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Papers and Reports

2020, Akinin, V. V., Miller, E. L., Toro, J., Prokopiev, A. V., Gottlieb, E. S., Pearcey, S., ... & Trunilina, V. A. Episodicity and the dance of late Mesozoic magmatism and deformation along the northern circum-Pacific margin: NE Russia to the Cordillera. Earth-Science Reviews, 208, 103272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103272

2019, Robinson, F. A., Toro, J., & Pease, V. U-Pb and oxygen isotope characteristics of Timanian-and Caledonian-age detrital zircons from the Brooks Range, Arctic Alaska, USA. Bulletin, 131(9-10), 1459-1479.

2019, Johnson, B. G., Strauss, J. V., Taylor, J. F., Ward, W. P., Colpron, M., McClelland, W. C., & Toro, J. The Whale Mountain allochthon: A relic of the Iapetus Ocean preserved in the northeastern Brooks Range of Alaska and Yukon. Circum-Arctic Structural Events: Tectonic Evolution of the Arctic Margins and Trans-Arctic Links with Adjacent Orogens, 541, 439. doi.org/10.1130/2018.2541(20).

2018, Miller, E. L., Meisling, K. E., Akinin, V. V., Brumley, K., Coakley, B. J., Gottlieb, E. S., ... & Toro, J. (2017). Circum-Arctic Lithosphere Evolution (CALE) Transect C: displacement of the Arctic Alaska–Chukotka microplate towards the Pacific during opening of the Amerasia Basin of the Arctic. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 460, SP460-9.

2016, Johnson*, B.G., Strauss, J.V., Toro, J., Benowitz, J. A., Ward, W., Hourigan, J.K.,  Detrital geochronology of pre-Mississipian strata in the northeastern Brooks Range, Alaska: Insights into the tectonic evolution of northern Laurentia, Lithosphere, 8, 649-667, doi:10.1130/L533.1

2016, Toro J., E.L. Miller , A.V. Prokopiev, X. Zhang & R. Veselovskiy, Mesozoic Orogens of the Arctic from Novaya Zemlya to Alaska, Journal of the Geological Society, doi:10.1144/jgs2016-083

2015, Amato, J.M., J. Toro, V.V. Akinin, B.A. Hampton, A. S. Salnikov, and M.I. Tuchkova, Tectonic evolution of the Mesozoic South Anyui suture zone, eastern Russia: A critical component of paleogeographic reconstructions of the Arctic region, Geosphere, v. 11, n.5, p. 1- 35, doi:10.1130/GES01165.1

2015, Khudoley, A., K. Chamberlain, V. Ershova, J. Sears, A. Prokopiev, J. MacLean, G. Kazakova, S. Malyshev, A. Molchanov, K. Kullerud, J. Toro, E.L. Miller, R. Veselovskiy, A. Li, D. Chipley,, Proterozoic supercontinental restorations: constraints from provenance studies of Mesoproterozoic to Cambrian clastic rocks, eastern Siberian Craton, Precambrian Research, 259, 78-94.

2014, McDannell, K. T., J. Toro, J. K. Hourigan, and D. Harris, Thermochronologic constraints on Late Cretaceous to Cenozoic exhumation of the Bendeleben Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 15, doi:10.1002/2014GC005424.

2014, Amato, J.M., Aleinikoff, A.N., Akinin, V.V., Mclelland, W.C. and Toro, J.., Age, Chemistry and Correlation of Neoproterozoic-Devonian Igneous rocks of the Arctic Alaska-Chukotka Terrane: An Overview with new U-Pb ages, edited by A. Till and J. Dumoulin, GSA Special Papers v. 506, p. 29-57, doi: 10.1130/2014.2506(02)

2012, Miller, E.L. A. V. Soloviev, A. V. Prokopiev, J. Toro, D. Harris, A. B. Kuzmichev, G. E. Gehrels, Triassic river systems and the paleo-Pacific margin of northwestern Pangea, Gondwana Research

2012, Harris, D.B., J. Toro, and A.V. Prokopiev, Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology of Mesozoic sandstones from the Lower Yana River, northern Russia, Lithosphere, first published on October 26, 2012, doi:10.1130/L250.1

2011, 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 rapid cooling of a gneiss dome in the southern Mazatzal Province; Burro Mountains, New Mexico, Geological Society of America Bulletin 123. 9-10 (Sep 2011): 1720-1744 doi: 10.1130/B30337.1.

2009, D. B. Stone, K. Fujita, P.W. Layer, E.L. Miller, A. V. Prokopiev and J. Toro, editors, Geology, Geophysics and Tectonics of Northeastern Russia: a tribute to Leonid Parfenov, European Geosciences Union, Stephan Mueller Special Publication Series, Vol. 4, 349 pp.

2009, Akinin, V.V., Prokopiev, A.V., Toro, J., Miller, E.L., Wooden, J., Goryachev, N.A., Alshevsky, A.V., Bakharev A.G., Trunilina, V.A. U-PB SHRIMP ages of granitoides from the Main batholith belt (North East Asia). Doklady Earth Sciences, 2009, Vol. 426, No. 4, pp. 605-610. DOI:10.1134/S1028334X09040217

2009, Amato, J. M., Toro, J., Miller, E.L., Gehrels, G.E., Farmer, G.L., Till, A.B., Seward Pen Paper, Late Proterozoic-Paleozoic evolution of the Arctic Alaska Chukotka terrane based on U-Pb igneous and detrital zircon ages: Implications for Neoproterozoic paleogeographic reconstructions, GSA Bulletin,v. 121, no. 9/10, p. 1219-1234 Article. DOI:10.1130/B26510.1

2009, Miller, E. L., A. Kuzmichev , G. Gehrels, J. Toro and M. I. Tuchkova, Jura-Cretaceous Deposits on the Siberian Islands and Chukotka, Russia: Separated by the birth of the Arctic Ocean? Norwegian Journal of Geology, Vol. 88, n. 4., p.201-226. Download pdf .

2009, Prokopiev, A. V., Toro, J., Bakharev, E.L., Miller, E.L., Hourigan, J.K., and Dumitru, T., Middle Proterozoic continental margin magmatism and Mesozoic metamorphic events occurring in the junction of the North Asia craton and the Okhotsk terrane: new geochemical and geochronological data and their geodynamic interpretation, in: Stephan Mueller Special Publication Series 4, 1-14. , European Geoscience Union

2008, Prokopiev, A.V., Toro, J., Miller, E.L., and Gehrels, G.E, T he paleo-Lena River-200 m.y. of transcontinental zircontransport in Siberia, Geology , v.36, n. 9, p. 699-702, doi:10.1130/G24924A.1 

2007, Prokopiev A.V., Toro J., Bakharev A.G., Miller E.L., Wooden J., Surnin A.A. Uvyazka paleo rift zone: new U-Pb SHRIMP geochronological, Otechestvennaya Geologiya (Local Geology), 5 pp.

2007, Prokopiev A.V., Smelov A.P., Toro J., Miller E.L., Wooden J., Grakhanov S.A., Oleinikov O.B. Delta Lena river metamorphic complex (Northeast Asia): new U-Pb SHRIMP geochronological data, Otechestvennaya Geologiya (Local Geology), 5 pp.

2006, Miller, E. L., J. Toro, G. Gehrels, J. M. Amato, A. Prokopiev, M. I. Tuchkova, V. V. Akinin, T. A. Dumitru, T. E. Moore, and M. P. Cecile, New insights into Arctic paleogeography and tectonics from U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology, Tectonics, 25, TC3013, doi:10.1029/2005TC001830.

2005, Toro, J., F. Roure, N. Bordas-Le Floch, S. Le Cornec-Lance, W. Sassi, Thermal and Kinematic Evolution of the Eastern Cordillera fold-and-thrust-belt, Colombia, in R. Swennen, F. Roure, and J. Granath, eds., Deformation, fluid flow and reservoir appraisal in foreland fold and thrust belts, AAPG Hedberg Series, n. 1, p. 1-37.

2004, Amato, J., Toro, J., and Moore, T. E., Origin of the Bering Sea Orocline, in Sussman, A.J., and Weil, A.B., eds., Orogenic curvature: Integrating paleomagnetic and structural analyses: Geological Society of America Special Paper 384, 14 pp.

2004, Toro, J., F. Roure, N. Bordas-Le Floch, S. Le Cornec-Lance, W. Sassi, Thermal and Kinematic Evolution of the Eastern Cordillera fold-and-thrust-belt, Colombia, in R. Swennen, F. Roure, and J. W. Granath, eds. Deformation, fluid flow, and reservoir appraisal in foreland fold and thrust belts: AAPG Hedberg Series, no. 1, p. 79-115. 

2004, 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.

2003, Prokopiev, A.V., Bakharev, A.G., Toro, J., Miller, E.L., Hourigan, J. K, and Dumitru, T. A., Mid-Paleozoic continental margin magmatism and Mesozoic metamorphic events at the North Asian Craton-Okhotsk terrane boundary, Otechestviennaya Geologiya (Regional Geology), n. 6, p. 57-63 (in Russian).

Toro, J., Amato, J. M., and Natal'in, B. A., 2003, Cretaceous deformation, Chegitun River area, Chukotka Peninsula, Russia: Implications for the
tectonic evolution of the Bering Strait region, Tectonics, 22, 1021, doi: 10.1029/2001TC001333. 

Amato, J. M., Miller, E. L., Toro, J., and Wright, J. E., 2003, 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 Short Notes on Alaskan Geology 2003, Clautice, K., ed., State of Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Professional Report 120, 1-20. 

Roure, F., Bordas-Lefloch, N., Toro, J., Aubourg, C., Guillaumou, N., Hernandez, E., Lecornec-Lance, S., Riveiro, C., Robion, P., Sassi, W., 2003, Petroleum Systems and Reservoir Appraisal in the Subandean Basins: Eastern Venezuela and Eastern Colombian Foothills, in Bartolini, C., Burke, K., and Buffler, R., editors, Mexico and the Caribbean Region: Plate Tectonics, Basin Formation and Hydrocarbon Habitats, AAPG Memoir, vol.79, pp.750-775.

Toro, J ., P.B. Gans, W.B. McClelland, and T. Dumitru, 2002, Deformation and exhumation of the Mt. Igikpak region, central Brooks Range, Alaska, in: Miller, E.L., Klemperer, S., and Grantz, A., eds., Tectonic Evolution of the Bering Shelf-Chukchi Sea-Arctic Margin and Adjacent Landmasses: Geological Society of America Special Paper 360, p. 111-132. 

Klemperer, S.; Miller, E.L.; Grantz, A.; Scholl, D.W. Childs, J.R.; Bogdanov, N.A.; Belykh, I.N.; Galloway, G.; Hicks, B.; Cole, F.; and Toro J., 2002, Crustal structure of the Bering and Chukchi shelves: deep seismic reflection profiles across the North American Continent between Alaska and Russia, in: Miller, E.L., Klemperer, S., and Grantz, A., eds., Tectonic Evolution of the Bering Shelf-Chukchi Sea-Arctic Margin and Adjacent Landmasses: Geological Society of America Special Paper 360,1-24.

Natal'in, B.A., Amato, J.M., Toro, J ., and Wright, J.E., 1999, Paleozoic rocks of northern Chukotka Peninsula, Russian Far East: implications for the tectonics of the Arctic region, Tectonics, v. 18, p. 977-1003. 

Toro, J., 1998, Structure and thermochronology of the metamorphic core of the central Brooks Range, Alaska: Ph. D. Thesis, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

Toro, J., Cole, F.and Meier J. M.,1998,40Ar/39Ar ages of detrital minerals in Lower Cretaceous rocks of the Okpikruak formation: evidence for Upper Paleozoic metamorphic rocks in the Koyukuk arc, in Gray, J.E. and Riehle, J.R., Geologic Studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1996: U.S.Geological Survey Professional Paper 1595, p. 169-182.

Le Cornec-Lance, S., Bordas-Le Floch, N., J. Toro, Benard, F., Lafargue, E., and Roure, F., 1998, Thermal and maturity modelling study of the Sabana de Bogota, Colombia: Institut Français du Pétrole, Report 44 366, 87 pp.

Toro, J., Bordas-Le Floch, N., Le Cornec-Lance, S., Roure, F., Benard, F., Lafargue, E., Sassi, W., Robion, P., Auburg, C., and Frizon de la Motte, D., 1998, Report on the Colombian SUBTRAP Consortium (Sub-Thrust Reservoir Appraisal): Institut Français du Pétrole, Report 44 -557, 2 vol., 275 p., 1 plate.

Roure, F., Bordas-Le Floch, N., Colletta, B., Lafargue, E., Le Cornec-Lance, S., Sassi, W., and Toro, J. , 1997, Report on the Coporo diagenetic and modelling study, Colombian foothills: Institut Français du Pétrole, Report 44 340, 96 pp.

Bering Strait Geological Field Party, 1997, The Koolen metamorphic complex, NE Russia: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Bering Strait Region, Tectonics, Vol. 16, n. 5, p.713-729.

Cole, F., Bird, K.J., Toro, J., Roure, F., O’Sullivan, P. B., Pawlewicz, and Howell, D.G.,1997, An integrated model for the tectonic development of the frontal Brooks Range and Colville Basin 250 km west of the Trans-Alaska Crustal Transect: Jour. Geoph. Res., v. 102, n. B9, p. 20,685-20,708.

Cole, F., Bird, K.J., Toro, J., Roure, and Howell, D.G., 1995, Kinematic and subsidence modeling of the north-central Brooks Range and North Slope of Alaska: USGS Open File Report 95-823, 3 sheets.

Rubin, C. M., Miller, E. L., and Toro, J., 1995, Deformation of the northern circum-Pacific margin: Variations in tectonic style and plate-tectonic implications: Geology, v. 23, p. 897-900.

Toro, J. 1992, Interpretacion estructural del Valle Superior del Magdalena a la latitud de Tetuan-Prado y evaluacion estructural del prospecto Topacio: Ecopetrol, Bogota, unpublished report 20 p., 10 plates.

Toro, J., 1990, The Termination of the Bucaramanga Fault in the Cordillera Oriental, Colombia. M.S. thesis, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 53 p., 3 plates.

Abstracts

2022, Toro, J., Hammond, G. And Frier, W. P., Update on The Doonerak Fenster Problem: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 54, no. 5, https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2022AM-379420.

2022, Seminara, S., Pease, V., Toro, J., and Omma, J., Heavy Mineral Analysis of the NE Yukon-Koyukuk Basin Sandstones, Alaska: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 54, no. 5, https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2022AM-379426.

2019, Toro, J., E. L Miller, and V. V. Akinin, Plate tectonic interactions along the northern Pacific-Arctic margin and their implications for magmatism and deformation, AGU Chapman Conference, Selfoss Iceland, 13-18 Oct.

2019, Amato, J. M., Toro, J and Miller, E. L., A history of geologic research on Seward Peninsula, Alaska, by Elizabeth Miller and collaborators: crustal extension from top to bottom. Cordilleran Section - 115th Annual Meeting – 2019, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 51, No. 4, doi: 10.1130/abs/2019CD-329026

2019, Axelsson, E., Pease, V., Toro, J., Miller, E. And Pearcey, A synthesis of detrital zircon data across 250 km of the Central and Schist belts of the Brooks Range, Alaska: implications for Arctic tectonic sutures S. Cordilleran Section - 115th Annual Meeting – 2019, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 51, No. 4
doi: 10.1130/abs/2019CD-329240

2017, Gaschot, B*. and Toro, J. Airborne Lidar-based 3d Structural Modeling of Cover Deformation Within the Central Appalachian Valley and Ridge Province, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 49, No. 6 
doi: 10.1130/abs/2017AM-302339

2017, Robinson, F., Pease, V. and Toro, J., U-PB and O Isotope Characteristics of Timanian- And Caledonian-aged Detrital Zircons from the Brooks Range, Arctic Alaska, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 49, No. 6 doi: 10.1130/abs/2017AM-302958

2017, Johnson, B.*, Strauss, J., Taylor, J., Ward, W., Colpron, M., Mcclelland, W. and Toro, J., The Whale Mountain Allochthon of the Northeastern Brooks Range, Alaska: An Arctic Vestige of the Iapetus Ocean, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 49, No. 6 
doi: 10.1130/abs/2017AM-305358

2016, Frier, W. P.*, Johnson, B., Toro, J., Hammond, G. and Strauss, J. V., Geological Evidence from the Doonerak Fenster and Endicott Mountains Allochthon of the Central Brooks Range, Alaska: Insights Into the Assembly of the Arctic Alaska Terrane, GSA Annual Meeting, Denver, Sept. 26, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 48, No. 7 doi: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-287987

2016, Miller, E. L., Meisling, Kristian E., A., Akinin, V. V., Brumley, K., Coakley, B., Gottlieb, E. S., Hoiland, C. W., O'Brien, T. M. and Toro, J., A Synthesis of Northern Circum-Pacific Magmatism and Tectonism Associated with Circum-Arctic Lithosphere Evolution (CALE) Transect C, GSA Annual Meeting, Denver, Sept. 26, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 48, No. 7 doi: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-284021

2015, Toro, J., Amato, J. M., Akinin, V. V., Hampton, B. A., & Tuchkova, M. Tectonic evolution of the Mesozoic South Anyui suture zone, eastern Russia; a critical component of paleogeographic reconstructions of the Arctic region. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 47(4), 2.

2015, Toro, J., & Amato, J. M. Dextral motion on the Kugruk shear zone, Seward Peninsula, during opening of the Canada Basin. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 47(4), 3.

2015, Johnson, B.*, Strauss, J. V., Toro, J., & Benowitz, J. Early Paleozoic assembly of the North Slope subterrane; evidence from an accretionary complex exposed in the Northeastern Brooks Range, Alaska. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 47(4), 2.

2014, Toro, J., Amato, J. M,, The Role of Chukotka During Opening of the Amerasian Basin: A New Paleogeographic Model for the Arctic During the Mesozoic, Annual  Meeting Geological Society of America, Vancouver, BC., 20-23 Oct., Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 46, No. 6, p.786.

2014, Johnson, B. G.*, Toro, J., Benowitz, J.,  (2014), Timing and Emplacement of the Whale Mountain Allochthon Northeast Brooks Range, Alaska, Annual  Meeting Geological Society of America, Vancouver, BC., 20-23 Oct., Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 46, No. 6, p.785.

2013, Johnson, B. G.*, Toro, J., Benowitz, J, Caledonian Deformation in Polydeformed Pre-Mississippian Rocks of the Northeast Brooks Range, Alaska in Abstract T13B-2523 presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 9-13 Dec.

2013, Parrish, C.*, J. Toro, A. Weislogel, J. Hayward, J. Wooden,  Insights into the Appalachian Basin Middle Devonian Depositional System From U-Pb Zircon Geochronology of Volcanic Ashes in the Marcellus Shale and Onondaga Limestone, Abstracts, AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Pittsburgh, 19-22 May 2013, Search and Discovery Article #90163, http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/abstracts/html/2013/90163ace/

2013, Gottlieb, Eric, Miller, E.,L., Meisling, K., Toro, J., Mull, C. Pre-opening Paleogeography of the Canada Basin Margins: Insights from Detrital Zircon Geochronology, 3P Arctic Conference and Exhibitiion, 15-18 October, Stavanger, Norway

2012, Parrish, Chantelle*, Toro, J., Hayward, J., Weislogel, A., and Wooden, J., U-Pb Geochronology from Volcanic Ash  layers within Marcellus formation, Appalachian Basin: Understanding Basin Evolution during the Middle Devonian, 2012 GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte (4-7 Nov. 2012).

2012, Toro, Jaime; Weislogel, Amy; Hayward, Jessica; Parrish, Chantelle; Wooden, Joseph; U-Pb geochronology of zircon from volcanic ashes in the marcellus formation, Appalachian Basin. Abstracts: Annual Meeting - American Association of Petroleum Geologists 2012.

2012, Parrish, C.B.*, J. Hayward, J. Toro, A.L Weislogel, J. L Wooden, U-Pb zircon geochronology of the Tioga ash layers within the Marcellus Shale, Appalachian Basin: Implications for basin evolution during the Middle Devonian, AGU Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 3-7, 2012.

2012, Gardiner, James B., Stewart, Brian W., Capo, Rosemary C. , Phan, Thai T., Sharma, Shikha, and Toro, Jaime, A,  Neodymium Isotope Investigation Of Sediment Sources Of The Middle Devonian Marcellus Formation, Pennsylvania, USA, 2012 GSA Annual Meeting In Charlotte (4-7 Nov. 2012).

2012, Phan, Thai T., Stewart, Brian W., Capo, Rosemary C., Gardiner, James B., Sharma, Shikha, and Toro, Jaime, Uranium isotope variations in shale and carbonate of the Middle Devonian Marcellus Formation, Pennsylvania, USA 2012 GSA Annual Meeting In Charlotte (4-7 Nov. 2012).

2011, Toro, J. Amato, J. Role of the Kugruk Fault Zone in the Opening of the Canada Basin, International Conference on Arctic Margins (ICAM VI), Fairbanks, AK, May 30 - June 2, 2011

2011, Swan, E.; Toro, J.; Sullivan, P.; Structural framework of the Appalachian Plateau of central West Virginia, Allison, E. (chairperson); Eppink, J. (chairperson). Abstracts - AAPG, Eastern Section Meeting 2011. (2011).

2010, Littlefield, K. and Toro, J., (U-Th-Sm)/He Analysis of Denudation Rates and Exhumation Histories in Southern West Virginia, Abstract EP41C-0717 presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 13-17 Dec.


2010, Harris, D. B., Toro, J., Prokopiev, A. and Miller, E.L. Cretaceous tectonic and magmatic evolution of the Kular gneiss dome, northeast Russia, Abstract T31A-2143 Poster presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 13-17 Dec.


2010, McDannell, Toro, J., and Hourigan, J.K, .Exhumation in the Bendeleben Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, constrained by radiogenic helium thermochronology, Abstract EP23B-0786 Poster presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 13-17 Dec.

2010, Amato, J. M., Heizler, M. T., Boullion, A. O., Sanders, A. E., Mclemore, V. T., Toro, J., And Andronicos, C. L., Mesoproterozoic (1.46 Ga) Magmatism and Exhumation During Crustal Extension in the Mazatzal Province: the Burro Mountains Gneiss Dome, Southern New Mexico, Paper No. 169-10, GSA Denver Annual Meeting (31 Oct. -3 Nov. 2010), Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 42, No. 5, p. 414.

2010, Harris, D. B., Toro, J., And Mcdannell, K. T.., Cretaceous Tectonic and Magmatic Evolution of The Bendeleben And Windy Creek Plutons, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section - 106th Annual Meeting, and Pacific Section, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (27-29 May 2010), GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 42, No. 4, P. 106.

2009, Toro*, J., Prokopiev, A.V., Miller, E.L., Akinin, V.V., and Wooden, J., New Geochronologic data from the Jura cretaceous plutonic belts of North Eastern Russia: Implications for the evolution of the Arctic Basin, Abstract, Geological Society of America Penrose Conference: Tectonic Development of the Amerasia Basin, 4-9 October 2009, Banff, Canada.

2009, Amato, J.*, Toro, J., Miller, E., Gehrels, G., Gottlieb, E., Farmer, G. L., and Till, A., Late Proterozoic-Paleozoic Evolution of the Arctic Alaska Chukotka Terrane: Evidence from Zircon Ages and Nd Geochemistry, GSA Cordilleran Section Meeting - 105th Annual Meeting Kelowna, BC, Canada (7-9 May 2009).

2008, Toro* J, Prokopiev, A.V., Miller, E.L., and Gehrels, G.E, The paleo-Lena River-200 m.y. of transcontinental zircon transport in Siberia, EOS Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T33-2094.

2007, Toro* J., Prokopiev A.V., Miller E.L., Trunilina V.A., and Bakharev A.G., Origin of the Main Granitoid Belt of Northeastern Russia on the Basins of New U-Pb Geochronology and Geochemistry, Fifth International Conference on Arctic Margins, Abstracts and Proceedings of the Geological Society of Norway, NGF, n. 2, p. 73-74.

2007, Toro*, J; Prokopiev, A V; Wiegand, B; Miller, E L, and Wooden, J, (2007) New U-Pb SHRIMP-RG Geochronology and Isotope Geochemistry of the Main and Northern Granitoid Belts of NE Russia, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T13D-1574.

2007, Miller*, E. L.,. Akinin, V. V., Prokopiev, A., Hourigan, J., and Toro, J, Plate Tectonics and the Magmatic Belts of NE Russia and Adjacent Alaska: A Decade of Field and U-Pb (SHRIMP-RG) Geochronologic Studies, 2007 GSA Denver Annual Meeting, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 39, No. 6, p. 526.

2007, Miller*, E.L., Soloviev, A.V., Kuzmichev, A.B., Toro, J. and Verzhbitsky, Constraints for the Formation of the Makarov Basin from Detrital Zircon Suites of Jura-Cretaceous Sediments and from the Timing of Magmatism in the Russian Arctic, Fifth International Conference on Arctic Margins, Abstracts and Proceedings of the Geological Society of Norway, NGF, n. 2, p. 112.

2007, Prokopiev* A.V., Toro J., Miller E.L., Gehrels G.E., 2007. Provenance of Paleozoic to Mesozoic siliclastic sequences of the Verkhoyansk continental margin based on U-Pb ages of detrital zircon suites. In: Tectonics and metallogeny of the Circum-North Pacific and Eastern Asia: Proc. of the Leonid Parfenov Memorial Conference, Khabarovsk, June 11-16, 2007 / Ed. A.I. Khanchuk. Khabarovsk, Institute of Tectonics and Geophysics FEB RAS, p. 283-286.

2007, Prokopiev* A.V., Toro J., Miller E.L., Wooden J., Trunilina V.A., Bakharev A.G., Granitoids of the Main batholith belt (Northeast Asia): New U-Pb SHRIMP geochronological and geochemical data. In: Tectonics and metallogeny of the Circum-North Pacific and Eastern Asia: Proc. of the Leonid Parfenov Memorial Conference, Khabarovsk, June 11-16, 2007 / Ed. A.I. Khanchuk. Khabarovsk, Institute of Tectonics and Geophysics FEB RAS, p. 286-288.

2006, *Toro, J., Miller, E.L., Gehrels, G. Implications of U-Pb, Detrital Zircon Geochronology of Triassic rocks for the Tectonic Evolution of the Arctic Basin, International Lithospheric Program Conference on Sedimentary Basins of the Polar Realm, Sept. 18-22, Quebec City.

2006, *Miller, E.L, Toro, J., Re-Evaluation of Plate Tectonic Models for Formation of the Amerasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean: Geologic Constraints from the Russian Arctic, AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T53B-1598.

2006, Romero*, G.; Amato, J.; Toro, J., 2006, Geologic mapping and structural analysis to determine the evolution of the Darby Mountains region and Kugruk fault zone, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, vol.38, no.5, pp. 83.

2006, *Amato, Toro, J, E.L. Miller , G. Gehrels, Late Proterozoic Magmatism in Alaska and its Implications for Paleogeographic Reconstructions of the Arctic Alaska-Chukotka Plate, Joint GSA Cordilleran Section and AAPG Pacific Section, Anchorage, AK, 8-10 May, 2006.

2006, *Romero, G., J. Amato, and J. Toro, Record of Late Proterozoic magmatism from basement gneisses and detrital zircons from Paleozoic sediment on Seward Peninsula, and implications for Paleogeographic Reconstructions of the Arctic Alaska Plate, Joint GSA Cordilleran Section and AAPG Pacific Section, Anchorage, AK, 8-10 May, 2006.

2006, Toro, J, * Burnette, L, Amato, J, Repetski, J, and Gehrels, G, The Mint River Fault: an Extensional Detachment in the York Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, Joint GSA Cordilleran Section and AAPG Pacific Section, Anchorage, AK, 8-10 May, 2006.

2006, * Miller, E.L., J. Toro, S. Katkov, Toro, J, E.L. Miller, G. Gehrels, Arctic Paleogeography and Plate Tectonic Evolution of the Amerasian Basin, Joint GSA Cordilleran Section and AAPG Pacific Section, Anchorage, AK, 8-10 May, 2006.

2006, * Toro, J, E.L. Miller , S. Katkov, Does the Brooks Range Orogen Extend into Chukotka?, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 38, No. 5, p. 34

2005, * Toro, J, Burnette, L, Amato, J, Repetski, J, and Gehrels, G, The Mint River Fault: an Extensional Detachment in the York Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T13C-0491

2005, Katkov, S M, Strickland, A, Miller, E L, Podgorny, I I, Toro, J, Dating Deformation in the Anyui-Chukotka Fold Belt, Northeastern Arctic Russia, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T11B-0378

2005, Artun, E., Mohaghegh, S. D., Toro, J., Wilson, T., Sanchez, A., 2005, Reservoir Characterization using Intelligent Seismic Inversion, SPE 98012, SPE Eastern Regional Meeting, Morgantown, Sept. 14-16, 19 p.

2004, Pyakurel, Sandeep, Wilson, T., Toro, J. and Mohaghegh, S., Interpretation of 3D Seismic and Subsurface Data from the Buffalo Valley Field, Chavez County, New Mexico, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36, No. 5, p. 496.

2004, Sanchez, A., Toro, J., T. Wilson, T., and Mohaghegh, S. D., 3D Seismic Interpretation and Modeling of the Atoka-Morrow Sequence in the Buffalo Valley Field, Delaware Basin, NM for Reservoir Characterization Using Neural Networks, AAPG, Eastern Section, Oct. 3-6, 2004, Columbus, OH.

2004, Crider, J. G, Cooke, M. L., Jiang, D., Resor, P., Stimac, J.P., Tikoff, B., and Toro, J., Using Analog And Mathematical Models To Address Multiple Learning Objectives In Undergraduate Structural Geology Courses, Geol. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting, Denver, Nov. 7-10.

2004, Katkov, S. M., Miller, E.L., Podgorny I.I., and Toro, J., Deformation History of Central Chukotka (Alarmaut Uplift) Northeastern Arctic Russia, AGU Annual Meeting, Dec. 13-17, San Francisco.

2004, Miller, E.L., Toro, J., Gehrels, G., Tuchkova, M. and Katkov, S., Detrital Zircon Ages from Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Myrgovaam Basin Sandstones (Rauchua Trough), Western Chukotka, NE, AGU Annual Meeting, Dec. 13-17, San Francisco.

2004, Prokopiev, A. V., Hourigan, J., A.G. Bakharev, Toro, J., Miller, E.L., New Geochemical and Geochronological Constrains on the Tectonic Evolution of the Okhotsk Terrane, AGU Annual Meeting, Dec. 13-17, San Francisco.

2004, Stimac, J. P., Cooke, M. L., Crider, J. G, Jiang, D., Resor, P., Tikoff, B., and Toro, J., An Analog And Mathematical Modeling Resource Catalog for Undergraduate Structural Geology Courses, Geol. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting, Denver, Nov. 7-10.

2004, Toro, J., Prokopiev, A. V., Colgan, J., Dumitru, T, Hourigan, J., and Miller, E.L., Apatite Fission-Track Thermochronology of the Southern Verkhoyansk Fold-and-Thrust Belt, Russia, AGU Annual Meeting, Dec. 13-17, San Francisco.

2004, Toro, J., Toro, F. C., Bird, K. J., and Harrison, C., The Arctic Alaska-Canada Connection Revisited, Geol. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting, Denver, Nov. 7-10.

2004, Miller, Elizabeth, Gehrels, G., Amato, J., Toro, J., Prokopiev, A., Moore, T. E., 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, Geol. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting, Denver, Nov. 7-10.

Burnette, L.L., Toro, J. and Rengers, F., 2004, Geologic mapping and structural analysis of the central York Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, Geol. Soc. Am. Northeastern-Southeastern Joint Annual Meeting, Tyson's Corner, VA, Mar. 25-27, 2004.

Edmonds, C., Toro, J., 2004, Natural Gas Exploration Associated with Alleghenian Thrust Faults in the Greenbrier Formation, Southern West Virginia, AAPG, Eastern Section, Oct. 3-6, Columbus, OH.

Prokopiev A.V., Toro J., Bakharev A.G., Miller E.L., Hourigan J.K., Dumitru T.A. 2004, Middle Paleozoic-Mesozoic geodynamic evolution of the zone of junction of the North Asian craton and the Okhotsk terrane as derived from new geochemical and geochronological data (in Russian).Abstract in: Evolution of tectonic processes in Earth history. Novosibirsk: SB RAS, Geo, p. 83-86.

Elswick, V.A, and Toro, J., 2003, Seismic interpretation and structural evaluation of the Hope Basin, Alaska, Geol. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting, Seattle, Nov. 2-6, 2003.

Prokopiev A.V., Toro J., Dumitru T.A., Miller E.L., Hourigan J.K., 2003, First experience on studying thrust structures of South Verkhoyan'e (eastern Yakutia) on the AFTA basis (in Russian). Abstract in: Evolution of tectonic processes in Earth history. Novosibirsk: SB RAS, Geo, p. 86-88.

Rolon-Vidal, L. F. and Toro, J., 2003, Role of extensional structures in the development of the Middle Magdalena Valley Basin, Colombia, VIII Simposio Bolivariano, Petroleum Exploration in the Subandean Basins, Cartagena, Sep 21-24, 2003.

Rolon, L. and Toro, J., 2003, Extensional structures related to the Jurassic-Cretaceous rift of the Middle Magdalena Valley Basin- Colombia, AAPG Eastern Section Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, September 6-10, 2003.

Toro, J., Roure, F. LeCornec-Lance, S., Bordas-Lefloch, N., Sassi, W., 2002 , Structural and thermal evolution of the Cordillera Oriental, Colombia, AAPG Hedberg Conference, May 13-16, Palermo, Italy.

Bordas-Le Floch, N., Roure, F., Bénard, F., Toro, J., Lance-Le Cornec, S., and Robion, P., 2001, Links between thrust emplacement and quartz Cementation in sandstone reservoirs of the eastern Venezuela basin and the eastern cordillera of Colombia, Geological Society of America- Global Meeting (June 24-28), Edinburg, UK.

Toro, J. , LeCornec-Lance, S., Bordas-Le Floch, N., Roure, F., and Sassi, W., 2001, 2-D Thermal and Kinematic Modeling of the Cordillera Oriental, Colombia, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Annual Meeting, (June 3-7), Denver.

Toro, J., Prokopiev, A. V., Miller, E. L., and Dumitru, T. A., 2001, Structure and Thermochronology of the South Verkhoyansk Thrust Belt, Eastern Siberia, Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr. Programs, v. 33, n. 6, p. A448.

Toro, J., Prokopiev, A.,. Miller, E.L., and Dumitru, T., 2000, Styles of deformation in the Verkhoyansk Fold and Thrust Belt, Eastern Siberia, Eos Trans. AGU, 81 (48), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T21C-26.

Toro, J., McClelland, W.C. and Ireland, T., 1999, Comparative Partial Dissolution and SHRIMP Zircon Analysis Used to Unravel Complex U-Pb Systematics in a Brooks Range Orthogneiss, EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol.80, n. 46, F1081.\

1998, Toro J., Cole F. and Meier J. M.; 40Ar/39Ar Ages of Detrital Minerals in Lower Cretaceous Rocks of the Okpikruak Formation: Evidence For Upper Paleozoic Metamorphic Rocks in The Koyukuk Arc, 1998, US Geological Survey Professional Paper, no 1595, pp. 169-182 ISSN 1044-9612

Cole, F., Bird, K.J., Howell, D.G., Roure, F., Valin, Z.C., Pawlewicz, M.J., Robbins, S.L., and Toro, J., 1995, Deformation and foreland basin sedimentation in the north-central Brooks Range, Alaska: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Pacific Section Meeting Abstracts, San Francisco, May 3-5, 1995.

Cole, F., Roure, F., Bird, K.J., Howell, D.G., and Toro, J., 1995, Kinematic models for the north-central Brooks Range fold and thrust belt, Killik River quadrangle, Alaska: : Geological Society of America, Cordilleran Section Meeting, Fairbanks, AK, Vol. 27, No. 5, p. 10.

Gehrels, George E., Johnson, R. A.; Biggs, T. H.; Centeno-Garcia, Elena; Colburn, N. I.; Jackson, J. L.; Kruger, J. M.; Meader, N. M..; Pitts, G. S.; Restrepo, P. A.; Skirvin, S. M.; Toro, J., 1990, Detachment faults in the Black Rock Canyon area of the Santa Teresa Mountains, southeastern Arizona.: Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr. Programs; Vol. 22, No. 3, p. 25.

Miller, E.L., Amato, J. Toro, J., Wright, J.E., Fantini, R.Calvert, A., Gelman, M.L., Akinin, S.S., Natalin, B.A., 1995, Magmatism and gneiss dome genesis in the Bering Strait region: Geological Society of America, Cordilleran Section Meeting, Fairbanks, AK, Vol. 27, No. 5 p. 44.

Miller, E.L., Amato, J. Toro, J., Wright, J.E., Fantini, R.Calvert, A., Gelman, M.L., Akinin, S.S., Natalin, B.A., 1995, Crustal evolution of the Bering Shelf-Chukchi Sea Region: Progress report on geological studies: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 76, No, 46, p.F592.

Miller, E.L., Amato, J. Toro, J., Wright, J.E., Fantini, R.Calvert, A., Gelman, M.L., Akinin, S.S., Natalin, B.A., 1995, Magmatism, metamorphism and deformation in the Bering Strait Region: Koolen Gneiss Dome, Chukotka, Russian Federation: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 76, No, 46, p.F589.

Natl'in, B., Toro, J., and Amato, J., 1996, Strike-Slip Faulting Along the Chegitun River, NW Margin of the Koolen Dome, Chukotka: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting.
Natal'in, B., Toro, J., and Amato, J. The origin of Cretaceous metamorphic core complexes in the Bering Strait area. 1998. III International Conference on Arctic Margins. Celle (Germany) 12 - 16 October, 1998. Abstracts. p. 129-130.

Toro, J. 1991, The termination of the Bucaramanga Fault in the Cordillera Oriental, Colombia: Comunicaciones- Departamento de Geologia, Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas, Universidad de Chile, Godoy, E., et al. eds.; Vol. 42, p. 226.

Toro, J., 1994, Structure of the metamorphic core of the Brooks Range, Alaska: in Thurston, D., ed., International Conference on Arctic Margins, Magadan, Russia, p. 117.

Toro, J., and Gans, P. B., 1994, Structure and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of the Igikpak Gneiss, Brooks Range: Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr. Programs, v. 26, n. 7, p. 96.

Toro, J., and Gans, P. B., 1995, Is there a window into Arctic Alaska Basement at Shishakshinovik pass, Ambler River Quadrangle, Central Brooks Range?: : Geological Society of America, Cordilleran Section Meeting, Fairbanks, AK, Vol. 27, No. 5 p. 82.


Maps

Grantz, A., Scholl, D., Toro, J., And Klemperer, S. 2002, Geologic Structure of Bering and Chukchi Shelves Adjacent to Bering-Chukchi Deep Seismic Transect and Tectonostratigraphic Terranes of Adjacent Landmasses, in Miller, E.L., Grantz, A. and Klemperer, S. (editors) Crustal evolution of the Bering-Chukchi region of Russia and Alaska and adjacent Arctic Ocean, Geol.Soc. Am. Ch. 6, Special Paper 360, Plate 1, scale: 1:3,000,000.

Miller, E.L., Amato, J. Toro, J., Wright, J.E., Fantini, R.Calvert, A., Gelman, M.L., Akinin, S.S., Natalin, B.A., 1995, Geologic map of the Koolen Gneiss Dome, Chukotka Peninsula, Northeast Russia, Unpublished Map, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, scale 1:50,000.

Natl'in, B., Toro, J. , and Amato, J., 1996, Geologic Map of the Chegitun Valley, Chukotka Peninsula, Alaska, Unpublished Map, Stanford University , Stanford, CA , scale 1:50,000.

Toro, J., 1996, Geologic Map of the Mt. Igikpak Area, Gates of the Arctic National Park, Brooks Range, Alaska, Unpublished Map, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, scale 1:50,000.

Toro, J. 1995, Geologic Map of Shishakshinovik Pass, Brooks Range, Alaska, Unpublished Map, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, scale 1:40,000.

Toro, J., Gehrels, G. E., Johnson, R. A.; Biggs, T. H.; Centeno-Garcia, E.; Colburn, N. I.; Jackson, J. L.; Kruger, J. M.; Meader, N. M..; Pitts, G. S.; Restrepo, P. A.; Skirvin, S. M., 1990, Geological map of the Black Rock Detachment, Santa Teresa Mountains, S.E. Arizona: Arizona Geological Survey Open File Map, scale 1:12,000.

Toro, J., 1990, Geologic Map of the Sativa Area, Cordillera Oriental, Colombia. Unpublished Map, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ , scale 1:25,000.

Toro, J., 1990, Geologic Map of the Termination of the Bucaramanga Fault, Colombia. Unpublished Map, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ , scale 1:150,000.