Person

Veevers, John James (1930 - 2018)

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Born
13 October 1930
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died
12 August 2018
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Geologist

Summary

John Veevers was a geologist widely respected for his outstanding contributions to the study and mapping of Australia's sedimentary basins and for his studies on global tectonic cycles that define the development of Pangaea and Gondwana over the last 1,000 million years. His varied research projects included Devonian brachiopods from Western Australia, mapping the Bowen Basin in Queensland, and deep sea drilling in the Indian Ocean. For 15 years Veevers was a geologist with the Bureau of Mineral Resources before becoming a lecturer at Macquarie University, He retired in 1998 as Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Among his landmark publications were his edited books Phanerozoic earth history of Australia (1984), and Billion-year earth history of Australia and neighbours in Gondwanaland (2000) and its accompanying Atlas (2001). He was a founding Member (and later Fellow) of the Geological Society of Australia and the inaugural recipient of the Society's S. W. Carey Medal. Veevers Crater in Western Australia was named in his honour.

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Chronology

1948 - 1951
Career position - Cadet Geologist, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics
1952
Education - BSc (hons), University of Sydney
1952 - 1960
Career position - Geologist, Bureau of Mineral Resources
1952 - 2018
Career position - Founding Member (later Fellow), Geological Society of Australia
1954
Education - MSc, University of Sydney
1956
Education - PhD, University of Sydney
1956
Education - Diploma in geology, Imperial College, London
1961 - 1967
Career position - Senior Geologist, Bureau of Mineral Resources
1968
Award - Stillwell Award, Geological Society of Australia
1968 - 1991
Career position - Senior Lecturer (later Associate Professor), Macquarie University
1981 - 1983
Career position - Member, National Committee for Solid-Earth Sciences, Australian Academy of Science
1987
Award - Clarke Memorial Lecturer, Royal Society of New South Wales
1991 - 1998
Career position - Professor (personal chair), Macquarie University
1992
Award - S. W. Carey Medal, Geological Society of Australia
1995 - 2018
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science
1998 - ?
Career position - Emeritus Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University
2001
Award - Centenary Medal or service to Australian society and science in earth history

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Books

  • Veevers, J. J., Atlas of Billion-year earth history of Australia and neighbours in Gondwanaland (Sydney: Gemoc Press, 2001), 76 pp. Details

Edited Books

  • Veevers, J. J. ed., Phanerozoic earth history of Australia (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984), 418 pp. Details
  • Veevers, J. J. ed., Billion-year earth history of Australia and neighbours in Gondwanaland (North Ryde, N.S.W.: GEMOC Press, 2000), 388 pp. Details

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Resources

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