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Geology Professor William Peck

William Peck

Associate Professor of Geology
Geology , 422 Ho Science Center
p 315 2286798

Degree

BS Beloit College 1994; MS, PhD University of Wisconsin 1996, 2000

Research Interests

Metamorphic Petrology, Stable Isotope Geochemistry, Precambrian Crustal Growth and Maturation, Anorthosite Petrogenesis, Cordierite-Gedrite Rocks. 

Distinctions

Colgate University Carter-Wallace Fellow (2009-2010), NSF research and equipment grants.

Board Membership

Associate editor, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (2011-present), Geological Society of America Bulletin (2008-2010), Editorial board, Geology (2005-2007)

Publications


Nature 2001

Can Min 2010

J Agricultural &
Food Chem 2010

Economic
Geology 2009
(*indicates student author)

Peck, WH, McLelland, JM, Bickford, ME, Nagle, AN*, Swarr, GJ*, 2010, Mechanism of zircon overgrowth formation of a granulite-facies quartzite, Adirondack Highlands, Grenville Province, New York: American Mineralogist, v. 95, p. 1796-1806.

Peck, WH, Clechenko, CC, Hamilton, MA, and Valley, JW, 2010, Oxygen isotopes in the Grenville and Nain AMCG Suites: Regional aspects of the crustal component in massif anorthosites: Canadian Mineralogist, v. 48, p. 763-786.

Peck, WH, and Tubman, SC*, 2010, Changing carbon isotope ratio of atmospheric carbon dioxide: Implications for food authentication, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, v. 58(4), p. 2364–2367

Peck, WH, Volkert, RA, Mansur, A*, Doverspike, BA*, 2009, Stable isotope and petrologic evidence for the origin of regional marble-hosted magnetite deposits and the zinc deposits at Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey Highlands: Economic Geology, v. 104, p. 1037-1054.

Peck WH and Tumpane, KP*, 2007, Low carbon isotope ratios in apatite: An unreliable biomarker in igneous and metamorphic rocks, Chemical Geology v, 245, p. 305-314.

Peck, WH, Volkert, RA, Meredith, MT*, and Rader, EL*, 2006, Calcite-graphite carbon isotope thermometry of the Franklin Marble, New Jersey Highlands: Journal of Geology, v. 114, p. 485-499.

Peck, WH, and Smith, MS, 2005, Cordierite-gedrite rocks from the Central Metasedimentary Belt boundary thrust zone (Grenville Province, Ontario): Mesoproterozoic volcanics with affinities to the Composite Arc Belt: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 42, p. 1815-1828.

Peck, WH, DeAngelis, MT, Meredith, MT*, Morin, E*, 2005, Polymetamorphism of marbles in the Morin terrane (Grenville Province, Quebec): Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 42, p. 1949-1965.

Peck, WH, Valley, JW, Wilde, SA, and Graham, CM, 2001, Oxygen isotope ratios and rare earth elements in 3.3 to 4.4 Ga zircons: Ion microprobe evidence for high δ18 O continental crust and oceans in the Early Archean, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 65, p. 4215-4229.

Wilde, S, Valley, JW, Peck, WH, and Graham, CM, 2001, Evidence from detrital zircons for the existence of continental crust and oceans on the Earth 4.4 Gyr ago: Nature, v. 409, p. 175-178.

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