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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

A new boron isotope-pH calibration for Orbulina universa, with implications for understanding and accounting for ‘vital effects'
Michael J. Henehan,
Gavin L. Foster,
Helen C. Bostock,
Rosanna Greenop,
Brittney J. Marshall,
& Paul A. Wilson
, 2016 , Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 454 , 282--292
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.09.024
Type: article
Assessing the impact of diagenesis on d11B, d13C, d18O, Sr/Ca and B/Ca values in fossil planktic foraminiferal calcite
Kirsty M. Edgar,
Eleni Anagnostou,
Paul N. Pearson,
& Gavin L. Foster
, 2015 , Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta , 166 , 180--209
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2015.06.018
Type: article
Descent toward the Icehouse: Eocene sea surface cooling inferred from GDGT distributions
Gordon N. Inglis,
Alexander Farnsworth,
Daniel Lunt,
Gavin L. Foster,
Christopher J. Hollis,
Mark Pagani,
Phillip E. Jardine,
Paul N. Pearson,
Paul Markwick,
Amanda M. J. Galsworthy,
Lauren Raynham,
Kyle. W. R. Taylor,
& Richard D. Pancost
, 2015 , Paleoceanography , 30 (7) , 1000--1020
DOI: 10.1002/2014PA002723
Type: article
A geological perspective on potential future sea-level rise
Eelco J. Rohling,
Ivan D. Haigh,
Gavin L. Foster,
Andrew P. Roberts,
& Katharine M. Grant
, 2013 , Scientific Reports , 3 (3461) , 1--7
DOI: 10.1038/srep03461
Type: article
Relationship between sea level and climate forcing by CO2 on geological timescales
G.L. Foster,
& E.J. Rohling
, 2013 , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 110 (4) , 1209--1214
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1216073110
Type: article