| Role of tectonic denudation in warping and uplift of low-angle normal faults JE Spencer Geology 12 (2), 95-98, 1984 | 450 | 1984 |
| Middle Tertiary tectonics of Arizona and adjacent areas JE Spencer, SJ Reynolds Geologic evolution of Arizona: Arizona Geological Society Digest 17, 539-574, 1989 | 218 | 1989 |
| Tectonic influences on the spatial and temporal evolution of the Walker Lane: An incipient transform fault along the evolving Pacific–North American plate boundary JE Faulds, CD Henry, JE Spencer, SR Titley Ores and orogenesis: Circum-Pacific tectonics, geologic evolution, and ore …, 2008 | 181 | 2008 |
| Tosco-Abreojos fault zone: A Neogene transform plate boundary within the Pacific margin of southern Baja California, Mexico JE Spencer, WR Normark Geology 7 (11), 554-557, 1979 | 181 | 1979 |
| Tectonics of mid‐Tertiary extension along a transect through west central Arizona JE Spencer, SJ Reynolds Tectonics 10 (6), 1204-1221, 1991 | 172 | 1991 |
| Uplift of the Colorado Plateau due to lithosphere attenuation during Laramide low‐angle subduction JE Spencer Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 101 (B6), 13595-13609, 1996 | 170 | 1996 |
| Sr isotope evidence for a lacustrine origin for the upper Miocene to Pliocene Bouse Formation, lower Colorado River trough, and implications for timing of Colorado Plateau uplift JE Spencer, P Jonathan Patchett Geological Society of America Bulletin 109 (6), 767-778, 1997 | 154 | 1997 |
| Evidence for large-scale transport on the Bullard detachment fault, west-central Arizona SJ Reynolds, JE Spencer Geology 13 (5), 353-356, 1985 | 151 | 1985 |
| Age and evolution of the Grand Canyon revealed by U-Pb dating of water table-type speleothems V Polyak, C Hill, Y Asmerom Science 319 (5868), 1377-1380, 2008 | 141* | 2008 |
| Magnitude of crustal extension in the southern Great Basin B Wernicke, JE Spencer, BC Burchfiel, PL Guth Geology 10 (10), 499-502, 1982 | 139 | 1982 |
| Spatial and temporal relationships between mid‐Tertiary magmatism and extension in southwestern Arizona JE Spencer, SM Richard, SJ Reynolds, RJ Miller, M Shafiqullah, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 100 (B6), 10321-10351, 1995 | 117 | 1995 |
| Relationship between Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonic features in west central Arizona and adjacent southeastern California JE Spencer, SJ Reynolds Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 95 (B1), 539-555, 1990 | 105 | 1990 |
| Miocene low-angle normal faulting and dike emplacement, Homer Mountain and surrounding areas, southeastern California and southernmost Nevada JE Spencer Geological Society of America Bulletin 96 (9), 1140-1155, 1985 | 105 | 1985 |
| Possible controls of base-and precious-metal mineralization associated with Tertiary detachment faults in the lower Colorado River trough, Arizona and California JE Spencer, JW Welty Geology 14 (3), 195-198, 1986 | 103 | 1986 |
| Role of crustal flexure in initiation of low‐angle normal faults and implications for structural evolution of the Basin and Range province JE Spencer, CG Chase Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 94 (B2), 1765-1775, 1989 | 95 | 1989 |
| The Paleogene California River: evidence of Mojave-Uinta paleodrainage from U-Pb ages of detrital zircons SJ Davis, WR Dickinson, GE Gehrels, JE Spencer, TF Lawton, AR Carroll Geology 38 (10), 931-934, 2010 | 88 | 2010 |
| Headward erosion versus closed-basin spillover as alternative causes of Neogene capture of the ancestral Colorado River by the Gulf of California JE Spencer, PA Pearthree, RA Young, EE Spamer The Colorado River: Origin and Evolution: Grand Canyon, Arizona, Grand …, 2001 | 87 | 2001 |
| Middle to late Cenozoic geology, hydrography, and fish evolution in the American Southwest JE Spencer, GR Smith, TE Dowling | 85 | 2008 |
| Review and analysis of the age and origin of the Pliocene Bouse Formation, lower Colorado River Valley, southwestern USA JE Spencer, PJ Patchett, PA Pearthree, PK House, AM Sarna-Wojcicki, ... Geosphere 9 (3), 444-459, 2013 | 82 | 2013 |
| Mesozoic structures in west-central Arizona SJ Reynolds, JE Spencer, SM Richard, SE Laubach, B Beatty, ... Frontiers in geology and ore deposits of Arizona and the Southwest: Arizona …, 1986 | 81 | 1986 |
