| Soils of the past: an introduction to paleopedology (2nd edition) GJ Retallack Blackwell, Oxford, 2001 | 2379* | 2001 |
| Soils of the past: an introduction to paleopedology (1st edition) GJ Retallack Unwin Hyman, London, 1990 | 2379* | 1990 |
| Field recognition of paleosols GJ Retallack, J Reinhardt, WR Sigleo Geological Society of America Special Paper 216, 1-20, 1988 | 675 | 1988 |
| Geochemical climofunctions from North American soils and application to paleosols across the Eocene-Oligocene boundary in Oregon ND Sheldon, GJ Retallack, S Tanaka The Journal of geology 110 (6), 687-696, 2002 | 522 | 2002 |
| A 300-million-year record of atmospheric carbon dioxide from fossil plant cuticles GJ Retallack Nature 411 (6835), 287-290, 2001 | 512 | 2001 |
| The work of dung beetles and its fossil record. In Boucot, A.J. (ed.) Evolutionary paleobiology of behavior and coevolution GJ Retallack Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1990 | 453* | 1990 |
| Pedogenic carbonate proxies for amount and seasonality of precipitation in paleosols GJ Retallack Geology 33 (4), 333-336, 2005 | 387 | 2005 |
| Global coal gap between Permian–Triassic extinction and Middle Triassic recovery of peat-forming plants GJ Retallack, JJ Veevers, R Morante Geological Society of America Bulletin 108 (2), 195-207, 1996 | 385 | 1996 |
| Colour guide to paleosols. GJ Retallack Colour guide to paleosols., 1997 | 369 | 1997 |
| Permian-Triassic life crisis on land GJ Retallack Science 267, 77-80, 1995 | 361 | 1995 |
| δ13C depth profiles from paleosols across the Permian-Triassic boundary: Evidence for methane release ES Krull, GJ Retallack Geological Society of America Bulletin 112 (9), 1459-1472, 2000 | 334 | 2000 |
| Cenozoic expansion of grasslands and climatic cooling GJ Retallack The Journal of Geology 109 (4), 407-426, 2001 | 310 | 2001 |
| Were the Ediacaran fossils lichens? GJ Retallack Paleobiology 20 (4), 523-544, 1994 | 279 | 1994 |
| Postapocalyptic greenhouse paleoclimate revealed by earliest Triassic paleosols in the Sydney Basin, Australia GJ Retallack Geological Society of America Bulletin 111 (1), 52-70, 1999 | 268 | 1999 |
| The adequacy of the fossil record SK Donovan, CRC Paul Wiley, 1998 | 267 | 1998 |
| Late Eocene and Oligocene paleosols from Badlands National Park, South Dakota GJ Retallack, Geological Society of America Geological society of America, 1983 | 267 | 1983 |
| Early forest soils and their role in Devonian global change GJ Retallack Science 276 (5312), 583-585, 1997 | 257 | 1997 |
| Methane release from igneous intrusion of coal during Late Permian extinction events GJ Retallack, AH Jahren The Journal of Geology 116 (1), 1-20, 2008 | 250 | 2008 |
| Vertebrate extinction across Permian–Triassic boundary in Karoo Basin, South Africa GJ Retallack, RMH Smith, PD Ward GSA Bulletin 115 (9), 1133-1152, 2003 | 248 | 2003 |
| Untangling the effects of burial alteration and ancient soil formation GJ Retallack Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 19 (1), 183-206, 1991 | 237 | 1991 |
Knute NadelhofferProfessor Emeritus, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of MichiganVerified email at umich.edu
