| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Modern cryptic microbialite/metazoan facies from Lizard Island (Great Barrier Reef, Australia) formation and concepts | Facies | 1993 | 356 |
| 2 | The biology of carbonate precipitation by cyanobacteria | Facies | 1992 | 291 |
| 3 | Microbial crusts of the late jurassic: Composition, palaeoecological significance and importance in reef construction | Facies | 1993 | 203 |
| 4 | Microbialites and micro-encrusters in shallow coral bioherms (Middle to Late Oxfordian, Swiss Jura mountains) | Facies | 1999 | 166 |
| 5 | Morphologie und Bildung der frühontogenetischen Gehäuse bei conchiferen Mollusken | Facies | 1982 | 159 |
| 6 | Modern marine stromatolites in the Exuma Cays, Bahamas: Uncommonly common | Facies | 1995 | 150 |
| 7 | Earliest Triassic microbialites in the South China block and other areas: controls on their growth and distribution | Facies | 2007 | 146 |
| 8 | Methane-derived carbonate build-ups and associated microbial communities at cold seeps on the lower Crimean shelf (Black Sea) | Facies | 2005 | 144 |
| 9 | The Sula Reef Complex, Norwegian shelf | Facies | 2002 | 142 |
| 10 | Coral growth and reef growth: a brief review | Facies | 2005 | 142 |
| 11 | Lowermost Triassic (Griesbachian) microbial bindstone-cementstone facies, southwest Japan | Facies | 1997 | 136 |
| 12 | Paleoenvironmental model for Eocene foraminiferal limestones of the Adriatic carbonate platform (Istrian Peninsula) | Facies | 2004 | 136 |
| 13 | The origin of Jurassic reefs: Current research developments and results | Facies | 1994 | 135 |
| 14 | The formation of micritic limestones and the development of limestone-marl alternations in the Silurian of Gotland, Sweden | Facies | 1996 | 134 |
| 15 | Effect of end-Triassic CO2 maximum on carbonate sedimentation and marine mass extinction | Facies | 2004 | 132 |
| 16 | Mud mounds: A polygenetic spectrum of fine-grained carbonate buildups | Facies | 1995 | 126 |
| 17 | The reef cave dwelling ultraconservative coralline demospongeAstrosclera willeyana Lister 1900 from the Indo-Pacific | Facies | 1998 | 123 |
| 18 | Contribution of microbial mats to sedimentary surface structures | Facies | 1993 | 122 |
| 19 | Shark Bay stromatolites: Microfabrics and reinterpretation of origins | Facies | 2003 | 122 |
| 20 | First geo-marine survey of living cold-water Lophelia reefs in the Ionian Sea (Mediterranean basin) | Facies | 2005 | 119 |
| 21 | Facies dynamics in Eocene to Oligocene circumalpine carbonates | Facies | 2005 | 116 |
| 22 | Depositional environment and sequence stratigraphy of the Oligo-Miocene Asmari Formation in SW Iran | Facies | 2006 | 116 |
| 23 | The behavior of trace elements in seawater, sedimentary pore water, and their incorporation into carbonate minerals: a review | Facies | 2019 | 109 |
| 24 | Asymmetrical soft-sediment deformation structures triggered by rapid sedimentation in turbiditic deposits (Late Miocene, Guadix Basin, southern Spain) | Facies | 2001 | 107 |
| 25 | ?Microbialites in the Permian-Triassic boundary interval in central China: Structure, age and distribution | Facies | 2002 | 107 |
| 26 | Bioerosion along a bathymetric gradient in a cold-temperate setting (Kosterfjord, SW Sweden): an experimental study | Facies | 2005 | 107 |
| 27 | Hydrodynamic behaviour of Nummulites: implications for depositional models | Facies | 2006 | 107 |
| 28 | Age and depositional environment of upper devonian (early Frasnian to early famennian) black shales and limestones (Kellwasser facies) in the eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco | Facies | 1991 | 105 |
| 29 | Microstructure of common reef-building coral genera Acropora, Pocillopora, Goniastrea and Porites: constraints on spatial resolution in geochemical sampling | Facies | 2007 | 105 |
| 30 | Development of facies and C/O-isotopes in transects through the Ludlow of Gotland: Evidence for global and local influences on a shallow-marine environment | Facies | 2000 | 102 |
| 31 | Anisian (middle triassic) buildups of the Northern Dolomites (Italy): The recovery of reef communities after the permian/triassic crisis | Facies | 1993 | 101 |
| 32 | The carbonate factory continuum, facies mosaics and microfacies: an appraisal of some of the key concepts underpinning carbonate sedimentology | Facies | 2005 | 101 |
| 33 | Coralline algal nodules off Fraser Island, eastern Australia | Facies | 2000 | 100 |
| 34 | The mud mound nature of the Cassian Platform Margins of the Dolomites A case history: the Cipit boulders from Punta Grohmann (Sasso Piatto Massif, northern Italy) | Facies | 1997 | 99 |
| 35 | Fluvival tufa formation in a hard-water creek (Deinschwanger Bach, Franconian Alb, Germany) | Facies | 2001 | 97 |
| 36 | Classification and geological significance of biostromes | Facies | 1994 | 96 |
| 37 | Signatures of hydrocarbon venting in a Middle Devonian Carbonate Mound (Hollard Mound) at the Hamar Laghdad (Antiatlas, Morocco) | Facies | 1999 | 96 |
| 38 | Controls on modern carbonate sedimentation on warm-temperate to arctic coasts, shelves and seamounts in the Northern Hemisphere: Implications for fossil counterparts | Facies | 1995 | 95 |
| 39 | Discovery of a “Living Dinosaur”: Globally unique modern hexactinellid sponge reefs off British Columbia, Canada | Facies | 2001 | 95 |
| 40 | Taphonomy of larger foraminifera: Relationships between living individuals and empty tests on flat reef slopes (Sesoko Island, Japan) | Facies | 2002 | 92 |
| 41 | Hydrochemistry and microbialites of the alkaline crater lake Alchichica, Mexico | Facies | 2011 | 92 |
| 42 | Modern freshwater microbial carbonates: thePhormidium stromatolites (tufa-travertine) of southeastern Burgundy (Paris Basin, France) | Facies | 1996 | 87 |
| 43 | Phanerozoic reef evolution: Basic questions and data base | Facies | 1992 | 86 |
| 44 | Upper Eocene larger foraminiferal–coralline algal facies from the Klokova Mountain (southern continental Greece) | Facies | 2007 | 85 |
| 45 | Taphofacies analysis of recent shelly cheniers (beach ridges), northeastern baja california, Mexico | Facies | 1994 | 84 |
| 46 | Facies models of a shallow-water carbonate ramp based on distribution of non-skeletal grains (Kimmeridgian, Spain) | Facies | 2010 | 83 |
| 47 | Lithostratigraphy of the Triassic in Jordan | Facies | 1981 | 82 |
| 48 | Drowning of a Lower Jurassic carbonate platform: Jbel Bou Dahar, High Atlas, Morocco | Facies | 1999 | 82 |
| 49 | Biochronostratigraphy of the Reingraben Turnover (Hallstatt Facies Belt): Local black shale events controlled by regional tectonics, climatic change and plate tectonics | Facies | 2005 | 82 |
| 50 | Oncoid growth and distribution controlled by sea-level fluctuations and climate (Late Oxfordian, Swiss Jura Mountains) | Facies | 2007 | 82 |
