PUBLICATIONS - R. A. LAWS

• Laws, R. A., 1982. Late Triassic depositional environments and molluscan associations from west central Nevada.  Palaeogeog., Palaeoclim., Palaeoecol., 37:131-148.
• Laws, R. A., 1983. Preparing strewn slides for quantitative microscopical analysis: A test using calibrated microspheres. Micropaleontology, 29:60-65.
• Taylor, D. G., P. L. Smith, R. A. Laws, and J. Guex, 1983. The stratigraphy and biofacies trends of the Gabbs and Sunrise Formations, west central Nevada. Can. Jour. Earth Sci., 20:1598-1608.
• Worsley, T. R. and R. A. Laws, 1986. Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of the Castle Hayne Limestone, pp. 289-296: in D. A. Textoris (ed.), SEPM Field Trip Guidebook, Third Annual Midyear Meeting, Raleigh, N. C.
• Laws, R. A. and D. E. Fastovsky, 1987. Characters, stratigraphy and dePopperate logic: An essay on phylogenetic construction. Paleobios No. 44, July 31, 1987, 9p.
• Laws, R. A., 1988. Diatoms (Bacillariophyceae) from surface sediments in San Francisco Bay Estuary. Proceedings, California Academy of Sciences, 45(9):133-254.
• Dockal, J. A., R. A. Laws, and T. R. Worsley, 1989. A general mathematical model for balanced global isostasy. Mathematical Geology, 21:147-170.
• Laws, R. A., W. B. Harris, and V. A. Zullo, 1992. Nannofossil biostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy of middle and upper Eocene strata on the southwestern Savannah River Site and adjacent areas of Georgia; in Fallaw, W. and Price, V., eds., Geological investigations of the Central Savannah River area, South Carolina and Georgia: Carolina Geological Society, Field Trip Guidebook 1992, p. CGS-92-B-VII-1 to CGS-92-B-VII-4.
• Laws, R. A. and L. B. Cahoon, 1992. Benthic Diatoms from the North Carolina Shelf and Slope.  Proceedings of the Fourth Atlantic OCS Region Information Transfer Meeting, September 1991.  U.S. Department of Interior. Minerals Management Service. Herndon, Virginia.  Contract No. 14-12-0001-30583. OCS Study MMS 92-0001, pp. 103-110.
• Cahoon, L. B., R. A. Laws, and T. W. Savidge, 1992. Characteristics of benthic microalgae from the North Carolina outer continental shelf and slope: Preliminary results: in Cahoon, L. B. ed., Diving for Science, 1992: Proceedings of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences, Twelfth Annual Scientific Diving Symposium, American Academy of Underwater Sciences, Costa Mesa, CA., p. 61-68.
• Laws, R. A. 1992. Correlation of Cenozoic continental margin deposits in North Carolina to standard calcareous nannofossil and diatom zonations: in Zullo, V.A., W. B. Harris and V. Price eds., Savannah River Region: Transition between the Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains: Proceedings of the Second Annual Bald Head Island Conference on Coastal Plains Geology, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Government Printing Office, p. 110-116.
• Laws, R. A. and Thayer, P. A., 1992. Origin and diagenesis of Middle Eocene diatomite, Tallahatta Formation, southwest Alabama. Transactions of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, 42:517-528.
• Harris, W. B., V. A. Zullo, V.A., and R. A. Laws, 1993. Coastal onlap stratigraphy of the onshore Paleogene, southeastern Atlantic Coastal Plain, U.S.A.: in Posamentier, H., et al. eds., Sequence stratigraphy and facies associations: International Association of Sedimentologists, Special Publication 18, p. 537-561.
• Cahoon, L. B. and R. A. Laws, 1993. Benthic diatoms from the North Carolina continental shelf: Inner and mid shelf. Journal of Phycology, 29:257-263.
• Cahoon, L. B. and R. A. Laws, 1994. Viable diatoms and chlorophyll a in continental slope sediments off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Deep-Sea Research II, 41(4-6):767-782.
• Harris, W. B. and R. A. Laws, 1994, Paleogene sediments on the axis of the Cape Fear arch, Long Bay, North Carolina. Southeastern Geology, 34:185-199.
• Harris, W. B. and R. A. Laws, 1997. Paleogene stratigraphy and sea-level history of the North Carolina coastal plain. global coastal onlap and tectonics. Sedimentary Geology, 108:91-120.
• Smith, M. S. and R. A. Laws, 1998. Tracking the modern geoscience undergraduate: A case study for North Carolina.  Journal of College Science Teaching, March/April, 1998, p. 312-316.
• Dockal, J. A., W. B. Harris, and R. A. Laws, 1998. Late Maastrichtian Sediments on the north flank of the Cape Fear Arch, North Carolina. Southeastern Geology, 37(3):149-159.