| Structural geology of rocks and regions (1st edition) GH Davis John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1984 | 1847* | 1984 |
| Cordilleran metamorphic core complexes: An overview PJ Coney Geological Society of America Memoirs 153, 7-31, 1980 | 780 | 1980 |
| Geologic development of the Cordilleran metamorphic core complexes GH Davis, PJ Coney Geology 7 (3), 120-124, 1979 | 527 | 1979 |
| Cordilleran metamorphic core complexes MD Crittenden Jr, PJ Coney, GH Davis Cordilleran metamorphic core complexes: Geological Society of America Memoir …, 1980 | 456 | 1980 |
| Shear-zone model for the origin of metamorphic core complexes GH Davis Geology 11 (6), 342-347, 1983 | 369 | 1983 |
| Structural characteristics of metamorphic core complexes, southern Arizona GH Davis Geological Society of America Memoir 153, 35-77, 1980 | 302 | 1980 |
| Conjugate Riedel deformation band shear zones GH Davis, AP Bump, PE Garcı́a, SG Ahlgren Journal of Structural Geology 22 (2), 169-190, 2000 | 271 | 2000 |
| Structural geology of the Colorado Plateau region of southern Utah, with special emphasis on deformation bands GH Davis Geological Society of America 342, 157p, 1999 | 230 | 1999 |
| Collapse of the Caledonian orogen and the Old Red Sandstone McClay, MG Norton, P Coney, GH Davis Nature 323 (6084), 147-149, 1986 | 183 | 1986 |
| Monocline fold pattern of the Colorado Plateau GH Davis Geological Society of America Memoir 151, 215-233, 1978 | 169 | 1978 |
| Laramide folding and faulting in southeastern Arizona GH Davis American Journal of Science 279 (5), 543-569, 1979 | 145 | 1979 |
| Late Cretaceous–early Tertiary Laramide deformation of the northern Colorado Plateau, Utah and Colorado AP Bump, GH Davis Journal of Structural Geology 25 (3), 421-440, 2003 | 111 | 2003 |
| Monocline development by oblique-slip fault-propagation folding: the East Kaibab monocline, Colorado Plateau, Utah SE Tindall, GH Davis Journal of Structural Geology 21 (10), 1303-1320, 1999 | 101 | 1999 |
| The Eagle Pass detachment, southeastern Arizona: Product of mid-Miocene listric (?) normal faulting in the southern Basin and Range GH Davis, JJ Hardy, Jr. Geological Society of America Bulletin 92 (10), 749-762, 1981 | 95 | 1981 |
| Metamorphic infrastructure in the northern Ruby Mountains, Nevada KA Howard Geological Society of America Memoirs 153, 335-348, 1980 | 94 | 1980 |
| Gravity-induced folding off a gneiss dome complex, Rincon Mountains, Arizona GH Davis Geological Society of America Bulletin 86 (7), 979-990, 1975 | 82 | 1975 |
| Displacement and strain patterns of extensional orogens R Kligfield, J Crespi, S Naruk, GH Davis Tectonics 3 (5), 577-609, 1984 | 80 | 1984 |
| Mid-Tertiary plutonism and mylonitization, South Mountains, central Arizona SJ Reynolds, WA Rehrig Geological Society of America Memoirs 153, 159-175, 1980 | 77 | 1980 |
| Structural geologic evolution of the Colorado Plateau GH Davis, AP Bump | 69 | 2009 |
| A shear-zone model for the structural evolution of metamorphic core complexes in southeastern Arizona GH Davis Geological Society, London, Special Publications 28 (1), 247-266, 1987 | 67 | 1987 |
