peter.zeitler@lehigh.edu

610-758-3671

594 STEPS

http://ees.lehigh.edu/EESpeople/zeitler.html

Research Interests:

Thermochronology and Geochronology
Tectonics
Geodynamics

Education:

A.B. (1978) Earth Sciences, Dartmouth

M.A. (1980) Geology, Dartmouth

Ph.D. (1983) Geology, Dartmouth

Research Fellow (1983-1987) Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU(

Courses:

EES 26 (Energy: Origins, Impacts, and Options), EES 80 (Introduction to the Earth System), EES 426 (Tectonic Processes), EES 429 (Methods and Applications of Geochronology)

Research

I'm interested in development of techniques in thermochronology and their application to tectonics. I'm also interested in crustal geodynamics, the nature and origin of mountains through the interplay between tectonics and erosion, and the geologic evolution of Asia.

Honors and Awards

Fellow, American Geophysical Union (conferred 2013)
Dodson Prize in thermochronology (2015)
Libsch Research Award, Lehigh University (2019)

Current Professional Service

Chair, International Standing Committee on Thermochronology
Editorial Board, AGU Advances
Editorial Board, Earth and Space Sciences Archive (ESSOAr; preprint server)
Editorial Advisory Board, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Selected Publications:

Helium diffusion systematics inferred from continuous ramped heating analysis of Transantarctic Mountains apatites showing age overdispersion

Guo, H., Zeitler, P.K., Idleman, B.D., Fayon, A.K., Fitzgerald, P.G., and Kalin T McDannell, K.T.

2021

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 310, 113-130

Confronting racism to advance our science

Zeitler P., Barros A., Becker T., Davidson, E., Ehlmann, B., Gruber, N., Hofmann, E., Hudson, M., Illangasekare, T., Kang, S., Malanotte‐Rizzoli, P., Moerchen, M., Nimmo, F., Parsons, T., Salters, V., Stevens, B., Trumbore, S., Wuebbles, D, Zhu, T.

2021

AGU Advances, 2, e2020AV000296

Noble gases deliver cool dates from hot rocks

Gautheron, C. and Peter K Zeitler, P.K.

2020

Elements: An International Magazine of Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Petrology, 16(5), 303-309

Reconstructing deep‐time histories from integrated thermochronology: An example from southern Baffin Island, Canada

McDannell, K.T., Schneider, D.A., Zeitler, P.K., O'Sullivan, P.B., and Issler, D.R.

2019

Terra Nova, 31, 189-204.

Screening apatites for (U-Th)/He thermochronometry via continuous ramped heating: He age components and implications for age dispersion.

McDannell, K.T., Zeitler, P.K., Janes, D.G., Idleman, B.D., and Fayon, A.K.

2018

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 223, 90-106

Characterization of helium release from apatite by continuous ramped heating

Idleman, B.D., Zeitler, P.K., and McDannell, K.T.

2018

Chemical Geology, 476, 223-232

Instability of the southern Canadian Shield during the late Proterozoic.

McDannell, K.T., Zeitler, P.K., and Scheider, D.A.

2018

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 490, 100-109

Relict topography within the Hangay Mountains in central Mongolia: Quantifying long-term exhumation and relief change in an old landscape.

McDannell, K.T., Zeitler, P.K., and Idleman, B.D.

2018

Tectonics 37, 1-28, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2017TC004682

Solubility and trapping of helium in apatite.

Zeitler, P.K., Enkelmann, E., Thomas, J., Watson, B., and Ancuta, L.D.

2017

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 209, 1-8

Comment on “Tectonic control of Yarlung Tsangpo Gorge revealed by a buried canyon in Southern Tibet.”

Zeitler, P.K., Koons, P.O., Hallet, B., and Meltzer, A.S.

2015

Science, 349(6250):799

Knickpoint evolution on the Yarlung River: Evidence for late Cenozoic uplift of the southeastern Tibetan plateau margin.

Schmidt, J.L., Zeitler, P.K., Pazzaglia, F.J., Tremblay, M.M., Shuster, D.L., and Fox, M.

2015

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.08.041

Erosion in southern Tibet shut down a ~10 Ma due to enhanced rock uplift within the Himalaya

Tremblay, M.M., Fox, M. Schnidt, J.L., Tripathy-Lang, A., Wielicki, M.M., Harrison, T.M., Zeitler, P.K., and Shuster, D.L.

2015

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(39), 12030-12035, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1515652112

Tectonics and topographic evolution of Namche Barwa and the easternmost Lhasa Block.

Zeitler, P.K., Meltzer, A.S., Brown, L., Kidd, W.S.F., Lim, C., and Enkelmann, E.

2014

Nie, J., Hoke, G.D., and Horton, B., eds., Towards an improved understanding of uplift mechanisms and the elevation history of the Tibetan Plateau. Geological Society of America Special Paper, v. 507