| Objective delineation of lahar-inundation hazard zones RM Iverson, SP Schilling, JW Vallance Geological Society of America Bulletin 110 (8), 972-984, 1998 | 612 | 1998 |
| The Osceola Mudflow from Mount Rainier: Sedimentology and hazard implications of a huge clay-rich debris flow JW Vallance, KM Scott Geological Society of America Bulletin 109 (2), 143-163, 1997 | 453 | 1997 |
| New views of granular mass flows RM Iverson, JW Vallance Geology 29 (2), 115-118, 2001 | 425 | 2001 |
| Landslide mobility and hazards: implications of the 2014 Oso disaster RM Iverson, DL George, K Allstadt, ME Reid, BD Collins, JW Vallance, ... Earth and Planetary Science Letters 412, 197-208, 2015 | 384 | 2015 |
| Lahars JW Vallance Encyclopedia of volcanoes, 2000 | 350 | 2000 |
| Sedimentology, Behavior and Hazards of Debris Flows at Mount Rainier, Washington (USGS Professional Paper 1547, 56 pp.) KM Scott, JW Vallance, PT Pringle US Geological Survey, Reston, VA, 1995 | 350* | 1995 |
| Origin and stratigraphy of the deposit produced by the May 18 directed blast RP Hoblitt, CD Miller, JW Vallance US Geol. Surv. Prof. Pap 1250, 401-420, 1981 | 303 | 1981 |
| Dynamics of seismogenic volcanic extrusion at Mount St Helens in 2004–05 RM Iverson, D Dzurisin, CA Gardner, TM Gerlach, RG LaHusen, ... Nature 444 (7118), 439-443, 2006 | 256 | 2006 |
| Lahars and their deposits JW Vallance, RM Iverson The encyclopedia of volcanoes, 649-664, 2015 | 187 | 2015 |
| Catastrophic precipitation‐triggered lahar at Casita volcano, Nicaragua: Occurrence, bulking and transformation KM Scott, JW Vallance, N Kerle, J Luis Macías, W Strauch, G Devoli Earth Surface Processes and Landforms: The Journal of the British …, 2005 | 186 | 2005 |
| A voluminous avalanche-induced lahar from Citlaltépetl volcano, Mexico: implications for hazard assessment G Carrasco-Núñez, JW Vallance, WI Rose Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 59 (1-2), 35-46, 1993 | 150 | 1993 |
| Segregation induced instabilities of granular fronts O Pouliquen, JW Vallance Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 9 (3), 621-630, 1999 | 136 | 1999 |
| Particle segregation in granular flows down chutes JW Vallance, SB Savage IUTAM Symposium on Segregation in Granular Flows: Proceedings of the IUTAM …, 2000 | 133 | 2000 |
| Fine-grained linings of leveed channels facilitate runout of granular flows BP Kokelaar, RL Graham, J Gray, JW Vallance Earth and Planetary Science Letters 385, 172-180, 2014 | 132 | 2014 |
| Edifice collapse and related hazards in Guatemala JW Vallance, L Siebert, WI Rose Jr, JR Girón, NG Banks Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 66 (1-4), 337-355, 1995 | 123 | 1995 |
| Volcano Hazards from Mount Rainier, Washington, Revised 1998 RP Hoblitt, JS Walder, CL Driedger, KM Scott, PT Pringle, JW Vallance USGS OFR 98-428; previously 95-273, 1998 | 120 | 1998 |
| Controls on caldera structure: results from analogue sandbox modeling B Kennedy, J Stix, JW Vallance, Y Lavallée, MA Longpré Geological Society of America Bulletin 116 (5-6), 515-524, 2004 | 110 | 2004 |
| Characteristics, extent and origin of hydrothermal alteration at Mount Rainier Volcano, Cascades Arc, USA: Implications for debris-flow hazards and mineral deposits DA John, TW Sisson, GN Breit, RO Rye, JW Vallance Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 175 (3), 289-314, 2008 | 107 | 2008 |
| Volcanic debris flows JW Vallance Debris-flow hazards and related phenomena, 247-274, 2005 | 96 | 2005 |
| Growth of the 2004-2006 Lava-Dome Complex at Mount St. Helens, Washington JW VALLANCE, DJ SCHNEIDER, SP SCHILLING US Geological Survey professional paper, 169-208, 2008 | 92 | 2008 |