WHO ISBURKE, KEVIN C. (1929– ) British, American Tectonicist

British, American Tectonicist

Kevin Burke was born in London, England, on November 13,

1929, and lived there till the age of 23, taking bachelor’s and

doctor’s degrees at University College, London. The latter

involved field-mapping of crystalline rocks in Galway, Ireland.

In 1953 Burke was appointed a lecturer at what is now the

University of Ghana, and apart from five years working with

the British Geological Survey (1956–61) he spent the next 20

years teaching and doing field-related research at universities

in Ghana, Korea, Jamaica, Nigeria, and Canada. In Canada he

spent two years working with Tuzo Wilson at the University of

Toronto, and in 1973 he joined the Geology Department in

SUNY Albany where he spent 10 years working mainly with

John Dewey, Bill Kidd, and Celal Sengör on a variety of tectonic

problems. This group formulated tectonic models for

many of the world’s basins and mountain belts and made

reconstructions of the continents at various times in Earth history.

In 1983 Kevin Burke was appointed professor at the University

of Houston, spending most of his efforts between 1983

and 1988 as director of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in

Clear Lake. Between 1989 and 1992 Burke worked at the

National Research Council in Washington with scientists

putting together a major report on the future of the Solid Earth

Sciences. Burke has focused many of his efforts on Africa,

although he publishes extensively on other parts of the world,

especially Asia and the Caribbean. Burke has devoted great

efforts to editing journals and to national and international

committees. He is the editor of the Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

and was the president of the Scientific Committee on the

Lithosphere of the International Council of Scientific Unions.

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