| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | To understand subduction initiation, study forearc crust: To understand forearc crust, study ophiolites | Lithosphere | 2012 | 352 |
| 2 | A review of observations and models of dynamic topography | Lithosphere | 2013 | 277 |
| 3 | Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology of Paleozoic strata in the Grand Canyon, Arizona | Lithosphere | 2011 | 222 |
| 4 | How do landscapes record tectonics and climate? | Lithosphere | 2012 | 217 |
| 5 | Detrital-zircon geochronology and sedimentary provenance | Lithosphere | 2011 | 202 |
| 6 | Regional incision of the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau | Lithosphere | 2010 | 197 |
| 7 | Quantifying rock uplift rates using channel steepness and cosmogenic nuclide–determined erosion rates: Examples from northern and southern Italy | Lithosphere | 2010 | 162 |
| 8 | Rapid synconvergent exhumation of Miocene-aged lower orogenic crust in the eastern Himalaya | Lithosphere | 2011 | 151 |
| 9 | Pre-Cenozoic geologic history of the central and northern Tibetan Plateau and the role of Wilson cycles in constructing the Tethyan orogenic system | Lithosphere | 2016 | 146 |
| 10 | 2000 years of migrating earthquakes in North China: How earthquakes in midcontinents differ from those at plate boundaries | Lithosphere | 2011 | 143 |
| 11 | Mantle-driven dynamic uplift of the Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau and its surface response: Toward a unified hypothesis | Lithosphere | 2012 | 137 |
| 12 | Progressive northward growth of the northern Qilian Shan–Hexi Corridor (northeastern Tibet) during the Cenozoic | Lithosphere | 2017 | 127 |
| 13 | Growth of the Qaidam Basin during Cenozoic exhumation in the northern Tibetan Plateau: Inferences from depositional patterns and multiproxy detrital provenance signatures | Lithosphere | 2016 | 123 |
| 14 | Miocene bivergent crustal extension in the Aegean: Evidence from the western Cyclades (Greece) | Lithosphere | 2012 | 121 |
| 15 | Late Miocene–Pliocene range growth in the interior of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau | Lithosphere | 2011 | 116 |
| 16 | U-Pb-Hf characterization of the central Coast Mountains batholith: Implications for petrogenesis and crustal architecture | Lithosphere | 2011 | 115 |
| 17 | Miocene structural reorganization of the South Tibetan detachment, eastern Himalaya: Implications for continental collision | Lithosphere | 2009 | 112 |
| 18 | Influence of dynamic topography on sea level and its rate of change | Lithosphere | 2009 | 112 |
| 19 | Subduction along and within the Baltoscandian margin during closing of the Iapetus Ocean and Baltica-Laurentia collision | Lithosphere | 2013 | 104 |
| 20 | An episodic slab-rollback model for the origin of the Tharsis rise on Mars: Implications for initiation of local plate subduction and final unification of a kinematically linked global plate-tectonic network on Earth | Lithosphere | 2012 | 84 |
| 21 | Structural analysis of the Valles Marineris fault zone: Possible evidence for large-scale strike-slip faulting on Mars | Lithosphere | 2012 | 84 |
| 22 | Transient fluvial incision and active surface uplift in the Woodlark Rift of eastern Papua New Guinea | Lithosphere | 2012 | 83 |
| 23 | Tectonic development of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau as constrained by high-resolution deep seismic-reflection data | Lithosphere | 2013 | 81 |
| 24 | Eocene deep crust at Ama Drime, Tibet: Early evolution of the Himalayan orogen | Lithosphere | 2014 | 80 |
| 25 | Underthrusting and duplexing beneath the northern Tibetan Plateau and the evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen | Lithosphere | 2019 | 79 |
| 26 | Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility in weakly deformed red beds from the Wyoming salient, Sevier thrust belt: Relations to layer-parallel shortening and orogenic curvature | Lithosphere | 2009 | 78 |
| 27 | Mantle earthquakes in the absence of subduction? Continental delamination in the Romanian Carpathians | Lithosphere | 2010 | 78 |
| 28 | Constraints on Cenozoic tectonics in the southwestern Longmen Shan from low-temperature thermochronology | Lithosphere | 2013 | 77 |
| 29 | Pervasive lower-crustal seismic anisotropy in Southern California: Evidence for underplated schists and active tectonics | Lithosphere | 2011 | 76 |
| 30 | Archean andesites in the east Yilgarn craton, Australia: Products of plume-crust interaction? | Lithosphere | 2014 | 75 |
| 31 | Geochemistry and geochronology of the Troodos ophiolite: An SSZ ophiolite generated by subduction initiation and an extended episode of ridge subduction? | Lithosphere | 2012 | 73 |
| 32 | The end of Midcontinent Rift magmatism and the paleogeography of Laurentia | Lithosphere | 2017 | 73 |
| 33 | Millennial slip rates along the eastern Kunlun fault: Implications for the dynamics of intracontinental deformation in Asia | Lithosphere | 2010 | 71 |
| 34 | Geometric characteristics of pull-apart basins | Lithosphere | 2010 | 71 |
| 35 | State of stress in central and eastern North American seismic zones | Lithosphere | 2010 | 70 |
| 36 | Fault rock lithologies and architecture of the central Alpine fault, New Zealand, revealed by DFDP-1 drilling | Lithosphere | 2015 | 70 |
| 37 | Geochronological and geochemical constraints for a middle Paleozoic continental arc on the northern margin of the Tarim block: Implications for the Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the South Chinese Tianshan | Lithosphere | 2013 | 69 |
| 38 | Investigating gravitational grabens related to lateral spreading and evaporite dissolution subsidence by means of detailed mapping, trenching, and electrical resistivity tomography (Spanish Pyrenees) | Lithosphere | 2012 | 68 |
| 39 | Crustal growth and tectonic evolution of the Mojave crustal province: Insights from hafnium isotope systematics in zircons | Lithosphere | 2013 | 67 |
| 40 | Diagnosing climatic and tectonic controls on topography: Eastern flank of the northern Bolivian Andes | Lithosphere | 2014 | 67 |
| 41 | Mafic volcanism on the Puna Plateau, NW Argentina: Implications for lithospheric composition and evolution with an emphasis on lithospheric foundering | Lithosphere | 2009 | 66 |
| 42 | Crustal melting, ductile flow, and deformation in mountain belts: Cause and effect relationships | Lithosphere | 2013 | 65 |
| 43 | Tracking paleodeformation fields in the Mesozoic central Sierra Nevada arc: Implications for intra-arc cyclic deformation and arc tempos | Lithosphere | 2015 | 65 |
| 44 | Research on Theory and Technology of Floor Heave Control in Semicoal Rock Roadway: Taking Longhu Coal Mine in Qitaihe Mining Area as an Example | Lithosphere | 2022 | 65 |
| 45 | Neoproterozoic to early Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Zavkhan terrane of Mongolia: Implications for continental growth in the Central Asian orogenic belt | Lithosphere | 2016 | 64 |
| 46 | U-Pb geochronology of 1.1 Ga diabase in the southwestern United States: Testing models for the origin of a post-Grenville large igneous province | Lithosphere | 2014 | 63 |
| 47 | Limit of channel flow in orogenic plateaux | Lithosphere | 2010 | 61 |
| 48 | Along-strike changes in Himalayan thrust geometry: Topographic and tectonic discontinuities in western Nepal | Lithosphere | 2015 | 61 |
| 49 | Geological Characteristics and Controlling Factors of Deep Shale Gas Enrichment of the Wufeng-Longmaxi Formation in the Southern Sichuan Basin, China | Lithosphere | 2022 | 60 |
| 50 | Basin formation near the end of the 1.60–1.45 Ga tectonic gap in southern Laurentia: Mesoproterozoic Hess Canyon Group of Arizona and implications for ca. 1.5 Ga supercontinent configurations | Lithosphere | 2012 | 59 |
