| Tectonostratigraphic terranes and their Paleozoic boundaries in the central and southern Appalachians JW Horton, AA Drake, DW Rankin | 285 | 1989 |
| Deep drilling into the Chesapeake Bay impact structure GS Gohn, C Koeberl, KG Miller, WU Reimold, JV Browning, CS Cockell, ... science 320 (5884), 1740-1745, 2008 | 94 | 2008 |
| Rift basins of early Mesozoic age PE Olsen, AJ Froelich, DL Daniels, JP Smoot, PJW Gore, W Horton Geology of the Carolinas, 142-170, 1991 | 83 | 1991 |
| The Sudbury impact layer in the Paleoproterozoic iron ranges of northern Michigan, USA WF Cannon, KJ Schulz, JW Horton Jr, DA Kring Bulletin 122 (1-2), 50-75, 2010 | 73 | 2010 |
| SHRIMP and conventional U-Pb ages of Ordovician granites and tonalites in the central Appalachian Piedmont: Implications for Paleozoic tectonic events JN Aleinikoff, JW Horton, AA Drake, CM Fanning American Journal of Science 302 (1), 50-75, 2002 | 56 | 2002 |
| Truncation of the Appalachian Piedmont beneath the Coastal Plain of Alabama: Evidence from new magnetic data JW Horton Jr, I Zietz, TL Neathery Geology 12 (1), 51-55, 1984 | 56 | 1984 |
| Chesapeake Bay impact structure drilled GS Gohn, C Koeberl, KG Miller, WU Reimold, CS Cockell, JW Horton Jr, ... Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 87 (35), 349-355, 2006 | 53 | 2006 |
| Middle Proterozoic age for the Montpelier anorthosite, Goochland terrane, eastern Piedmont, Virginia JN Aleinikoff, JW Horton Jr, M Walter Geological Society of America Bulletin 108 (11), 1481-1491, 1996 | 53 | 1996 |
| Olistostromes of the Avalonian terrane of southeastern New England RH Bailey, JW Skehan, RNB Dreier, MJ Webster | 53 | 1989 |
| The 2011 Virginia earthquake: What are scientists learning? JW Horton Jr, RA Williams Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 93 (33), 317-318, 2012 | 52 | 2012 |
| Crystalline-rock ejecta and shocked minerals of the Chesapeake Bay impact structure, USGS-NASA Langley core, Hampton, Virginia, with supplemental constraints on the age of impact JW Horton Jr, GA Izett Geological Survey Professional Paper (United States), 1-24, 2006 | 51 | 2006 |
| Rapid Assessment of the Needs and Health Status of Older Adults After Hurricane Charley—Charlotte, DeSoto, and Hardee Counties, Florida, August 27-31, 2004. B Little, J Gill, J Schulte, S Young, J Horton, L Harris, D Batts-Osborne, ... JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association 292 (15), 2004 | 50 | 2004 |
| Shear zone between the Inner Piedmont and Kings Mountain belts in the Carolinas JW Horton Jr Geology 9 (1), 28-33, 1981 | 50 | 1981 |
| New York–Alabama lineament: A buried right-slip fault bordering the Appalachians and mid-continent North America MG Steltenpohl, I Zietz, JW Horton Jr, DL Daniels Geology 38 (6), 571-574, 2010 | 48 | 2010 |
| Metamorphism JR Butler, JW Horton, VA Zullo The geology of the Carolinas, 127-141, 1991 | 48 | 1991 |
| The geology of the Carolinas: Carolina Geological Society fiftieth anniversary volume JW Horton, VA Zullo Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1991 | 47 | 1991 |
| Geologic map of the Charlotte 1 x 2 quadrangle R Goldsmith, DJ Milton, JW Horton Jr North Carolina and South Carolina: US Geological Survey Miscellaneous …, 1988 | 46 | 1988 |
| Studies of the Chesapeake Bay impact structure-Introduction and discussion JW Horton Jr, DS Powars, G Gohn Geological Survey Professional Paper (United States) 1688 (A), 2-23, 2006 | 45 | 2006 |
| Alleghanian deformation, metamorphism, and granite emplacement in the central Piedmont of the southern Appalachians JW Horton Jr, JF Sutter, TW Stern, DJ Milton American Journal of Science 287 (6), 635-660, 1987 | 44 | 1987 |
| An introduction to the geology of the Carolinas JW Horton Jr, VA Zullo The geology of the Carolinas, 1-10, 1991 | 43 | 1991 |
