| Dynamics of the India‐Eurasia collision zone LM Flesch, AJ Haines, WE Holt Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 106 (B8), 16435-16460, 2001 | 395 | 2001 |
| Constraining the extent of crust–mantle coupling in central Asia using GPS, geologic, and shear wave splitting data LM Flesch, WE Holt, PG Silver, M Stephenson, CY Wang, WW Chan Earth and Planetary Science Letters 238 (1-2), 248-268, 2005 | 368 | 2005 |
| Evidence for mechanically coupled lithosphere in central Asia and resulting implications CY Wang, LM Flesch, PG Silver, LJ Chang, WW Chan Geology 36 (5), 363-366, 2008 | 347 | 2008 |
| Dynamics of the Pacific-North American plate boundary in the western United States LM Flesch, WE Holt, AJ Haines, B Shen-Tu Science 287 (5454), 834-836, 2000 | 276 | 2000 |
| Vertical coherence of deformation in lithosphere in the NE margin of the Tibetan plateau using GPS and shear-wave splitting data L Chang, Z Ding, C Wang, LM Flesch Tectonophysics 699, 93-101, 2017 | 126 | 2017 |
| Gravitational potential energy of the Tibetan Plateau and the forces driving the Indian plate A Ghosh, WE Holt, LM Flesch, AJ Haines Geology 34 (5), 321-324, 2006 | 115 | 2006 |
| Reconciling lithospheric deformation and lower crustal flow beneath central Tibet R Bendick, L Flesch Geology 35 (10), 895-898, 2007 | 104 | 2007 |
| Current kinematics and dynamics of Africa and the East African Rift System DS Stamps, LM Flesch, E Calais, A Ghosh Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 119 (6), 5161-5186, 2014 | 102 | 2014 |
| Seismic anisotropy of upper mantle in eastern Tibetan Plateau and related crust-mantle coupling pattern CY Wang, LJ Chang, ZY Lü, JZ Qin, W Su, P Silver, L Flesch Science in China Series D: Earth Sciences 50 (8), 1150-1160, 2007 | 100 | 2007 |
| The dynamics of western North America: Stress magnitudes and the relative role of gravitational potential energy, plate interaction at the boundary and basal tractions LM Flesch, WE Holt, AJ Haines, L Wen, B Shen-Tu Geophysical Journal International 169 (3), 866-896, 2007 | 100 | 2007 |
| Contribution of gravitational potential energy differences to the global stress field A Ghosh, WE Holt, LM Flesch Geophysical Journal International 179 (2), 787-812, 2009 | 99 | 2009 |
| Sound velocities of polycrystalline MgSiO 3 -orthopyroxene to 10 GPa at room temperature LM Flesch, B Li, RC Liebermann American Mineralogist 83 (5-6), 444-450, 1998 | 95 | 1998 |
| Was the Midcontinent Rift part of a successful seafloor‐spreading episode? CA Stein, S Stein, M Merino, G Randy Keller, LM Flesch, DM Jurdy Geophysical Research Letters 41 (5), 1465-1470, 2014 | 91 | 2014 |
| Significant and vertically coherent seismic anisotropy beneath eastern Tibet G León Soto, E Sandvol, JF Ni, L Flesch, TM Hearn, F Tilmann, J Chen, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 117 (B5), 2012 | 89 | 2012 |
| Vertical coherence of deformation in lithosphere in the eastern Himalayan syntaxis using GPS, Quaternary fault slip rates, and shear wave splitting data L Chang, LM Flesch, CY Wang, Z Ding Geophysical Research Letters 42 (14), 5813-5819, 2015 | 64 | 2015 |
| Joint modeling of lithosphere and mantle dynamics elucidating lithosphere‐mantle coupling A Ghosh, WE Holt, L Wen, AJ Haines, LM Flesch Geophysical Research Letters 35 (16), 2008 | 61 | 2008 |
| Thermal equation of state of stishovite J Liu, J Zhang, L Flesch, B Li, DJ Weidner, RC Liebermann Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 112 (3-4), 257-266, 1999 | 58 | 1999 |
| Upper mantle anisotropy and crust-mantle deformation pattern beneath the Chinese mainland CY Wang, LJ Chang, ZF Ding, QL Liu, WL Liao, LM Flesch Science China Earth Sciences 57, 132-143, 2014 | 57 | 2014 |
| Lithospheric buoyancy forces in Africa from a thin sheet approach DS Stamps, LM Flesch, E Calais International Journal of Earth Sciences 99, 1525-1533, 2010 | 57 | 2010 |
| Gravitational potential energy and regional stress and strain rate fields for continental plateaus: Examples from the central Andes and Colorado Plateau LM Flesch, C Kreemer Tectonophysics 482 (1-4), 182-192, 2010 | 53 | 2010 |
