| Chemostratigraphy: a method to improve interwell correlation in barren sequences—a case study using onshore Duckmantian/Stephanian sequences (West Midlands, UK) TJ Pearce, BM Besly, DS Wray, DK Wright Sedimentary Geology 124 (1-4), 197-220, 1999 | 197 | 1999 |
| Palaeosols in Westphalian coal-bearing and red-bed sequences, central and northern England BM Besly, CR Fielding Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 70 (4), 303-330, 1989 | 170 | 1989 |
| Inversion tectonics of the Variscan foreland of the British Isles SM Corfield, RL Gawthorpe, M Gage, AJ Fraser, BM Besly Journal of the Geological Society 153 (1), 17-32, 1996 | 166 | 1996 |
| Palaeogeographic implications of late Westphalian to early Permian red-beds, Central England BM Besly Sedimentation in a synorogenic basin complex. The Upper Carboniferous of …, 1988 | 131 | 1988 |
| A revised correlation of Carboniferous rocks in the British Isles CN Waters, ID Somerville, NS Jones, CJ Cleal, JD Collinson, RA Waters, ... Geological Society of London, 2011 | 115 | 2011 |
| Origin of red beds in a moist tropical climate (Etruria Formation, Upper Carboniferous, UK) BM Besly, P Turner Geological Society, London, Special Publications 11 (1), 131-147, 1983 | 106 | 1983 |
| Carboniferous BM Besly Petroleum geology of the North Sea: basic concepts and recent advances, 104-136, 1998 | 104 | 1998 |
| Carboniferous H Kombrink, BM Besly, JD Collinson, DG Den Hartog Jager, ... Petroleum geological atlas of the Southern Permian Basin area, 81-99, 2010 | 77 | 2010 |
| The late Carboniferous ‘Barren Red Bed’play of the Silver Pit area, Southern North Sea BM Besly, SD Burley, P Turner Geological Society, London, Petroleum Geology Conference Series 4 (1), 727-740, 1993 | 76 | 1993 |
| Carboniferous depositional systems of the Southern North Sea JD Collinson, CM Jones, GA Blackbourn, BM Besly, GM Archard, ... Geological Society, London, Petroleum Geology Conference Series 4 (1), 677-687, 1993 | 60 | 1993 |
| Sedimentation in a synorogenic basin complex: the Upper Carboniferous of northwest Europe BM Besly, G Kelling (No Title), 1988 | 59 | 1988 |
| Shale gas resources of the Bowland Basin, NW England: a holistic study H Clarke, P Turner, RM Bustin, N Riley, B Besly Petroleum Geoscience 24 (3), 287-322, 2018 | 58 | 2018 |
| Sedimentological evidence for Carboniferous and Early Permian palaeoclimates of Europe BM Besly Annales de la Société géologique du Nord 106, 131-143, 1986 | 53 | 1986 |
| Volcanic and tectonic controls of lacustrine and alluvial sedimentation in the Stephanian coal‐bearing sequence of the Malpàs‐Sort Basin, Catalonian Pyrenees BM Besly, JD Collinson Sedimentology 38 (1), 3-26, 1991 | 47 | 1991 |
| Upper Carboniferous stratigraphy of the West Midlands (UK) revised in the light of borehole geophysical logs and detrital compositional suites BM Besly, CJ Cleal Geological Journal 32 (2), 85-118, 1997 | 44 | 1997 |
| Stratigraphical framework for Westphalian to Early Permian red-bed successions of the Pennine Basin. Version 1.0 J Powell, J Chisholm, D Bridge, J Rees, BW Glover, BM Besly British Geological Survey, 2000 | 29 | 2000 |
| End-Carboniferous fold-thrust structures, Oxfordshire, UK: implications for the structural evolution of the late Variscan foreland of south-central England GR Peace, BM Besly Journal of the Geological Society 154 (2), 225-237, 1997 | 29 | 1997 |
| Exploration and development in the Carboniferous of the Southern North Sea: a 30-year retrospective B Besly Geological Society, London, Special Publications 471 (1), 17-64, 2019 | 27 | 2019 |
| Late Carboniferous redbeds of the UK southern North Sea, viewed in a regional context BM Besly Yorkshire Geological Society, Occasional Publication 7, 225-226, 2005 | 23 | 2005 |
| Reconstruction of linear dunes from ancient aeolian successions using subsurface data: Permian Auk Formation, Central North Sea, UK B Besly, HG Romain, NP Mountney Marine and Petroleum Geology 91, 1-18, 2018 | 15 | 2018 |
