| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Accretion leading to collision and the Permian Solonker suture, Inner Mongolia, China: Termination of the central Asian orogenic belt | Tectonics | 2003 | 1,625 |
| 2 | Extension in the Tyrrhenian Sea and shortening in the Apennines as result of arc migration driven by sinking of the lithosphere | Tectonics | 1986 | 1,602 |
| 3 | Extensional collapse of orogens | Tectonics | 1988 | 1,307 |
| 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 | 890 |
| 5 | Mediterranean extension and the Africa-Eurasia collision | Tectonics | 2000 | 855 |
| 6 | Strike‐slip fault geometry in Turkey and its influence on earthquake activity | Tectonics | 1988 | 806 |
| 7 | Relative motion of the Nazca (Farallon) and South American Plates since Late Cretaceous time | Tectonics | 1987 | 726 |
| 8 | Exhumation of high-pressure metamorphic rocks in a subduction channel: A numerical simulation | Tectonics | 2002 | 689 |
| 9 | Lateral extrusion in the eastern Alps, PArt 2: Structural analysis | Tectonics | 1991 | 685 |
| 10 | Surface uplift, tectonics, and erosion of eastern Tibet from large-scale drainage patterns | Tectonics | 2004 | 682 |
| 11 | Lateral slab deformation and the origin of the western Mediterranean arcs | Tectonics | 2004 | 680 |
| 12 | Slab breakoff: A model for syncollisional magmatism and tectonics in the Alps | Tectonics | 1995 | 642 |
| 13 | Geophysical-geological transect and tectonic evolution of the Swiss-Italian Alps | Tectonics | 1996 | 632 |
| 14 | Detrital zircon geochronology of pre‐Tertiary strata in the Tibetan‐Himalayan orogen | Tectonics | 2011 | 626 |
| 15 | Origin of the Betic-Rif mountain belt | Tectonics | 1997 | 603 |
| 16 | flexural rotation of normal faults | Tectonics | 1988 | 586 |
| 17 | Evolution of retreating subduction boundaries formed during continental collision | Tectonics | 1993 | 584 |
| 18 | Geodynamics of flat subduction: Seismicity and tomographic constraints from the Andean margin | Tectonics | 2000 | 573 |
| 19 | Geochronology and isotopic character of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism with implications for collision of the Sino-Korean and Yangtze cratons, central China | Tectonics | 1996 | 571 |
| 20 | The tectonic expression slab pull at continental convergent boundaries | Tectonics | 1993 | 548 |
| 21 | Permo‐Triassic reconstruction of western Pangea and the evolution of the Gulf of Mexico/Caribbean region | Tectonics | 1982 | 538 |
| 22 | Continental growth of northwest China | Tectonics | 1989 | 523 |
| 23 | Paleocene-Eocene record of ophiolite obduction and initial India-Asia collision, south central Tibet | Tectonics | 2005 | 523 |
| 24 | The two main steps of the Atlas building and geodynamics of the western Mediterranean | Tectonics | 2000 | 521 |
| 25 | Slowing of India's convergence with Eurasia since 20 Ma and its implications for Tibetan mantle dynamics | Tectonics | 2009 | 514 |
| 26 | Phanerozoic addition rates to the continental crust and crustal growth | Tectonics | 1984 | 513 |
| 27 | Stratigraphy, structure, and tectonic evolution of the Himalayan fold-thrust belt in western Nepal | Tectonics | 2001 | 499 |
| 28 | Late Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the southern Chinese Tian Shan | Tectonics | 1998 | 490 |
| 29 | Evolution of pull‐apart basins and their scale independence | Tectonics | 1982 | 487 |
| 30 | Late Cenozoic evolution of the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Inferences from40Ar/39Ar and (U-Th)/He thermochronology | Tectonics | 2002 | 484 |
| 31 | Tectonic evolution of the central Annapurna Range, Nepalese Himalayas | Tectonics | 1996 | 445 |
| 32 | Paleozoic terranes of the central Argentine‐Chilean Andes | Tectonics | 1986 | 443 |
| 33 | Inverse and forward numerical modeling of trishear fault-propagation folds | Tectonics | 1998 | 433 |
| 34 | Limits of stresses in continental crusts and their relation to the depth‐frequency distribution of shallow earthquakes | Tectonics | 1982 | 430 |
| 35 | Constraints on Arabian Plate motion and extensional history of the Red Sea | Tectonics | 1987 | 427 |
| 36 | Implications of shortening in the Himalayan fold-thrust belt for uplift of the Tibetan Plateau | Tectonics | 2002 | 423 |
| 37 | Tectonic evolution of Proterozoic Australia | Tectonics | 1996 | 408 |
| 38 | Loci and maximum size of thrust earthquakes and the mechanics of the shallow region of subduction zones | Tectonics | 1988 | 399 |
| 39 | Cooling history of the NW Himalaya, Pakistan | Tectonics | 1985 | 397 |
| 40 | Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Shiquanhe area of western Tibet | Tectonics | 2003 | 390 |
| 41 | Tilting of continental interiors by the dynamical effects of subduction | Tectonics | 1989 | 387 |
| 42 | 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 | 386 |
| 43 | Paleocene‐Eocene foreland basin evolution in the Himalaya of southern Tibet and Nepal: Implications for the age of initial India‐Asia collision | Tectonics | 2014 | 386 |
| 44 | Variations in the along-axis segmentation of the Afar Rift system | Tectonics | 1996 | 382 |
| 45 | Crustal extension in the northern Apennines: The transition from compression to extension in the Alpi Apuane Core Complex | Tectonics | 1990 | 375 |
| 46 | Northeastward growth of the Tibet plateau deduced from balanced reconstruction of two depositional areas: The Qaidam and Hexi Corridor basins, China | Tectonics | 1998 | 366 |
| 47 | The Northeast Brazilian Rift System | Tectonics | 1992 | 361 |
| 48 | The Ecors Pyrenean deep seismic profile reflection data and the overall structure of an orogenic belt | Tectonics | 1989 | 359 |
| 49 | Gravity anomalies, flexure of the Indian Plate, and the structure, support and evolution of the Himalaya and Ganga Basin | Tectonics | 1985 | 358 |
| 50 | Well‐documented travel history of Mesozoic pelagic chert in Japan: From remote ocean to subduction zone | Tectonics | 1991 | 351 |
