Marine Geology | 1977 | 451 |
| 28 | Clay mineral distribution in surface sediments of the South Atlantic: sources, transport, and relation to oceanography | Marine Geology | 1996 | 443 |
| 29 | The Messinian Salinity Crisis: Past and future of a great challenge for marine sciences | Marine Geology | 2014 | 436 |
| 30 | Nano-scale pore structure and fractal dimension of organic-rich Wufeng-Longmaxi shale from Jiaoshiba area, Sichuan Basin: Investigations using FE-SEM, gas adsorption and helium pycnometry | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2016 | 431 |
| 31 | Planktonic Foraminifera: Selective solution and the lysocline | Marine Geology | 1970 | 429 |
| 32 | Geomorphology of the oceans | Marine Geology | 2014 | 426 |
| 33 | 50 years of the turbidite paradigm (1950s—1990s): deep-water processes and facies models—a critical perspective | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2000 | 421 |
| 34 | Variation of structural style and basin evolution in the central Zagros (Izeh zone and Dezful Embayment), Iran | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2004 | 419 |
| 35 | Review and new aspects concerning the formation of eastern Mediterranean sapropels | Marine Geology | 1994 | 416 |
| 36 | Rifting, lithosphere breakup and volcanism: Comparison of magma-poor and volcanic rifted margins | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2013 | 416 |
| 37 | Wave, beach and dune interactions in southeastern Australia | Marine Geology | 1982 | 415 |
| 38 | Structural framework of the Zagros Fold–Thrust Belt, Iran | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2004 | 411 |
| 39 | The use of Pb-210 geochronology as a sedimentological tool: Application to the Washington continental shelf | Marine Geology | 1979 | 410 |
| 40 | Geochemical evolution of organic-rich shales with increasing maturity: A STXM and TEM study of the Posidonia Shale (Lower Toarcian, northern Germany) | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2012 | 406 |
| 41 | Hybrid sediment gravity flow deposits – Classification, origin and significance | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2009 | 405 |
| 42 | Methane-derived carbonates and authigenic pyrite from the northwestern Black Sea | Marine Geology | 2001 | 404 |
| 43 | Microbial mats: A joint venture | Marine Geology | 1993 | 395 |
| 44 | Submarine landslide geomorphology, US continental slope | Marine Geology | 2000 | 392 |
| 45 | Effect of gas hydrates melting on seafloor slope instability | Marine Geology | 2004 | 389 |
| 46 | Saharan aerosols over the tropical North Atlantic — Mineralogy | Marine Geology | 1980 | 387 |
| 47 | Sediment accumulation in a modern epicontinental-shelf setting: The Yellow Sea | Marine Geology | 1991 | 378 |
| 48 | Uptake of elements from seawater by ferromanganese crusts: solid-phase associations and seawater speciation | Marine Geology | 2003 | 376 |
| 49 | Explaining the Storegga Slide | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2005 | 373 |
| 50 | Plate tectonic history, basin development and petroleum source rock deposition onshore China | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 1987 | 368 |
| 51 | What is a wave-dominated coast? | Marine Geology | 1984 | 365 |
| 52 | Deltaic, mixed and turbidite sedimentation of ancient foreland basins | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2003 | 365 |
| 53 | Carbonates and relative changes in sea level | Marine Geology | 1981 | 363 |
| 54 | The influence of waves and seagrass communities on suspended particulates in an estuarine embayment | Marine Geology | 1984 | 363 |
| 55 | Estimating shallow subsidence in microtidal salt marshes of the southeastern United States: Kaye and Barghoorn revisited | Marine Geology | 1995 | 353 |
| 56 | The depth dependency of planktonic/benthic foraminiferal ratios: Constraints and applications | Marine Geology | 1990 | 348 |
| 57 | Slope failure dynamics and impacts from seafloor and shallow sub-seafloor geophysical data: case studies from the COSTA project | Marine Geology | 2004 | 348 |
| 58 | The Western Mediterranean Basin geological evolution | Marine Geology | 1984 | 346 |
| 59 | A review of kinematic indicators from mass-transport complexes using 3D seismic data | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2009 | 344 |
| 60 | The Storegga Slides: Evidence from eastern Scotland for a possible tsunami | Marine Geology | 1988 | 342 |
| 61 | The origin of aluminum-poor ferromanganoan sediments in areas of high heat flow on the East Pacific Rise | Marine Geology | 1969 | 340 |
| 62 | Turbidite channel reservoirs—Key elements in facies prediction and effective development | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2006 | 340 |
| 63 | Morphology and architecture of the present canyon and channel system of the Zaire deep-sea fan | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2002 | 339 |
| 64 | Classification and characterisation of deep-water sediment waves | Marine Geology | 2002 | 336 |
| 65 | Oil and gas wells and their integrity: Implications for shale and unconventional resource exploitation | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2014 | 335 |
| 66 | Sediments in Arctic sea ice: Implications for entrainment, transport and release | Marine Geology | 1994 | 333 |
| 67 | Global and local variations of interstitial sulfate gradients in deep-water, continental margin sediments: Sensitivity to underlying methane and gas hydrates | Marine Geology | 1999 | 328 |
| 68 | The Sissano, Papua New Guinea tsunami of July 1998 — offshore evidence on the source mechanism | Marine Geology | 2001 | 328 |
| 69 | Reconstruction of turbidity currents in Amazon Channel | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2003 | 327 |
| 70 | Architecture and evolution of upper fan channel-belts on the Niger Delta slope and in the Arabian Sea | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2003 | 326 |
| 71 | Visions of ice sheets in a greenhouse world | Marine Geology | 2005 | 324 |
| 72 | Carbon isotope fractionation during natural gas generation from kerogen | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 1991 | 323 |
| 73 | Structural comparison of archetypal Atlantic rifted margins: A review of observations and concepts | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2013 | 321 |
| 74 | Mobility of manganese in diagenesis of deep-sea sediments | Marine Geology | 1965 | 320 |
| 75 | Modern temperate-water and warm-water shelf carbonate sediments contrasted | Marine Geology | 1972 | 319 |
| 76 | Lateral accretion packages (LAPs): an important reservoir element in deep water sinuous channels | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2003 | 318 |
| 77 | Use of high-frequency (3.5–12 kHz) echograms in the study of near-bottom sedimentation processes in the deep-sea: A review | Marine Geology | 1980 | 317 |
| 78 | Rheology and strength of the lithosphere | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2011 | 316 |
| 79 | A 300-kyr record of aridity and wind strength in southwestern Africa: inferences from grain-size distributions of sediments on Walvis Ridge, SE Atlantic | Marine Geology | 2002 | 313 |
| 80 | Morphodynamics of reflective and dissipative beach and inshore systems: Southeastern Australia | Marine Geology | 1979 | 312 |
| 81 | Sequence stratigraphy in active extensional basins: implications for the interpretation of ancient basin-fills | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 1994 | 312 |
| 82 | The late-Holocene Gargano subaqueous delta, Adriatic shelf: Sediment pathways and supply fluctuations | Marine Geology | 2003 | 312 |
| 83 | Sedimentation beneath ice shelves — the view from ice stream B | Marine Geology | 1989 | 310 |
| 84 | Theoretical aspects of cap-rock and fault seals for single- and two-phase hydrocarbon columns | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 1987 | 309 |
| 85 | Hydrocarbon leakage interpreted on seismic data | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2009 | 309 |
| 86 | Plate tectonics synthesis: The displacements between Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica since the Late Cretaceous | Marine Geology | 1977 | 308 |
| 87 | Possible influence of salinity and temperature on modern shelf carbonate sedimentation | Marine Geology | 1975 | 306 |
| 88 | The Storegga Slide: architecture, geometry and slide development | Marine Geology | 2004 | 306 |
| 89 | Early diagenesis of organic matter in Peru continental margin sediments: Phosphorite precipitation | Marine Geology | 1988 | 304 |
| 90 | The permeability of faults within siliciclastic petroleum reservoirs of the North Sea and Norwegian Continental Shelf | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2001 | 303 |
| 91 | Short-term changes in the morphodynamic states of beaches and surf zones: An empirical predictive model | Marine Geology | 1985 | 300 |
| 92 | The Bengal Fan: morphology, geometry, stratigraphy, history and processes | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2002 | 300 |
| 93 | A 350,000 year summer-monsoon multi-proxy stack from the Owen Ridge, Northern Arabian Sea | Marine Geology | 2003 | 300 |
| 94 | Experimental mechanical compaction of clay mineral aggregates—Changes in physical properties of mudstones during burial | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2007 | 300 |
| 95 | Geological setting and characterization of a methane hydrate reservoir distributed at the first offshore production test site on the Daini-Atsumi Knoll in the eastern Nankai Trough, Japan | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2015 | 300 |
| 96 | The continental margin of the Mesozoic Tethys in the Western Alps | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 1986 | 299 |
| 97 | CORTEX, a shipboard XRF-scanner for element analyses in split sediment cores | Marine Geology | 1998 | 297 |
| 98 | The Storegga slide: evaluation of triggering sources and slide mechanics | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2005 | 295 |
| 99 | Geographic and hydrodynamic characteristics of shallow coastal lagoons | Marine Geology | 1989 | 288 |
| 100 | Late Mesozoic-Cenozoic evolution of the south-western Barents Sea in a regional rift-shear tectonic setting | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 1993 | 286 |
