| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A Guide to the Chemical Classification of the Common Volcanic Rocks | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1971 | 5,770 |
| 2 | Towards a paleogeography and tectonic evolution of Iran | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1981 | 2,012 |
| 3 | Uniform-sense normal simple shear of the continental lithosphere | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1985 | 1,378 |
| 4 | Strain variation in shear belts | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1970 | 1,054 |
| 5 | Balanced cross sections | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1969 | 986 |
| 6 | Ubiquity of anomalous fading in K-feldspars and the measurement and correction for it in optical dating | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 2001 | 910 |
| 7 | U–Pb dating of monazite and its application to geological problems | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1990 | 875 |
| 8 | Appalachian Orogen in Canada | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1979 | 627 |
| 9 | CHROMIAN SPINEL AS A PETROGENETIC INDICATOR: PART 2. PETROLOGIC APPLICATIONS | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1967 | 623 |
| 10 | CHROMIAN SPINEL AS A PETROGENETIC INDICATOR: PART 1. THEORY | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1965 | 500 |
| 11 | Appalachian thrusting, lithospheric flexure, and the Paleozoic stratigraphy of the Eastern Interior of North America | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1984 | 483 |
| 12 | Tectono-stratigraphic terranes and mineral resource distributions in Mexico | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1983 | 461 |
| 13 | What are glacier surges? | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1969 | 458 |
| 14 | Wrangellia—A displaced terrane in northwestern North America | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1977 | 424 |
| 15 | Geodynamic evolution of the Pan-African belt in central Africa with special reference to Cameroon | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 2004 | 410 |
| 16 | Optimum linear regression and error estimation applied to U–Pb data | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1982 | 349 |
| 17 | Large igneous provinces (LIPs), giant dyke swarms, and mantle plumes: significance for breakup events within Canada and adjacent regions from 2.5 Ga to the PresentThis article is one of a selection of papers published in this Special Issue on the the theme Lithoprobe—parameters, processes, and the evolution of a continent.Lithoprobe Contribution 1482. Geological Survey of Canada Contribution 20100072. | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 2010 | 337 |
| 18 | EXPERIMENTS ON DENSITY AND TURBIDITY CURRENTS: III. DEPOSITION OF SEDIMENT | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1967 | 333 |
| 19 | Oxidation–reduction sequences in ground water flow systems | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1979 | 322 |
| 20 | The southern Caspian: A compressional depression floored by a trapped, modified oceanic crust" | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1983 | 322 |
| 21 | Metal fixation by bacterial cell walls | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1985 | 320 |
| 22 | Paleopoles and paleolatitudes of North America and speculations about displaced terrains | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1979 | 317 |
| 23 | How do gravel-bed rivers braid? | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1991 | 317 |
| 24 | Isostatic response to loading of the crust in Canada | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1970 | 313 |
| 25 | Bar evolution and development of stratification in the gravelly, braided, Kicking Horse River, British Columbia | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1977 | 312 |
| 26 | Geochronology and thermal history of the Coast Plutonic Complex, near Prince Rupert, British Columbia | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1979 | 310 |
| 27 | Magmatic affinity of modern and ancient subalkaline volcanic rocks determined from trace-element discriminant diagrams | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 2009 | 306 |
| 28 | A new carnosaur (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Jurassic of Xinjiang, People's Republic of China | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1993 | 304 |
| 29 | Spatial and temporal trends in carbon storage of peatlands of continental western Canada through the Holocene | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 2000 | 301 |
| 30 | Early Paleozoic chronology: a review in light of new U – Pb zircon ages from Newfoundland and Britain | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1995 | 299 |
| 31 | EXPERIMENTS ON DENSITY AND TURBIDITY CURRENTS: I. MOTION OF THE HEAD | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1966 | 270 |
| 32 | A candidate stratotype for the Precambrian–Cambrian boundary, Fortune Head, Burin Peninsula, southeastern Newfoundland | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1987 | 263 |
| 33 | Oxygen Isotope Studies of Fresh and Weathered Submarine Basalts | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1972 | 262 |
| 34 | Flow, thermal structure, and subglacial conditions of a surge-type glacier | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1984 | 261 |
| 35 | Development of a braided-fluvial facies model for the Devonian Battery Point Sandstone, Québec | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1976 | 250 |
| 36 | The influence of wind, fetch, and water depth on the distribution of sediments in Lake Vänern, Sweden | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1977 | 247 |
| 37 | Late Neoproterozoic cap carbonates: Mackenzie Mountains, northwestern Canada: precipitation and global glacial meltdown | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 2001 | 243 |
| 38 | A conceptual model of watershed response to rainfall, developed through the use of oxygen-18 as a natural tracer | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1976 | 242 |
| 39 | An inexpensive sieving method for concentrating pollen and spores from fine-grained sediments | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1979 | 241 |
| 40 | The Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 45° N. XIV. Oxidation and magnetic properties of basalt; review and discussion | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1970 | 238 |
| 41 | LITHOPROBE—southern Vancouver Island: Cenozoic subduction complex imaged by deep seismic reflections | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1987 | 236 |
| 42 | Distribution of Fusulinaceans in the Western Canadian Cordillera | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1971 | 235 |
| 43 | Geodynamic evolution of the Canadian Cordillera — progress and problems | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1979 | 235 |
| 44 | Late Quaternary sea levels and crustal movements, coastal British Columbia | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1982 | 233 |
| 45 | Geologic transect across the Grenville orogen of Ontario and New York | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 2000 | 228 |
| 46 | Trace-element geochemistry of ore-associated and barren, felsic metavolcanic rocks in the Superior Province, Canada | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1986 | 227 |
| 47 | Characteristic trace fossils in nearshore to offshore sequences, Upper Cretaceous of east-central Utah | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1984 | 213 |
| 48 | AN ESTIMATE OF THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF THE CANADIAN PRECAMBRIAN SHIELD | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1967 | 211 |
| 49 | Petrogenesis of mantle-derived, LILE-enriched Archean monzodiorites and trachyandesites (sanukitoids) in southwestern Superior Province | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1989 | 211 |
| 50 | Evolution of the south-central part of the Archean Abitibi Belt, Quebec. Part I: Stratigraphy and paleogeographic model | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1982 | 210 |
