| The Chicxulub asteroid impact and mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary P Schulte, L Alegret, I Arenillas, JA Arz, PJ Barton, PR Bown, TJ Bralower, ... Science 327 (5970), 1214-1218, 2010 | 1382 | 2010 |
| Deep-sea paleotemperature record of extreme warmth during the Cretaceous BT Huber, RD Norris, KG MacLeod Geology 30 (2), 123-126, 2002 | 846 | 2002 |
| Formation of the Isthmus of Panama A O’Dea, HA Lessios, AG Coates, RI Eytan, SA Restrepo-Moreno, ... Science advances 2 (8), e1600883, 2016 | 714 | 2016 |
| The heartbeat of the Oligocene climate system H Palike, RD Norris, JO Herrle, PA Wilson, HK Coxall, CH Lear, ... science 314 (5807), 1894-1898, 2006 | 650 | 2006 |
| Evolution of middle to Late Cretaceous oceans—a 55 my record of Earth's temperature and carbon cycle O Friedrich, RD Norris, J Erbacher Geology 40 (2), 107-110, 2012 | 487 | 2012 |
| Mechanisms of climate warming at the end of the Paleocene S Bains, RM Corfield, RD Norris Science 285 (5428), 724-727, 1999 | 473 | 1999 |
| Warm tropical ocean surface and global anoxia during the mid-Cretaceous period PA Wilson, RD Norris Nature 412 (6845), 425-429, 2001 | 449 | 2001 |
| Carbon cycling and chronology of climate warming during the Palaeocene/Eocene transition RD Norris, U Röhl Nature 401 (6755), 775-778, 1999 | 415 | 1999 |
| New chronology for the late Paleocene thermal maximum and its environmental implications U Rohl, TJ Bralower, RD Norris, G Wefer Geology 28 (10), 927-930, 2000 | 400 | 2000 |
| Molecular evidence of cryptic speciation in planktonic foraminifers and their relation to oceanic provinces C de Vargas, R Norris, L Zaninetti, SW Gibb, J Pawlowski Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96 (6), 2864-2868, 1999 | 399 | 1999 |
| Testing the Cretaceous greenhouse hypothesis using glassy foraminiferal calcite from the core of the Turonian tropics on Demerara Rise PA Wilson, RD Norris, MJ Cooper Geology 30 (7), 607-610, 2002 | 365 | 2002 |
| Local stressors reduce coral resilience to bleaching JE Carilli, RD Norris, BA Black, SM Walsh, M McField Plos one 4 (7), e6324, 2009 | 355 | 2009 |
| Increased thermohaline stratification as a possible cause for an ocean anoxic event in the Cretaceous period J Erbacher, BT Huber, RD Norris, M Markey Nature 409 (6818), 325-327, 2001 | 331 | 2001 |
| A multiple proxy and model study of Cretaceous upper ocean temperatures and atmospheric CO2 concentrations KL Bice, D Birgel, PA Meyers, KA Dahl, KU Hinrichs, RD Norris Paleoceanography 21 (2), 2006 | 308 | 2006 |
| Termination of global warmth at the Palaeocene/Eocene boundary through productivity feedback S Bains, RD Norris, RM Corfield, KL Faul Nature 407 (6801), 171-174, 2000 | 299 | 2000 |
| Isotopic evidence for glaciation during the Cretaceous supergreenhouse A Bornemann, RD Norris, O Friedrich, B Beckmann, S Schouten, ... Science 319 (5860), 189-192, 2008 | 285 | 2008 |
| Very large release of mostly volcanic carbon during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum M Gutjahr, A Ridgwell, PF Sexton, E Anagnostou, PN Pearson, H Pälike, ... Nature 548 (7669), 573-577, 2017 | 269 | 2017 |
| Jiggling the tropical thermostat in the Cretaceous hothouse RD Norris, KL Bice, EA Magno, PA Wilson Geology 30 (4), 299-302, 2002 | 266 | 2002 |
| Eocene global warming events driven by ventilation of oceanic dissolved organic carbon PF Sexton, RD Norris, PA Wilson, H Pälike, T Westerhold, U Röhl, ... Nature 471 (7338), 349-352, 2011 | 259 | 2011 |
| Pelagic species diversity, biogeography, and evolution RD Norris Paleobiology 26 (S4), 236-258, 2000 | 247 | 2000 |
