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David R Gray is affiliated with the University of Tasmania in Australia and has contributed to various research areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work encompasses a wide array of subfields including Geophysics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Aerospace Engineering, Geology, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The main research topics covered by David R Gray include Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geological and Geophysical Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Forest Management and Policy, Forest ecology and management, and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with David R Gray are:

  • Ben Goscombe
  • David A. Foster
  • Ben Wade
  • Dave Kelsey
  • Laura Mulrooney

David R Gray has published in several venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Gondwana Research
  • Annals of Forest Science
  • Biological Invasions
  • Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
  • International Maritime Boundaries

Selected recent papers by David R Gray include:

  • The Tasmanian Tyennan Domain - a structural synthesis and review with tectonic and dynamic implications for continental margin subduction and exhumation, 2023, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Episodic intra-continental reactivation during collapse of a collisional orogen: The Damara Belt, Namibia, 2022, Gondwana Research
  • Metamorphic response within different subduction-obduction settings preserved on the NE Arabian margin, 2020, Gondwana Research
  • Socio-environmental drivers of establishment of Lymantria dispar, a nonnative forest pest, in the United States, 2021, Biological Invasions
  • Managing forest risks in uncertain times of climate change, 2022, Annals of Forest Science

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Crustal architecture of the Himalayan metamorphic front in eastern Nepal

    Ben Goscombe;David Gray;Martin Hand

  • 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

  • Rock‐buffered fluid‐rock interaction in deformed quartz‐rich turbidite sequences, eastern Australia

    David R. Gray;Robert T. Gregory;David W. Durney

  • 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

  • Structure of the Kaoko Belt, Namibia: progressive evolution of a classic transpressional orogen

    Ben Goscombe;Martin Hand;David Gray

  • 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

  • Structure and strain variation at mid-crustal levels in a transpressional orogen: A review of Kaoko Belt structure and the character of West Gondwana amalgamation and dispersal

    Ben D. Goscombe;David R. Gray

  • Tectonics of the southeastern Australian Lachlan Fold Belt: structural and thermal aspects

    David R. Gray

  • Divergent double subduction: Tectonic and petrologic consequences

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

  • Metamorphic response to collision in the Central Himalayan Orogen

    Ben Goscombe;David Gray;David A. Foster

  • Deformation in the Ballarat Slate Belt, central Victoria, and implications for the crustal structure across southeast Australia

    D. R. Gray;C. E. Willman

  • Recognition and definition of orogenic events in the Lachlan Fold Belt

    David R Gray;David A Foster;M Bucher

  • Thrust-related strain gradients and thrusting mechanisms in a chevron-folded sequence, southeastern Australia

    David R Gray;Clive E Willman

  • Character and kinematics of faults within the turbidite-dominated Lachlan Orogen: implications for tectonic evolution of eastern Australia: Reply

    David R Gray;David A Foster

  • Orogenic concepts; application and definition; Lachlan fold belt, eastern Australia

    David R. Gray;David A. Foster

  • The Metamorphic Architecture of a Transpressional Orogen: the Kaoko Belt, Namibia

    Ben Goscombe;Martin Hand;David Gray;Jo Mawby

  • Overthrust terranes in the Lachlan fold belt, southeastern Australia

    Christopher L. Fergusson;David R. Gray;Ray A.F. Cas

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Foster
David A. Foster University of Florida
Martin Hand
Martin Hand University of Adelaide
Frank P. Bierlein
Frank P. Bierlein ANS Exploration Corp.
Richard Armstrong
Richard Armstrong Australian National University
Paul D. Bons
Paul D. Bons University of Tübingen
Cees W. Passchier
Cees W. Passchier Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Roland Maas
Roland Maas University of Melbourne
R. J. Korsch
R. J. Korsch Geoscience Australia
George D. Kamenov
George D. Kamenov University of Florida
Paul A. Mueller
Paul A. Mueller University of Florida

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