| Breakup of the Newfoundland–Iberia rift BE Tucholke, DS Sawyer, JC Sibuet | 343 | 2007 |
| Tectonosedimentary evolution of the deep Iberia‐Newfoundland margins: Evidence for a complex breakup history G Péron‐Pinvidic, G Manatschal, TA Minshull, DS Sawyer Tectonics 26 (2), 2007 | 291 | 2007 |
| How preexisting weaknesses control the style of continental breakup JA Dunbar, DS Sawyer Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 94 (B6), 7278-7292, 1989 | 275 | 1989 |
| Distribution of crust and early history RT Buffler, DS Sawyer Gulf of Mexico Basin: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies …, 1985 | 261 | 1985 |
| The crust under the Gulf of Mexico basin DS Sawyer, RT Buffler, RH Pilger | 258 | 1991 |
| Free gas at the base of the gas hydrate zone in the vicinity of the Chile triple junction NLB Bangs, DS Sawyer, X Golovchenko Geology 21 (10), 905-908, 1993 | 252 | 1993 |
| Assessment of crustal velocity models using seismic refraction and reflection tomography CA Zelt, K Sain, JV Naumenko, DS Sawyer Geophysical Journal International 153 (3), 609-626, 2003 | 210 | 2003 |
| Mechanisms of extension at nonvolcanic margins: Evidence from the Galicia interior basin, west of Iberia M Pérez‐Gussinyé, CR Ranero, TJ Reston, D Sawyer Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 108 (B5), 2003 | 198 | 2003 |
| Pore pressure penetrometers document high overpressure near the seafloor where multiple submarine landslides have occurred on the continental slope, offshore Louisiana, Gulf of … PB Flemings, H Long, B Dugan, J Germaine, CM John, JH Behrmann, ... Earth and Planetary Science Letters 269 (3-4), 309-325, 2008 | 180* | 2008 |
| Continental rifting at pre-existing lithospheric weaknesses JA Dunbar, DS Sawyer Nature 333 (6172), 450-452, 1988 | 164 | 1988 |
| Distribution of crust and early history, Gulf of Mexico basin RT Buffler, DS Sawyer GCAGS Transactions, 1985 | 164 | 1985 |
| Deep structure of the US Atlantic continental margin, offshore South Carolina, from coincident ocean bottom and multichannel seismic data WS Holbrook, EC Reiter, GM Purdy, D Sawyer, PL Stoffa, JA Austin Jr, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 99 (B5), 9155-9178, 1994 | 156 | 1994 |
| EDGE deep seismic reflection transect of the eastern Aleutian arc-trench layered lower crust reveals underplating and continental growth JC Moore, J Diebold, MA Fisher, J Sample, T Brocher, M Talwani, J Ewing, ... Geology 19 (5), 420-424, 1991 | 151 | 1991 |
| Total tectonic subsidence: a parameter for distinguishing crust type at the US Atlantic continental margin DS Sawyer Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 90 (B9), 7751-7769, 1985 | 143 | 1985 |
| The ocean/continent transition beneath the Iberia Abyssal Plain and continental-rifting to seafloor-spreading processes RB Whitmarsh, DS Sawyer Proceedings-ocean Drilling Program Scientific Results, 713-736, 1996 | 142 | 1996 |
| Crustal structure of the Southeast Georgia embayment-Carolina trough: Preliminary results of a composite seismic image of a continental suture (?) and a volcanic passive margin JA Austin Jr, PL Stoffa, JD Phillips, J Oh, DS Sawyer, GM Purdy, E Reiter, ... Geology 18 (10), 1023-1027, 1990 | 131 | 1990 |
| Implications of continental crust extension for plate reconstruction: An example from the Gulf of Mexico JA Dunbar, DS Sawyer Tectonics 6 (6), 739-755, 1987 | 109 | 1987 |
| Fault-controlled hydration of the upper mantle during continental rifting G Bayrakci, TA Minshull, DS Sawyer, TJ Reston, D Klaeschen, ... Nature Geoscience 9 (5), 384-388, 2016 | 99 | 2016 |
| Rapid forearc basin uplift and megasplay fault development from 3D seismic images of Nankai Margin off Kii Peninsula, Japan SPS Gulick, NLB Bangs, GF Moore, J Ashi, KM Martin, DS Sawyer, ... Earth and Planetary Science Letters 300 (1-2), 55-62, 2010 | 95 | 2010 |
| Brittle failure in the upper mantle during extension of continental lithosphere DS Sawyer Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 90 (B4), 3021-3025, 1985 | 85 | 1985 |
