{"id":6175,"date":"2017-10-20T07:30:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T23:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/continental-collisions-norway-australia\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T09:26:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:26:44","slug":"continental-collisions-norway-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/continental-collisions-norway-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Continental collisions: from Norway to Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Globe-straddling work into geological land mass collisions dating back hundreds of millions of years has seen TIGeR (The Institute for Geoscience Research) Director Andrew Putnis awarded Curtin\u2019s highest honour for academic staff: the title of John Curtin Distinguished Professor.<\/p>\n<p>After 40 years in Europe, Professor Putnis is back in Australia, turning his talents to endeavours such as the CSIRO project to find ways of extracting metals from ore bodies deep in the Earth.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Professor Andrew Putnis | Continental collisions\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0_ZDE8Oa80U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 40 years in Europe, Professor Putnis is back in Australia, and has been awarded the title of John Curtin Distinguished Professor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":104,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-6175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-space-and-physics"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"About TIGeR","content":"<p>The Institute for Geoscience Research (TIGeR) brings together active researchers across the spectrum of geosciences within Curtin University with the common goal of understanding the mechanisms and the timescales of the processes that control Earth\u2019s dynamic evolution. <a href=\"http:\/\/tiger.curtin.edu.au\/\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","image":false},"related_courses":[{"title":"","qualification":"","link":"","description":"","faculty":""}],"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}},"post_components":false},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AndrewPutnis.png","author_meta":{"first_name":"Jarrad","last_name":"Long","display_name":"Jarrad Long"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 18:51:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6175"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=6175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}