Dr. Victor Gostin

Dr Gostin has wide research interests involving environmental geoscience, the origins and evolution of the solar system and of life, sedimentology, neotectonics, and the effects of climatic events on human history.

In 1985 in the Flinders Ranges, he identified a unique rock layer in the ancient rocks of the Flinders Ranges that was formed by a giant meteorite impact splatter derived from Australia's very large meteorite impact at Lake Acraman (Gawler Ranges). As a result of this discovery he has been honoured by having an asteroid named after him (3640 GOSTIN).

Some Publications

Tokarev V., Sandiford M. & Gostin V.A. 1999 Landscape evolution in the Mt Lofty Ranges: implications for regolith development in G. Taylor and C. Pain (eds) Regolith '98, New Approaches to an Old Continent, CRC LEME, 3rd Aust. Regolith Conference, Kalgoorlie, WA, Proceedings p 127-134.

Gostin V.A. & Zbik M. 1999 Petrology and microstructure of distal impact ejecta from the Flinders Ranges, Australia. Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences 34: 587-592

Williams G.E. & Gostin V.A. 2000 Mantle plume uplift in the sedimentary record: origin of kilometre-deep canyons within late Neoproterozoic successions, South Australia. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 157: 759-768.

Tokarev V. & Gostin V.A. 2002 Morphotectonic evolution of the western portion of the Mount Lofty Ranges. 10th Conference Australia and New Zealand Geomorphology Group - Kalgoorlie, Australia, 30 Sept - 4 Oct 2002; Conference Program, Abstracts and Participants, p 47.

Gostin V.A. (Editor) 2001 Gondwana to Greenhouse: Australian Environmental Geoscience. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 21, 356pp. ISSN 0072-1085.

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Last Updated: Jan 30 2006