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REFEREED CHAPTERS IN BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS

• Hooper, P.R., Camp, V.E., Reidel, S.P., and Ross, M.E., in review, The Columbia River Basalts: a regional perspective: in Cheney et. al. (eds), Geology of Washington State, University of Washington Press.
• Hooper, P.R., Camp, V.E., Reidel, S.P., and Ross, M.R., accepted 2007, The origin of the Columbia River flood basalt province: plume versus nonplume models: in (Foulger, G.R. and Jurdy, D.M. (eds), Plates, Plumes and Planetary Processes, Geological Society of America Special Paper.
• Ross, M. E., 1992, Petrology and tectonic significance of Mesozoic mafic dikes of the coastal New England igneous province, Massachusetts: in Puffer, J. H., and Ragland, P. D. (eds.), Eastern North American Mesozoic Magmatism, Geological Society of America, Special Paper 268, p. 63-74.
• Ross, M. E., 1990a, Mafic dikes of the Avalonian Boston terrane, Massachusetts: in Socci, A. D., Skehan, J. W., and Smith, G. W. (eds.), Geology of the composite Avalon terrane of southern New England, Geological Society of America, Special Paper 245, p. 133-153.
• Ross, 1990b, Geochemistry and tectonic significance of Precambrian(?) dykes of the Avalon terrane, Massachusetts: in Parker, A. J., Rickwood, P. C., and Tucker, D. H., (eds.), Mafic Dykes and Emplacement Mechanisms: A.A., Balkema, Rotterdam, p. 475-480.
• Ross, M.E., 1989, Stratigraphic relationships of subaerial, invasive, and intracanyon flows of Saddle Mountains basalt in the Troy Basin, Oregon and Washington: in Reidel, S.P., Hooper, P.R. (eds,), Geological Society of America Special Paper 239, p. 131-142.
• McHone, J. G., Ross, M.E., and Greenough, J.D., 1987, Mesozoic dyke swarms of eastern North America: in Halls, H.C., and Fahrig, W.H., eds., Mafic dyke swarms: Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 33, p. 102-111.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Camp, V.E. and Ross, M.E., 2004, Mantle dynamics and genesis of mafic magmatism in the intermontane Pacific Northwest: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 109, 14p.
• Camp, V. E., Ross, M. E., and Hanson, W. E., 2003, Genesis of flood basalts and Basin-and-Range volcanics from Steens Mountain to the Malheur River Gorge, Oregon: Geological Society of Amercia, Bulletin.
• Ross, Martin E., 1995, Exercises for Introductory Environmental Geology Courses: Journal of Geological Education, v. 43, p.352-356.
• Hooper, P. R., Gillespie, B. A., and Ross, M. E., 1995, The Eckler Mountain Basalts and Associated Flows, Columbia River Basalt Group: Canadian Journal of Earth Science, v. 32, p. 410-423.
• Ross, M.E., and Morgan, M., 1987, Coastal geologic hazards and land-use planning in northwestern Oregon: Environmental Geology and Water Sciences, v. 8, p. 221-227.
• Ross, M.E., 1986, Flow Differentiation, phenocryst alignment, and compositional trends within a dolerite dike at Rockport, Massachusetts: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 97. p.232-240.
• Ross, M.E., 1983, Chemical and mineralogic variations within four dikes of the Columbia River Basalt Group, Southeastern Columbia Plateau: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 94, p. 1117-1126.
• Ross, M.E. and Morgan, M., 1982, Coastal Geologic hazards and land-use planning in northwestern Oregon, Environmental Geology and Water Science, v. 8, no. 4, p. 221-227.
• Ross, M.E. 1980, Tectonic controls of topographic development within Columbia River Basalt in a portion of the Grande Ronde River-Blue Mountains Region: Oregon Geology,V. 42, no. 10, p. 167-171.
• Ross, M.E., and Heimlich, R. A., 1972, Petrology of Precambrian mafic dikesfrom the Bald Mountain area, Bighorn Mountains Wyoming: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 83, p.1117-1124.
• Manzer, G.K., Heimlich, R.A., and Ross, M.E., 1971, Mineralogic variations across Precambrian mafic dikes in the southern Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming: Compass, v. 48, p. 75-83.
• Ross, M. E., 1972, Precambrian quartzo-feldspathic gneiss from the Herman 1A well, Erie County, Ohio: The Ohio Journal of Science, 72, p. 105-109.

PUBLISHED MAP

• Swanson, D.A., Wright, T. L., Camp, V.E., Gardner, J.N., Helz, R.T., Price S.A., and Ross, M.E., 1979, Reconnaissance geologic map of the Columbia River Basalt Group, Pullman and Walla Walla quadrangles, southeast Washington and adjacent Idaho: U.S.G.S. Misc. Geol. Inv. Map I-1139, 1:250,000.

REFEREED ABSTRACTS OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

• Ross, Martin E., and Camp, Victor E., 2007, Pillows formed by the injection of lava into the crystal mush of a thin Steens Basalt flow, Disaster Peak, Nevada: Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
• Camp, V.E., Ross, M.E., and Hooper, P.R., 2005, The great volcanic outburst initiating the Yellowstone hotspot: Geological Society of America (invited keynote address), A84-2, Salt Lake City, Utah, v. 37, no. 7, p. 201.
• Camp, V.E., Ross, M.E., and Hooper, P.R., 2005, The Calc-alkaline paradox of the inland Pacific Northwest (abs): Goldschimdt Conference (invited paper), University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, p. A138
• Camp, V.E., Orihashi, Y., and Ross, M.E., 2004, Radical volcanic migrations above continental hotspots: examples from Arabia and the Pacific Northwest (abs): American Geophysical Union, Mantle Plume Session 54-2, Spring Meeting, San Francisco, p. 135.
• Camp, V.E., and Ross, M.E., 2003, Extending the CRB Province into southeastern Oregon: a reevaluation of flood-basalt volume, effusion rates, regional correlations, and volcanic migrations: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no. 7, p. 135.
• Ross, M.E., 2003, Intratelluric versus subaerial growth of phenocrysts in Columbia River Basalt Group lavas: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Seattle, v. 34, no. 7, p. 549
• Kelly, P. J., and Ross, M. E., 2002, Contact relations of the Nahant gabbro and Weymouth Formation, Nahant, Massachusetts: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, v. 34, no. 6, p. 361.
• Ross, M.E., 2001, Crustal contamination of mafic dykes: Programme and Abstracts, Fourth International Dyke Conference, Ithala Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, p. 20
• Camp, V.E., and Ross, M.E., 2000, Mapping the Steens-Columbia River Basalt Connection: Implications for the extent,volume, and magma supply rate of CRB volcanism, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Annual meeting, Reno, Vol. 32, No. 7.
• Ross, M.E., 1997, The Petrology of the Mafic Dike Swarm and Sills at East Point, Nahant, Massachusetts: American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, Boston, Abstract, p. S377.
• Ross, Martin E., 1995, Crustal Contamination of Mafic Dyke Magmas: Program and Abstracts, Third International Dyke Conference, Jerusalem, Israel, p. 58.
• Ross, Martin E., 1994, A Group Project for Large Enrollment Geology Courses: Geologic Society of America, Annual Meeting, Seattle, Abstracts with Programs, p. A-392.
• Ross, M. E., 1992, Mafic magmatism in the Avalon Terrane, coastal Massachusetts:(invited), Geological Association and Mineralogic Association of Canada Abstracts: Joint Annual Meeting, Wolfville, Nova Scotia,p. A96.
• Ross, M. E., 1992, Magma contamination within mafic dykes of the Avalon Terrane of Coastal Massachusetts: Geological and Mineralogic Associations of Canada, Abs.: Joint Annual Meeting, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, p. A96.
• Ross, M. E., 1990, Geochemistry and tectonic significance of Precambrian(?) mafic dykes of the Avalon terrane, Massachusetts: Geological Society of Australia Abstracts, Second International Dyke Conference, Adelaide, Australia.
• Ross, M.E., 1985, Mafic dike swarms of the Boston platform, eastern Massachusetts: International Conference on Mafic Dyke Swarms (extended abstract), University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, p. 142-147.
• Ross, M.E., and Reidel,S.P., 1983, Dolerite and lamprophyre dikes of northeastern Massachusetts: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Progams, Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, v. 15, no. 6, p. 674.
• Ross, M. E., and Morgan, M., 1982, Geologic input into coastal land use planning in northern Oregon: a national model?: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, v. 14, no. 7, p. 603.
• Reidel, S.P., Ross, M.E., and Long, P.E., l978, Orthopyroxene fractionation in the Grande Ronde Basalt, Columbia River Group: EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 59, no. 12, p. 1213.

REFEREED ABSTRACTS FOR REGIONAL CONFERENCES

• Camp, V.E., and Ross, M.E., 2004, A two-stage spreading model for the Yellowstone mantle plume head, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Yellowstone hotspot symposium, v. 36, no. 4, A44-10, p.97.
• Camp, V.E., and Ross, M.E., 2002, Regional geology of flood basalts and Basin-and-Range volcanic rocks north of Steens Mountain, Oregon: Geological Society of America Abstracts With Programs, Cordilleran Meeting, Corbvallis, Oregon.
• Camp, V.E., Ross, M.E., and Hanson, W., 2000, Volcanic Stratigraphy of the middle and south forks of the Malheur River Gorge, eastern Oregon, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Cordilleran Section, v. 32, no. 6, p. A7.
• Camp, V. E., and Ross, M. E., 1998, Petrochemical variation and regional correlation of the Steens Basalts and related rock north of Steens Mountain, Oregon: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Cordilleran Section, v. 30, p. 18.
• Ross, M. E., 1987, Stratigraphic relationships of subaerial, intracanyon, and invasive flows of Saddle Mountains Basalts in the Troy, Basin, Oregon and Washington: Columbia River Basalt Symposium (invited paper), Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 19, p. 445.
• Hon, R., Smith, J. C., and Ross, M. E., 1987, Boston Basin: an aborted late Proterozoic rift: Boston Basin and adjacent Avalon terrane of southeastern New England, symposium (invited paper), Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 19, p. 19.
• Ross, M. E., 1984, Flowage differentiation and flow alignment of plagioclase phenocrysts in an alkaline dolerite dike at Cape Ann, Massachusetts: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 16, no. 1, p. 60.
• Ross, M.E., Knowles C. R., and Chamness, J.S., 1983, megacrysts, xenocrysts, and ultramafic xenoliths form a camptonite dike in Cambridge, Massachusetts: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 15, no. 3, p. 174.
• Hill, M.D., and Ross, M.E., 1983, Rb-Sr and Sm-Nd study of crustal xenoliths and megacrysts from a camptonite dike in Cambridge, Massachusetts: Abstracts with Programs (symposium), v. 15, p. 135.
• Ross, M.E., 1982, Mafic dikes of northeastern Massachusetts: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 14, nos. 1 & 2, p. 78.
• Ross, M.E., 1981, Four petrographically distinct mafic dike types from eastern Massachusetts: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 13, no. 3, p. 172-173.
• Ross, M.E., and Reidel, S.P., 1981, Folding and faulting of basalts of the Columbia River Group along a portion of the Blue Mountains Uplift, Oregon and Washington: EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union Symposium (Ellensburh, Washington), v. 63, no. 8, p. 173.
• Ross, M.E., 1980, Geologic hazards and land use planning along a portion of the northern Oregon coast: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 12, no. 2, p. 79.
• Ross, M.E., 1980, Stratigraphy, structure, and petrology of Columbia River Basalt in a portion of the Grande Ronde River-Blue Mountains area of Oregon and Washington: extended abstract, Oregon Geology, v. 42, no. 1, p. 17-18.
• Ross, M.E., 1979, Evidence of partial melting and fractional crystallization of Columbia River Basalt magmas, Oregon and Washington: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 11, no. 1, p. 51.
• Ross, M.E., l979, Large scale strike-slip faulting of Columbia River Basalt in Northeast Oregon: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 11, no. 1, p. 51.
• Ross, M.E., 1979, Quantitative petrography of Precambrian mafic dikes in the Bald Mountain area, Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming (abs):Geologic Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 3, no. 1, p. 51.
• Ross, M.E., l975, The structure of Yakima basalts in a portion of the Grande Ronde River region on northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington:Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 7, no.5, p. 638.
• Ross, M.E. and Heimlich, R.A., l973, Contact metamorphism of Precambrian quartz monzonite from the Bald Mountain area, Bighorn Mountains,Wyoming: Geologic Society of America Abstracts with Progams, v. 5, no. 1, p. 98.
• Ross, M.E., 1971, Quantitative petrography of Precambrian mafic dikes in the Bald Mountain area, Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming: Geologic Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.3 no. 1, p. 51.

CHAPTERS IN PUBLISHED (EDITED) FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOKS

• Ross, M. E., 2004, Dike swarms of Cape Ann, Massachusetts, in Hanson, L.S., (ed), Field Trips from Boston, MA to Saco Bay, ME: 96th Annual New England Intercollegiate Geologic Field Conference Guidebook, Salem, Massachusetts, Salem State College, p. 219-236.
• Ross, M. E., 2001, Petrology and Field Relations at Pine Hill, Medford, Massachusetts: Geological Field Trip Guidebook, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Ross, M. E., and Bailey, R. H., 2001, Geology of East Point Nahant: Geological Field Trip Guidebook, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Bailey, R. H, and Ross, M.E., 1993, Geology of East Point, Nahant, a rocky New England shoreline: in Geological Field Trip Guidebook, New England, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts p. Y1-Y24.
• Ross, M.E., 1984, Mafic dikes from Boston to Cape Ann, in Hanson, L.S.(editor), Geology of the Coastal Lowlands Boston, Massachusetts to Kennebunk, Maine: New England Inter-collegiate Geologic Conference Guidebook, p.81-102.
• Ross, M.E., 1981, Mafic dikes of northeastern Massachusetts: New England Intercollegiate Geologic Conference Guidebook, p. 285-302.

PROFESSIONAL REPORTS

• Ross, M. E., 1996, Report on ruptured oil tank , Rockport, MA: for Subsurface Remediation Technologies, Inc., 3 p.
• Ross, M. E., and Newman, W. A., 1982, Reconnaissance geologic investigation of the West Roxbury Crushed Stone Quarry, West Roxbury, MA: for Herlihy and O'Brien Counsellors at Law, 9 p.
• Ross, M. E., 1978, A field investigation of geologic hazards in Bay City, Oregon: report prepared for Clatsop-Tillamook Intergovernmental Council (C.T.I.C), 23 p.
• Ross, M.E., 1978, A field inventory of Geologic hazards from Silver Point to Cove Beach, Clatsop County, Oregon: report for Clatsop Co. Dept. of Planning and Development, 23 p.
• Ross, M.E., 1978, A geologic field investigation of the dune area west of U.S. Highway 101 in Rockaway, Oregon: report prepared for C.T.I.C., 5 p.
• Ross, M.E., 1978, A field investigation of geologic hazards in Wheeler, Oregon: report prepared for the C.T.I.C., 22 p.
• Ross, M.E., 1978, Stratigraphy structure and petrology of Columbia River Basalt in a portion of the Grande Ronde River-Blue Mountains area of Oregon and Washington: Department of Energy Report RHO-SA-58, 460 p.
• Ross, M.E., 1977, A field investigation of geologic hazards in Cannon Beach, Oregon: report to C.T.I.C., 31 p.
• Ross, M.E., 1977, A reconnaissance geologic field investigation in the vicinity of the south end of North Pacific Street, Rockaway, Oregon:report to City of Rockaway, Oregon: 17 p.
• Ross, M.E., 1985, A preliminary investigation of primary cooling joints in dikes of Columbia River Group Basalts: Engineering Report,Rockwell Hanford Operations, Richland, WA, 26 p.

SELF-PUBLISHED GEOLOGIC GUIDEBOOKS

• Ross, M. E., 2002, A geologic tour of The Headlands, Rockport, MA: Revised Edition, Geoprof, Rockport, MA, 28p.
• Ross, M. E., 2002, A geologic tour of Andrews Point, Rockport, MA: Geoprof, Rockport, MA, 28 p.
• Ross, M. E., 2001, A geologic tour of the Rafe's Chasm area, Gloucester, MA: Geoprof, Rockport, MA, 23 p.
• Ross, Martin E., 1995, A Geological tour of Stage Fort Park, Gloucester, MA: Geoprof, Rockport, MA, 16 p.
• Ross, Martin E., 1995, A Geologic Tour of Halibut Point State Park, Rockport, MA: Geoprof, Rockport, MA, 19 p.
• Ross, Martin E., 1994, A Geologic Tour of The Headlands, Rockport, MA, Geoprof, 16 p.