Mesozoic magnetic anomalies, sea-floor spreading, and geomagnetic reversals in the southwestern North Atlantic

Sea-floor spreading and continental drift

Xavier Le Pichon · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1968 · 1.5K citations

Ocean Dynamics, Engineering, Geomorphology +18

A New Class of Faults and their Bearing on Continental Drift

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

Geophysics, Fault Geometry, Engineering +12

Rises, trenches, great faults, and crustal blocks

W. Jason Morgan · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1968 · 1.2K citations

Geophysics, Magnetic Anomalies, Plate Tectonics +15

The fit of the continents around the Atlantic

E. C. Bullard, James E. Everett, Alan G. Smith · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences · 1965 · 1.2K citations

Marine magnetic anomalies, geomagnetic field reversals, and motions of the ocean floor and continents

J. R. Heirtzler, G. O. Dickson, E. M. Herron et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1968 · 1.2K citations

Geophysics, Marine Geology, Seafloor Morphology +9