| A Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic reconstruction of the Southwest Pacific region: Tectonics controlled by subduction and slab rollback processes WP Schellart, GS Lister, VG Toy Earth-Science Reviews 76 (3-4), 191-233, 2006 | 606 | 2006 |
| Structure and composition of the plate-boundary slip zone for the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake FM Chester, C Rowe, K Ujiie, J Kirkpatrick, C Regalla, F Remitti, ... Science 342 (6163), 1208-1211, 2013 | 330 | 2013 |
| Quartz fabrics in the Alpine Fault mylonites: Influence of pre-existing preferred orientations on fabric development during progressive uplift VG Toy, DJ Prior, RJ Norris Journal of Structural Geology 30 (5), 602-621, 2008 | 304 | 2008 |
| The habitat of fault-generated pseudotachylyte: Presence vs. absence of friction-melt RH Sibson, VG Toy, R Abercrombie, A McGarr Geophysical Monograph-American Geophysical Union 170, 153, 2006 | 227 | 2006 |
| Surface Rupture of Multiple Crustal Faults in the 2016 7.8 Kaikōura, New Zealand, Earthquake NJ Litchfield, P Villamor, RJV Dissen, A Nicol, PM Barnes, DJ A. Barrell, ... Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 108 (3B), 1496-1520, 2018 | 174 | 2018 |
| Drilling reveals fluid control on architecture and rupture of the Alpine fault, New Zealand R Sutherland, VG Toy, J Townend, SC Cox, JD Eccles, DR Faulkner, ... Geology 40 (12), 1143-1146, 2012 | 173 | 2012 |
| Stress state in the largest displacement area of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake W Lin, M Conin, JC Moore, FM Chester, Y Nakamura, JJ Mori, L Anderson, ... Science 339 (6120), 687-690, 2013 | 153 | 2013 |
| Extreme hydrothermal conditions at an active plate-bounding fault R Sutherland, J Townend, V Toy, P Upton, J Coussens, M Allen, ... Nature 546 (7656), 137-140, 2017 | 139 | 2017 |
| Continental transforms: A view from the Alpine Fault RJ Norris, VG Toy Journal of Structural Geology 64, 3-31, 2014 | 135 | 2014 |
| Spatial and temporal evolution of the subducting Pacific plate structure along the western Pacific margin MS Miller, BLN Kennett, VG Toy Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 111 (B2), 2006 | 135 | 2006 |
| Physical properties of surface outcrop cataclastic fault rocks, Alpine Fault, New Zealand C Boulton, BM Carpenter, V Toy, C Marone Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 13 (1), 2012 | 118 | 2012 |
| The Mw7. 8 2016 Kaikōura earthquake: Surface fault rupture and seismic hazard context MW Stirling, NJ Litchfield, P Villamor, RJ Van Dissen, A Nicol, J Pettinga, ... Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 50 (2), 73-84, 2017 | 115 | 2017 |
| Frictional properties of exhumed fault gouges in DFDP‐1 cores, Alpine Fault, New Zealand C Boulton, DE Moore, DA Lockner, VG Toy, J Townend, R Sutherland Geophysical Research Letters 41 (2), 356-362, 2014 | 100 | 2014 |
| Slip localization on the southern Alpine fault, New Zealand NC Barth, C Boulton, BM Carpenter, GE Batt, VG Toy Tectonics 32 (3), 620-640, 2013 | 99 | 2013 |
| Fault rock lithologies and architecture of the central Alpine fault, New Zealand, revealed by DFDP-1 drilling VG Toy, CJ Boulton, R Sutherland, J Townend, RJ Norris, TA Little, ... Lithosphere 7 (2), 155-173, 2015 | 94 | 2015 |
| Scale dependence of oblique plate-boundary partitioning: New insights from LiDAR, central Alpine fault, New Zealand NC Barth, VG Toy, RM Langridge, RJ Norris Lithosphere 4 (5), 435-448, 2012 | 89 | 2012 |
| Structure and lithology of the Japan Trench subduction plate boundary fault JD Kirkpatrick, CD Rowe, K Ujiie, JC Moore, C Regalla, F Remitti, V Toy, ... Tectonics 34 (1), 53-69, 2015 | 76 | 2015 |
| Large‐displacement, hydrothermal frictional properties of DFDP‐1 fault rocks, Alpine Fault, New Zealand: Implications for deep rupture propagation AR Niemeijer, C Boulton, VG Toy, J Townend, R Sutherland Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 121 (2), 624-647, 2016 | 75 | 2016 |
| Deep fault drilling project–alpine fault, New Zealand J Townend, R Sutherland, V Toy Scientific drilling 8, 75-82, 2009 | 75 | 2009 |
| Fault welding by pseudotachylyte formation TM Mitchell, V Toy, G Di Toro, J Renner, RH Sibson Geology 44 (12), 1059-1062, 2016 | 73 | 2016 |