| The formation of Mount Etna as the consequence of slab rollback Z Gvirtzman, A Nur Nature 401 (6755), 782, 1999 | 333 | 1999 |
| Residual topography, lithospheric structure and sunken slabs in the central Mediterranean Z Gvirtzman, A Nur Earth and Planetary Science Letters 187 (1-2), 117-130, 2001 | 180 | 2001 |
| Late Neoproterozoic rise and fall of the northern Arabian–Nubian Shield: the role of lithospheric mantle delamination and subsequent thermal subsidence D Avigad, Z Gvirtzman Tectonophysics 477 (3-4), 217-228, 2009 | 116 | 2009 |
| Partial detachment of a lithospheric root under the southeast Carpathians: toward a better definition of the detachment concept Z Gvirtzman Geology 30 (1), 51-54, 2002 | 91 | 2002 |
| Plate detachment, asthenosphere upwelling, and topography across subduction zones Z Gvirtzman, A Nur Geology 27 (6), 563-566, 1999 | 74 | 1999 |
| Origin and nature of the rapid late Tertiary filling of the Levant Basin J Steinberg, Z Gvirtzman, Y Folkman, Z Garfunkel Geology 39 (4), 355-358, 2011 | 69 | 2011 |
| Bathymetry of Mariana trench‐arc system and formation of the Challenger Deep as a consequence of weak plate coupling Z Gvirtzman, RJ Stern Tectonics 23 (2), 2004 | 51 | 2004 |
| Sulfur isotopic compositions of individual organosulfur compounds and their genetic links in the Lower Paleozoic petroleum pools of the Tarim Basin, NW China C Cai, A Amrani, RH Worden, Q Xiao, T Wang, Z Gvirtzman, H Li, ... Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 182, 88-108, 2016 | 46 | 2016 |
| Retreating Late Tertiary shorelines in Israel: Implications for the exposure of north Arabia and Levant during Neotethys closure Z Gvirtzman, J Steinberg, O Bar, B Buchbinder, E Zilberman, R Siman-Tov, ... Lithosphere 3 (2), 95-109, 2011 | 44 | 2011 |
| Age resetting of hanging wall rocks above a low-angle detachment fault: Tinos Island (Aegean Sea) S Zeffren, D Avigad, A Heimann, Z Gvirtzman Tectonophysics 400 (1-4), 1-25, 2005 | 41 | 2005 |
| Intense salt deformation in the Levant Basin in the middle of the Messinian Salinity Crisis Z Gvirtzman, M Reshef, O Buch-Leviatan, Z Ben-Avraham Earth and Planetary Science Letters 379, 108-119, 2013 | 39 | 2013 |
| Reactivation of the Levant passive margin during the late Tertiary and formation of the Jaffa Basin offshore central Israel Z Gvirtzman, E Zilberman, Y Folkman Journal of the Geological Society 165 (2), 563-578, 2008 | 34 | 2008 |
| Accelerated subsidence and sedimentation in the Levant Basin during the Late Tertiary and concurrent uplift of the Arabian platform: Tectonic versus counteracting sedimentary … O Bar, Z Gvirtzman, S Feinstein, E Zilberman Tectonics 32 (3), 334-350, 2013 | 33 | 2013 |
| Compound-specific sulfur isotope analysis of thiadiamondoids of oils from the Smackover Formation, USA Z Gvirtzman, W Said-Ahmad, GS Ellis, RJ Hill, JM Moldowan, Z Wei, ... Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 167, 144-161, 2015 | 29 | 2015 |
| Evidence of clastic evaporites in the canyons of the Levant Basin (Israel): Implications for the Messinian salinity crisis S Lugli, R Gennari, Z Gvirtzman, V Manzi, M Roveri, BC Schreiber Journal of Sedimentary Research 83 (11), 942-954, 2013 | 27 | 2013 |
| The transformation of southern Israel from a swell to a basin: stratigraphic and geodynamic implications for intracontinental tectonics Z Gvirtzman, Z Garfunkel Earth and Planetary Science Letters 163 (1-4), 275-290, 1998 | 26 | 1998 |
| Bathymetry of the Levant basin: interaction of salt-tectonics and surficial mass movements Z Gvirtzman, M Reshef, O Buch-Leviatan, G Groves-Gidney, Z Karcz, ... Marine Geology 360, 25-39, 2015 | 24 | 2015 |
| Numerical solutions for the one-dimensional heat-conduction equation using a spreadsheet Z Gvirtzman, Z Garfunkel Computers & Geosciences 22 (10), 1147-1158, 1996 | 24 | 1996 |
| Inland jump of the Arabian northwest plate boundary from the Levant continental margin to the Dead Sea Transform Z Gvirtzman, J Steinberg Tectonics 31 (4), 2012 | 22 | 2012 |
| Birth and decay of an intracontinental magmatic swell: Early Cretaceous tectonics of southern Israel Z Gvirtzman, Z Garfunkel, G Gvirtzman Tectonics 17 (3), 441-457, 1998 | 22 | 1998 |
Ran CalvoGeological Survey of IsraelVerified email at gsi.gov.il