| Gulf of Mexico tectonic history: Hotspot tracks, crustal boundaries, and early salt distribution DE Bird, K Burke, SA Hall, JF Casey AAPG bulletin 89 (3), 311-328, 2005 | 230 | 2005 |
| Shear margins Continent-ocean transform and fracture zone boundaries D Bird The Leading Edge 20 (2), 150-159, 2001 | 99 | 2001 |
| Quantitative bathymetric analyses of selected deepwater siliciclastic margins: receiving basin configurations for deepwater fan systems GS Steffens, EK Biegert, HS Sumner, D Bird Marine and Petroleum Geology 20 (6-8), 547-561, 2003 | 75 | 2003 |
| Early central Atlantic Ocean seafloor spreading history DE Bird, SA Hall, K Burke, JF Casey, DS Sawyer Geosphere 3 (5), 282-298, 2007 | 67 | 2007 |
| From oceanic crust to exhumed mantle: A 40 year (1970–2010) perspective on the nature of crust under the Santos Basin, SE Brazil N Kumar, A Danforth, P Nuttall, J Helwig, DE Bird, S Venkatraman Geological Society, London, Special Publications 369 (1), 147-165, 2013 | 54 | 2013 |
| Tectonic evolution of the Grenada Basin DE Bird, SA Hall, JF Casey, PS Millegan Sedimentary Basins of the World 4, 389-416, 1999 | 43 | 1999 |
| Reconstruction of the East Africa and Antarctica continental margins LC Nguyen, SA Hall, DE Bird, PJ Ball Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 121 (6), 4156-4179, 2016 | 40 | 2016 |
| Interpretation of magnetic anomalies over the Grenada Basin DE Bird, SA Hall, JF Casey, PS Millegan Tectonics 12 (5), 1267-1279, 1993 | 40 | 1993 |
| Primer: Interpreting magnetic data DE Bird American Association of Petroleum Geologist Explorer 8 (5), 18-21, 1997 | 28 | 1997 |
| Insights into structure and stratigraphy of the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2D pre-stack depth migration imaging of mega-regional onshore to deep water, long-offset seismic data BJ Radovich, J Moon, CD Connors, D Bird GCAGS Transactions, 2007 | 27 | 2007 |
| Deep crustal structure and tectonic origin of the Tobago-Barbados ridge S Gomez, D Bird, P Mann Interpretation 6 (2), T471-T484, 2018 | 25 | 2018 |
| Crustal structure of an extinct, late Jurassic-to-earliest Cretaceous spreading center and its adjacent oceanic crust in the eastern Gulf of Mexico P Lin, DE Bird, P Mann Marine Geophysical Research 40, 395-418, 2019 | 24 | 2019 |
| New constraints on the age of the opening of the South Atlantic basin SA Hall, DE Bird, DJ McLean, PJ Towle, JV Grant, HA Danque Marine and Petroleum Geology 95, 50-66, 2018 | 22 | 2018 |
| Pangea breakup: Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, and Central Atlantic Ocean D Bird, K Burke SEG technical program expanded abstracts 2006, 1013-1017a, 2006 | 22 | 2006 |
| 85° E Ridge, India—constraints on its development and architecture M Choudhuri, M Nemeok, C Stuart, C Welker, ST Sinha, D Bird Journal of the Geological Society of India 84, 513-530, 2014 | 17 | 2014 |
| Tectonic evolution of the Gulf of Mexico Basin DE Bird, K Burke, SA Hall, JF Casey Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota: Volume 3, Geology, 1, 2011 | 12 | 2011 |
| Caribbean plate tilted and actively dragged eastwards by low-viscosity asthenospheric flow YW Chen, L Colli, DE Bird, J Wu, H Zhu Nature Communications 12 (1), 1603, 2021 | 11 | 2021 |
| Constraints on the timing of continental rifting and oceanic spreading for the Mesozoic Gulf of Mexico Basin R Pascoe, P Nuttall, D Dunbar, D Bird | 10 | 2016 |
| Early seafloor spreading in the South Atlantic: new evidence for M-series magnetochrons north of the Rio Grande Fracture Zone DE Bird, SA Hall Geophysical Journal International 206 (2), 835-844, 2016 | 9 | 2016 |
| Interpreting magnetic data: Geophysical corner D Bird EXPLORER, 1997 | 9 | 1997 |
