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  • 2018 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

David B. Rowley is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research covers a range of subfields including Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, Oceanography, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics such as:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis

Recent publications by David B. Rowley span from 2020 to 2024 and include the following papers:

  • Reconsidering the uplift history and peneplanation of the northern Lhasa terrane, Tibet (2020), published in American Journal of Science
  • Earth's Isostatic and Dynamic Topography-A Critical Perspective (2022), published in Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Kinematics of the East Pacific Rise Retrodicted From Pacific and Farallon/Nazca Subduction-Related Torques: Support for Significant Deep Mantle Buoyancy Controlling EPR Spreading (2022), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • On the relationship between the uppermost mantle (≤220 km) seismic velocity, crustal thickness, and topography in Tibet (2024), published in Geology

The scientist has also contributed to interdisciplinary work on urban ecosystems, as seen in the paper "Urban Rivers Corridors in the Don Catchment, UK: From Ignored, Ignoble and Industrial to Green, Seen and Celebrated" (2021), published in Sustainability.

Frequent coauthors in David B. Rowley's research include:

  • A. M. Forte
  • Nicolas Dauphas
  • Andy W. Heard
  • Eric Siciliano Rêgo
  • Olivier Rouxel

The scholar's work has appeared across several publication venues, notably:

  • American Journal of Science
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Geology
  • Sustainability

In 2018, David B. Rowley was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), marking their standing within the geosciences community.

Best Publications

  • Age of initiation of collision between India and Asia: A review of stratigraphic data

    David B. Rowley

  • Palaeo-altimetry of the late Eocene to Miocene Lunpola basin, central Tibet

    David B. Rowley;Brian S. Currie

  • Ages of ultrahigh pressure metamorphism and protolith orthogneisses from the eastern Dabie Shan: U/Pb zircon geochronology

    D.B. Rowley;F. Xue;R.D. Tucker;Z.X. Peng

  • Sr isotope evolution of seawater: the role of tectonics

    Frank M. Richter;David B. Rowley;Donald J. DePaolo

  • A plate-kinematic framework for models of Caribbean evolution

    James L Pindell;S.C Cande;Walter C Pitman;David B Rowley

  • A new approach to stable isotope-based paleoaltimetry: implications for paleoaltimetry and paleohypsometry of the High Himalaya since the Late Miocene

    David B Rowley;Raymond T Pierrehumbert;Brian S Currie

  • Age of Initiation of the India‐Asia Collision in the East‐Central Himalaya

    Bin Zhu;William S. F. Kidd;David B. Rowley;Brian S. Currie

  • Stable Isotope-Based Paleoaltimetry

    David B. Rowley;Carmala N. Garzione

  • Dynamic topography and long-term sea-level variations: There is no such thing as a stable continental platform

    Robert Moucha;Alessandro M. Forte;Jerry X. Mitrovica;David B. Rowley

  • Exhumation of the Dabie Shan ultra-high-pressure rocks and accumulation of the Songpan-Ganzi flysch sequence, central China

    Shangyou Nie;An Yin;David B. Rowley;Yugan Jin

  • Permian Phytogeographic Patterns and Climate Data/Model Comparisons

    P. McAllister Rees;Alfred M. Ziegler;Mark T. Gibbs;John E. Kutzbach

  • Tracing the tropics across land and sea: Permian to present

    Alfred Ziegler;Gidon Eshel;P. McALLISTER Rees;Thomas Rothfus

  • Rate of plate creation and destruction: 180 Ma to present

    David B. Rowley

  • Paleoaltimetry of the Tibetan Plateau from D/H ratios of lipid biomarkers

    Pratigya J. Polissar;Katherine H. Freeman;David B. Rowley;Francesca A. McInerney

  • Middle Miocene paleoaltimetry of southern Tibet: Implications for the role of mantle thickening and delamination in the Himalayan orogen

    Brian S. Currie;David B. Rowley;Neil J. Tabor

  • Plate-kinematic reconstructions of the North Atlantic and Arctic: Late Jurassic to Present

    David B Rowley;Ann L Lottes

  • The PRISM4 (mid-Piacenzian) paleoenvironmental reconstruction

    Harry J. Dowsett;Aisling M. Dolan;David Rowley;Robert Moucha

  • Carboniferous paleogeographic, phytogeographic, and paleoclimatic reconstructions

    David B. Rowley;Anne Raymond;Judith Totman Parrish;Ann L. Lottes

  • Minimum Age of Initiation of Collision Between India and Asia North of Everest Based on the Subsidence History of the Zhepure Mountain Section

    David B. Rowley

  • Joint seismic-geodynamic-mineral physical modelling of African geodynamics: A reconciliation of deep-mantle convection with surface geophysical constraints

    Alessandro M. Forte;Sandrine Quéré;Robert Moucha;Nathan A. Simmons

  • The Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP) Phase 2: scientific objectives and experimental design

    Alan M. Haywood;Harry J. Dowsett;Aisling M. Dolan;David Rowley

  • U‐Pb Zircon Ages of Granitoid Rocks in the North Dabie Complex, Eastern Dabie Shan, China

    Feng Xue;David B. Rowley;Robert D. Tucker;Zhan X. Peng

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessandro M. Forte
Alessandro M. Forte University of Florida
Brian S. Currie
Brian S. Currie Miami University
Stephen P. Grand
Stephen P. Grand The University of Texas at Austin
Jerry X. Mitrovica
Jerry X. Mitrovica Harvard University
Ulrich Salzmann
Ulrich Salzmann Northumbria University
Alan M. Haywood
Alan M. Haywood University of Leeds
Harry J. Dowsett
Harry J. Dowsett United States Geological Survey
Aisling M. Dolan
Aisling M. Dolan University of Leeds
Maureen E. Raymo
Maureen E. Raymo Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Dork Sahagian
Dork Sahagian Lehigh University

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