David J. Waters

University Lecturer in Metamorphic Petrology

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.

Waters, D. J. and Charnley, N. R. (2002). Local equilibrium in polymetamorphic gneiss and the titanium substitution in biotite. American Mineralogist (Holdaway issue), 87, 383-396.

Waters, D. J. and Lovegrove, D. P. (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, 20, 135-149.

Walker, C. B., Searle, M. P. and Waters, D. J. (2001). An integrated tectono-thermal model for the evolution of the High Himalaya in western Zanskar with constraints from thermobarometry and metamorphic modeling. Tectonics, 20, 810-833.

Wain, A. L., Waters, D. J. and Austrheim, H. (2001). Metastability of granulites and processes of eclogitisation in the UHP region of Western Norway. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 19, 609-625.

Waters, D. J. (2001). The significance of prograde and retrograde quartz-bearing intergrowth microstructures in partially-melted granulite-facies rocks. In: Kriegsman, L. (ed.) Prograde and retrograde processes in crustal melting, Lithos, 56, 97-110.