| Flood basalts and hot-spot tracks: plume heads and tails MA Richards, RA Duncan, VE Courtillot Science 246 (4926), 103-107, 1989 | 1541 | 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 | 815 | 1995 |
| Hotspots, mantle plumes, flood basalts, and true polar wander RA Duncan, MA Richards Reviews of Geophysics 29 (1), 31-50, 1991 | 703 | 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 | 671 | 1997 |
| Rapid eruption of the Deccan flood basalts at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary RA Duncan, DG Pyle Nature 333 (6176), 841-843, 1988 | 605 | 1988 |
| 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 | 528 | 2002 |
| 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 | 504 | 1990 |
| Plate tectonic evolution of the Caribbean region in the mantle reference frame RA Duncan, RB Hargraves Geological Society of America Memoirs 162, 81-94, 1984 | 484 | 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 | 473 | 1993 |
| 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 | 447 | 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 | 441 | 1981 |
| Geochemistry and age of the Ontong Java Plateau JJ Mahoney, M Storey, RA Duncan, KJ Spencer, M Pringle Geophysical Monograph Series 77, 233-261, 1993 | 343 | 1993 |
| Linear volcanism in French polynesia RA Duncan, I McDougall Journal of volcanology and geothermal research 1 (3), 197-227, 1976 | 337 | 1976 |
| Pacific plate motion recorded by linear volcanic chains RA Duncan, DA Clague The Ocean Basins and Margins: Volume 7A The Pacific Ocean, 89-121, 1985 | 319 | 1985 |
| Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum and the opening of the northeast Atlantic M Storey, RA Duncan, CC Swisher III Science 316 (5824), 587-589, 2007 | 318 | 2007 |
| The Ontong Java Plateau CR Neal, JJ Mahoney, LW Kroenke, RA Duncan, MG Petterson Geophysical Monograph-American Geophysical Union 100, 183-216, 1997 | 317 | 1997 |
| Origin and evolution of a submarine large igneous province: the Kerguelen Plateau and Broken Ridge, southern Indian Ocean FA Frey, MF Coffin, PJ Wallace, D Weis, X Zhao, SW Wise Jr, V Wähnert, ... Earth and Planetary Science Letters 176 (1), 73-89, 2000 | 298 | 2000 |
| 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 | 291 | 1997 |
| 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 | 284 | 1982 |
| Age and geochemistry of basement and alkalic rocks of Malaita and Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands, southern margin of Ontong Java Plateau MLG Tejada, JJ Mahoney, RA Duncan, MP Hawkins Journal of Petrology 37 (2), 361-394, 1996 | 273 | 1996 |
