Theodore C. Labotka

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1410
865-974-4805
865-974-2368 (fax)
tlabotka@utk.edu

Position	Professor of Geological Sciences
Interests	Petrology and Mineralogy
Education	California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. Ph.D., 1978 University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. B.S., 1971
Courses	Mineralogy, Optical Mineralogy, Petrogenesis, and Chemical Petrology
Research	Dynamics of metamorphic processes   Metamorphic fluids in contact and regional metamorphic terrains   Experimental investigation of fluid-rock reactions   Kinetics of mineral reaction and stable-isotope exchange in calcite and dolomite systems   Tectonothermal development of low-pressure, high-temperature regional metamorphic terrains