| Microplate capture, rotation of the western Transverse Ranges, and initiation of the San Andreas transform as a low-angle fault system C Nicholson, CC Sorlien, T Atwater, JC Crowell, BP Luyendyk Geology 22 (6), 491-495, 1994 | 499 | 1994 |
| Bedout: a possible end-Permian impact crater offshore of northwestern Australia L Becker, RJ Poreda, AR Basu, KO Pope, TM Harrison, C Nicholson, ... Science 304 (5676), 1469-1476, 2004 | 299 | 2004 |
| Community fault model (CFM) for southern California A Plesch, JH Shaw, C Benson, WA Bryant, S Carena, M Cooke, J Dolan, ... Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 97 (6), 1793-1802, 2007 | 281 | 2007 |
| Earthquake hazard associated with deep well injection—A report to the US Environmental Protection Agency C Nicholson, RL Wesson Bulletin, 1990 | 235 | 1990 |
| Seismic evidence for conjugate slip and block rotation within the San Andreas fault system, southern California C Nicholson, L Seeber, P Williams, LR Sykes Tectonics 5 (4), 629-648, 1986 | 196 | 1986 |
| Unified structural representation of the southern California crust and upper mantle JH Shaw, A Plesch, C Tape, MP Suess, TH Jordan, G Ely, E Hauksson, ... Earth and Planetary Science Letters 415, 1-15, 2015 | 190 | 2015 |
| Seismicity and fault kinematics through the Eastern Transverse Ranges, California: Block rotation, strike‐slip faulting and low‐angle thrusts C Nicholson, L Seeber, P Williams, LR Sykes Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 91 (B5), 4891-4908, 1986 | 127 | 1986 |
| Triggered earthquakes and deep well activities C Nicholson, RL Wesson Pure and applied Geophysics 139, 561-578, 1992 | 119 | 1992 |
| The northeastern Ohio earthquake of 31 January 1986: Was it induced? C Nicholson, E Roeloffs, RL Wesson Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 78 (1), 188-217, 1988 | 97 | 1988 |
| Changes in Vp/Vs with depth: Implications for appropriate velocity models, improved earthquake locations, and material properties of the upper crust C Nicholson, DW Simpson Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 75 (4), 1105-1123, 1985 | 79 | 1985 |
| Three-dimensional tomography of the 1992 southern California earthquake sequence: constraints on dynamic earthquake rupture? JM Lees, C Nicholson Geology 21 (5), 387-390, 1993 | 61 | 1993 |
| Travel‐time tomography in the northern Coachella Valley using aftershocks of the 1986 ML 5.9 North Palm Springs Earthquake C Nicholson, J Lees Geophysical research letters 19 (1), 1-4, 1992 | 44 | 1992 |
| Seismic behavior of the southern San Andreas fault zone in the northern Coachella Valley, California: Comparison of the 1948 and 1986 earthquake sequences C Nicholson Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 86 (5), 1331-1349, 1996 | 37 | 1996 |
| Seismotectonics of the northern Elsinore fault zone, southern California AG Hull, C Nicholson Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 82 (2), 800-818, 1992 | 36 | 1992 |
| Crustal studies, velocity inversions, and fault tectonics: Results from a microearthquake survey in the New Madrid seismic zone C Nicholson, DW Simpson, S Singh, JE Zollweg Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 89 (B6), 4545-4558, 1984 | 36 | 1984 |
| Seismotectonics of the easternmost Transverse Ranges, California: Relevance for seismic potential of the southern San Andreas fault PL Williams, LR Sykes, C Nicholson, L Seeber Tectonics 9 (1), 185-204, 1990 | 30 | 1990 |
| Earthquake hazard associated with deep well injection: A report to the US Environmental Protection Agency RL Wesson, C Nicholson Open-File Report, 1987 | 27 | 1987 |
| Intermediate-term, pre-earthquake phenomena in California, 1975–1986, and preliminary forecast of seismicity for the next decade RL Wesson, C Nicholson pure and applied geophysics 126, 407-446, 1988 | 25 | 1988 |
| The Conejo Volcanics and other Miocene volcanic suites in southwestern California PW Weigand, KL Savage, C Nicholson, A Barth SPECIAL PAPERS-GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 187-204, 2002 | 24 | 2002 |
| Deep crustal structure and tectonics in the offshore southern Santa Maria Basin, California C Nicholson, CC Sorlien, BP Luyendyk Geology 20 (3), 239-242, 1992 | 23 | 1992 |
