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| 4 | Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs): Their past, present and future contributions to the advancement of marine geoscience | Marine Geology | 2014 | 840 |
| 5 | Initial reports of the deep sea drilling project | Marine Geology | 1971 | 827 |
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| 9 | East Asian monsoon climate during the Late Pleistocene: high-resolution sediment records from the South China Sea | Marine Geology | 1999 | 681 |
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| 11 | Holocene development of the Yellow River's subaqueous delta, North Yellow Sea | Marine Geology | 2004 | 639 |
| 12 | Seismic features diagnostic of contourite drifts | Marine Geology | 1999 | 603 |
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| 14 | Global distribution of large submarine canyons: Geomorphic differences between active and passive continental margins | Marine Geology | 2011 | 543 |
| 15 | The Messinian Salinity Crisis: Past and future of a great challenge for marine sciences | Marine Geology | 2014 | 533 |
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| 17 | Instruments for particle size and settling velocity observations in sediment transport | Marine Geology | 2000 | 518 |
| 18 | Response of Western Pacific marginal seas to glacial cycles: paleoceanographic and sedimentological features | Marine Geology | 1999 | 494 |
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| 20 | An abrupt drowning of the Black Sea shelf | Marine Geology | 1997 | 492 |
| 21 | Clay mineral distribution in surface sediments of the South Atlantic: sources, transport, and relation to oceanography | Marine Geology | 1996 | 478 |
| 22 | Wave, beach and dune interactions in southeastern Australia | Marine Geology | 1982 | 473 |
| 23 | The opening of Drake Passage | Marine Geology | 1977 | 462 |
| 24 | Planktonic Foraminifera: Selective solution and the lysocline | Marine Geology | 1970 | 446 |
| 25 | Methane-derived carbonates and authigenic pyrite from the northwestern Black Sea | Marine Geology | 2001 | 440 |
| 26 | Review and new aspects concerning the formation of eastern Mediterranean sapropels | Marine Geology | 1994 | 434 |
| 27 | Uptake of elements from seawater by ferromanganese crusts: solid-phase associations and seawater speciation | Marine Geology | 2003 | 432 |
| 28 | Effect of gas hydrates melting on seafloor slope instability | Marine Geology | 2004 | 424 |
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| 30 | Submarine landslide geomorphology, US continental slope | Marine Geology | 2000 | 419 |
| 31 | Microbial mats: A joint venture | Marine Geology | 1993 | 411 |
| 32 | Sediment accumulation in a modern epicontinental-shelf setting: The Yellow Sea | Marine Geology | 1991 | 404 |
| 33 | Saharan aerosols over the tropical North Atlantic — Mineralogy | Marine Geology | 1980 | 393 |
| 34 | The depth dependency of planktonic/benthic foraminiferal ratios: Constraints and applications | Marine Geology | 1990 | 392 |
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| 36 | Slope failure dynamics and impacts from seafloor and shallow sub-seafloor geophysical data: case studies from the COSTA project | Marine Geology | 2004 | 381 |
| 37 | The influence of waves and seagrass communities on suspended particulates in an estuarine embayment | Marine Geology | 1984 | 380 |
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| 39 | Estimating shallow subsidence in microtidal salt marshes of the southeastern United States: Kaye and Barghoorn revisited | Marine Geology | 1995 | 373 |
| 40 | Classification and characterisation of deep-water sediment waves | Marine Geology | 2002 | 372 |
| 41 | The Western Mediterranean Basin geological evolution | Marine Geology | 1984 | 362 |
| 42 | The origin of aluminum-poor ferromanganoan sediments in areas of high heat flow on the East Pacific Rise | Marine Geology | 1969 | 359 |
| 43 | Sediments in Arctic sea ice: Implications for entrainment, transport and release | Marine Geology | 1994 | 356 |
| 44 | The Sissano, Papua New Guinea tsunami of July 1998 — offshore evidence on the source mechanism | Marine Geology | 2001 | 353 |
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| 46 | Global and local variations of interstitial sulfate gradients in deep-water, continental margin sediments: Sensitivity to underlying methane and gas hydrates | Marine Geology | 1999 | 347 |
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