| A genetic classification of floodplains GC Nanson, JC Croke Geomorphology 4 (6), 459-486, 1992 | 1305 | 1992 |
| Anabranching rivers: their cause, character and classification GC Nanson, AD Knighton Earth surface processes and landforms 21 (3), 217-239, 1996 | 841 | 1996 |
| The character of channel migration on the Beatton River, northeast British Columbia, Canada EJ Hickin, GC Nanson Geological Society of America Bulletin 86 (4), 487-494, 1975 | 481 | 1975 |
| Lateral migration rates of river bends EJ Hickin, GC Nanson Journal of hydraulic engineering 110 (11), 1557-1567, 1984 | 465 | 1984 |
| Point bar and floodplain formation of the meandering Beatton River, northeastern British Columbia, Canada GC Nanson Sedimentology 27 (1), 3-29, 1980 | 411 | 1980 |
| Anastomosis and the continuum of channel pattern A David Knighton, GC Nanson Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 18 (7), 613-625, 1993 | 376 | 1993 |
| A statistical analysis of bank erosion and channel migration in western Canada GC Nanson, EJ Hickin Geological Society of America Bulletin 97 (4), 497-504, 1986 | 372 | 1986 |
| Episodes of vertical accretion and catastrophic stripping: a model of disequilibrium flood-plain development GC Nanson Geological Society of America Bulletin 97 (12), 1467-1475, 1986 | 356 | 1986 |
| Channel migration and incision on the Beatton River GC Nanson, EJ Hickin Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 109 (3), 327-337, 1983 | 317 | 1983 |
| Wetting and drying of Australia over the past 300 ka GC Nanson, DM Price, SA Short Geology 20 (9), 791-794, 1992 | 302 | 1992 |
| Forest succession and sedimentation on a meandering-river floodplain, northeast British Columbia, Canada GC Nanson, HF Beach Journal of Biogeography, 229-251, 1977 | 296 | 1977 |
| Anastomosing river sedimentation in the Channel Country of central Australia MR Gibling, GC Nanson, JC Maroulis Sedimentology 45 (3), 595-619, 1998 | 241 | 1998 |
| Fluvial transport as a natural luminescence sensitiser of quartz TJ Pietsch, JM Olley, GC Nanson Quaternary Geochronology 3 (4), 365-376, 2008 | 212 | 2008 |
| Palaeoenvironmental change in tropical Australasia over the last 30,000 years–a synthesis by the OZ-INTIMATE group JM Reeves, HC Bostock, LK Ayliffe, TT Barrows, P De Deckker, ... Quaternary Science Reviews 74, 97-114, 2013 | 209 | 2013 |
| Hydraulic geometry and maximum flow efficiency as products of the principle of least action HQ Huang, GC Nanson Earth Surface Processes and Landforms: The Journal of the British …, 2000 | 206 | 2000 |
| The role of vegetation in the formation of anabranching channels in an ephemeral river, Northern plains, arid central Australia S Tooth, GC Nanson Hydrological processes 14 (16‐17), 3099-3117, 2000 | 199 | 2000 |
| Bedload transport of mud as pedogenic aggregates in modern and ancient rivers BR Rust, GC Nanson Sedimentology 36 (2), 291-306, 1989 | 192 | 1989 |
| Vegetation and channel variation; a case study of four small streams in southeastern Australia HQ Huang, GC Nanson Geomorphology 18 (3-4), 237-249, 1997 | 191 | 1997 |
| Flow transmission along an arid zone anastomosing river, Cooper Creek, Australia AD Knighton, GC Nanson Hydrological Processes 8 (2), 137-154, 1994 | 191 | 1994 |
| Chronology of Murrumbidgee river palaeochannels on the Riverine Plain, southeastern Australia K Page, G Nanson, D Price Journal of Quaternary Science: Published for the Quaternary Research …, 1996 | 184 | 1996 |
