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Amato, J. M., and Mack, G. H., 2012, Detrital zircon geochronology from the Cambrian-Ordovician Bliss Sandstone, New Mexico: Evidence for contrasting Grenville-age and Cambrian sources on opposite sides of the Transcontinental Arch, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 124, p. 1826-1840, doi:10.1130/B30657.1. Also can be accessed here and here

Amato, J. M., and Becker, T., 2012, Proterozoic rocks of the Caballo Mountains and Kingston Mining District: U-Pb geochronology and correlations within the Mazatzal province of southern New Mexico, in Lucas, S. G., McLemore, V. T., Lueth, V. W., Spielmann, J. A., and Krainer, K., eds., New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 63rd Field Conference, Warm Springs Region, p. 227-234.

Amato, J. M., Athens, C., McIntosh, W., and Peters, L., 2012, U-Pb zircon ages from crustal xenoliths in a Pliocene basalt flow from the southern Rio Grande rift: Implications for the timing of magmatism and extension, in Lucas, S. G., McLemore, V. T., Lueth, V. W., Spielmann, J. A., and Krainer, K., eds., New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 63rd Field Conference, Warm Springs Region, p. 273-284.

Amato, J. M., Heizler, M. T., Boullion, A. O., Sanders, A. E., McLemore, V. T., Toro, J., and Andronicos, C. L., 2011, Syntectonic (1.46 Ga) magmatism and exhumation during crustal extension in the Mazatzal Province: The Burro Mountains gneiss dome, southern New Mexico, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 123, p. 1720-1744, doi: 10.1130/B30337.1. Also can be accessed here

Amato, J. M., and Pavlis, T. L., 2010, Detrital Zircon Ages from the McHugh Complex, Chugach Terrane, Southern Alaska, Reveal Multiple Episodes of Subduction Accretion and Erosion, Geology, v. 38, p. 459-462.

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.