| Fractional crystallization and mantle-melting controls on calc-alkaline differentiation trends TL Grove, LT Elkins-Tanton, SW Parman, N Chatterjee, O Müntener, ... Contributions to Mineralogy and petrology 145 (5), 515-533, 2003 | 859 | 2003 |
| Magma oceans in the inner solar system LT Elkins-Tanton Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 40 (1), 113-139, 2012 | 641 | 2012 |
| Thermal and magmatic evolution of the Moon CK Shearer, PC Hess, MA Wieczorek, ME Pritchard, EM Parmentier, ... Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 60 (1), 365-518, 2006 | 629 | 2006 |
| Linked magma ocean solidification and atmospheric growth for Earth and Mars LT Elkins-Tanton Earth and Planetary Science Letters 271 (1-4), 181-191, 2008 | 619 | 2008 |
| The lunar magma ocean: Reconciling the solidification process with lunar petrology and geochronology LT Elkins-Tanton, S Burgess, QZ Yin Earth and Planetary Science Letters 304 (3-4), 326-336, 2011 | 582 | 2011 |
| Ternary feldspar experiments and thermodynamic models LT Elkins, TL Grove American Mineralogist 75 (5-6), 544-559, 1990 | 503 | 1990 |
| Recent hotspot volcanism on Venus from VIRTIS emissivity data SE Smrekar, ER Stofan, N Mueller, A Treiman, L Elkins-Tanton, J Helbert, ... Science 328 (5978), 605-608, 2010 | 457 | 2010 |
| Chondrites as samples of differentiated planetesimals LT Elkins-Tanton, BP Weiss, MT Zuber Earth and Planetary Science Letters 305 (1-2), 1-10, 2011 | 297 | 2011 |
| Magma ocean fractional crystallization and cumulate overturn in terrestrial planets: Implications for Mars LT ELKINS‐TANTON, EM Parmentier, PC Hess Meteoritics & Planetary Science 38 (12), 1753-1771, 2003 | 294 | 2003 |
| Widespread mixing and burial of Earth’s Hadean crust by asteroid impacts S Marchi, WF Bottke, LT Elkins-Tanton, M Bierhaus, K Wuennemann, ... Nature 511 (7511), 578-582, 2014 | 274 | 2014 |
| Continental magmatism caused by lithospheric delamination LT Elkins-Tanton | 269 | 2005 |
| The timeline of the lunar bombardment: Revisited A Morbidelli, D Nesvorny, V Laurenz, S Marchi, DC Rubie, ... Icarus 305, 262-276, 2018 | 262 | 2018 |
| Ocean planet or thick atmosphere: On the mass-radius relationship for solid exoplanets with massive atmospheres ER Adams, S Seager, L Elkins-Tanton The Astrophysical Journal 673 (2), 1160, 2008 | 262 | 2008 |
| Stochastic late accretion to Earth, the Moon, and Mars WF Bottke, RJ Walker, JMD Day, D Nesvorny, L Elkins-Tanton science 330 (6010), 1527-1530, 2010 | 258 | 2010 |
| Continental magmatism, volatile recycling, and a heterogeneous mantle caused by lithospheric gravitational instabilities LT Elkins‐Tanton Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 112 (B3), 2007 | 247 | 2007 |
| Ranges of atmospheric mass and composition of super-Earth exoplanets LT Elkins-Tanton, S Seager The Astrophysical Journal 685 (2), 1237, 2008 | 234 | 2008 |
| Possible formation of ancient crust on Mars through magma ocean processes LT Elkins‐Tanton, PC Hess, EM Parmentier Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 110 (E12), 2005 | 224 | 2005 |
| Re-examination of the lunar magma ocean cumulate overturn hypothesis: melting or mixing is required LTE Tanton, JA Van Orman, BH Hager, TL Grove Earth and Planetary Science Letters 196 (3-4), 239-249, 2002 | 219 | 2002 |
| Effect of solid flow above a subducting slab on water distribution and melting at convergent plate boundaries AM Cagnioncle, EM Parmentier, LT Elkins‐Tanton Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 112 (B9), 2007 | 216 | 2007 |
| Magnitude and consequences of volatile release from the Siberian Traps BA Black, LT Elkins-Tanton, MC Rowe, IU Peate Earth and Planetary Science Letters 317, 363-373, 2012 | 214 | 2012 |