BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES
2009
Johnson, M.E. and Ledesma-Vazquez, J. (eds). Atlas of Coastal Ecosystems in the Western Gulf of California: Tracking Limestone Deposits on the Margin of a Young Sea. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona 189 p.
2003
Landing, E. and Johnson, M.E. (eds). Silurian Lands and Seas: Paleogeography Outside of Laurentia. New York State Museum Bulletin 493, 400 p.
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., and 7 maps.
1998
Landing, E. and Johnson, M.E. (eds). Silurian Cycles: Linkages of Dynamic Stratigraphy with Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Tectonic Changes. New York State Museum Bulletin 491, 327 p.
1997
Johnson, M.E. and Ledesma-Vazquez, J. (eds.). Pliocene carbonates and related facies flanking the Gulf of California, Baja California, Mexico. Geological Society of America Special Paper 318, 172 p.
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
Baarli, B.G., Santos, A., Mayoral, E.J., Ledesma-Vázquez, J., Johnson, M.E., da Silva, C.M., and Cachão, M. What Darwin did not see: Pleistocene fossil assemblages on a high-energy coast at Ponta das Bicudas, Santiago, Cape Verde Islands. Geological Magazine, v. 149, in press.
Baarili, B.G., Cachão, M., da Silva, C.M., Johnson, M.E., Mayoral, E.J., and Santos, A. Embankment of Middle Miocene calcarenites and with submarine mass flows (tuffites and coral rudstone) on a volcanically active island (Ilhéu de Baixo, Porto Santo, Madeira Archipelago, Portugal). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, in progress.
Backus, D., Ledesma-Vázquez, J., Carreno, A.L, and Johnson, M.E. Marine incursion record in the southern Gulf of California Baja, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Basin Research, Under revision.
Johnson, M.E., Baarli, G., da Silva, C.M., Cachão, M., Ramalho, R.S., Ledesma-Vázques, J., Mayoral, E.J., and Santos, A., Coastal dunes with high content of rhodolith (coralline red algae) bioclasts: Pleistocene formations on Maio and São Nicollau in the Cape Verde archipelago. Aeolian Research, in press, DOI 10.1016/j.aeolia.2012.10.008.
Johnson, M.E., Webb, G.E., Baarli, B.G., and *Walsh, D.R. Upper Devonian shoal-water delta integrated with cyclic back-reef facies off the Mowanbini Archipelago (Canning Basin), Western Australia. Facies, v. 59, DOI: 10.1007/s10347-012-0348-7.
Rong, J., Johnson, M.E., Deng, Z., Dong, D., Xue, Y. Baarli, B.G. and Wang, G. Coral-stromatoporoid faunas from the shores of an Upper Silurian island, Inner Mongolia, North China. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoir 40. Under review.
PUBLISHED ARTICLES AND/OR BOOK CHAPTERS (student co-authors*)
2012
Baarli, B.G., Santos, A., da Silva, C.M., Ledesma-Vázquez, J., Mayoral, E., and Johnson, M.E. Diverse macroids and rhodoliths from the Upper Pleistocene of Baja California Sur, Mexico. Journal of Coastal Research. v. 28(1), p. 296-305.
Backus, D.H., Johnson, M.E., and Riosmena-Rodríguez, R. Distribution, sediment source, and coastal erosion of fan-delta systems on Isla Cerralvo (Lower Gulf of California, Mexico). Journal of Coastal Research. v. 28(1), p. 210-224.
*Emhoff, K.F, Johnson, M.E., Backus, D.H. and Ledesma-Vázquez, J. Pliocene stratigraphy at Paredones Blancos: Significance of a massive crushed-rhodolith deposit on Isla Cerralvo, Baja California Sur (Mexico). Journal of Coastal Research, v. 28(1), p. 234-243.
Johnson, M.E. and Baarli, B.G. Development of intertidal biotas through Phanerozoic time, pp. 63-128. In: Talent, J.A. (ed), Earth and Life: Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time. Springer Science and Media, Dordrecht, 1,107 p.
Johnson, M.E., Baarli, B.G., Cachão, M., da Silva, C.M., Ledesma-Vásquez, J., Ramalho, R.S., Mayoral, E. and Santos, A. Rhodoliths, uniformitarianism, and Darwin: Pleistocene and Recent carbonate deposits in the Cape Verde and Canary archipelagos. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 329-330, p. 83-100.
Johnson, M.E., Ledesma-Vásquez, J., Backus, D.H., and Gonzálaz, M.R. Lagoon microbialites on Isla Angel de la Guarda and associated peninsular shores, Gulf of California, Mexico. Sedimentary Geology. v. 263-264, p. 76-84.
Johnson, M.E., *Perez, D.M., and Baarli, B.G. Rhodolith stranding event on a Pliocene rocky shore from Isla Cerralvo in the Lower Gulf of California (Mexico). Journal of Coastal Research, v. 28(1), p. 225-233.
Santos, A., Mayoral, E., Baarli, B.G., Da Silva, C.M., Cachão, M., and Johnson, M.E. Symbiotic association of a pyrgomatid barnacle and a coral from a volcanic middle Miocene shoreline (Porto Santo, Madeira Archipelago, Portugal). Palaeontology, v. 55, p. 173-182.
Santos, A., Mayoral, E., Johnson, M.E., Baarli, B.G., Cachão, M., da Silva, C.M., Ledesma-Vásquez, J. Extreme habitat adaptation for boring bivalves on volcanically active paleoshores from North Atlantic Macaronesia. Facies, v. 58. 325-338.
Santos, A.G., Mayoral, E., Johnson, M.E., Baarli, B.G., da Silva, C.M., Cachão, M., Ledesma-Vázquez, J. Basalt mounds and adjacent depressions attract contrasting biofacies on a volcanically active Middle Miocene shoreline (Porto Santo, Madeira Archipelago, Portugal). Facies, v. 58, 573-585.
*Tierney, P.W. and Johnson, M.E. The role of crustose coralline algae in Late Pleistocene reef development on Isla Cerralvo, Baja California Sur (Mexico). Journal of Coastal Research, v. 28(1), p. 244-254.
2011
Johnson, M.E., Baarli, B.G., Santos, A., and Mayoral, E. Ichnofacies and microbial build-ups on Late Miocene rocky shores from Minorca (Balearic Islands), Spain. Facies. v. 57, p. 255-265.
Johnson, M.E., da Silva, C.M., Santos, A., Baarli, B.G., Cachão, M. Mayoral, E.J., Rebelo, A.C. and Ledesma-Vázquez, J. 2011. Rhodolth transport and immobilization on a volcanically active rocky shore: Middle Miocene at Cabeço das Laranjas on Ilhéu de Cima (Madeira Archipelago, Portugal). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. v. 300, p. 113-127.
Pedoja, K., Husson, L., Regard, V., Cobbold, .R., Ostanciaux, E., Johnson, M.E., Kershaw, S., Saillard, M., Martinood, J, Furgerot, L., Weill, P. and Delcaillau, B. 2011. Relative sea-level fall since the last interglacial stage: Are coasts uplifting worldwide? Earth-Science Reviews. v. 108, p. 1-15.
Santos, A.G., Mayoral, E.J., da Silva, C.M., Cachão, M., Johnson, M.E., and Baarli, B.G. 2011. Miocene intertidal zonation on a volcanically active shoreline: Porto Santo in the Madeira Archipelago (Portugal). Lethaia. v. 44, p. 26-32.
2010
Johnson, M.E. Tracking Silurian eustasy: Alignment of empirical evidence or pursuit of deductive reasoning? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 296, p. 276-284.
Johnson, M.E., Karabinos, P.M., and Mendia, V. Quaternary intertidal deposits intercalated with volcanic rocks on Isla Sombrero Chino in the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador). Journal of Coastal Research. v. 26, p. 762-768.
Johnson, M.E., Wilson, MA., and Redden, J.A. Borings in quartzite surf boulders from the Upper Cambrian basal Deadwood Formation, Black Hills of South Dakota. Ichnos, v. 17, p. 48-55.
2009
Johnson, M.E. and Ledesma-Vazquez, J. Pliocene and Pleistocene development of peninsular and island rocky shores in the Gulf of California. In, Johnson, M.E. and Ledesma-Vazquez, J. (editors). Atlas of Coastal Ecosystems in the Western Gulf of California: Tracking Limestone Deposits on the Margin of a Young Sea. University of Arizona Press, p. 28-44.
Johnson, M.E., Backus, D.H., and Riosmena-Rodríguez, R. Contribution of rhodoliths to the generation of Pliocene-Pleistocen limestone in the Gulf of California. In, Johnson, M.E. and Ledesma-Vazquez, J. (editors). Atlas of Coastal Ecosystems in the Western Gulf of California: Tracking Limestone Deposits on the Margin of a Young Sea. University of Arizona Press, p. 83-94.
Johnson, M.E., Ledesma-Vázquez, J., and Montiel-Boehringe, M.Y. Growth of Pliocene-Pleisocene clam banks (Mollusca, Bivalvia) and related tectonic constraints in the Gulf of California. In, Johnson, M.E. and Ledesma-Vazquez, J. (editors). Atlas of Coastal Ecosystems in the Western Gulf of California: Tracking Limestone Deposits on the Margin of a Young Sea. University of Arizona Press, p. 104-116.
Johnson, M.E. and Backus, D.H. Beach deflation and accrual of Pliocene-Pleistocene coastal dunes of the Gulf of California region. In, Johnson, M.E. and Ledesma-Vazquez, J. (editors). Atlas of Coastal Ecosystems in the Western Gulf of California: Tracking Limestone Deposits on the Margin of a Young Sea. University of Arizona Press, p. 134-144.
Backus, D.H., Johnson, M.E., and Ledesma-Vazquez, J. Peninsular and island rocky shores in the Gulf of California. In, Johnson, M.E. and Ledesma-Vazquez, J. (editors). Atlas of Coastal Ecosystems in the Western Gulf of California: Tracking Limestone Deposits on the Margin of a Young Sea. University of Arizona Press, p. 11-27.
Backus, D.H. and Johnson, M.E. Sand dunes on peninsular and island shores in the Gulf of California. In, Johnson, M.E. and Ledesma-Vazquez, J. (editors). Atlas of Coastal Ecosystems in the Western Gulf of California: Tracking Limestone Deposits on the Margin of a Young Sea. University of Arizona Press, p. 1117-133.
Ledesma-Vázquez, J., Johnson, M.E., Gonzalez-Yajimovich, and Santamaría-del-Angel, E. Gulf of California geography, geological origins, oceanography, and sedimentation patterns. In, Johnson, M.E. and Ledesma-Vazquez, J. (editors). Atlas of Coastal Ecosystems in the Western Gulf of California: Tracking Limestone Deposits on the Margin of a Young Sea. University of Arizona Press, p. 1-10.
2007
Johnson, M.E. and Baarli. B.G. Topography and depositional environments at the Ordovician-Silurian boundary in the Iowa-Illinois-Wisconsin region, U.S.A. Proceedings of the Yangtze Conference, June 25-30, 2007, Nanjing, China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, v. 46 (Suppl.) p. 208-217.
Johnson, M.E., López-Pérez, A., *Ransom, C.R., and Ledesma-Vázquez, J. Late Pleistocene coral-reef development on Isla Coronados, Gulf of California. Ciencias Marinas, v. 33, p. 105-120.
Johnson, M.E. and Webb, G.E. Outer rocky shores of the Mowanbini Archipelago, Devonian Reef Complex, Canning Basin, Western Australia. Journal of Geology, v. 115, p. 583-600.
Ledesma-Vázquez, J., Johnson, M.E., Backus, D.H., and *Mirabal-Davis, C. Coastal evolution from transgressive barrier deposit to marine terrace on Isla Coronados, Baja California Sur, México. Ciencias Marinas, v. 33, p. 335-351.
*Sewell, A.A., Johnson, M.E., Backus, D.H., and Ledesma-Vázquez, J. Rhodolith detritus impounded by a coastal dune on Isla Coronados, Gulf of California. Ciencias Marinas, v. 33, p. 483-494.
2006
Johnson, M.E. Relationship of Silurian sea-level fluctuations to oceanic episodes and events. GFF, v. 128, p. 115-121.
Johnson, M.E. Uniformitarianism as a guide to rocky-shore ecosystems in the geological record. In, Rudkin, D. and Johnson, M.E. ( uest eds.), Signatures of Rocky Shorelines in the Geological Record. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 43, p. 1119-1147.
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, v. 22, p. 574-580.
Baarli, B.G., *Levine, R., and Johnson, M.E. The late Neoproterozoic Smalfjord Formation of the Varanger Peninsula in northern Norway: A shallow fjord deposit. Norwegian Journal of Geology, v. 86, p. 133-150.
*Eros, J.M., Johnson, M.E., and Backus, D.H. Rocky shores and development of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Arroyo Blanco basin on Isla Carmen in the Gulf of California, Mexico. In, Rudkin, D. and Johnson, M.E. (guest eds.), Signatures of Rocky Shorelines in the Geological Record. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 43, p. 1149-1164.
Ledesma-Vázquez, J., Carreño, A.L., Staines-Urias, F., and Johnson, M.E. The San Nicolás Formation: A Proto-Gulf extensional-related new lithostratigraphic unit at Bahía San Nicolás, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Journal of Coastal Research, v. 22, p. 801-811.
*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. and Johnson, M.E. (guest eds.), Signatures of Rocky Shorelines in the Geological Record. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 43, p. 1215-1228.
*Skudder, P.A., III, Backus, D.H., Goodwin, D.H., and Johnson, M.E. Sequestration of carbonate shell material in coastal dunes on the Gulf of California (Baja California Sur, Mexico). Journal of Coastal Research, v. 22, p. 611-625.
2005
Johnson, M.E. and Baarli, B.G. 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, p. 867-879.
2004
Johnson, M.E., Rong Jia-yu, and Su Wen-bo. Paleogeographic orientation of the Sino-Korean Plate based on evidence for a prevailing Silurian wind field. Journal of Geology. v. 112, p. 671-684.
*Payne, J.L., Johnson, M.E., and Ledesma-Vázquez, J. Lower Cretaceous Alisitos Formation at Punta San Isidro: Coastal sedimentation and volcanism. Ciencias Marinas, v. 30, p. 365-380.
2003
Johnson, M.E., Backus, D.H., and Ledesma-Vázquez, J. Offset of Pliocene ramp facies at El Mangle by El Coloradito Fault, Baja California Sur: Implications for transtensional tectonics, In Johnson, S.E. and others (eds.), Tectonic evolution of northwestern México and the southwestern USA: Geological Society of America Special Paper 374, p. 407-420.
Baarli, B.G., Johnson, M.E. and Antoshkina, A.I. Silurian stratigraphy and paleogeography of Baltica, pp. 3-34. In, Landing, E. and Johnson, M.E. (eds.), Silurian Lands and Seas: Paleogeography Outside of Laurentia. New York State Museum Bulletin No. 493, 400 p.
2002
Johnson, M.E. Ancient islands in the Stream: Paleogeography and expected circulation patterns.In Monegatti, P. Cecca, F. and Raffi, S. (eds.): International Conference “Paleobiogeography & Paleoecology 2001”, Piacenza and Casttell’ Arquato 2001. Geobios, v. 35 (Mémorie Spécial No. 24), p. 96-106.
Nelson, S.J. and Johnson, M.E. 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.
2001
Johnson, M.E. and J. Ledesma-Vazquez. Pliocene-Pleistocene rocky shorelines trace coastal development of Bahía Concepción, 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 Johnson, M.E. 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 – 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-Vázquez. Biological zonation on a rocky-shore boulder deposit: Upper Pleistocene Bahía San Antonio (Baja California Sur, Mexico). Palaios, v. 14, p.569-584.
Ledesma-Vázquez, J., Johnson, M.E. y Romero Ríos. Evolución tectónica del Golfo de California: Mioceno-Pleistoceno de Bahîa Concepción, B.C.S. Gaceta Asociación Mexicana de Geólogos 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 – 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., 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, v. 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, v. 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, v. 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 Powers’ Williams College career. Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences. 19:228-230.
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. v. 13, p. 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. v. 13, p. 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, v. 108, p. 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, v. 44, p. 569-575.
Ledesma-Vazquez, J., Johnson, 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, v. 121, p. 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, v. 28, p. 85-98.
Johnson, M.E. and McKerrow, W.S. The Sutton Stone, an early Jurassic rocky shore deposit in South Wales. Palaeontology, v. 38, p. 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, v. 11, p. 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, v. 11, p. 704-716.
1994
Ledesma-Vazquez, J. and Johnson, M.E. Late Pliocene abrasion platform from the Cantil Costero Formation of Baja California. Ciencias Marinas, v. 20, p.139-157.
1993
Johnson, M.E. and *Hayes.M.L. Dichotomous facies on a Late Cretaceous rocky island as related to wind and wave patterns (Baja California, Mexico). Palaios, v. 8, p. 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, v. 9, p.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, v. 9, p. 1013-1025
1992
Johnson, M.E. Studies on ancient rocky shores: A brief history and annotated bibliography. Journal of Coastal Research, v. 8, p. 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, v. 145, p. 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, v. 25, p. 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, v. 103, p. 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, v. 44, p. 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, v. 6, p. 126-141.
1989
Johnson, M.E. Tempestites recorded as variable Pentamerus layers in the Lower Silurian of southern Norway. Journal of Paleontology, v. 63, p. 195-205.
Johnson, M.E. Uses of history in an historical science: Learning from traditions in geology. Earth Sciences History, v. 4, p. 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., v. 26, p. 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, v. 4, p. 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, v. 65, p. 93-114.
Johnson, M.E. Why are ancient rocky shores so uncommon? Jour. Geology, v. 96, p. 469-480.
Johnson, M.E. Hunting for ancient rocky shores. Journal Geological Education, v. 36 p. 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 Survey 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, v. 68. p. 259-274.
1987
Johnson, M.E. North American Paleozoic oceanography: Overview of progress toward a modern synthesis. Paleoceanography, v. 2, p. 123-140.
Johnson, M.E. Extent and bathymetry of North American platform seas in the Early Silurian. Paleoceanography, v. 2, p. 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, v. 15, p. 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, v. 20, p. 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, v. 1, p. 111-122.
*Beadle, S.C. and M.E. Johnson. Palaeoecology of Silurian cyclocrinitid algae. Palaeontology, v. 29, p. 585-601.
1985
Johnson, M.E. A.W. Grabau and the fruition of a new life in China. Journal Geological Education, v. 33, p. 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, v. 4, p. 3-9.
Johnson, M.E. Limestones, changing sea level, and other views on the way from Norway to China. Williams Alumni Review, v. 77, p. 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, v. 96, p. 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), v.12, p. 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, v. 23, p. 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., v. 90, p. 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, v. 15, p. 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., v. l9, p. 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 Stratigraphy, 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., v. 18, p. 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, v.14, p. 73-82.
1980
Johnson, M.E. Paleoecological structure in Early Silurian platform seas of the North American Midcontinent. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 30, p. 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, v. 54, p. 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, v. 73, p.25-28.
1979
Johnson, M.E. Evolutionary brachiopod lineages from the Silurian Llandovery Series of eastern Iowa. Palaeontology, v. 22, p. 549-567.
Ziegler, A.M., C.R. Scotese, W.S. McKerrow, M.E. Johnson, & R.K. Bambach. Paleozoic paleogeography. Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., v. 7, p. 473-502.
1978
Johnson, M.E. Paleobathymetry and the community concept. Lethaia, v. 11, p. 258.
Nitecki, M.H. & M.E. Johnson. Internal structures of Cyclocrinites dactioloides, a receptaculitid alga from the Lower Silurian of Iowa. Fieldiana Geol., v. 39, p. 1-15.
Nitecki, M.H., J.L. Lemke, H.W. Pullman, & M.E. Johnson. Acceptance of plate tectonic theory by geologists. Geology, v. 6, p. 661-664.
1977
Johnson, M.E. Succession and replacement in the development of Silurian brachiopod populations. Lethaia, v. 10, 83-93.
Johnson, M.E. Geology in American education: 1825-1860. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 88, p. 1192-1198.
Johnson, M.E. Early geological exploration of the Silurian System in Iowa. Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci., v. 84, p. 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, v. 40, p. 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, v. 2, p. 1-22.
1975
Johnson, M.E. Recurrent community patterns in epeiric seas: the Lower Silurian of eastern Iowa. Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci., v. 82, p. 130-139.
1974
Johnson, M.E. Occurrence of a ctenacanthoid shark spine from the Upper Devonian of north central Iowa. Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci., v. 81, p. 56-60.