Publications

Goscombe, B., Foster, D.A., Wade, B., Schwartz, J.J., and Jeffcoat, R., 2024, Tectonic evolution of Macquarie Island: oceanic crust, metamorphism, a new type of core complex and transpression: Gondwana Research, in press.

Gray, K., Johnson, K., Foster, D., and Isakson, V., 2024, Jura-Cretaceous synorogenic magmatism and relations to supercontinent rifting in the northwestern US Cordillera: Geological Society of America Bulletin, in press.Wang, C., Foster, D.A., Su, M, Lei, Y., Zeng, L., and Cui, H., 2023, Holocene provenance evolution of the northern South China Sea inferred from detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotopes: Global and Planetary Change, 228, 104207, doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104207.

Salas-Gismondi, R., Ochoa, D., Gamarra, J., Pujos, F., Foster, D.A., Tejada, J.V., 2023, Pliocene pre-GABI herbivorous mammals from Espinar, Peruvian Andean Plateau: The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, doi
.org/10.1080/02724634.2023.2237079.
Ma, C., Hames, W.E., Foster, D.A., Xiao, W., Mueller, P.A., and Steltenpohl, M.G., 2023, Transformation of eastern North America from compression to extension in the Permian-Triassic: In: Whitmeyer, S.J., Williams, M.L., Kellett, D.A., and Tikoff, B., eds., Laurentia: Turning Points in the Evolution of a Continent, Geological Society of America Memoir 220, p. 1-16,

Foster, D.A., Ma, C., Goscombe, B.D., and Mueller, P.A., 2023, Extensional Collapse of Orogens: a review and example from the Southern Appalachian Orogen: In Catlos, E.J. and Cemen, I., eds., Compressional Tectonics: Plate Convergence to Mountain Building – Volume 1, Geophysical Monograph 277, American Geophysical Union, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., N.Y., p. 301-319, doi:10.102/9781119773856.ch12.

Botero-Garcia, M., Vinasco, C.J., Restrepo-Moreno, S.A., Foster, D.A., and Kamenov, G.D., 2023, Caribbean–South America interactions since the Late Cretaceous: insights from zircon U-Pb and Lu-Hf isotopic data in sedimentary sequences of the northwestern Andes: Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 123, 104231, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2023.104231.

Foster, D.A., and Hacker, D., 2022, Geology of National Parks, 8th edition: Kendall Hunt, Dubuque, Iowa, 1148 pp.

Goscombe, B., Foster, D.A., Kelsey, D., Wade, B., Gray, D., Mulrooney, L., Jiang, P., Haseler, M., and Marsellos, A., 2022, Episodic intra-continental reactivation during collapse of a collisional orogen: The Damara Belt, Namibia: Gondwana Research, v. 109, p. 285-375, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2022.05.003

Gray, K.D., Foster, D.A., Johnson, K., Isakson, V.H., 2022, Rotational tectonics of the Oregon-Idaho-Montana Cordillera: Tectonophysics, v. 833, 229293, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2022.229293

Jiang, P., Perfit, M.P., Foster, D.A., and Trucco, A., 2022, Accurate analyses of key petrogenetic minor and trace elements in olivine by electron microprobe: Chemical Geology, 614, 121199, doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeol.2022.121199.

Ma, C., Hames, W.E., Foster, D.A., Xiao, W., Mueller, P.A., and Steltenpohl, M.G., 2022, Transformation of eastern North America from compression to extension in the Permian-Triassic: In: Whitmeyer, S.J., Williams, M.L., Kellett, D.A., and Tikoff, B., eds., Laurentia: Turning Points in the Evolution of a Continent, Geological Society of America Memoir 220, p. 1-16, https://doi.org/10.1130/2022.1220(28).

Ochoa, D., DeVries, T.J., Quispe, K., Barbosa-Espitia, A., Salas-Gismondi, R., Foster, D.A., Gonzales, R., Revillon, S., Berrospi, R., Pairazaman, L., Cardich, J., Perez, A., Romero, P., Urbina, M., and Carré, M., 2022, Age and provenance of the Mio-Pleistocene sediments from the Sacaco area, Peruvian continental margin: Journal South American Earth Sciences, v. 116, 103799, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2022.103799

Ochoa, D., Salas-Gismondi, R., DeVries, T.J., Baby, P, de Muizon, C., Altamirano, A., Barbosa-Espitia, A., Foster, D.A., Quispe, K., Cardich, J., Gutierrez, D., Perez, A., Valqui, J., Urbina, M., and Carré, M., 2021, Late Neogene evolution of the Peruvian margin and its ecosystems: synthesis of the Sacaco record: International Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 110, p. 995-1025, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-021-02003-1

Goscombe, B., Foster, D.A., Gray, D., Kelsey, D., and Wade, B. 2020, Metamorphic response within different subduction-obduction settings preserved on the NE Arabian margin: Gondwana Research, v. 83, p. 298-371, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2020.02.002

Goscombe, B., Foster, D.A., Gray, D., and Wade, B., 2020, Assembly of central Gondwana along the Zambezi Belt: metamorphic response and basement reactivation during the Kuunga Orogeny: Gondwana Research, v. 80, p. 410-465, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2019.11.004.

Kepezhinskas, N., Kamenov, G.D., Foster, D.A., and Kepezhinskas, P., 2020, Petrology and geochemistry of alkaline basalts and gabbroic xenoliths from Utila Island (Bay Islands, Honduras): Insights into back-arc processes in the Central American volcanic arc: Lithos, p. 352-353, 105441, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2019.105306

Lageson, D.R., Kalakay, T.J., and Foster, D.A., 2020, Mountain building: The orogenic evolution of Montana,inMetesh, J.J., and Vuke, S.M., eds., Geology of Montana—Geologic History: Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Special Publication 122, v. 1, available at https://mbmg.mtech.edu/pdf/geologyvolume/Lageson.pdf.

Osorio-Granada, E., Pardo-Trujillo, A., Restrepo-Moreno, S.A., Gallego, F., Munoz, J., Plata, A., Trejos-Tamayo, R., Vallejo, F., Barbosa-Espitia, A., Cardona-Sanchez, F.J., Foster, D.A., and Kamenov, G., 2020, Provenance of Eocene-Oligocene sediments in the San Jacinto fold belt: Paleogeographic and geodynamic implications for the northern Andes and the southern Caribbean: Geosphere, v. 16, p. 210-228, https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02059.1.

Ma, C., Foster, D.A., Mueller, P.A., Dutrow, B.L., and Marsh, J., 2020, Mesozoic crustal melting and metamorphism in the U.S. Cordilleran hinterland: Insights from the Sawtooth metamorphic complex, central Idaho: Geological Society of America Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1130/B35837.1.Barbosa-Espitia, A.A., Kamenov, G.D., Foster, D.A., Restrepo-Moreno, S.A., Pardo-Trujillo, A., 2019, Contemporaneous Paleogene arc-magmatism within continental and accreted oceanic arc complexes in the northwestern Andes and Panama: Lithos, v. 348-349, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2019.105185.

Boone, S., Kohn, B., Gleadow, A., Morley, C., Seiler, C., Foster, D., 2019, Birth of the East African Rift System: Eocene nucleation of magmatism and strain in the Turkana Depression: Geology, v. 47, p. 886-890, https://doi.org/10.1130/G46468.1.

Bremner, P.M., Panning, M.P., Russo, R.M., Mocanu, V., Stanciu, A.C., Torpey, M., Hongsreswat, S., VanDecar, J.C., and Foster, D.A., 2019, Crustal shear wave velocity structure of Central Idaho and Eastern Oregon from ambient seismic noise: results from the IDOR project: Journal of Geophysical Research, 124, 1601-1625, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016350.

Foster, D.A., 2019, Fission track thermochronology in structural geology and tectonic studies (Chapter 11): in Malusa, M.G., and Fitzgerald, P.G., eds., Fission track Thermochronology and its Application to Geology, Springer International Publishing, p. 211-220, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89421-8_11.

Goscombe, B., Foster, D.A., Blewett, R., Czarnota, K., Wade, B., Groenewald, B., and Gray, D., 2019, Neoarchean metamorphic evolution of the Yilgarn Craton: a record of subduction, accretion, extension, and lithospheric delamination: Precambrian Research, v. 355, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2019.105441.

Hacker, D., and Foster, D., 2019, Geology of National Parks, 7th edition: Kendall Hunt, Dubuque, Iowa, 1049 pp.

Ma, C., Foster, D.A., Hames, W.E., Mueller, P.A., and Steltenpohl, 2019, From the Alleghanian to the Atlantic:  Extensional collapse of the southernmost Appalachian orogen: Geology, 47, 367-370, https://doi.org/10.1130/G46073.1.

Restrepo-Monero, S.A., Foster, D.A., Bernet, M., Min, K., and Noriega, S., 2019, Morphotectonic and Orogenic Development of the Northern Andes of Colombia: A low-temperature thermochronology perspective (Chapter 11): in Cediel, F., and Shaw, R.P., eds., Geology and Tectonics of Northwestern South America, Frontiers in Earth Sciences, p. 749-831, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76132-9_11.

Wang, C., Liang, X., Foster, D.A., Liang, X., Zhang, L., and Su, M., 2019, Provenance and drainage evolution of the Red River revealed by Pb isotopic analysis of detrital K-feldspar: Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083000.

Boone, S.C., Seiler, C., Kohn, B.P., Gleadow, A.J.W., Foster, D.A., and Chung, L., 2018 Influence of rift superposition on lithospheric response to East African Rift System extension: Lapur Range, Turkana, Kenya: Tectonics, 37, DOI: 10.1002/2017TC004575

Boone, S.C., Kohn, B.P., Gleadow, A.J.W., Morley, C.K., Seiler, C., Foster, D.A., Chung, L., 2018, Tectono-thermal evolution of a long-lived segment of the East African Rift System: Thermochronological insights from the North Lokichar Basin, Turkana, Kenya: Tectonophysics, 744, 23-46.

Gifford, J.N., Mueller, P.A., Foster, D.A., Mogk, D.W., 2018, Extending the realm of Archean crust in the Great Falls tectonic zone: Evidence from the Little Rocky Mountains, Montana: Precambrian Research, 315, 264-281, https://doi/org/10.1016/j.precamres.2018.07.021.

Goscombe, B., Gray, D., Foster, D.A., 2018, GR Focus Review: Metamorphic response to collision in the Central Himalayan Orogen: Gondwana Research, DOI.org/10.1016/j.gr.2018.02.002.

Goscombe, B., Foster, D.A., Gray, D., Wade, B., 2018, Evolution of the Damara Orogenic System: A record of West Gondwana assembly and crustal response. In: Geology of Southwest Gondwana, Regional Geology Reviews, Springer International Publishing, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68920-3_12.

Londono, L., Royer, D.L., Jaramillo, C., Escobar, J., Foster, D.A., Cardenas-Rozo, A.L., and Wood, A., 2018, Early Miocene CO2 estimates from a Neotropical fossil leaf assemblage exceed 400 ppm: American Journal of Botany, v. 105, p. 1929-1937, doi:10.1002/ajb2.1187.

Spencer, J., Singleton, J., Strickland, E., Reynolds, S., Love, D., Foster, D., and Johnson, R., 2018, Geodynamics of Cenozoic extension along a transect across the Colorado River extensional corridor, southwestern USA: Lithosphere, v. 10, p. 743-759, https://doi.org/10.1130/L1002.1.

Farris, D.W., Cardona, A., Montes, C., Foster, D., Jaramillo, C., 2017, Magmatic evolution of Panama Canal volcanic rocks: a record of arc processes and tectonic change: PLOS ONE, 12(5), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176010.

Goscombe, B., Foster, D.A., Gray, D., Wade, B., Marsellos, A., and Titus, J., 2017, Focus Paper: Deformation correlations, stress field switches and evolution of an orogenic intersection: the Pan-African Kaoko-Damara orogenic junction, Namibia: Geoscience Frontiers, 8, 1187-1232, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2017.05.001.

Goscombe, B., Foster, D.A., Gray, D., Wade, B., 2017, GR Focus Review: Metamorphic response and crustal architecture in a classic collisional orogen: The Damara Belt, Namibia: Gondwana Research, 52, 80-124, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2017.07.006.

Link, P.K., Autenrieth-Durk, K.M., Cameron, A., Fanning, C.M., Vogl, J.J., Foster, D.A., 2017, U-Pb zircon ages of the Wildhorse gneiss, Pioneer Mountains, south-central Idaho and tectonic implications: Geosphere, 13, 681-698, doi:10.1130/GES01418.1

Ma, C., Foster, D. A., Mueller, P. A., and Dutrow, B. L., 2017, Magma-facilitated transpressional strain partitioning within the Sawtooth metamorphic complex, Idaho: A zone accommodating Cretaceous orogen-parallel translation in the Idaho batholith: Tectonics, 36, doi:10.1002/2016TC004264.

Verbaas, J., Thorkelson, D.J., Crowley, J., Davis, W.J., Foster, D.A., Gibson, H.D., Marshall, D.D., and Milidragovic, D., 2017 A sedimentary overlap assemblage links Australia to northwestern Laurentia at 1.6 Ga: Precambrian Research, org10.1016/j.precamres.2017.10.001.

Bloch, J.I., Wood, A.R., Rincon, A.F., Woodruff, E.D., Harrington, A.R., MacFadden, B.J., Morgan, G.S., Foster, D.A., Montes, C., Jaramilo, C.A., Jud, N.A., and Jones, D.S., 2016, First North American fossil monkey and early Miocene tropical biotic interchange: Nature, v. 533, p. 243- 246, doi:10.1038/nature17415.

Foster, D.A., 2016, AUSTRALIA / Tasman Orogenic Belt: Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, Elsevier, doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.09705-0.

Ma, C., Bergeron, P., Foster, D.A., Dutrow, B.L., Mueller, P.A., Allen, C., 2016, Detrital zircon geochronology of the Sawtooth metamorphic complex, Idaho: evidence for metamorphosed lower Paleozoic shelf strata within the Idaho Batholith: Geosphere, v. 12, p. 1136-1153, doi: 10.1130/GES01201.1.

Ramirez, D.A., Foster, D.A., Min, K., Montes, C., Cordona, A., Sadove, G., 2016, Exhumation of the Panama basement complex and basins: implications for the closure of the Central American Seaway: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 17, 1758–1777, doi:10.1002/2016GC006289.

Stanciu, A.C., Russo, R.M., Mocanu, V.I., Bremner, P.M., Hongsresawat, S., Torpey, M.E., VanDecar, J.C., Foster, D.A., Hole, J.A., 2016, Crustal structure beneath the Blue Mountains terranes and cratonic North America, Eastern Oregon and Idaho, from telesiesmic receiver functions: Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, 121, doi:10.1002/2016JB012989.

Villasenor-Jorquera, T., Jaeger, J.M., and Foster, D.A., 2016, Linking alpine glacial erosion and continental margin sedimentation: Late Pleistocene sediment-routing system, Canterbury Basin, New Zealand: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 433, p. 303-316.

Wang, C., Liang, X, Foster, D.A., Fu, J., Jiang, Y., Zhou, Y, Wen, S., and Quynh, P.V., 2016 Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology, Lu-Hf isotopes and REE geochemistry constraints on crustal growth and Paleozoic tectonics of Indochina Block: Tectonophysics, v. 677-678, p. 125-134.

Wang, C., Liang, X., Foster, D.A., Xie, Y., Tong, C., Pei, J., Fu, J. Jiang, Y., Dong, C., Zhou, Y., and Wen, S., 2016, Zircon U-Pb geochronology and heavy mineral composition constraints on the provenance of the middle Miocene deep-water reservoir sedimentary rocks in the Yinggehai-Song Hon Basin, South China Sea: Marine and Petroleum Geology, 77, 819-834, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2016.05.009.

Opdyke, N.D., Kent, D.V., Foster, D.A., Huang, K., 2015, Paleomagnetism of Miocene volcanics on Sao Tome: Paleosecular variations at the Equator and a comparison to its latitudinal dependence over the past 5 Myr.: G-Cubed DOI: 10.1002/2015GC005901

Foster, D.A., Goscombe, B.D., Newstead, B., Mapani, B., Mueller, P.A., and Gregory, L., Muvangua, E., 2015, U-Pb age and Lu-Hf isotopic data of detrital zircons from Neoproterozoic Damara sequence: implications for pre-Gondwana proximity of Congo and Kalahari. Gondwana Research, v. 28, p. 179-190, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2014.04.011.

Hongsresawat, S. Panning, M.P., Russo, R.M., Foster, D.A., Monteiller, V., and Chevrot, S., 2015, USArray shear wave splitting shows seismic anisotropy from both lithosphere and asthenosphere: Geology, v. 43, p. 667-670, doi:10.1130/G36610.1.

Diez Fernandez, R., Francisco Pereira, M., and Foster, D.A., 2014, Peralkaline and alkaline magmatism of the Ossa-Morena zone (SW Iberia): age, source, and implications for the Paleozoic evolution of Gondwanan lithosphere: Lithosphere, v. 7. p. 73-90, doi:10.1130/L379.1.

Foster, D.A., Mueller, P.A., Goscombe, B.D., and Gray, D.R., 2015, Accreted turbidite fans and remnant ocean basins in Phanerozoic orogens: A template for a significant Precambrian crustal growth and recycling process: in Y. Dilek and H. Furnes, eds. Evolution of Archean Crust and Early Life, Springer, New York, 289-328.

Gifford, J.N., Mueller, P.A., Foster, D.A., and Mogk, D.W., 2014, Precambrian crustal evolution in the Great Falls tectonic zone: insights from xenoliths from the Montana Alkali Province: Journal of Geology, v. 122, p. 531-548.

Kalakay, T.J. Foster, D.A., Lonn, J.D., 2014, Polyphase collapse of the Cordilleran hinterland: The Anaconda metamorphic core complex of western Montana – The Snoke Symposium Field Trip: in Shaw, C.A., and Tickoff, B., eds. Exploring the Northern Rocky Mountains: Geological Society of America Field Trip Guide 37, p. 145-159, doi:10.1130/2014.0037(07).

MacFadden, B.J., Bloch, J.I., Evans, H., Foster, D.A., Morgan, G.S., Rincon, A., and Wood, A.R., 2014, Temporal calibration and biochronology of the Centerario Fauna, Early Miocene of Panama: Journal of Geology, v. 122, p. 113-135, doi: 10.1086/675244.

Marsellos, A.E., Min, K., and Foster, D.A., 2014, Rapid exhumation of high-pressure metamorphic rocks in Kythera-Peloponeese (Greece) revealed by apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology; Journal of Geology, v. 122, p. 381-396, doi:10.1086/675908.

Mueller, P.A., Heatherington, A.L., Foster, D.A., Thomas, W.A., and Wooden, J.L., 2014, The Suwannee Suture: Significance for Gondwana-Laurentia Terrane Transfer and Formation of Pangaea: Gondwana Research, v. 26, p. 365-373, doi 10.1016/j.gr.2013.06.018.

Mueller, P.A., Mogk, D.W., Henry, D.J., Wooden, J.L., and Foster, D.A., 2014, The plume to plate transition: Hadean and Archean evolution of the northern Wyoming Province, U.S.A.: in Y. Dilek and H. Furnes, eds. Evolution of Archean Crust and Early Life, Springer, New York, p. 23-54.

Mueller, P., Mogk, D., Henry, D., Foster, D., Berndt, T., Grip, T., Hanson, M., Kotash, A., Maloney, P., Philbrick, K., and Ware, B., 2014, Mesoarchean plutonism in the South Snowy block (Yellowstone National Park): new evidence for an old arc, Northwest Geology, v.

Vogl, J.J., Min, K., Carmenate, A., Foster, D.A., and Marsellos, A., 2014, Miocene regional hotspot-related uplift, exhumation, and extension north of the Snake River Plain: evidence from apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology: Lithosphere, v. 6, p. 108-123, doi: 10.1130/L308.1.

Bausch, W.G., Baldwin, J.A., and Foster, D.A., 2013, Synextensional emplacement and cooling of the East Fork Dike Swarm at Lost River Pass, Southwest, Montana: Northwest Geology, v. 42, p. 299-308.

Diez Fernandez, R., Foster, D.A., Barreiro, J.G., Alonso-Garcia, M., 2013, Rheological control on the tectonic evolution of a continental suture zone: the Variscan example from NW Iberia (Spain): International Journal of Earth Science (Geol Rundsch), v. 102, p. 1305-1319, doi: 10.1007/s00531-013-0885-5.

Foster, D.A., and Goscombe, B.D., 2013, Continental Growth and Recycling in Convergent Orogens with Large Turbidite Fans on Oceanic Crust: Geosciences, v. 3, 354-388; doi:10.3390/geosciences3030354.

Foster, D.A., Mueller, P.A., Vogl, J.J., Gifford, J., and Mogk, D.W., 2013, The Little Belt Arc of the Great Falls tectonic zone: a key component of the Belt Basin basement: Northwest Geology, v. 42, p. 107-110.

Marsellos, A.E., Foster, D.A., Kidd, W.S.F., Min, K., Garver, J., Kyriakipoulos, K., (2013), An application of GIS analysis on structural data from metamorphic rocks in Santorini Island: Hellenic Geological Society, v. 2013, p. 1-10.

Raehee, H., Min, K., Ree, J-H., Foster, D.A, 2013, Extensional deformation along the southern boundary of the Gyeonggi Massif, South Korea: structural characteristics, age constraints and tectonic implication: International Journal of Earth Sciences (Geol Rundsch), doi 10.1007/s00531-013-0985-2.

Ehret, D.J., B.J. MacFadden, D.S. Jones, T.J., DeVries, D.A. Foster, and R. Salas-Gismondi, 2012, Origin of the white shark, Carcharondon (Lamniformes: Lamnidae), based on recalibration of the late Neogene, Pisco Formation of Peru: Palaeontology, v. 55, p. 1139-1153.

Foster, D.A., P.A. Mueller, A. Heatherington, J.N. Gifford and T.J. Kalakay, 2012, Lu-Hf systematics of magmatic zircons reveal a Proterozoic crustal boundary under the Cretaceous Pioneer batholith, Montana: Lithos, v. 142-143, p. 216-225, doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2012.03.005.

Goscombe, B., R. Blewett, D. Foster, and B. Wade, 2012, Thermobarometeric evolution of subdomains within the Yilgarn Craton: Geological Survey of Western Australia Record, 2012/2, p. 6-9.

Marsellos, A.E., D.A. Foster, G.D. Kamenov, and K. Kyriakopoulos, 2012, Detrital zircon U-Pb data from the Hellenic south Aegean belts: constraints on the age and source of the South Aegean basement: Journal of the Virtual Explorer, v. 42, paper 3 (8 pages).

Vogl, J.J., D.A. Foster C.M. Fanning, K.A. Kent, D.A. Rogers, and T. Diedesch, 2012, Timing of extension in the Pioneer metamorphic core complex with implications for the spatial-temporal pattern of Cenozoic extension and exhumation in the northern U.S. Cordillera: Tectonics, v. 31, TC1008, 22 pp., doi: 10.1029/2011TC002981.

Mogk, D., Henry, D., Mueller, P., and Foster, D., 2012, Origins of a continent: evidence from a Research Experience for Undergraduates project in Northern Yellowstone National Park: Yellowstone Science, v. 20, p. 22-32.

Gasser, D., E. Bruand, K. Stuwe, D.A. Foster, R. Schuster, B. Fungenschuh, and T. Pavlis, 2011, Formation of a metamorphic complex along an obliquely convergent margin: structural and thermochronological evolution of the Chugach metamorphic complex, southern Alaska: Tectonics, doi:10.1029/2010TC002776.

Mueller, P., A. Heatherington, D. Foster, and J. Wooden, 2011, Alleghanian granites of the southern Appalachian Orogen: keys to Pangean reconstructions: Georgia Geological Society Guidebook, v. 31, p. 29-48.

Mueller, P.A., J.L. Wooden, D.W. Mogk, and D.A. Foster, 2011, Paleozoic evolution of the Farmington zone: implications for terrane accretion in southwestern Laurentia: Lithosphere, v. 3, p. 401-408, doi: 10.1130/L161.1.

Foster, D.A., W.C. Grice, and T.J. Kalakay, 2010, Extension of the Anaconda metamorphic core complex: 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology with implications for Eocene tectonics of the northern Rocky Mountains and the Boulder batholith: Lithosphere v. 2 p. 232-246, doi: 10.1130/L94.1.

Herman, F., P. Copeland, J-P Avouac, L. Bollinger, G. Maheo, P. Le Fort, S. Rai, D.A. Foster, A. Pecher, K. Stuwe, and P. Henry, 2010, Exhumation, crustal deformation and thermal structure of the Nepal Himalaya derived from the inversion of thermochronological and thermobarometric data and modelling of the topography: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 115, B06407, doi: 10.1029/2008JB006126.

Opdyke, N.D., D.V. Kent, K. Huang, D.A. Foster, and J.P. Patel, 2010, Equatorial paleomagnetic time-averaged field results from 0-5 Ma lavas from Kenya and the latitudinal variation of angular dispersion: Geochemistry, Geophysics and Geosystems, v. 11, Q05005, doi: 10.1029/2009GC002863.

Turner, S., P. Haines, D. Foster, R. Powell, M. Sandiford, R. Offler, 2010, Did the Delameran Orogeny start in the Neoproterozoic?: Journal of Geology, v. 117, p. 575-583.

Arvizu, H.E., Iriondo, A., Izaguirre, A., Chávez-Cabello, G., Kamenov, G.D., Foster, D.A., Lozano-Santa Cruz, R., and Solís-Pichardo, G., 2009, Gneises bandeados paleoproterozoicos (~1.76-1.73 Ga) de la Zona Canteras-Puerto Peñasco: Una nueva ocurrencia de rocas de basamento tipo Yavapai en el NW de Sonora, México: Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, v. 61, no. 3, 375-402.

Arvizu, H.E., Iriondo, A., Izaguirre, A., Chavez-Cabella, G., Kamenov, G.D., Solis-Pichardo, G. Foster, D.A., and Lozano-Santa Cruz, R., 2009, Rocas graniticas permicas en la Sierra Pinta en el NW de Sonora, Mexico: magmatismo de subduccion asociado al inicio del margen continental activo del SW de Norteamerica: Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas, v. 26, p. 709-728.

Cina, S.E., A. Yin, M. Grove, C.S. Dubey, D.P. Shukla, O.M. Lovera, T.K. Kelty, G.E. Gehrels, D.A. Foster, 2009, Gangdese arc detritus within the eastern Himalayan Neogene foreland basin: implications for the Neogene evolution of the Yalu-Brahmaputra River system: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 285, p. 150-162.

Foster, D.A., B.D. Goscombe, D.R, Gray, 2009, Rapid Exhumation of Deep Crust in an Obliquely Convergent Orogen: the Kaoko Belt of the Damara Orogen: Tectonics v. 28, TC4002, doi:10.1029/2008TC002317.

Foster, D.A., D.R. Gray, C. Spaggiari, G. Kamenov, and F. P. Bierlein, 2009, Palaeozoic Lachlan Orogen, Australia; accretion and construction of continental crust in a marginal ocean setting: isotopic evidence from Cambrian metavolcanic rocks. In P. A. Cawood, and A. Kroner, eds., Earth Accretionary Systems in Space and Time, Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 318, 329-349. doi: 10.1144/SP318.12.

Korsch, R.J., Adams, C.J., Black, L.P., Foster, D.A., Fraser, G.L., Murray, C.G., Foudoulis, C., and Griffin, W.L., 2009, Geochronology and provenance of the Late Paleozoic accretionary wedge and Gympie Terrane, New England Orogen, eastern Australia: Australian Journal of Earth Science, v. 56, p. 665-685, doi: 10.1080/08120090902825776.

Restrepo S.A., D.A. Foster, D.F. Stockli, and L.N. Parra, 2009, Long-term erosion and exhumation history of the Altiplano Antioqueno, Northern Andes (Columbia) from apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 278, p. 1-12 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.09.037

Foster, D.A., and D. R. Gray, 2008, Paleozoic crustal growth, structure, strain rate, and metallogeny in the Lachlan Orogen, Eastern Australia, In J.E. Spencer and S.R. Titley, eds., Ores and Orogensis: Circum-Pacific Tectonics, Geological Evolution, and Ore Deposits: Arizona Geological Society Digest, v. 22. P. 213-225.

Gray, D.R., D.A. Foster, J.G. Meert, B.D. Goscombe, R. Armstrong, R.A.J. Trouw, and C.W. Passchier, 2008, A Damara Orogen perspective on the assembly of southwestern Gondwana, In R.J. Pankhurst, R.A.J Trouw, B.B. De Brito Neves, and M.J. De Wit, eds., West Gondwana: Pre-Cenozoic Correlations Across South Atlantic Region, Geological Society, London, Special Publication 294, p. 257-278, doi:10.1144/SP294.14

Mueller, P., D. Foster, J. Gifford, J. Wooden, and D. Mogk, 2008, Tectonic and stratigraphic implications of detrital zircon suites in Cambrian and Precambrian sandstones from the eastern margin of the Belt Basin: Northwest Geology, v. 37, p. 61-68.

Mueller, P.A., D.W. Mogk, D.J. Henry, J.L. Wooden, and D.A. Foster, 2008, Geologic evolution of the Beartooth Mountains: insights from petrology and geochemistry: Northwest Geology v. 37, p. 5-20.

Offler, R., and D.A. Foster, 2008, Timing and development of oroclines in the southern New England Fold Belt, Australia: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 55, p. 331-340, doi: 10.1080/08120090701769464.

Doughty, P.T., K.R. Chamberlain, D.A. Foster, and G. Sha, 2007, Structural, metamorphic and geochronological constraints on the origin of the Clearwater core complex, northern Idaho, In Sears, J.W., Harms, T., and Evenchick, C.A., eds., Whence the Mountains? Enquiries into the Evolution of Orogenic Systems: A Volume in Honor of Raymond Price: Geological Society of America Special Paper 433, p. 211-241, doi: 10.1130/2007.2433(11).

Foster, D.A., and D.R Gray, 2007, Strain rate in Paleozoic thrust sheets, the western Lachlan Orogen, Australia: strain analysis and fabric geochronology, In Sears, J.W., Harms, T., and Evenchick, C.A., eds., Whence the Mountains? Enquiries into the Evolution of Orogenic Systems: A Volume in Honor of Raymond Price: Geological Society of America Special Paper 433, p. 349-368, doi: 10.1130/2007.2433(17).

Foster, D.A., T.J. Kalakay, P.A. Mueller, and A. Heatherington, 2007, Late Cretaceous granitic plutons in southwestern Montana: Northwest Geology, v. 36, p. 73-90.

Foster, D.A., P.T. Doughty, T.J. Kalakay, C.M Fanning, S. Coyner, W.C. Grice, and J.J. Vogl, 2007, Kinematics and timing of exhumation of Eocene metamorphic core complexes along the Lewis and Clark fault zone, northern Rocky Mountains, USA, In Till, A., Roeske, S., Sample, J., and Foster, D.A., eds., Exhumation along major continental strike-slip systems: Geological Society of America Special Paper 434, p. 205-229, doi: 10.1130/2007.2343(10).

Gray, D.R., Foster, D.A., Maas, R., Spaggiari, C.V., Gregory, R.T., Goscombe, B.D., and Hoffmann, K.H., 2007, Continental growth and recycling by accretion of deformed turbidte fans and remnant ocean basins: examples from Neoproterozoic and Phanerozoic orogens, In Hatcher, R. D., JR., Carlson, M. P., McBride, J. H., and Martinz Catalan, J. R., (eds.) The 4D Framework of Continental Crust: Geological Society of America Memoir 200, p. 63-92, doi: 10.1130/2007.1200(05).

Mueller, P.A., and D.A. Foster, 2007, Relationship of lithospheric age and composition to mineral resources within, beneath, and adjacent to the Belt Basin: Technical Report to the U.S. Geological Survey, 15 pp.

Mueller, P.A., D.A. Foster, D.W. Mogk, J.L. Wooden, G.D. Kamenov, and J.J. Vogl, 2007, Detrital mineral chronology of the Unita Mountain Group: Implications for the origin of Mesoproterozoic detritus in southwestern Laurentia: Geology, v. 35, p. 431-434; doi:10.1130/G23148A.1.

Till, A., S. Roeske, J. Sample, and D.A. Foster (eds.), 2007, Exhumation along major continental strike-slip systems, Geological Society of America Special Paper 434: Geological Society of America, Boulder, 264 pp.

Carter, T.J., B.P. Kohn, D.A. Foster, A.J.W. Gleadow, and J.D. Woodhead, 2006, Late-stage evolution of the Chemehuevi and Sacramento detachment faults from apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology – Evidence for mid-Miocene accelerated slip: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 118, p. 689-709; doi: 10.1130/B25736.1.

Foster, D.A., P.A. Mueller, D.W. Mogk, J.L. Wooden, and J.J. Vogl, 2006, Proterozoic evolution of the western margin of the Wyoming Craton: implications for the tectonic and magmatic evolution of the northern Rocky Mountains: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 43, p. 1601-1619, doi: 10.1139/E06-052.

Gray, D.R., C.E. Willman, and D.A. Foster, 2006, Crust restoration for the western Lachlan Orogen using the strain-reversal, area-balancing technique: implications for crustal components and original thicknesses: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 53, p. 329-341, doi: 10.1080/08120090500499305.

Gray, D.R., D.A. Foster, B. Goscombe, C.W. Passchier, and R.A.J. Trouw, 2006,40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of the Pan-African Damara Orogen, Namibia with implications for tectonothermal and geodynamic evolution: Precambrian Research, v. 150, p. 49-72, doi:10.1016/j.precmres.2006.07.003.

Gray, D.R., D.A. Foster, R.J. Korsch, and C.V. Spaggiari, 2006, Structural style and crustal architecture of the Tasmanides of eastern Australia, example of a composite accretionary orogen, In Mazzoli, S., and Butler, B., eds., Styles of continental compression: Geological Society of America Special Paper 414, p. 119-232.

Opdyke, N.D., M. Hall, V. Mejia, K. Huang, and D.A. Foster, 2006, Time averaged field at the Equator: results from Ecuador: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 7, Q11005, doi: 10.1029/2005GC001221.

Spikings, R.A., D.A. Foster, and B.P. Kohn, 2006, The low-temperature (<110˚C) thermal history of the Mt. Isa and Murphy Inliers, northeast Australia, evidence from apatite fission track thermochronology: Australian Journal of Earth Science, v. 53, p. 151-165, doi: 10.1080/08120090500434609.

Bierlein, F.P., D.A. Foster, D.R. Gray, and G.J. Davidson, 2005, Timing of orogenic gold mineralization in northeastern Tasmania: implications for the tectonic and metallogenetic evolution of Palaeozoic SE Australia: Mineralium Deposita, v. 39, p. 890-903; DOI 10.1007/s00126-004-0458-4.

Foster, D.A., D.R. Gray, C.V. Spaggiari, 2005, Timing of subduction and exhumation along the Cambrian East Gondwana margin, and the formation of Paleozoic backarc basins: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 117, p. 105-116; doi: 10.1130/B25481.1.

Carter, T.J., B.P., Kohn, D.A. Foster, and A.J.W. Gleadow, 2004, How the Harcuvar Mountains metamorphic core complex became cool: evidence from apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry: Geology, v. 32 p. 985-988, doi: 10.1130/G20936.1.

Crowhurst, P.V., R. Maas, K.C. Hill, D.A. Foster, and M. Fanning, 2004, Isotopic constraints on crustal architecture and Permo-Triassic tectonics in New Guinea; possible links with eastern Australia: Australian Journal of Earth Science, v. 51, p. 107-122.

Gray, D.R., and D.A. Foster, 2004, Tasman orogenic belt, eastern Australia: an example of Paleozoic tectonic accretion – an essay. In B.A. van der Pluijm and S. Marshak, Earth Structure: an Introduction to Structural Geology and Tectonics second edition: W.W. Norton and Company, New York, p. 547-555.

Gray, D.R., and D.A. Foster, 2004, 40Ar/39Ar thermochronologic constraints on deformation, metamorphism and cooling/exhumation of a Mesozoic accretionary wedge, Otago Schist, New Zealand: Tectonophysics, v. 385, p. 181-210.

Gray, D.R., and Foster, D.A., 2004, Tectonic framework of the Lachlan Orogen. In, Bierlein, F.P. and Hough, M. A. (eds), Tectonics to Minerals Discovery- Deconstructing the Lachlan Orogen: Proceedings Volume and Field Trip Guide MORE-SGEG, Geological Society of Australia, p. 1-20.

Gray, D.R., and D.A. Foster, 2004, Tasman Orogenic Belt. In D. Selley, R. Cocks, and I. Plimer (eds.) Encyclopaedia of Geology; Academic Press, Amsterdam, p. 237-251.

Gray, D.R., and D.A. Foster, 2004, Tectonic evolution of the Lachlan Orogen, southeast Australia: historical review, data synthesis and modern perspectives: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 51, p. 773-817.

Gray, D.R., J. McL. Miller, D.A. Foster, and R.T. Gregory, 2004, Transition from subduction- to exhumation-related fabrics in glaucophane-bearing eclogites, Oman: evidence from relative fabric chronology and 40Ar/39Ar ages: Tectonophysics, v. 389, p. 35-64.

John, B.E., D.A., Foster, J.M. Murphy, M.J. Cheadle, A.G. Baines, C.M. Fanning, and P. Copeland, 2004, Determining the cooling history of in-situ lower oceanic crust – Atlantis Bank, SW Indian Ridge: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 222, p. 145-160.

Spaggiari, C.V., D.R. Gray, and, D.A. Foster, 2004, Ophiolite accretion in the Lachlan Orogen, Southeastern Australia, Journal of Structural Geology, v. 26, p. 87-112.

Spaggiari, C.V., D. R. Gray, and D.A. Foster, 2004, Lachlan orogen subduction-accretion systematics revisited: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 51, p. 549-553.

Vogl, J.J., D.A. Foster, P.A. Mueller, J.L. Wooden, and D.W. Mogk, 2004, Lithology and age of pre-Belt Precambrian basement in the Little Belt Mountains, Montana: implications for the role of the Great Falls tectonic zone in the Paleoproterozoic assembly of North America: Northwest Geology, v. 33, p. 15-34.

Weber, U., K. Hill, R. Brown, K. Gallager, B. Kohn, and D. Foster, 2004, Sediment supply to the Gippsland Basin from thermal history analysis: constraints on Emperor-Golden Beach reservoir composition: The Australian Petroleum Exploration Association Journal, v. 44, p. 397-416.

Zeig, G.A., D.L. Feeback, J.J. Vogl, D.A. Foster, P.A. Mueller, and D.W. Mogk, 2004, A field tour through the Proterozoic rocks of the southern Little Belt Mountains: Northwest Geology, v. 33, p. 100-110.

Bierlein, F.P., D.A. Foster, D.R. Gray and G.J. Davidson, 2003, Timing of orogenic gold mineralisation in NE Tasmania – implications for the tectonic evolution of SE Australia. In Eliopoulos, D.G. et al. (eds.), Mineral Exploration and Sustainable Development, Millpress Science, Rotterdam, pp. 739-742.

Biermeier, C., K. Stuwe, D.A. Foster, and F. Finger, 2003, Thermal evolution of the Redbank thrust system, central Australia: geochronological and phase-equilibrium constraints: Tectonics, v. 22, 1002, doi: 10.1029/2001TC901033.

Biermeier, C., M. Wiesinger, K. Stuwe, D.A. Foster, H.J. Gibson, A. Raza, 2003, Aspects of the structural and late thermal evolution of the Redbank thrust system, central Australia: constraints from the Spears metamorphics: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 50, p. 983-999.

Gray, D.R., D.A. Foster, V.J. Morand, C.E. Willman, R.A. Cayley, C. Spaggairi, D.H. Taylor, C.M. Gray, A.H.M. VandenBerg, M.A. Hendrix, and C.J.L. Wilson, 2003, Structure, metamorphism, geochronology and tectonics of Paleozoic rocks, Chapter 2: In Birch, B. (ed.) Geology of Victoria, Geological Society of Australia Special Publication, 23, p. 15-71.

Kalakay, T.J., D.A. Foster, and R.C. Thomas, 2003, Geometry and timing of deformation in the Anaconda extensional terrane, west-central Montana: Northwest Geology, v. 32, p. 124-133.

Kohn, B.P., Gleadow, A.J.W., Brown, R.W., Gallagher, K., O’Sullivan, P.B. and Foster, D.A, 2003, Shaping the Australian crust over the last 300 million years: Insights from fission track thermotectonic imaging and denudation studies of key terranes, Reply: Australian Journal of Earth Science, v. 50, p. 646-650.

Spaggiari, C.V., D.R. Gray, D.A. Foster, 2003, Tethyan- and Cordilleran-type ophiolites of eastern Australia: implications for the evolution of the Tasmanides. In: Dilek Y., Robinson P.T. (Eds), Ophiolites in Earth’s History. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 218, p. 517-539.

Spaggiari, CV., D.R. Gray, and D.A. Foster, 2003, Formation and emplacement of the Dolodrook serpentinite body, Lachlan Orogen, Victoria. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 50, p. 709-723.

Spaggiari, C.V., D.R. Gray, D.A. Foster, and S. McKnight, 2003, Evolution of the boundary between the western and central Lachlan Orogen: implications for Tasmanide tectonics. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 50, p. 725-749.

Bierlein, F.P., D.R. Gray, and D.A. Foster, 2002, Metallogenic relationships to tectonic evolution – the Lachlan Orogen, Australia: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 202, p. 1-13.

Carter, T.J., B.P. Kohn, A.J.W. Gleadow, D.A. Foster, D.X. Belton, and J.D. Woodhead, 2002, Low temperature thermochronology of metamorphic core complexes: case studies from the Basin and Range Province, southwestern USA: Geotemas, v. 4, p. 45-46.

Foster, D.A., and A. Raza, 2002, Low-temperature thermochronological record of exhumation of the Bitterroot metamorphic core complex, northern Cordilleran Orogen: Tectonophysics, v. 349, p. 23-36.

Gray, D.R., D.A. Foster, F.P. Bierlein, 2002, Geodynamics and metallogeny of the Lachlan Orogen: Australian Journal of Earth Science, v. 49, p. 1041-1056.

Kohn, B.P., D.A. Foster, and K.A. Farley, 2002, Low-temperature thermochronology of apatites with exceptional variations: the Stillwater Complex, Montana revisited: Geotemas, v. 4, p. 103-105.

Kohn, B.P., A.J.W. Gleadow, R.W. Brown, K. Gallagher, P.B. O’Sullivan, and D.A, Foster, 2002, Shaping the Australian crust over the last 300 million years: Insights from fission track thermotectonic imaging and denudation studies of key terranes: Australian Journal of Earth Science, v. 49, p. 697-717.

Korsch, R.J., T.J. Barton, D.R. Gray, A.J. Owen, and D.A. Foster, 2002, Geological interpretation of a deep seismic reflection transect across the boundary between the Delamerian and Lachlan orogens, in the vicinity of the Grampians, Western Victoria: Australian Journal of Earth Science, v. 49, p. 1057-1075.

Mitchell, M.M., B.P. Kohn, P.B. O’Sullivan, M. Hartley, and D.A. Foster, 2002, Low-temperature thermochronology of the Mount Painter Province, South Australia: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 49, p. 551-563.

Murphy, J.G., D.A. Foster, T.J. Kalakay, B.E. John, and M. Hamilton, 2002, U-Pb zircon geochronology of the eastern Pioneer igneous complex, SW Montana: magmatism in the foreland of the Cordilleran fold and thrust belt, Northwest Geology, v. 31, p. 1-11.

Spikings, R.A., D.A. Foster, B.P. Kohn, and G.S. Lister, 2002, Post-orogenic (<1500 Ma) thermal history of the Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic Mt. Isa province, NE Australia: Tectophysics, v. 349, p. 327-365.

Spaggiari, C.V., D.R. Gray, D.A. Foster, 2002, Blueschist metamorphism during accretion in the Lachalan Orogen, southeastern Australia: Journal of Metamorphic Geology, v. 20, p. 711-726.

Spaggiari, C.V., D.R. Gray, D.A. Foster, and M. Fanning, 2002, Occurrence and significance of blueschist in the southern Lachalan Orogen: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 49, p. 255-269.

Weber, U.D., B.P. Kohn, D.A. Foster, D.R. Nelson, and A.J.W. Gleadow, 2002, Post-Paleoproterozoic thermochronology of the Precambrian northern Western Australian shield: Geotemas, v. 4, p. 167-169.

Yin, A., P.E., Rumelhart, R. Butler, E. Cowgil, T.M. Harrison, D.A. Foster, R.V. Ingersoll, Zhang Qing, Zhou Xian-Qiang, Wang Xiao-Feng, A. Hansen, A. Raza, 2002, Tectonic history of the Altyn Tagh fault system in northern Tibet inferred from Cenozoic sedimentation: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 114, p. 1257-1295.

Bierlein, F.P., D.C. Arne, D.A. Foster, and P. Reynolds, 2001, A geochronological framework for orogenic gold mineralisation in central Victoria, Australia: Mineralium Deposita, v. 36, p. 741-767.

Coyner, S.J., D.A. Foster, and C.M. Fanning, 2001, Emplacement chronology of the Paradise Pluton: Implications for the development of the Bitterroot metamorphic core complex, Montana/Idaho: Northwest Geology, v. 30, p. 10-20.

Foster, D.A., C. Schafer, C.M. Fanning, and D.W. Hyndman, 2001, Relationships between crustal partial melting, plutonism, orogeny, and exhumation: Idaho-Bitterroot batholith: Tectonophysics, v. 342, p. 313-350.

Gray, D.R., and D.A. Foster, 2001, Character and kinematics of faults within the turbidite-dominated Lachlan Orogen: implications for the tectonic evolution of eastern Australia: reply: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 23, p. 145-147.

Spikings, R., D.A. Foster, B.P. Kohn, and P.B. O’Sullivan, 2001, The Late Neoproterozoic to Holocene thermal history of the Precambrian Georgetown Inlier, northeast Australia: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 48, p. 9-24.

Spikings, R.A., D.A. Foster, B.P. Kohn, and G.S. Lister, 2001, Post-orogenic (<1500 Ma) thermal history of the Mesoproterozoic Eastern Fold Belt, Mount Isa Inlier, Australia: Precambrian Research, v. 109, p. 103-144.

Stuwe, K. and D. Foster, 2001, 40Ar/39Ar, pressure, temperature and fission-track constraints on the age and nature of metamorphism around the main central thrust in the eastern Bhutan, Himalaya: Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v. 19, p. 85-95.

Campbell, E.A., B.E. John, D.A. Foster, J. Geissman, and R.F. Livaccari, 2000, Mechanisms for accommodation of Miocene extension: low-angle normal faulting, magmatism, and secondary breakaway faulting in the southern Sacramento Mountains, southeastern California: Tectonics, v. 19, p. 566-587.

Fletcher, J.M., B.P. Kohn, D.A. Foster, and A.J.W Gleadow, 2000, Heterogeneous Neogene cooling and exhumation of the Las Cabos block, southern Baja California: evidence from fission track thermochronology: Geology, v. 28, p. 107-110.

Foster, D.A., 2000, Tectonic evolution of the Eocene Bitterroot metamorphic core complex, Montana and Idaho: In Roberts, S. and Winston, D., Geologic field trips, western Montana and adjacent areas: Rocky Mountain Section of the Geological Society of America, University of Montana, Missoula, p. 1-29.

Foster, D.A., and D.R. Gray, 2000, The structure and evolution of the Lachlan Fold Belt (Orogen) of Eastern Australia: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 28, p. 47-80.

Foster, D.A. and D.R. Gray, 2000, Timing of orogenic events in the Lachlan Orogen: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 47, p. 813-822.

Foster, D.A. and D.R. Gray, 2000, Field Guide to the Geology and Thermochronology of the Western Lachlan Orogen (Fold Belt): Geological Society of Australia, Syndey, pp. 57.

Gray, D.R., and D.A. Foster, 2000, Character and kinematics of faults within the turbidite-dominated Lachlan Orogen: implications for the tectonic evolution of eastern Australia: Reply: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 22, p. 529-535.

Kalakay, T.J., B.E. John, and D.A. Foster, 2000, Dynamics of syn-compressional magmatism in Sevier fold-and-thrust belt of southwest Montana: In Roberts, S. and Winston, D., Geologic field trips, western Montana and adjacent areas: Rocky Mountain Section of the Geological Society of America, University of Montana, Missoula, p. 157-177.

Bierlein, F.P., D.A. Foster, S. McKnight, and D.C. Arne, 1999, Timing of gold mineralisation in the Ballarat Goldfield, central Victoria: constraints from 40Ar/39Ar results: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 46, p. 301-309.

Bierlein, F.P. , D.A. Foster, S. Keay, D.C. Arne, and N.J. McNaughton, 1999, A dynamic model for gold mineralization in the western Lachlan Orogen, Victoria, Australia: implications for the origin of slate belt gold veins, in C.J, Stanley et al. (eds.), Mineral Deposits: Processes to Processing: Balekma, Rotterdam, pp. 1251-1254.

Cartwright, I., I.S. Buick, and D.A. Foster, and D.D. Lambert, 1999, Alice Springs age shear zones from the Southeastern Reynolds Range, central Australia: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 46, p. 355-364.

Foster, D.A., and B.E. John, 1999, Quantifying tectonic exhumation in an extensional orogen with thermochronology: examples from the southern Basin and Range Province: In Ring, U., Brandon, M., Lister, G.S., and Willett, S.D. (eds), Exhumation Processes: normal faulting, ductile flow, and erosion: Geological Society (London) Special Publication, 154, p. 356-378.

Foster, D.A., D.R. Gray, and M. Bucher, 1999, Chronology of deformation within the turbidite-dominated Lachlan orogen: implications for the tectonic evolution of eastern Australia and Gondwana: Tectonics, v. 18, p. 452-485.

Glen, R.A., P.G. Lennox, D.A. Foster, 1999, 40Ar-39Ar dating of deformations west of the Hill End Trough Lachlan Orogen New South Wales: Quarterly Notes Geological Survey of New South Wales, 110, 13-22.

Miller, J.McL., D.R. Gray, R.T. Gregory, and D.A. Foster, 1999, Exhumation of a high pressure terrain during convergent margin tectonism, Oman: structural and geochronological constraints: In Ring, U., Brandon, M., and Lister, G.S. (eds), Exhumation processes: normal faulting, ductile flow and erosion: Geological Society (London) Special Publication, 154, p. 246-260.

Pease, V., D. Foster, P. O’Sullivan, J. Wooden, J. Argent, and C. Fanning, 1999, The Northern Sacramento Mountains, Part II: Exhumation history and detachment faulting: In Mac Niocaill, C. and Ryan, P.D. (eds.), Continental Tectonics, Geological Society (London) Special Publication, v. 164, p. 199-237.

Wilson, C.J.L., D.R. Gray, D.A. Foster, V.J. Morand, P.M. Schaubs, and C. Spaggiari, 1999, The great southern transect I: an overview of the geology of the eastern, central, and western sub-provinces of the Lachlan Fold Belt; Mallacoota to Halls Gap, Victoria: Specialist Group in Tectonics and Structural Geology Field Guide No. 5, Geological Society of Australia, 123 pp.

Foster, D.A., and K. Ehlers, 1998, 40Ar-39Ar thermochronology of the southern Gawler Craton, Australia; implications for Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic tectonics of East Gondwana and Rodinia: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 103, p. 10,177-10,193.

Foster, D.A., D.R. Gray, T.A.P. Kwak, and M. Bucher, 1998, Chronology and tectonic framework of turbidite hosted gold deposits in the western Lachlan Fold Belt, Victoria: 40Ar-39Ar results: Ore Geology Reviews, v. 13, p. 229-250.

Gray, D.R., and D.A. Foster, 1998, Character and kinematics of faults within the turbidite-dominated Lachlan Orogen: implications for the tectonic evolution of eastern Australia: Journal of Structural Geology, 20, 1691-1720.

Gray, D.R, D.A. Foster, C. Gray, J. Cull, and G. Gibson, 1998, Lithospheric structure of the southeast Australian Lachlan Fold Belt along the Victorian Global Geoscience Transect: International Geology Review, 40, 1088-1117.

Hartley, M.J., D.A. Foster, D.R. Gray, B.P. Kohn, 1998, 40Ar-39Ar and apatite fission track thermochronology of the Broken Hill Inlier: implications for the Mesoproterozoic to Recent tectonics: Australian Geological Survey Organisation Record, 1998/25, 46-49.

Lennox, P., T. Fowler, and D. Foster, 1998, The composite Barry and Sunset Hills Granites: Wyangala style intrusion at the margin of a regional ductile shear zone, northern Lachlan Fold Belt, NSW: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 45, p. 849-863.

Mitchell, M.M., B.P. Kohn, and D.A. Foster, 1998, Post-orogenic cooling history of eastern South Australia from apatite FT thermochronology, in P. Van den haute and F. De Corte, eds., Advances in Fission Track Geochronology: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrect, p. 207-224.

Offler, R., J. McL. Miller, D.R. Gray, D.A. Foster, and R. Bale, 1998, Crystalinity and bo spacing of K-white micas in a Paleozoic accretionary complex, eastern Australia: metamorphism, paleo-geotherms and structural style of an underplated sequence: Journal of Geology, v. 106, p. 495-509.

Scott, R.J., D.A. Foster, and G.S. Lister, 1998, Tectonic implications of rapid cooling of denuded lower plate rocks from the Buckskin-Rawhide metamorphic core complex, west-central Arizona: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 110, p. 588-614.

Soesoo, A., P.D. Bons, D.R. Gray, and D.A. Foster, 1998, Divergent double subduction: tectonic and petrologic consequences: Reply: Geology, v. 29, p. 1053-1054.

Arne, D., B. Worley, C. Wilson, S.F Chen, D.A. Foster, Z.L. Luo, S.G. Liu, and P. Dirks, 1997, Differential exhumation in response to episodic thrusting along the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Tectonophysics, v. 280, p. 239-256.

Crowhurst, P.V., K.C. Hill, and D.A. Foster, 1997, The structural and tectonic development of the Frieda River mineral district, NW Papua, New Guinea: in Hancock, G. (ed.), Proceedings of the PNG Geology, Exploration and Mining Conference 1997, Madang, Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Melbourne, p. 51-60.

Foster, D.A., and K. Ehlers, 1997, 40Ar-39Ar thermochronology of the southern Gawler Craton, Australia: Australian Geodynamics Cooperative Research Centre, Perth, Report R61, 40 pp.

Foster, D.A., and C.M. Fanning, 1997, Geochronology of the northern Idaho batholith and Bitterroot metamorphic core complex: magmatism preceding and contemporaneous with extension: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 109, p. 379-394.

Gray, D.R., and D.A. Foster, 1997, Orogenic concepts – application and definition: Lachlan Fold Belt, Eastern Australia: American Journal of Science, v. 297, p. 859-891.

Gray, D.R., D.A. Foster, and M. Bucher, 1997, Recognition and definition of orogenic events in the Lachlan Fold Belt: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 44, 489-501.

Kleeman, J.D., I.R. Plimer, J. Lu, D.A. Foster, and R. Davidson, 1997, Timing of thermal and mineralisation events associated with the Mole Granite, New South Wales: in Ashley, P.M., and Flood, P.G. (eds.) Tectonics and metallogenesis of the New England Orogen: Alan H. Voisey Memorial volume: Geological Society of Australia Special Publication, 19, p. 254-265.

Kohn, B.P., S. Feinstein, D.A. Foster, M.S. Steckler, and M. Eyal, 1997, Thermal history of the eastern Gulf of Suez: II Reconstruction from apatite fission track and 40Ar/39Ar K-feldspar measurements: Tectonophysics, v. 283, p. 219-239.

Noble, W.P., D.A. Foster, and A.J.W. Gleadow, 1997, The post Pan African thermal and extensional history of crystalline basement rocks in Eastern Tanzania: Tectonophysics, v. 275/4, p. 331-350.

Soesoo, A., P.D. Bons, D.R. Gray, and D.A. Foster, 1997, Divergent double subduction: tectonic and petrologic consequences: Geology, v. 25, p. 755-758.

Spikings, R.A., D.A. Foster, and B.P. Kohn, 1997, Phanerozoic denudation history of the Mount Isa Inlier, Northern Australia: a record of the response of a Proterozoic mobile belt to intraplate tectonics: International Geology Review, v. 39, 107-124.

Spikings, R.A., D.A. Foster, and B.P. Kohn, 1997, Phanerozoic denudation history of the Mt Isa Inlier, Northern Australia: a record of the response of a Proterozoic mobile belt to intraplate tectonics: In Ailleres, L., and Betts, (eds.), Structural Elements of the Eastern Successions: A Field Guide Illustrating the Geology of the Eastern Mount Isa Terrane, Australia. Australian Crustal Research Centre, Melbourne, Technical Publication 63, p. 95-116.

Bierlein, F.P., D.A. Foster, and I.R. Plimer, 1996, Tectonothermal implications of laser 40Ar-39Ar ages of sulphide-bearing veins in the Willyama Supergroup, South Australia: Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 58, p. 1-22.

Crowhurst, P.V., K.C. Hill, D.A. Foster, and A.P. Bennett, 1996, Thermochronological and geochemical constraints on the tectonic evolution of northern Papua New Guinea, in Hall, R. and D. Blundell, eds., Tectonic Evolution of Southeast Asia: Geological Society London Special Publication, 106, 525-537.

Foster, D.A., and A. J. W. Gleadow, 1996, Structural framework and denudation history of the flanks of the Kenya and Anza Rifts, East Africa: Tectonics, v. 15, p. 258-271.

Foster, D.A., and G.S. Lister, 1996, Preliminary 40Ar-39Ar geochronological results in the Eastern Fold Belt of the Mount Isa Inlier, Australia, Australian Crustal Research Centre, Melbourne, Technical Publication, No, 44, 19 p.

Foster, D.A., D.R. Gray, and R. Offler, 1996, The Western Subprovince of the Lachlan Fold Belt: Structural Style, Geochronology, Metamorphism, and Tectonics: Specialist Group in Geochemistry, Mineralogy, and Petrology Field Guide No. 1, Geological Society of Australia, 89 pp.

Foster, D.A., T.A.P. Kwak, and D.R. Gray, 1996, Timing of gold mineralisation and relationship to metamorphism, thrusting, and plutonism in Victoria: Australian Institute of Geologists Bulletin, v. 20, 49-53.

Howard, K.A., and D.A. Foster, 1996, Thermal and unroofing history of a thick, tilted Basin and Range crustal section, Tortilla Mountains, Arizona: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 101, p. 511-522.

Lu, J., P.K. Seccombe, D.A. Foster, and A.S. Andre, 1996, Timing of mineralization and source of fluids in a slate-belt auriferous vein system, Hill End goldfield, NSW, Australia: Evidence from 40Ar-39Ar dating and O- and H- isotopes: Lithos, v. 38, p. 147-165.

Lu, J., I.R. Plimer, D.A. Foster, and B.G. Lottermoser, 1996, Multiple post-orogenic reactivation in the Olary Block, South Australia, evidence from 40Ar/39Ar dating of pegmatitic muscovite: International Geology Reviews, v. 38, p. 665-685.

Mitchell, M.M., B.P. Kohn, and D.A. Foster, 1996, Apatite fission track thermochronology of the Mt Painter Inlier and the adjacent Adelaide Geosyncline, Australian Geodynamics Cooperative Research Centre, Perth, Report R52, 19 pp., 1 Appendix.

O’Sullivan, P.B., D.A. Foster, B.P. Kohn, and A.J.W. Gleadow, 1996, Multiple post orogenic denudation events: An example from the eastern Lachlan fold belt, Australia: Geology, v. 24, p. 563-566.

Allen, C.M., J.L. Wooden, K.A. Howard, D.A. Foster, and R.M. Tosdal, 1995, Sources of the Early Cretaceous plutons in the Turtle and West Riverside Mountains, California: Anomalous Cordillerian interior plutons: Journal of Petrology, v. 36, p. 1675-1700.

Foster, D.A., 1995, Limits on the tectonic significance of rapid cooling events in extensional settings: Insights from the Bitterroot metamorphic core complex, Idaho-Montana: Comment: Geology, v. 23, p. 1051-1052.

Howard, K.A., K.J.W. McCaffrey, J.L. Wooden, D.A. Foster, and S.E. Shaw, 1995, Jurassic thrusting of Precambrian basement over Paleozoic cover in the Clipper Mountains, southeastern California, in D.M. Miller and C. Busby, eds., Jurassic Magmatism and Tectonics of the North American Cordillera: Geological Society of America Special Paper 299, p. 375-392.

O’Sullivan, P.B., D.A. Foster, B.P. Kohn, A.J.W. Gleadow, and A. Raza, 1995, Constraints on the dynamics of rifting and denudation on the eastern margin of Australia: Fission track evidence for two discrete causes of rock cooling: Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Publication 9/95, p. 441-446.

O’Sullivan, P.B., B.P. Kohn, D.A. Foster, and A.J.W. Gleadow, 1995, Fission track data from the Bathurst batholith: evidence for rapid middle Cretaceous uplift and erosion within the eastern highlands of Australia: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 42, p. 597-607.

Plimer, I.R., J. Lu, D. Foster, and J. Kleeman, 1995, Ar-Ar dating of multiphase mineralisation associated with the Mole Granite, Australia, in Pasava, Kribek, and Zak, eds., Mineral Deposits: A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, p. 497-500.

Foster, D.A., J.M. Murphy, and A.J.W. Gleadow, 1994, Middle Tertiary hydrothermal activity and uplift of the northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia: insights from apatite fission-track analysis: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 41, p. 11-17.

Foster, D.A., A.J.W. Gleadow, and G. Mortimer, 1994, Rapid Pliocene exhumation in the Karakoram, revealed by fission-track thermochronology of the K2 gneiss: Geology, v. 22, p. 19-22.

Baldwin, S.L., G.S. Lister, E.J. Hill, D.A. Foster, and I. McDougall, 1993, Thermochronologic constraints on the tectonic evolution of an active metamorphic core complex, D’Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea: Tectonics, v. 12, p. 611-628.

Fitzgerald, P.G., S.J. Reynolds, E. Stump, D.A. Foster, and A.J.W. Gleadow, 1993, Thermochronologic evidence for timing of denudation and rate of crustal extension of the South Mountain metamorphic core complex and Sierra Estrella, Arizona: Nuclear Tracks, v. 21, p. 555-563.

Foster, D.A., and A.J.W. Gleadow, 1993, Episodic denudation in East Africa – a legacy of intracontinental tectonism: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 20, p. 2395-2398.

Foster, D.A., A.J.W. Gleadow, S.J. Reynolds, and P.G. Fitzgerald, 1993, The denudation of metamorphic core complexes and the reconstruction of the Transition Zone, west-central Arizona: constraints from apatite fission-track thermochronology: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 98, p. 2167-2185.

Foster, D.A., and A.J.W. Gleadow, 1993, The architecture of Gondwana rifting in southeastern Australia: evidence from apatite fission track thermochronology, in Findley, R.H., H.R. Banks, J.J. Veevers, and R. Unrug, eds., Gondwana 8 Assembly, Evolution and Dispersal: A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, p. 597-603.

Hill, K.C., A. Grey, D.A. Foster, and R. Barrett, 1993, An alternative model for the Oligo-Miocene evolution of northern PNG and the Sepik-Ramu Basins, in G.J. Carmen and Z. Carmen, eds., Petroleum Exploration and Development in Papua New Guinea: PNG Chamber of Mines and Petroleum, Port Moresby, p. 241-258.

John, B.E., and D.A. Foster, 1993, Structural and thermal constraints on the initiation angle of detachment faulting in the southern Basin and Range: The Chemehuevi Mountains case study: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 105, p. 1091-1108.

Foster, D.A., and A.J.W. Gleadow, 1992, The morphotectonic evolution of rift-margin mountains in central Kenya: constraints from apatite fission track analyses: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 113, p. 157-171.

Foster, D.A., C.F. Miller, T.M. Harrison, and T.D. Hoisch, 1992, The 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology and thermobarometry of metamorphism, plutonism, and tectonic denudation in the Old Woman Mountains area, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 104, p. 176-191.

Foster, D.A., and A.J.W. Gleadow, 1992, Reactivated tectonic boundaries and implications for the reconstruction of southeastern Australia and northern Victoria Land, Antarctica: Geology, v. 20, p. 267-270.

Foster, D.A., and J.E. Spencer, 1992, Apatite and zircon fission-track dates from the Northern Plomosa Mountains, western Arizona: Open-File Report, Arizona Geological Survey, 92-9, 11 p.

Miller, C.F., J.M. Hanchar, J.L. Wooden, V.C. Bennett, T.M. Harrison, D.A. Wark, and D.A. Foster, 1992, Source region of a granitoid batholith: evidence from lower crustal xenoliths and inherited accessory minerals: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, v. 83, p 49-62.

Miller, C.F., J.M. Hanchar, J.L. Wooden, V.C. Bennett, T.M. Harrison, D.A. Wark, and D.A. Foster, 1992, Source region of a granitoid batholith: evidence from lower crustal xenoliths and inherited accessory minerals:   in P.E. Brown and B.W. Chappell, eds., The second Hutton symposium on the origin of granites and related rocks: Geological Society of America Special Paper 272, p. 49-62.

Carl, B.S., C.F. Miller, and D.A. Foster, 1991, Western Old Woman Mountains shear zone: Evidence for late ductile extension in the Cordilleran orogenic belt: Geology, v. 19, p. 893-896.

Dumitru, T.A., P.B. Gans, D.A. Foster, and E.L. Miller, 1991, Refrigeration of the western Cordilleran lithosphere during Laramide shallow-angle subduction: Geology, v. 19, p. 1145-1148.

Dumitru, T.A., K.C. Hill, D.A. Coyle, I.R. Duddy, D.A. Foster, A.J.W. Gleadow, P.F. Green, G.M. Laslett, B.P. Kohn, and A.B. O’Sullivan, 1991, Fission track thermochronology: Application to continental rifting of southeastern Australia: Australian Petroleum Exploration Association Journal, v. 31, p. 131-142.

Foster, D.A., D.S. Miller, and C.F. Miller, 1991, Tertiary extension in the Old Woman Mountains area, California: evidence from apatite fission track analysis: Tectonics, v. 10, p. 875-886.

Foster, D.A., and D.W. Hyndman, 1990, Magma mixing and mingling between synplutonic mafic dikes and granite in the Idaho-Bitterroot batholith: Geological Society of America Memoir 174, p. 347-358.

Foster, D.A., and D.W. Hyndman, 1990, Large-scale anatexis: The importance of subcrustal magma intrusion: Eos, Transaction American Geophysical Union, v. 71, p. 299-300.

Foster, D.A., T.M. Harrison, P. Copeland, and M.T. Heizler, 1990, Effects of excess argon on K-feldspar age spectra in the presence of large diffusion domains and plagioclase inclusions: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 54, p. 1699-1708.

Foster, D.A., T.M. Harrison, C.F. Miller, and K.A. Howard, 1990, The 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of the eastern Mojave Desert, California and adjacent western Arizona with implications for the evolution of metamorphic core complexes: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 95, p. 20,005-20,024.

Foster, D.A., T.M. Harrison, and C.F. Miller, 1989, Age, inheritance, and uplift history of the Old Woman-Piute batholith, California and implications for K-feldspar age spectra: Journal of Geology, v. 97, p. 232-243.

Hyndman, D.W., and D.A. Foster, 1989, Plutonism at deep crustal levels: The Idaho batholith, Montana and Idaho, in D.W. Hyndman, ed., Cordilleran volcanism, plutonism, and magma generation at various crustal levels, Montana and Idaho, 28th International Geologic Congress Field Trip Guide T337: American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., p. 1-15.

Hyndman, D.W., D.A. Foster, C. Rutland, H.W. Smedes, R.I. Tilling, W.R. Greenwood, and R.F. Hardyman, 1989, Cordilleran volcanism, plutonism, and magma generation at various crustal levels; Montana and Idaho: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Memoir 47, p. 255-264.

Hyndman, D.W., and D.A. Foster, 1988, The role of tonalites and mafic dikes in the generation of the Idaho batholith: Journal of Geology, v. 96, p. 31-46.

Hyndman, D.W., and D.A. Foster, 1988, The northern Idaho batholith and its associated high-grade metamorphic rocks, in S.E. Lewis, and R.B. Berg, eds., Precambrian and Mesozoic plate margins: Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, Special Publication 96, p. 97-102.

Hyndman, D.W., and D.A. Foster, 1988, Field guide to a section through the northern Idaho batholith and surrounding high-grade metamorphic rocks, in S.E. Lewis, and R.B. Berg, eds., Precambrian and Mesozoic plate margins: Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, Special Publication 96, p. 159-164.