| A model for the evolution of the Indian Ocean and the breakup of Gondwanaland IO Norton, JG Sclater Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 84 (B12), 6803-6830, 1979 | 922 | 1979 |
| Phanerozoic tectonic evolution of the Circum-North Pacific WJ Nokleberg, DW Scholl, LM Parfenov, JWH Monger, IO Norton, ... | 461 | 2001 |
| Jurassic evolution of the Gulf of Mexico salt basin MR Hudec, IO Norton, MPA Jackson, FJ Peel AAPG bulletin 97 (10), 1683-1710, 2013 | 251 | 2013 |
| Plate motions in the North Pacific: the 43 Ma nonevent IO Norton Tectonics 14 (5), 1080-1094, 1995 | 225 | 1995 |
| The Scotia Arc: genesis, evolution, global significance IWD Dalziel, LA Lawver, IO Norton, LM Gahagan Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 41 (1), 767-793, 2013 | 186 | 2013 |
| The tectonic evolution of western India and its impact on hydrocarbon occurrences: an overview AM Gombos Jr, WG Powell, IO Norton Sedimentary Geology 96 (1-2), 119-129, 1995 | 147 | 1995 |
| The PLATES 2020 Atlas of Plate Reconstructions (500 Ma to Present Day), PLATES Progress Report No. 396-1220 LA Lawver, IO Norton, IWD Dalziel, MB Davis Institute for Geophysics, 2021 | 139 | 2021 |
| Circum-North Pacific tectonostratigraphic terrane map WJ Nokleberg, LM Parfenov, JWH Monger, BB Baranov, ... Open-File Report, 1994 | 137 | 1994 |
| Tectonic map of the world A Kaplan, IO Norton, CU Lusser | 120 | 1985 |
| Mesozoic magnetic lineations in the Mozambique Basin ESW Simpson, JG Sclater, B Parsons, I Norton, L Meinke Earth and Planetary Science Letters 43 (2), 260-264, 1979 | 111 | 1979 |
| Hydrocarbon systems of Northeastern Venezuela: plate through molecular scale-analysis of the genesis and evolution of the Eastern Venezuela Basin LL Summa, ED Goodman, M Richardson, IO Norton, AR Green Marine and Petroleum Geology 20 (3-4), 323-349, 2003 | 100 | 2003 |
| Prince Edward fracture zone and the evolution of the Mozambique Basin HW Bergh, IO Norton Journal of Geophysical Research 81 (29), 5221-5239, 1976 | 100 | 1976 |
| Palaeogeographic and tectonic evolution of the Arctic region during the Palaeozoic LA Lawver, LM Gahagan, I Norton | 95 | 2011 |
| Global hotspot reference frames and plate motion IO Norton Geophysical Monograph Series 121, 339-357, 2000 | 88 | 2000 |
| New Somali Basin magnetic anomalies and a plate model for the early Indian Ocean JK Davis, LA Lawver, IO Norton, LM Gahagan Gondwana research 34, 16-28, 2016 | 86 | 2016 |
| Tectonic evolution and paleogeography of Europe PO Yilmaz, IO Norton, RJ Chuchla, DA Leary AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists);(United States …, 1993 | 84 | 1993 |
| Tectonic controls on the stratigraphic architecture and hydrocarbons systems of the Arabian Plate GJ Grabowski Jr, IO Norton Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Tulsa, OK (United States), 1995 | 79 | 1995 |
| The fundamental role of the Borborema and Benin–Nigeria provinces of NE Brazil and NW Africa during the development of the South Atlantic Cretaceous Rift system RMD de Matos, A Krueger, I Norton, K Casey Marine and Petroleum Geology 127, 104872, 2021 | 75 | 2021 |
| Deep crustal structure of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico: Implications for rift evolution and seafloor spreading DR Eddy, HJA Van Avendonk, GL Christeson, IO Norton, GD Karner, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 119 (9), 6802-6822, 2014 | 75 | 2014 |
| Implications of a revised fit between Australia and Antarctica for the evolution of the eastern Indian Ocean I Norton, P Molnar Nature 267 (5609), 338-340, 1977 | 74 | 1977 |
