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Fangzhen Teng (he/him)
Professor
Office: JHN 435
Phone: 206-543-7615
Fax: 206-543-0489 (shared)
Email: [javascript protected email address]
Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/fteng/
Interests: isotope geochemistry; composition and evolution of the crust and mantle; origin of the early solar system
Research Groups: Isotope Geochemistry, Petrology/Mineralogy/Geochemistry

Education:
Ph.D., Geology, University of Maryland, College Park, 2005
B.S., Geochemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, 2001
Graduate Students:
Tian-Yi Huang, Pete Wynn
Current Research:
Composition, formation and evolution of the Earth and early solar system
Recent Publications:
Publications since 2019 (*graduate student; ** postdoc; *** undergraduate):

Nie, N.X.*, Chen, X.-Y.**, Hopp, T., Hu, J. Y, Zhang, J. Z., Teng, F.-Z., Shahar, A. and Dauphas, N. “Imprint of chondrules formation on the K and Rb isotopic compositions of carbonaceous chondrites”. Sci. Adv., 7: in press. 10/6/2021

Lei, H, Zhao, Z., Niu, Y., Zhang, S., Cousens, B., Ma, Q., Teng, F.-Z., Liu, D., Miao, Z., Yang, Y., Wu, J., Wang, Q., and Zhu, D.-C. (2021) Identifying deep recycled carbonates through Miocene basalts in the Maguan area, SE Tibetan Plateau, Lithos, 400-401, 106356.

Wang, Z.-Z.**, Teng, F.-Z., Prelevic, D., Liu, S.-A. and Zhao, Z. (2021) Potassium isotopic evidence for sediment recycling into the orogenic lithospheric mantle, Geochem. Persp. Let. 18, 43-47. https://doi.org/10.7185/geochemlet.2123j.

Chen, L.-M., Teng, F.-Z., Song, X.-Y., Luan, Y., Yu, S.-Y. and Kang, J. (2021) Origins and implications of magnesium isotopic heterogeneity in Fe-Ti oxides in layered mafic intrusions, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 308, 273-290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2021.06.016.

Li, W.-S.*, Liu, X.-M., Hu, Y.**, Teng, F.-Z., Hu, Y. and Chadwick, O. A. (2021) Potassium isotopic fractionation in a humid and an arid soil-plant system in Hawaii, Geoderma, 400, 115219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115219.

Sun. Y**, Teng, F.-Z., Pang, K-N., Ying, J.-F. and Kuehner, S. (2021) Multistage mantle metasomatism deciphered by Mg-Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes in the Leucite Hills lamproites, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 176, 45. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-021-01801-9.

Li, W.-S.*, Liu, X.-M., Hu, Y.**, Teng, F.-Z. and Hu, Y. (2021) Potassium isotopic fractionation during clay adsorption, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 304, 160-177.

Nie, N. X.*, Dauphas, N., Alp, E. E., Zeng, H., Sio, C. K., Hu, J. Y., Aarons, S. M., Zhang, Z., Tian, H.-C.**, Prissel, K. B., Greer, J., Bi, W., Hu, M. Y., Shahar, A., Roskosz, M., Teng, F.-Z., Krawczynski, M. J., Heck, P. R. and Spear, F. S. (2021) Iron, magnesium, and titanium isotopic fractionations between garnet, ilmenite, fayalite, biotite, and tourmaline: Results from NRIXS, ab initio, and study of mineral separates from the Moosilauke metapelite, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 302, 18-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2021.03.014.

Wang, Z.-Z.**, Teng, F.-Z., Busigny, V. and Liu, S.-A. (2021) Evidence from HP/UHP metasediments for subduction of isotopically heterogeneous potassium into the mantle, American Mineralogist, in press. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2021-7923.

Moynier, F., Hu, Y., Wang, K., Zhao, Y., Gerard, Y., Deng, Z., Moureau, J., Li, W., Simon, J. and Teng, F.-Z. (2021) Potassium isotopic composition of various samples using a collision-cell inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer, Nu Instrument Sapphire, Chemical Geology, 571. 120124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120144.

Hu, Y.**, Teng, F.-Z., Helz, R. T. and Chauvel, C. (2021) Potassium isotope fractionation during magmatic differentiation and the composition of the mantle, JGR-Solid Earth. 126, e2020JB021543. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB021543.

Sun, Y.**, Teng, F.-Z. and Pang, K.-N. (2021) The presence of paleo-Pacific slab beneath northwest North China Craton hinted by low-δ26Mg basalts at Wulanhada, Lithos, 386-387. 106009.

Wang, F., Xing, K.-C., Xu, W.-L., Teng, F.-Z., Xu, Y.-G. and Yang, D.-B. (2021) Permian ridge subduction in the easternmost Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Magmatic record using Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf-Mg isotopes, Lithos, 384-385, 105966.

Wang, S.-J., Wang, W., Zhu, J.-M., Wu, Z., Liu, J., Han, G., Teng, F.-Z., Huang, S., Wu, H., Wang, Y., Wu, G. and Li, W.-H. (2021) Nickel isotopic evidence for late-stage accretion of Mercury-like differentiated planetary embryos, Nature Communications, 12, 294. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20525-1.

Hu, Y.**, Teng, F.-Z., and Chauvel, C. (2021) Potassium isotopic evidence for sedimentary input to the mantle source of Lesser Antilles lavas, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 295, 98-111.

Hu, Y.** and Teng, F.-Z. (2021) Non-traditional stable isotope geochemistry, in Alderton, D. and Elias, S. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Geology, 2nd edition. Vol. 5, 114-124. United Kingdom: Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102908-4.00148-X. [Invited contribution]

Li, M.Y.H.*, Teng, F.-Z., and Zhou, M.-F. (2021) Phyllosilicate controls on magnesium isotopic fractionation during weathering of granites: Implications for continental weathering and riverine system, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 553, 116613. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116613.

Mendybaev, R. A., Kamibayashi, M., Teng, F.-Z., Savage, P. S., Georg, R. B., Richter, F. M. and Tachibana, S. (2021) Experiments quantifying elemental and isotopic fractionations during evaporation of CAI-like melts in low-pressure hydrogen and in vacuum: Constraints on thermal processing of CAIs in the protoplanetary disk, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 292, 557-576.

Hu, Y.**, Teng, F.-Z., Plank, T and Chauvel, C. (2020) Potassium isotopic heterogeneity in subducting oceanic plates, Sci. Adv., 6: eabb2472.

Chen, X.-Y.**, Teng, F.-Z., Huang, K.-J. and Algeo, T. J. (2020) Intensified chemical weathering during Early Jurassic revealed by magnesium isotopes, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 287, 263-276.

Liu, Y.D., Ying, J.-F., Li, J., Sun, Y.** and Teng, F.-Z. (2020) Diverse origins of pyroxenite xenoliths from Yangyuan, North China Craton: implications for the modification of lithosphere by magma underplating and melt-rock interactions, Lithos, 372-373, 105680. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105680.

Chen, X.-Y.**, Teng, F.-Z., Sánchez, W. R., Romanek, C. S., Sanchez-Navas, A. and Sánchez-Román, M. (2020) Experimental constraints on magnesium isotopic fractionation during abiogenic calcite precipitation at room temperature, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 281, 102-117.

Teng, F.-Z., Hu, Y.*, Ma, J.-L., Wei, G.-J. and Rudnick, R. L. (2020) Potassium isotope fractionation during continental weathering and implications for global K isotopic balance. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 278, 261-271.

Pang, K.-N., Teng, F.-Z., Sun, Y.**, Chung, S.-L. and Zarrinkoub, M. H. (2020) Magnesium isotopic systematics of the Makran arc, Iran: Implications for crust-mantle Mg isotopic balance, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 278, 110-121.

Tian H.-C.**, Zhang, C., Teng, F.-Z., Long, Y.-J., Li, S.-G., He, Y.-S., Ke, S., Chen, X.-Y.** and Yang, W. (2020) Diffusion-driven extreme Mg and Fe isotope fractionation in Panzhihua ilmenite: Implications for the origin of mafic intrusion, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 278, 361-375.

Hu, Y.*, Teng, F.-Z. and Ionov, D. A. (2020) Magnesium isotopic composition of metasomatized upper sub-arc mantle and its implications to Mg cycling in subduction zones, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 278, 219-234.

Cuozzo, N.*, Sletten, R., Hu, Y.*, Liu, L.**, Teng, F.-Z. and Hagedorn, B. (2020) Silicate weathering in Antarctic Ice-rich permafrost: Insights using magnesium isotopes, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 278, 244-260.

Huang, T.-Y.*, Teng, F.-Z., Rudnick, R. L., Chen, X.-Y.**, Hu, Y.*, Liu, Y.-S. and Wu, F.-Y. (2020) Heterogeneous potassium isotopic composition of the upper continental crust, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 278, 122-136.

Sun, Y.**, Teng, F.-Z., Hu, Y.*, Chen, X.-Y.** and Pang, K.-N. (2020) Tracing subducted oceanic slabs in the mantle by using potassium isotopes, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 278, 353-360.

Lv, Y.*, Liu, S.-A., Teng, F.-Z., Wei, G.-J. and Ma, J.-L. (2020) Contrasting zinc isotopic fractionation in two mafic-rock weathering profiles induced by adsorption onto Fe (hydr)oxides, Chemical Geology, 539, 119504, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119504.

Brewer, A.*, Harrold, Z.*, Chang, E., Gorman-Lewis, D. and Teng, F.-Z. (2020) Magnesium isotope fractionation during microbially enhanced forsterite dissolution, Geobiology, 18, 225-236. https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12372.

Tian H.-C.**, Teng, F.-Z., Hou, Z.-Q., Tian, S.-H., Yang, W., Chen, X.-Y. and Song, Y.-C. (2020) Magnesium and lithium isotopic evidence for a remnant oceanic slab beneath central Tibet, JGR-Solid Earth, 125, e2019JB018197. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB018197.

Teng, F.-Z., Wang, S.-J. and Moynier, F. (2019) Tracing the formation and differentiation of the Earth by non-traditional stable isotopes, Science China Earth Sciences, 62, 1702-1715.

Hille, M***, Hu, Y.*, Huang, T.-Y.* and Teng, F.-Z. (2019) Homogeneous and heavy potassium isotopic composition of global oceans, Science Bulletin, 64, 1740-1742.

Berg, R. D.*, Solomon, E. A. and Teng, F.-Z. (2019) The role of marine sediment diagenesis in the modern oceanic magnesium cycle, Nature Communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12322-2.

Su, B.-X., Hu, Y.*, Teng, F.-Z., Xiao, Y., Zhang, H.-F., Sun, Y., Zhu, B., Zhou, X.-H. and Ying, J.-F. (2019) Light magnesium isotopic composition of mantle-derived lavas caused by chromite crystallization, instead of carbonatite metasomatism, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 522, 79-86.

Huang, H.**, Niu, Y.-L., Teng, F.-Z., Wang, S.-J.** (2019) Discrepancy between bulk-rock and zircon Hf isotopes accompanying Nd-Hf isotope decoupling, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 259, 17-36.

Chen, X.-Y.**, Teng, F.-Z. and Catling, D. (2019) Fast and precise boron isotopic analysis of carbonates and seawater using Nu Plasma II multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and a simple sample introduction system. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 33, 1169-1178.

Xu, Y.-K, Hu, Y.*, Chen, X.-Y.**, Huang, T.-Y.*, Sletten, R., Zhu, D. and Teng, F.-Z. (2019) Potassium isotopic composition of international geological reference materials, Chemical Geology, 513, 101-107.

Inglis, E.*, Moynier, F., Creech, J., Deng, Z., Day, J., Teng, F.-Z., Bizzarro, M., Jackson, M. and Savage, P. (2019) Isotopic fractionation of zirconium during magmatic differentiation and the stable isotope composition of the silicate Earth, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 250, 311-323.

He, Y., Meng, X., Ke, S., Wu, H.*, Zhu, C., Teng, F.-Z., Hoefs, J., Huang, J., Yang, W., Xu, L., Hou, Z., Ren, Z.-Y. and Li, S. (2019) A nephelinitic component with unusual 56Fe in Cenozoic basalts from eastern China and its implications for deep oxygen cycle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 512, 175-183.

Hu, Y.* and Teng, F.-Z. (2019) Optimization of analytical conditions for precise and accurate isotope analyses of Li, Mg, Fe, Cu, and Zn by MC-ICPMS, Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 34, 338-346.