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Donald W. Davis

Donald W. Davis

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Earth Science

D-Index
65
Citations
19089
World Ranking
1376
National Ranking
63

Overview

Donald W. Davis is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on geology-related studies. Their research spans a variety of topics within this domain and includes work on geophysical, geochemical, and tectonic phenomena.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Their subfields of study further refine their focus and include:

  • Geophysics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Paleontology
  • Geochemistry and Petrology

Core research topics addressed by Davis comprise:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis

Davis has published multiple papers in notable scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Precambrian Research
  • Chemical Geology
  • Geology
  • Journal of the Geological Society
  • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Davis highlight a range of geological topics. These include:

  • "Geodynamic significance of Neoarchean metasedimentary belts in the Superior Province: Detrital zircon U-Pb LA-ICP-MS geochronology of the Opinaca and La Grande subprovinces" (2020, Precambrian Research)
  • "Contrasting P-T-t paths reveal a metamorphic discontinuity in the New Quebec Orogen: Insights into Paleoproterozoic orogenic processes" (2020, Precambrian Research)
  • "Constraints on the tectonic evolution of the southern central Asian orogenic belt from early Permian-middle Triassic granitoids from the central Dunhuang orogenic belt, NW China" (2020, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences)
  • "A new Bayesian approach toward improved regression of low-count U Pb geochronology data generated by LA-ICPMS" (2021, Chemical Geology)
  • "Paleozoic sedimentation and Caledonian terrane architecture in NW Svalbard: indications from U-Pb geochronology and structural analysis" (2022, Journal of the Geological Society)

Davis frequently collaborates with a network of scientists. Key co-authors include:

  • Heriberto Rochín-Bañaga
  • Carl Guilmette
  • Antoine Godet
  • Chris Yakymchuk
  • Loïc Labrousse

Best Publications

  • TEMORA 1: a new zircon standard for Phanerozoic U–Pb geochronology

    Lance P Black;Sandra L Kamo;Charlotte M Allen;John N Aleinikoff

  • Improved 206Pb/238U microprobe geochronology by the monitoring of a trace-element-related matrix effect; SHRIMP, ID-TIMS, ELA-ICP-MS and oxygen isotope documentation for a series of zircon standards

    Lance P. Black;Lance P. Black;Sandra L. Kamo;Charlotte M. Allen;Donald W. Davis

  • The application of SHRIMP to Phanerozoic geochronology; a critical appraisal of four zircon standards

    Lance P Black;Sandra L Kamo;Ian S Williams;Roland Mundil

  • Rapid eruption of Siberian flood-volcanic rocks and evidence for coincidence with the Permian–Triassic boundary and mass extinction at 251 Ma

    Sandra L Kamo;Gerald K Czamanske;Yuri Amelin;Valeri A Fedorenko

  • Optimum linear regression and error estimation applied to U–Pb data

    Donald W. Davis

  • Reassessment of Archean crustal development in the Barberton Mountain Land, South Africa, based on U‐Pb dating

    S. L. Kamo;D. W. Davis

  • Reassessment of Proterozoic granitoid ages in Ghana on the basis of U/Pb zircon and monazite dating

    W. Hirdes;D.W. Davis;B.N. Eisenlohr

  • UPb age constraints on deposition and provenance of Birimian and gold-bearing Tarkwaian sediments in Ghana, West Africa

    D.W. Davis;W. Hirdes;U. Schaltegger;E.A. Nunoo

  • Two generations of Birimian (Paleoproterozoic) volcanic belts in northeastern Côte d'Ivoire (West Africa): consequences for the ‘Birimian controversy’

    W. Hirdes;D.W. Davis;G. Lüdtke;G. Konan

  • 2.1–1.85 Ga tectonic events in the Yangtze Block, South China: Petrological and geochronological evidence from the Kongling Complex and implications for the reconstruction of supercontinent Columbia

    Changqing Yin;Changqing Yin;Shoufa Lin;Shoufa Lin;Donald W. Davis;Guochun Zhao

  • UPb zircon geochronology of Archaean felsic units in the Marble Bar region, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

    R.I. Thorpe;A.H. Hickman;D.W. Davis;J.K. Mortensen

  • Time resolution of geologic events on the Keweenaw Peninsula and implications for development of the Midcontinent Rift system

    D.W. Davis;J.B. Paces

  • U-Pb ages from the Nipigon plate and northern Lake Superior

    D. W. Davis;R. H. Sutcliffe

  • Historical Development of Zircon Geochronology

    Donald W. Davis;Ian S. Williams;Thomas E. Krogh

  • U-Pb Geochronology of Paleoproterozoic Rocks in the Southern Part of the Kedougou-Kéniéba Inlier, Senegal, West Africa: Evidence for Diachronous Accretionary Development of the Eburnean Province

    W Hirdes;D.W Davis

  • A precisely dated Proterozoic palaeomagnetic pole from the North China craton, and its relevance to palaeocontinental reconstruction

    Henry C. Halls;Jianghai Li;Don Davis;Guiting Hou

  • Oxygen isotope ratios of Archean plutonic zircons from granite–greenstone belts of the Superior Province: indicator of magmatic source

    Elizabeth M King;John W Valley;Don W Davis;Garth R Edwards

  • U-Pb geochronology of the Moyie sills, Purcell Supergroup, southeastern British Columbia: implications for the Mesoproterozoic geological history of the Purcell (Belt) basin

    H. Elizabeth Anderson;Donald W. Davis

  • U-Pb geochronology of Archean metasedimentary rocks in the Pontiac and Abitibi subprovinces, Quebec, constraints on timing, provenance and regional tectonics

    Donald W. Davis

  • The age of the Gunflint Formation, Ontario, Canada: single zircon U-Pb age determinations from reworked volcanic ash

    Philip Fralick;Don W. Davis;Stephen A. Kissin

Frequent Co-Authors

Shoufa Lin
Shoufa Lin University of Waterloo
Changqing Yin
Changqing Yin Sun Yat-sen University
Sandra L. Kamo
Sandra L. Kamo University of Toronto
William J. Davis
William J. Davis Geological Survey of Canada
Wenjiao Xiao
Wenjiao Xiao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Loïc Labrousse
Loïc Labrousse Sorbonne University
Cees R. van Staal
Cees R. van Staal Geological Survey of Canada
John W. Valley
John W. Valley University of Wisconsin–Madison
L. P. Black
L. P. Black Australian National University
Edward R. Sobel
Edward R. Sobel University of Potsdam

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