David A. Foster is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Geology.
According to data from OpenAlex, David A. Foster has authored 230 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 195 papers in Geophysics, 67 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 64 papers in Geology. Recurrent topics in David A. Foster's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (183 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (115 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (67 papers). David A. Foster is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (183 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (115 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (67 papers). David A. Foster collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Colombia. David A. Foster's co-authors include David R. Gray, Andrew Gleadow, Ben Goscombe, Barry P. Kohn, C. Mark Fanning, Richard Kolesnick, Sarah Spiegel, Barbara E. John, T. Mark Harrison and Catherine Spaggiari and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, JAMA and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.
In The Last Decade
David A. Foster
227 papers
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9.5k citations
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Tectonic history of the Altyn Tagh fault system in northern Tibet inferred from Cenozoic sedimentation
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Foster, David A., et al.. (2019). Monazite Growth in Response to Metamorphic and Deformation Events at Different Structural Levels. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019.1 indexed citations
Grimes, C. B., et al.. (2014). Alleghanian Magmatism in the Southern Appalachians: Geochronology of the Multi-Phase Danburg-Sandy Hill Intrusion and Coeval Mafic Enclaves. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014.1 indexed citations
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Dutrow, B. L., et al.. (2012). U-Pb Geochronology of Detrital Zircon in Quartzites of the Sawtooth Metamorphic Complex, Sawtooth Range, Idaho, U.S.A. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012.3 indexed citations
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Foster, David A., et al.. (2012). a Structural and Thermochronological Study of Santorini Detachment in Santorini Island, Aegean Sea. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012.1 indexed citations
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Foster, David A.. (2012). RODINIA-GONDWANA SUPERCONTINENT CYCLE REFINED BY DETRITAL ZIRCONS FROM THE DAMARA OROGEN. 2012 GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte.1 indexed citations
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Foster, David A., et al.. (2011). Rapid Shift from Shortening to Extension in the Northern Rockies and Canadian Cordillera at 50 Ma Driven by Changes in Plate Dynamics. AGUFM. 2011.1 indexed citations
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Iriondo, Alexander, Gabriel Chávez‐Cabello, George D. Kamenov, et al.. (2009). Rocas graníticas pérmicas en la Sierra Pinta, NW de Sonora, México: Magmatismo de subducción asociado al inicio del margen continental activo del SW de Norteamérica. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.48 indexed citations
Vogl, James J., et al.. (2009). Lu-Hf Analysis of Zircons in the Little Belt Mountains Suggest Paleoproterozoic Subduction in the Great Falls Tectonic Zone. AGUFM. 2009.1 indexed citations
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Kohn, Barry P., David A. Foster, & Kenneth A. Farley. (2002). Low temperature thermochronology of apatites with exceptional compositional variations: the Stillwater Complex, Montana revisited. Geotemas ( Madrid ). 103–106.3 indexed citations
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Kohn, Barry P., et al.. (2002). Post-Palaeoproterozoic thermochronology of the Precambrian northern Western Australian shield. Geotemas ( Madrid ). 167–170.1 indexed citations
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Foster, David A. & David R. Gray. (2000). Timing of orogenic events in the Lachlan Orogen. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. 813–818.1 indexed citations
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Соэсоо, Алвар, Paul D. Bons, David R. Gray, & David A. Foster. (1998). Divergent double subduction: Tectonic and petrologic consequences: Reply. Geology. 1053–1054.3 indexed citations
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