College of Science and Mathematics
15 achievements
| Armienti, P., Perinelli, C., & Putirka, K.
(2010).
An empirical hygrometer for trachybasaltic melts: Applications to the kinetics of magma ascent at Mt. Etna.
Presented at
European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria . |
Busby, C., Putirka, K., Hagan, J., Koerner1, A., & Melossh, B.
(2009).
Controls of Extension on Miocene Arc magmatism in the central Sierra Nevada.
AGU fall meeting.
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| Busby, C., & Putirka, K.
(2009).
Cretaceous-Cenozoic landscape evolution of the SW USA: evidence from Cenozoic paelocanyon fill in the central Sierra Nevada.
International Geology Review. 670-701.
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| Du Bray, E., John, D., Putirka, K., & Cousens, B.
(2009).
Geochemical database for igneous rocks of the ancestral Cascades arc-southern segment, California and Nevada.
U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series.
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| Gorny, C., Busby, C., Pluhar, C., Hagan, J., & Putirka, K.
(2009).
An in-depth look atdistal Sierra Nevada paleochannel fill drill cores through the Table Mountain Latite near Kings Ferry.
International Geology Review. 824-842.
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| Hagan, J., Busby, C., & Putirka, K.
(2009).
Controls of extension on climactic arc Magmatism: Ebbetts Pass-Carson Pass Area.
Presented at
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Sierra Nevada, CA. |
| Hagan, J., Busby, C., Putirka, K., & Renne, P.
(2009).
Cenozoic paleocanyon evolution, ancestral Cascades arc volcanism, and structure of the Hope Valley - Carson Pass Region, Sierra Nevada, California.
International Geology Reviews. 777-823.
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| Koerner, A., Busby, C., Putirka, K., & Pluhar, C.
(2009).
New evidence for alternating effusive and explosive eruptions from the type section of the Stanislaus Group in the “Cataract” paleocanyon, central Sierra Nevada.
International Geology Review. 51(9),
962-985.
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| Putirka, K., & Busby, C.
(2009).
On the Contrasts Between Basin and Range and Cascade Magmatism, & the Timing of Cordilleran Lithosphere Degradation.
Presented at
AGU fall meeting. |
| Busby, C.,
Hagan, J.,
Gans, P.,
Rood, D.,
DeOreo, S.,
Putirka, K.,
... Skilling, I.
(2008).
The ancestral cascades arc: Cenozoic evolution of the central Sierra Nevada (California) and the birth of the new plate boundary.
Geological Society of America.
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| Garrison, N., Busby, C., Gans, P., Putirka, K., & Wagner, D.
(2008).
A mantle plume beneath California? The mid-Miocene Lovejoy flood basalt, northern California.
Geological Society of America. 551-572.
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| Putirka, K.
(2008).
Excess Temperatures at Ocean Islands: Implications for Mantic Layering and Convection.
Geology. 283-286.
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| Putirka, K., Perfit, M., Ryerson, F., & Jackson, M.
(2007).
Ambient and excess mantle temperatures, olivine thermometry, and active vs. passive upwelling.
Chemical Geology. 241(3),
177.
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| Putirka, K.
(2005).
Igneous thermometers and barometers based on plagioclase + liquid equilibria: test of some existing models and new calibrations.
American Mineralogist. 336-346.
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| Putirka, K.
(2005).
Mantle potential temperatures at Hawaii, Iceland and the mid-ocean ridge system, as inferred from olivine phenocrysts: Evidence for thermally-driven mantle plumes.
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 6(5).
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