Dr Dave Waters

University Lecturer in Metamorphic Petrology


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Research Profile

My research is concerned with the fundamental processes of metamorphic change at all scales from the mineral lattice to the continental crust, but with particular emphasis on the relationships between microstructures at the scale of the mineral grains and the thermodynamic and kinetic controls on metamorphic reaction processes. Fundamental processes of nucleation, porphyroblast growth and equilibration are being investigated in the aureole of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa, where the thermal history is well constrained. Such studies form the basis for addressing problems in tectonics, currently in three main areas: the evolution of the metamorphic core of the Himalaya and Karakoram, the formation and exhumation of eclogites in collision zones, and the cratonisation process: a study of granulites, migmatites and charnockites in Precambrian terrains.

Selected Publications (Extended Publications)

  • Streule, MJ, Searle, MP, Waters, DJ, Horstwood, MSA, (2010) 'Metamorphism, melting, and channel flow in the Greater Himalayan Sequence and Makalu leucogranite: Constraints from thermobarometry, metamorphic modeling, and U-Pb geochronology', TECTONICS. pp. doi: 10.1029/2009TC002533
  • Alvarez-Valero, AM, Waters, DJ, (2010) 'Partially Melted Crustal Xenoliths as a Window into Sub-Volcanic Processes: Evidence from the Neogene Magmatic Province of the Betic Cordillera, SE Spain', JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY. pp. 973-991 doi: 10.1093/petrology/egq007
  • Searle, MP, Cottle, JM, Streule, MJ, Waters, DJ, (2010) 'Crustal melt granites and migmatites along the Himalaya: melt source, segregation, transport and granite emplacement mechanisms', SIXTH HUTTON SYMPOSIUM ON THE ORIGIN OF GRANITES AND RELATED ROCKS: PROCEEDINGS OF A SYMPOSIUM. pp. 219-233 doi: 10.1017/S175569100901617X
  • Crowley, JL, Waters, DJ, Searle, MP, Bowring, SA, (2009) 'Pleistocene melting and rapid exhumation of the Nanga Parbat massif, Pakistan: Age and P-T conditions of accessory mineral growth in migmatite and leucogranite', EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. pp. 408-420 doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.09.044
  • Streule, MJ, Phillips, RJ, Searle, MP, Waters, DJ, Horstwood, MSA, (2009) 'Evolution and chronology of the Pangong Metamorphic Complex adjacent to the Karakoram Fault, Ladakh: constraints from thermobarometry, metamorphic modelling and U-Pb geochronology', JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. pp. 919-932 doi: 10.1144/0016-76492008-117
  • Chan, GH-N, Waters, DJ, Searle, MP, Aitchison, JC, Horstwood, MSA, Crowley, Q, Lo, C-H, Chan, JS-L, (2009) 'Probing the basement of southern Tibet: evidence from crustal xenoliths entrained in a Miocene ultrapotassic dyke', JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. pp. 45-52 doi: 10.1144/0016-76492007-145
  • Searle, MP, Noble, SR, Cottle, JM, Waters, DJ, Mitchell, AHG, Hlaing, T, Horstwood, MSA, (2007) 'Tectonic evolution of the Mogok metamorphic belt, Burma (Myanmar) constrained by U-Th-Pb dating of metamorphic and magmatic rocks', TECTONICS. pp. doi: 10.1029/2006TC002083
  • Warren, CJ, Waters, DJ, (2006) 'Oxidized eclogites and garnet-blueschists from Oman: P-T path modelling in the NCFMASHO system', JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY. pp. 783-802 doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2006.00668.x
  • Parrish, RR, Gough, SJ, Searle, MP, Waters, DJ, (2006) 'Plate velocity exhumation of ultrahigh-pressure eclogites in the Pakistan Himalaya', GEOLOGY. pp. 989-992 doi: 10.1130/G22796A.1
  • Searle, MP, Simpson, RL, Law, RD, Parrish, RR, Waters, DJ, (2003) 'The structural geometry, metamorphic and magmatic evolution of the Everest massif, High Himalaya of Nepal-South Tibet', JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. pp. 345-366 doi: 10.1144/0016-764902-126
  • Waters, DJ, Charnley, NR, (2002) 'Local equilibrium in polymetamorphic gneiss and the titanium substitution in biotite', AMERICAN MINERALOGIST. pp. 383-396
  • Waters, DJ, Lovegrove, DP, (2002) 'Assessing the extent of disequilibrium and overstepping of prograde metamorphic reactions in metapelites from the Bushveld Complex aureole, South Africa', JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY. pp. 135-149 doi: 10.1046/j.0263-4929.2001.00350.x
  • Waters, DJ, (2001) 'The significance of prograde and retrograde quartz-bearing intergrowth microstructures in partially melted granulite-facies rocks', Lithos. pp. 108-110