Doug Tinkham, Professor in Metamorphic Petrology, currently studies questions revolving around understanding the high-temperature metamorphic history of the English River Subprovince, including the timing and P-T conditions of partial melting and chemistry of partial melts. This work involves garnet chemistry and Sm-Nd chronology, zircon U-Pb chronology and whole rock geochemistry. He is also investigating the geochemistry and phase equilibria of metamorphosed altered mafic and felsic volcanics/intrusives. In this work, he explores the use of trace element distribution in metamorphic minerals as a record of metamorphic reaction history.

Email: dtinkham@laurentian.ca