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David A. Foster is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable concentration in Geophysics. Additional subfields of study include Paleontology, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their work covers a broad range of topics, emphasizing geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, as well as geochemistry and geologic mapping. Studies in evolution and paleontology, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and tectonic studies in Latin America, and paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils also form significant areas of their research portfolio.

Foster has contributed to multiple publications across various venues. Frequent publication outlets include Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Gondwana Research, Geological Society of America Bulletin, International Journal of Earth Sciences, and the Journal of South American Earth Sciences.

The following is a selection of recent papers authored or co-authored by Foster:

  • Late Neogene evolution of the Peruvian margin and its ecosystems: a synthesis from the Sacaco record (2021), International Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Episodic intra-continental reactivation during collapse of a collisional orogen: The Damara Belt, Namibia (2022), Gondwana Research
  • Caribbean-South America interactions since the Late Cretaceous: Insights from zircon U-Pb and Lu-Hf isotopic data in sedimentary sequences of the northwestern Andes (2023), Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • Miocene vanishing of the Central American Seaway between the Panamá Arc and the South American Plate (2024), Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Metamorphic response within different subduction-obduction settings preserved on the NE Arabian margin (2020), Gondwana Research

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Ángel A. Barbosa-Espitia, George D. Kamenov, Diana Ochoa, Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi, and Paul A. Mueller.

Best Publications

  • Tectonic history of the Altyn Tagh fault system in northern Tibet inferred from Cenozoic sedimentation

    A. Yin;P.E. Rumelhart;R. Butler;E. Cowgill

  • Exhumation, crustal deformation, and thermal structure of the Nepal Himalaya derived from the inversion of thermochronological and thermobarometric data and modeling of the topography

    Frederic Herman;Frederic Herman;Peter Copeland;Jean Philippe Avouac;Laurent Bollinger

  • Differential exhumation in response to episodic thrusting along the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

    Dennis Arne;Brenton Worley;Christopher Wilson;She Fa Chen

  • A Damara orogen perspective on the assembly of southwestern Gondwana

    David R Gray;David Foster;J.G. Meert;B D Goscombe

  • Evolution and Structure of the Lachlan Fold Belt (Orogen) of Eastern Australia

    David A. Foster;David R. Gray

  • Tectonic evolution of the Lachlan Orogen, southeast Australia: Historical review, data synthesis and modern perspectives

    D. R. Gray;D. A. Foster

  • Proterozoic evolution of the western margin of the Wyoming craton: implications for the tectonic and magmatic evolution of the northern Rocky Mountains

    David A. Foster;Paul A. Mueller;David W. Mogk;Joseph L. Wooden

  • Refrigeration of the western Cordilleran lithosphere during Laramide shallow-angle subduction

    Trevor A. Dumitru;Phillip B. Gans;David A. Foster;Elizabeth L. Miller

  • Shaping the Australian crust over the last 300 million years: Insights from fission track thermotectonic imaging and denudation studies of key terranes

    B. P. Kohn;A. J. W. Gleadow;R. W. Brown;K. Gallagher

  • Relationships between crustal partial melting, plutonism, orogeny, and exhumation: Idaho–Bitterroot batholith

    David A Foster;Carl Schafer;C.Mark Fanning;Donald W Hyndman

  • Thermochronologic constraints on the tectonic evolution of active metamorphic core complexes, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea

    Suzanne L. Baldwin;Gordon S. Lister;E. June Hill;David A. Foster

  • Chronology of deformation within the turbidite‐dominated, Lachlan orogen: Implications for the tectonic evolution of eastern Australia and Gondwana

    David A. Foster;David R. Gray;Martin Bucher

  • Origin of the white shark Carcharodon (Lamniformes: Lamnidae) based on recalibration of the Upper Neogene Pisco Formation of Peru

    Dana J. Ehret;Bruce J. Macfadden;Douglas S. Jones;Thomas J. Devries

  • Structural and thermal constraints on the initiation angle of detachment faulting in the southern Basin and Range: The Chemehuevi Mountains case study

    Barbara E. John;David A. Foster

  • Quantifying tectonic exhumation in an extensional orogen with thermochronology: examples from the southern Basin and Range Province

    David A. Foster;Barbara E. John

  • Geochronology of the northern Idaho batholith and the Bitterroot metamorphic core complex: Magmatism preceding and contemporaneous with extension

    David A. Foster;C. Mark Fanning

  • Chronology and tectonic framework of turbidite-hosted gold deposits in the Western Lachlan Fold Belt, Victoria: – results

    David A Foster;David R Gray;Teunis A.P Kwak;Martin Bucher

  • 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of the Pan-African Damara Orogen, Namibia, with implications for tectonothermal and geodynamic evolution

    David R. Gray;David A. Foster;Ben Goscombe;Cees W. Passchier

  • Event geochronology of the Pan-African Kaoko Belt, Namibia

    Ben Goscombe;David Gray;Richard Armstrong;David A. Foster

  • Divergent double subduction: Tectonic and petrologic consequences

    Alvar Soesoo;Paul D. Bons;David R. Gray;David A. Foster

Frequent Co-Authors

David R Gray
David R Gray University of Tasmania
George D. Kamenov
George D. Kamenov University of Florida
Paul A. Mueller
Paul A. Mueller University of Florida
Andrew J.W. Gleadow
Andrew J.W. Gleadow University of Melbourne
Barry P. Kohn
Barry P. Kohn University of Melbourne
Joseph L. Wooden
Joseph L. Wooden Stanford University
Frank P. Bierlein
Frank P. Bierlein ANS Exploration Corp.
Paul A. S. Breslin
Paul A. S. Breslin Monell Chemical Senses Center
Calvin F. Miller
Calvin F. Miller Vanderbilt University
T. Mark Harrison
T. Mark Harrison University of California, Los Angeles

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