Person
Crook, Keith Alan Waterhouse (1933 - 2020)
- Born
- 3 August 1933
- Died
- 18 February 2020
Eden, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Geologist
Summary
Keith Crook was a geologist whose research was in the tectonic development of sedimentary basins and in marine geology. His areas of study were in near Tumut in New South Wales and Papua New Guinea. With students and staff from the Australian National University (ANU) he coordinated the mapping of a large area around Eden and Twofold Bay on the N.S.W. coast. Crook taught at the ANU for over 30 years before taking early retirement in 1992. He then became Science Program Director of the Undersea Laboratory at the University of Hawai'i before returning to A.N.U. in 2004 as a Visiting Fellow. In 1983 Crook was awarded the Clarke Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales. The prehistoric, armoured lobe-finned fish discovered near Eden was named Edenopteron keithcrooki in his honour.
Details
Chronology
- 1954
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Sydney
- 1956
- Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of New England, New South Wales
- 1959 - 1961
- Career position - Postdoctoral studies, University of Melbourne and University of Alberta, Canada
- 1961 - 1992
- Career position - Lecturer in sedimentology and stratigraphy, Australian National University
- 1967
- Career position - Founding Member, Editorial Board, Sedimentary geology
- 1967
- Education - BA, Australian National University
- 1980 - 1987
- Career position - Chairman, Committee on Sedimentology, International Union of Geosciences
- 1983
- Award - Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales.
- 1986
- Career position - Convenor, 12th International Sedimentological Conference, Canberra
- 1986 - 1989
- Career position - Chairman of the Executive, Consortium for Ocean Geoscience of Australasian Universities
- 1987 - 2006
- Career position - Editor-in-Chief, Sedimentary geology
- 1992 - 2004
- Career position - Science Program Director of the Undersea Laboratory, University of Hawai'I, Honolulu, Hawaií, U.S.A.
- 2004 - 2017
- Career position - Visiting Fellow, Australian National University
Related entries
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, Melbourne, 2012, https://www.eoas.info/exhibitions/basser/basser_browse.html. Details
Books
- Brown, D. A., Campbell, K. S. W. and Crook, K. A. W., The geological evolution of Australia and New Zealand (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1968), 409 pp. Details
- Conybeare, C. E. B. and Crook, K. A. W., Manual of sedimentary structures (Canberra: Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, 1968), 327 pp. Details
Resources
- 'Crook, K A W (19330803-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-459339. Details
- Rickard, Michael John, Geology at ANU (1959-2009) : 50 years of history and reminiscences, with Caton, Judith, Australian National University. E Press, 2010, http://epress.anu.edu.au?p=55141. Details
Resource Sections
- Rickard, Mike, 'Crook, Keith Alan (1933 - 2022)', in Obituaries Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, Canberra, 2021. https://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/crook-keith-alan-32586/text40443. Details
See also
- Rickard, Mike, comp., Geology at ANU (1959-2009) : 50 Years of History and Reminiscences (Acton, A.C.T.: ANU E Press, 2010), 276 pp. Details
Ailie Smith and Helen Cohn
Created: 16 April 2012, Last modified: 13 February 2026