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Allen P. Nutman is affiliated with the University of Wollongong in Australia. Their research concentrates primarily within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on geophysics. Nutman's work also spans related subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Geology, Paleontology, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The scientist's research topics encompass a range of geological and geochemical analyses, earthquake and tectonic studies, and high-pressure geophysics and materials. Other notable areas of focus include geochemistry and geologic mapping, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geological studies and exploration, as well as geochemistry and elemental analysis.

Nutman has contributed scholarly articles to several academic journals. Prominent frequent publication venues include Precambrian Research, where Nutman has seven publications, along with Gondwana Research, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Lithos, and Geological Society of America Bulletin, each hosting multiple papers by Nutman or involving their coauthors.

Some recent papers authored by Nutman include:

  • Eoarchean contrasting ultra-high-pressure to low-pressure metamorphisms (<250 to >1000 °C/GPa) explained by tectonic plate convergence in deep time, 2020, Precambrian Research
  • Fifty years of the Eoarchean and the case for evolving uniformitarianism, 2021, Precambrian Research

Nutman frequently collaborates with a group of scholars. Among their most common coauthors are Vickie C. Bennett, C. R. L. Friend, Solomon Buckman, Martin J. Van Kranendonk, and Yusheng Wan.

Best Publications

  • Remnants of ≥3800 Ma crust in the Chinese part of the Sino-Korean craton

    D. Y. Liu;A. P. Nutman;W. Compston;J. S. Wu

  • Evidence for life on Earth before 3,800 million years ago.

    S. J. Mojzsis;G. Arrhenius;K. D. McKeegan;T. M. Harrison

  • 3800 to 2500 Ma crustal evolution in the Anshan area of Liaoning Province, northeastern China

    Biao Song;Allen P. Nutman;Dunyi Liu;Jiashan Wu

  • Rapid emergence of life shown by discovery of 3,700-million-year-old microbial structures

    Allen Phillip Nutman;Allen Phillip Nutman;Vickie C. Bennett;Clark R. L. Friend;Martin J. Van Kranendonk

  • The Itsaq Gneiss Complex of southern West Greenland; the world's most extensive record of early crustal evolution (3900-3600 Ma)

    Allen P. Nutman;Victor R. McGregor;Clark R.L. Friend;Victoria C. Bennett

  • Constraints on early Earth differentiation from hafnium and neodymium isotopes

    J. D. Vervoort;P. J. Patchett;G. E. Gehrels;A. P. Nutman

  • Sm-Nd studies of Archaean metasediments and metavolcanics from West Greenland and their implications for the Earth's early history

    P.J. Hamilton;R.K. O'Nions;D. Bridgwater;A. Nutman

  • Multistage late Neoarchaean crustal evolution of the North China Craton, eastern Hebei

    Allen P. Nutman;Yusheng Wan;Lilin Du;Clark R.L. Friend

  • Iron isotopes may reveal the redox conditions of mantle melting from Archean to Present

    Nicolas Dauphas;Nicolas Dauphas;Paul R. Craddock;Paul D. Asimow;Vickie C. Bennett

  • Nd isotopic evidence for transient, highly depleted mantle reservoirs in the early history of the Earth

    Victoria C. Bennett;Allen P. Nutman;Malcolm T. McCulloch

  • A connection between the Neoproterozoic Dom Feliciano (Brazil/Uruguay) and Gariep (Namibia/South Africa) orogenic belts - Evidence from a reconnaissance provenance study.

    Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei;H E Frimmel;Allen Nutman;F Preciozzi

  • 30 million years of Permian volcanism recorded in the Choiyoi igneous province (W Argentina) and their source for younger ash fall deposits in the Paraná Basin: SHRIMP U–Pb zircon geochronology evidence

    A.C. Rocha-Campos;Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei;Allen Nutman;Laura E. Kleiman

  • Coupled 142Nd-143Nd Isotopic Evidence for Hadean Mantle Dynamics

    Vickie C. Bennett;Alan D. Brandon;Allen P. Nutman

  • Recognition of ≥3850 Ma water-lain sediments in West Greenland and their significance for the early Archaean Earth

    Allen P. Nutman;Stephen J. Mojzsis;Clark R.L. Friend

  • SHRIMP U-Pb ages of detrital zircon in Sargur supracrustal rocks in western Karnataka, southern India

    A. P. Nutman;B. Chadwick;M. Ramakrishnan;M. N. Viswanathan

  • SHRIMP U-Pb Geochronology of the Closepet Granite and Peninsular Gneiss, Karnataka, South India

    C. R. L. Friend;A. P. Nutman

  • Meta-igneous (non-gneissic) tonalites and quartz-diorites from an extensive ca. 3800 Ma terrain south of the Isua supracrustal belt, southern West Greenland: constraints on early crust formation

    Allen P. Nutman;Vickie C. Bennett;Clark R. L. Friend;Marc D. Norman

  • West Gondwana amalgamation based on detrital zircon ages from Neoproterozoic Ribeira and Dom Feliciano belts of South America and comparison with coeval sequences from SW Africa

    M. A. S. Basei;H. E. Frimmel;A. P. Nutman;F. Preciozzi

  • SHRIMP U/Pb Zircon Ages of Acid Volcanic Rocks in the Chitradurga and Sandur Groups, and Granites Adjacent to the Sandur Schist Belt, Karnataka

    A. P. Nutman;Brian Chadwick;B. Krishna Rao;V. N. Vasudev

  • Geochronology of Proterozoic basement inliers in the Colombian Andes: tectonic history of remnants of a fragmented Grenville belt

    Umberto Cordani;A. Cardona;D. Jimenez;D Liu

  • Stratigraphic and geochemical evidence for the depositional environment of the early Archaean Isua supracrustal belt, southern West Greenland

    Allen P. Nutman;Jan H. Allaart;David Bridgwater;Erich Dimroth

Frequent Co-Authors

Clark R.L. Friend
Clark R.L. Friend Oxford Brookes University
Vickie C. Bennett
Vickie C. Bennett Australian National University
Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei
Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei Universidade de São Paulo
Umberto G. Cordani
Umberto G. Cordani Universidade de São Paulo
Dunyi Liu
Dunyi Liu Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
Yusheng Wan
Yusheng Wan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Feiko Kalsbeek
Feiko Kalsbeek Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Hiroshi Hidaka
Hiroshi Hidaka Nagoya University
Peter D. Kinny
Peter D. Kinny Curtin University
Colombo Celso Gaeta Tassinari
Colombo Celso Gaeta Tassinari Universidade de São Paulo

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