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Descent into the Icehouse

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Gavin Foster

Professor of Isotope Geochemistry
Other researchers

Professor Toby Tyrrell

Professor of Earth System Science

Professor J. Andy Milton

Prof Fellow in Analytical Geochemistry

Professor Robert Marsh

Professor of Oceanography and Climate

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Geochemistry

We use advanced facilities to perform the precise and accurate analysis of the chemical and isotopic composition of Earth materials.

Research outputs

Future climate forcing potentially without precedent in the last 420 million years
Gavin L. Foster,
Dana L. Royer,
& Daniel J. Lunt
, 2017 , Nature Communications , 8
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14845
Type: article
A record of Neogene seawater δ11B reconstructed from paired δ11B analyses on benthic and planktic foraminifera
Rosanna Greenop,
Mathis Hain,
Sindia M. Sosdian,
Kevin Oliver,
Philip Goodwin,
Thomas Chalk,
Caroline H. Lear,
Paul A. Wilson,
& Gavin Foster
, 2017 , Climate of the Past , 13 (2) , 149--170
DOI: 10.5194/cp-13-149-2017
Type: article
Very large release of mostly volcanic carbon during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
Marcus Gutjahr,
Andy Ridgwell,
Philip F. Sexton,
Eleni Anagnostou,
Paul N. Pearson,
Heiko Pälike,
Richard D. Norris,
Ellen Thomas,
& Gavin L. Foster
, 2017 , Nature , 548 , 573--577
DOI: 10.1038/nature23646
Type: article
Palaeogeographic controls on climate and proxy interpretation
Daniel J. Lunt,
Alex Farnsworth,
Claire Loptson,
Gavin L. Foster,
Paul Markwick,
Charlotte L. O'Brien,
Richard D. Pancost,
Stuart A. Robinson,
& Neil Wrobel
, 2016 , Climate of the Past , 12 (5) , 1181--1198
DOI: 10.5194/cp-12-1181-2016
Type: article
Changing atmospheric CO2 concentration was the primary driver of early Cenozoic climate
Eleni Anagnostou,
Eleanor H. John,
Kirsty M. Edgar,
Gavin L. Foster,
Andy Ridgwell,
Gordon N. Inglis,
Richard D. Pancost,
Daniel J. Lunt,
& Paul N. Pearson
, 2016 , Nature , 533 (7603) , 380--384
DOI: 10.1038/nature17423
Type: article
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