Cordilleran Benioff zones

Implications of Plate Tectonics for the Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of Western North America

Tanya Atwater · Geological Society of America Bulletin · 1970 · 1.9K citations

Plate Tectonics, Marine Geology, Engineering +15

Seismology and the new global tectonics

Bryan L. Isacks, Jack Oliver, Lynn R. Sykes · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1968 · 1.4K citations

Geophysics, Plate Tectonics, Engineering +11

Distribution of stresses in the descending lithosphere from a global survey of focal‐mechanism solutions of mantle earthquakes

Bryan L. Isacks, Péter Molnár · Reviews of Geophysics · 1971 · 1K citations

Engineering, Mantle Dynamic, Earthquake Hazards +19

The North Pacific: an Example of Tectonics on a Sphere

Dan McKenzie, Robert L. Parker · Nature · 1967 · 810 citations

Geophysics, Plate Tectonics, Marine Geology +11

Implications of Continental Drift to the Earth Sciences

J. A. Steers, D. H. Tarling, S. K. Runcorn · Geographical Journal · 1974 · 585 citations

Geophysics, Plate Tectonics, Marine Geology +15