| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Morphodynamic variability of surf zones and beaches: A synthesis | Marine Geology | 1984 | 1,502 |
| 2 | Geochemistry of Recent oxic and anoxic marine sediments: Implications for the geological record | Marine Geology | 1993 | 1,293 |
| 3 | Bathymetry of trace fossils | Marine Geology | 1967 | 903 |
| 4 | Initial reports of the deep sea drilling project | Marine Geology | 1971 | 827 |
| 5 | Pathways of organic carbon oxidation in three continental margin sediments | Marine Geology | 1993 | 680 |
| 6 | Factors controlling 13C contents of sedimentary organic compounds: Principles and evidence | Marine Geology | 1993 | 678 |
| 7 | Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs): Their past, present and future contributions to the advancement of marine geoscience | Marine Geology | 2014 | 669 |
| 8 | East Asian monsoon climate during the Late Pleistocene: high-resolution sediment records from the South China Sea | Marine Geology | 1999 | 636 |
| 9 | Worldwide distribution of submarine mud volcanoes and associated gas hydrates | Marine Geology | 2000 | 601 |
| 10 | Holocene development of the Yellow River's subaqueous delta, North Yellow Sea | Marine Geology | 2004 | 589 |
| 11 | Contourites and associated sediments controlled by deep-water circulation processes: State-of-the-art and future considerations | Marine Geology | 2014 | 582 |
| 12 | Seismic features diagnostic of contourite drifts | Marine Geology | 1999 | 558 |
| 13 | Isotope paleontology: growth and composition of extant calcareous species | Marine Geology | 1991 | 519 |
| 14 | Instruments for particle size and settling velocity observations in sediment transport | Marine Geology | 2000 | 494 |
| 15 | An abrupt drowning of the Black Sea shelf | Marine Geology | 1997 | 475 |
| 16 | Global distribution of large submarine canyons: Geomorphic differences between active and passive continental margins | Marine Geology | 2011 | 469 |
| 17 | Enzymatic iron and uranium reduction by sulfate-reducing bacteria | Marine Geology | 1993 | 467 |
| 18 | Response of Western Pacific marginal seas to glacial cycles: paleoceanographic and sedimentological features | Marine Geology | 1999 | 456 |
| 19 | The opening of Drake Passage | Marine Geology | 1977 | 451 |
| 20 | Clay mineral distribution in surface sediments of the South Atlantic: sources, transport, and relation to oceanography | Marine Geology | 1996 | 443 |
| 21 | The Messinian Salinity Crisis: Past and future of a great challenge for marine sciences | Marine Geology | 2014 | 436 |
| 22 | Planktonic Foraminifera: Selective solution and the lysocline | Marine Geology | 1970 | 429 |
| 23 | Geomorphology of the oceans | Marine Geology | 2014 | 426 |
| 24 | Review and new aspects concerning the formation of eastern Mediterranean sapropels | Marine Geology | 1994 | 416 |
| 25 | Wave, beach and dune interactions in southeastern Australia | Marine Geology | 1982 | 415 |
| 26 | The use of Pb-210 geochronology as a sedimentological tool: Application to the Washington continental shelf | Marine Geology | 1979 | 410 |
| 27 | Methane-derived carbonates and authigenic pyrite from the northwestern Black Sea | Marine Geology | 2001 | 404 |
| 28 | Microbial mats: A joint venture | Marine Geology | 1993 | 395 |
| 29 | Submarine landslide geomorphology, US continental slope | Marine Geology | 2000 | 392 |
| 30 | Effect of gas hydrates melting on seafloor slope instability | Marine Geology | 2004 | 389 |
| 31 | Saharan aerosols over the tropical North Atlantic — Mineralogy | Marine Geology | 1980 | 387 |
| 32 | Sediment accumulation in a modern epicontinental-shelf setting: The Yellow Sea | Marine Geology | 1991 | 378 |
| 33 | Uptake of elements from seawater by ferromanganese crusts: solid-phase associations and seawater speciation | Marine Geology | 2003 | 376 |
| 34 | What is a wave-dominated coast? | Marine Geology | 1984 | 365 |
| 35 | Carbonates and relative changes in sea level | Marine Geology | 1981 | 363 |
| 36 | The influence of waves and seagrass communities on suspended particulates in an estuarine embayment | Marine Geology | 1984 | 363 |
| 37 | Estimating shallow subsidence in microtidal salt marshes of the southeastern United States: Kaye and Barghoorn revisited | Marine Geology | 1995 | 353 |
| 38 | The depth dependency of planktonic/benthic foraminiferal ratios: Constraints and applications | Marine Geology | 1990 | 348 |
| 39 | Slope failure dynamics and impacts from seafloor and shallow sub-seafloor geophysical data: case studies from the COSTA project | Marine Geology | 2004 | 348 |
| 40 | The Western Mediterranean Basin geological evolution | Marine Geology | 1984 | 346 |
| 41 | The Storegga Slides: Evidence from eastern Scotland for a possible tsunami | Marine Geology | 1988 | 342 |
| 42 | The origin of aluminum-poor ferromanganoan sediments in areas of high heat flow on the East Pacific Rise | Marine Geology | 1969 | 340 |
| 43 | Classification and characterisation of deep-water sediment waves | Marine Geology | 2002 | 336 |
| 44 | Sediments in Arctic sea ice: Implications for entrainment, transport and release | Marine Geology | 1994 | 333 |
| 45 | 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 |
| 46 | The Sissano, Papua New Guinea tsunami of July 1998 — offshore evidence on the source mechanism | Marine Geology | 2001 | 328 |
| 47 | Visions of ice sheets in a greenhouse world | Marine Geology | 2005 | 324 |
| 48 | Mobility of manganese in diagenesis of deep-sea sediments | Marine Geology | 1965 | 320 |
| 49 | Modern temperate-water and warm-water shelf carbonate sediments contrasted | Marine Geology | 1972 | 319 |
| 50 | 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 |
