| Carlson, M.P. 2009. Nebraska Uranium History and Prospects. National Meeting American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Denver. June. | |
| Carlson, M.P. 2009. Type Logs for Formal and Informal Stratigraphic Correlation in the Nebraska Panhandle. Midcontinent Meeting American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa. October. | Online |
| Carlson, M.P. 2009. The Growth of North America - Nebraska's Contribution. Nebraska Academy of Science. April . | Online |
| Carlson M.P. 2007. Precambrian Accretionary History and Phanerozoic Structures – a Unified Explanation for the Tectonic Architecture of the Nebraska Region, USA, in Hatcher, R.D., Jr., Carlson, M.P., McBride, J.H., and Martinez Catalan, J.R., eds.,Precamb | Online |
| Carlson, M.P. 2007. Some Keys to Exploration in the Forest City Basin; Mid-Continent Section, American Association Petroleum Geologists Abstracts with Program, p. 36. | |
| Carlson. M.P., R.M. Joeckel and B.L. Nicklen. 2007. Low-accommodation detrital apron alongside a basement uplift, Pennsylvanian of Midcontinent North America. Sedimentary Geology 197:165-187. | Online |
| Carlson, M.P. and S.B Treves. 2005. The Elk Creek Carbonatite, Southeast Nebraska – An Overview. Natural Resources Research 14(1):39-45. | Online |
| Carlson, M.P. and W.H. Sydow. 2005 Reinterpreting Nebraska’s Structures – New Geometry, New Exploration, New Reservoirs; Poster Abstract, 2005 Amer. Assoc. Petr. Geol. Mid-Continent Section Meeting, p. 34. | Online |
| Gosselin, D., Joeckel, R.M., Carlson, M.P. 2003. History, Geology and Water in the Lower Platte River Valley in Eastern Nebraska. Lincoln, NE: Association of American Sate Geologist. | Online |
| Carlson, M.P. 2002. A Basement Framework Hypotheses for the Tectonic Architecture and Geologic History of the Western Mid-Continent, USA. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Hedberg Research Conference, “Late Paleozoic Tectonics and Hydrocarbon | Online |
| Carlson, M.P. 2002. Basement Control on Phanerozoic Structures and Tectonics – Midcontinent USA. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 2002 Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. 78. | |
| Carlson, M.P. 2001. Island Arcs, Accretionary Terranes and Midcontinent Structure. Conservation and Survey Resource Notes. 15(1):15-18. | |
| Carlson, M.P., Treves, S.B. 2000. The Precambrian History of Nebraska and Adjacent Regions: A Record of the Accretionary Growth of North America; in Variscan-Appalachian dynamics; the building of the Upper Paleozoic basement. Basement Tectonics: 15:75-78. | |
| Carlson, M.P. 1999. New Data and Interpretations for the Precambrian, Midcontinent USA. Basement Tectonics Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands 13(0):15. | |
| Carlson, M.P. 1999. Transcontinental Arch - A Pattern Formed By Rejuvenation of Local Features Across Central North America. Journal of Tectonophysics. 303:225-235. | |
| Carlson, M.P. 1999. Transcontinental Arch, A Pattern Formed by Rejuvenation of Local Features Across Central North America. Tectonophysics 305(0):9. | |
| Carlson, M.P., Burchett, R.R., Sydow, W.H. 1999. Occurrence and Development of Petroleum in Nebraska. Transactions of the 1999 AAPG Midcontinent Section Meeting, Kansas Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-28. 1-4. | |
| Carlson, M.P. 1998. Evidence From the Stratigraphic Record for Basement Deformation in Southeastern Nebraska, Mid-Continent U.S.A. Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Basement Tectonics. 227-228. | |
| Carlson, M.P. 2005. The Application of Basement Tectonic Research to the Development of Natural Resources – Example Midcontinent North America. Natural Resources Research 14(2):125-128. | |
| Carlson, M.P. 1997. Tectonic Implications and Influence of the Midcontinent Rift System in Nebraska and Adjoining Areas. Geological Society of America Special Paper 312(0):231-234. | Online |
| Carlson, M.P. and K.D. Newell. 1997. Stratigraphy and Petroleum Potential of the Simpson and Viola (Ordovician) in Kansas and Nebraska. Oklahoma Geological Survey Circular 99(0): 0 pp. | |
| Carlson, M.P., and K.D. Newell. 1993. Stratigraphy and Petroleum Potential of the Hunton Group (Silurian-Devonian) in the Forest City Basin Area of Kansas and Nebraska. Oklahoma Geological Survey Special Publication 93-4 0(0): 107-115. | Online |
| Carlson, M.P. 1989. Oil in Nebraska. Conservation and Survey Division, University of Nebraska. pp. 86. | |
| Rundquist, D., R.Hoffman, M. Carlson, and A. Cook. 1989. The Nebraska Center-Pivot Inventory: An Example of Operational Satellite Remote Sensing on a Long-Term Basis. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 55(5):587-590. | Online |
| Rundquist, D.C., Hoffman, R.O., Carlson, M.P., Cook, A.E. 1989. The Nebraska Center-Pivot Inventory--An Example of Operational Satellite Remote Sensing on a Long-Term Basis. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 55(5):4. | |
| Carlson, M.P. 1988. Oil Production from Devonian Carbonates in the Forest City Basin, Midcontinent USA. Devonian of the World, Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on the Devonian System, Canada Society of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 14(2):59 | |
| Gosnold, W. D., Messenger, K. A., Carlson, M. P. 1983. An Inventory of Geothermal Resources in Nebraska. U. S. Department of Energy and the University of Nebraska. pp. 300. | Online |
| Carlson, M.P., and W.B.N. Berry. 1969. Late Middle Ordovician Graptolites From the Subsurface of Eastern Nebraska. Journal of Paleontology 43(3):712-715. | Online |
| Carlson, M.P., and A.J. Boucot. 1967. Early Silurian Brachiopods from the Subsurface of Southeastern Nebraska. Journal of Paleontology 41(5):5. | Online |
| Collinson, C. and M.P. Carlson 1967 (RS-3). Devonian of the North-Central Region, United States. Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Devonian System 0(0): 39 pp. | Online |
| Carlson, M. P., 1963. Lithostratigraphy and Correlation of the Mississippian System in Nebraska. Lincoln: Conservation and Survey Division, University of Nebraska. pp. 61. | Online |