Education

2005             Ph.D. in Geochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park
                          Advisors: Drs. William F. McDonough and Roberta L. Rudnick

2001             B.S. in Geochemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, Hefei

Professional Employment

2008 to present        Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geosciences, Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville
2006 to 2007           Post-doc, Feild Museum of Natural History and Univ. of Chicago
2001 to 2006           Research Assistant, Dept. of Geology, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

Awards

2011           CAREER award
2005           Best talk award, Ph.D. category, Dept. of Geology, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

Peer-reviewed Publications

2012

Telus, M., Dauphas, N., Moynier, F., Teng, F.-Z., Nabelek, P. I., Craddock, P. R. and Groat, L. A. (2012) Iron, zinc and magnesium isotopic fractionation during continental crust differentiation: The tale from migmatites, granites and pegmatites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, in review.

Ling, M.-X., Li, Y., Ding, X., Teng, F.-Z., Fan, W., Xu, Y. and Sun, W. (2012) Destruction of the North China craton induced by ridge subductions. Journal of Geology, in review.

Yang, W., Teng, F.-Z., Zhang H.-F. and Li, S. (2012) Magnesium isotopic systematics of continental basalts from the North China craton: Implications for tracing subducted carbonate in the mantle, Chemical Geology, in revision.

2011

Ling, M.-X., Sedaghatpour, F., Teng, F.-Z., Hays, P.D., Strauss, J. and Sun, W. (2011) Homogenous magnesium isotopic composition of seawater. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 25, 2828-2836. PDF

Liu, S.-A., Teng, F.-Z., Yang, W. and Wu, F.-Y. (2011) High-temperature inter-mineral magnesium isotope fractionation in mantle xenoliths from the North China craton, Earth and Planetary Science Letters,308, 131-140. PDF

Teng, F.-Z., Dauphas, N., Helz, R.T., Gao, S. and Huang, S. (2011) Diffusion-driven magnesium and iron isotope fractionation in Hawaiian olivine, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 317-324. PDF

Li, W.-Y., Teng, F.-Z., Xiao, Y. and Huang, J. (2011) High-temperature inter-mineral magnesium isotope fractionation in eclogite from the Dabie orogen, China, Earth and Planetary Sciences Letter, 304, 224-230. PDF

Ke, S., Liu, S.-A., Li, W.-Y., Yang, W. and Teng, F.-Z. (2011) Advances and application in magnesium isotope geochemistry (Invited review), Acta Petrologica Sinica, 27, 383-397. PDF

2010

Teng, F.-Z., Li, W.-Y., Rudnick, R. L. and Gardner, L. R. (2010) Contrasting behavior of lithium and magnesium isotope fractionation during continental weathering, Earth and Planetary Sciences Letter, 300, 63-71. PDF

Li, W.-Y., Teng, F.-Z., Ke, S., Rudnick, R. L., Gao, S., Wu, F.-Y. and Chappell, B. W. (2010) Heterogeneous magnesium isotopic composition of the upper continental crust, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74, 6867-6884. PDF

Liu, S.-A., Teng, F.-Z., He, Y., Ke., S. and Li, S. (2010) Investigation of magnesium isotope fractionation during granite differentiation: Implication for Mg isotopic composition of the continental crust, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 297, 646-654. PDF

Teng, F.-Z., Li, W.-Y., Ke, S., Marty, B., Dauphas, N., Huang, S., Wu, F.-Y. and Pourmand, A. (2010) Magnesium isotopic composition of the Earth and chondrites, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74, 4150-4166. PDF

Dauphas, N., Teng, F.-Z. and Arndt, N. T. (2010) Magnesium and iron isotopes in 2.7 Ga Alexo komatiites: Mantle signatures, no evidence for Soret diffusion, and identification of diffusive transport in zoned olivine, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74, 3274-3291. PDF

2009

Yang, W., Teng, F.-Z. and Zhang, H.-F. (2009) Chondritic magnesium isotopic composition of the terrestrial mantle: A case study of peridotite xenoliths from the North China craton, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 288, 475-482. PDF

Dauphas, N., Pourmand, A. and Teng, F.-Z. (2009) Routine isotopic analysis of iron by HR-MC-ICPMS: How precise and how accurate?, Chemical Geology, 267, 175-184. PDF

Teng, F.-Z., Rudnick, R. L., McDonough, W. F. and Wu F.-Y. (2009) Lithium isotopic systematics of A-type granites and their mafic enclaves: Further constraints on the Li isotopic composition of the continental crust, Chemical Geology, 262, 415-424. PDF

Richter, F. M., Dauphas, N. and Teng, F.-Z. (2009) Non-traditional fractionation of non-traditional isotopes: Evaporation, chemical diffusion and Soret diffusion, Chemical Geology, 258, 92-103. PDF

2008

Teng, F.-Z., Dauphas, N. and Helz, R. T. (2008) Iron isotopic fractionation during magmatic differentiation in Kilauea Iki lava lake, Science, 320, 1620-1622. PDF

Teng, F.-Z., Rudnick, R. L., McDonough, W.F., Gao, S., Tomascak, P.B. and Liu, Y.-S. (2008) Lithium isotopic composition and concentration of the deep continental crust, Chemical Geology, 255, 47-59. PDF

Richter, F. M., Watson, E. B., Mendybaev, R., Teng, F.-Z., and Janney, P. (2008) Magnesium isotope fractionation in silicate melts by chemical and thermal diffusion, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 72, 206-220. PDF

2007

Teng, F.-Z., McDonough, W. F., Rudnick, R. L. and Wing, B. A. (2007) Limited lithium isotopic fractionation during progressive metamorphic dehydration in metapelites: A case study from the Onawa contact aureole, Maine. Chemical Geology, 239, 1-12. PDF

Teng, F.-Z., Wadhwa, M., and Helz R. T. (2007) Investigation of magnesium isotope fractionation during basalt differentiation: Implications for a chondritic composition of the terrestrial mantle, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 261 (1-2), 84-92. PDF

2006

Teng, F.-Z., McDonough, W. F., Rudnick, R. L. and Walker, R. J. (2006) Diffusion-driven extreme lithium isotopic fractionation in country rocks of the Tin Mountain pegmatite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 243 (3-4), 701-710. PDF

Teng, F.-Z., McDonough, W. F., Rudnick, R. L., Walker, R. J. and Sirbescu, M.-L. C. (2006) Lithium isotopic systematics of granites and pegmatites from the Black Hills, South Dakota. American Mineralogist, 91, 1488-1498. PDF

2004

Teng, F.-Z., McDonough, W. F., Rudnick, R. L., Dalp¨¦, C., Tomascak, P. B., Chappell, B. W. and Gao, S. (2004) Lithium isotopic composition and concentration of the upper continental crust, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68(20), 4167-4178. PDF