| Criteria for the sense of movement on fault surfaces in brittle rocks JP Petit Journal of Structural Geology 9 (5/6), 597-608, 1987 | 1050 | 1987 |
| Can natural faults propagate under mode II conditions? JP Petit, M Barquins Tectonics 7 (6), 1243-1256, 1988 | 373 | 1988 |
| Joint development in perturbed stress fields near faults. Rawnsley, K.D., Rives, T., Petit, J.P., Hencher, S.R., Lumsden, A.C. Journal of Structural Geology 14 (8/9), 939-951, 1992 | 199 | 1992 |
| Role of synsedimentary strike-slip faults in the formation of Moroccan Triassic basins E Laville, JP Petit Geology 12 (7), 424-427, 1984 | 144 | 1984 |
| Joints in the Mesozoic sediments around the Bristol Channel Basin JP Rawnsley, K. D., Peacock, D. C. P., Rives, T., & Petit Journal of Structural Geology 20 (12), 1641–1661, 1998 | 116 | 1998 |
| L'accident du Tizi n'Test et le rôle des décrochements dans la tectonique du Haut Atlas occidental (Maroc) F Proust, JP Petit, P Tapponnier Bulletin de la Société géologique de France 7 (3), 541-551, 1977 | 108 | 1977 |
| Morphology and microstructures of hydroplastic slickensides in sandstone JP Petit, E Laville Geological Society, London, Special Publications 29 (1), 107-121, 1987 | 98 | 1987 |
| Critères de sens de mouvement sur les miroirs de failles en roches non calcaires JP Petit, F Proust, P Tapponnier Bulletin de la Societe geologique de France 7 (4), 589-608, 1983 | 91 | 1983 |
| Crack–seal', slip: a new fault valve mechanism? JP Petit, CAJ Wibberley, G Ruiz Journal of Structural Geology 21 (8-9), 1199-1207, 1999 | 84 | 1999 |
| Synsedimentary faulting and palaeocurrent patterns in the Triassic sandstones of the High Atlas (Morocco) JP PETIT, J Beauchamp Sedimentology 33 (6), 817-829, 1986 | 62 | 1986 |
| La Limite sud de la chaine hercynienne dans le Haut Atlas marocain; reconstitution d'un saillant non deforme H Ouanaimi, JP Petit Bulletin de la Société géologique de France 163 (1), 63-72, 1992 | 59 | 1992 |
| Micromechanics of shear rupture and the control of normal stress CAJ Wibberley, JP Petit, T Rives Journal of Structural Geology 22 (4), 411-427, 2000 | 57 | 2000 |
| Normal stress-dependent rupture morphology in direct shear tests in sandstone - applications to some natural fault surfaces JP Petit International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences & Geomechanics …, 1988 | 53 | 1988 |
| Cutting of the European continental lithosphere : Plasticity theory applied to the present Alpine collision. RLKP J. P Journal of Geophysical Research 102 (B4), 7731-7746, 1997 | 48* | 1997 |
| Microtectonique cassante lors du plissement d'un conglomerat (Mio-Pliocene du Haut Atlas; Maroc) JP Petit, S Raynaud, JP Cautru Bulletin de la Société géologique de France 1 (3), 415-421, 1985 | 46 | 1985 |
| Mechanics of high displacement gradient faulting prior to lithification CAJ Wibberley, JP Petit, T Rives Journal of Structural Geology 21 (3), 251-257, 1999 | 45 | 1999 |
| Mechanics of cataclastic ‘deformation band’ faulting in high-porosity sandstone, Provence CAJ Wibberley, JP Petit, T Rives Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences-Series IIA-Earth and Planetary …, 2000 | 43 | 2000 |
| La zone de décrochements du Tizi N'Test (Maroc) et son fonctionnement depuis le Carbonifère JP Petit Université Montpellier II, 1976 | 41 | 1976 |
| Discovery of a thyreophoran trackway in the Hettangian of central France J Le Lœuff, M Lockley, C Meyer, JP Petit Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences-Series IIA-Earth and Planetary …, 1999 | 35 | 1999 |
| Morphology, intersections, and syn/late-diagenetic origin of vein networks in pelites of the Lodève Permian Basin, Southern France G de Joussineau, L Bazalgette, JP Petit, M Lopez Journal of Structural Geology 27 (1), 67-87, 2005 | 28 | 2005 |
