Prof. John Veevers
Adjunct Professor, Emeritus Professor
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Contact Details: Phone: + 61 2 9850 Fax: + 61 2 9850 8248 Email: jveevers@els.mq.edu.au
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John Veevers is Adjunct Professor at Macquarie University in Sydney. He has worked for 50 years on the geology of Australia,Gondwanaland, and Pangea, culminating in his editing Billion-year earth history of Australia and neighbours in Gondwanaland, and the supplementary coloured ATLAS. His most recent contribution has been a paper in Geology (June 2003, vol. 31, p. 501-504) called "Pan-African is Pan-Gondwanaland: Oblique convergence drives rotation during 650-500 Ma assembly".
He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of London, and Carey Medallist for Tectonics of the Geological Society of Australia. He was awarded a Special Investigator Award by the Australian Research Council, in part for his collaboration with Malcolm Walter on the Neoproterozoic stratigraphy and tectonics of Australia.
Veevers crater (http://gisp.gi.alaska.edu/craterbase/veevers.htm) was named in honour of his extensive work in the Western Australian desert by Yeates, A.N., Crowe, R.W.A. & Towner, R.R., 1976, The Veevers Crater: a possible meteorite feature: BMR Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics 1, 77-81; and confirmed by the discovery of meteoritic material, as described by Bevan, A.W.R., 1996, Australian crater-forming meteorites: AGSO Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics 16, 421-429, who found that
“Veevers is the only known crater-forming iron of Group IIAB”.
His work in the Australian Centre for Astrobiology will extend his stratigraphic/tectonic studies of Gondwanaland and Pangea to the other terrestrial planets.
Last Updated: Jan 30 2006