• 2017 – Giant Fields of the decade 2000-2010: Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Memoir 113. 322p. Merrill, R. K., and Sternbach, C.A.
• 2013 – Integrated 3D modeling of structural controls and permeability distribution in the Patua Geothermal Field, Hazen, NV:  Proc. 38th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford, Univ., 12 p. Peterson, Neil, Combs, J., Bjelm, L, Garg, S., Kohl, B., Goranson, C., Merrill, R., van de Kamp, P., and Lamb, A.
• 2004 – An international perspective on entry into hydrocarbon-producing basins of Eastern Australia, PESA Eastern Australian Basins Symposiums II., Adelaide, p. 35 – 40. Merrill, R.K., Trujillo, S.K., Simpson, S.D. and Wall, R.M.
• 1991 – Source and Migration Processes and Techniques for Evaluation:  Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists, Handbook of Petroleum Geology, 213 p. Merrill, R. K., ed.
• 1984 – Development of the landscape of east-central Arizona, in Smiley, T.L., et al., eds., Landscapes of Arizona, The Geological Story:  Univ. Press of America Inc., p. 137-149. Merrill, R.K.
• 1977 – Late Cenozoic Geology of the White Mountains, Ariz.:  Ariz. Bur. of Geology and Mineral Technology Spec. Paper No. 1, 65p. Merrill, R.K., and Péwé, T.L.
• 1972 – Late Quaternary glacial chronology of the White Mountains, Ariz.:  Jour. Geology, v. 80, no., 4, p. 493-501. Merrill, R.K., and Péwé, T.L.,
• 1971 – The Sheep Crossing Formation:  A late Cenozoic epiclastic formation in east-central Arizona:  Jour. Ariz. Acad. Sci., v. 6, no. 3, p. 226-229. Merrill, R.K., and Péwé, T.L.

With my broad interest in the geosciences, publications include papers on geomorphology of eastern Arizona, oil and gas geochemistry, and geothermal exploration. Presentations include observations on Late Quaternary climate and environments, generation and migration of hydrocarbons, overpressured gas accumulations, fractured reservoirs, regional exploration potential, prospect risk and reserve analysis and exploration portfolio analysis, reef development along the North American Atlantic Continental Margin, visual rock characterization, and the intersection of geology and human health. Thematic publications have always been an important resource for me, and I edited the Source and Migration volume for the Treatise on Petroleum Geology and Memoir 78 (Associate Editor) and Memoir 113, the last two volumes in the Giant Oil and Gas Fields of the Decade series.