PhD  Vanderbilt University
MSc University of London (England)
BSc  University of London, First Class (England)

Current: Vanderbilt University

Ph.D. Student: Environmental Engineering; Environmental Science Option

Advisor: Dr John C. Ayers

Thesis Title: 

Experimental- and field-based geochemical investigations into the behavior of zircon in hydrothermal and deep-tectonic environments associated with mountain-building and crustal-evolution events.

Research Areas:

Metamorphic chemcial geodynamics:

Experimental investigations into Ultra-High-Pressure Metamorphism, Metamorphic fluids, and Subduction Zone processes.

Geodynamics, High/Ultra-High Pressure metamorphism, and crustal evolution of Central-East China (Dabie-Sulu).

Mineral thermodynamics and the behaviour of minerals and fluids in geochemical systems:

The growth and partitioning behaviour of minerals in HP/UHP geochemical systems.

Tracing mineral-fluid reactions in the deep crust using zircon.

Volcanic and mantle processes: 

Rift Volcanism, Basalt formation, and Mantle Processes in Western United States.
Production of Highly evolved volcanic magmas: Plutonic and Volcanic perspectives.

Publications:

1. Peters, T.J. Ayers, J.C. (in-prep). Experimental synthesis and trace-element partitioning between Zircon (ZrSiO4) and hydrothermal fluids at High-Pressure (1.5 GPa) and High-Temperatures (800-900°C).
2. Ayers J.C., Zhang L., Peters T. (Submitted) Solubility of zircon and baddeleyite in neutral to alkaline aqueous fluids at upper crustal conditions. submitted to Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta.
3. Peters, T.J. Ayers, J.C. Gao, S. Liu, X-M. (in-prep). Zircon U-Pb and Lu-Hf isotopic constraints on hydrothermal reactions in the crust during continental subduction provided by an amphibole-bearing tonalite gneiss from the Luotian Dome, Central China. [Download here: 11.3 MB]
4. Peters, T.J. Ayers, J.C. Gao, S. Liu, X-M. (Submitted). The response of zircon in eclogite to metamorphism during the multi-stage evolution of the Huwan Shear Zone, China: Insights from Lu-Hf-U-Pb isotopic and trace-element geochemistry. Submitted [Download Here: 12.5 MB]
5. Peters, T.J,. Menzies, M., Thirlwall, M., Kyle. P., (2008). Zuni-Bandera volcanism, Rio Grande, USA – melt formation in garnet- and spinel- facies mantle straddling the asthenosphere-lithosphere boundary. Lithos. Vol 102, 1-2, pp 295-315. 10.1016/j.lithos.2007.08.006 [Download Here]