| Age of initiation of collision between India and Asia: A review of stratigraphic data DB Rowley Earth and Planetary Science Letters 145 (1-4), 1-13, 1996 | 1217 | 1996 |
| Palaeo-altimetry of the late Eocene to Miocene Lunpola basin, central Tibet DB Rowley, BS Currie Nature 439 (7077), 677-681, 2006 | 910 | 2006 |
| Ages of ultrahigh pressure metamorphism and protolith orthogneisses from the eastern Dabie Shan: U/Pb zircon geochronology DB Rowley, F Xue, RD Tucker, ZX Peng, J Baker, A Davis Earth and Planetary Science Letters 151 (3-4), 191-203, 1997 | 635 | 1997 |
| Sr isotope evolution of seawater: the role of tectonics FM Richter, DB Rowley, DJ DePaolo Earth and Planetary Science Letters 109 (1-2), 11-23, 1992 | 595 | 1992 |
| A plate-kinematic framework for models of Caribbean evolution JL Pindell, SC Cande, WC Pitman III, DB Rowley, JF Dewey, J Labrecque, ... Tectonophysics 155 (1-4), 121-138, 1988 | 594 | 1988 |
| A new approach to stable isotope-based paleoaltimetry: implications for paleoaltimetry and paleohypsometry of the High Himalaya since the Late Miocene DB Rowley, RT Pierrehumbert, BS Currie Earth and planetary science letters 188 (1-2), 253-268, 2001 | 498 | 2001 |
| Age of initiation of the India-Asia collision in the east-central Himalaya B Zhu, WSF Kidd, DB Rowley, BS Currie, N Shafique The Journal of Geology 113 (3), 265-285, 2005 | 409 | 2005 |
| Stable isotope-based paleoaltimetry DB Rowley, CN Garzione Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 35, 463-508, 2007 | 376 | 2007 |
| Dynamic topography and long-term sea-level variations: There is no such thing as a stable continental platform R Moucha, AM Forte, JX Mitrovica, DB Rowley, S Quéré, NA Simmons, ... Earth and Planetary Science Letters 271 (1-4), 101-108, 2008 | 328 | 2008 |
| Exhumation of the Dabie Shan ultra-high-pressure rocks and accumulation of the Songpan-Ganzi flysch sequence, central China S Nie, A Yin, DB Rowley, Y Jin Geology 22 (11), 999-1002, 1994 | 323 | 1994 |
| Plate-kinematic reconstructions of the North Atlantic and Arctic: Late Jurassic to present DB Rowley, AL Lottes Tectonophysics 155 (1-4), 73-120, 1988 | 284 | 1988 |
| Rate of plate creation and destruction: 180 Ma to present DB Rowley Geological Society of America Bulletin 114 (8), 927-933, 2002 | 283 | 2002 |
| Permian phytogeographic patterns and climate data/model comparisons PMA Rees, AM Ziegler, MT Gibbs, JE Kutzbach, PJ Behling, DB Rowley The Journal of Geology 110 (1), 1-31, 2002 | 283 | 2002 |
| Paleoaltimetry of the Tibetan Plateau from D/H ratios of lipid biomarkers PJ Polissar, KH Freeman, DB Rowley, FA McInerney, BS Currie Earth and Planetary Science Letters 287 (1-2), 64-76, 2009 | 281 | 2009 |
| Tracing the tropics across land and sea: Permian to present A Ziegler, G Eshel, PMA Rees, T Rothfus, D Rowley, D Sunderlin Lethaia 36 (3), 227-254, 2003 | 279 | 2003 |
| Middle Miocene paleoaltimetry of southern Tibet: Implications for the role of mantle thickening and delamination in the Himalayan orogen BS Currie, DB Rowley, NJ Tabor Geology 33 (3), 181-184, 2005 | 263 | 2005 |
| Carboniferous paleogeographic, phytogeographic, and paleoclimatic reconstructions DB Rowley, A Raymond, JT Parrish, AL Lottes, CR Scotese, AM Ziegler International Journal of Coal Geology 5 (1-2), 7-42, 1985 | 263 | 1985 |
| Minimum age of initiation of collision between India and Asia north of Everest based on the subsidence history of the Zhepure Mountain section DB Rowley The Journal of Geology 106 (2), 220-235, 1998 | 253 | 1998 |
| U-Pb zircon ages of granitoid rocks in the north Dabie complex, eastern Dabie Shan, China F Xue, DB Rowley, RD Tucker, ZX Peng The Journal of Geology 105 (6), 744-753, 1997 | 239 | 1997 |
| Stratigraphic relationships and detrital composition of the medial Ordovician flysch of western New England: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Taconic orogeny DB Rowley, WSF Kidd The Journal of Geology 89 (2), 199-218, 1981 | 232 | 1981 |
