| Carboniferous to Cretaceous assembly and fragmentation of Mexico WR Dickinson, TF Lawton Geological Society of America Bulletin 113 (9), 1142-1160, 2001 | 711 | 2001 |
| Patterns and timing of synorogenic sedimentation in Upper Cretaceous rocks of central and northeast Utah TD Fouch, TF Lawton, DJ Nichols, WB Cashion, WA Cobban Rocky Mountain Section (SEPM), 1983 | 336 | 1983 |
| Time of initial thrusting in the Sevier orogenic belt, Idaho-Wyoming and Utah PL Heller, SS Bowdler, HP Chambers, JC Coogan, ES Hagen, ... Geology 14 (5), 388-391, 1986 | 278 | 1986 |
| Permo-Triassic continental arc in eastern Mexico: Tectonic implications for reconstructions of southern North America R Torres, J Ruiz, PJ Patchett, JM Grajales | 260 | 1999 |
| Near-salt deformation in La Popa basin, Mexico, and the northern Gulf of Mexico: A general model for passive diapirism MG Rowan, TF Lawton, KA Giles, RA Ratliff AAPG bulletin 87 (5), 733-756, 2003 | 249 | 2003 |
| Halokinetic sequence stratigraphy adjacent to the El Papalote diapir, northeastern Mexico KA Giles, TF Lawton AAPG bulletin 86 (5), 823-840, 2002 | 237 | 2002 |
| Thrust timing, growth of structural culminations, and synorogenic sedimentation in the type Sevier orogenic belt, western United States PG DeCelles, TF Lawton, G Mitra Geology 23 (8), 699-702, 1995 | 230 | 1995 |
| The Cretaceous-Paleogene Mexican orogen: Structure, basin development, magmatism and tectonics E Fitz-Díaz, TF Lawton, E Juárez-Arriaga, G Chávez-Cabello Earth-Science Reviews 183, 56-84, 2018 | 228 | 2018 |
| Tectonic setting of Mesozoic sedimentary basins, rocky Mountain region, United States TF Lawton Rocky Mountain Section (SEPM), 1994 | 195 | 1994 |
| Estimation of source area, river paleo-discharge, paleoslope, and sediment budgets of linked deep-time depositional systems and implications for hydrocarbon potential JP Bhattacharya, P Copeland, TF Lawton, J Holbrook Earth-Science Reviews 153, 77-110, 2016 | 187 | 2016 |
| Sequential intercontinental suturing as the ultimate control for Pennsylvanian Ancestral Rocky Mountains deformation WR Dickinson, TF Lawton Geology 31 (7), 609-612, 2003 | 165 | 2003 |
| Location, location, location: The variable lifespan of the Laramide orogeny P Copeland, CA Currie, TF Lawton, MA Murphy Geology 45 (3), 223-226, 2017 | 160 | 2017 |
| Arc abandonment as a cause for passive continental rifting: Comparison of the Jurassic Mexican Borderland rift and the Cenozoic Rio Grande rift TF Lawton, NJ McMillan Geology 27 (9), 779-782, 1999 | 160 | 1999 |
| Tectonic setting and sandstone petrofacies of the Bisbee basin (USA–Mexico) WR Dickinson, TF Lawton Journal of South American Earth Sciences 14 (5), 475-504, 2001 | 146 | 2001 |
| Sandstone detrital modes, central Utah foreland region; stratigraphic record of Cretaceous-Paleogene tectonic evolution WR Dickinson, TF Lawton, KF Inman Journal of sedimentary research 56 (2), 276-293, 1986 | 144 | 1986 |
| Style and timing of frontal structures, thrust belt, central Utah TF Lawton AAPG Bulletin 69 (7), 1145-1159, 1985 | 130 | 1985 |
| Integrating sandstone petrology and nonmarine sequence stratigraphy: application to the Late Cretaceous fluvial systems of southwestern Utah, USA TF Lawton, SL Pollock, RAJ Robinson Journal of Sedimentary Research 73 (3), 389-406, 2003 | 129 | 2003 |
| Fluvial systems of the Upper Cretaceous Mesaverde Group and Paleocene North Horn Formation, Central Utah: A record of transition from thin-skinned to thick-skinned deformation … TF Lawton AAPG Special Volumes 155, 423-442, 1986 | 126 | 1986 |
| Provenance of Upper Cretaceous–Paleogene sandstones in the foreland basin system of the Sierra Madre Oriental, northeastern Mexico, and its bearing on fluvial dispersal systems … TF Lawton, IA Bradford, FJ Vega, GE Gehrels, JM Amato Geological Society of America Bulletin 121 (5-6), 820-836, 2009 | 119 | 2009 |
| Stratigraphy and origin of the La Popa basin, Nuevo Leon and Coahuila, Mexico TF Lawton, KA Giles, FJ Vega, C Rosales-Domínguez | 119 | 2001 |
