• Hey, R.N. and W.J. Morgan, Parallel seamount chains in the Northeast Pacific, Eos Trans. AGU, 52, 236, 1971.

• Johnson, G.L., R.N. Hey, and A. Lowrie, Marine geology in the environs of Bouvet Island and the South Atlantic triple junction, Marine Geophys. Res., 2, 23-36, 1973.
• Sclater, J.G., C. Bowin, R.N. Hey, H. Hoskins, J. Peirce, J. Phillips, and C. Tapscott, The Bouvet triple junction, J. Geophys. Res., 81, 1857-1869, 1976.
• Vogt, P.R., A. Lowrie, D.R. Bracey, and R.N. Hey, Subduction of aseismic oceanic ridges: Effects on shape, seismicity and other characteristics of consuming plate boundaries, GSA Special Paper, 172, 59, 1976.
• Hey, R.N. and H.W. Menard, Plate tectonics - 10 years after the revolution, Eos Trans. AGU, (organized and chaired symposium), 58, 511, 1977.
• Hey, R.N. and P. Milholland, Stability of quadruple junctions, Nature, 277, 201-202, 1979.
• Hey, R.N. and D.S. Wilson, (.mov) Propagating rifts - the motion picture, Eos Trans. AGU, 61, 1104-1105, 1980.
• Wilson, D.S. and R.N. Hey, The Galapagos axial magnetic anomaly: Evidence for the Emperor event within the Brunhes and for a two-layer magnetic source, Geophys. Res. Lett., 8, 167-188, 1981.
• Lowrie, A. and R.N. Hey, Geological and geophysical variations along the western margin of Chile near 33°S-36°S and their relation to Nazca plate subduction, Geol. Soc. Am. Memoir, 154, 741-754, 1981.
• Hey, R.N., A speculative hypothesis for the evolution of the southern San Andreas transform fault system, Eos Trans. AGU, 64, 864-865, 1983.
• Keating, B., et al. (including R.N. Hey), Field tests of SEASAT bathymetric detections, Marine Geophys. Res., 7, 69-71, 1984.
• EEZ-SCAN 84 Scientific Staff (inc. R.N. Hey), Atlas of the Exclusive Economic Zone, Western Conterminous United States: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations, Series I-1792, scale 1:500,000, 152, 1986.
• Hey, R.N., H.W. Menard, T.M. Atwater, and D.W. Caress, Changes in direction of seafloor spreading revisited, J. Geophys. Res., 93, 2803-2811, 1988.
• Caress, D.W., H.W. Menard, and R.N. Hey, Eocene reorganization of the Pacific-Farallon spreading center north of the Mendocino Fracture Zone, J. Geophys. Res., 93, 2813-2838, 1988.
• Hey, R.N., Plate tectonics: A 25th Anniversary Celebration, Eos Trans. AGU, 73, 56, 1992.
• Fernandez, L.S. and R.N. Hey, Late Tertiary tectonic evolution of the seafloor spreading system off the coast of California between the Mendocino and Murray fracture zones, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 17955-17979, 1991.
• Grigg, R.W. and R.N. Hey, Paleoceanography of the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean, Science, 255, 172-178, 1992.
• Kleinrock, M.C., R.N. Hey, and A.E. Theberge, Practical geological comparison of some seafloor survey instruments, Geophys. Res. Lett., 19, 1407-1410, 1992.
• Auzende, J.-M., R.N. Hey, B. Pelletier, and Y. Lafoy, Propagation d'une zone d' accretion a l'est de la dorsale du bassin Nord Fidjien (SW Pacifique), C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, t. 317(Serie II), 671-678, 1993.
• Taylor, B., A. Goodliffe, F. Martinez, and R. Hey, Continental rifting and initial sea-floor spreading in the Woodlark basin, Nature, 374, 534-537, 1995.
• Auzende, J.-M., R.N. Hey, B. Pelletier, D. Rouland, Y. Lafoy, E. Gracia, and P. Huchon, Propagating rift west of the Fiji Archipelago (North Fiji Basin, SW Pacific), J. Geophys. Res., 100, 17823-17835, 1995.
• Hey, R.N., Speculative propagating rift-subduction zone interactions with possible consequences for continental margin evolution, Geology, v.26, 247-250, 1998.
• Hey, R., Every album’s an “Aloha”?, On The Tracks, 6, 7, 1999.
• Hey, R.N., and H. Frankel, Plate tectonics -50 years after the revolution (organized and chaired symposium), Eos Trans. AGU, 2017.

Oceanographic Expeditions

• 1974 January–February: Africa-Antarctica spreading center survey near Bouvet Island, Cape Town-Cape Town, MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, chief scientist C. Bowin, R/V CHAIN.
• 1974 February–March: South America-Africa-Antarctica triple junction survey, Cape Town-Cape Town, MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, chief scientist J.G. Sclater, R/V CHAIN.
• 1974 October: Gulf of Mexico multichannel seismic survey, Veracruz-Galveston, University of Texas Marine Science Institute, Chief scientist J. Watkins, R/V IDA GREEN.
• ** 1975 March: student training cruise, Gulf of Mexico, Galveston-Galveston, University of Texas Marine Science Institute, chief scientist R.N. Hey, R/V IDA GREEN.
• 1976 February–March: Mariana trench IPOD site survey, Guam-Guam, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, chief scientist D.M. Hussong, R/V KANA KEOKI.
• 1976 March: Mariana trench-Ontong Java plateau survey, Guam-Honiara, Guadalcanal, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, chief scientist D.M. Hussong, R/V KANA KEOKI.
• 1976 April: Central Pacific basin transect, Honiara, Guadalcanal-Honolulu, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, chief scientist S.R. Hammond, R/V KANA KEOKI.
• ** 1976 October: IPOD Pac #6 survey, Honolulu-Honolulu, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, chief scientist R.N. Hey, R/V KANA KEOKI.
• 1980 October: Search for RUWS (remote unmanned work station) using ANGUS, Honolulu-Kona, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, chief scientist R.D. Ballard, R/V KANA KEOKI.
• 1982 June: Deep-Tow/Sea Beam test cruise, Continental Borderland, San Diego-San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, chief scientist F.N. Spiess, R/V THOMAS WASHINGTON.
• 1984 April–May: GLORIA survey of the Southern California Continental Borderland and Baja California Seamount Province within the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone between the Mexican border and Pt. Arguello, San Diego-Long Beach, USGS/British Institute for Oceanographic Sciences, chief scientist M. Field, MV FARNELLA.
• * 1984 July–August: Sea Beam investigation of large-scale changes in direction of seafloor spreading, Kodiak-Honolulu, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, chief scientist H.W. Menard, R/V THOMAS WASHINGTON.
• 1985–1986 December–January: Sea Beam/dredging investigation of the Lau back-arc basin, Pago Pago- Tongatapu, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, chief scientist J.W. Hawkins, R/V THOMAS WASHINGTON.
• 1986 April–May: Sea Beam/water sampling investigation of the Mariana trough back-arc spreading center, Guam-Sasebo, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, chief scientist H. Craig, R/V THOMAS WASHINGTON.
• 1987 April: ALVIN/AII investigation of the Mariana trough back-arc spreading center hydrothermal vents, Guam-Saipan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, chief scientist H. Craig, R/V ATLANTIS II, DSRV ALVIN.
• * 1987 June: Sea Beam survey of AT&T cable routes, Honolulu-Honolulu, Seafloor Surveys International/Scripps Institution of Oceanography, chief scientist D.M. Hussong, R/V THOMAS WASHINGTON.
• * 1993 April–May: HMRI (SeaMARC) investigation of the Woodlark Basin, Lae-Guam, SOEST, University of Hawaii, chief scientist B. Taylor, R/V MOANA WAVE.