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    • Harlow, G.E. and E.P. Olds (1987) Observations on terrestrial ureyite and ureyitic pyroxene. American Mineralogist, 72, 126-136.
    • Harlow, G.E. (1991) Hard Rock: A mineralogist explores the origin of Mesoamerican jade. Natural History 8/91, 4-10. (PDF)
    • Harlow, G.E. (1993) Middle American Jade: Geologic and Petrologic Perspectives on Its Variability and Source. p. 9-29. In Precolumbian Jade: New geological and cultural interpretations, F.W. Lange, ed., Salt Lake City, UT, University of Utah Press, pp. 378.
    • Harlow, G.E. (1994) Jadeitites, albitites and related rocks from the Motagua Fault Zone, Guatemala. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 12, 49-68.
    • Harlow, G. E. (1995) Rocks and minerals employed by the Olmec as carvings. In The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership , The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, pp. 123-4.
    • Harlow, G. E. (1995) Crystal chemistry of barian enrichment in micas from metasomatized inclusions in serpentinite, Motagua Valley, Guatemala. European Journal of Mineralogy, 7, 775-789.
    • Johnson, C.A., and Harlow, G.E. (1999) Guatemala jadeitites and albitites were formed by deuterium-rich serpentinizing fluids deep within a subduction-channel. Geology 27, 629-632.
    • Hughes, R.W., Galibert, O., Bosshart, G., Ward, F., Oo, T., Smith, M. Sun, T.T., and Harlow, G.E. (2000) Burmese Jade: The Inscrutable Gem. Gems and Gemology 36, No. 1, 2-26.
    • Harlow, G.E. and Sorensen, S.S. (2001) Jade: Occurrence and metasomatic origin. Australian Gemmologist 21, 7-10.
    • Seitz, R., Harlow, G.E., Sisson, V.B., and Taube, K.E. (2001) ‘Olmec Blue’ and Formative jade sources: new discoveries in Guatemala. Antiquity 87, 687-688.
    • Giuseppe Giunta, Luigi Beccaluva, Massimo Coltorti, Daniela Cutrupia, Carlos Dengo, George E. Harlow, Byron Mota, Elisa Padoa, Joshua Rosenfeld and Franca Siena (2002) The Motagua suture zone in Guatemala – A Fieldtrip Guidebook. Ofioliti 27 (1), 47-72.
    • Harlow, G.E., Sisson, V.B., Avé Lallemant, H.G., Sorensen, S.S. and R. Seitz (2003) High-pressure, metasomatic rocks along the Motagua Fault Zone, Guatemala. Ofioliti 28, 115-120.
    • Harlow, G.E., Hemming, S.R., Avé Lallemant, H.G., Sisson, V.B., and Sorensen, S.S. (2004) Two HP/LT Serpentine-Matrix Melange Belts, Motagua Fault Zone, Guatemala: A Record of Aptian and Maastrichtian Collisions. Geology 32, 17-20.
    • Harlow, G.E., Quinn, E.P., Rossman, G.R., and Rohtert, W.R. (2004) Blue omphacite from Guatemala. Gem News International section – Gems and Gemology 40, 68-70.
    • Harlow, G.E. (2004) L’Origine de jade jadéite. Revue de Gemmologie A.F.G. 150, 7-11.
    • Taube, K.A., Sisson, V.B., Seitz, R., and Harlow, G.E. (2004) The sourcing of Mesoamerican jade: Expanded geological reconnaissance in the Motagua Region, Guatemala. In: Olmec Art and Dumbarton Oaks. Karl A. Taube, Pre-Columbian Art at Dumbarton Oaks, No. 2, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, 246p; 203-222.
    • Harlow, G.E. and Sorensen, S.S. (2005) Jade (nephrite and jadeitite) and serpentinite: Metasomatic connections. International Geology Review 47, 113-146.
    • Sorensen, S., Harlow, G.E. and Rumble, D. (2006) The origin of jadeitite-forming subduction zone fluids: CL-guided SIMS oxygen isotope and trace element evidence.  American Mineralogist 91, 979-996. (PDF)
    • Harlow, G.E,. Murphy, A.R., Hozjan, D.J., de Mille, C.N. and Levinson, A.A. (2006) Pre-Columbian jadeite axes from Antigua, West Indies: Description and possible sources. Canadian Mineralogist 44, 305-321.  (PrePrint).
    • Tsujimori, T., Sisson, V.B., Liou, J.G., Harlow, G.E., and Sorensen, S.S. (2006)  Petrologic characterization of Guatemalan lawsonite-eclogite: Direct information on eclogitization of subducted oceanic crust in a cold subduction zone. In: Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphism: Deep Continental Subduction (eds: B.H. Hacker, W.C. McClelland and J.G. Liou), Geological Society of America Special Paper 403, 147-168.
    • Tsujimori, T., Sisson, V.B., Liou, J.G., Harlow, G.E., and Sorensen, S.S. (2006)  Very low-temperature record in subduction process:  a review of global lawsonite-eclogites.  Lithos 92, 609-624.  (doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2006.03.054)
    • Harlow, G.E., Sorensen, S.S., and Sisson, V.B. (2007)  Jade.  In:  The Geology of Gem Deposits (ed., Lee A. Groat), Short Course Handbook Series 37, Mineralogical Association of Canada, Quebec, pp. 207-254.
    • Martens, U., Solari, L., Sisson, V., Harlow, G., Torres de León, R., Ligorra, J.P., Tsujimori, T., Ortega, F., Brueckner, H., Giunta, G., Ave Lallemant, H. (2007) Field trip guide – First Field Workshop of IGCP 546 “Subduction Zones of the Caribbean:” High-pressure belts of central Guatemala: The Motagua Suture and the Chuacús Complex. 36 p.http://www.ugr.es/~agcasco/igcp546/Guate07/IGCP546_Guatemala2007_FieldTr...
    • Brueckner, H.K., Avé Lallemant, H.G., Sisson, V.B., Harlow, G.E., Hemming, S.R., Sorensen, S. S., Tsujimori, T. and Martens, U. (2009)  Metamorphic reworking of a high-pressure-low temperature mélange along the Motagua fault, Guatemala: A revised record of Neocomian and Maastrichtian transpressional tectonics. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 284, 228-235.
    • Fu, B. Valley, J.W., Kita, N.T., Spicuzza, M.J., Paton, C., Tsujimori, T., Bröcker, M., and Harlow, G.E. (2010)  Origin of zircons in jadeitite.  Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 159, 769–780.
    • Simons, K.K., Harlow, G.E., Sorensen, S.S. Brueckner, H.K., Goldstein, S.L., Hemming, N.G., and Langmuir, C.H. (2010)  Lithium isotopes in Guatemala and Franciscan HP-LT Rocks: insights into the role of sediment-derived fluids in the mantle wedge.  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 74, 3621-3641.
    • Sorensen, S.S., Sisson, V.B., Harlow, G.E., and Avé Lallemant, H.G. (2010)  Element Residence and Transport During Subduction Zone Metasomatism:  Evidence from a Jadeitite-Serpentinite Contact, Guatemala.  International Geology Review 52 (9), 899-940.
    • Cárdenas-Párraga, J., García-Casco, A., Núñez-Cambra, K., Rodrígez-Vega, A., Francisco Blanco-Quintero, I., Harlow, G.E., and Lázaro, C. (2010) Jadeitite jade occurrence from the Sierra del Convento mélange (eastern Cuba). Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana 62(1), 199-205.
    • Harlow, G.E., Sisson, V.B., and Sorensen, S.S. (2011) Jadeitite from Guatemala: Distinctions among multiple occurrences. Geologica Acta. (Reprint)
    • Cárdenas-Párraga J., García-Casco, A., Harlow, G.E., Blanco-Quintero, I., Rojas Agramonte, K., and Kröner, A. (2012)  Hydrothermal origin and age of jadeitites from Sierra del Convento Mélange (Eastern Cuba).  European Journal of Mineralogy 24, 313-331.
    • Harlow, G.E., Summerfield, G.R., Davies, H.L., and Matisoo-Smith L. (2012)  A jade gouge from Emirau island, Papua-New Guinea (Early Lapita context: 3300 BP):  A unique jadeitite. European Journal of Mineralogy 24, 391-399.
    • Tsujimori, T., Harlow, G.E. (2012)  Petrogenetic relations between jadeitite and associated high-pressure and low-temperature metamorphic rocks in worldwide jadeitite localities: A review.  European Journal of Mineralogy 24, 371-390.
    • Shi, G.H., Harlow, G.E., Wang, J., Wang, J., Ng, E., Wang, X., and Cao, S.M. (2012)  Mineralogy of jadeitite and related rocks from Myanmar: a review with new data.  European Journal of Mineralogy 24, 345-370.