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Citations
9631
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7042
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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Keith Putirka is affiliated with California State University, Fresno in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on geophysics, astronomy and astrophysics, artificial intelligence, mechanics of materials, and ocean engineering.

The scientist's research covers several main topics including geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geochemistry and geologic mapping, astro and planetary science, geological and tectonic studies in Latin America, stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, and hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Keith Putirka include:

  • Cathy J. Busby
  • Alicia Manzo
  • Alison Graettinger
  • Teresa Orozco-Esquivel
  • Susan M. DeBari

They have published extensively in venues such as:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry
  • American Mineralogist
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Communications

Some of the recent papers by Keith Putirka include:

  • "Mineral compositions and thermobarometry of basalts and boninites recovered during IODP Expedition 352 to the Bonin forearc," 2020, American Mineralogist
  • "Polluted white dwarfs reveal exotic mantle rock types on exoplanets in our solar neighborhood," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Exoplanet Mineralogy," 2024, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry
  • "Multi-scale, open-system magmatic and sub-solidus processes contribute to the chemical and isotopic characteristics of the Jurassic Guadalupe Igneous Complex, Sierra Nevada, California, USA," 2024, Geosphere
  • "GEOLOGY OF A LARGE INTACT EXTENSIONAL OCEANIC ARC CRUSTAL SECTION WITH SUPERIOR EXPOSURES: CRETACEOUS ALISITOS ARC, BAJA CALIFORNIA (MEXICO)," 2023, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Keith Putirka has contributed to book publications with the Geological Society of America, including:

  • Geology of a Large Intact Extensional Oceanic Arc Crustal Section with Superior Exposures: Cretaceous Alisitos Arc, Baja California (Mexico), 2023

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. Their body of work covers a diverse range of subjects, linking fundamental geochemical and geophysical processes to broader planetary and astronomical contexts.

Best Publications

  • Thermometers and Barometers for Volcanic Systems

    Keith D. Putirka

  • Thermobarometry of mafic igneous rocks based on clinopyroxene-liquid equilibria, 0–30 kbar

    Keith Putirka;Marie Johnson;Rosamond Kinzler;John Longhi

  • New clinopyroxene-liquid thermobarometers for mafic, evolved, and volatile-bearing lava compositions, with applications to lavas from Tibet and the Snake River Plain, Idaho

    Keith D. Putirka;Haig Mikaelian;Frederick Ryerson;Henry Shaw

  • Amphibole thermometers and barometers for igneous systems and some implications for eruption mechanisms of felsic magmas at arc volcanoes

    Keith Putirka

  • Ambient and excess mantle temperatures, olivine thermometry, and active vs. passive upwelling

    Keith D. Putirka;Michael Perfit;F.J. Ryerson;Matthew G. Jackson

  • Mantle potential temperatures at Hawaii, Iceland, and the mid-ocean ridge system, as inferred from olivine phenocrysts: Evidence for thermally driven mantle plumes

    Keith D. Putirka

  • Igneous thermometers and barometers based on plagioclase + liquid equilibria: Tests of some existing models and new calibrations

    Keith D. Putirka

  • A new clinopyroxene-liquid barometer, and implications for magma storage pressures under Icelandic rift zones

    David A. Neave;Keith D. Putirka

  • Clinopyroxene + liquid equilibria to 100 kbar and 2450 K

    Keith Putirka

  • Excess temperatures at ocean islands: Implications for mantle layering and convection

    Keith Putirka

  • A new test for equilibrium based on clinopyroxene-melt pairs: Clues on the solidification temperatures of Etnean alkaline melts at post-eruptive conditions

    Silvio Mollo;Keith Putirka;Valeria Misiti;Michele Soligo

  • Minerals, Inclusions And Volcanic Processes

    Keith D. Putirka;Frank J. Tepley

  • Rates and styles of planetary cooling on Earth, Moon, Mars, and Vesta, using new models for oxygen fugacity, ferric-ferrous ratios, olivine-liquid Fe-Mg exchange, and mantle potential temperature

    Keith Putirka

  • Mineralogy and composition of the oceanic mantle

    Keith Putirka;F. J. Ryerson;Michael Perfit;W. Ian Ridley

  • A New Model to Estimate Deep-level Magma Ascent Rates, with Applications to Mt. Etna (Sicily, Italy)

    Pietro Armienti;Cristina Perinelli;Keith D. Putirka

  • Mafic–felsic magma mixing limited by reactive processes: A case study of biotite-rich rinds on mafic enclaves

    Michael J. Farner;Cin-Ty A. Lee;Keith D. Putirka

  • Down the Crater: Where Magmas are Stored and Why They Erupt

    Keith D. Putirka

  • Melting depths and mantle heterogeneity beneath Hawaii and the East Pacific Rise: Constraints from Na/Ti and rare earth element ratios

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  • Magma transport at Hawaii: Inferences based on igneous thermobarometry

    Keith Putirka

  • The tectonic significance of high-K2O volcanism in the Sierra Nevada, California

    Keith Putirka;Cathy J. Busby

  • Plagioclase–melt (dis)equilibrium due to cooling dynamics: Implications for thermometry, barometry and hygrometry

    Silvio Mollo;Keith Putirka;Gianluca Iezzi;Pierdomenico Del Gaudio

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott R. Paterson
Scott R. Paterson University of Southern California
Silvio Mollo
Silvio Mollo Sapienza University of Rome
Phillip B. Gans
Phillip B. Gans University of California, Santa Barbara
Pietro Armienti
Pietro Armienti University of Pisa
Piergiorgio Scarlato
Piergiorgio Scarlato National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Paul R. Renne
Paul R. Renne Berkeley Geochronology Center
Frederick J. Ryerson
Frederick J. Ryerson Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Matthew G. Jackson
Matthew G. Jackson University of California, Santa Barbara
Brian Cousens
Brian Cousens Carleton University
Dylan H. Rood
Dylan H. Rood Imperial College London

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