MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW OR IN PRESS:

• In review. Johnson, M.E. Limits of uniformitarianism as a guide to rocky-shore ecosystems in the geological record. In, Rudkin, D. (ed.), Proceedings of the GAC Special Session on Rocky Shorelines in the Geological Record - Paleobiological and Sedimentological Signatures, May 13, 2004, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario. Geological Association of Canada Special Paper.
• In review. Eros, J.M., Johnson, M.E., and Backus, D.H. Rocky shores and developoment of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Arroyo Blanco basin on Isla Carmen in the Gulf of California, Mexico. In, Rudkin, D. (ed.), Proceedings of the GAC Special Session on Rocky Shorelines in the Geological Record - Paleobiological and Sedimentological Signatures, May 13, 2004, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario. Geological Association of Canada Special Paper.
• In review. Levine, R., Baarli, B.G., and Johnson, M.E. Glacial and rocky-shore dynamics of the Karlebotn monadnocks: Late Neoproterozoic of northern Norway. In, Rudkin, D. (ed.), Proceedings of the GAC Special Session on Rocky Shorelines in the Geological Record - Paleobiological and Sedimentological Signatures, May 13, 2004, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario. Geological Association of Canada Special Paper.
• In review. Baarli, B.G., Johnson, M.E. and Levine, R.  An incised valley from the Neoproterozoic Smalfjord Formation, Finnmark, Northern Norway.  Norwegian Journal of Geology.
• In press. Johnson, M.E., Ledesma-Vázquez, J., and Baarli, B.G. Vertebrate remains on ancient rocky shores: A review with report on hadrosaur bones from the Upper Cretaceous of Baja California (México). Journal of Coastal Research.

Publications

2005

• Johnson, M.E and B.G. Baarli. Erosion and burial of granite rocky shores in the Recent and Late Pleistocene of the Seychelles Islands: Physical and biological perspectives. Journal of Coastal Research, v. 21. in press.

2004

• Johnson, M.E., Rong Jia-yu, and Su Wen-bo. Paleogeographic orientation of the Sino-Korean Plate based on evidence for a prevailling Silurian wind field. Journal of Geology, v. 112, p.
• Payne, J.L., M.E. Johnson, and J. Ledesma-Vázquez. Alisitos Formation at Punta San Isidro: Coastal sedimentation and volcanism. Ciencias Marinas, v. 30, p. 365-380.

2003

• Baarli, B.G., Johnson, M.E. and A.I. Antoshkina. Silurian stratigraphy and paleogeography of Baltica, pp. 3-34. In Landing, E. and Johnson, M.E. (eds), Silurian Lands and Seas Outside Laurentia. New York State Museum Bulletin 493, 400 p. PDF
• Johnson, M.E. and Landing, E. Preface, pp. vii-ix, In, Landing, E. and Johnson, M.E. (eds.), Silurian Lands and Seas: Paleogeography Outside of Laurentia. New York State Museum Bulletin 493, 400 p.
• Johnson, M.E., D.H. Backus, and J. Ledesma-Vázquez. Offset of Pliocene ramp facies at El Mangle by El Coloradito Fault, Baja California Sur: Impications for transtensional tectonics. In "Tectonic evolution of northwestern Mexico and the southwestern USA: A volume in honor of R. Gordon Gastil." Geological Society of America Special Paper 374, p. 407-420.

2002

• Johnson, M.E. Discovering the Geology of Baja California - Six Hikes on the Southern Gulf Coast. Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 240 p., 21 halftones, 12 line illus., 7 maps.
• Nelson, S.J. and M.E. Johnson. Jens Munk Archipelago: Ordovician-Silurian islands in the Churchill area of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Northern Manitoba. Journal of Geology, v. 110, p. 577-589.
• Johnson, M.E. Ancient islands in the stream: Paleogeography and expected circulation patterns. Geobios, v. 35 (Mémorie Spécial No. 24), p. 96-106.

2001

• Johnson, M.E. and J. Ledesma-Vázquez. Pliocene-Pleistocene rocky shorelines trace coastal development of Bah’a Concepcion, gulf coast of Baja California Sur (Mexico). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. v. 166, p. 65-88.
• Johnson, M.E., Rong J.Y., Wang, C.Y., and Wang, P. Continental island from the Upper Silurian (Ludfordian Stage) of Inner Mongolia: Implications for eustasy and paleogeography. Geology, v. 29, p. 955-958.
• Ledesma-Vázquez, J. and M.E. Johnson. Miocene-Pleistocene tectono-sedimentary evolution of Bahía Concepción region, Baja California Sur (Mexico). Sedimentary Geology, v. 144, p. 83-96.
• Rong J., Johnson, M.E., Baarli, B.G., Li W., Su W., and Wang J. Continental island from the Upper Silurian (Ludlow) Sino- Korean Plate. Chinese Science Bulletin, v. 46, p. 238-241.

2000

• Rong J., Johnson, M.E., Baarli, B.G., Li W., Su W., and Wang J. Continental island from the Upper Silurian (Ludlow)Sino-Korean Plate. Chinese Science Bulletin, v. 45, p. 2227-2231 [in Chinese].
• Russell, P. and M.E. Johnson. Influence of seasonal winds on coastal carbonate dunes from the Recent and Plio-Pleistocene at Punta Chivato (Baja Californa Sur, Mexico). Journal of Coastal Research, v. 16, p. 709-723.

1999

• Baarli, B.G., H.B. Keilen, and M.E. Johnson. Silurian communities of the Oslo region, Norway. In, Boucot, A.J. and Lawson, J.D. (eds.), Paleocommunities Ð a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian. Cambridge University Press, p. 327-349.
• Johnson, M.E. and Baarli. B.G. Diversification of rocky-shore biotas through geologic time. Geobios, v. 32, p.257-273.
• Johnson, M.E. and J. Ledesma-V‡zquez. Biological zonation on a rocky-shore boulder deposit: Upper Pleistocene Bah’a San Antonio (Baja California Sur, Mexico). Palaios, v. 14, p.569-584.
• Ledesma-V‡zquez, J., Johnson, M.E. y Romero R’os. Evoluci—n tect—nica del Golfo de California: Mioceno-Pleistoceno de Bah”a Concepci—n, B.C.S. Gaceta Asociaci—n Mexicana de Ge—logos Petroleros, v. 3, p. 1-5.
• Witzke, B.J. and M.E. Johnson. Silurian brachiopod and related benthic communities from carbonate platform and mound environments of Iowa and surrounding areas. In, Boucot, A.J. and Lawson, J.D. (eds.), Paleocommunities Ð a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian.. Cambridge University Press, p. 806-840.

1998

• Johnson, M.E. The parallel impacts of William Maclure and Amos Eaton on American geology, education, and public service. Indiana Magazine of History. v. 94, p. 151-166.
• Johnson, M.E. and Landing, E. Introduction, p. vii-ix. In Landing, E. and Johnson, M.E. (eds), Silurian cycles, Linkages of dynamic processes with atmospheric, oceanic, and tectonic changes (James Hall Centennial Volume). New York State Museum Bulletin 491,319 p.
• Johnson, M.E., Rong, J., and Kershaw, S. Calibrating Silurian eustasy against the erosion and burial of coastal paleotopography, In Landing, E. and Johnson, M.E. (eds), Silurian cycles, Linkages of dynamic processes with atmospheric, oceanic, and tectonic change (James Hall Centennial Volume). New York State Museum Bulletin 491, p. 3-13.
• Johnson, M.E., Mu X. and Rong J. Enigmatic fossil encrusting an Upper Ordovician rocky shore on Hudson Bay, Canada. Journal of Paleontology, v. 72, p. 927-932.
• Brett, C.E., Baarli, B.G., Chowns, T., Cotter, E., Driese, S., Goodman, W., and Johnson, M.E. Early Silurian condensed intervals, ironstones, and sequence stratigraphy in the Appalachian foreland basin. Silurian cycles, Linkages of dynamic processes with atmospheric, oceanic, and tectonic changes (James Hall Centennial Volume). New York State Museum Bulletin 491, p.89-143.
• Tesakov, Yu.I., Johnson, M.E., Predtetchensky, N.N., Khromych, V.G., and Berger, A.Y. Eustatic fluctuations in the East Siberian Basin (Siberian Platform and Taymyr Peninsula). In Landing, E. and Johnson, M.E. (eds.), Silurian cycles, Linkages of dynamic processes with atmospheric, oceanic, and tectonic changes (James Hall Centennial Volume). New York State Museum Bulletin 491, p. 63-73.

1997

• Johnson, M.E. Silurian event horizons related to the evolution and ecology of pentamerid brachiopods, In Brett, C.E. and Baird, G.C. (eds.), Paleontological Events: Stratigraphic, Ecological, and Evolutionary Implications. Columbia University Press, p. 162-180.
• Johnson, M.E. Notes on Sidney PowersÕ Williams College career. Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences. 19:228-230. Johnson, M.E. and Ledesma-Vazquez, J. (eds.). Preface, p. v-viii. In Pliocene carbonates and related facies flanking the Gulf of California, Baja California, Mexico, Geological Society of America Special Paper 318, 172 p.
• Johnson, M.E., Ledesma-Vazquez, J., Mayall, M.A., and Minch, J. Upper Pliocene stratigraphy and depositional systems: The Peninsula Concepcion basins in Baja California Sur, Mexico, In Johnson, M.E. and Ledesma-Vazquez (eds.), Pliocene carbonates and related facies flanking the Gulf of California, Baja California, Mexico: Geological Society of America Special Paper 318, p. 57-72.
• Johnson, M.E. and Libbey, L.K. Global review of Upper Pleistocene (Substage 5e) rocky shores: Tectonic segregation, substrate variation, and biological diversity. Journal of Coastal Research. 13:297-307.
• Johnson, M.E., Teskakov, Yu. I., Predtchensky, N.N., and Baarli, B.G. Comparison of Lower Silurian shores and shelves in North America and Siberia, In Klapper, G., Murphy, M.A., and Talent, J.A. (eds.), Paleozoic sequence stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, and biogeography: Studies in honor of J. Granville ("Jess") Johnson. Geological Society of America Special Paper 321, p. 23-46.
• Cuffey, R.J. and Johnson, M.E. Bryozoan nodules built around andesite clasts from the Upper Pliocene of Baja California: Paleoecological implications and closure of the Panama Isthmus. In Johnson, M.E. and Ledesma-Vazquez (eds.), Pliocene carbonates and related facies flanking the Gulf of California, Baja California, Mexico: Geological Society of America Special Paper 318, p. 111-117.
• Ledesma-Vazquez, J., Berry, R.W., Johnson, M.E., and Gutierrez-Sanchez, S. El Mono chert: A shallow-water chert from the Pliocene Infierno Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico. In Johnson, M.E. and Ledesma-Vazquez (eds.), Pliocene carbonates and related facies flanking the Gulf of California, Baja California, Mexico: Geolgical Society of America Special Paper 318, p. 73-81.
• Libbey, L.K. and Johnson, M.E. Upper Pleistocene rocky shores and intertidal biotas on the Gulf of California at Playa La Palmita (Baja California Sur, Mexico). Journal of Coastal Research. 13:216-225.
• Simian, M.E. and Johnson, M.E. Development and foundering of the Pliocene Santa Ines Archipelago in the Gulf of California: Baja California Sur, Mexico. In Johnson, M.E. and Ledesma-Vazquez (eds.), Pliocene carbonates and related facies flanking the Gulf of California, Baja California, Mexico: Geological Society of America Special Papers 31, p. 25-38.

1996

• Johnson, M.E. Stable cratonic sequences and a standard for Silurian eustasy. In Witzke, B.J., Ludvigson, G.A., and Day, J.E. (eds.), Paleozoic sequence stratigraphy: Views from the North American craton: Geological Society of America Special Paper 306, p. 203-211.
• Johnson, M.E., Ledesma-Vazquez, J., Clark, H.C., and Zwiebel, J.A. Coastal evolution of Late Cretaceous and Pleistocene rocky shores: Pacific rim of northern Baja California, Mexico: Geological Society of America Bulletin. 108:708-721.
• Johnson, M.E. and Simian, M.E. Discrimination between coastal ramps and marine terraces at Punta Chivato on the Pliocene-Pleistocene Gulf of California. Journal of Geosciences Education. 44:569-575.
• Ledesma-Vazquez, J., Johhnson, M.E., and Gutierrez-Sanchez, S. Origin of a shallow basin Pliocene chert in the Gulf of California. In Nishimura, S., Molina-Cruz, A. and Tsuchi, R. (eds), Neogene events of the eastern tropical Pacific and Central American seaway: IGCP-355 "Neogene Evolution of Pacific Ocean Gateways." Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-01, Japan, p. 17-27.
• Rong, J. and Johnson, M.E. A stepped karst unconformity as an Early Silurian rocky shoreline in Guizhou Province (South China). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 121:115-129.

1995

• Johnson, M.E., Baarli, B.G., and Scott, J.H., Jr. Colonization and reef growth on a Late Pleistocene rocky shore and abrasion platform in Western Australia. Lethaia 28: 85-98.
• Johnson, M.E. and McKerrow, W.S. The Sutton Stone, an early Jurassic rocky shore deposit in South Wales. Palaeontology 38:529-541.
• Clark, H.C. and Johnson, M.E. Coastal geomorphology of andesite from the Cretaceous Alisitos Formation in Baja California (Mexico). Journal of Coastal Research 11: 401-414.
• Zwiebel, J.A. and Johnson, M.E. Late Pleistocene mytilid and petricolid bivalves from the open rocky shores of Pacific Baja California (Mexico): Unusual preservation of macrofossils. Journal of Coastal Research 11: 704-716.

1994

• Ledesma-Vazquez, J. and Johnson, M.E. Late Pliocene abrasion platform from the Cantil Costero Formation of Baja California. Ciencias Marinas 20:139-157.

1993

• Johnson, M.E. and M.L. Hayes. Dichotomous facies on a Late Cretaceous rocky island as related to wind and wave patterns (Baja California, Mexico). Palaios 8:385-395.
• Hayes, M.L., M.E. Johnson, and W.T. Fox. Rocky-shore biotic associations and their fossilization potential: Isla Requeson (Baja California Sur, Mexico). Journal of Coastal Research 9:944-957.
• Ledesma-Vaquez, J. y Johnson, M.E. Neotectonica del area Loreto-Mulege. En Delgado-Argote, L.A. y Martin-Barajas, A., eds., Contribuciones a la Tectonica del Occidente de Mexico, Monografia No. 1, Union Geofiscica Mexicana, p. 115-122.
• Scott, J.H., Jr. and M.E. Johnson. Lateral variation in the geomorphology of a Pleistocene rocky coastline at Kalbarri (Western Australia). Journal of Coastal Research 9:1013-1025.

1992

• Johnson, M.E. Studies on ancient rocky shores: A brief history and annotated bibliography. Journal of Coastal Research 8:797-812.
• Johnson, M.E. A.W. Grabau's embryonic sequence stratigraphy and eustatic curve, In, Dott, R.H., Jr. (ed.), Eustasy: The Historical Ups and Downs of a Major Concept: Geological Society of America Memoir 180, p. 43-54.
• Baarli, B.G., S. Brande, and M.E. Johnson. Proximality trends in the Red Mountain Formation (Lower Silurian) of Birmingham, Alabama, In Chaplin, J.R. and Barrick, J.E. (eds.), Special papers in paleontology and stratigraphy: A tribute to Thomas W. Amsden: Oklahoma Geological Survey Bulletin 145:1-17.
• Baarli, B.G., M.E. Johnson, and H.B. Keilen. Size and shape distribution of level-bottom tabulate corals and stromatoporoids (Silurian). Lethaia 25:269-282.

1991

• Johnson, M.E., B.G. Baarli, H. Nestor, M. Rubel, and D. Worsley. Eustatic sea-level patterns from the Lower Silurian (Landovery Series) of southern Norway and Estonia. Geological Society of America Bulletin 103:315-335.
• Johnson, M.E., D. Kaljo, and Rong Jia-yu. Silurian eustasy. 145-163. In Bassett, M.G., Lane, P.D., and Edwards, D. (eds.). The Murchison Symposium: proceedings of an international conference on The Silurian System. Special Papers in Palaeontology. 44:1-397.
• Johnson, M.E. and W.S McKerrow. Sea level and faunal changes during the latest Llandovery and earliest Ludlow (Silurian). Historical Biology 5:153-169.
• Lescinsky, H.L., J. Ledesma-Vazquez, and M.E. Johnson. Dynamics of Late Cretaceous rocky shores (Lower Rosario Formation) from Baja California, Mexico. Palaios 6:126-141.

1989

• Johnson, M.E. Tempestites recorded as variable Pentamerus layers in the Lower Silurian of southern Norway. Journal of Paleontology 63:195-205.
• Johnson, M.E. Uses of history in an historical science: Learning from traditions in geology. Earth Sciences History 4:51-54. Johnson, M.E. Williams College and the foundation of geology in western Massachusetts and New York. History of Geology Field-trip Guide, International Geological Congress (Washington, D.C., 1989) Field Trip T169:20-24.
• Johnson, M.E. and Rong Jia-yu. Middle to Late Ordovician rocky bottoms and rocky shores from the Manitoulin Island area (Ontario). Can. J. Earth Sci 26:642-653.
• Johnson, M.E., Rong Jia-yu, and W.T. Fox. Comparison of Late Ordovician epicontinental seas and their relative bathymetry in North America and China. Palaios 4:55-62.

1988

• Johnson, M.E., D.F. Skinner, and K.G. MacLeod. Ecological zonation during the carbonate transgression of a Late Ordovician rocky shore (north-eastern Manitoba, Hudson Bay, Canada). Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology 65:93-114.
• Johnson, M.E. Why are ancient rocky shores so uncommon? Jour. Geology. 96:469-480. Johnson, M.E. Hunting for ancient rocky shores. Journal Geological Education 36:147-154
• . Johnson, M.E. Early Silurian carbonates from the Upper Mississippi Valley area as a key to platform development on a cratonic scale. In Ludvigson, G.A. and B.J. Bunker (eds.): New perspectives on the Paleozoic history of the Upper Mississippi Valley. Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Geological Suvey Bureau Guidebook No. 8, pp. 79-93.
• Baarli, B.G. and M.E. Johnson. Biostratigraphy of key brachiopod lineages from the Llandovery Series (Lower Silurian) of the Oslo Region. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 68:259-274.

1987

• Johnson, M.E. North American Paleozoic oceanography: Overview of progress toward a modern synthesis. Paleoceanography 2:123-140.
• Johnson, M.E. Extent and bathymetry of North American platform seas in the Early Silurian. Paleoceanography 2:185-211.
• Johnson, M.E. and B.G. Baarli. Encrusting corals on a latest Ordovician to earliest Silurian rocky shore, southwest Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Canada. Geology 15:15-17.
• Skinner, D.F. and M.E. Johnson. Nautiloid debris oriented by long-shore currents along a late Ordovician-early Silurian rocky shore. Lethaia 20:152-158.

1986

• Johnson, M.E. and H.L. Lescinsky. Depositional dynamics of cyclic carbonates from the Interlake Group (Lower Silurian) of the Williston Basin. Palaios 1:111-122.
• Beadle, S.C. and M.E. Johnson. Palaeoecology of Silurian cyclocrinitid algae. Palaeontology 29:585-601.

1985

• Johnson, M.E. A.W. Grabau and the fruition of a new life in China. Journal Geological Education 33:106-111.
• Johnson, M.E. Early survey work and the roots of geological education in the Carolinas. In Corgan, J.X. (ed): Geological Education in the South, Earth Sciences History, 4:3-9.
• Johnson, M.E. Limestones, changing sea level, and other views on the way from Norway to China. Williams Alumni Review 77:22-26.
• Johnson, M.E., Rong Jia-yu, and Yang Xue-chang. Intercontinental correlation by sea-level events in the lower Silurian of North America and China (Yangtze Platform). Geological Society of America Bulletin 96:1384-1397.

1984

• Johnson, M.E. Chasing Silurian sea-level changes in China. China Exchange News (Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China) 12:6-8.
• Rong Jia-yu, M.E. Johnson, & Yang Xue-chang. Early Silurian (Llandovery) sea-level changes in the Upper Yangtze region of central and southwestern China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 23:672-693. (In Chinese with English summary).

1983

• Johnson, M.E. New member names for the Lower Silurian Hopkinton Dolomite of eastern Iowa. Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci. 90:13-l8.
• Worsley, D., R.J. Aldridge, B.G. Baarli, M.P.A. Howe, and M.E. Johnson. The Llandovery Series of the Oslo Region. A submission to the Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy (April l983). Paleontological Contr. Univ. Oslo no. 287, pp. 1-37.

1982

• Johnson, M.E. The second geological career of Ebenezer Emmons: Success and failure in the southern states, 1851-1860. In Corgan, J.X. (ed.): The Geological Sciences in the Antebellum South. Univ. of Alabama Press, pp. 142-170.
• Johnson, M.E. & V.R. Colville. Regional integration of evidence for evolution in the Silurian Pentamerus-Pentameroides lineage. Lethaia 15:41-54. Colville, V.R. & M.E. Johnson. Correlation of sea-level curves for the Silurian of the Bruce Peninsula and Lake Timiskaming District (Ontario). Can. J. Earth Sci. l9:962-974.
• Johnson, M.E. Historical overview of research on Lower Silurian (Llandovery) strata in Norway. In Worsley, D. (ed.): IUGS Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy. Field Meeting, Oslo Region 1982. Paleontological Contr. Univ. Oslo no. 278, pp. 1-10.
• Baarli, B.G. & M.E. Johnson. Lower Silurian biostratigraphy of stricklandiid and pentamerid brachiopod lineages in the Oslo Region. In Worsley, D. (ed.): IUGS Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy. Field Meeting, Oslo Region 1982. Paleontological Contr. Univ. Oslo no. 278, pp. 91-104.
• Johnson, M.E. & D. Worsley. Chronology and depositional environments of early Silurian sequences in the Oslo Region. In Worsley, D. (ed.): IUGS Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy. Field Meeting, Oslo Region 1982. Paleontological Contr. Univ. Oslo no. 278, pp. 149-160.
• Worsley, D., B.G. Baarli, & M.E. Johnson. An excursion guide to the Lower Silurian sequences of the Asker, Ringerike and Oslo Districts of the Oslo Region. In Worsley, D. (ed.): IUGS Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraplhy, Field Meeting, Oslo Region 1982. Paleontlolgical Contr. Univ. Oslo no. 278, pp. 161-176.

1981

• Johnson, M.E. Correlation of Lower Silurian strata from the Michigan Upper Peninsula to Manitoulin Island. Can. J. Earth Sci. 18:869-883.
• Johnson, M.E., L.R.M. Cocks, & P. Copper. Late Ordovician-Early Silurian fluctuations in sea level from eastern Anticost Island, Quebec. Lethaia 14:73-82.

1980

• Johnson, M.E. Paleoecological structure in Early Silurian platform seas of the North American Midcontinent. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 30:191-215.
• Johnson, M.E. & G.T. Campbell. Recurrent carbonate environments in the Lower Silurian of northern Michigan and their interregional correlation. Journal of Paleontology 54:1041-1057.
• Johnson, M.E. Mary Anning and geology in the early 19th Century. pp. 27-36. In A Symposium on "Women in the History of Science" presented at Williams College Jan. 25, 1980. Privately published, 65 p.
• Johnson, M.E. & W.T. Fox. Following a 145-year-old trail. Williams Alumni Review 73:25-28.

• Johnson, M.E. Evolutionary brachiopod lineages from the Silurian Llandovery Series of eastern Iowa. Palaeontology 22:549-567.
• Ziegler, A.M., C.R. Scotese, W.S. McKerrow, M.E. Johnson, & R.K. Bambach. Paleozoic paleogeography. Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 7:473-502.

1978

• Johnson, M.E. Paleobathymetry and the community concept. Lethaia 11:258.
• Nitecki, M.H. & M.E. Johnson. Internal structures of Cyclocrinites dactioloides, a receptaculitid alga from the Lower Silurian of Iowa. Fieldiana Geol. 39:1-15.
• Nitecki, M.H., J.L. Lemke, H.W. Pullman, & M.E. Johnson. Acceptance of plate tectonic theory by geologists. Geology 6:661-664.

1977

• Johnson, M.E. Succession and replacement in the development of Silurian brachiopod populations. Lethaia 10:83-93.
• Johnson, M.E. Geology in American education: 1825-1860. Geological Society of America Bulletin 88:1192-1198. Johnson, M.E. Early geological exploration of the Silurian System in Iowa. Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci. 84:150-156.
• Ziegler, A.M., K.S. Hansen, M.E. Johnson, M.A. Kelly, C.R. Scotese, & R. Van der Voo. Silurian continental distributions, paleogeography, climatology, and biogeography. Tectonophysics 40:13-51.
• Ziegler, A.M., C.R. Scotese, W.S. McKerrow, M.E. Johnson, & R.K. Bambach. Paleozoic biogeography of continents bordering the Iapetus (pre-Caledonian) and Rheic (pre-Hercynian) Oceans. Milwaukee Public Mus. Spec. Publ. in Biology & Geology 2:1-22.

1975

• Johnson, M.E. Recurrent community patterns in epeiric seas: the Lower Silurian of eastern Iowa. Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci. 82: 130-139.

1974

• Johnson, M.E. Occurrence of a ctenacanthoid shark spine from the Upper Devonian of north central Iowa. Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci. 81:56-60.