Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Current Research Interests
| Petrology and geochemistry of basic volcanic rocks in large igneous provinces (especially North Atlantic and Ontong Java Plateau). Nature and origin of mantle plumes. Development of X-ray fluorescence analytical techniques. |
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), The petrogenesis of the calc-alkaline Borrowdale Volcanic Group, northern England, Durham University
Award Date: 1 Jan 1971
Bachelor of Science, Durham University
Award Date: 1 Jan 1968
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Deep formation of Earth’s earliest continental crust consistent with subduction
Hastie, A. R., Law, S., Bromiley, G. D., Fitton, J. G., Harley, S. L. & Muir, D. D., 1 Sept 2023, In: Nature Geoscience. 16, 9, p. 816-821Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Volatiles and intraplate magmatism: A variable role for carbonated and altered oceanic lithosphere in ocean island basalt formation
Kirstein, L., Walowski, K. J., Jones, R. E., Burgess, R., Fitton, J. G., De Hoog, C-J., Savov, I. P., Kalnins, L. & Edinburgh Ion Microprobe Facility, EIMF., 1 May 2023, In: Journal of Petrology. 64, 5, egad022.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Igneous Rocks and Processes: A Practical Guide, 2nd Edition
Gill, R. & Fitton, J. G., 1 Sept 2022, 2 ed. Wiley.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Transient mobilization of subcrustal carbon coincident with Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum
Gernon, T. M., Barr, R., Fitton, J. G., Hincks, T. K., Keir, D., Longman, J., Merdith, A. S., Mitchell, R. N. & Palmer, M. R., 23 Jun 2022, In: Nature Geoscience. 15, 7, p. 573-579Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Heterogeneous nickel isotope compositions of the terrestrial mantle - Part 2: Mafic lithologies
Saunders, N. J., Barling, J., Harvey, J., Fitton, J. G. & Halliday, A. N., 15 Jan 2022, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 317, p. 349-364Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Projects
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Testing the Mantle Plume Hypothesis through IODP drilling on the Louiseville Seamounts
12/12/10 → 31/08/13
Project: Research
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Does the Iceland Plume Pulse
Fitton, G. & Underhill, J.
UK industry, commerce and public corporations, NERC
1/10/01 → 30/06/02
Project: Research
Press/Media
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On en sait plus sur la formation de la croûte terrestre il y a 4 milliards d'années
Alan Hastie, Sally Law, Geoffrey Bromiley, Godfrey Fitton & Simon Harley
26/08/23
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research