| Catalogo dei terremoti italiani dall'anno 1000 al 1980 D Postpischl (Ed.) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche., 1985 | 468 | 1985 |
| Source of 1755 Lisbon earthquake and tsunami investigated N Zitellini, LA Mendes, D Cordoba, J Danobeitia, R Nicolich, G Pellis, ... Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 82 (26), 285-291, 2001 | 221 | 2001 |
| Transform migration and vertical tectonics at the Romanche fracture zone, equatorial Atlantic E Bonatti, M Ligi, L Gasperini, A Peyve, YU Raznitsin, YJ Chen Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 99 (B11), 21779-21802, 1994 | 148 | 1994 |
| Mantle thermal pulses below the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and temporal variations in the formation of oceanic lithosphere E Bonatti, M Ligi, D Brunelli, A Cipriani, P Fabretti, V Ferrante, L Gasperini, ... Nature 423 (6939), 499-505, 2003 | 140 | 2003 |
| Foreland deformational pattern in the Southern Adriatic Sea A Argnani, P Favali, F Frugoni, M Gasperini, M Ligi, M Marani, G Mattietti, ... Annali di Geofisica, 1993 | 120 | 1993 |
| Birth of an ocean in the Red Sea: Initial pangs M Ligi, E Bonatti, G Bortoluzzi, A Cipriani, L Cocchi, F Caratori Tontini, ... Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 13 (8), 1-29, 2012 | 117 | 2012 |
| Submarine salt flows in the central Red Sea NC Mitchell, M Ligi, V Ferrante, E Bonatti, E Rutter Bulletin 122 (5-6), 701-713, 2010 | 99 | 2010 |
| Submersible observations of equatorial atlantic mantle: the St. Paul Fracture Zone region R Hekinian, T Juteau, E Gracia, B Sichler, S Sichel, G Udintsev, ... Marine Geophysical Researches 21, 529-560, 2000 | 96 | 2000 |
| Oceanic broad multifault transform plate boundaries M Ligi, E Bonatti, L Gasperini, ANB Poliakov Geology 30 (1), 11-14, 2002 | 94 | 2002 |
| Extreme mantle uplift and exhumation along a transpressive transform fault M Maia, S Sichel, A Briais, D Brunelli, M Ligi, N Ferreira, T Campos, ... Nature Geoscience 9 (8), 619-623, 2016 | 84 | 2016 |
| Flexural uplift of a lithospheric slab near the Vema transform (Central Atlantic): Timing and mechanisms E Bonatti, D Brunelli, WR Buck, A Cipriani, P Fabretti, V Ferrante, ... Earth and Planetary Science Letters 240 (3-4), 642-655, 2005 | 77 | 2005 |
| Bathy-morphological setting of the Aeolian Islands C Romagnoli, G Bortoluzzi, A Bosman, D Casalbore, F Chiocci, ... The Aeolian Islands Volcanoes. Edited by F. Lucchi, A. Peccerillo, J. Keller …, 2013 | 73* | 2013 |
| Serpentinization of mantle peridotites along an uplifted lithospheric section, Mid Atlantic Ridge at 11 N C Boschi, E Bonatti, M Ligi, D Brunelli, A Cipriani, L Dallai, M D'Orazio, ... Lithos 178, 3-23, 2013 | 72 | 2013 |
| Lower Cretaceous deposits trapped near the equatorial Mid-Atlantic Ridge E Bonatti, M Ligi, AM Borsetti, L Gasperini, A Negri, R Sartori Nature 380 (6574), 518-520, 1996 | 71 | 1996 |
| Geomorphology of the central Red Sea Rift: Determining spreading processes N Augustin, FM van der Zwan, CW Devey, M Ligi, T Kwasnitschka, ... Geomorphology 274, 162-179, 2016 | 70 | 2016 |
| Water-rich basalts at mid-ocean-ridge cold spots M Ligi, E Bonatti, A Cipriani, L Ottolini Nature 434 (7029), 66-69, 2005 | 69 | 2005 |
| Birth of an ocean in the Red Sea: Oceanic-type basaltic melt intrusions precede continental rupture M Ligi, E Bonatti, W Bosworth, Y Cai, A Cipriani, C Palmiotto, S Ronca, ... Gondwana Research 54, 150-160, 2018 | 66 | 2018 |
| Bouvet triple junction in the South Atlantic: Geology and evolution M Ligi, E Bonatti, G Bortoluzzi, G Carrara, P Fabretti, D Gilod, AA Peyve, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 104 (B12), 29365-29385, 1999 | 65 | 1999 |
| The tectonic puzzle of the Messina area (Southern Italy): Insights from new seismic reflection data C Doglioni, M Ligi, D Scrocca, S Bigi, G Bortoluzzi, E Carminati, M Cuffaro, ... Scientific Reports 2 (970), 2012 | 62 | 2012 |
| Initial burst of oceanic crust accretion in the Red Sea due to edge-driven mantle convection M Ligi, E Bonatti, FC Tontini, A Cipriani, L Cocchi, A Schettino, ... Geology 39 (11), 1019-1022, 2011 | 62 | 2011 |
