Smith, M.S., Dymek, R.F., and Chadwick, B. (1992) Petrogenesis of Archaean Malene supracrustal rocks, NW Buksefjorden region, West Greenland: Geochemical evidence for highly evolved Archaean crust. Precambrian Research, v. 57, 49-90.
Smith, M.S., Dymek, R.F., and Schneiderman, J.S. (1992) Implications of trace element geochemistry for the origin of cordierite-anthophyllite rocks from Orijarvi, SW Finland. Journal of Geology , v. 100, 97-121.
Couture, R.A., Smith, M.S., and Dymek, R.F. (1993) X-ray fluorescence analysis of silicate rocks using fused glass discs and a side-window Rh source tube: Accuracy, precision and reproducibility. Chemical Geology , v. 110, 315-328.
Smith, M.S. (1995) Petrographic, chemical and mineral characterization of Colonowares (Yaughan and River Burnished) from the Broom Hall Plantation. In: Trinkley, M. et al. (eds.) Broom Hall Plantation: "A Pleasant One and in a Good Neighborhood", Research Series 44, Chicora Foundation, Inc., Columbia, SC, 316-324.
Smith, M., Lageson, D., Heatherington, A., and Harlan, S. (1995) Geochronology, geochemistry and isotope systematics of the basalt of Hepburn Mesa, Yellowstone River valley, Montana. Geological Society of America Abstr. with Programs, v. 27, no. 4, 56.
Smith, M.S., Loftfield, T.C. and Paulsson, F.M. (1995) Preliminary investigation of orange micaceous earthenware from the early Colonial Period Charles Towne colony, Cape Fear River, North Carolina: Implications for local manufacture. In P. Vandiver, J. Druzik, J. L. Galvan Madrid, I. Freestone, and G. S. Wheeler (eds.), Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology IV, v. 352, Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, PA, 589-595.
Heatherington, A.L., Mueller, P.A., Smith, M.S., and Nutman, A.P. (1996) The Corbin Gneiss: Evidence for Grenvillian magmatism and older continental basement in the southernmost Blue Ridge. Southeastern Geology, v. 36, no. 1, 15-25.
Smith, M.S. (1997) Petrographic and mineral characterization of Thom's Creek Plain Sherds. In: Trinkley, M. and Hacker, D.(eds.) Excavations at a portion of the Secessionville archaeological site (38CH14566), James Island, Charleston County, South Carolina, Research Series 52, Chicora Foundation, Inc., Columbia, SC, 171-174.
Smith, M. S. and Laws, R. A. (1998) Tracking the modern geoscience graduate: A University of North Carolina case study. Journal of College Science Teaching, v. 27, no. 5, 312-316.
Smith, M.S. and Loftfield, T.C. (1998) Discerning the provenance of earthenware and building materials from the early Colonial Period (1664 - 1667) Charles Towne colony, Cape Fear River, North Carolina using ceramic petrology techniques. Pioneer America Society, Abstracts with Program, A3.
Adkin, Sally, Shafer, Karen and Smith, Michael. (2000) Summer Ventures In Science and Mathematics. Abstr. with Programs for the Invitational Conference on K-12 Outreach from University Science Departments, Raleigh, NC.
Hines, Elizabeth and Smith, Michael, (2000) The Rush Started Here: Gold Mining in North Carolina, 1799-1999. Geol. Soc. America Abstr. with Programs, v. 32, no. 2, A26.
Woodcock, Tim, Smith, M. and Hall. J. (2000) “Will the Real Taeniaster Please Stand Up,” Ophiuroids from Swatara Gap, Ordovician Martinsburg Formation, Pennsylvania. Geol. Soc. America Abstr. with Programs, v. 32, no. 2, A84.
Smith, Michael, Colleen P. Stapleton and Michael Trinkley (2001) Comparison of weak acid extraction chemistry and electron microprobe analysis of paste compositions for a suite of colonoware pottery, Broom Hall Plantation, Charleston, South Carolina. Geol. Soc. America Abstr. with Programs, v. 33, no. 2, A31.
O'Connor, Barbara Cox and Michael S. Smith (2001) Results of Petrographic Analysis Using Prehistoric Ceramics from St. Croix. Aruba Conference of the International Congress of Caribbean Archaeologists, May 28, 2001, Abstracts with Programs.
Smith, M. S. (2001) Comparative petrographic investigation of ceramics from Charles Towne Landing State Park, Charleston, South Carolina. In: Stoner and South (eds.) Exploring 1670 Charles Towne: 38CH1A/B - Final Archaeology Report. Research Manuscript Series 230. South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Columbia, pp. 104-115.
Hall, Jack C., Smith, Michael S., and Shafer, Karen (2002). The Earth And The Environment In North Carolina: An Experimental And Experiential Approach. Geol. Soc. America Abstr. with Programs, v. 34, no. 2.
Elizabeth Hines and Michael S. Smith (2002/2003). Gold is where you find it: Placer mining in North Carolina, 1799-1849. Journal of Earth Science History, 21(2), 119-149.
Tappen, Christine M. and Smith, Michael S. (2003) The Crabtree Pegmatite, Spruce Pine District, North Carolina: Mineralization and Host Rock Relationships. Southeastern Geology, 41(4), 201-224.
O'Connor, Barbara Cox and Michael S. Smith (2003) Comparative ceramic petrography of pottery from St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands: Aklis, Salt River, Prosperity and Northside sites. Proceedings of the XIX International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, Museo Arqueologico Aruba, Volume 9 (2): 29-42.
O'Connor, Barbara Cox and Smith, Michael S. (2003) Petrographic Analysis of Ceramic Sherds from the Peter Bay and Trunk Bay Prehistoric Sites on St. John, United States Virgin Islands. International Congress of Caribbean Archaeologists, Proceedings, Dominican Republic, 29 June - 06 July, 2003, Symposium V, v. 1, 383-390..
Cranfill, M. Rhonda and Smith, Michael S. (2004) Mineralogical And Petrological Investigation Of Historic St. Mary's City Orange Micaeous Ceramics. Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference. Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, March 12-14. Abstracts (no page numbers).
Cranfill, M. Rhonda and Smith, Michael S. (2004) Mineralogical And Petrological Investigation Of Historic St. Mary's City Orange Micaeous Ceramics. Geol. Soc. America Abstr. with Programs, v. 36, no. 2, 65.
Gridley, David and Smith, Michael S. (2004) The Gardiner Basalts: Petrological And Geochemical Comparison With The Hepburn Mesa And Yellowstone National Park Basalts. Geol. Soc. America Abstr. with Programs, v. 36, no. 2., 103.
Grosser, Benjamin and Smith, Michael S. (2004) The Petrology And Geochemistry Of The Wildcat Gulch Syenite, Gunnison County, Colorado. Geol. Soc. America Abstr. with Programs, v. 36, no. 2., 70-71.
Hall, Jack C., Smith, Michael S., Kawczynski, William J., Shew, Roger D. and Shafer, Karen D. (2004) Meeting The Earth/Environmental Science Requirements From The Standard Course Of Study Using North Carolina Examples. Geol. Soc. America Abstr. with Programs, v. 36, no. 2., 99.
Herbert, Joe and Smith, Michael S. (2004) A Chemical And Petrographic Study Of The Origins Of Prehistoric Pottery In The North Carolina Sandhills. Geol. Soc. America Abstr. with Programs, v. 36, no. 2., 65.
Raber, Maverick J., Benedetti, Michael M., Smith, Michael S. and Leonard, Lynn L., (2004) Characteristics Of Sediments Transported And Deposited In The Cape Fear River Estuary, Southeastern North Carolina. Geol. Soc. America Abstr. with Programs, v. 36, no. 2., 87.
Smith, Michael S. and Dockal, James A. (2004) Development Of Small Non-Marine Limestone Lenses Associated With The Sullivan Buttes Latite, Yavapai County, Arizona. Geol. Soc. America Abstr. with Programs, v. 36, no. 2., 90-91.
Dockal, James A. and Smith, Michael S. (2005). Evidence for a prehistoric petroglyph map in central Arizona. Kiva, v. 70 (4), 413-421.
Dockal, James A. and Smith, Michael S. (2005) Tertiary non-marine limestone within the strata of the Sullivan Buttes Volcanic Field, Yavapai County, Arizona: A petrologic and diagenetic investigation. Journal of Carbonates and Evaporates, v. 20 (2), 161-180.
Catlin, Brianne L., Smith, Michael S., and Petersen, James A. (2005). Mineralogical and petrological investigation of prehistoric ceramic sherds from the island of Anguilla in the Lesser Antilles Island chain of the Caribbean. Geol. Soc. America Abstr. with Programs, v. 37, no. 7, 276.
Peck, William H. and Smith, Michael S. (2005) Cordierite-Gedrite Rocks from the Central Metasedimentary Belt Boundary Thrust Zone (Grenville Province, Ontario): Mesoproterozoic volcanics with affinities to the composite arc belt. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 42, 1815-1828.
Tappen, Christine, Smith, Michael S. and Dockal, James A. (2006) Beryl (Aquamarine, Emerald, Green and Yellow) and Tourmaline of the Crabtree Pegmatite, Spruce Pine District, Mitchell County, North Carolina, in Reid, Jeffrey C., editor, Proceedings of the 42nd Forum on the Geology of Industrial Minerals: Information Circular 34, North Carolina Geological Survey, Asheville, NC, May 7-13, 2006.
Smith, Michael S. and Trinkley, Michael. (2006) Stallings Island Culture Fiber-Tempered Pottery: A Mineralogical and Petrographical Study. In M. Maggetti and B. Messiga (eds) Geomaterials in Cultural Heritage, Geological Society ( London) Special Publication 257, 119-125.
Dockal, James A. and Smith, Michael S. (2006) The origin of the 'metachert' in the Dubois Greenstone, Wildcat Gulch region, Gunnison County, Colorado: A mineralogical and petrological study. Geol. Soc. America Abstr. with Programs, v. 36, no. 6.
Hines, Elizabeth and Smith, Michael S. (2006) The Rush Started Here II: Hard Rock Gold Mining in North Carolina, 1825-1864. Journal of Earth Sciences History, 25 (1), 37-74.
Raber, Maverick J., Benedetti, Michael M., Smith, Michael S. and Leonard, Lynn L. (2006) Mineralogical indicators of alluvial sediment sources in the Cape Fear River basin, North Carolina. Physical Geography, 27 (3), 258-281.
Edwards, William Brockton and Smith, Michael S. (2007) Petrographic comparison of the Silurian-age oolitic ironstones of the Keefer Formation and Birmingham member of the Red Mountain Formation. Geol. Soc. America Abstr. with Programs, v. 39, no. 2, 86.
Dockal, James A. and Smith, Michael S. (2007) Petrography of the country rock surrounding the Crabtree pegmatite, Spruce Pine District, Mitchell County, North Carolina. Geol. Soc. America Abstr. with Programs, v. 39, no. 2, 26.
Witt, Anne C., Smith, Michael S., Latham, Rebecca S., Douglas, Thomas, J., Gillon, Kenneth A., Fuemmeler, Stephen J., Bauer, Jennifer B., and Wooten, Richard M. (2007) Life, Death and Landslides: The August 13-14, 1940 storm event in Watauga County, North Carolina. Geol. Soc. America Abstr. with Programs, v. 39, no. 2, 76.
Smith, Michael S., Herbert, Joseph M., and McReynolds, Theresa E. (2008) Diabase-tempered Woodlands Period ceramics from the Fort Bragg region of the North Carolina Sandhills: A ceramic petrology study. Geol. Soc. America Abstr. with Programs, v. 40, no. 4, 71.
Smith, Michael S. (2008). Petrography (Chapter 6). In: Herbert, Joseph M. and McReynolds, Theresa E. (eds.) Woodland Pottery Sourcing in the Carolina Sandhills. Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Research Report No. 29, 73-107. [available at http://rla.unc.edu/bragg/ceramics/]
Smith, Michael S. (2008). Appendix D: Petrographic Data. In: Herbert, Joseph M. and McReynolds, Theresa E. (eds.) Woodland Pottery Sourcing in the Carolina Sandhills. Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Research Report No. 29, 142-170. [available at http://rla.unc.edu/bragg/ceramics/]
Dockal, James A. and Smith, Michael S. (2008). Mineralogy and petrography of the metamorphosed and altered country rock surrounding the beryl and tourmaline-bearing Crabtree Pegmatite, Spruce Pine District, Mitchell County, North Carolina. Geol. Soc. America Abstr. with Programs, v. 40, no. 6, 255.
Smith, Michael S. (2009). The Miners' & Farmers' Journal, Charlotte, North Carolina: information and technology exchange in the Southern Gold Rush, 1830 - 1835. Geol. Soc. America Abstr. with Programs, v. 41, no. 7.
