Robin Cocks
Leonard Robert Morrison "Robin" Cocks , also cited LRM Cocks or L. Robin M. Cocks, OBE , (born June 17, 1938 ) is a British geologist and paleontologist.
Cocks was a scientist at the Natural History Museum in London from 1965 , where he was keeper for paleontology from 1986 to 1998.
From 1997 to 2001 he was visiting professor at Imperial College .
Cocks described the first fossil finds (brachiopods, trilobites) from the Soom Shale in South Africa, an important Ordovician site , at the end of the 1960s . Later he dealt a lot with paleogeography and reconstruction of plate tectonics in the Paleozoic, where he worked with Trond Helge Torsvik .
1986 to 1988 he was President of the Palaeontological Association , of which he received the Lapworth Medal in 2010 and of which he is an honorary member. From 1998 to 2000 he was President of the Geological Society of London and from 1985 to 1989 its secretary. From 2004 to 2006 he was President of the Geologists Association.
Fonts
- Published in: The evolving earth, Cambridge University Press 1981
- Editor with Richard Selley, Ian Plimer Encyclopedia of Geology , 5 volumes, Elsevier, 2005
- Editor with C. Howard C. Brunton, Sarah Long Brachiopods past and present , Taylor and Francis 2001
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Cocks, Brunton, Rowell, Rust The first lower palaerozoic fauna proved from South Africa , Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Volume 125, 1970, pp. 583-603
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Cocks, Robin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cocks, Leonard Robert Morrison |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1938 |