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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