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Fields of interest:

• igneous petrogenesis
• applications of inorganic geochemistry
• analytical methods: ICP-MS and laser ablation
  
  
  
  

Recent publications:

D.W. Peate, J.A. Baker, S.P. Jakobsson, A.J.R. Kent, T.E. Waight, N.V. Grassineau, A.C. Skovgaard: 
Historic magmatism on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland: a snap-shot of melt generation at a ridge segment. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Vol. 157, (2009), pp. 359-382.

D.W. Peate, L. Falkena, A.J.R. Kent: 
Pb isotope variations in hydrogenetic Fe-Mn crusts from the Izu-Bonin fore-arc,
Chemical Geology, Vol. 258, (2009), pp. 288-298.

E. Bali, A. Zanetti, C. Szabo, D.W. Peate, T.E. Waight: 
A micro-scale investigation of melt production and extraction in the upper mantle based on silicate melt pockets in ultramafic xenoliths from the Bakony-Balaton Highland volcanic field (Western Hungary),
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Vol. 155, (2008), pp. 165-179.

D.W. Peate, A.K. Barker, M.S. Riishuus, R. Andreasen:
 Temporal variations in crustal assimilation of magma suites in the East Greenland flood basalt province: tracking the evolution of magmatic plumbing systems, 
Lithos, Vol. 102, (2008), pp. 179-197.

A.K. Barker, J.A. Baker, D.W. Peate: 
Interaction of the rifting East Greenland margin with a zoned ancestral Iceland plume,
Geology, Vol. 34, (2006), pp. 481-484.

D.W. Peate, C.J. Hawkesworth: 
U-series disequilibria: insights into mantle melting and the time scales of magma differentiation,
Reviews of Geophysics, Vol. 43, (2005), RG1003 (43 pp).

M.S. Riishuus, D.W. Peate, C. Tegner, J.R. Wilson, C.K. Brooks, T.E. Waight: 
On the petrogenesis of syenites at rifted continental margin: Origin, contamination and interaction of alkaline mafic and felsic magmas in the Astrophyllite Bay Complex, East Greenland,
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Vol. 149, (2005), pp. 350-371.

J.A. Baker, D.W. Peate, T.E. Waight, C. Meyzen: 
Pb isotopic analysis of standards and samples using a 207Pb-204Pb double spike and thallium to correct for mass bias with a double-focusing MC-ICP-MS,
Chemical Geology, Vol. 211, (2004), pp. 275-303.

A.J.R. Kent, B. Jacobsen, D.W. Peate, T.E. Waight, J.A. Baker: 
Isotope dilution MC-ICP-MS rare earth element analysis of geochemical reference materials NIST SRM 610, NIST SRM 612, NIST SRM 614, BHVO-2G, BHVO-2, BCR-2G, JB-2, WS-1, W-2, AGV-1, AGV-2,
Journal of Geostandards and Geoanalysis, Vol. 28, (2004), pp. 417-429.

R. Andreasen, D.W. Peate, C.K. Brooks: 
Magma plumbing systems in large igneous provinces: inferences from cyclical compositional variations in Palaeogene East Greenland basalts,
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Vol. 147, (2004), pp. 438-452.