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Professor Gavin Foster BSc, PhD

Professor of Isotope Geochemistry

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Professor Gavin Foster is Professor of Isotope Geochemistry within Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton at the University of Southampton.

BSc Geology, University of Leicester (1996)

PhD Isotope Geochemistry, Open University (2000)

NERC PDRA, Department of Geology, University of Leicester (2000-2003)

NERC PDRA, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol (2003)

NERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol (2003-2006)

NERC Advanced Research Fellow, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol (2006-2009)

NERC Advanced Research Fellow, School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton (2009-2011)

Lecturer Ocean and Earth Science (2011-2012)

Flint Visiting Lecturer, Geology and Geophysics, Yale University (2013)

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Research interests

Specialism: Isotope Geochemistry and Palaeoceanography

My research is primarily concerned with using novel isotopic techniques to gain insights into how and why the Earth’s climate has changed over geological time. Much of my research efforts are currently focused on using boron isotopes in the calcareous shells of foraminifera to reconstruct the state of the oceanic carbonate system in the geological past. In particular I am interested in the mechanisms responsible for the CO₂ changes that accompanied the waxing and waning of the ice-sheets throughout the Pleistocene, and the role of CO₂ in the gradual (and sometimes rapid) deterioration of climate through the Cenozoic.

My other research interests deal with oceanic records of radiogenic isotopes (Pb and Nd) that reflect the changing patterns of continental weathering intensity and ocean circluation. I am also interested in reconstructing ice sheet coverage in the past using novel detrital mineral provenancing techniques such as in situ Nd isotopes in apatite.

www.thefosterlab.org

Research group

Geochemistry

Affiliate research group

Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate

Head of Recruitment for GSNOCS

Articles

Rohling, E. J., Marino, G., Foster, G. L., Goodwin, P. A., Von der Heydt, A. S., & Köhler, P. (2018). Comparing climate sensitivity, past and present. Annual Review of Marine Science, 10, 261-288 . DOI: 10.1146/annurev-marine-121916-063242
Gray, W. R., Rae, J. W. B., Wills, R. C. J., Shevenell, A. E., Taylor, B., Burke, A., ... Lear, C. H. (2018). Deglacial upwelling, productivity and CO2 outgassing in the North Pacific Ocean. Nature Geoscience, 11(5), 340-344. DOI: 10.1038/s41561-018-0108-6
Fowell, S., Foster, G. L., Ries, J., Castillo, K. D., De La Vega, E., Tyrrell, T., ... Chalk, T. B. (2018). Historical trends in pH and carbonate biogeochemistry on the Belize Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System. Geophysical Research Letters. DOI: 10.1002/2017GL076496
Mollica, N. R., Guo, W., Cohen, A. L., Huang, K., Foster, G. L., Donald, H. K., & Solow, A. R. (2018). Ocean acidification affects coral growth by reducing skeletal density. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(8), 1754-1759. [201712806]. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1712806115
Goodwin, P., Katavouta, A., Roussenov, V. M., Foster, G. L., Rohling, E. J., & Williams, R. G. (2018). Pathways to 1.5 and 2 °C warming based on observational and geological constraints. Nature Geoscience, 11, 102–107. DOI: 10.1038/s41561-017-0054-8
Greenop, R., Hain, M., Sosdian, S. M., Oliver, K., Goodwin, P., Chalk, T., ... Foster, G. (2017). A record of Neogene seawater δ11B reconstructed from paired δ11B analyses on benthic and planktic foraminifera. Climate of the Past, 13(2), 149-170. DOI: 10.5194/cp-13-149-2017
Donald, H. K., Ries, J. B., Stewart, J. A., Fowell, S. E., & Foster, G. L. (2017). Boron isotope sensitivity to seawater pH change in a species of Neogoniolithon coralline red alga. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 217, 240-253. DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2017.08.021
Chalk, T., Hain, M., Foster, G., Rohling, E., Sexton, P. F., Badger, M. P. S., ... Wilson, P. A. (2017). Causes of ice-age intensification across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(50), 13114-13119. [2017-02143]. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1702143114
Rohling, E. J., Hibbert, F. D., Williams, F. H., Grant, K. M., Marino, G., Foster, G. L., ... Yokoyama, Y. (2017). Differences between the last two glacial maxima and implications for ice-sheet, δ18O, and sea-level reconstructions. Quaternary Science Reviews, 176, 1-28. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.09.009
Foster, G. L., Royer, D. L., & Lunt, D. J. (2017). Future climate forcing potentially without precedent in the last 420 million years. Nature Communications, 8, [14845]. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14845
Henehan, M. J., Evans, D., Shankle, M., Burke, J. E., Foster, G. L., Anagnostou, E., ... Hull, P. M. (2017). Size-dependent response of foraminiferal calcification to seawater carbonate chemistry. Biogeosciences, 14(13), 3287-3308. DOI: 10.5194/bg-14-3287-2017
Lunt, D. J., Huber, M., Anagnostou, E., Baatsen, M. L. J., Caballero, R., Deconto, R., ... Zeebe, R. E. (2017). The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: experimental design for model simulations of the EECO, PETM, and pre-PETM (version 1.0). Geoscientific Model Development, 10(2), 889-901. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-10-889-2017
Gutjahr, M., Ridgwell, A., Sexton, P. F., Anagnostou, E., Pearson, P. N., Pälike, H., ... Foster, G. L. (2017). Very large release of mostly volcanic carbon during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Nature, 548, 573-577. DOI: 10.1038/nature23646
Henehan, M. J., Foster, G. L., Bostock, H. C., Greenop, R., Marshall, B. J., & Wilson, P. A. (2016). A new boron isotope-pH calibration for Orbulina universa, with implications for understanding and accounting for ‘vital effects'. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 454, 282-292. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.09.024
Stewart, J. A., Anagnostou, E., & Foster, G. L. (2016). An improved boron isotope pH proxy calibration for the deep-sea coral Desmophyllum dianthus through sub-sampling of fibrous aragonite. Chemical Geology, 447, 148-160. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.10.029
Anagnostou, E., John, E. H., Edgar, K. M., Foster, G. L., Ridgwell, A., Inglis, G. N., ... Pearson, P. N. (2016). Changing atmospheric CO2 concentration was the primary driver of early Cenozoic climate. Nature, 533(7603), 380-384. DOI: 10.1038/nature17423
DeCarlo, T. M., Gaetani, G. A., Cohen, A. L., Foster, G. L., Alpert, A. E., & Stewart, J. A. (2016). Coral Sr-U thermometry. Paleoceanography, 31(6), 626-638. DOI: 10.1002/2015PA002908
Martin, P., Goodkin, N. F., Stewart, J. A., Foster, G. L., Sikes, E. L., White, H. K., ... Roberts, J. M. (2016). Deep-sea coral 13C: A tool to reconstruct the difference between seawater pH and?11B-derived calcifying fluid pH. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(1), 299-308. DOI: 10.1002/2015GL066494
Crocker, A. J., Chalk, T. B., Bailey, I., Spencer, M. R., Gutjahr, M., Foster, G. L., & Wilson, P. A. (2016). Geochemical response of the mid-depth Northeast Atlantic Ocean to freshwater input during Heinrich events 1 to 4. Quaternary Science Reviews, 151, 236-254. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.08.035
Lang, D. C., Bailey, I., Wilson, P. A., Chalk, T. B., Foster, G. L., & Gutjahr, M. (2016). Incursions of southern-sourced water into the deep North Atlantic during late Pliocene glacial intensification. Nature Geoscience, 9(5), 375-379. DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2688
Fowell, S. E., Sandford, K., Stewart, J. A., Castillo, K. D., Ries, J. B., & Foster, G. L. (2016). Intrareef variations in Li/Mg and Sr/Ca sea surface temperature proxies in the Caribbean reef-building coral Siderastrea siderea: Intrareef Variations in SST Proxies. Paleoceanography, 31(10), 1315-1329. DOI: 10.1002/palo.v31.10
Lunt, D. J., Farnsworth, A., Loptson, C., Foster, G. L., Markwick, P., O'Brien, C. L., ... Wrobel, N. (2016). Palaeogeographic controls on climate and proxy interpretation. Climate of the Past, 12(5), 1181-1198. DOI: 10.5194/cp-12-1181-2016
Foster, G. L., & Rae, J. W. B. (2016). Reconstructing ocean pH with boron isotopes in foraminifera. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 44(1), 207-237. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-060115-012226
White, L. F., Bailey, I., Foster, G. L., Allen, G., Kelley, S. P., Andrews, J. T., ... Storey, C. D. (2016). Tracking the provenance of Greenland-sourced, Holocene aged, individual sand-sized ice-rafted debris using the Pb-isotope compositions of feldspars and 40Ar/39Ar ages of hornblendes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 433, 192-203. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.10.054
Martinez-Boti, M. A., Foster, G. L., Chalk, T. B., Rohling, E. J., Sexton, P. F., Lunt, D. J., ... Schmidt, D. N. (2015). Addendum: Plio-Pleistocene climate sensitivity evaluated using high-resolution CO2 records. Nature, 526(7573), 458. DOI: 10.1038/nature14954
Edgar, K. M., Anagnostou, E., Pearson, P. N., & Foster, G. L. (2015). Assessing the impact of diagenesis on d11B, d13C, d18O, Sr/Ca and B/Ca values in fossil planktic foraminiferal calcite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 166, 180-209. DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2015.06.018
Stewart, J. A., Gutjahr, M., Pearce, F., Swart, P. K., & Foster, G. L. (2015). Boron during meteoric diagenesis and its potential implications for Marinoan snowball Earth 11B-pH excursions. Geology, 43(7), 627-630. DOI: 10.1130/G36652.1
Martínez-Botí, M. A., Marino, G., Foster, G. L., Ziveri, P., Henehan, M. J., Rae, J. W. B., ... Vance, D. (2015). Boron isotope evidence for oceanic carbon dioxide leakage during the last deglaciation. Nature, 518(7538), 219-222. DOI: 10.1038/nature14155
Inglis, G. N., Farnsworth, A., Lunt, D., Foster, G. L., Hollis, C. J., Pagani, M., ... Pancost, R. D. (2015). Descent toward the Icehouse: Eocene sea surface cooling inferred from GDGT distributions. Paleoceanography, 30(7), 1000-1020. DOI: 10.1002/2014PA002723
Henehan, M. J., Foster, G. L., Rae, J. W. B., Prentice, K. C., Erez, J., Bostock, H. C., ... Wilson, P. A. (2015). Evaluating the utility of B/Ca ratios in planktic foraminifera as a proxy for the carbonate system: A case study of Globigerinoides ruber. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 16(4), 1052-1069. DOI: 10.1002/2014GC005514
Lear, C. H., Coxall, H. K., Foster, G. L., Lunt, D. J., Mawbey, E. M., Rosenthal, Y., ... Wilson, P. A. (2015). Neogene ice volume and ocean temperatures: Insights from infaunal foraminiferal Mg/Ca paleothermometry. Paleoceanography, 30(11), 1437-1454. DOI: 10.1002/2015PA002833
Martínez-Botí, M. A., Foster, G. L., Chalk, T. B., Rohling, E. J., Sexton, P. F., Lunt, D. J., ... Schmidt, D. N. (2015). Plio-Pleistocene climate sensitivity evaluated using high-resolution CO2 records. Nature, 518(7537), 49-54. DOI: 10.1038/nature14145
O'Brien, C. L., Foster, G. L., Rae, J. W. B., & Pancost, R. D. (2015). Reply to 'Pliocene warmth and gradients'. Nature Geoscience, 8, p420. DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2445
Naik, S. S., Divakar Naidu, P., Foster, G. L., & Martínez-Botí, M. A. (2015). Tracing the strength of the southwest monsoon using boron isotopes in the eastern Arabian Sea. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(5), 1450-1458. DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063089
Rohling, E. J., Foster, G. L., Grant, K. M., Marino, G., Roberts, A. P., Tamisiea, M. E., & Williams, F. (2014). Corrigendum: Sea-level and deep-sea-temperature variability over the past 5.3 million years. Nature, 510(7505), p432. DOI: 10.1038/nature13488
Rae, J. W. B., Sarnthein, M., Foster, G. L., Ridgwell, A., Grootes, P. M., & Elliott, T. (2014). Deep water formation in the North Pacific and deglacial CO2 rise. Paleoceanography, 29(6), 645-667. DOI: 10.1002/2013PA002570
Foster, G. L., & Sexton, P. F. (2014). Enhanced carbon dioxide outgassing from the eastern equatorial Atlantic during the last glacial. Geology, 42(11), 1003-1006. DOI: 10.1130/G35806.1
Armstrong Mckay, D. I., Tyrrell, T., Wilson, P. A., & Foster, G. L. (2014). Estimating the impact of the cryptic degassing of Large Igneous Provinces: A mid-Miocene case-study. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 403, 254-262. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.06.040
Aze, T., Pearson, P. N., Dickson, A. J., Badger, M. P. S., Bown, P. R., Pancost, R. D., ... Foster, G. L. (2014). Extreme warming of tropical waters during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Geology, 42(9), 739-742. DOI: 10.1130/G35637.1
O’Brien, C. L., Foster, G. L., Martínez-Botí, M. A., Abell, R., Rae, J. W. B., & Pancost, R. D. (2014). High sea surface temperatures in tropical warm pools during the Pliocene. Nature Geoscience, 7(8), 606-611. DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2194
Greenop, R., Foster, G. L., Wilson, P. A., & Lear, C. H. (2014). Middle Miocene climate instability associated with high-amplitude CO2 variability. Paleoceanography, 29(6), 845-853. DOI: 10.1002/2014PA002653
Lang, D. C., Bailey, I., Wilson, P. A., Foster, G. L., Bolton, C. T., Friedrich, O., & Gutjahr, M. (2014). Response to “Comment on ‘The transition on North America from the warm humid Pliocene to the glaciated Quaternary traced by eolian dust deposition at a benchmark North Atlantic Ocean drill site’, by David Lang et al.”. Quaternary Science Reviews, 103, 179-183. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.08.015
Rohling, E. J., Foster, G. L., Grant, K. M., Marino, G., Roberts, A. P., Tamisiea, M. E., & Williams, F. (2014). Sea-level and deep-sea-temperature variability over the past 5.3 million years. Nature, 508(7497), 477-482. DOI: 10.1038/nature13230
Lang, D. C., Bailey, I., Wilson, P. A., Beer, C. J., Bolton, C. T., Friedrich, O., ... Milton, J. A. (2014). The transition on North America from the warm humid Pliocene to the glaciated Quaternary traced by eolian dust deposition at a benchmark North Atlantic Ocean drill site. Quaternary Science Reviews, 93, 125-141. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.04.005
Rohling, E. J., Haigh, I. D., Foster, G. L., Roberts, A. P., & Grant, K. M. (2013). A geological perspective on potential future sea-level rise. Scientific Reports, 3(3461), 1-7. DOI: 10.1038/srep03461
Bailey, I., Hole, G. M., Foster, G. L., Wilson, P. A., Storey, C. D., Trueman, C. N., & Raymo, M. E. (2013). An alternative suggestion for the Pliocene onset of major northern hemisphere glaciation based on the geochemical provenance of North Atlantic Ocean ice-rafted debris. Quaternary Science Reviews, 75, 181-194. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.004
Henehan, M. J., Rae, J. W. B., Foster, G. L., Erez, J., Prentice, K. C., Kucera, M., ... Elliott, T. (2013). Calibration of the boron isotope proxy in the planktonic foraminifera Globigerinoides ruber for use in palaeo-CO2 reconstruction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 364, 111-122. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.12.029
Badger, M. P. S., Lear, C. H., Pancost, R. D., Foster, G. L., Bailey, T. R., Leng, M. J., & Abels, H. A. (2013). CO2drawdown following the middle Miocene expansion of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Paleoceanography, 28(1), 42-53. DOI: 10.1002/palo.20015
Foster, G. L., Hönisch, B., Paris, G., Dwyer, G. S., Rae, J. W. B., Elliott, T., ... Vengosh, A. (2013). Interlaboratory comparison of boron isotope analyses of boric acid, seawater and marine CaCO3 by MC-ICPMS and NTIMS. Chemical Geology, 358, 1-14. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.08.027
Foster, G. L., & Rohling, E. J. (2013). Relationship between sea level and climate forcing by CO2 on geological timescales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(4), 1209-1214. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1216073110
Gutjahr, M., Vance, D., Hoffmann, D. L., Hillenbrand, C-D., Foster, G. L., Rae, J. W. B., & Kuhn, G. (2013). Structural limitations in deriving accurate U-series ages from calcitic cold-water corals contrast with robust coral radiocarbon and Mg/Ca systematics. Chemical Geology, 355, 69-87. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.07.002
Lunt, D. J., Elderfield, H., Pancost, R., Ridgwell, A., Foster, G. L., Haywood, A., ... Valdes, P. (2013). Warm climates of the past - a lesson for the future? Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 371(2001), 1-12. DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0146
John, E. H., Pearson, P. N., Coxall, H. K., Birch, H., Wade, B. S., & Foster, G. L. (2013). Warm ocean processes and carbon cycling in the Eocene. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 371(2001), 20130099. DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0099
Pälike, H., Lyle, M. W., Nishi, H., Raffi, I., Ridgwell, A., Gamage, K., ... Zeebe, R. E. (2012). A Cenozoic record of the equatorial Pacific carbonate compensation depth. Nature, 488(7413), 609-614. DOI: 10.1038/nature11360
Bailey, I., Foster, G. L., Wilson, P. A., Jovane, L., Storey, C. D., Trueman, C. N., & Becker, J. (2012). Flux and provenance of ice-rafted debris in the earliest Pleistocene sub-polar North Atlantic Ocean comparable to the Last Glacial Maximum. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 341-344, 222-233. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.05.034
Rohling, E. J., Sluijs, A., Dijkstra, H. A., Köhler, P., van de Wal, R. S. W., von der Heydt, A. S., ... Zeebe, R. E. (2012). Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity. Nature, 491(7426), 683-691. DOI: 10.1038/nature11574
Foster, G. L., Lear, C. H., & Rae, J. W. B. (2012). The evolution of pCO2, ice volume and climate during the middle Miocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 341-344, 243-254. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.06.007
Honisch, B., Ridgwell, A., Schmidt, D. N., Thomas, E., Gibbs, S. J., Sluijs, A., ... Williams, B. (2012). The Geological Record of Ocean Acidification. Science, 335(6072), 1058-1063. DOI: 10.1126/science.1208277
Henderson, A. L., Najman, Y., Parrish, R., Mark, D. F., & Foster, G. L. (2011). Constraints to the timing of India–Eurasia collision; a re-evaluation of evidence from the Indus Basin sedimentary rocks of the Indus–Tsangpo Suture Zone, Ladakh, India. Earth-Science Reviews, 106(3-4), 265-292. DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.02.006
Crocket, K. C., Vance, D., Gutjahr, M., Foster, G. L., & Richards, D. A. (2011). Persistent Nordic deep-water overflow to the glacial North Atlantic. Geology, 39(6), 515-518. DOI: 10.1130/G31677.1
Seki, O., Foster, G. L., Schmidt, D. N., Mackensen, A., Kawamura, K., & Pancost, R. D. (2010). Alkenone and boron-based Pliocene pCO2 records. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 292(1-2), 201-211. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.01.037
Yu, J., Foster, G. L., Elderfield, H., Broecker, W. S., & Clark, E. (2010). An evaluation of benthic foraminiferal B/Ca and ?11B for deep ocean carbonate ion and pH reconstructions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 293(1-2), 114-120. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.02.029
Foster, G. L., Pogge von Strandmann, P. A. E., & Rae, J. W. B. (2010). Boron and magnesium isotopic composition of seawater. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 11(8), Q08015. DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003201
Foster, G. L., Lunt, D. J., & Parrish, R. R. (2010). Mountain uplift and the glaciation of North America – a sensitivity study. Climate of the Past, 6(5), 707-717. DOI: 10.5194/cp-6-707-2010
Ni, Y., Foster, G. L., & Elliott, T. (2010). The accuracy of ?11B measurements of foraminifers. Chemical Geology, 274(3-4), 187-195. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.04.008
Pearson, P. N., Foster, G. L., & Wade, B. S. (2009). Atmospheric carbon dioxide through the Eocene–Oligocene climate transition. Nature, 461(7267), 1110-1113. DOI: 10.1038/nature08447
Kemp, A. I. S., Foster, G. L., Scherstén, A., Whitehouse, M. J., Darling, J., & Storey, C. (2009). Concurrent Pb–Hf isotope analysis of zircon by laser ablation multi-collector ICP-MS, with implications for the crustal evolution of Greenland and the Himalayas. Chemical Geology, 261(3-4), 244-260. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.06.019
Aggarwal, J., Böhm, F., Foster, G., Halas, S., Hönisch, B., Jiang, S-Y., ... Zuleger, E. (2009). How well do non-traditional stable isotope results compare between different laboratories: results from the interlaboratory comparison of boron isotope measurements. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 24(6), 825-831. DOI: 10.1039/b815240c
Kasemann, S. A., Schmidt, D. N., Bijma, J., & Foster, G. L. (2009). In situ boron isotope analysis in marine carbonates and its application for foraminifera and palaeo-pH. Chemical Geology, 260(1-2), 138-147. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.12.015
Lunt, D. J., Haywood, A. M., Foster, G. L., & Stone, E. J. (2009). The Arctic cryosphere in the Mid-Pliocene and the future. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 367(1886), 49-67. DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0218
Vance, D., Teagle, D. A. H., & Foster, G. L. (2009). Variable Quaternary chemical weathering fluxes and imbalances in marine geochemical budgets. Nature, 458(7237), 493-496. DOI: 10.1038/nature07828
Lunt, D. J., Foster, G. L., Haywood, A. M., & Stone, E. J. (2008). Late Pliocene Greenland glaciation controlled by a decline in atmospheric CO2 levels. Nature, 454(7208), 1102-1105. DOI: 10.1038/nature07223
Foster, G. L. (2008). Seawater pH, pCO2 and [CO2?3] variations in the Caribbean Sea over the last 130 kyr: A boron isotope and B/Ca study of planktic foraminifera. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 271(1-4), 254-266. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.04.015
Ni, Y., Foster, G. L., Bailey, T., Elliott, T., Schmidt, D. N., Pearson, P., ... Coath, C. (2007). A core top assessment of proxies for the ocean carbonate system in surface-dwelling foraminifers. Paleoceanography, 22(3), PA3212. DOI: 10.1029/2006PA001337
Foster, G. L., & Carter, A. (2007). Insights into the patterns and locations of erosion in the Himalaya — A combined fission-track and in situ Sm–Nd isotopic study of detrital apatite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 257(3-4), 407-418. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.02.044
Kemp, A. I. S., Hawkesworth, C. J., Foster, G. L., Paterson, B. A., Woodhead, J. D., Hergt, J. M., ... Whitehouse, M. J. (2007). Magmatic and Crustal Differentiation History of Granitic Rocks from Hf-O Isotopes in Zircon. Science, 315(5814), 980-983. DOI: 10.1126/Science.1136154
Foster, G. L., Vance, D., & Prytulak, J. (2007). No change in the neodymium isotope composition of deep water exported from the North Atlantic on glacial-interglacial time scales. Geology, 35(1), 37-40. DOI: 10.1130/G23204A.1
Foster, G. L., Ni, Y., Haley, B., & Elliott, T. (2006). Accurate and precise isotopic measurement of sub-nanogram sized samples of foraminiferal hosted boron by total evaporation NTIMS. Chemical Geology, 230(1-2), 161-174. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2005.12.006
Kemp, A. I. S., Hawkesworth, C. J., Paterson, B. A., Foster, G. L., Kinny, P. D., Whitehouse, M. J., & Maas, R. (2006). Exploring the plutonic-volcanic link: a zircon U-Pb, Lu-Hf and O isotope study of paired volcanic and granitic units from southeastern Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 97(4), 337-355.
Foster, G. L., & Vance, D. (2006). In situ Nd isotopic analysis of geological materials by laser ablation MC-ICP-MS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 21(3), 288-296. DOI: 10.1039/b513945g
Foster, G. L., & Vance, D. (2006). Negligible glacial–interglacial variation in continental chemical weathering rates. Nature, 444(7121), 918-921. DOI: 10.1038/nature05365
Garzanti, E., Vezzoli, G., Andò, S., France-Lanord, C., Singh, S. K., & Foster, G. (2004). Sand petrology and focused erosion in collision orogens: the Brahmaputra case. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 220(1-2), 157-174. DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(04)00035-4
Foster, G., Parrish, R. R., Horstwood, M. S. A., Chenery, S., Pyle, J., & Gibson, H. D. (2004). The generation of prograde P–T–t points and paths; a textural, compositional, and chronological study of metamorphic monazite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 228(1-2), 125-142. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.09.024
Smith, S. R., Foster, G. L., Romer, R. L., Tindle, A. G., Kelley, S. P., Noble, S. R., ... Breaks, F. W. (2004). U-Pb columbite-tantalite chronology of rare-element pegmatites using TIMS and Laser Ablation-Multi Collector-ICP-MS. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 147(5), 549-564. DOI: 10.1007/s00410-003-0538-y
Horstwood, M. S. A., Foster, G. L., Parrish, R. R., Noble, S. R., & Nowell, G. M. (2003). Common-Pb corrected in situ U-Pb accessory mineral geochronology by LA-MC-ICP-MS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 18(8), 837-846. DOI: 10.1039/b304365g
Argles, T., Foster, G., Whittington, A., Harris, N., & George, M. (2003). Isotope studies reveal a complete Himalayan section in the Nanga Parbat syntaxis. Geology, 31(12), 1109-1112. DOI: 10.1130/G19937.1
Foster, G., Gibson, H. D., Parrish, R., Horstwood, M., Fraser, J., & Tindle, A. (2002). Textural, chemical and isotopic insights into the nature and behaviour of metamorphic monazite. Chemical Geology, 191(1-3), 183-207. DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(02)00156-0
Foster, G., Vance, D., Argles, T., & Harris, N. (2002). The Tertiary collision-related thermal history of the NW Himalaya. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 20(9), 827-843. DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1314.2002.00410.x
Foster, G., Kinny, P., Vance, D., Prince, C., & Harris, N. (2000). The significance of monazite U–Th–Pb age data in metamorphic assemblages; a combined study of monazite and garnet chronometry. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 181(3), 327-340. DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00212-0
Whittington, A., Foster, G., Harris, N., Vance, D., & Ayres, M. (1999). Lithostratigraphic correlations in the western Himalaya — An isotopic approach. Geology, 27(7), 585-588. DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0585:LCITWH>2.3.CO;2
Argles, T. W., Prince, C. I., Foster, G. L., & Vance, D. (1999). New garnets for old? Cautionary tales from young mountain belts. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 172(3-4), 301-309. DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00209-5

Book Chapters

Allen, R., Carter, A., Najman, Y., Bandopadhyay, P. C., Chapman, H. J., Bickle, M. J., ... Gerring, C. (2008). New constraints on the sedimentation and uplift history of the Andaman-Nicobar accretionary prism, South Andaman Island. In Special Paper 436: Formation and Applications of the Sedimentary Record in Arc Collision Zones (pp. 223-256). (Geological Society of America Special Paper; Vol. 436). Geological Society of America. DOI: 10.1130/2008.2436(11)
Foster, G. L., & Parrish, R. R. (2003). Metamorphic monazite and the generation of P-T-t paths. In D. Vance, W. Muller, & I. M. Villa (Eds.), Geochronology: Linking the Isotopic Record with Petrology and Textures (pp. 25-47). (Geological Society Special Publication; No. 220). London, GB: Geological Society of London.
Whittington, A., Harris, N. B. W., Ayres, M. W., & Foster, G. (2000). Tracing the origins of the western Himalaya: an isotopic comparison of the Nanga Parbat massif and Zanskar Himalaya. In M. A. Khan, P. J. Treloar, M. P. Searle, & M. Q. Jan (Eds.), Tectonics of the Nanga Parbat Syntaxis and the Western Himalaya (pp. 201-218). (Geological Society Special Publication; Vol. 170). London, GB: Geological Society of London. DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.11

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