| Mesozoic and Tertiary geology of southern Africa RV Dingle, WG Siesser, AR Newton (No Title), 1983 | 517 | 1983 |
| Late Miocene origin of the Benguela upswelling system off northern Namibia WG Siesser Science 208 (4441), 283-285, 1980 | 349 | 1980 |
| Coccolithophores A Winter, WG Siesser Cambridge University Press, 2006 | 301 | 2006 |
| Tertiary sea-level movements around southern Africa WG Siesser, RV Dingle The Journal of Geology 89 (4), 523-536, 1981 | 181 | 1981 |
| Pleistocene calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and the western Mediterranean sapropels, Sites 974 to 977 and 979 E de Kaenel, WG Siesser, A Murat, R Zahn, MC Comas, A Klaus Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, scientific results 161, 159-183, 1999 | 111 | 1999 |
| Deep-sea sedimentary environments around southern Africa (south-east Atlantic and south-west Indian Oceans) RV Dingle, GF Birch, JM Bremner, RH De Decker, A Du Plessis, ... Annals of the South African museum 98 (1), 1-27, 1987 | 103 | 1987 |
| Angola continental margin—Sites 364 and 365 HM Bolli, WBF Ryan, JB Foresman, WE Hottman, H Kagami, JF Longoria, ... Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 40, 357-390, 1978 | 101 | 1978 |
| Aridification of the Namib Desert: evidence from oceanic cores WG Siesser Antarctic glacial history and world palaeoenvironments, 105-113, 2020 | 98 | 2020 |
| Atlas of living coccolithophores A Winter Coccolithophores, 107-159, 1994 | 98 | 1994 |
| Paleogene calcareous nannoplankton biostratigraphy: Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee WG Siesser AAPG Bulletin 67 (9), 1471-1472, 1983 | 92 | 1983 |
| Petrology and origin of some phosphorites from the South African continental margin RJ Parker, WG Siesser Journal of Sedimentary Research 42 (2), 1972 | 92 | 1972 |
| Diagenetically formed ooids and intraclasts in South African calcretes WG Siesser Sedimentology 20 (4), 539-551, 1973 | 81 | 1973 |
| Cretaceous calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of Sites 761, 762, and 763, Exmouth and Wombat Plateaus, northwest Australia TJ Bralower, WG Siesser Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 122, 529-556, 1992 | 76 | 1992 |
| Significance of upper Triassic nannofossils from the southern hemisphere (ODP Leg 122, Wombat Plateau, NW Australia) TJ Bralower, PR Bown, WG Siesser Marine Micropaleontology 17 (1-2), 119-154, 1991 | 71 | 1991 |
| Authigenic pyrite and gypsum in South West African continental slope sediments WG Siesser, J Rogers Sedimentology 23 (4), 567-577, 1976 | 69 | 1976 |
| Relict and recent beachrock from southern Africa WG Siesser Geological Society of America Bulletin 85 (12), 1849-1854, 1974 | 61 | 1974 |
| An investigation of the suitability of four methods used in routine carbonate analysis of marine sediments WG Siesser, J Rogers Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts 18 (1), 135-139, 1971 | 56 | 1971 |
| Chronostratigraphy of the Plio-Pleistocene fossil hominids of Java DW Orchiston, S WG | 45 | 1982 |
| Cape Basin continental rise sites 360 and 361 HM Bolli, WBF Ryan, JB Foresman, WE Hottman, H Kagami, JF Longoria, ... Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 40, 29-182, 1978 | 45 | 1978 |
| Calcareous nannoplankton WG Siesser Fossil prokaryotes and protists, 169-202, 1993 | 43 | 1993 |
