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Chemistry

D-Index
77
Citations
20223
World Ranking
4049
National Ranking
107

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award
  • 2012 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry

Overview

Andrew Putnis is affiliated with Curtin University in Australia and contributes extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering. Their research spans several subfields including Geophysics, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Mechanics of Materials.

The primary areas of their research focus include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Metal Extraction and Bioleaching
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Mine Drainage and Remediation Techniques
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping

Frequent collaborators of Andrew Putnis include:

  • Andreas Beinlich
  • Håkon Austrheim
  • Christine V. Putnis
  • Jo Moore
  • Alexander Prent

They have published in several venues, with multiple contributions to the following journals and conferences:

  • Goldschmidt2022 abstracts
  • Lithos
  • Journal of Petrology
  • Journal of Crystal Growth
  • Ore Geology Reviews

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Andrew Putnis include:

  • Fluid-Mineral Interactions: Controlling Coupled Mechanisms of Reaction, Mass Transfer and Deformation, 2021, Journal of Petrology
  • Preservation of granulite in a partially eclogitized terrane: Metastable phenomena or local pressure variations?, 2021, Lithos
  • Replacement reactions of copper sulphides at moderate temperature in acidic solutions, 2020, Ore Geology Reviews
  • A mechanism of ion exchange by interface-coupled dissolution-precipitation in the presence of an aqueous fluid, 2022, Journal of Crystal Growth
  • Apatite and monazite: An effective duo to unravel superimposed fluid-flow and deformation events in reactivated shear zones, 2020, Lithos

Andrew Putnis received the Geochemistry Fellow Honor from the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Mineral replacement reactions: from macroscopic observations to microscopic mechanisms

    A. Putnis

  • Mineral Replacement Reactions

    Andrew Putnis

  • An Introduction to Mineral Sciences

    Andrew Putnis

  • The mechanism of reequilibration of solids in the presence of a fluid phase

    Andrew Putnis;Christine V. Putnis

  • Coupled dissolution and precipitation at mineral-fluid interfaces

    E. Ruiz-Agudo;C.V. Putnis;A. Putnis

  • The dissolution of apatite in the presence of aqueous metal cations at pH 2–7

    E. Valsami-Jones;E. Valsami-Jones;K.V. Ragnarsdottir;A. Putnis;D. Bosbach

  • The role of magnesium in the crystallization of calcite and aragonite in a porous medium

    Lurdes Fernandez-Diaz;Andrew Putnis;Manuel Prieto;Christine V. Putnis

  • Molecular-scale mechanisms of crystal growth in barite

    Carlos M. Pina;Udo Becker;Peter Risthaus;Dirk Bosbach

  • Aqueous corrosion of borosilicate glass under acidic conditions: A new corrosion mechanism

    Thorsten Geisler;Thorsten Geisler;Arne Janssen;Daniel Scheiter;Thomas Stephan

  • Why Mineral Interfaces Matter

    Andrew Putnis

  • Mechanism and kinetics of pseudomorphic mineral replacement reactions: A case study of the replacement of pentlandite by violarite

    Fang Xia;Joël Brugger;Joël Brugger;Guorong Chen;Yung Ngothai

  • Fluid supersaturation and crystallization in porous media

    Andrew Putnis;Manuel Prieto;Lurdes Fernandez-Diaz

  • Direct observation of heavy metal-mineral association from the Clark Fork River Superfund Complex: Implications for metal transport and bioavailability

    Michael F. Hochella;Johnnie N. Moore;Christine V. Putnis;Andrew Putnis

  • The replacement of plagioclase feldspars by albite: observations from hydrothermal experiments

    Jörn Hövelmann;Jörn Hövelmann;Andrew Putnis;Thorsten Geisler;Burkhard C. Schmidt

  • Interaction of calcium carbonates with lead in aqueous solutions.

    Athanasios Godelitsas;Jose Manuel Astilleros;Keith Hallam;Sotirios Harissopoulos

  • Direct imaging of nanoscale magnetic interactions in minerals

    Richard J. Harrison;Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski;Andrew Putnis

  • A TEM study of samples from acid mine drainage systems: metal-mineral association with implications for transport

    Michael F. Hochella;Johnnie N. Moore;Ute Golla;Andrew Putnis

  • Nucleation, growth, and zoning phenomena in crystallizing (Ba,Sr)CO3, Ba(SO4,CrO4), (Ba,Sr)SO4, and (Cd,Ca)CO3 solid solutions from aqueous solutions

    M. Prieto;A. Fernández-González;A. Putnis;L. Fernández-Díaz

  • Effect of secondary phase formation on the carbonation of olivine.

    Helen E King;Oliver Plümper;Andrew Putnis

  • The role of background electrolytes on the kinetics and mechanism of calcite dissolution

    E. Ruiz-Agudo;M. Kowacz;Christine Putnis;Andrew Putnis

  • Experimentally produced oscillatory zoning in the (Ba, Sr)SO 4 solid solution

    Andrew Putnis;Lurdes Fernandez-Diaz;Manuel Prieto

Frequent Co-Authors

Christine V. Putnis
Christine V. Putnis University of Münster
Encarnación Ruiz-Agudo
Encarnación Ruiz-Agudo University of Granada
Thorsten Geisler
Thorsten Geisler University of Bonn
Håkon Austrheim
Håkon Austrheim University of Oslo
Richard J. Harrison
Richard J. Harrison University of Cambridge
Carlos Rodriguez-Navarro
Carlos Rodriguez-Navarro University of Granada
Ekhard K. H. Salje
Ekhard K. H. Salje University of Cambridge
Udo Becker
Udo Becker University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Allan Pring
Allan Pring Flinders University
Timm John
Timm John Freie Universität Berlin

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