| Flood basalts and hot-spot tracks: plume heads and tails MA Richards, RA Duncan, VE Courtillot Science 246 (4926), 103-107, 1989 | 1298 | 1989 |
| Timing of hot spot—related volcanism and the breakup of Madagascar and India M Storey, JJ Mahoney, AD Saunders, RA Duncan, SP Kelley, MF Coffin Science 267 (5199), 852-855, 1995 | 661 | 1995 |
| Rapid eruption of the Deccan flood basalts at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary RA Duncan, DG Pyle Nature 333 (6176), 841-843, 1988 | 655* | 1988 |
| Hotspots, mantle plumes, flood basalts, and true polar wander RA Duncan, MA Richards Reviews of Geophysics 29 (1), 31-50, 1991 | 605 | 1991 |
| The timing and duration of the Karoo igneous event, southern Gondwana RA Duncan, PR Hooper, J Rehacek, JS Marsh, AR Duncan Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 102 (B8), 18127-18138, 1997 | 574 | 1997 |
| Plate tectonic evolution of the Caribbean region in the mantle reference frame RB Hargraves The Caribbean-South American plate boundary and regional tectonics 162, 81, 1984 | 411 | 1984 |
| Petrology and geochemistry of the Galápagos Islands: Portrait of a pathological mantle plume WM White, AR McBirney, RA Duncan Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 98 (B11), 19533-19563, 1993 | 406 | 1993 |
| Evolution of the Walvis Ridge‐Rio Grande Rise hot spot system: Implications for African and South American plate motions over plumes JM O'Connor, RA Duncan Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 95 (B11), 17475-17502, 1990 | 390 | 1990 |
| Kerguelen hotspot magma output since 130 Ma MF Coffin, MS Pringle, RA Duncan, TP Gladczenko, M Storey, RD Müller, ... Journal of petrology 43 (7), 1121-1137, 2002 | 386 | 2002 |
| The Emperor Seamounts: Southward motion of the Hawaiian hotspot plume in Earth's mantle JA Tarduno, RA Duncan, DW Scholl, RD Cottrell, B Steinberger, ... Science 301 (5636), 1064-1069, 2003 | 379 | 2003 |
| Hotspots in the southern oceans—an absolute frame of reference for motion of the Gondwana continents RA Duncan Tectonophysics 74 (1-2), 29-42, 1981 | 377 | 1981 |
| Linear volcanism in French polynesia RA Duncan, I McDougall Journal of volcanology and geothermal research 1 (3), 197-227, 1976 | 301 | 1976 |
| An oceanic flood basalt province within the Caribbean plate CW Sinton, RA Duncan, M Storey, J Lewis, JJ Estrada Earth and Planetary Science Letters 155 (3-4), 221-235, 1998 | 294 | 1998 |
| Geochemistry and age of the Ontong Java Plateau JJ Mahoney, M Storey, RA Duncan, KJ Spencer, M Pringle The Mesozoic Pacific: Geology, Tectonics, and Volcanism, Geophys. Monogr …, 1993 | 284 | 1993 |
| The Ontong Java Plateau CR Neal, JJ Mahoney, LW Kroenke, RA Duncan, MG Petterson Geophysical Monograph-American Geophysical Union 100, 183-216, 1997 | 281 | 1997 |
| Gas hydrate sampling on the Blake Ridge and Carolina Rise CK Paull Proc. ODP, Initial Reports, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 1996 | 274* | 1996 |
| Pacific plate motion recorded by linear volcanic chains RA Duncan, DA Clague The ocean basins and margins, 89-121, 1985 | 270 | 1985 |
| Potential links between ocean plateau volcanism and global ocean anoxia at the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary CW Sinton, RA Duncan Economic Geology 92 (7-8), 836-842, 1997 | 259 | 1997 |
| Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum and the opening of the northeast Atlantic M Storey, RA Duncan, CC Swisher Science 316 (5824), 587-589, 2007 | 250 | 2007 |
| A captured island chain in the Coast Range of Oregon and Washington RA Duncan Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 87 (B13), 10827-10837, 1982 | 245 | 1982 |
