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Amato, J. M., Toro, J., Miller, E. L., Gehrels, G. E., Farmer, G. L.,
Gottlieb, E. S., and Till, A. B., 2009, Late Proterozoic–Paleozoic
evolution of the Arctic Alaska Chukotka terrane based on U-Pb igneous and
detrital zircon ages: Implications
for Neoproterozoic paleogeographic reconstructions, Geological Society of
America Bulletin, v. 121, p. 1219-1235.
Amato, J. M., Lawton, T. F., Mauel, D., Leggett, W., Gonzales-Leon, C. M., Farmer, G. L., and Wooden, J. L., 2009, Evidence from Paleoproterozoic igneous rocks and deformed Mesozoic strata for the presence of the Caborca block in Mexico by Early Jurassic Time: Implications for the Mojave-Sonora megashear hypothesis, Geology, v. 37, p. 75-78, doi:10.1130/G25240A.1.
Amato, J. M.,
Boullion, A. O., Serna, A. M., Sanders, A. E., Farmer, G. L., Gehrels, G. E.,
and Wooden, J. L., 2008, The
evolution of the Mazatzal province and the timing of the Mazatzal orogeny: Insights from U-Pb geochronology and
geochemistry of igneous and metasedimentary rocks in southern New Mexico, Geological Society of America
Bulletin, v. 120, p. 328-346, doi: 10.1130/B26200.1.
Amato, J. M., Rioux, M. E.,
Kelemen, P. B., Gehrels, G. E., Clift, P. D., Pavlis, T. L., and Draut, A. E.,
2007, U/Pb Geochronology of Detrital
Zircons and Volcanic Rocks from the Lower Jurassic Talkeetna Formation: Implications for the Age of Magmatism
and Inheritance in the Talkeetna Arc in Ridgway, K. D., Trop, J. M.,
O'Neill, J. M., and Glen, J. M. G., eds., Tectonic growth of a collisional
continental margin: Crustal evolution of southern Alaska, Geological Society of
America Special Paper 431, p. 253-271.
Amato, J. M., Foley, C.,
Heizler, M., and Esser, R., 2007, 40Ar/39Ar and U/Pb
geochronology, geochemistry, and tectonic setting of three episodes of
Cretaceous-Eocene calc-alkaline magmatism in the Lake Clark Region,
southwestern Alaska, in Ridgway, K. D., Trop, J. M., O'Neill, J. M., and Glen,
J. M. G., eds., Tectonic growth of a collisional continental margin: Crustal
evolution of southern Alaska, Geological Society of America Special Paper 431,
p. 455-475.
Amato, J. M., Bogar, M. J.,
Gehrels, G. E., Farmer, G. L., and McIntosh, W. C., 2007, The Tlikakila Complex
in southern Alaska: A
supra-subduction-zone ophiolite between the Wrangellia composite terrane and North
America, in Ridgway, K. D., Trop, J. M., O'Neill, J. M., and Glen, J. M. G.,
eds., Tectonic growth of a collisional continental margin: Crustal evolution of
southern Alaska, Geological Society of America Special Paper 431, p. 227-252.
Miller, E. L., Toro, J.,
Gehrels, G., Amato, J. M., Prokopiev, A., Tuchkova, M. I., Akinin, V. V.,
Dumitru, T. A., Moore, T. E., and Cecile, M. P., 2006, New
insights into Arctic paleogeography and tectonics from U-Pb detrital zircon
geochronology, Tectonics, v. 25, TC3013, doi:10.1029/2005TC001830, 2006.
Amato, J. M., Toro, J., and
Moore, T. E., Origin of the Bering Sea salient, in A. J. Sussman and A. B.
Weil, eds., Orogenic curvature:
Integrating paleomagnetic and structural analyses, Geological Society of
America Special Paper 383, p. 131-144, 2004.
Amato, J. M., and Miller, E. L.,
Geologic map and summary of the evolution of the Kigluaik Mountains gneiss
dome, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, in Whitney, D. L., Teyssier, C., and Siddoway,
C. S., eds., Gneiss domes in orogeny, Geological Society of America Special
Paper 380, p. 295-306, 2004.
Karlstrom, K. E., Amato, J. M.,
Williams, M. L., Heizler, M., Shaw, C., Read, A., and Bauer, J., Proterozoic
tectonic evolution of the New Mexico region: A synthesis, in Mack, G. H., and Giles, K. A., eds., The Geology of
New Mexico: A Geologic History, New Mexico Geological Society Special
Publication 11, p. 1-34, 2004.
Lapen,
T., Johnson, C., Baumgartner, L., Mahlen, N., Beard, B., Amato, J., Burial
rates during prograde metamorphism of an ultra-high pressure terrane: An
example from Lago di Cignana, western Alps, Italy, Earth and Planetary Science
Letters, 215, 57-72, doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00455-2,
2003.
Amato, J. M., Miller, E. L.,
Toro, J., and Wright, J. E., Cretaceous Magmatism on St.
Lawrence Island, Alaska, and Cape Dezhnev, Northeast Russia: Geochemistry, 40Ar/39Ar
ages, and implications for the tectonic evolution of the Bering Strait Region, in Clautice, K. H. and Davis,
P. K., eds., Short Notes on Alaskan Geology 2003, State of Alaska Division of
Geological and Geophysical Surveys Professional Report 120, 1-20, 2003.
Amato, J. M., Miller, E. L.,
Wright, J. E., and McIntosh, W. C., Dike swarms on Seward Peninsula,
Alaska, and their implications for the kinematics of Cretaceous extension in
the Bering Strait region, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 40, 865-886, 2003.
Toro, J., Amato, J. M., and
Natal'in, B. A., Cretaceous deformation, Chegitun
River area, Chukotka Peninsula, Russia:
Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Bering Strait region, Tectonics, v. 22, 1021, doi:10.1029/2001TC001333, 2003.
Amato, J. M., Miller, E. L., and
Hannula, K. A., Orthogonal flow directions in extending continental crust: An example from the Kigluaik gneiss
dome, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, in Miller, E., Grantz, A., and Klemperer, S.,
eds., Tectonic Evolution of the Bering Shelf-Chukchi Sea-Arctic Margin and
Adjacent Landmasses, Geological Society of America Special Paper 360, 133-146,
2002.
Amato, J. M.,
Structural relationships in the Florida Mountains, southwestern New
Mexico, in Lawton, T. F., McMillan, N. J., and McLemore, V. T., eds., Southwest
Passage: A Trip Through the Phanerozoic, New Mexico Geological Society 51st Field Conference
Guidebook, 103-108, 2000.
McMillan, N. J., McLemore, V. T., Amato, J. M., Hawley, J.
W., and Giles, K. A., Third-day road log, from Deming to Victorio Canyon and
the southern Florida Mountains, in Lawton, T. F., McMillan, N. J., and
McLemore, V. T., eds., Southwest Passage: A Trip Through the Phanerozoic, New
Mexico Geological Society 51st
Field Conference Guidebook, 31-44, 2000.
Natal'in, B. A., Amato, J. M., and Toro, J., Paleozoic rocks
of the Chegitun River valley, northern Chukotka Peninsula: Insights into the tectonic evolution of
the eastern Arctic, Tectonics, 18, 977-1003, 1999.
Amato, J. M., Johnson, C., Baumgartner, L., and Beard, B., Sm-Nd geochronology indicates
rapid exhumation of Alpine eclogites, Earth and Planetary Science
Letters, 171, 425-438, 1999.
Calvert, A. T., Gans, P. B., and
Amato, J. M., Diapiric ascent and cooling of a sillimanite gneiss dome revealed
by 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology: the Kigluaik Mountains,
Seward Peninsula, Alaska, in Ring, U., Brandon, M. T., Lister, G. S., and
Willett, S. D., eds., Exhumation processes: normal faulting, ductile flow and
erosion, Geological Society of London Special Publication 154, 205-232, 1999.
Amato, J. M., and Wright, J. E., Geochronologic investigations of
magmatism and metamorphism within the Kigluaik Mountains gneiss dome, Seward
Peninsula, Alaska,
in Short Notes on Alaskan Geology 1997, Clough, J. G., and Larson, F., eds.,
State of Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Professional
Report 118, 1-21, 1998.
Amato, J. M., and Wright, J. E., Petrogenesis of the
potassic Kigluaik pluton: Arc-related mafic magmatism in northern Alaska,
Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, 8065-8083, 1997.
Amato, J. M., and Miller, E. L., Bedrock Geologic Map of the
Kigluaik Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, State of Alaska Division of
Geological and Geophysical Surveys Public Data File 97-31, 1997.
Bering Strait Geologic Field Party (Akinin, V. V., Gelman,
M. L., Sedov, B. M., Amato, J. M., Miller, E. L., Toro, J., Calvert, A. T.,
Fantini, R. M., Wright, J. E., and Natal'in, B. A.), Koolen metamorphic
complex, NE Russia: Implications
for the tectonic evolution of the Bering Strait region, Tectonics, 16, 713-729,
1997.
Dumitru, T. A., Miller, E. L., O'Sullivan, P. B., Amato, J.
M., Hannula, K. A., Calvert, A. T., and Gans, P. B., Cretaceous-Early Tertiary
extension of the Bering Strait Region, Alaska, Tectonics, 14, 549-563, 1995.
Amato, J. M., Wright, J. E., Gans, P. B., and Miller, E. L.,
Magmatically induced metamorphism and deformation in the Kigluaik gneiss dome,
Seward Peninsula, Alaska, Tectonics, 13, 515-527, 1994.
Abstracts
(*denotes
NMSU student coauthor)
Gottlieb*, E. S.,
and Amato, J. M., Geologic
mapping, structural analysis, and geochronology of the Bendeleben Mountains
metamorphic complex, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, Geological
Society of America Cordilleran Section Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, v. 39,
no. 4, p. 5, 2-3, 2007.
Lawton, T.F., Mauel, D.J.,
Leggett, W.J., Peryam, T.C., Amato, J.M., Gonzalez-Len, C.M., and Gehrels,
G.E., 2006, Stratigraphy of mid-Mesozoic arc-related basins, north-central
Sonora, Mexico: New temporal and geographic constrains on magmatic evolution
and basin development in the southwestern Cordillera: Geological Society of
America Abstracts With Programs, v. 38, no. 7, p. 370.
Rioux, M., Mattinson, J. M.,
Hacker, B. R., Kelemen, P. B., Blusztajn, J., and Amato, J. M., Tectonic
Development of the Talkeetna Arc, Geological Society of America Penrose
Conference Arc Crustal Genesis and Evolution, P.
Kelemen and B. Hacker, conveners, Abstracts, p. 48, 2006.
Amato, J. M.,
Boullion*, A. O., Sanders*, A. E., Gehrels, G., Andronicos, C. L., Heizler, M.
T., and Farmer, G. L., Magmatism, metamorphism, and deformation of Proterozoic
Mazatzal Province crust: A
comprehensive case study from the Burro Mountains, southwest New Mexico,
Geological Society of America Rocky Mountain Section meeting, Abstracts with
Programs, v. 38, no. 6, p. 4, 4-1, 2006.
Campbell*, J. E.,
Lawton, T., Amato, J. M., and McMillan, N. J., Correlation and origin of Upper
Jurassic tuffs and plutons through apatite trace element geochemistry,
Geological Society of America Rocky Mountain Section meeting, Abstracts with
Programs, v. 38, no. 6, p. 31-32, 14-1, 2006.
Romero*, G., Amato,
J., and Toro, J., Geologic mapping and structural analysis to determine the
evolution of the Darby Mountains region and Kugruk Fault Zone, Seward
Peninsula, Alaska, Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section meeting,
Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 5, p. 83, 35-2, 2006.
Foley*, C., Amato,
J. M., Bogar*, M. J., Heizler, M., and Esser, R. P., Geologic mapping of the
Lake Clark Quadrangle, Alaska, and Geochronologic Constraints on the Evolution
of the Tlikakila complex and the Paleogene Magmatic History of the region,
Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section meeting, Abstracts with
Programs, v. 38, no. 5, p. 92, 43-5, 2006.
Till, A. B.,
Aleinikoff, J. N., Amato, J. M., and Harris, A. G., New Paleontologic and
geochronologic protolith ages for the paleo-continental margin of Arctic
Alaska, Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section meeting, Abstracts
with Programs, v. 38, no. 5, p. 13, 8-6, 2006.
Toro, J., Burnette,
L., Amato, J., Repetski, J. E., and Gehrels, G., The Mint River Fault: An extensional detachment in the York
Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, Geological Society of America Cordilleran
Section meeting, Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 5, p. 84-85, 37-1, 2006.
Amato, J. M., Toro,
J., Miller, E. L., and Gehrels, G., Late Proterozoic magmatism in Alaska and
its implications for paleogeographic Reconstructions of the Arctic
Alaska-Chukotka Plate, Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section
meeting, Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 5, p. 13, 8-5, 2006.
Athens*, C. C., and
Amato, J. M., U-Pb SHRIMP dating to determine the age of zircons from crustal
xenoliths of the Elephant Butte volcanic field: Implications for the timing of rifting in southern New
Mexico, New Mexico Geology, v. 28, p. 63, 2006.
Serna*, A., Amato,
J. M., and Gehrels, G., Proterozoic deformation of the San Andres Mountains,
south-central New Mexico, New Mexico Geology, v. 28, p. 63, 2006.
Amato, J. M.,
Boullion*, A. O., Sanders*, A. E., Gehrels, G., Andronicos, C. L., Heizler, M.
T., and Farmer, G. L., Magmatism, metamorphism, and deformation of Proterozoic
Mazatzal Province crust: A
comprehensive case study from the Burro Mountains, southwest New Mexico, New
Mexico Geology, v. 28, p. 59-60, 2006.
Toro, J., Burnette,
L., Amato, J. M., Repetski, J. E., and Gehrels, G., The Mint River Fault: an
Extensional Detachment in the York Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, EOS
Trans., American Geophysical Union, v. 85, Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract,
2005.
Kelemen, P., Amato,
J., Behn, M., Blusztajn, J., Christensen, N., Clift, P., DeBari, S., Draut, A,
Greene, A., Hacker, B., Hanghoj, K., Hart, S, Hirth, G., Mattinson, J., Mehl,
L., Pavlis, T., Rioux, M., and Trop, J., Crustal genesis and dynamics in the
Jurassic Talkeetna arc, EOS Trans., American Geophysical Union, v. 85, Fall
Meeting Supplement, Abstract, 2005.
Rioux, M., Hacker,
B., Mattinson, J., Kelemen, P., Blusztajn, J., Hanghoj, K., and Amato, J.,
Tectonic and Geochemical Evolution of the Accreted Talkeetna Arc, South-Central
Alaska: Implications for a Type Section of Intra-oceanic Arc Crust, EOS Trans.,
American Geophysical Union, v. 85, Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract, 2005.
Amato, J., Lawton,
T., and Mauel*, D., Single-grain zircon ages from Proterozoic plutons in the
Rancho La Lamina region, Sonora, Mexico:
Implications for the Mojave-Sonora Megashear hypothesis, GEOS, Boletin
Informativo de la Union Geofisica Mexicana, v. 25, p. 101, 2005.
Leggett*, W.,
Lawton, T., Amato, J., and Gonzalez-Leon, C., The Rancho San Martin Formation
near Cucurpe, Sonora, Mexico: A
record of Middle Jurassic arc magmatism and continental deposition in a rapidly
subsiding basin, GEOS, Boletin Informativo de la Union Geofisica Mexicana, v.
25, p. 166, 2005.
Mauel*, D., Peryam*,
T., Lawton, T., Amato, J., and Gonzalez-Leon, C., Sedimentary basins of the
backarc region in north-central Sonora, Mexico: A record of Late Jurassic extension and earliest Cretaceous
arc accretion, GEOS, Boletin Informativo de la Union Geofisica Mexicana, v. 25,
p. 166-167, 2005.
Till, A. B., Slack,
J. F., Amato, J., Ayuso, R. A., Aleinikoff, J. N., Dumoulin, J. A., and Siwiec,
B., Assessing the undiscovered base-metal resource potential of the Nome Group,
Seward Peninsula, Alaska: Project goals and initial results, Alaska Miners
Association Annual Meeting, 2005.
Amato, J. M.,
Lawton, T. F., and Mauel*, D. J., Timing of Proterozoic magmatism in the Rancho
La Lamina region, Sonora, Mexico, and implications for the Mojave-Sonora
Megashear hypothesis, G.S.A. Abstr., v. 37, no. 7, p. 69, 2005.
Peryam*, T.C,
Mauel*, D. Lawton, T. F., Amato, J. M., Gonzalez-Leon, C.M., Sedimentary basins
of the backarc region in north-central Sonora, Mexico: A record of Late Jurassic extension and
earliest Cretaceous arc accretion, G.S.A. Abstr., v. 37, no. 7, p. 442, 2005.
Boullion*, A.,
Amato, J. M., Gehrels, G. Heizler, M. T., and Esser, R. P., Constraints on
timing of magmatism and deformation in Proterozoic plutons of the Burro
Mountains, southwestern New Mexico, New Mexico Geology, v. 27, p. 51, 2005.
Serna*, A., and Amato,
J. M., Timing and style of deformation of the southern Mazatzal Province, San
Andres Mountains, New Mexico, New Mexico Geology, v. 27, p. 50-51, 2005.
Amato, J. M.,
Crystalline basement ages, detrital zircon ages, and metamorphic ages from
Seward Peninsula: Implications for
Proterozoic and Cambrian-Ordovician Paleogeographic reconstructions of the
Arctic-Alaska terrane, G.S.A. Abstr., v. 36, no. 5, p. 22, 2004.
Miller, E. L.,
Gehrels, G., Amato, J. M., Toro, J., Prokopiev, A., Moore, T., Grantz, A., and
Embry, A., Paleogeography and Basin Development in the Circum-Arctic
Region: Single-grain U-Pb dating
of detrital zircon populations from Triassic sandstones in NE Russia and
comparison to Alaska and Canada, G.S.A. Abstr., v. 36, no. 5, p. 22, 2004.
Mauel*, D. J.,
Lawton, T. F., Gonzalez-Leon, C., Iriondo, A., Villasenor, A. B., and Amato, J.
M., Late Jurassic stratigraphy, sedimentology, and geochronology of the
Altar-Cucurpe basin in the vicinity of Cucurpe, Sonora, northwestern Mexico: Implications for Mesozoic tectonics of
the southwestern North American margin, G.S.A. Abstr., v. 36, no. 5, p. 510,
2004.
Leggett*, W., Lawton, T., Amato, J. M.,
Gonzalez-Leon, C., and Gehrels, G., New detrital zircon data from a quartz
arenite northwest of Cucurpe, north-central Sonora, Mexico: Implications for Middle to Late
Jurassic basin development along the southwestern margin of North America,
G.S.A. Abstr., v. 36, no. 5, p. 510,
2004.
Bogar*, M. J., and
Amato, J. M., Geochemistry of the Tlikakila complex, Lake Clark National Park,
Alaska: Evidence of origin in a
supra-subduction zone setting inboard of the Peninsular terrane, G.S.A. Abstr.,
v. 36, no. 5, p. 500-501, 2004.
Lawton, T. F.,
Gonzales-Leon, C. Mauel*, D., Leggett*, W., Amato, J. M., Iriondo, A., and
Gehrels, G., Tectonics of Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous basin development,
north-central Sonora, Mexico, G.S.A. Abstr., v. 36, no. 5, p. 120-121, 2004.
Foley*, C., Amato,
J. M., Heizler, M., and Esser, R., 40Ar/39Ar dates from igneous rocks in the Lake
Clark region indicate Albian-Cenomanian and Middle Eocene magmatic events,
G.S.A. Abstr., v. 36, no. 5, p. 223-224,
2004.
Bouillon*, A.,
Amato, J. M., and Gehrels, G., U-Pb zircon dates of ~1.6 Ga and ~1.4 Ga
granitic rocks in the Burro and Florida Mountains, southwestern New Mexico:
Constraints on the timing of deformation, G.S.A. Abstr., v. 36, no. 5, p. 569,
2004.
Gonzalez-Leon, C.
M., Lawton, T. F., Mauel*, D., Leggett*, W. J., Amato, J., Iriondo, A.,
Villasenor Martinez, A. B. y Gehrels, G., 2004, Estratigrafia, geocronologia y
tectonica de la cuenca Altar-Cucurpe, centro norte de Sonora: IV Reunion
Nacional de Ciencias de la Tierra, Sociedad Geologica Mexicana, Juriquilla,
Mexico, Libro de Resumenes, p. 215.
Amato, J. M., Miller, E. L., and Gehrels,
G., Lower Paleozoic through Archean detrital zircon ages from metasedimentary
rocks of the Nome Group, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, EOS Trans., American
Geophysical Union, v. 84 (46), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract T31F-0891,
2003.
Foley*, C., Amato, J.
M., Tertiary magmatism in the Lake Clark region of southern Alaska: A
comparison of coeval(?) plutonic and volcanic rocks adjacent to the Tlikakila
Complex, EOS Trans., American Geophysical Union, v. 84 (46), Fall Meeting
Supplement, Abstract V31C-0950, 2003.
Amato, J. M.,
Sanders*, A. E., and Gehrels, G., Detrital zircon U/Pb ages from Proterozoic
metasedimentary rocks in the Burro Mountains, Mazatzal Province, southwest New
Mexico, New Mexico Geology, v. 25, p. 49, 2003.
Bogar*, M. J.,
Amato, J. M., Farmer, G. L., and McIntosh, W. C., The origin and metamorphism
of the Tlikakila complex, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska: Implications for the collision of the
Talkeetna arc/Peninsular terrane with Alaska during the Early Jurassic, G.S.A.
Abstr., v. 35 no. 4, p. 69, 2003.
Sanders*, A. E.,
Amato, J. M., and Gehrels, G., Source rock ages and depositional age of
Proterozoic metasedimentary rocks in the Burro Mountains, Mazatzal Province,
southwest New Mexico: A comparison
of U/Pb zircon LA-MC-ICPMS and electron microprobe dating of monazite, G.S.A.
Abstr., v. 35 no. 4, p. 83, 2003.
Sanders*, A. E., and
Amato, J. M., Electron microprobe ages of detrital(?), metamorphic, and igneous
monazite from the Burro Mountains, southwest New Mexico, New Mexico Geology, v.
24, p. 65, 2002.
Sanders*, A. E., and
Amato, J. M., The Precambrian evolution of the Burro Mountains, southwest New
Mexico, as determined by electron microprobe U-Pb dating of monazite in
metapelites, G.S.A. Abstr., v. 34 #3, p. A8, 2002.
Amato, J. M., Bogar*,
M. J., and Calvert, A. T., Metamorphism in the Tlikakila Complex, Lake Clark
National Park, Alaska: Does it
record the collision of the Peninsular Terrane with Alaska?, EOS Trans.,
American Geophysical Union, v. 82, p. F1238, 2001.
Amato, J. M.,
Sanders*, A. E., and Bulloss, N. A., Timing of metamorphism and style of
deformation in the Big Burro Mountains, Grant County, New Mexico, New Mexico
Geology, v. 23, p. 61-62, 2001.
Cleary*, M. S.,
Amato, J. M., and Lawton, T. F., Tertiary north-south stretching in the Little
Hatchet Mountains, southwestern New Mexico, New Mexico Geology, v. 23, p. 61,
2001.
Amato, J. M., and
Hon*, K., The Tlikakila Metamorphic Complex, Lake Clark National Park,
Alaska: A Subvertical Shear Zone
within the Peninsular Terrane, EOS Trans., American Geophysical Union, v. 81,
p. F1217, 2000.
Amato, J. M., and
Wright, J. E., The Kigluaik Diabase dike swarm: Sr and Nd Isotopic evidence for continued mantle-derived
mafic magmatism in a high-grade gneiss dome, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, G.S.A.
Abstr., v. 32, p. 497, 2000.
Cleary*, M. S., and
Amato, J. M., Quantitative strain analysis of Laramide deformation in the
Little Hatchet Mountains, southwest New Mexico, New Mexico Geology, v. 22, p.
48, 2000.
Amato, J. M., Johnson,
C., Baumgartner, L., and Beard B., Rapid exhumation of the Zermatt-Saas
ophiolite deduced from high-precision Sm-Nd and Rb-Sr geochronology, EOS
Trans., American Geophysical Union, v. 79, p. F983, 1998.
Natal'in, B., Toro,
J., and Amato, J., The origin of Cretaceous metamorphic core complexes in the
Bering Strait area. III International Conference on Arctic Margins. Celle
(Germany), Abstracts, p. 129-130, 1998.
Amato, J. M., Rowe,
H., Wright, J., and Miller, E., Cretaceous granitoids and crustal extension in
the Bering Strait Region, EOS Trans., American Geophysical Union, v. 79, p.
S62-63, 1998.
Natal'in, B., Toro,
J., and Amato., J., Paleozoic Rocks of Northern Chukotka Peninsula, their
Structural History and Relevance to the Tectonic Evolution of the Arctic, EOS
Trans., American Geophysical Union, v. 78, p. 665, 1997.
Amato, J. M.,
Johnson, C., Baumgartner, L., and Beard B., Sm-Nd dating of garnet using
aggressive HF leaching to remove inclusions: An example from the eclogites of the Western Alps, G.S.A.
Abstr., v. 29, p. 451, 1997.
Amato, J. M.,
Johnson, C., Baumgartner, L., and Beard B., Tertiary high-pressure metamorphism
at Lago di Cignana, Italy, as determined by Sm-Nd dating of eclogite,
International Eclogite Conference, Ascona, Switzerland, Abstr. Supp. No. 1 to
Terra Nova, v. 9, p. 1-2, 1997.
Amato, J. M., New
40Ar/39Ar and geochemical data from the mid-Cretaceous potassic intrusive belt
in the Bering Strait Region:
Syenites from northeastern Russia and St. Lawrence Island, Alaska,
G.S.A. Abstr., v. 28, p. 482, 1996.
Natal'in, B. A.,
Toro, J., and Amato J., Strike-Slip Faulting Along the Chegitun River, NW
Margin of the Koolen Dome, Chukotka, EOS Trans., American Geophysical Union, v.
77, p. 642, 1996.
Amato, J. M., and
Wright, J. E., Nd and Sr isotopic studies of the Kigluaik pluton: Evidence for mantle-derived,
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