List of works - Gavin Foster

A Cenozoic record of the equatorial Pacific carbonate compensation depth

scientific article published on August 2012

A Pb isotope tracer of ocean-ice sheet interaction: the record from the NE Atlantic during the Last Glacial/Interglacial cycle

scholarly article

A core top assessment of proxies for the ocean carbonate system in surface-dwelling foraminifers

scientific article published on 18 August 2007

A geological perspective on potential future sea-level rise

scientific article published on 12 December 2013

A new boron isotope-pH calibration for Orbulina universa , with implications for understanding and accounting for ‘vital effects’

scholarly article

A record of Neogene seawater δ11B reconstructed from paired δ11B analyses on benthic and planktic foraminifera

scholarly article

Accurate and precise isotopic measurement of sub-nanogram sized samples of foraminiferal hosted boron by total evaporation NTIMS

scholarly article

Alkenone and boron-based Pliocene pCO2 records

scientific article published on 15 March 2010

An alternative suggestion for the Pliocene onset of major northern hemisphere glaciation based on the geochemical provenance of North Atlantic Ocean ice-rafted debris

article

An assessment of Earth's climate sensitivity using multiple lines of evidence

scientific article published on 22 July 2020

An evaluation of benthic foraminiferal B/Ca and δ11B for deep ocean carbonate ion and pH reconstructions

scholarly article

An improved boron isotope pH proxy calibration for the deep-sea coral Desmophyllum dianthus through sub-sampling of fibrous aragonite

scholarly article

Assessing the impact of diagenesis on δ11B, δ13C, δ18O, Sr/Ca and B/Ca values in fossil planktic foraminiferal calcite

scholarly article

Atmospheric CO2 during the Mid-Piacenzian Warm Period and the M2 glaciation

scientific article published on 09 July 2020

Atmospheric carbon dioxide through the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition

scientific article

Automation of boron chromatographic purification for δ11 B analysis of coral aragonite

scientific article published on 18 February 2020

Boron Isotope Analysis of Geological Materials

scientific article published on 18 November 2017

Boron and magnesium isotopic composition of seawater

article

Boron during meteoric diagenesis and its potential implications for Marinoan snowball Earth δ11B-pH excursions

scholarly article

Boron isotope evidence for oceanic carbon dioxide leakage during the last deglaciation.

scientific article

Boron isotope sensitivity to seawater pH change in a species of Neogoniolithon coralline red alga

scholarly article

Boron isotopes and B/Ca in benthic foraminifera: Proxies for the deep ocean carbonate system

scientific article published in February 2011

CO2drawdown following the middle Miocene expansion of the Antarctic Ice Sheet

Calibration of the boron isotope proxy in the planktonic foraminifera Globigerinoides ruber for use in palaeo-CO2 reconstruction

scholarly article by Michael Henehan et al published February 2013 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Causes of ice age intensification across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition.

scientific article

Changing atmospheric CO2 concentration was the primary driver of early Cenozoic climate

scientific article published on 25 April 2016

Climate Sensitivity on Geological Timescales Controlled by Nonlinear Feedbacks and Ocean Circulation

scientific article

Cold-Water Corals in an Era of Rapid Global Change: Are These the Deep Ocean’s Most Vulnerable Ecosystems?

Common-Pb corrected in situ U–Pb accessory mineral geochronology by LA-MC-ICP-MS

scholarly article by Matthew S. A. Horstwood et al published 2003 in Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry

Comparing Climate Sensitivity, Past and Present

scientific article published on 22 September 2017

Concurrent Pb–Hf isotope analysis of zircon by laser ablation multi-collector ICP-MS, with implications for the crustal evolution of Greenland and the Himalayas

scholarly article

Constraining the evolution of Neogene ocean carbonate chemistry using the boron isotope pH proxy

scholarly article

Constraints to the timing of India–Eurasia collision; a re-evaluation of evidence from the Indus Basin sedimentary rocks of the Indus–Tsangpo Suture Zone, Ladakh, India

article by Alexandra L. Henderson et al published June 2011 in Earth-Science Reviews

Continental weathering fluxes during the last glacial/interglacial cycle: insights from the marine sedimentary Pb isotope record at Orphan Knoll, NW Atlantic

scientific article

Coral Sr‐U thermometry

Deep water formation in the North Pacific and deglacial CO2 rise

scientific article

Deep-sea coral δ13C: A tool to reconstruct the difference between seawater pH and δ11B-derived calcifying fluid pH

scholarly article by Patrick Martin et al published 11 January 2016 in Geophysical Research Letters

DeepMIP: model intercomparison of early Eocene climatic optimum (EECO) large-scale climate features and comparison with proxy data

Deglacial upwelling, productivity and CO2 outgassing in the North Pacific Ocean

Descent toward the Icehouse: Eocene sea surface cooling inferred from GDGT distributions

article by Gordon N. Inglis et al published July 2015 in Paleoceanography

Differences between the last two glacial maxima and implications for ice-sheet, δ18O, and sea-level reconstructions

scholarly article

Enhanced carbon dioxide outgassing from the eastern equatorial Atlantic during the last glacial

scholarly article

Erratum to “Seawater pH, pCO2 and [CO32−] variations in the Caribbean Sea over the last 130 kyr: A boron isotope and B/Ca study of planktic foraminifera” (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.04.015)

scholarly article

Erratum: Addendum: Plio-Pleistocene climate sensitivity evaluated using high-resolution CO2 records

scientific article published in Nature

Erratum: Corrigendum: Sea-level and deep-sea-temperature variability over the past 5.3 million years

scientific article published in Nature

Estimating the impact of the cryptic degassing of Large Igneous Provinces: A mid-Miocene case-study

article

Evaluating the utility of B/Ca ratios in planktic foraminifera as a proxy for the carbonate system: A case study ofGlobigerinoides ruber

scholarly article

Exploring the plutonic-volcanic link: a zircon U-Pb, Lu-Hf and O isotope study of paired volcanic and granitic units from southeastern Australia

article

Extreme warming of tropical waters during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum ⬇️

article

Factors influencing test porosity in planktonic foraminifera

scientific article published in 2018

Flux and provenance of ice-rafted debris in the earliest Pleistocene sub-polar North Atlantic Ocean comparable to the last glacial maximum

Future climate forcing potentially without precedent in the last 420 million years

scientific article published on 04 April 2017

Geochemical response of the mid-depth Northeast Atlantic Ocean to freshwater input during Heinrich events 1 to 4

scholarly article

Geological Society of London Scientific Statement: what the geological record tells us about our present and future climate

scientific article

Global mean surface temperature and climate sensitivity of the EECO, PETM and latest Paleocene

scientific article published on 16 January 2020

Global mean surface temperature and climate sensitivity of the early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO), Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), and latest Paleocene

scholarly article

High sea surface temperatures in tropical warm pools during the Pliocene

article

Historical Trends in pH and Carbonate Biogeochemistry on the Belize Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System

scholarly article by S. E. Fowell et al published 13 April 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters

How well do non-traditional stable isotope results compare between different laboratories: results from the interlaboratory comparison of boron isotope measurements

Improving constraints on apatite provenance: Nd measurement on fission-track-dated grains

In situ Nd isotopic analysis of geological materials by laser ablation MC-ICP-MS

In situ boron isotope analysis in marine carbonates and its application for foraminifera and palaeo-pH

scholarly article

Incursions of southern-sourced water into the deep North Atlantic during late Pliocene glacial intensification

Insensitivity of alkenone carbon isotopes to atmospheric CO2 at low to moderate CO2 levels

Insensitivity of alkenone carbon isotopes to atmospheric CO2 at low to moderate CO2 levels

Interlaboratory comparison of boron isotope analyses of boric acid, seawater and marine CaCO3 by MC-ICPMS and NTIMS

scholarly article

Intrareef variations in Li/Mg and Sr/Ca sea surface temperature proxies in the Caribbean reef-building coral Siderastrea siderea

Isotope studies reveal a complete Himalayan section in the Nanga Parbat syntaxis

scholarly article

Late Pliocene Greenland glaciation controlled by a decline in atmospheric CO2 levels

scientific article

Lessons on Climate Sensitivity From Past Climate Changes ⬇️

scientific article published on 20 October 2016

Lithostratigraphic correlations in the western Himalaya—An isotopic approach

scholarly article

Magmatic and crustal differentiation history of granitic rocks from Hf-O isotopes in zircon

scientific article published in February 2007

Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity ⬇️

scientific article published on November 29, 2012

Metamorphic monazite and the generation of P-T-t paths

scholarly article by Gavin Foster & Randall R. Parrish published 2003 in Geological Society Special Publication

Microstructures and strain variation across the footwall of the Main Central Thrust Zone, Garhwal Himalaya, India

Middle Miocene climate instability associated with high-amplitude CO2 variability

article published in 2014

More efficient North Atlantic carbon pump during the Last Glacial Maximum

scientific article published on 15 May 2019

Mountain uplift and the glaciation of North America – a sensitivity study

Negligible glacial-interglacial variation in continental chemical weathering rates

scientific article

Neogene ice volume and ocean temperatures: Insights from infaunal foraminiferal Mg/Ca paleothermometry

article by Caroline H. Lear et al published November 2015 in Paleoceanography

New constraints on the sedimentation and uplift history of the Andaman-Nicobar accretionary prism, South Andaman Island

New garnets for old? Cautionary tales from young mountain belts

No change in the neodymium isotope composition of deep water exported from the North Atlantic on glacial-interglacial time scales

article

No substantial long-term bias in the Cenozoic benthic foraminifera oxygen-isotope record

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Ocean Carbon Storage across the middle Miocene: a new interpretation for the Monterey Event

scientific article published on 09 January 2020

Ocean acidification affects coral growth by reducing skeletal density

scientific article

Orbital Forcing, Ice Volume, and CO 2 Across the Oligocene‐Miocene Transition

article published in 2019

Palaeogeographic controls on climate and proxy interpretation

Past climates inform our future

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Pathways to 1.5 °C and 2 °C warming based on observational and geological constraints

article

Persistent Nordic deep-water overflow to the glacial North Atlantic

scholarly article

Placing our current 'hyperthermal' in the context of rapid climate change in our geological past

scholarly article by Gavin Foster et al published 13 October 2018 in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A

Plio-Pleistocene climate sensitivity evaluated using high-resolution CO2 records.

scientific article published on February 2015

Proxy evidence for state-dependence of climate sensitivity in the Eocene greenhouse

scientific article published on 07 September 2020

Reconstructing Ocean pH with Boron Isotopes in Foraminifera

scientific article

Relationship between sea level and climate forcing by CO2 on geological timescales

scientific article (publication date: 22 January 2013)

Reply to 'Pliocene warmth and gradients'

Response to “Comment on ‘The transition on North America from the warm humid Pliocene to the glaciated Quaternary traced by eolian dust deposition at a benchmark North Atlantic Ocean drill site’, by David Lang et al.”

article

Robust Constraints on Past CO2 Climate Forcing From the Boron Isotope Proxy

Sand petrology and focused erosion in collision orogens: the Brahmaputra case

article

Sea-level and deep-sea-temperature variability over the past 5.3 million years.

scientific article

Size-dependent response of foraminiferal calcification to seawater carbonate chemistry

scientific article published in 2017

Size-dependent response of foraminiferal calcification to seawater carbonate chemistry

Structural limitations in deriving accurate U-series ages from calcitic cold-water corals contrast with robust coral radiocarbon and Mg/Ca systematics

scholarly article

Surface ocean warming and acidification driven by rapid carbon release precedes Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

scientific article published in 2022

Tectonic forcing of global chemical weathering since the mid-Paleozoic

Testing the application of in situ Sm–Nd isotopic analysis on detrital apatites: A provenance tool for constraining the timing of India–Eurasia collision

scholarly article

Textural, chemical and isotopic insights into the nature and behaviour of metamorphic monazite

scholarly article

The Arctic cryosphere in the Mid-Pliocene and the future

scientific article

The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: experimental design for model simulations of the EECO, PETM, and pre-PETM (version 1.0)

scientific article published in 2017

The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: methodologies for selection, compilation and analysis of latest Paleocene and early Eocene climate proxy data, incorporating version 0.1 of the DeepMIP database

scientific article published on 25 July 2019

The Relationship between ice volume and CO2 across the Oligocene-Miocene boundary

The Tertiary collision-related thermal history of the NW Himalaya

The accuracy of δ11B measurements of foraminifers

scholarly article

The case for crust–mantle interaction during silicic magma genesis: The zircon testimony

scientific article

The effect of matrix interferences on in situ boron isotope analysis by laser ablation multi‐collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

The evolution of pCO2, ice volume and climate during the middle Miocene

scientific article

The generation of prograde P–T–t points and paths; a textural, compositional, and chronological study of metamorphic monazite

article

The geological record of ocean acidification

scientific article

The pH dependency of the boron isotopic composition of diatom opal (&lt;i&gt;Thalassiosira weissflogii&lt;/i&gt;)

scientific article published in 2020

The relative role of orbital, CO2 and ice sheet forcing on Pleistocene climate

The significance of monazite U–Th–Pb age data in metamorphic assemblages; a combined study of monazite and garnet chronometry

scientific article

The transition on North America from the warm humid Pliocene to the glaciated Quaternary traced by eolian dust deposition at a benchmark North Atlantic Ocean drill site

article

Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO 2

scientific article published on 8 December 2023

Tracing the Evolution of Slab Fluids during Progressive Subduction: Insights from Serpentinite Mud Volcanoes in the Mariana Forearc

scientific article

Tracing the origins of the western Himalaya: an isotopic comparison of the Nanga Parbat massif and Zanskar Himalaya

scholarly article by Alan Whittington et al published 2000 in Geological Society Special Publication

Tracing the strength of the southwest monsoon using boron isotopes in the eastern Arabian Sea

scholarly article

Tracking the provenance of Greenland-sourced, Holocene aged, individual sand-sized ice-rafted debris using the Pb-isotope compositions of feldspars and 40 Ar/ 39 Ar ages of hornblendes

article

U-Pb columbite-tantalite chronology of rare-element pegmatites using TIMS and Laser Ablation-Multi Collector-ICP-MS

scientific article

Using boron isotopes to characterise past carbon cycle perturbations: the case of the MECO

Variable Quaternary chemical weathering fluxes and imbalances in marine geochemical budgets

scientific article

Very large release of mostly volcanic carbon during the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

scientific article published on August 2017

Warm climates of the past--a lesson for the future? ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 28 October 2013)

Warm ocean processes and carbon cycling in the Eocene

scientific article published on 16 September 2013

List of works by Gavin Foster

A Cenozoic record of the equatorial Pacific carbonate compensation depth

A Pb isotope tracer of ocean-ice sheet interaction: the record from the NE Atlantic during the Last Glacial/Interglacial cycle

A core top assessment of proxies for the ocean carbonate system in surface-dwelling foraminifers

A geological perspective on potential future sea-level rise

A new boron isotope-pH calibration for Orbulina universa , with implications for understanding and accounting for ‘vital effects’

A record of Neogene seawater δ11B reconstructed from paired δ11B analyses on benthic and planktic foraminifera

Accurate and precise isotopic measurement of sub-nanogram sized samples of foraminiferal hosted boron by total evaporation NTIMS

Alkenone and boron-based Pliocene pCO2 records

An alternative suggestion for the Pliocene onset of major northern hemisphere glaciation based on the geochemical provenance of North Atlantic Ocean ice-rafted debris

An assessment of Earth's climate sensitivity using multiple lines of evidence

An evaluation of benthic foraminiferal B/Ca and δ11B for deep ocean carbonate ion and pH reconstructions

An improved boron isotope pH proxy calibration for the deep-sea coral Desmophyllum dianthus through sub-sampling of fibrous aragonite

Assessing the impact of diagenesis on δ11B, δ13C, δ18O, Sr/Ca and B/Ca values in fossil planktic foraminiferal calcite

Atmospheric CO2 during the Mid-Piacenzian Warm Period and the M2 glaciation

Atmospheric carbon dioxide through the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition

Automation of boron chromatographic purification for δ11 B analysis of coral aragonite

Boron Isotope Analysis of Geological Materials

Boron and magnesium isotopic composition of seawater

Boron during meteoric diagenesis and its potential implications for Marinoan snowball Earth δ11B-pH excursions

Boron isotope evidence for oceanic carbon dioxide leakage during the last deglaciation.

Boron isotope sensitivity to seawater pH change in a species of Neogoniolithon coralline red alga

Boron isotopes and B/Ca in benthic foraminifera: Proxies for the deep ocean carbonate system

CO2drawdown following the middle Miocene expansion of the Antarctic Ice Sheet

Calibration of the boron isotope proxy in the planktonic foraminifera Globigerinoides ruber for use in palaeo-CO2 reconstruction

Causes of ice age intensification across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition.

Changing atmospheric CO2 concentration was the primary driver of early Cenozoic climate

Climate Sensitivity on Geological Timescales Controlled by Nonlinear Feedbacks and Ocean Circulation

Cold-Water Corals in an Era of Rapid Global Change: Are These the Deep Ocean’s Most Vulnerable Ecosystems?

Common-Pb corrected in situ U–Pb accessory mineral geochronology by LA-MC-ICP-MS

Comparing Climate Sensitivity, Past and Present

Concurrent Pb–Hf isotope analysis of zircon by laser ablation multi-collector ICP-MS, with implications for the crustal evolution of Greenland and the Himalayas

Constraining the evolution of Neogene ocean carbonate chemistry using the boron isotope pH proxy

Constraints to the timing of India–Eurasia collision; a re-evaluation of evidence from the Indus Basin sedimentary rocks of the Indus–Tsangpo Suture Zone, Ladakh, India

Continental weathering fluxes during the last glacial/interglacial cycle: insights from the marine sedimentary Pb isotope record at Orphan Knoll, NW Atlantic

Coral Sr‐U thermometry

Deep water formation in the North Pacific and deglacial CO2 rise

Deep-sea coral δ13C: A tool to reconstruct the difference between seawater pH and δ11B-derived calcifying fluid pH

DeepMIP: model intercomparison of early Eocene climatic optimum (EECO) large-scale climate features and comparison with proxy data

Deglacial upwelling, productivity and CO2 outgassing in the North Pacific Ocean

Descent toward the Icehouse: Eocene sea surface cooling inferred from GDGT distributions

Differences between the last two glacial maxima and implications for ice-sheet, δ18O, and sea-level reconstructions

Enhanced carbon dioxide outgassing from the eastern equatorial Atlantic during the last glacial

Erratum to “Seawater pH, pCO2 and [CO32−] variations in the Caribbean Sea over the last 130 kyr: A boron isotope and B/Ca study of planktic foraminifera” (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.04.015)

Erratum: Addendum: Plio-Pleistocene climate sensitivity evaluated using high-resolution CO2 records

Erratum: Corrigendum: Sea-level and deep-sea-temperature variability over the past 5.3 million years

Estimating the impact of the cryptic degassing of Large Igneous Provinces: A mid-Miocene case-study

Evaluating the utility of B/Ca ratios in planktic foraminifera as a proxy for the carbonate system: A case study ofGlobigerinoides ruber

Exploring the plutonic-volcanic link: a zircon U-Pb, Lu-Hf and O isotope study of paired volcanic and granitic units from southeastern Australia

Extreme warming of tropical waters during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum ⬇️

Factors influencing test porosity in planktonic foraminifera

Flux and provenance of ice-rafted debris in the earliest Pleistocene sub-polar North Atlantic Ocean comparable to the last glacial maximum

Future climate forcing potentially without precedent in the last 420 million years

Geochemical response of the mid-depth Northeast Atlantic Ocean to freshwater input during Heinrich events 1 to 4

Geological Society of London Scientific Statement: what the geological record tells us about our present and future climate

Global mean surface temperature and climate sensitivity of the EECO, PETM and latest Paleocene

Global mean surface temperature and climate sensitivity of the early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO), Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), and latest Paleocene

High sea surface temperatures in tropical warm pools during the Pliocene

Historical Trends in pH and Carbonate Biogeochemistry on the Belize Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System

How well do non-traditional stable isotope results compare between different laboratories: results from the interlaboratory comparison of boron isotope measurements

Improving constraints on apatite provenance: Nd measurement on fission-track-dated grains

In situ Nd isotopic analysis of geological materials by laser ablation MC-ICP-MS

In situ boron isotope analysis in marine carbonates and its application for foraminifera and palaeo-pH

Incursions of southern-sourced water into the deep North Atlantic during late Pliocene glacial intensification

Insensitivity of alkenone carbon isotopes to atmospheric CO2 at low to moderate CO2 levels

Insensitivity of alkenone carbon isotopes to atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> at low to moderate CO<sub>2</sub> levels

Interlaboratory comparison of boron isotope analyses of boric acid, seawater and marine CaCO3 by MC-ICPMS and NTIMS

Intrareef variations in Li/Mg and Sr/Ca sea surface temperature proxies in the Caribbean reef-building coral Siderastrea siderea

Isotope studies reveal a complete Himalayan section in the Nanga Parbat syntaxis

Late Pliocene Greenland glaciation controlled by a decline in atmospheric CO2 levels

Lessons on Climate Sensitivity From Past Climate Changes ⬇️

Lithostratigraphic correlations in the western Himalaya—An isotopic approach

Magmatic and crustal differentiation history of granitic rocks from Hf-O isotopes in zircon

Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity ⬇️

Metamorphic monazite and the generation of P-T-t paths

Microstructures and strain variation across the footwall of the Main Central Thrust Zone, Garhwal Himalaya, India

Middle Miocene climate instability associated with high-amplitude CO2 variability

More efficient North Atlantic carbon pump during the Last Glacial Maximum

Mountain uplift and the glaciation of North America – a sensitivity study

Negligible glacial-interglacial variation in continental chemical weathering rates

The pH dependency of the boron isotopic composition of diatom opal (<i>Thalassiosira weissflogii</i>)