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J. Godfrey Fitton is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans a number of specialized subfields including Geophysics, Ocean Engineering, Environmental Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's research topics center on areas such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, High-pressure Geophysics and Materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Frequent collaborative partners in their work include:

  • John J. Mahoney
  • L. M. Kalnins
  • Rebecca Williams
  • Linda A. Kirstein
  • Anthony Koppers

Fitton has published in several scientific venues, with notable frequent publication locations as follows:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Petrology
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Fitton include:

  • Deep formation of Earth's earliest continental crust consistent with subduction, 2023, Nature Geoscience
  • Contemporaneous intraplate magmatism on conjugate South Atlantic margins: A hotspot conundrum, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Heterogeneous nickel isotope compositions of the terrestrial mantle - Part 2: Mafic lithologies, 2021, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Volatiles and Intraplate Magmatism: a Variable Role for Carbonated and Altered Oceanic Lithosphere in Ocean Island Basalt Formation, 2023, Journal of Petrology
  • Volcanic spherules condensed from supercritical fluids in the Payenia volcanic province, Argentina, 2020, Journal of the Geological Society

Best Publications

  • Thermal and chemical structure of the Iceland plume

    J.G. Fitton;A.D. Saunders;M.J. Norry;B.S. Hardarson

  • High precision Hf isotope measurements of MORB and OIB by thermal ionisation mass spectrometry: insights into the depleted mantle

    G.M. Nowell;G.M. Nowell;P.D. Kempton;S.R. Noble;J.G. Fitton

  • Temperatures in Ambient Mantle and Plumes: Constraints from Basalts, Picrites, and Komatiites

    C. Herzberg;P.D. Asimow;Nicholas Arndt;Y. Niu

  • The Cameroon line, West Africa, and its bearing on the origin of oceanic and continental alkali basalt

    J.G. Fitton;H.M. Dunlop

  • Basic magmatism associated with Late Cenozoic extension in the western United States: Compositional variations in space and time

    J. Godfrey Fitton;Dodie James;William P. Leeman

  • The timing and extent of the eruption of the Siberian Traps large igneous province: Implications for the end-Permian environmental crisis

    Marc K. Reichow;M.S. Pringle;A.I. Al'Mukhamedov;M.B. Allen

  • The north Atlantic igneous province

    A. D. Saunders;J. G. Fitton;Andrew Craig Kerr;M. J. Norry

  • The Role of Lithospheric Mantle in the Generation of Late Cenozoic Basic Magmas in the Western United States

    J.G. Fitton;D. James;P.D. Kempton;D.S. Ormerod

  • INCOMPATIBLE TRACE-ELEMENTS IN OIB AND MORB AND SOURCE ENRICHMENT IN THE SUB-OCEANIC MANTLE

    Alex N. Halliday;Der-Chuen Lee;Simone Tommasini;Gareth R. Davies

  • Incompatible trace elements in OIB and MORB and source enrichment in the sub-oceanic mantle.

    A. N. Halliday;D. C. Lee;S. Tommasini;G. R. Davies

  • Does depleted mantle form an intrinsic part of the Iceland plume

    J. Godfrey Fitton;Andrew D. Saunders;Pamela D. Kempton;Björn S. Hardarson;Björn S. Hardarson

  • The Cameroon line, West Africa: a comparison between oceanic and continental alkaline volcanism

    J. G. Fitton

  • Two mantle plumes beneath the east African rift system: Sr, Nd and Pb isotope evidence from Kenya Rift basalts.

    Nick Rogers;Ray Macdonald;J. Godfrey Fitton;Rhiannon George

  • Ir, Ru, Pt, and Pd in basalts and komatiites: new constraints for the geochemical behavior of the platinum-group elements in the mantle

    Mark Rehkämper;Mark Rehkämper;A.N. Halliday;A.N. Halliday;J.G. Fitton;D.-C. Lee

  • High 3He/4He ratios in picritic basalts from Baffin Island and the role of a mixed reservoir in mantle plumes.

    Finlay M Stuart;Solveigh Lass-Evans;J Godfrey Fitton;Robert M Ellam

  • Isotopic variations with distance and time in the volcanic islands of the Cameroon line: evidence for a mantle plume origin

    Der-Chuen Lee;Alex N. Halliday;J.Godfrey Fitton;Giampero Poli

  • Plume–Lithosphere Interactions in the Generation of the Basalts of the Kenya Rift, East Africa

    Raymond MacDonald;N. W. Rogers;J. G. Fitton;S. Black

  • MANTLE DYNAMICS - A ND, SR, PB AND O ISOTOPIC STUDY OF THE CAMEROON LINE VOLCANIC CHAIN

    A. N. Halliday;A. P. Dickin;A. E. Fallick;J. G. Fitton

  • Rift relocation — A geochemical and geochronological investigation of a palaeo-rift in northwest Iceland

    B.S. Hardarson;B.S. Hardarson;J.G. Fitton;R.M. Ellam;M.S. Pringle

  • Origin and evolution of magmas on the Ontong Java Plateau

    J. Godfrey Fitton;Marguerite Godard

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew D. Saunders
Andrew D. Saunders University of Leicester
Lotte Melchior Larsen
Lotte Melchior Larsen Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
John J. Mahoney
John J. Mahoney University of Hawaii at Manoa
Paul J. Wallace
Paul J. Wallace University of Oregon
Pamela D. Kempton
Pamela D. Kempton Kansas State University
Alex N. Halliday
Alex N. Halliday Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Rex N. Taylor
Rex N. Taylor University of Southampton
Helen M. Williams
Helen M. Williams University of Cambridge
Der-Chuen Lee
Der-Chuen Lee Academia Sinica
Jason R. Ali
Jason R. Ali Museum of Zoology, Senckenberg Dresden

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