Most cited papers in Geological and Geophysical Studies
What are the most cited papers in Geological and Geophysical Studies?
The most cited paper in Geological and Geophysical Studies is "Chronology of Fluctuating Sea Levels Since the Triassic" (Bilal Ul Haq, Jan Hardenbol, Peter R. Vail, 1987), with 7,338 citations. Next come "Global Sea Floor Topography from Satellite Altimetry and Ship Depth Soundings" (4,763) and "Geology of mankind" (4,513).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 643 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chronology of Fluctuating Sea Levels Since the Triassic Bilal Ul Haq, Jan Hardenbol, Peter R. Vail · Science | 6 Mar 1987 | 7,338 |
| 2 | Global Sea Floor Topography from Satellite Altimetry and Ship Depth Soundings Walter H. F. Smith, David T. Sandwell · Science | 26 Sep 1997 | 4,763 |
| 3 | Geology of mankind Paul J. Crutzen · Nature | 3 Jan 2002 | 4,513 |
| 4 | A Revised Cenozoic Geochronology and Chronostratigraphy William A. Berggren, Dennis V. Kent, Carl C. Swisher et al. · SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) eBooks | 1995 | 3,091 |
| 5 | Cenozoic geological and plate tectonic evolution of SE Asia and the SW Pacific: computer-based reconstructions, model and animations Robert Jr. O. Hall · Journal of Asian Earth Sciences | Apr 2002 | 2,626 |
| 6 | Mesozoic and Cenozoic Chronostratigraphy and Cycles of Sea-Level Change Bilal Ul Haq, Jan Hardenbol, Peter R. Vail et al. · SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) eBooks | 1988 | 2,129 |
| 7 | Gondwana dispersion and Asian accretion: Tectonic and palaeogeographic evolution of eastern Tethys Ian Metcalfe · Journal of Asian Earth Sciences | 2 Jan 2013 | 2,030 |
| 8 | Maps of Pleistocene sea levels in Southeast Asia: shorelines, river systems and time durations Harold K. Voris · Journal of Biogeography | Sep 2000 | 1,996 |
| 9 | Submarine Thermal Springs on the Galápagos Rift John B. Corliss, Jack Dymond, Louis I Gordon et al. · Science | 16 Mar 1979 | 1,902 |
| 10 | Petrogenesis of Mesozoic granitoids and volcanic rocks in South China: A response to tectonic evolution Xinmin Zhou, Tao Sun, Weizhou Shen et al. · Episodes | Mar 2006 | 1,774 |
| 11 | Did the Breakout of Laurentia Turn Gondwanaland Inside-Out? Paul Felix Hoffman · Science | 7 Jun 1991 | 1,743 |
| 12 | Magnetic interpretation in three dimensions using Euler deconvolution Alan B. Reid, J. M. Allsop, Harold Granser et al. · Geophysics | 1990 | 1,704 |
| 13 | Sea-Level Rise as a Cause of Shore Erosion Per Moller Bruun · Journal of the Waterways and Harbors Division | Feb 1962 | 1,633 |
| 14 | A Chronology of Paleozoic Sea-Level Changes Bilal Ul Haq, Stephen R. Schutter · Science | 2 Oct 2008 | 1,620 |
| 15 | Chemical Composition of Hawaiian Lavas1 Gordon Andrew Macdonald, Tomoo Katsura · Journal of Petrology | 1964 | 1,597 |
| 16 | Topographic ooze: Building the eastern margin of Tibet by lower crustal flow Marin Kristen Clark, L. H. Royden · Geology | 2000 | 1,584 |
| 17 | The Generation of Global Rotational Flow by Steady Idealized Tropical Divergence Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, Brian John Hoskins · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences | Apr 1988 | 1,496 |
| 18 | Remnants of ≥3800 Ma crust in the Chinese part of the Sino-Korean craton D. Y. Liu, Allen P. Nutman, W. Compston et al. · Geology | 1992 | 1,491 |
| 19 | Updated interpretation of magnetic anomalies and seafloor spreading stages in the south China Sea: Implications for the Tertiary tectonics of Southeast Asia A. Briais, Philippe Patriat, Paul E. Tapponnier · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres | 10 Apr 1993 | 1,459 |
| 20 | Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic rifting and its dynamic setting in Eastern China and adjacent areas Jianye Ren, Kensaku Tamaki, Sitian Li et al. · Tectonophysics | Feb 2002 | 1,343 |
| 21 | Cretaceous eustasy revisited Bilal Ul Haq · Global and Planetary Change | 23 Dec 2013 | 1,292 |
| 22 | History of Neoproterozoic rift basins in South China: implications for Rodinia break-up Jungchun Wang · Precambrian Research | 10 Apr 2003 | 1,224 |
| 23 | The Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 26 December 2004 Thorne Lay, Hiroo Kanamori, Charles J. Ammon et al. · Science | 19 May 2005 | 1,220 |
| 24 | The Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone (Yunnan, China), Tertiary transform boundary of Indochina Philippe Hervé Leloup, Robin Lacassin, Paul E. Tapponnier et al. · Tectonophysics | Dec 1995 | 1,217 |
| 25 | Ternary-feldspar modeling and thermometry Miriam Fuhrman, Donald H. LINDSLEY · American Mineralogist | Apr 1988 | 1,203 |
| 26 | A POSSIBLE ORIGIN OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS J. Tuzo Wilson · Canadian Journal of Physics | Jun 1963 | 1,184 |
| 27 | A Late Devonian Reef Tract on Northeastern Banks Island, N.W.T. Ashton F. Embry, J. E. Klovan · Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology | Dec 1971 | 1,133 |
| 28 | Deglacial sea-level record from Tahiti corals and the timing of global meltwater discharge Édouard Bard, Bruno Hamelin, Maurice Arnold et al. · Nature | Jul 1996 | 1,110 |
| 29 | Paleogeographic maps of the Japanese Islands: Plate tectonic synthesis from 750 Ma to the present Shigenori Maruyama, Yukio Isozaki, Gaku Kimura et al. · Island Arc | Mar 1997 | 1,105 |
| 30 | Origin and history of the South China Sea basin Brian Taylor, Dennis E. Hayes · Geophysical monograph | 1983 | 1,103 |
| 31 | Late Jurassic–Cenozoic reconstructions of the Indonesian region and the Indian Ocean Robert Jr. O. Hall · Tectonophysics | 15 May 2012 | 1,094 |
| 32 | A synopsis of events related to the assembly of eastern Gondwana Joseph G. Meert · Tectonophysics | Feb 2003 | 1,085 |
| 33 | Review and revision of Cenozoic tropical planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy and calibration to the geomagnetic polarity and astronomical time scale Bridget Susan Wade, Paul Nicholas Pearson, William A. Berggren et al. · Earth-Science Reviews | 23 Sep 2010 | 1,084 |
| 34 | The Ailao Shan/Red River metamorphic belt: Tertiary left-lateral shear between Indochina and South China P. Tapponnier, Robin Lacassin, Philippe Hervé Leloup et al. · Nature | Feb 1990 | 1,054 |
| 35 | Geological reconstructions of the East Asian blocks: From the breakup of Rodinia to the assembly of Pangea Guochun Zhao, Yuejun Wang, Baochun Huang et al. · Earth-Science Reviews | 5 Oct 2018 | 1,041 |
| 36 | The Tectonic Evolution of Asia Tung‐Yi Lee · Eos | 16 Dec 1997 | 1,028 |
| 37 | Late Permian to Holocene Paleofacies Evolution of the Arabian Plate and its Hydrocarbon Occurrences Alicia Escanilla Martín · GeoArabia | Jul 2001 | 1,014 |
| 38 | Surface uplift, tectonics, and erosion of eastern Tibet from large‐scale drainage patterns Marin Kristen Clark, Lindsay M. Schoenbohm, L. H. Royden et al. · Tectonics | 16 Jan 2004 | 1,004 |
| 39 | New insights into magnetic derivatives for structural mapping Bruno Verduzco, J.D. Fairhead, Chris Green et al. · The Leading Edge | Feb 2004 | 967 |
| 40 | The East African rift system Jean Chorowicz · Journal of African Earth Sciences | Oct 2005 | 963 |
| 41 | El Niño/Southern Oscillation and tropical Pacific climate during the last millennium K. M. Cobb, Christopher D. Charles, Hai Cheng et al. · Nature | Jul 2003 | 950 |
| 42 | Amalgamating eastern Gondwana: The evolution of the Circum-Indian Orogens Alan Stephen Collins, Sergei Pisarevsky · Earth-Science Reviews | 4 Apr 2005 | 948 |
| 43 | Rapid Flooding of the Sunda Shelf: A Late-Glacial Sea-Level Record Till J J Hanebuth, Karl Stattegger, Pieter Meiert Grootes · Science | 12 May 2000 | 947 |
| 44 | The Evolution of the Indian Ocean since the Late Cretaceous Dan Peter McKenzie, John George Sclater · Geophysical Journal International | Dec 1971 | 937 |
| 45 | Cenozoic sea-level and cryospheric evolution from deep-sea geochemical and continental margin records Kenneth G. Miller, James V. Browning, William J. Schmelz et al. · Science Advances | 15 May 2020 | 935 |
| 46 | Stromatolite reef from the Early Archaean era of Australia Abigail C. Allwood, Malcolm R. Walter, Balz Samuel Kamber et al. · Nature | Jun 2006 | 911 |
| 47 | Latest pulse of Earth: Evidence for a mid-Cretaceous superplume Roger L. Larson · Geology | 1991 | 907 |
| 48 | Geologic framework and tectonic evolution of the Qinling orogen, central China Qing‐Ren Meng, Guowei Zhang · Tectonophysics | Aug 2000 | 901 |
| 49 | The Tectonic Evolution of Asia Brian Frederick Windley · Geophysical Journal International | Apr 1997 | 897 |
| 50 | Detachment faulting and the evolution of passive continental margins Gordon Stuart Lister, M. A. Etheridge, Philip A. Symonds · Geology | 1986 | 896 |
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