Tectono-stratigraphic framework of Neoproterozoic to Cambrian strata, west-central US: Protracted rifting, glaciation, and evolution of the North American Cordilleran margin WA Yonkee, CD Dehler, PK Link, EA Balgord, JA Keeley, DS Hayes, ... Earth-Science Reviews 136, 59-95, 2014 | 216 | 2014 |
The role of mantle delamination in widespread Late Cretaceous extension and magmatism in the Cordilleran orogen, western United States ML Wells, TD Hoisch Geological Society of America Bulletin 120 (5-6), 515-530, 2008 | 165 | 2008 |
Geodynamics of synconvergent extension and tectonic mode switching: Constraints from the Sevier‐Laramide orogen ML Wells, TD Hoisch, AM Cruz‐Uribe, JD Vervoort Tectonics 31 (1), 2012 | 122 | 2012 |
Dating of major normal fault systems using thermochronology: An example from the Raft River detachment, Basin and Range, western United States ML Wells, LW Snee, AE Blythe Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 105 (B7), 16303-16327, 2000 | 119 | 2000 |
The Longmenshan Tectonic Complex and adjacent tectonic units in the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: A review DP Yan, Y Zhou, L Qiu, ML Wells, H Mu, CG Xu Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 164, 33-57, 2018 | 106 | 2018 |
Alternating contraction and extension in the hinterlands of orogenic belts: An example from the Raft River Mountains, Utah ML Wells Geological Society of America Bulletin 109 (1), 107-126, 1997 | 85 | 1997 |
Late Cretaceous extension in the hinterland of the Sevier thrust belt, northwestern Utah and southern Idaho ML Wells, RD Dallmeyer, RW Allmendinger Geology 18 (10), 929-933, 1990 | 77 | 1990 |
Two-stage rifting of Zealandia-Australia-Antarctica: evidence from 40Ar/39Ar thermochronometry of the Sisters shear zone, Stewart Island, New Zealand J Kula, A Tulloch, TL Spell, ML Wells Geology 35 (5), 411-414, 2007 | 75 | 2007 |
Paleogeographic isolation of the Cretaceous to Eocene Sevier hinterland, east-central Nevada: Insights from U-Pb and (U-Th)/He detrital zircon ages of hinterland strata P Druschke, AD Hanson, ML Wells, GE Gehrels, D Stockli Bulletin 123 (5-6), 1141-1160, 2011 | 66 | 2011 |
Synconvergent surface-breaking normal faults of Late Cretaceous age within the Sevier hinterland, east-central Nevada P Druschke, AD Hanson, ML Wells, T Rasbury, DF Stockli, G Gehrels Geology 37 (5), 447-450, 2009 | 60 | 2009 |
Preservation of an extreme transient geotherm in the Raft River detachment shear zone R Gottardi, C Teyssier, A Mulch, TW Vennemann, ML Wells Geology 39 (8), 759-762, 2011 | 53 | 2011 |
Hinterland to foreland transect through the Sevier orogen, northeast Nevada to north central Utah: Structural style, metamorphism, and kinematic history of a large … P Camilleri, W Adolph Yonkee, J Coogan, P DeCelles, A McGrew, ... Brigham Young University Geology Studies 42, 297-309, 1997 | 53 | 1997 |
Fault slip and exhumation history of the Willard thrust sheet, Sevier fold‐thrust belt, Utah: Relations to wedge propagation, hinterland uplift, and foreland basin sedimentation WA Yonkee, B Eleogram, ML Wells, DF Stockli, S Kelley, DE Barber Tectonics 38 (8), 2850-2893, 2019 | 51 | 2019 |
Structural, stratigraphic, and geochronologic evidence for extension predating Palaeogene volcanism in the Sevier hinterland, east-central Nevada P Druschke, AD Hanson, ML Wells International Geology Review 51 (7-8), 743-775, 2009 | 51 | 2009 |
Structural and geochronological constraints on the early Mesozoic North Longmen Shan thrust belt: Foreland fold‐thrust propagation of the SW Qinling orogenic belt, Northeastern … DP Yan, L Qiu, ML Wells, MF Zhou, X Meng, S Lu, S Zhang, Y Wang, ... Tectonics 37 (12), 4595-4624, 2018 | 50 | 2018 |
Rheological control on the initial geometry of the Raft River detachment fault and shear zone, western United States ML Wells Tectonics 20 (4), 435-457, 2001 | 50 | 2001 |
Age trends in garnet-hosted monazite inclusions from upper amphibolite facies schist in the northern Grouse Creek Mountains, Utah TD Hoisch, ML Wells, M Grove Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72 (22), 5505-5520, 2008 | 49 | 2008 |
Timing of exhumation, Wheeler Pass thrust sheet, southern Nevada and California: Late Jurassic to middle Cretaceous evolution of the southern Sevier fold-and-thrust belt MA Giallorenzo, ML Wells, WA Yonkee, DF Stockli, BP Wernicke Bulletin 130 (3-4), 558-579, 2018 | 48 | 2018 |
Fault‐related fold styles and progressions in fold‐thrust belts: Insights from sandbox modeling DP Yan, YB Xu, ZB Dong, L Qiu, S Zhang, M Wells Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 121 (3), 2087-2111, 2016 | 43 | 2016 |
Pressure-temperature paths from garnet-zoning: Evidence for multiple episodes of thrust burial in the hinterland of the Sevier orogenic belt TD Hoisch, ML Wells, LM Hanson American Mineralogist 87 (1), 115-131, 2002 | 41 | 2002 |