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| The boundary between the Indian and Asian tectonic plates below Tibet | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 252 |
| Towards inferring earthquake patterns from geodetic observations of interseismic coupling | Nature Geoscience | 2010 | 224 |
| Geologic correlation of the Himalayan orogen and Indian craton: Part 2. Structural geology, geochronology, and tectonic evolution of the Eastern Himalaya | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 2010 | 219 |
| Identifying the driver of pulsating aurora | Science | 2010 | 208 |
| Substorm triggering by new plasma intrusion: THEMIS all-sky imager observations | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2010 | 199 |
| Geologic correlation of the Himalayan orogen and Indian craton: Part 1. Structural geology, U-Pb zircon geochronology, and tectonic evolution of the Shillong Plateau and its neighboring regions in NE India | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 2010 | 168 |
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| MESSENGER observations of extreme loading and unloading of Mercury's magnetic tail | Science | 2010 | 157 |
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| Accelerated ions ahead of earthward propagating dipolarization fronts | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2010 | 138 |
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| Realized and potential larval connectivity in the Southern California Bight | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 2010 | 128 |
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| THEMIS analysis of observed equatorial electron distributions responsible for the chorus excitation | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2010 | 121 |
| HIGH-PRECISION DYNAMICAL MASSES OF VERY LOW MASS BINARIES | Astrophysical Journal | 2010 | 116 |
| A NEW 24 μm PHASE CURVE FOR υ ANDROMEDAE b | Astrophysical Journal | 2010 | 113 |
| How unprecedented a solar minimum? | Reviews of Geophysics | 2010 | 110 |
| Physical properties of chondrules in different chondrite groups: Implications for multiple melting events in dusty environments | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 2010 | 110 |
| Global distributions of suprathermal electrons observed on THEMIS and potential mechanisms for access into the plasmasphere | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2010 | 104 |
| THE LICK AGN MONITORING PROJECT: VELOCITY-DELAY MAPS FROM THE MAXIMUM-ENTROPY METHOD FOR Arp 151 | Astrophysical Journal Letters | 2010 | 96 |
| A comparison of global models for the solar wind interaction with Mars | Icarus | 2010 | 92 |
| Cassini observations of a Kelvin-Helmholtz vortex in Saturn's outer magnetosphere | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2010 | 91 |
| Reconnection and flows in the Jovian magnetotail as inferred from magnetometer observations | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2010 | 87 |
