Holmes, M.A., O'Connell, S., Frey, C. & Ongley, L.K.2003. Academic specialties shifting; hiring of women geoscientists stagnating. EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union, vol 84, No. 42, pp. 457, 460-461.

Holmes, M.A., O'Connell, S., Frey, C., & Ongley, L.K., 2003. The status of women in the geosciences, 2001. Geotimes 48(9):24-25.

Holmes, M.A., 2003. Physical Geology Laboratory Manual, v. 3, with Instructor's Manual. Houghton Mifflin Custom Publ. Boston, MA. 288 pp.

in press: Paleocene cyclic sedimentation in the western North Atlantic, ODP Site 1051, Blake Nose, Holmes, M.A. and Watkins, D. K. submitted to Marine Geology, Dec. 2002

2000 Clay Mineral Composition of Glacial Erratics, McMurdo Sound. in Paleobiology and Paleoenvironments of Eocene Rocks, McMurdo Sound, East Antarctica. Stilwell, J.D., and Feldmann, R. M. (eds.). Amer. Geophys. Union - Antarctic Research Series, vol. 76, pp. 63-72.

1998 Thermal Diagenesis of Cretaceous Sediment recovered during ODP Leg 159 to the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana Margin. Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 159:53-70.

Grain Size Distribution and Significance of Clay and Clay Sized Minerals in Eocene to Holocene age Sediments from ODP Sites 918 and 919 in the Irminger Basin. Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 152:39-49. Co-authors: Kraig A. Heiden and M. A. Holmes.

Alteration of Uppermost Lavas and Volcaniclastics Recovered During ODP Leg 152 to the East Greenland Margin. Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 152:115-129.

1997 Surface Textural Analysis of Quartz Sand Grains from ODP Site 918: Evidence for Late Miocene Glaciation of Southern Greenland at 11 Ma. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology, 135:109-121. Co-authors: P. E. Helland and M. A. Holmes

1995 Pedogenic Alteration of Basalts Recovered During Leg 144. Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 144: 381-398.

The Initial Transgressive Phase of Leg 144 Guyots: Evidence of Extreme Sulfate Reduction. Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 144: 895-913. Co-authors: Buchardt, B., and Holmes, M. A.

Oldest Cretaceous Sequence, Giralia Anticline, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia: Barremian-Aptian. Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics , 15(4):445-468. Co-authors: S. McLoughlin, D. W. Haig, J. Backhouse, M. A. Holmes, G. Ellis, J. A. Long, and K. J. McNamara.

1994 Brief Communication: Further Evidence of Lead Contamination of Omaha Skeletons. Amer. Jour. of Phys. Anthropology, vol. 95:427-434. Co-authors: A.M. Ghazi, K.J. Reinhardt, M.A. Holmes, and E. Durrance.

Seven Million Years of Glaciation in Greenland. Science, 264:952-955. Co-authors: Larsen, H. C., Saunders, A. D., Clift, P. D., Beget, J., Wei, W., Spezzaferri, S., and ODP Leg 152 Scientific Party.

1992 Middle and Late Cretaceous History of the Indian Ocean. American Geophysical Union Geophysical Monograph 70:225-244. Co-authors: M. A. Holmes, and D. K. Watkins.

Cretaceous subtropical weathering followed by cooling at 60°S latitude: The mineral composition of southern Kerguelen Plateau sediment, ODP Leg 120. Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 120:99-111.

Composition and origin of Cr-rich glauconitic sediment from the southern Kerguelen Plateau (ODP Leg 120, Site 748). Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 120:113-134. Co-authors: P. R. Bitschene, M. A. Holmes, and J. R. Breza.

Holmes, M.A., 2000. Clay mineral composition of glacial erratics, McMurdo Sound. In: Stilwell, J.D., and Feldmann, R. M. (eds.), Paleobiology and Paleoenvironments of Eocene Rocks, McMurdo Sound, East Antarctica. American Geophysical Union - Antarctic Research Series 76: 63-72.

Holmes, M.A., 1998. Thermal diagenesis of Cretaceous sediment recovered during ODP Leg 159 to the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana Margin. Proc. ODP, Scientific Results 159: 53-70.

Heiden, K.A. & Holmes, M. A., 1998. Grain size distribution and significance of clay and clay- sized minerals in Eocene to Holocene age sediments from ODP Sites 918 and 919 in the Irminger Basin. Proc. ODP, Scientific. Results 152: 39-49.

Helland, P. E. and Holmes, M. A., 1997. Surface textural analysis of quartz sand grains from ODP Site 918: evidence for Late Miocene glaciation of southern Greenland at 11 Ma. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology 135: 109-121.

Holmes, M. A., 1995. Pedogenic Alteration of Basalts Recovered During Leg 144. Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 144:.

McLoughlin, S., Haig, D. W., Backhouse, J., Holmes, M. A., Ellis, G., Long, J. A., and McNamara, K. J., 1995. Oldest Cretaceous Sequence, Giralia Anticline, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia: Barremian-Aptian. Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics, v. 15, no. 4, p. 445-468.

Holmes, M. A., and Watkins, D. K., 1992. Middle and Late Cretaceous History of the Indian Ocean. American Geophysical Union Geophysical Monograph, v. 70, p. 225-244.

Holmes, M. A., 1992. Cretaceous subtropical weathering followed by cooling at 60°S latitude: The mineral composition of southern Kerguelen Plateau sediment, ODP Leg 120. Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, v. 120, p. 99-111.

Holmes, M. A., 1988. Evidence for continuous and discontinuous alteration in DSDP Hole 418A basalts and its significance to natural gamma ray log readings. in Salisbury, M. H., Scott, J. H., et al., eds., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 102: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), p. 135-151.

R. Schlich, M. Munschy, H. Whitechurch, and 25 others. 1989. Resultats preliminaires de la campagne de forages du Joides Resolution sur le plateau de Kerguelen (ODP 120), C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, t. 308 Serie II, P. 1597-1603.

M.A. Holmes, J.R. Breza, and S. W. Wise, Jr.. 1987. Provenance and deposition of Lower Cretaceous turbidite sands at Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 603, Lower Continental Rise off North Carolina. In van Hinte, J.E., Wise, S.W., Jr., et al., Init. Repts. DSDP, 93: Washington (U.S. Govt. Printing Office), 941-960.

Holmes, M.A., 1987. Clay Mineralogy of the Lower Cretaceous Deep-Sea fan, Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 603, Lower Continental Rise off North Carolina. In van Hinte, J.E., Wise, S.W., Jr., et al., Init. Repts. DSDP, 93: Washington (U.S. Govt. Printing Office).