Amato Abstracts
Abstracts (2021-2025)
(*NMSU student coauthor)
Schantz*, E., and Amato, J.M., 2025, Dating Dinosaurs in the Laramide foreland: U-Pb geochronologic constraints on a stratigraphic section containing Alamosaurus and the postulated Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis in the Love Ranch Basin, New Mexico, New Mexico Geological Society Spring Meeting.
Miller, E.L., Amato, J.M., Toro, J.T., and Craig*, J., 2025, Age and correlation of rock sequences in the Nome Complex, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 10th International Conference on Arctic Margins, Bremen, Germany.
Schantz*, E., Amato, J.M., and Lawton, T.F., 2024, Dating Dinosaurs in the Laramide foreland: U-Pb geochronologic constraints on a stratigraphic section containing Alamosaurus and the postulated Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis in the Love Ranch Basin, New Mexico, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 56, no. 5, doi: 10.1130/abs/2024AM-405342.
Roeske, S., Pavlis, T., Amato, J., and Worthman*, C., 2024, Evidence for continuous subduction throughout the Jurassic along the outer margin of the Wrangellia-Peninsular terranes, northern North America Cordillera, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 56, no. 5, doi: 10.1130/abs/2024AM-402313
Hughes*, L.H., Amato, J.M., and Ricci, J., 2024, Geochemical Evolution and 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology of the Uvas Basaltic Andesite: Insights into the Early Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico Geological Society Spring Meeting.
Salmeron*, A.O., Amato, J.M., and Kuykendall, G., 2024, Geologic mapping, structural analysis, and microprobe analysis of the Mazatzal Province in the Salinas Peak region, San Andres Mountains, New Mexico Geological Society Spring Meeting.
Millo*, A., and Amato, J.M., 2024, Newly discovered stromatolites and bimodal magmatism at ~1.23 Ga in the Burro Mountains of New Mexico: Mesoproterozoic rifting formed a shallow ocean basin in southwestern Laurentia, New Mexico Geological Society Spring Meeting.
Schantz*, E., and Amato, J.M., 2024, Age constraints on Upper Cretaceous dinosaurs: Geochronologic and stratigraphic analysis of the McRae Formation, within the Laramide Love Ranch Basin, New Mexico, New Mexico Geological Society Spring Meeting.
Millo*, A., and Amato, J.M., 2023, Mapping steep cliff exposures using structure-from-motion to understand the deformation history of the Proterozoic Mazatzal province in southwestern New Mexico, Abstract EP53C-1737, presented at 2023 Fall meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 11-15 December.
Hughes*, L.H., and Amato, J.M., 2023, The Uvas Basaltic Andesite: A Large-Volume volcanic field erupted during the Initiation of the Southern Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico Geological Society Spring Meeting.
Miller, E.L., Hudson, T., and Amato, J.M., 2023, Characterization of Neoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks in the enigmatic Nome Complex, Alaska, in, The 9th International Conference on Arctic Margins (ICAM 9: 2022) Abstract Volume, (ed.) M.-C. Williamson, B.M. Saumur, A.M. Savoie, and N. Bingham-Koslowski; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8941, Abstract no. ICAM9-TS11-1, p. 102. https://doi.org/10.4095/331345.
Vermillion, K., Johnson, E., Amato, J., and Heizler, M., 2022, Onset and tempo of ignimbrite flare-up volcanism in the eastern and central Mogollon-Datil volcanic field, southern New Mexico, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 54, no. 5,
doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-382369.
Amato, J.M., Johnson, E.R., Ricketts, J.W., Wyatt*, M., Vermillion*, K., Gavel*, M., and Swenton*, V., 2022, Investigating the transition from Eocene subduction to Oligocene extension in southern New Mexico, USA, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 54, no. 2, doi: 10.1130/abs/2022CD-373670.
Vermillion, K., Johnson, E., Amato, J., and Heizler, M.T., 2022, Spatial and temporal variations of Eocene-Oligocene caldera volcanism in southern New Mexico, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 54, no. 2, doi: 10.1130/abs/2022CD-373977.
Stockli, D., Lawton, T., Kortyna, C.D., Clark, J., and Amato, J., 2022, The Paleogene Burgos Basin– Insights into provenance history, basin evolution, and implications for Gulf of Mexico sedimentation, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 54, no. 1, doi: 10.1130/abs/2022SC-373825.
Ricketts, J., Amato, J., and Gavel, M.M., 2021, The origin and tectonic significance of the Basin and Range–Rio Grande rift boundary in Southern New Mexico, USA, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 53, no. 6, doi: 10.1130/abs/2021AM-366822.
