| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Environment and Behavior of 2.5-Million-Year-Old Bouri Hominids | Science | 1999 | 466 |
| 2 | Oxidation states of mid-ocean ridge basalt glasses | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1986 | 431 |
| 3 | Rare earth, major, and trace elements in chert from the Franciscan Complex and Monterey Group, California: Assessing REE sources to fine-grained marine sediments | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1991 | 319 |
| 4 | The cinder cones of Michoacán—Guanajuato, central Mexico: their age, volume and distribution, and magma discharge rate | Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research | 1985 | 258 |
| 5 | Reconstructing past sea surface temperatures: Correcting for diagenesis of bulk marine carbonate | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1995 | 241 |
| 6 | Metal enrichment in bauxites by deposition of chemically mature aeolian dust | Nature | 1988 | 182 |
| 7 | Strike‐slip earthquakes on quasi‐vertical transcurrent faults: Inferences for general scaling relations | Geophysical Research Letters | 1992 | 162 |
| 8 | Drowned islands downstream from the Galapagos hotspot imply extended speciation times | Nature | 1992 | 157 |
| 9 | Interoceanic variation in the rare earth, major, and trace element depositional chemistry of chert: Perspectives gained from the DSDP and ODP record | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1992 | 134 |
| 10 | Petrological models of magma evolution and deep crustal structure beneath hotspots and flood basalt provinces | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1996 | 124 |
| 11 | A Detailed Map of the 660-Kilometer Discontinuity Beneath the Izu-Bonin Subduction Zone | Science | 1993 | 110 |
| 12 | Rare earth elements in Japan Sea sediments and diagenetic behavior of Ce/Ce∗: Results from ODP Leg 127 | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1991 | 107 |
| 13 | Plume/Lithosphere Interaction in the Generation of Continental and Oceanic Flood Basalts: Chemical and Isotopic Constraints | Geophysical Monograph Series | 0 | 102 |
| 14 | Paleochemistry of plio-pleistocene lake Turkana, Kenya | Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology | 1979 | 101 |
| 15 | A mechanism for the influence of vegetation on the response of the diurnal temperature range to changing climate | Geophysical Research Letters | 2000 | 100 |
| 16 | Modified potential-induced-breathing model of potentials between close-shell ions | Physical Review B | 1991 | 92 |
| 17 | Olivine-liquid equilibria and the chemical activities of FeO, NiO, Fe2O3, and MgO in natural basic melts | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1992 | 92 |
| 18 | Implications of the northwestwardly younger age of the volcanic rocks of west-central California | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1985 | 90 |
| 19 | Structural variations in anorthites | Contributions To Mineralogy and Petrology | 1972 | 88 |
| 20 | Anisotropy in the Inner Core: Could It Be Due To Low-Order Convection? | Science | 1996 | 80 |
| 21 | Iridium Anomalies of Late Eocene Age at Massignano (Italy), and ODP Site 689B (Maud Rise, Antarctic) | Palaios | 1993 | 79 |
| 22 | Texture development in halite: Comparison of Taylor model and self-consistent theory | Acta Metallurgica | 1989 | 76 |
| 23 | Paradise Threatened: Land Use and Erosion on St. John, US Virgin Islands | Environmental Management | 1997 | 72 |
| 24 | Petrology of Volc�n Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico: disequilibrium phenocryst assemblages and evolution of the subvolcanic magma system | Contributions To Mineralogy and Petrology | 1994 | 68 |
| 25 | The importance of hollows in debris flow studies; Examples from Marin County, California | Reviews in Engineering Geology | 1987 | 67 |
| 26 | Development of phyllonite from granodiorite: Mechanisms of grain-size reduction in the Santa Rosa mylonite zone, California | Journal of Structural Geology | 1995 | 63 |
| 27 | Body waves in a layered anelastic solid | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1976 | 63 |
| 28 | Experimental petrology of the lower mantle: A natural peredottte taken to 54 GPA | Geophysical Research Letters | 1990 | 62 |
| 29 | Hydrology of some tidal channels in estuarine marshland near San Francisco | Catena | 1993 | 62 |
| 30 | Alkaline and calc-alkaline lavas near Los Volcanes, Jalisco, Mexico: geochemical diversity and its significance in volcanic arcs | Contributions To Mineralogy and Petrology | 1992 | 57 |
| 31 | Oxygen isotope exchange in a two-layer model of oceanic crust | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1992 | 55 |
| 32 | P`P` Precursors Under Africa: Evidence for Mid-Mantle Reflectors | Science | 1995 | 55 |
| 33 | Cosmetic Isotope Analyses Applied to River Longitudinal Profile Evolution: Problems and Interpretations | Earth Surface Processes and Landforms | 1997 | 53 |
| 34 | Mio-Pliocene mammals from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia | Geobios | 2004 | 47 |
| 35 | Broadening of x-ray powder diffraction lines under nonhydrostatic stress | Journal of Applied Physics | 1997 | 42 |
| 36 | Intracrustal subduction and gravity currents in the deep crust: Sm-Nd, Ar-Ar, and thermobarometric constraints from the Skagit Gneiss Complex, Washington | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1997 | 41 |
| 37 | Revised velocities in the Earth's core | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1973 | 41 |
| 38 | Petrologic characteristics of mid-Tertiary volcanic suites, Chihuahua, Mexico | Geology | 1980 | 40 |
| 39 | Petrologic, paleomagnetic, and structural evidence of a Paleozoic rift system in Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1985 | 40 |
| 40 | Anelastic tomography: a new perspective on upper mantle thermal structure | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1994 | 40 |
| 41 | Compression and pressure-induced amorphization of Co(OH)2characterized by infrared vibrational spectroscopy | Physical Review B | 1994 | 39 |
| 42 | Synthesis and Characterization of Zeolites in the System Na2O-K2O-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O | Clays and Clay Minerals | 1984 | 37 |
| 43 | Effects of phase transions and possible compositional changes on the seismological structure near 650 km depth | Geophysical Research Letters | 1991 | 37 |
| 44 | Theory of high-pressure phases of Pb | Physical Review B | 1991 | 37 |
| 45 | Chronology of cenozoic igneous and tectonic events in the central Chilean Andes — latitudes 35° 30′ to 36°S | Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research | 1976 | 36 |
| 46 | The Wavelength-Smoothing Method For Approximating Broad-Band Wave Propagation Through Complicated Velocity Structures | Geophysical Journal International | 1994 | 36 |
| 47 | Model structures and properties of the electron density distribution for low quartz at pressure: a study of the SiO bond | Journal of Molecular Structure | 1999 | 36 |
| 48 | Anoxia pre-dates Frasnian–Famennian boundary mass extinction horizon in the Great Basin, USA | Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology | 1999 | 36 |
| 49 | Model Structures and Electron Density Distributions for the Silica Polymorph Coesite at Pressure: An Assessment of OO Bonded Interactions | Journal of Physical Chemistry B | 2000 | 31 |
| 50 | An increment of volcano collapse: Kinematics of the 1975 Kalapana, Hawaii, earthquake | Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research | 2006 | 29 |
