Publications

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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 51^st 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 51^st 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., Gonz‡alez-Le—n, 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, subduction-related high-K plutonism in northern Alaska, G.S.A. Abstr., v. 27, p. 2, 1995.

Miller, E. L., Amato, J. M., Toro, J., Wright, J. E., Calvert, A. T., Akinin, V., Gelman, M., and Natalin, B. A., Magmatism, metamorphism, and deformation in the Bering Strait region: Koolen gneiss dome, Chukotka, Russian Federation, EOS Trans., American Geophysical Union, v. 76, p. 589, 1995.

Amato, J. M. and Miller, E. L., Structural evolution of the Kigluaik gneiss dome, Seward Peninsula, Alaska. G.S.A. Abstr., v. 26, p. 195, 1994.

Amato, J. M., and Wright, J. E., Cretaceous granitic magmatism and gneiss dome formation in the Bering Strait region: Evidence from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska, Proceedings of the International Conference on Arctic Margins, Magadan, Russia, Simakov, A. V., and Thurston, D. K., eds., NESC FEB RAN, September, 1994.

Miller, E. L., Dumitru, T. A., Amato, J. M., Hannula, K. A., Calvert, A. T., Gans, P. B., and O'Sullivan, P. B., Tectonic setting and uplift history of gneiss domes in the Bering Strait region, Alaska, Proceedings of the International Conference on Arctic Margins, Magadan, Russia, Simakov, A. V., and Thurston, D. K., eds., NESC FEB RAN, September, 1994.

Amato, J. M., and Wright, J. E., Systematics of metamorphic monazite and its bearing on the petrogenesis of the Kigluaik gneiss dome, Seward Peninsula, AK, Abstracts of the 8th International Conference on Geochronology, Cosmochronology, and Isotope Geology, Lanphere, M.A., Dalrymple, G.B., and Turrin, B.D., eds., U.S.G.S. Circular 1107, p. 5, 1994.

Miller, E. L., Hannula, K. A., Dumitru, T., Amato, J. M., Calvert, A. T., Gans, P. B., and O'Sullivan, P., Cretaceous to Recent N-S extension of the Bering Strait region: Constraints from geologic and thermochronologic studies on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, EOS Trans., American Geophysical Union, v. 74, p. 614-615, 1993.

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