Seismic moment, seismicity, and rate of slip along major fault zones

A New Class of Faults and their Bearing on Continental Drift

J. Tuzo Wilson · Nature · 1965 · 1.3K citations

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Elementary Seismology

Howard J. Pincus · Journal of Geological Education · 1959 · 803 citations · Full text

Spreading of the Ocean Floor: New Evidence

F. J. Vine · Science · 1966 · 785 citations

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Mechanism of earthquakes and nature of faulting on the mid-oceanic ridges

Lynn R. Sykes · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1967 · 705 citations

Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Geophysics +17

Body force equivalents for seismic dislocations

Robert Burridge, L. Knopoff · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America · 1964 · 645 citations

Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Geophysics +11