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List of works by Keith D. Putirka

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

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A mantle plume beneath California? The mid-Miocene Lovejoy flood basalt, northern California

scientific article published in 2008

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

scholarly article in American Mineralogist, vol. 102 no. 4, April 2017

A new high JIF for American Mineralogist (by all early indications), why you shouldn’t care, and a note on values

scientific article published in July 2017

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

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A tale of two Walker Lane pull-apart basins in the ancestral Cascades arc, central Sierra Nevada, California

scientific article published on 7 August 2018

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

scholarly article in American Mineralogist, vol. 101 no. 4, April 2016

An improved clinopyroxene-based hygrometer for Etnean magmas and implications for eruption triggering mechanisms

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An in-depth look at distal Sierra Nevada palaeochannel fill: drill cores through the Table Mountain Latite near Knights Ferry

scientific article published on 12 August 2009

Book Review

scholarly article in American Mineralogist, vol. 105 no. 9, September 2020

Cenozoic palaeocanyon evolution, Ancestral Cascades arc volcanism, and structure of the Hope Valley–Carson Pass region, Sierra Nevada, California

scientific article published on 12 August 2009

Cenozoic volcanism in the Sierra Nevada and Walker Lane, California, and a new model for lithosphere degradation

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Data, ideas, and the nature of scientific progress

scholarly article in American Mineralogist, vol. 100 no. 8-9, August 2015

Day 1: Guadalupe Igneous Complex

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Day 6: Overview of arc processes and tempos

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Eruption triggering by partial crystallization of mafic enclaves at Chaos Crags, Lassen Volcanic Center, California

scientific article published in October 2018

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

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Geochemical Database for Igneous Rocks of the Ancestral Cascades Arc - Southern Segment, California and Nevada

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Hot arguments to cool off the plume debate?: COMMENT: COMMENT

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

scientific article published in February 2005

Introduction: Origin and Evolution of the Sierra Nevada and Walker Lane

scientific article published on 30 November 2011

Journal Impact Factors: Their relevance and their influence on society-published scientific journals

scientific article published in May 2013

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

scientific article published in May 2014

Magma transport at Hawaii: Inferences based on igneous thermobarometry

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Mineral compositions and thermobarometry of basalts and boninites recovered during IODP Expedition 352 to the Bonin forearc

scholarly article in American Mineralogist, vol. 105 no. 10, October 2020

Mineralogy and Composition of the Oceanic Mantle

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Miocene evolution of the western edge of the Nevadaplano in the central and northern Sierra Nevada: palaeocanyons, magmatism, and structure

scientific article published in 2009

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

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New evidence for alternating effusive and explosive eruptions from the type section of the Stanislaus Group in the ‘Cataract’ palaeocanyon, central Sierra Nevada

scientific article published on 12 August 2009

New thermobarometers for martian igneous rocks, and some implications for secular cooling on Mars

scientific article published in October 2015

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

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Pluton assembly and the genesis of granitic magmas: Insights from the GIC pluton in cross section, Sierra Nevada Batholith, California

scholarly article in American Mineralogist, vol. 99 no. 7, July 2014

Polluted white dwarfs reveal exotic mantle rock types on exoplanets in our solar neighborhood

scientific article published on 2 November 2021

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

scholarly article in American Mineralogist, vol. 101 no. 4, April 2016

The American Mineralogist at 100 years, and a mineralogy renaissance

scholarly article by Keith D. Putirka published 23 December 2014 in American Mineralogist

The ancestral Cascades arc: Cenozoic evolution of the central Sierra Nevada (California) and the birth of the new plate boundary

scientific article published in 2008

The composition and mineralogy of rocky exoplanets: A survey of >4000 stars from the Hypatia Catalog

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The control of cooling rate on titanomagnetite composition: implications for a geospeedometry model applicable to alkaline rocks from Mt. Etna volcano

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The magma plumbing system of the Emeishan large igneous province and its role in basaltic magma differentiation in a continental setting

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The mantle source of thermal plumes: Trace and minor elements in olivine and major oxides of primitive liquids (and why the olivine compositions don't matter)

scientific article published in August 2018

The most-cited journal in mineralogy and petrology (and what scientists can learn from baseball)

scholarly article in American Mineralogist, vol. 101 no. 3, March 2016

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

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Thermometers and Barometers for Volcanic Systems

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Why scientists should study chess

scientific article published in June 2019

Why you should publish your best papers in American Mineralogist: An International Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials

scientific article published in August 2013