

College of Science and Mathematics
125 achievements
Putirka, K., & Neave, D.
(2017).
A new clinopyroxene-liquid barometer, and implications for magma storage pressures under Icelandic rift zones.
American Mineralogist. 102(4),
777-794.
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Putirka, K., & Lippoldt, R.
(2017).
Time scales of construction and compositional evolution of a bi-modal shallow crustal reservoir and implications for differentiation in the upper crust.
Presented at
International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior Annual Meeting, Portland, OR. |
Putirka, K.
(2017).
A new high JIF for american mineralogist (by all early indications), why you shouldn’t care, and a note on values.
American Mineralogist. 1369-1372.
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Putirka, K.
(2017).
Geothermometry and Geobarometry.
Encyclopedia of Geochemistry.
(pp.1-19)
Springer International PublishinG.![]() |
Putirka, K.
(2017).
Down the crater: where magmas are stored and why they erupt.
Elements. 13(1),
11-16.
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Putirka, K., Busby, C., & Renne, P.
(2016).
Controls of walker lane belt pull-aparts on the plumbing system in the ancestral cascades arc, central sierra Nevada, California.
Presented at
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California. |
Putirka, K.
(2016).
Editorial: the most-cited journal in mineralogy and petrology (and what scientists can learn from baseball.
American Mineralogist. 497-499.
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Putirka, K.
(2016).
Crystallization conditions at Cascade and other arc volcanoes: the role of recharge and ultimate, proximal and immediate causes of eruption.
Presented at
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California. |
Putirka, K.
(2016).
Amphibole thermometers and barometers for igneous systems, and some implications for eruption mechanisms of felsic magmas at arc volcanoes.
American Mineralogist. 101(4),
841-858.
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Putirka, K., Sherman, T., & De Los Reyes, A.
(2015).
Amphibole thermometry and a comparison of results from plutonic and volcanic systems.
Presented at
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California. |
Putirka, K., & Lessel, J.
(2015).
New thermobarometers for martian igneous rocks, and some implications for secular cooling on Mars.
American Mineralogist. 100(10),
2163-2171.
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Putirka, K.
(2015).
Thermal histories of earth, moon, mars and vesta, and a thermal signal for the onset of terrestrial-like plate tectonics.
Presented at
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California. |
Putirka, K.
(2015).
Editorial: the amerian mineralogist at 100 years, and a mineralogy renaissance.
American Mineralogist. 100(1),
1-2.
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Putirka, K.
(2015).
Editorial: data, ideas and the nature of scientific progress.
American Mineralogist. 100(8-9),
1657-1658.
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Putirka, K., Tao, Y., Hari, K., & Perfit, M.
(2014).
The plume source as characterized by trace elements in olivine.
Presented at
Goldschdmit Meeting, Sacramento California. |
Putirka, K., Scrugs, M., & Clynne, M.
(2014).
Enclave formation and magma mixing at Chaos Crags, California.
Presented at
Goldschdmit Meeting, Sacramento California. |
Putirka, K., & Paterson, S.
(2014).
Segregation of felsic melts from a mafic crystal mush in a shallow-level magma reservoir: Implications for continental crust formation.
Presented at
Goldschdmit Meeting, Sacramento California. |
Putirka, K., & Farner, M.
(2014).
Mafic–felsic magma mixing limited by reactive processes: A case study of biotite-rich rinds on mafic enclaves.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 45-59.
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Putirka, K., & Busby, C.
(2014).
Tectonic controls on Cenozoic volcanism, western U.S. and Mexico: an overview.
Presented at
GSA National Meeting, Vancouver, BC. |
Putirka, K.
(2014).
Fe-Mg exchange between olivine and liquid as a test of equilibrium: promises and pitfalls.
Presented at
GSA National Meeting, Vancouver, BC. |
Putirka, K.
(2014).
Amphibole-liquid equilibria: barometers and thermometers for volcanic systems.
Presented at
GSA National Meeting, Vancouver, BC. |
Putirka, K., Paterson, S., & Ratschbacher, B.
(2013).
Chemical and isotopic relationship of mafic and felsic magmas in sub-volcanic reservoir: The Guadalupel Igneous Complex (GIC).
Presented at
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Sierra Nevada, California. |
Putirka, K., Paterson, S., Lackey, J., Memeti, V., & Miller, J.
(2013).
Formation of the Sierra Nevada Batholith; magmatic and tectonic processes and their tempos.
GSA Today. 15-17.
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Putirka, K., & Johnson, M.
(2013).
The magma transport system of the Mono Craters, California.
Presented at
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K., Garcia, M., & Tree, J.
(2013).
Temporal variations in the mantle potential temperatures of the Northwest Hawaiian Ridge determined form olivine-liquid equilibria: Implications for Hawaiian melt flux variations.
Presented at
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K., Canchola, J., Smith, O., & Rash, J.
(2013).
Incremental growth of granitic mama bodies: the Guadalupe Igneous Complex, Sierra Nevada Batholith, California.
Presented at
GSA Cordilleran Section Meeting, Fresno, CA. |
Putirka, K., Canchola, J., Rash, J., Smith, O., Torrez, G., Paterson, S., & Ducea, M.
(2013).
In situ crystallization differentiation within a bi-modal granite-gabbro complex: an example from the Guadalupe Igneous Complex.
Presented at
GSA Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. |
Putirka, K.
(2013).
Why you should publish your best papers in American Mineralogist: an international journal of earth and planetary materials.
American Mineralogist. 98(8-9),
1377-1378.
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Putirka, K.
(2013).
Incremental growth of granitic mama bodies: the guadalupe igneous complex, Sierra Nevada Batholith, California.
Presented at
GSA Cordilleran Section Meeting, Fresno, CA. |
Putirka, K., Scrugs, M., & Tepley, F.
(2012).
Vesiculation and textural variations within mafic enclaves of the Chaos Crags.
Presented at
AGU Fall Meeting, Lassen Volcanic Center, California. |
Putirka, K., & Platt, B.
(2012).
Basin-and-Range volcanism as a passive response to extensional tectonics.
Geosphere. 8(6),
1274-1285.
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Putirka, K., & Lessel, J.
(2012).
New thermobarometers for Martian Igneous Rocks.
Presented at
AGU Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K., & Johnson, M.
(2012).
An analysis of the magma supply system at Mono Craters, California.
Presented at
AGU Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K., Jean, M., Sharma, R., Torrez, G., & Carlson, C.
(2012).
Cenozoic volcanism in the Sierra Nevada, and a new model for lithosphere degradation.
Geosphere. 265-295.
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Putirka, K., Farner, M., Pluhar, C., & Asami, R.
(2012).
Paleomagnetism, geochronology, and geochemistry of the type section of the Stanislaus group: reference parameters from the Stable Sierra Nevada Microplate, CA.
Presented at
AGU Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K., Busby, C., Schmitt, A., & Iriarte, S.
(2012).
Ignimbrite stratigraphy of the “volcanic” western cordillera and adjacent altiplano in the region of the puchuldiza geothermal area (19°15’S to 19°25’S).
Presented at
2012 GSA Annual Meeting & Exposition, Charlotte, North Carolina. |
Putirka, K., Asami, R., Pluhar, C., Farner, M., & Torrez, G.
(2012).
Evidence of varying magma chambers and magmatic evolutionary histories for the Table Mountain Formation in the Carson-Iceberg Wilderness region.
Presented at
AGU Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K., Armienti, P., & Perinelli, C.
(2012).
Deep-level magma ascent rates at Mt. Etna (Sicily, Italy).
Journal of Petrology.
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Putirka, K., Ryerson, F., Perfit, M., & Ridley, W.
(2011).
Mineralogy and composition of the oceanic mantle.
Journal of Petrology. 279-313.
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Putirka, K., Rolfs, S., & Letsinger, H.
(2011).
A view into the roots of Sierra Nevada plutons: q study of the Guadalupe Igneous Complex, in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada, California.
Presented at
AGU Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K., & Platt, B.
(2011).
A reconstruction of paleo-positions of Basin and Range volcanic rocks, and implications for tectonic controls (Mendocino Triple Junction Migration) on volcanism.
Presented at
AGU Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K., Mollo, S., Iezzi, G., & Scarlato, P.
(2011).
Plagioclase-melt (dis)equilibrium due to cooling dynamics: implications for thermometry, barometry and hygrometry.
Lithos. 221-235.
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Putirka, K., Mollo, S., & Iezzi, G.
(2011).
Interpreting plagioclase-melt (dis)equilibrium due to cooling dynamics: implications for thermometry, barometry and hygrometry.
Presented at
European Geophysical Union General Assembly. |
Putirka, K., Lowry, A., Schutt, D., & Jean, M.
(2011).
Hypothesis-testing proposed control of strain weakening by crustal quartz abundance.
Presented at
AGU Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K., Jackson, B., Clynne, M., Wood, A., & Jackson, J.
(2011).
Pre-eruption magmatic events recorded by vesicles in mafic enclaves: evidence form the 1915 eruption of Lassen Peak, California.
Presented at
AGU Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K., Carlson, C., Torrez, G., & Sharma, R.
(2011).
Correlations and areal distribution of the table mountain formation, stanislaus group; Central Sierra Nevada, California.
Presented at
AGU Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K., & Busby, C.
(2011).
Introduction: origin and evolution of the Sierra Nevada and Walker Lane.
Geosphere. 7(6),
1269-1272.
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Putirka, K.
(2011).
A new view of Cenozoic lithosphere degradation (“Delamination”) beneath the Sierra Nevada.
Presented at
AGU Fall Meeting. |
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 . |
Putirka, K., & Torrez, G.
(2010).
Wall rock assimilation and magma migration in the Sierra Nevada Batholith: a study of the courtright intrusive zone, central California.
Presented at
AGU Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K., Farner, M., & Wood, A.
(2010).
Magma mixing and crystallization at Chaos Crags, in the Lassen Volcanic Center.
Presented at
AGU Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K., & Busby, C.
(2010).
Tectonic controls on high K2O volcanism and the volcanic record of lithosphere degradation.
Presented at
GSA Penrose Conference, Bridgeport, CA. |
Putirka, K., & Busby, C.
(2010).
The meaning of high K2O volcanism in the U.S. Cordillera.
Presented at
AGU Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K., & Busby, C.
(2010).
Birth of a plate boundary: transtensional tectonics and magmatism, Sierra Nevada microplate and gulf of California rift.
Presented at
GSA Tectonic Crossroads: Evolving Orogens of Eurasia-Africa-Arabia Meeting, Ankara, Turkey. |
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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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. |
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. |
Putirka, K., & Wonderly, A.
(2009).
Geochemical investigation of saddlebag lake roof pendant and lee vining intrusive suite origins.
Presented at
AGU Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K., Busby, C., & Koerner, A.
(2009).
Volcanism due to transtension at the birth of the Sierra Nevada Microplate: similarities to ongoing continental lithosphere rupture at nearby Long Valley.
Presented at
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting. |
Putirka, K.
(2009).
A consensus on mantle potential temperatures?.
Presented at
AGU Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K., & Tepley, F.
(2008).
Thermometers and barometers for volcanic systems.
Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry. 69(1),
61-120.
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Putirka, K., & Tepley, F.
(2008).
Introduction to minerals, inclusions and volcanic processes.
Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry. 69(1),
1-8.
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Putirka, K.
(2008).
Olivine compositions from the Hawaii Scientific Drilling Project (HSDP), phase 2: evidence for a peridotite mantle source region.
Presented at
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. |
Putirka, K.
(2008).
Excess Temperatures at Ocean Islands: Implications for Mantic Layering and Convection.
Geology. 26(4),
283-286.
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Putirka, K., & Wonderly, A.
(2007).
Olivine crystallization and mantle potential temperatures beneath Yellowstone.
Presented at
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K., Perfit, M., & Ryerson, F.
(2007).
Ambient and excess mantle temperatures, olivine thermometry, and active vs. passive upwelling.
Chemical Geology. 241(3-4),
177-206.
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Putirka, K., Busby, C., & Hagan, J.
(2007).
Geologic evidence for eruption of voluminous high-K magmas at the onset of Walker Lane transtensional faulting, central Sierra Nevada: birth of a plate margin, not root delamination.
Presented at
American Geophysical Union Fall meeting. |
Putirka, K., Busby, C., & Hagan, J.
(2007).
Birth of a plate boundary: voluminous high-K magmatism and transtension along the central Sierran range front, California.
Presented at
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting. |
Putirka, K., & Busby, C.
(2007).
The tectonic significance of high K2O volcanism in the Sierra Nevada, California.
Geology. 35(10),
923-926.
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Putirka, K., & Busby, C.
(2007).
High K volcanism in the Sierra Nevada: A signal for the initiation of walker lane faulting, and range uplift, not lithosphere delamination.
Presented at
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K., Busby, C., & Jean, M.
(2006).
The central sierra Nevada volcanic field: a geochemical study of a transitional arc.
Presented at
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K., Busby, C., & Hagan, J.
(2006).
A preliminary study of the stratigraphy, geochronology, geochemistry and structure of tertiary volcanic rocks in the central sierra nevada, from carson pass to sonora pass.
Presented at
American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting. |
Putirka, K.
(2006).
Petrologic evidence that most ocean islands derive from thermally driven mantle plumes.
Presented at
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K.
(2006).
Average potential temperature of the upper mantle and excess temperatures beneath regions of active upwelling.
Presented at
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting. |
Putirka, K., Vaid, N., & Kuntz, M.
(2005).
Evolution of the craters of the moon lavas from primitive snake river plain basalts: inferences from plagioclase-melt thermobarometers and whole rock compositions.
Presented at
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K., Sharma, R., & Busby, C.
(2005).
Ancestral cascade arc volcanism in the North-Central Sierra Nevada, California.
Presented at
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K.
(2005).
Mantle temperatures, and tests of experimentally calibrated olivine-melt equilibria.
Presented at
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K.
(2005).
Igneous thermometers and barometers based on plagioclase + liquid equilibria: test of some existing models and new calibrations.
American Mineralogist. 90(2-3),
336-346.
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Putirka, K.
(2005).
Estimates of mantle temperatures based on olivine phenocrysts and olivine-melt equilibria.
Presented at
Goldschmidt Conference: Geochemical Society. |
Putirka, K., Smart, C., & Polfer, K.
(2004).
Mineral compositions from the Hawaii scientific drilling project (HSDP): preliminary results part III.
Presented at
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K., Smart, C., & Polfer, K.
(2004).
Mineral compositions from the Hawaii scientific drilling project (HSDP): preliminary results part I.
Presented at
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K., Rood, D., Busby, C., & Gans, P.
(2004).
Range front faulting and ancestral cascades arc magmatism in the Central Sierra Nevada at 10 ma: onset of basin and range extension or sierran root delamination?.
Presented at
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. |
Putirka, K., Polfer, K., & Smart, C.
(2004).
Mineral compositions from the Hawaii scientific drilling project (HSDP): preliminary results part II.
Presented at
American Geophysical Union Fall meeting. |
Putirka, K., & Kuntz, M.
(2004).
Temperature-pressure (depth) estimates of magmas from the craters of the moon and nearby lava fields, ID, based on mineral-melt equilibria.
Presented at
Cordilleran/Rocky Mountain Section Joint Meeting, Boise, ID. |
Putirka, K., Ryerson, F., & Mikaelian, H.
(2003).
New igneous thermobarometers for mafic and evolved lava compositions, based on clinopyroxene + liquid equilibria.
American Mineralogist. 1542-1554.
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Putirka, K., & Condit, C.
(2003).
A cross section of a magma conduit system at the margins of the Colorado Plateau, Geology.
Geology. 31(8),
701-704.
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Putirka, K.
(2003).
New igneous thermobarometers based on plagioclase + liquid equilibria.
Presented at
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. |
Putirka, K., & Condit, C.
(2002).
An interior view of the Springerville volcanic field, AZ magma plumbing system.
Presented at
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. |
Putirka, K., & Smith, S.
(2001).
Crystallization depths for Holocene basaltic lavas from craters of the Moon National Monument.
Presented at
Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Symposium, Indiana, PA. |
Putirka, K.
(2000).
Mapping the depths of mantle components.
Presented at
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC. |
Putirka, K., Kent, A., & Ryerson, F.
(1999).
Preliminary results regarding phlogopite-melt saturation and water partitioning.
Presented at
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. |
Putirka, K.
(1999).
Melting depths and mantle heterogeneity beneath Hawaii and the East Pacific Rise: Constraints from Na/Ti and REE ratios.
Journal of Geophysical Research. 2817 - 2829.
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Putirka, K.
(1999).
Estimating the mineralogy of the upper mantle, and partial melting depths and temperatures of oceanic basalts.
Institute of geophysics and planetary physics.
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Putirka, K.
(1999).
Clinopyroxene+liquid equilibrium to 100 kbar and 2450 K.
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 151-163.
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Putirka, K.
(1998).
Melting depths and heterogeneity beneath earth’s ocean basins.
Presented at
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Annual Meeting, Los Alamos, NM. |
Putirka, K.
(1998).
Estimates of mantle heterogeneity and initial melting depths at Hawaii and the east pacific rise.
Presented at
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. |
Putirka, K.
(1998).
Calibration of garnet + and clinopyroxene + liquid saturation surfaces, and some preliminary applications to komatiite petrogenesis.
Presented at
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. |
Putirka, K.
(1997).
Melt productivity during fractional melting and the apparent conflict between inferred melting depths and crustal thickness.
Presented at
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union Meeting. |
Putirka, K.
(1997).
Magma transport at Hawaii: inferences from igneous thermobarometry.
Geology. 69-72.
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Putirka, K., & Weigand, P.
(1987).
Miocene volcanic rocks of the western Mojave Desert, California: evidence for magma-mixing.
Presented at
Geological Society of America. |