| Plate tectonics and the evolution of the Alpine system JF Dewey, WC PITMAN III, WBF Ryan, J Bonnin Geological society of America bulletin 84 (10), 3137-3180, 1973 | 2302 | 1973 |
| Extension in the Tyrrhenian Sea and shortening in the Apennines as result of arc migration driven by sinking of the lithosphere A Malinverno, WBF Ryan Tectonics 5 (2), 227-245, 1986 | 2230 | 1986 |
| Global multi‐resolution topography synthesis WBF Ryan, SM Carbotte, JO Coplan, S O'Hara, A Melkonian, R Arko, ... Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 10 (3), 2009 | 2180 | 2009 |
| Late Miocene desiccation of the Mediterranean KJ Hsü, WBF Ryan, MB Cita Nature 242 (5395), 240-244, 1973 | 1217 | 1973 |
| The origin of the Mediterranean evaporites KJ Hsü, MB Cita, WBF Ryan Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 13 (1-2), 1203-1231, 1973 | 817 | 1973 |
| An abrupt drowning of the Black Sea shelf WBF Ryan, WC Pitman III, CO Major, K Shimkus, V Moskalenko, ... Marine geology 138 (1-2), 119-126, 1997 | 742 | 1997 |
| Flexure of the lithosphere and continental margin basins AB Watts, WBF Ryan Developments in geotectonics 12, 25-44, 1976 | 610 | 1976 |
| Noah's Flood: The new scientific discoveries about the event that changed history W Ryan, W Pitman Simon and Schuster, 1998 | 579 | 1998 |
| Explosive volcanic activity in the Mediterranean over the past 200,000 yr as recorded in deep-sea sediments J Keller, WBF Ryan, D Ninkovich, R Altherr Geological Society of America Bulletin 89 (4), 591-604, 1978 | 469 | 1978 |
| Catastrophic flooding of the Black Sea WBF Ryan, CO Major, G Lericolais, SL Goldstein Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 31 (1), 525-554, 2003 | 403 | 2003 |
| Stratigraphy of eastern Mediterranean sapropel sequences recovered during Leg 42A and their paleoenvironmental significance RB Kidd Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 42, 421-443, 1978 | 352 | 1978 |
| Volcanic episodicity and a non‐steady state rift valley along northeast Pacific spreading centers: Evidence from Sea MARC I ES Kappel, WBF Ryan Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 91 (B14), 13925-13940, 1986 | 341 | 1986 |
| Breaching the shelfbreak: passage from youthful to mature phase in submarine canyon evolution JA Farre, BA McGregor, WBF Ryan, JM Robb Special Publications of SEPM, 1983 | 323 | 1983 |
| The nature and distribution of Messinian erosional surfaces—Indicators of a several-kilometer-deep Mediterranean in the Miocene WBF Ryan, MB Cita Marine Geology 27 (3-4), 193-230, 1978 | 322 | 1978 |
| Stratigraphy of late Quaternary sediments in the eastern Mediterranean WBF Ryan The Mediterranean Sea 765, 1972 | 310 | 1972 |
| Stable isotopic fractionation, climate change and episodic stagnation in the eastern Mediterranean during the late Quaternary C Vergnaud-Grazzini, WBF Ryan, MB Cita Marine Micropaleontology 2, 353-370, 1977 | 309 | 1977 |
| 12. THE TECTONICS AND GEOLOGY OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA (June 1969) WILLIAM BF RYAN, DANIEL J. STANLEY, JB HERSEY, DAVIS A. FAHLQUIST, AND THOMAS D. ALLAN WBF Ryan The sea, ideas and observations on progress in the study of the seas 4, 387, 1971 | 273 | 1971 |
| Leg 13 WBF Ryan, KJ Hsü, MB Cita, P Dumitrica, JM Lort, W Maync, ... Init. Rep. Deep Sea Drill. Proj 13, 1973 | 270 | 1973 |
| Submarine canyon initiation by downslope-eroding sediment flows: evidence in late Cenozoic strata on the New Jersey continental slope LF Pratson, WBF Ryan, GS Mountain, DC Twichell Geological Society of America Bulletin 106 (3), 395-412, 1994 | 267 | 1994 |
| A paleomagnetic assignment to Neogene stage boundaries and the development of isochronous datum planes between the Mediterranean, the Pacific and Indian oceans in order to … WBF Ryan Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigraphia 80, 631-638, 1974 | 262 | 1974 |
