Lock, B. E. and S. L. Voorhies, 1988, Sequence stratigraphy as a tool for interpretation of the Cockfield/Yegua in Southwestern Louisiana., Trans. Gulf Coast Assoc. of Geol. Soc. 38, 123-131.
Lock, B. E. and S. W. Broussard, 1989, The Norphlet reservoir in Mobile Bay: Origins of deep porosity, Trans. Gulf Coast Assoc. of Geol. Soc. 39, 187-194.
Lock, B. E. and C. E. Bishop, 1991, Sedimentology of a modern point bar at Raven Camp on the Red River, central Louisiana, Trans. Gulf Coast Assoc. of Geol. Soc. 41, 432-441. This paper was selected for the Best Paper Award by the Gulf Coast Section of the SEPM.
Broussard, M. J., and B. E. Lock, 1995, Modern analytical techniques for fault surface seal analysis: a Gulf Coast case history, Trans. Gulf Coast Assoc. of Geol. Soc. 45, 87-93. This paper was selected for the AAPG's A. I. Levorsen Award for "the paper that best exemplifies creative ideas in oil and gas exploration."
Lock, B. E., and T. W. Duex, 1996, Xenolithic inclusions within the salt at Weeks Island, Louisiana, and their significance, Trans. Gulf Coast Assoc. of Geol. Soc. 46, 229-234.
Lock, Brian E., 2002, Sabkhas, Ancient and Modern: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, Transactions, vol. 52, p. 645-657.
Lock, Brian E. and Don H. Kupfer, 2003, "Salt Mines of South Louisiana: Louisiana Geological Survey, Guidebook Series, #7, 85 p., Baton Rouge.
Lock, Brian E. and Ashley Walker Fife, 2004, Contourites and Related Outer Shelf/Upper Slope Sediments, Boquillas Formation, West Texas: American Association of Geological Societies, Annual Convention extended abstracts, Dallas, Texas.
Lock, Brian E., Ashley Walker Fife and Elizabeth Anderson, 2004. Bacteria-Petroleum Reactions: Salt Dome Cap-Rock Genesis Compared with Similar Processes from Permian Outcrops in West Texas: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, Transactions, vol. 54, p. 361-367.
Lock, B. E., and L. Peschier, 2006, Boquillas (Eagle Ford) upper slope sediments, West Texas: Outcrop analogs for potential shale reservoirs: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 56, p. 491-508.
Lock, B. E., R. W. Butler, and R. T. Franklund, 2009, Tempestite sedimentation: An example from the Del Rio Formation of West Texas: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 59, p. 463-476.
Ren, M., R. Stern, B. E. Lock, R. Griffin, E. Y. Anthony, and I. Norton, 2009, Origin of igneous rock fragments from South Louisiana salt domes: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 59, p. 641-651.
Lock, B. E., L. Peschier, and N. Whitcomb, 2010, The Eagle Ford (Boquillas Formation) of Val Verde County, Texas-A window on the South Texas play: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 60, p. 419-434.