| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Brazos River bar [Texas]; a study in the significance of grain size parameters | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 1957 | 5,350 |
| 2 | Morphology, Genesis, and Distribution of Nanometer-Scale Pores in Siliceous Mudstones of the Mississippian Barnett Shale | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 2009 | 2,250 |
| 3 | Estuarine facies models; conceptual basis and stratigraphic implications | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 1992 | 1,332 |
| 4 | The CIW index: A new chemical index of weathering | Sedimentary Geology | 1988 | 1,093 |
| 5 | A New Roundness Scale for Sedimentary Particles | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 1953 | 900 |
| 6 | Brahmaputra river: Channel processes and sedimentation | Sedimentary Geology | 1969 | 898 |
| 7 | Bacterial and thermochemical sulfate reduction in diagenetic settings — old and new insights | Sedimentary Geology | 2001 | 887 |
| 8 | Carbonate ramp depositional systems | Sedimentary Geology | 1992 | 865 |
| 9 | Seismic Geomorphology and Stratigraphy of Depositional Elements in Deep-Water Settings | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 2003 | 843 |
| 10 | (null) | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 1990 | 790 |
| 11 | Measurement and Geological Significance of Shape and Roundness of Sedimentary Particles | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 1941 | 709 |
| 12 | Stranded parasequences and the forced regressive wedge systems tract: deposition during base-level'fall | Sedimentary Geology | 1992 | 703 |
| 13 | Processes controlling the composition of heavy mineral assemblages in sandstones | Sedimentary Geology | 1999 | 631 |
| 14 | Determination of Carbonate and Organic Matter in Calcareous Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks by Loss on Ignition: Comparison With Other Methods | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 1974 | 616 |
| 15 | High-frequency sequences and their stacking patterns: sequence-stratigraphic evidence of high-frequency eustatic cycles | Sedimentary Geology | 1991 | 614 |
| 16 | Physical criteria for distinguishing sandy tsunami and storm deposits using modern examples | Sedimentary Geology | 2007 | 571 |
| 17 | Ca-carbonates precipitation and limestone genesis — the microbiogeologist point of view | Sedimentary Geology | 1999 | 561 |
| 18 | Width and Thickness of Fluvial Channel Bodies and Valley Fills in the Geological Record: A Literature Compilation and Classification | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 2006 | 560 |
| 19 | Sediment Gravity Flows: II Depositional Models with Special Reference to the Deposits of High-Density Turbidity Currents | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 1982 | 549 |
| 20 | Inclined heterolithic stratification—Terminology, description, interpretation and significance | Sedimentary Geology | 1987 | 527 |
| 21 | Dolomitization; a critical view of some current views | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 1987 | 518 |
| 22 | Studies in fluviatile sedimentation: Bars, bar-complexes and sandstone sheets (low-sinuosity braided streams) in the brownstones (L. devonian), welsh borders | Sedimentary Geology | 1983 | 504 |
| 23 | Grain-size distribution function of polymodal sediments in hydraulic and aeolian environments, and numerical partitioning of the sedimentary components | Sedimentary Geology | 2002 | 500 |
| 24 | The significance of large sediment supply, active tectonism, and eustasy on margin sequence development: Late Quaternary stratigraphy and evolution of the Ganges–Brahmaputra delta | Sedimentary Geology | 2000 | 492 |
| 25 | A semiquantitative field classification of ichnofabric | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 1986 | 489 |
| 26 | Large floating clasts in turbidites: a mechanism for their emplacement | Sedimentary Geology | 1988 | 487 |
| 27 | Rare earth element geochemistry of Australian Paleozoic graywackes and mudrocks: Provenance and tectonic control | Sedimentary Geology | 1985 | 478 |
| 28 | Classification of clastic coastal depositional environments | Sedimentary Geology | 1992 | 477 |
| 29 | The sequence stratigraphy of fluvial depositional systems: the role of floodplain sediment storage | Sedimentary Geology | 1993 | 468 |
| 30 | Effects of tides on mixing and suspended sediment transport in macrotidal estuaries | Sedimentary Geology | 1980 | 467 |
| 31 | An overview of the sedimentary geology of the Bengal Basin in relation to the regional tectonic framework and basin-fill history | Sedimentary Geology | 2003 | 453 |
| 32 | Terminal Distributary Channels and Delta Front Architecture of River-Dominated Delta Systems | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 2006 | 442 |
| 33 | Size Frequency Distributions of Sediments | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 1934 | 436 |
| 34 | Geochemistry of Sandstones from the Upper Miocene Kudankulam Formation, Southern India: Implications for Provenance, Weathering, and Tectonic Setting | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 2004 | 431 |
| 35 | Grain size representation by CM patterns as a geologic tool | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 1964 | 422 |
| 36 | Identifying provenance-specific features of detrital heavy mineral assemblages in sandstones | Sedimentary Geology | 1994 | 410 |
| 37 | Neoproterozoic glaciations in a revised global palaeogeography from the breakup of Rodinia to the assembly of Gondwanaland | Sedimentary Geology | 2013 | 406 |
| 38 | Microbially Induced Sedimentary Structures: A New Category within the Classification of Primary Sedimentary Structures | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 2001 | 398 |
| 39 | Bacterially Induced Mineralization of Calcium Carbonate in Terrestrial Environments: The Role of Exopolysaccharides and Amino Acids | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 2003 | 392 |
| 40 | Classification and environmental models of cool freshwater tufas | Sedimentary Geology | 1990 | 386 |
| 41 | Relationships between depositional environments, burial history and rock properties. Some principal aspects of diagenetic process in sedimentary basins | Sedimentary Geology | 2014 | 385 |
| 42 | A Simple Universal Equation for Grain Settling Velocity | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 2004 | 383 |
| 43 | Predicting the terrestrial flux of sediment to the global ocean: a planetary perspective | Sedimentary Geology | 2003 | 381 |
| 44 | Quantitative provenance analysis of sediments: review and outlook | Sedimentary Geology | 2004 | 366 |
| 45 | A square-rod piston sampler for lake sediments | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 1967 | 361 |
| 46 | Sulfate reducing bacteria in microbial mats: Changing paradigms, new discoveries | Sedimentary Geology | 2006 | 361 |
| 47 | High-density turbidity currents; are they sandy debris flows? | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 1996 | 360 |
| 48 | Grain-size and textural classification of coarse sedimentary particles | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 1999 | 358 |
| 49 | The South Caspian Basin: a review of its evolution from subsidence modelling | Sedimentary Geology | 2003 | 355 |
| 50 | Studies in fluviatile sedimentation: an exploratory quantitative model for the architecture of avulsion-controlled alluvial suites | Sedimentary Geology | 1978 | 354 |
| 51 | Geochemical discrimination of clastic sedimentary rock sources | Sedimentary Geology | 1997 | 353 |
| 52 | Nomenclature Based on Sand-silt-clay Ratios | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 1954 | 347 |
| 53 | Accommodation and supply—a dual control on stratigraphic sequences | Sedimentary Geology | 1993 | 346 |
| 54 | A Process Model for the Evolution, Morphology, and Architecture of Sinuous Submarine Channels | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 2000 | 345 |
| 55 | Capturing Key Attributes of Fine-Grained Sedimentary Rocks In Outcrops, Cores, and Thin Sections: Nomenclature and Description Guidelines | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 2015 | 345 |
| 56 | Chemical criteria to identify the depositional environment of chert: general principles and applications | Sedimentary Geology | 1994 | 344 |
| 57 | Hydrothermal chert and associated siliceous rocks from the northern Pacific their geological significance as indication od ocean ridge activity | Sedimentary Geology | 1986 | 343 |
| 58 | U–Pb ages of detrital zircons from Permian and Jurassic eolian sandstones of the Colorado Plateau, USA: paleogeographic implications | Sedimentary Geology | 2003 | 343 |
| 59 | Processes, facies and architecture of fluvial distributary system deposits | Sedimentary Geology | 2007 | 343 |
| 60 | The Messinian salinity crisis in the Mediterranean basin: A reassessment of the data and an integrated scenario | Sedimentary Geology | 2006 | 342 |
| 61 | Sand waves: A model of origin and internal structure | Sedimentary Geology | 1980 | 338 |
| 62 | Sequence of structures in fine-grained turbidites: Comparison of recent deep-sea and ancient flysch sediments | Sedimentary Geology | 1980 | 337 |
| 63 | Distinguishing tsunami and storm deposits: An example from Martinhal, SW Portugal | Sedimentary Geology | 2007 | 336 |
| 64 | An R package for statistical provenance analysis | Sedimentary Geology | 2016 | 333 |
| 65 | Hyperpycnal Rivers and Prodeltaic Shelves in the Cretaceous Seaway of North America | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 2009 | 330 |
| 66 | Variability of the sequence stratigraphic model: effects of local basin factors | Sedimentary Geology | 1993 | 321 |
| 67 | Mesozoic climates: General circulation models and the rock record | Sedimentary Geology | 2006 | 313 |
| 68 | Processes That Initiate Turbidity Currents and Their Influence on Turbidites: A Marine Geology Perspective | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 2009 | 313 |
| 69 | Digital Outcrop Models: Applications of Terrestrial Scanning Lidar Technology in Stratigraphic Modeling | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 2005 | 312 |
| 70 | Flood deposits, Bijou Creek, Colorado, JUNE =")( | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 1967 | 311 |
| 71 | Three-dimensional model of alluvial stratigraphy; theory and applications | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 1995 | 311 |
| 72 | Bed configuration in steady unidirectional water flows; Part 2, Synthesis of flume data | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 1990 | 308 |
| 73 | Calcite Fabrics, Growth Mechanisms, and Environments of Formation in Speleothems from the Italian Alps and Southwestern Ireland | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 2000 | 304 |
| 74 | Depositional Facies and Aqueous-Solid Geochemistry of Travertine-Depositing Hot Springs (Angel Terrace, Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, U.S.A.) | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 2000 | 301 |
| 75 | The Magnitude of Late Paleozoic Glacioeustatic Fluctuations: A Synthesis | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 2008 | 300 |
| 76 | Stratigraphic evolution of the late Holocene Ganges–Brahmaputra lower delta plain | Sedimentary Geology | 2003 | 297 |
| 77 | Provenance and Tectonic Setting of the Proterozoic Turbidites in Hunan, South China: Geochemical Evidence | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 2002 | 296 |
| 78 | The Effect of Grain Size on Detrital Modes: A Test of the Gazzi-Dickinson Point-Counting Method | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 1984 | 295 |
| 79 | From rifting to drifting: tectonic evolution of the South-Alpine upper crust from the Triassic to the Early Cretaceous | Sedimentary Geology | 1993 | 293 |
| 80 | Carbonate Identification and Genesis as Revealed by Staining | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 1966 | 290 |
| 81 | Response of the Ganges dispersal system to climate change: a source-to-sink view since the last interstade | Sedimentary Geology | 2003 | 290 |
| 82 | Identifying triggers for liquefaction-induced soft-sediment deformation in sands | Sedimentary Geology | 2011 | 289 |
| 83 | Classification and Environmental Significance of Cryptalgal Limestones and Dolomites, with Illustrations from the Cambrian and Ordovician of Southwestern Alberta | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 1967 | 287 |
| 84 | Conceptual basis and variability in sequence stratigraphy: a different perspective | Sedimentary Geology | 1994 | 285 |
| 85 | An introductory perspective on non-tropical shelf carbonates | Sedimentary Geology | 1988 | 283 |
| 86 | Carbonate lithofacies as paleolatitude indicators: problems and limitations | Sedimentary Geology | 1988 | 282 |
| 87 | Soft-sediment deformation structures interpreted as seismites in lacustrine sediments of the Prebetic Zone, SE Spain, and their potential use as indicators of earthquake magnitudes during the Late Miocene | Sedimentary Geology | 2000 | 282 |
| 88 | Large Distributive Fluvial Systems: Characteristics, Distribution, and Controls on Development | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 2010 | 282 |
| 89 | Syntectonic unconformities of the Alto Cardener, Spanish Pyrenees: a genetic interpretation | Sedimentary Geology | 1976 | 280 |
| 90 | Habit of bacterially induced precipitates of calcium carbonate and the influence of medium viscosity on mineralogy | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 1991 | 280 |
| 91 | The Okavango Fan and the classification of subaerial fan systems | Sedimentary Geology | 1993 | 279 |
| 92 | Tsunami deposits in the geological record | Sedimentary Geology | 2007 | 277 |
| 93 | Critical evaluation of six tectonic setting discrimination diagrams using geochemical data of Neogene sediments from known tectonic settings | Sedimentary Geology | 2005 | 276 |
| 94 | Quantitative Interpretation of Sedimentary Structures Formed by River Dunes | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 2001 | 275 |
| 95 | The nature of the δ13C of periplatform sediments: Implications for stratigraphy and the global carbon cycle | Sedimentary Geology | 2005 | 274 |
| 96 | High-Resolution Particle Size Analysis of Naturally Occurring Very Fine-Grained Sediment Through Laser Diffractometry | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 2004 | 272 |
| 97 | Seismites: An attempt at critical analysis and classification | Sedimentary Geology | 2007 | 272 |
| 98 | Sedimentation in anastomosed river systems; examples from alluvial valleys near Banff, Alberta | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 1980 | 270 |
| 99 | Provenance record of a rift basin: U/Pb ages of detrital zircons from the Perth Basin, Western Australia | Sedimentary Geology | 2000 | 270 |
| 100 | Significance of Different Modes of Rhizolith Preservation to Interpreting Paleoenvironmental and Paleohydrologic Settings: Examples from Paleogene Paleosols, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, U.S.A. | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 2006 | 268 |
