| Formation of obsidian pyroclasts by sintering of ash particles in the volcanic conduit JE Gardner, EW Llewellin, JM Watkins, KS Befus Earth and Planetary Science Letters 459, 252-263, 2017 | 60 | 2017 |
| Cretaceous basaltic phreatomagmatic volcanism in west Texas: maar complex at Pena Mountain, Big Bend National park KS Befus, RE Hanson, TM Lehman, WR Griffin Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 173 (3-4), 245-264, 2008 | 60 | 2008 |
| Magma storage and evolution of the most recent effusive and explosive eruptions from Yellowstone Caldera KS Befus, JE Gardner Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 171, 1-19, 2016 | 50 | 2016 |
| Compositional gradients surrounding spherulites in obsidian and their relationship to spherulite growth and lava cooling JE Gardner, KS Befus, J Watkins, M Hesse, N Miller Bulletin of Volcanology 74, 1865-1879, 2012 | 48 | 2012 |
| Experimental constraints on rhyolite-MELTS and the Late Bishop Tuff magma body JE Gardner, KS Befus, GAR Gualda, MS Ghiorso Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 168, 1-14, 2014 | 46 | 2014 |
| Nonequilibrium degassing, regassing, and vapor fluxing in magmatic feeder systems JM Watkins, JE Gardner, KS Befus Geology 45 (2), 183-186, 2017 | 42 | 2017 |
| Evidence for late cretaceous volcanism in Trans-Pecos Texas JA Breyer, AB Busbey III, RE Hanson, KE Befus, WR Griffin, US Hargrove, ... The Journal of geology 115 (2), 243-251, 2007 | 35 | 2007 |
| Ascent and emplacement dynamics of obsidian lavas inferred from microlite textures KS Befus, M Manga, JE Gardner, M Williams Bulletin of Volcanology 77, 1-17, 2015 | 34 | 2015 |
| Stable chlorine isotope behavior during volcanic degassing of H2O and CO2 at Mono Craters, CA JD Barnes, TJ Prather, M Cisneros, K Befus, JE Gardner, TE Larson Bulletin of Volcanology 76, 1-13, 2014 | 34 | 2014 |
| Supersaturation nucleation and growth of plagioclase: a numerical model of decompression-induced crystallization BJ Andrews, KS Befus Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 175, 1-20, 2020 | 31 | 2020 |
| Crystal nucleation and growth produced by continuous decompression of Pinatubo magma KS Befus, BJ Andrews Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 173, 1-20, 2018 | 31 | 2018 |
| Pre-eruptive storage conditions and eruption dynamics of a small rhyolite dome: Douglas Knob, Yellowstone volcanic field, USA KS Befus, RW Zinke, JS Jordan, M Manga, JE Gardner Bulletin of Volcanology 76, 1-12, 2014 | 27 | 2014 |
| Nonexplosive and explosive magma/wet-sediment interaction during emplacement of Eocene intrusions into Cretaceous to Eocene strata, Trans-Pecos igneous province, West Texas KS Befus, RE Hanson, DP Miggins, JA Breyer, AB Busbey Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 181 (3-4), 155-172, 2009 | 27 | 2009 |
| Spherulites as in-situ recorders of thermal history in lava flows KS Befus, J Watkins, JE Gardner, D Richard, KM Befus, NR Miller, ... Geology 43 (7), 647-650, 2015 | 24 | 2015 |
| Feldspar Raman shift and application as a magmatic thermobarometer KS Befus, JF Lin, M Cisneros, S Fu American Mineralogist 103 (4), 600-609, 2018 | 18 | 2018 |
| Analyzing water contents in unexposed glass inclusions in quartz crystals KS Befus, JE Gardner, RW Zinke American Mineralogist 97 (11-12), 1898-1904, 2012 | 18 | 2012 |
| Thermal and seismic precursors to the explosive eruption at La Soufrière Volcano, St. Vincent in April 2021 JO Thompson, R Contreras-Arratia, KS Befus, MS Ramsey Earth and Planetary Science Letters 592, 117621, 2022 | 14 | 2022 |
| Volcanic origin for Younger Dryas geochemical anomalies ca. 12,900 cal BP N Sun, AD Brandon, SL Forman, MR Waters, KS Befus Science advances 6 (31), eaax8587, 2020 | 14 | 2020 |
| Rhyolite lava emplacement dynamics inferred from surface morphology TN Leggett, KS Befus, SM Kenderes Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 395, 106850, 2020 | 14 | 2020 |
| Applications and limitations of elastic thermobarometry: Insights from elastic modeling of inclusion‐host pairs and example case studies M Cisneros, KS Befus Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 21 (10), e2020GC009231, 2020 | 13 | 2020 |
James E GardnerProfessor, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at AustinVerified email at jsg.utexas.edu
