| 1 | Accretion leading to collision and the Permian Solonker suture, Inner Mongolia, China: Termination of the central Asian orogenic belt | Tectonics | 2003 | 1,829 |
| 2 | Extension in the Tyrrhenian Sea and shortening in the Apennines as result of arc migration driven by sinking of the lithosphere | Tectonics | 1986 | 1,589 |
| 3 | Extensional collapse of orogens | Tectonics | 1988 | 1,255 |
| 4 | An indentation model for the North and South China collision and the development of the Tan‐Lu and Honam Fault Systems, eastern Asia | Tectonics | 1993 | 918 |
| 5 | Mediterranean extension and the Africa-Eurasia collision | Tectonics | 2000 | 905 |
| 6 | Strike‐slip fault geometry in Turkey and its influence on earthquake activity | Tectonics | 1988 | 808 |
| 7 | Surface uplift, tectonics, and erosion of eastern Tibet from large-scale drainage patterns | Tectonics | 2004 | 747 |
| 8 | Detrital zircon geochronology of pre‐Tertiary strata in the Tibetan‐Himalayan orogen | Tectonics | 2011 | 729 |
| 9 | Lateral slab deformation and the origin of the western Mediterranean arcs | Tectonics | 2004 | 693 |
| 10 | Lateral extrusion in the eastern Alps, PArt 2: Structural analysis | Tectonics | 1991 | 685 |
| 11 | Exhumation of high-pressure metamorphic rocks in a subduction channel: A numerical simulation | Tectonics | 2002 | 678 |
| 12 | Relative motion of the Nazca (Farallon) and South American Plates since Late Cretaceous time | Tectonics | 1987 | 671 |
| 13 | Geophysical-geological transect and tectonic evolution of the Swiss-Italian Alps | Tectonics | 1996 | 640 |
| 14 | Slab breakoff: A model for syncollisional magmatism and tectonics in the Alps | Tectonics | 1995 | 622 |
| 15 | Paleocene-Eocene record of ophiolite obduction and initial India-Asia collision, south central Tibet | Tectonics | 2005 | 585 |
| 16 | Origin of the Betic-Rif mountain belt | Tectonics | 1997 | 579 |
| 17 | Geodynamics of flat subduction: Seismicity and tomographic constraints from the Andean margin | Tectonics | 2000 | 579 |
| 18 | Slowing of India's convergence with Eurasia since 20 Ma and its implications for Tibetan mantle dynamics | Tectonics | 2009 | 573 |
| 19 | Evolution of retreating subduction boundaries formed during continental collision | Tectonics | 1993 | 564 |
| 20 | Geochronology and isotopic character of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism with implications for collision of the Sino-Korean and Yangtze cratons, central China | Tectonics | 1996 | 563 |
| 21 | Late Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the southern Chinese Tian Shan | Tectonics | 1998 | 543 |
| 22 | The two main steps of the Atlas building and geodynamics of the western Mediterranean | Tectonics | 2000 | 539 |
| 23 | flexural rotation of normal faults | Tectonics | 1988 | 538 |
| 24 | The tectonic expression slab pull at continental convergent boundaries | Tectonics | 1993 | 532 |
| 25 | Continental growth of northwest China | Tectonics | 1989 | 525 |
| 26 | Stratigraphy, structure, and tectonic evolution of the Himalayan fold-thrust belt in western Nepal | Tectonics | 2001 | 509 |
| 27 | Late Cenozoic evolution of the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Inferences from40Ar/39Ar and (U-Th)/He thermochronology | Tectonics | 2002 | 497 |
| 28 | A Global Plate Model Including Lithospheric Deformation Along Major Rifts and Orogens Since the Triassic | Tectonics | 2019 | 479 |
| 29 | Permo‐Triassic reconstruction of western Pangea and the evolution of the Gulf of Mexico/Caribbean region | Tectonics | 1982 | 462 |
| 30 | The growth of northeastern Tibet and its relevance to large‐scale continental geodynamics: A review of recent studies | Tectonics | 2013 | 447 |
| 31 | Paleocene‐Eocene foreland basin evolution in the Himalaya of southern Tibet and Nepal: Implications for the age of initial India‐Asia collision | Tectonics | 2014 | 447 |
| 32 | Implications of shortening in the Himalayan fold-thrust belt for uplift of the Tibetan Plateau | Tectonics | 2002 | 444 |
| 33 | Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Shiquanhe area of western Tibet | Tectonics | 2003 | 437 |
| 34 | Paleozoic terranes of the central Argentine‐Chilean Andes | Tectonics | 1986 | 432 |
| 35 | Tectonic evolution of the central Annapurna Range, Nepalese Himalayas | Tectonics | 1996 | 432 |
| 36 | Phanerozoic addition rates to the continental crust and crustal growth | Tectonics | 1984 | 416 |
| 37 | Constraints on Arabian Plate motion and extensional history of the Red Sea | Tectonics | 1987 | 416 |
| 38 | Evolution of pull‐apart basins and their scale independence | Tectonics | 1982 | 409 |
| 39 | Tectonic evolution of Proterozoic Australia | Tectonics | 1996 | 404 |
| 40 | Inverse and forward numerical modeling of trishear fault-propagation folds | Tectonics | 1998 | 400 |
| 41 | Final closure of the Paleo‐Asian Ocean along the Solonker Suture Zone: Constraints from geochronological and geochemical data of Permian volcanic and sedimentary rocks | Tectonics | 2014 | 399 |
| 42 | Tectonic setting of the South China Block in the early Paleozoic: Resolving intracontinental and ocean closure models from detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology | Tectonics | 2010 | 398 |
| 43 | A Paleogene extensional arc flare‐up in Iran | Tectonics | 2011 | 393 |
| 44 | Thrust geometries and deep structure of the outer and lesser Himalaya, Kumaon and Garhwal (India): Implications for evolution of the Himalayan fold-and-thrust belt | Tectonics | 1994 | 392 |
| 45 | GPS velocity field for the Tien Shan and surrounding regions | Tectonics | 2010 | 381 |
| 46 | Crustal extension in the northern Apennines: The transition from compression to extension in the Alpi Apuane Core Complex | Tectonics | 1990 | 378 |
| 47 | Northeastward growth of the Tibet plateau deduced from balanced reconstruction of two depositional areas: The Qaidam and Hexi Corridor basins, China | Tectonics | 1998 | 377 |
| 48 | Tectonic evolution of the early Mesozoic blueschist-bearing Qiangtang metamorphic belt, central Tibet | Tectonics | 2003 | 372 |
| 49 | Tilting of continental interiors by the dynamical effects of subduction | Tectonics | 1989 | 358 |
| 50 | Variations in the along-axis segmentation of the Afar Rift system | Tectonics | 1996 | 357 |
