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The composition of the Earth (1995) 2158
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Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic basalts: implications for mantle composition and processes (1989) 1848
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Age dating and the orbital theory of the ice ages: Development of a high-resolution 0 to 300,000-year chronostratigraphy*1 (1987) 1452
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EROSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF STREAMS AND THEIR DRAINAGE BASINS; HYDROPHYSICAL APPROACH TO QUANTITATIVE MORPHOLOGY (1945) 1085
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Insolation values for the climate of the last 10 million years (1991) 935
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Distribution of the Elements in Some Major Units of the Earth's Crust (1961) 878
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Geomorphic/tectonic control of sediment discharge to the ocean: The importance of small mountainous rivers (1992) 846
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World-Wide Delivery of River Sediment to the Oceans (1983) 829
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Principles of geostatistics (1963) 790
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Geochemical discrimination of different magma series and their differentiation products using immobile elements (1977) 771
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Empirical Correction Factors for the Electron Microanalysis of Silicates and Oxides (1968) 719
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REVISED CARBONATE-WATER ISOTOPIC TEMPERATURE SCALE (1953) 700
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Origin and consequences of cyclic ice rafting in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean during the past 130,000 years (1988) 697
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A Scale of Grade and Class Terms for Clastic Sediments (1922) 663
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The chemical composition of subducting sediment and its consequences for the crust and mantle (1998) 644
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Propagating extrusion tectonics in Asia: New insights from simple experiments with plasticine (1982) 606
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Oxygen isotopes, ice volume and sea level (1987) 578
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Oxygen isotope and palaeomagnetic stratigraphy of Equatorial Pacific core V28-238: Oxygen isotope temperatures and ice volumes on a 105 year and 106 year scale*1 (1973) 534
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Holocene climatic instability: A prominent, widespread event 8200 yr ago (1997) 522
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Dynamics of orogenic wedges and the uplift of high-pressure metamorphic rocks (1986) 521
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Hydrological changes in the African tropics since the Last Glacial Maximum (2000) 521
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GEOCARB III: A revised model of atmospheric CO2 over Phanerozoic time (2001) 520
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HYPSOMETRIC (AREA-ALTITUDE) ANALYSIS OF EROSIONAL TOPOGRAPHY (1952) 509
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Channel-reach morphology in mountain drainage basins (1997) 508
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Magnitude and Frequency of Forces in Geomorphic Processes (1960) 502
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Fault rocks and fault mechanisms (1977) 484
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Mineralogy and Sedimentation of Recent Deep-Sea Clay in the Atlantic Ocean and Adjacent Seas and Oceans (1965) 476
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Implications of Plate Tectonics for the Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of Western North America (1970) 469
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THE AMPHIBIAN TREE OF LIFE (2006) 451
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Fault zone architecture and permeability structure (1996) 442
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The age curves of sulfur and oxygen isotopes in marine sulfate and their mutual interpretation (1980) 436
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Terrestrial in situ cosmogenic nuclides: theory and application (2001) 432
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Sea-level and deep water temperature changes derived from benthic foraminifera isotopic records (2002) 417
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Preservation of elemental and isotopic source identification of sedimentary organic matter (1994) 416
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Long-term variations of caloric insolation resulting from the earth's orbital elements*1 (1978) 414
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Intercalibration of standards, absolute ages and uncertainties in 40Ar/ 39Ar dating (1998) 414
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Carbon and hydrogen isotope systematics of bacterial formation and oxidation of methane (1999) 411
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Plate Tectonics and the Evolution of the Alpine System (1973) 410
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Pleistocene Temperatures (1955) 408
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Zircon UPb ages for the Early Cambrian time-scale (1992) 405
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Orthogneiss, mylonite and non coaxial deformation of granites: the example of the South Armorican Shear Zone (1979) 392
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Holocene climate variability (2004) 385
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Quaternary stratigraphy of Norden, a proposal for terminology and classification (2008) 383
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Global silicate weathering and CO 2 consumption rates deduced from the chemistry of large rivers (1999) 382
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Strike-slip faults (1988) 378
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TEMORA 1: a new zircon standard for Phanerozoic U–Pb geochronology (2003) 369
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Chemical composition and evolution of the upper continental crust: Contrasting results from surface samples and shales (1993) 367
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Latest pulse of Earth: Evidence for a mid-Cretaceous superplume (1991) 359
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SC Mylonites (1984) 353
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Extensional collapse of thickened continental lithosphere: A working hypothesis for the Alboran Sea and Gibraltar arc (1989) 352
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Tectonic discrimination of granitoids (1989) 349
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Isotopic studies of nitrogen pollution in the hydrosphere and atmosphere: A review (1986) 347
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Variation of seawater 87Sr/86Sr throughout Phanerozoic time (1982) 346
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The half-lives of uranium-234 and thorium-230 (2000) 346
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Properties of some common igneous rocks and their melts at high temperatures (1973) 344
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Ethanol Production Using Corn, Switchgrass, and Wood; Biodiesel Production Using Soybean and Sunflower (2005) 344
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Statistical Law of Stream Numbers (1966) 338
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Oxygen and carbon isotope fractionation in biogenic aragonite: Temperature effects (1986) 337
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An internally consistent dataset with uncertainties and correlations: 3. Applications to geobarometry, worked examples and a computer program (1988) 337
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Quantitative interpretation of fossil pollen spectra: Dissimilarity coefficients and the method of modern analogs (1985) 336
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Morphodynamic variability of surf zones and beaches: A synthesis (1984) 334
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Dislocation creep regimes in quartz aggregates (1992) 330
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Reaction between slab-derived melts and peridotite in the mantle wedge: experimental constraints at 3.8 GPa (1999) 330
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Collision of the North China and Yangtse Blocks and formation of coesite-bearing eclogites: Timing and processes (1993) 325
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Chemical characteristics of fluid phase released from a subducted lithosphere and origin of arc magmas: Evidence from high-pressure experiments and natural rocks (1986) 323
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The dynamics of bubble formation and growth in magmas: A review and analysis (1978) 318
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Zircon trace element geochemistry: partitioning with garnet and the link between U–Pb ages and metamorphism (2002) 312
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A method of discriminating between different types of mid-ocean ridge basalts and continental tholeiites with the Nb1bZr1bY diagram (1986) 308
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Chemical subdivision of the A-type granitoids:Petrogenetic and tectonic implications (1992) 306
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Late Quaternary ice sheet history of northern Eurasia (2004) 306
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Kinematics of the western Mediterranean (1989) 304
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Tectonics of the Himalaya and southern Tibet from two perspectives (2000) 304
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Fitting variogram models by weighted least squares (1985) 301
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The application of laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry to in situ U–Pb zircon geochronology (2004) 300
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Magnetic susceptibility evidence of monsoon variation on the Loess Plateau of central China during the last 130,000 years (1991) 299
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EVOLUTION OF DRAINAGE SYSTEMS AND SLOPES IN BADLANDS AT PERTH AMBOY, NEW JERSEY (1956) 298
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Application of oxygen and hydrogen isotope studies to problems of hydrothermal alteration and ore deposition (1974) 297
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East Asian monsoon climate during the Late Pleistocene: high-resolution sediment records from the South China Sea (1999) 296
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Similarities between Shear Zones of Different Magnitudes (1970) 295
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Oxygen isotope and palaeotemperature records from six Greenland ice-core stations: Camp Century, Dye3, GRIP, GISP2, Renland and NorthGRIP (2001) 295
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An enlarged and updated internally consistent thermodynamic dataset with uncertainties and correlations: the system K 2 O?Na 2 O?CaO?MgO?MnO?FeO?Fe 2 O 3 ?Al 2 O 3 ?TiO 2 ?SiO 2 ?C?H 2 ?O 2 (1990) 294
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Pacific margins of Laurentia and East Antarctica-Australia as a conjugate rift pair: Evidence and implications for an Eocambrian supercontinent (1991) 294
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Nonparametric estimation of spatial distributions (1983) 293
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Andean tectonics related to geometry of subducted Nazca plate (1983) 292
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A garnet?hornblende geothermometer: calibration, testing, and application to the Pelona Schist, Southern California (1984) 289
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Influence of late Cenozoic mountain building on ocean geochemical cycles (1988) 289
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Transpression (1984) 288
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The origin of metamorphic core complexes and detachment faults formed during Tertiary continental extension in the northern Colorado River region, U.S.A (1989) 285
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Cenozoic geochronology (1985) 281
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The isocon diagram; a simple solution to Gresens' equation for metasomatic alteration (1986) 281
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Lithospheric buoyancy and collisional orogenesis: Subduction of oceanic plateaus, continental margins, island arcs, spreading ridges, and seamounts (1993) 280
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The history and variability of the East Asian paleomonsoon climate (2000) 279
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Composition-volume relationships of metasomatism (1967) 278
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Holocene climatic variations?Their pattern and possible cause (1973) 278
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An event stratigraphy for the Last Termination in the North Atlantic region based on the Greenland ice-core record: a proposal by the INTIMATE group (1998) 278
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The Theory of Ground-Water Motion (1940) 277
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A simple method for the precise determination of ≥ 40 trace elements in geological samples by ICPMS using enriched isotope internal standardisation (1997) 277
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The use of chromium reduction in the analysis of reduced inorganic sulfur in sediments and shales (1986) 276
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An evaluation of criteria to deduce the sense of movement in sheared rocks (1983) 274
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Cretaceous anoxic events: from continents to oceans (1980) 273