Underwood, Michael B., and David G. Howell. "Thermal Maturity of the Cambria Slab, an Inferred Trench-Slope Basin in Central California." Geology 15 (1987): 216-219.

Underwood, Michael B., and Steven B. Bachman. "Sandstone Petrofacies of the Yager Complex and the Franciscan Coastal Belt, Paleogene of Northern California." Geological Society of America Bulletin in press (1986): 1-27.

Underwood, Michael B., and Steven B. Bachman. "Sandstone Petrofacies of the Yager Complex and the Franciscan Coastal Belt, Paleogene of Northern California." Geological Society of America Bulletin 97 (1986): 809-817.

Underwood, Michael B.. Sandstone Petrofacies of the Yager Complex, with Implications for Paleogene Sediment Dispersal in Northern California., 1986.

Underwood, Michael B.. "Sedimentology and Hydrocarbon Potential of Yager Structural Complex--Possible Paleogene Source Rocks in Eel River Basin, Northern California." American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 69, no. 7 (1985): 1088-1100.

Strong, Robert H., and Michael B. Underwood. Vitrinite Reflectance and Paleotemperature within the Franciscan Terranes of Coastal Northern California: 40^o00'N to 40^o35'N In U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report. Department of the Interior, 1985.

Bachman, Steven B., Michael B. Underwood, and Julie S. Menack. "Cenozoic Evolution of Coastal Northern California." In Tectonics and Sedimentation Along the California Margin, edited by James K. Crouch and Steven B. Bachman, 55-66. Vol. 38. Los Angeles, California: Pacific Section SEPM, 1984.

Underwood, Michael B.. Depositional Setting of the Paleogene Yager Formation, Northern Coast Ranges of California., 1983.

Underwood, Michael B., and Steven B. Bachman. "Sedimentary Facies Associations within Subduction Complexes." Geological Society of London Special Publication 10 (1982): 537-550.

Underwood, Michael B., and Daniel E. Karig. "Role of Submarine Canyons in Trench and Trench-Slope Sedimentation." Geology 8 (1980): 432-436.