| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Propagating extrusion tectonics in Asia: New insights from simple experiments with plasticine | Geology | 1982 | 2,326 |
| 2 | Unraveling the effects of potassium metasomatism in sedimentary rocks and paleosols, with implications for paleoweathering conditions and provenance | Geology | 1995 | 2,112 |
| 3 | Chemical subdivision of the A-type granitoids:Petrogenetic and tectonic implications | Geology | 1992 | 2,054 |
| 4 | Fault zone architecture and permeability structure | Geology | 1996 | 1,941 |
| 5 | Formation of the 1300-km-wide intracontinental orogen and postorogenic magmatic province in Mesozoic South China: A flat-slab subduction model | Geology | 2007 | 1,655 |
| 6 | Holocene climatic instability: A prominent, widespread event 8200 yr ago | Geology | 1997 | 1,577 |
| 7 | Variation of seawater 87Sr/86Sr throughout Phanerozoic time | Geology | 1982 | 1,340 |
| 8 | Topographic ooze: Building the eastern margin of Tibet by lower crustal flow | Geology | 2000 | 1,292 |
| 9 | Continuous deformation of the Tibetan Plateau from global positioning system data | Geology | 2004 | 1,289 |
| 10 | Remnants of ≥3800 Ma crust in the Chinese part of the Sino-Korean craton | Geology | 1992 | 1,283 |
| 11 | Hot and cold granites? Implications of zircon saturation temperatures and preservation of inheritance | Geology | 2003 | 1,063 |
| 12 | Detrital zircon record and tectonic setting | Geology | 2012 | 1,038 |
| 13 | Marine calcifiers exhibit mixed responses to CO2-induced ocean acidification | Geology | 2009 | 1,033 |
| 14 | High-angle reverse faults, fluid-pressure cycling, and mesothermal gold-quartz deposits | Geology | 1988 | 1,012 |
| 15 | Global patterns of loss of life from landslides | Geology | 2012 | 999 |
| 16 | Adakites from continental collision zones: Melting of thickened lower crust beneath southern Tibet | Geology | 2003 | 948 |
| 17 | Effect of steeper Archean geothermal gradient on geochemistry of subduction-zone magmas | Geology | 1986 | 870 |
| 18 | Pacific margins of Laurentia and East Antarctica-Australia as a conjugate rift pair: Evidence and implications for an Eocambrian supercontinent | Geology | 1991 | 856 |
| 19 | Amphibole “sponge” in arc crust? | Geology | 2007 | 848 |
| 20 | Origin of Mesozoic adakitic intrusive rocks in the Ningzhen area of east China: Partial melting of delaminated lower continental crust? | Geology | 2002 | 817 |
| 21 | Latest pulse of Earth: Evidence for a mid-Cretaceous superplume | Geology | 1991 | 814 |
| 22 | Generation of metaluminous A-type granites by low-pressure melting of calc-alkaline granitoids | Geology | 1997 | 794 |
| 23 | Southwest U.S.-East Antarctic (SWEAT) connection: A hypothesis | Geology | 1991 | 782 |
| 24 | How faulting keeps the crust strong | Geology | 2000 | 782 |
| 25 | Chicxulub Crater: A possible Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary impact crater on the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico | Geology | 1991 | 768 |
| 26 | Detachment faulting and the evolution of passive continental margins | Geology | 1986 | 749 |
| 27 | Fluid flow along potentially active faults in crystalline rock | Geology | 1995 | 745 |
| 28 | Rare earth element chemistry of zircon and its use as a provenance indicator | Geology | 2000 | 738 |
| 29 | Influence of late Cenozoic mountain building on ocean geochemical cycles | Geology | 1988 | 734 |
| 30 | Experimental calibration of the aluminum-in-hornblende geobarometer with application to Long Valley caldera (California) volcanic rocks | Geology | 1989 | 723 |
| 31 | Grenvillian continental collision in south China: New SHRIMP U-Pb zircon results and implications for the configuration of Rodinia | Geology | 2002 | 723 |
| 32 | Extensional collapse of thickened continental lithosphere: A working hypothesis for the Alboran Sea and Gibraltar arc | Geology | 1989 | 712 |
| 33 | Spatial distribution of earthquakes and subduction of the Nazca plate beneath South America | Geology | 1976 | 710 |
| 34 | First evidence of >3.2 Ga continental crust in the Yangtze craton of south China and its implications for Archean crustal evolution and Phanerozoic tectonics | Geology | 2000 | 707 |
| 35 | Pleistocene climates in China dated by magnetic susceptibility | Geology | 1988 | 706 |
| 36 | Surface uplift, uplift of rocks, and exhumation of rocks | Geology | 1990 | 701 |
| 37 | Coseismic reverse- and oblique-slip surface faulting generated by the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake, China | Geology | 2009 | 700 |
| 38 | Sediment flux from a mountain belt derived by landslide mapping | Geology | 1997 | 697 |
| 39 | Paleozoic accretion and Cenozoic redeformation of the Chinese Tien Shan Range, central Asia | Geology | 1990 | 695 |
| 40 | Spatial distribution of δ18O in meteoric precipitation | Geology | 2002 | 693 |
| 41 | A-type granites revisited: Assessment of a residual-source model | Geology | 1991 | 686 |
| 42 | Postsubduction porphyry Cu-Au and epithermal Au deposits: Products of remelting of subduction-modified lithosphere | Geology | 2009 | 674 |
| 43 | South China in Rodinia: Part of the missing link between Australia–East Antarctica and Laurentia? | Geology | 1995 | 673 |
| 44 | Fluids expelled tectonically from orogenic belts: Their role in hydrocarbon migration and other geologic phenomena | Geology | 1986 | 665 |
| 45 | Trace element chemistry of zircons from oceanic crust: A method for distinguishing detrital zircon provenance | Geology | 2007 | 642 |
| 46 | A blast of gas in the latest Paleocene: Simulating first-order effects of massive dissociation of oceanic methane hydrate | Geology | 1997 | 637 |
| 47 | Sediment and rock strength controls on river incision into bedrock | Geology | 2001 | 633 |
| 48 | Quantifying differential rock-uplift rates via stream profile analysis | Geology | 2001 | 631 |
| 49 | Roasting the mantle: Slab melting and the genesis of major Au and Au-rich Cu deposits | Geology | 2002 | 631 |
| 50 | Secular variation in seawater chemistry: An explanation for the coupled secular variation in the mineralogies of marine limestones and potash evaporites over the past 600 m.y. | Geology | 1996 | 627 |
