| Corals on seamount peaks provide evidence of current acceleration over deep-sea topography A Genin, PK Dayton, PF Lonsdale, FN Spiess Nature 322 (6074), 59-61, 1986 | 572 | 1986 |
| Clustering of suspension-feeding macrobenthos near abyssal hydrothermal vents at oceanic spreading centers P Lonsdale Deep Sea Research 24 (9), 857-863, 1977 | 569 | 1977 |
| Structure and tectonic history of the eastern Panama Basin P Lonsdale, KD Klitgord Geological Society of America Bulletin 89 (7), 981-999, 1978 | 522 | 1978 |
| Geology and tectonic history of the Gulf of California P Lonsdale, EL Winterer The Eastern Pacific Ocean and Hawaii 499, 1989 | 418 | 1989 |
| Hydrothermal petroleum in mineralized mounds at the seabed of Guaymas Basin BRT Simoneit, PF Lonsdale Nature 295 (5846), 198-202, 1982 | 394 | 1982 |
| Structural patterns of the Pacific floor offshore of Peninsular California: Chapter 7: Part III. Regional geophysics and geology P Lonsdale AAPG Special Volumes 114, 87-125, 1991 | 393 | 1991 |
| Creation of the Cocos and Nazca plates by fission of the Farallon plate P Lonsdale Tectonophysics 404 (3-4), 237-264, 2005 | 385 | 2005 |
| Paleogene history of the Kula plate: Offshore evidence and onshore implications P Lonsdale Geological Society of America Bulletin 100 (5), 733-754, 1988 | 317 | 1988 |
| Hydrothermal plumes, hot springs, and conductive heat flow in the Southern Trough of Guaymas Basin P Lonsdale, K Becker Earth and Planetary Science Letters 73 (2-4), 211-225, 1985 | 265 | 1985 |
| A high-temperature hydrothermal deposit on the seabed at a Gulf of California spreading center PF Lonsdale, JL Bischoff, VM Burns, M Kastner, RE Sweeney Earth and Planetary Science Letters 49 (1), 8-20, 1980 | 263 | 1980 |
| Petrology of the axial ridge of the Mariana Trough backarc spreading center JW Hawkins, PF Lonsdale, JD Macdougall, AM Volpe Earth and Planetary Science Letters 100 (1-3), 226-250, 1990 | 243 | 1990 |
| Geography and history of the Louisville hotspot chain in the southwest Pacific P Lonsdale Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 93 (B4), 3078-3104, 1988 | 238 | 1988 |
| Structural geomorphology of a fast-spreading rise crest: the East Pacific Rise near 3° 25′ S P Lonsdale Marine Geophysical Researches 3 (3), 251-293, 1977 | 235 | 1977 |
| 1 Ma East Pacific Rise oceanic crust and uppermost mantle exposed by rifting in Hess Deep (equatorial Pacific Ocean) J Francheteau, R Armijo, JL Cheminée, R Hekinian, P Lonsdale, N Blum Earth and Planetary Science Letters 101 (2-4), 281-295, 1990 | 210 | 1990 |
| Structural pattern of the Galapagos microplate and evolution of the Galapagos triple junctions P Lonsdale Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 93 (B11), 13551-13574, 1988 | 209 | 1988 |
| Ecuadorian subduction system P Lonsdale AAPG Bulletin 62 (12), 2454-2477, 1978 | 206 | 1978 |
| Segmentation of the Pacific‐Nazca spreading center, 1° N–20° S P Lonsdale Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 94 (B9), 12197-12225, 1989 | 203 | 1989 |
| Overlapping rift zones at the 5.5 S offset of the East Pacific Rise P Lonsdale Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 88 (B11), 9393-9406, 1983 | 193 | 1983 |
| Mineralogy and geochemistry of a sediment‐hosted hydrothermal sulfide deposit from the Southern Trough of Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California RA Koski, PF Lonsdale, WC Shanks, ME Berndt, SS Howe Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 90 (B8), 6695-6707, 1985 | 192 | 1985 |
| Hydrothermal plumes in the Galapagos Rift RF Weiss, P Lonsdale, JE Lupton, AE Bainbridge, H Craig Nature 267 (5612), 600-603, 1977 | 187 | 1977 |
