| Synoptic reconstruction of a major ancient lake system: Eocene Green River Formation, western United States ME Smith, AR Carroll, BS Singer Geological Society of America Bulletin 120 (1-2), 54-84, 2008 | 426 | 2008 |
| Eocene plant diversity at Laguna del Hunco and Río Pichileufú, Patagonia, Argentina P Wilf, KR Johnson, NR Cuneo, ME Smith, BS Singer, MA Gandolfo The American Naturalist 165 (6), 634-650, 2005 | 286 | 2005 |
| 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of the Eocene Green River Formation, Wyoming ME Smith, B Singer, A Carroll Geological Society of America Bulletin 115 (5), 549-565, 2003 | 203* | 2003 |
| Walled sedimentary basins of China AR Carroll, SA Graham, ME Smith Basin Research 22 (1), 17-32, 2010 | 183 | 2010 |
| Eocene clocks agree: Coeval 40Ar/39Ar, U-Pb, and astronomical ages from the Green River Formation ME Smith, KR Chamberlain, BS Singer, AR Carroll Geology 38 (6), 527-530, 2010 | 155 | 2010 |
| Feast to famine: Sediment supply control on Laramide basin fill AR Carroll, LM Chetel, ME Smith Geology 34 (3), 197-200, 2006 | 134 | 2006 |
| Paleogeographic record of Eocene Farallon slab rollback beneath western North America ME Smith, AR Carroll, BR Jicha, EJ Cassel, JJ Scott Geology 42 (12), 1039-1042, 2014 | 119 | 2014 |
| A three-sided orogen: A new tectonic model for Ancestral Rocky Mountain uplift and basin development RJ Leary, P Umhoefer, ME Smith, N Riggs Geology 45 (8), 735-738, 2017 | 112 | 2017 |
| Geochronology and mammalian biostratigraphy of middle and upper Paleocene continental strata, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming R Secord, PD Gingerich, ME Smith, WC Clyde, P Wilf, BS Singer American Journal of Science 306 (4), 211-245, 2006 | 97 | 2006 |
| Basin-scale cyclostratigraphy of the Green River Formation, Wyoming W Aswasereelert, SR Meyers, AR Carroll, SE Peters, ME Smith, KL Feigl Geological Society of America Bulletin 125 (1-2), 216-228, 2013 | 91 | 2013 |
| Early Eocene carbon isotope excursions and landscape destabilization at eccentricity minima: Green River Formation of Wyoming ME Smith, AR Carroll, JJ Scott, BS Singer Earth and Planetary Science Letters 403, 393-406, 2014 | 78 | 2014 |
| The impact of slab rollback on Earth's surface: Uplift and extension in the hinterland of the North American Cordillera EJ Cassel, ME Smith, BR Jicha Geophysical Research Letters 45 (20), 10,996-11,004, 2018 | 75 | 2018 |
| Elevated weathering rates in the Rocky Mountains during the early Eocene climatic optimum ME Smith, AR Carroll, ER Mueller Nature Geoscience 1 (6), 370-374, 2008 | 75 | 2008 |
| The Green River salt mystery: What was the source of the hyperalkaline lake waters? TK Lowenstein, EA Jagniecki, AR Carroll, ME Smith, RW Renaut, ... Earth-Science Reviews 173, 295-306, 2017 | 71 | 2017 |
| Capture of high-altitude precipitation by a low-altitude Eocene lake, western US AR Carroll, AC Doebbert, AL Booth, CP Chamberlain, ... Geology 36 (10), 791-794, 2008 | 71 | 2008 |
| Provenance of Pennsylvanian–Permian sedimentary rocks associated with the Ancestral Rocky Mountains orogeny in southwestern Laurentia: Implications for continental-scale … RJ Leary, P Umhoefer, ME Smith, TM Smith, JE Saylor, N Riggs, G Burr, ... Lithosphere 12 (1), 88-121, 2020 | 63 | 2020 |
| Hinterland drainage closure and lake formation in response to middle Eocene Farallon slab removal, Nevada, U.S.A. ME Smith, EJ Cassel, BR Jicha, BS Singer, AS Canada Earth and Planetary Science Letters 479, 156-169, 2017 | 41 | 2017 |
| High-resolution calibration of Eocene strata: 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of biotite in the Green River Formation ME Smith, BS Singer, AR Carroll, JH Fournelle Geology 34 (5), 393-396, 2006 | 41 | 2006 |
| Stratigraphic expression of climate, tectonism, and geomorphic forcing in an underfilled lake basin: Wilkins Peak Member of the Green River Formation ME Smith, AR Carroll, JJ Scott Stratigraphy and Paleolimnology of the Green River Formation, Western USA …, 2015 | 39 | 2015 |
| 10 ky depositional cyclicity in the early Eocene: Stratigraphic and 40Ar/39Ar evidence from the lacustrine Green River Formation JT Pietras, AR Carroll, BS Singer, ME Smith Geology 31 (7), 593-596, 2003 | 39 | 2003 |
Alan CarrollProfessor, Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-MadisonVerified email at geology.wisc.edu