Piper D.JW, Normark W.R.  2009.  Processes That Initiate Turbidity Currents and Their Influence on Turbidites: A Marine Geology Perspective. Journal of Sedimentary Research. 79(5-6):347-362.

Normark W.R, Piper D.JW, Romans B.W, Covault J.A, Dartnell P., Sliter R.W.  2007.  Submarine canyon and fan systems of the California Continental Borderland, Chapter 3-7. Earth Science in the Urban Ocean: The Southern California Contental Borderlands. 

Normark W.R, Piper D.JW, Sliter R..  2006.  Sea-level and tectonic control of middle to late Pleistocene turbidite systems in Santa Monica Basin, offshore California. Sedimentology. 53(4):867-897.

Rashid H., Hesse R., Piper D.JW.  2000.  Was it melt-water outflor or ice-sheet discharge? A high-resolution study of ice-sheet discharge from the high-latitude sector of the LIS during the LGM EOS. 81(19):S21.

Rashid H., Hesse R., Piper D.JW.  1999.  Records of Heinrich Events at the confluence of the distal Northwest Atlantic Mid-Ocean Channel, and the Immarssauk Mid-Ocean Channel of the North Atlantic, Europ. Union. Geoscience 10th Annual Meeting. Abstract 4:173.

Flood R.D, Piper D.JW.  1996.  ODP drilling on the Amazon Fan; initial results on growth pattern and timing of fan sedimentation. Annual Meeting Abstracts--American Association of Petroleum Geologists and Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists. 5:47.