2024
[31] Choi, H., & Foley, B. J., A limited effect of continents on subduction initiation and lithospheric stresses, submitted, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth.
[30] Foley, B. J., Generation of TTGs via sluggish subduction, in revision, Geology.
[29] Foley, B. J. (2024). Exoplanet Geology: What can we learn from current and future observations? In press, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry.
[28] Stüeken, E. E., Olson S. L., Moore, E. & Foley, B. J. (2024). The early Earth as an analogue for exoplanetary biogeochemistry. In press, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry.
2023
[27] Teixeira, K. E., Morley, C. V., Foley, B. J., & Unterborn, C. T. (2023). The Carbon-deficient Evolution of TRAPPIST-1c. The Astrophysical Journal, 960(1), 44 (Publisher link).
[26] Way, M.J., Ostberg, C., Foley, B.J., Gillmann, C., Höning, D., Lammer, H., O’Rourke, J., Persson, M., Plesa, A.C., Salvador, A. and Scherf, M., (2023). Synergies Between Venus & Exoplanetary Observations: Venus and Its Extrasolar Siblings. Space Science Reviews, 219(1), p.13, doi: 10.1007/s11214-023-00953-3 (Publisher link).
2022
[25] Brenner, A. R., Fu, R. R., Kylander-Clark, A. R. C., Hudak, G. J., Foley, B. J. Plate motion and a dipolar geomagnetic field at 3.25 Ga. (2022). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (44), e2210258119, doi:10.1073/pnas.2210258119 (Publisher link).
[24] Crossfield, I. J., Malik, M., Hill, M. L., Kane, S. R., Foley, B. J., Polanski, A. S., … & Morales, F. Y. (2022). GJ 1252b: A Hot Terrestrial Super-Earth With No Atmosphere. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 937(1), L17, doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac886b (Publisher link).
[23] Unterborn, C. T., Foley, B. J., Desch, S. J., Young, P. A., Vance, G., Chiffelle, L., & Kane, S. R. (2022). Mantle Degassing Lifetimes through Galactic Time and the Maximum Age Stagnant-lid Rocky Exoplanets Can Support Temperate Climates. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 930(1), L6 (Publisher link).
2021
[22] Kane, S. R., Foley, B. J., Hill, M. L., Unterborn, C. T., Barclay, T., Cale, B., … & Wittrock, J. M. (2021). Orbital Dynamics and the Evolution of Planetary Habitability in the AU Mic System. The Astronomical Journal, 163(1), 20, doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ac366b (Publisher link).
[21] Byrne, P. K., Foley, B. J., Violay, M. E., Heap, M. J., & Mikhail, S. (2021). The Effects of Planetary and Stellar Parameters on Brittle Lithospheric Thickness. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 126(11), e2021JE006952, doi:10.1029/2021JE006952 (Publisher link).
[20] Batra, K., & Foley, B. (2021). Scaling laws for stagnant-lid convection with a buoyant crust. Geophysical Journal International, 228(1), 631-663, doi:10.1093/gji/ggab366 (Publisher link).
2020
[19] Foley, B. J., C. Houser, L. Noack, and N. Tosi (2020), The Heat Budget of Rocky Planets in Planetary Diversity: Rocky Planet Processes and Their Observational Signatures, eds. E. J. Tasker, Y. Fujii, M. Laneuville, C. Unterborn, S. J. Desch, H. E. Hartnett, IOP Publishing, doi:10.1088/2514-3433/abb4d9ch4 (Publisher link).
[18] Foley, B. J. (2020), Timescale of Short‐Term Subduction Episodicity in Convection Models With Grain Damage: Applications to Archean Tectonics, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 125, e2020JB020478, doi:10.1029/2020JB020478 (Publisher link).
[17] Hayworth, B. P., & Foley, B. J. (2020), Waterworlds May Have Better Climate Buffering Capacities than Their Continental Counterparts, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 902(1), L10, doi:10.3847/2041-8213/abb882 (Publisher link).
[16] Kane, S. R., Roettenbacher, R. M., Unterborn, C. T., Foley, B. J., & Hill, M. L. (2020), A Volatile-poor Formation of LHS 3844b Based on Its Lack of Significant Atmosphere, The Planetary Science Journal, 1(2), 36, doi:10.3847/PSJ/abaab5 (Publisher link).
[15] Bauer, A. M., Reimink, J. R., Chacko, T., Foley, B. J., Shirey, S. B., & Pearson, D. G. (2020), Hafnium isotopes in zircons document the gradual onset of mobile-lid tectonics, GEOCHEMICAL PERSPECTIVES LETTERS, 14, 1-6, doi: 10.7185/geochemlet.2015 (Publisher link).
[14] Hayworth, Benjamin P.C., J. Haqq-Misra, R. C. Payne, N. E. Batalha, B. J. Foley, R. K. Kopparapu, Mma Ikwut-Ukwae, and J. F. Kasting (2020), Warming early Mars with climate cycling: The effect of CO2-H2O collision-induced absorption, Icarus, 113770, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2020.113770 (Publisher link).
2019
[13] Foley, B. J. (2019), Habitability of Earth-like stagnant lid planets: Climate evolution and recovery from snowball states, Astrophys. J., 875:72, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab0f31 (Publisher link).
2018
[12] Foley, B. J. (2018), The dependence of planetary tectonics on mantle thermal state: Applications to early Earth evolution, Philos. Trans. Royal Soc. A, 376: 20170409, doi:10.1098/rsta.2017.0409 (Publisher link).
[11] Foley, B. J. (2018), On the dynamics of coupled grain size evolution and shear heating in lithospheric shear zones, Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 283, 7-25, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2018.07.008. (Publisher link)
[10] Foley, B. J. and A. J. Smye (2018), Carbon cycling and habitability of Earth-size stagnant lid planets, Astrobiology, 18 (7), 873-896, doi:10.1089/ast.2017.1695. (Publisher link; EGU blog post about this paper; Penn State press release)
2017
[9] Foley, B. J. and H. Rizo (2017), Long-term preservation of early formed mantle heterogeneity by mobile lid convection: Importance of grainsize evolution, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 475, 94-105, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2017.07.031. (Publisher link)
2016
, , , , and (2016), Climate-Tectonic Coupling: Variations in the Mean, Variations about the Mean, Variations in Mode, J. Geophys. Res. Planets, 121, doi:10.1002/2016JE005089. (Publisher link)
[7] Foley, B. J. and P. E. Driscoll (2016), Whole planet coupling between climate, mantle, and core: Implications for rocky planet evolution, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 17, 1885–1914, doi:10.1002/2015GC006210. (Publisher link; EOS article about this paper)
2015
[6] Foley, B. J., (2015), The role of tectonic-climate coupling and exposed land area in the development of habitable climates on rocky planets, Astrophys. J., 812, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/812/1/36. (Publisher link)
2014
[5] Foley, B. J., D. Bercovici, and L.T. Elkins-Tanton (2014), Initiation of plate tectonics from post-magma ocean thermo-chemical convection, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 119, 1-24, doi:10.1002/2014JB011121. (Publisher link)
[4] Foley, B.J. and D. Bercovici (2014), Scaling laws for convection with temperature-dependent viscosity and grain-damage, Geophys. J. Int., 199 (1): 580-603, doi:10.1093/gji/ggu275. (Publisher link)
2012 & earlier
[3] Foley, B. J., D. Bercovici, and W. Landuyt (2012), The conditions for plate tectonics on super-Earths: Inferences from convection models with damage, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 331-332, 281-290, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.03.028. (Publisher link)
[2] Foley, B. J. and M. D. Long (2011), Upper and mid-mantle anisotropy beneath the Tonga slab, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L02303, doi:10.1029/2010GL046021. (Publisher link)
[1] Foley, B. J. and T. W. Becker (2009), Generation of plate-like behavior and mantle heterogeneity from a spherical, viscoplastic convection model, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 10, Q08001, doi:10.1029/2009GC002378. (Publisher link)