| Modeling of nutation and precession: New nutation series for nonrigid Earth and insights into the Earth's interior PM Mathews, TA Herring, BA Buffett Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 107 (B4), ETG 3-1-ETG 3-26, 2002 | 800 | 2002 |
| Core–mantle boundary heat flow T Lay, J Hernlund, BA Buffett Nature geoscience 1 (1), 25-32, 2008 | 610 | 2008 |
| Global inventory of methane clathrate: sensitivity to changes in the deep ocean B Buffett, D Archer Earth and Planetary Science Letters 227 (3-4), 185-199, 2004 | 597 | 2004 |
| Ocean methane hydrates as a slow tipping point in the global carbon cycle D Archer, B Buffett, V Brovkin Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (49), 20596-20601, 2009 | 512 | 2009 |
| Clathrate hydrates BA Buffett Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 28 (1), 477-507, 2000 | 423 | 2000 |
| A numerical model for the formation of gas hydrate below the seafloor MK Davie, BA Buffett Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 106 (B1), 497-514, 2001 | 381 | 2001 |
| Formation of gas hydrate from dissolved gas in natural porous media BA Buffett, OY Zatsepina Marine geology 164 (1-2), 69-77, 2000 | 326 | 2000 |
| Sediments at the top of Earth's core BA Buffett, EJ Garnero, R Jeanloz Science 290 (5495), 1338-1342, 2000 | 322 | 2000 |
| Forced nutations of the Earth: Influence of inner core dynamics: 1. Theory PM Mathews, BA Buffett, TA Herring, II Shapiro Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 96 (B5), 8219-8242, 1991 | 317 | 1991 |
| On the thermal evolution of the Earth's core BA Buffett, HE Huppert, JR Lister, AW Woods Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 101 (B4), 7989-8006, 1996 | 313* | 1996 |
| Earth's core and the geodynamo BA Buffett Science 288 (5473), 2007-2012, 2000 | 285 | 2000 |
| Formation and accumulation of gas hydrate in porous media AW Rempel, BA Buffett Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 102 (B5), 10151-10164, 1997 | 281 | 1997 |
| Phase equilibrium of gas hydrate: Implications for the formation of hydrate in the deep sea floor OY Zatsepina, BA Buffett Geophysical research letters 24 (13), 1567-1570, 1997 | 258 | 1997 |
| The strength and efficiency of thermal and compositional convection in the geodynamo JR Lister, BA Buffett Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 91 (1-3), 17-30, 1995 | 231 | 1995 |
| Forced nutations of the Earth: Influence of inner core dynamics: 2. Numerical results and comparisons PM Mathews, BA Buffett, TA Herring, II Shapiro Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 96 (B5), 8243-8257, 1991 | 229 | 1991 |
| Estimates of heat flow in the deep mantle based on the power requirements for the geodynamo BA Buffett Geophysical research letters 29 (12), 7-1-7-4, 2002 | 218 | 2002 |
| Methane solubility in marine hydrate environments MK Davie, OY Zatsepina, BA Buffett Marine geology 203 (1-2), 177-184, 2004 | 216 | 2004 |
| Geodynamic estimates of the viscosity of the Earth's inner core BA Buffett Nature 388 (6642), 571-573, 1997 | 210 | 1997 |
| Geomagnetic fluctuations reveal stable stratification at the top of the Earth’s core B Buffett Nature 507 (7493), 484-487, 2014 | 200 | 2014 |
| Kinetics and Stability of CH4–CO2 Mixed Gas Hydrates during Formation and Long‐Term Storage T Uchida, IY Ikeda, S Takeya, Y Kamata, R Ohmura, J Nagao, ... ChemPhysChem 6 (4), 646-654, 2005 | 188 | 2005 |
David ArcherProfessor of Geophysical Sciences, University of ChicagoVerified email at uchicago.edu
