Kevin C. A. Burke

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Kevin C. A. Burke's Degrees

PhD Geology University of Oxford
Bachelors Geology University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, Kevin C. A. Burke was a geologist known for his contributions in the theory of plate tectonics. In the course of his life, Burke held multiple professorships, most recent of which was the position of professor of geology and tectonics at the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science, University of Houston. His studies on plate tectonics, deep mantle processes, sedimentology, erosion, soil formation and other topics extended over several decades and influenced multiple generations of geologists and geophysicists around the world.

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Plume-Generated Triple Junctions: Key Indicators in Applying Plate Tectonics to Old Rocks (1973) (870)
Tibetan, Variscan, and Precambrian Basement Reactivation: Products of Continental Collision (1973) (847)
Relative timing of rifting and volcanism on earth and its tectonic implications (1978) (487)
Development of Pull-Apart Basins (1983) (481)
Plume Generation Zones at the margins of Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces on the core–mantle boundary (2008) (416)
Tectonic Evolution of the Caribbean (1988) (409)
Diamonds sampled by plumes from the core–mantle boundary (2010) (378)
Opening of the Gulf of Guinea and Geological History of the Benue Depression and Niger Delta (1971) (328)
The African Erosion Surface: A Continental-scale Synthesis of Geomorphology, Tectonics, and Environmental Change over the Past 180 Million Years (2008) (297)
Large igneous provinces generated from the margins of the large low-velocity provinces in the deep mantle (2006) (285)
Hot Spots and Continental Break-up: Implications for Collisional Orogeny (1974) (238)
Insights into the tectonic evolution of the North China Craton through comparative tectonic analysis: A record of outward growth of Precambrian continents (2016) (234)
Longshore Drift, Submarine Canyons, and Submarine Fans in Development of Niger Delta (1972) (227)
Is the African Plate Stationary? (1972) (221)
Derivation of Large Igneous Provinces of the past 200 million years from long-term heterogeneities in the deep mantle (2004) (214)
Chicxulub Multiring Impact Basin: Size and Other Characteristics Derived from Gravity Analysis (1993) (203)
Relative and Latitudinal Motion of Atlantic Hot Spots (1973) (199)
Buoyant ocean floor and the evolution of the Caribbean (1978) (197)
World distribution of sutures — the sites of former oceans (1977) (192)
Deep mantle structure as a reference frame for movements in and on the Earth (2014) (191)
Neotectonics of the Caribbean (1984) (190)
Caribbean tectonics and relative plate motions (1984) (183)
Hot spots on the Earth's surface (1976) (177)
Neogene Caribbean Plate rotation and associated Central American tectonic evolution (1983) (162)
Did the Kohistan-Ladakh island arc collide first with India? (2009) (161)
Was the Laramide orogeny related to subduction of an oceanic plateau? (1981) (160)
Tectonic boundary conditions for climate reconstructions (1998) (160)
Longitude: Linking Earth's ancient surface to its deep interior (2008) (156)
Gulf of Mexico tectonic history: Hotspot tracks, crustal boundaries, and early salt distribution (2005) (155)
Aulacogens and Their Genetic Relation to Geosynclines with A Proterozoic Example from Great Slave Lake Canada (1974) (143)
Long term stability in deep mantle structure: Evidence from the ~ 300 Ma Skagerrak-Centered Large Igneous Province (the SCLIP) (2008) (143)
New way to map old sutures using deformed alkaline rocks and carbonatites (2003) (141)
Plate Tectonics, the Wilson Cycle, and Mantle Plumes: Geodynamics from the Top (2011) (130)
Were Archean continental geothermal gradients much steeper than those of today? (1978) (129)
Cyrenaican “shock absorber” and associated inversion strain shadow in the collision zone of northeast Africa (2008) (129)
Origin of the Cameroon Line of Volcano‐Capped Swells (2001) (125)
Proterozoic mountain building in Peninsular India: an analysis based primarily on alkaline rock distribution (2006) (123)
Development of Graben Associated with the Initial Ruptures of the Atlantic Ocean (1976) (122)
Africa’s petroleum systems: four tectonic ‘Aces’ in the past 600 million years (2003) (122)
The chad basin: An active intra-continental basin (1976) (119)
Review of Caribbean neotectonics (1990) (116)
Paleozoic and Mesozoic Tectonic Evolution of Central Asia: From Continental Assembly to Intracontinental Deformation (2003) (114)
Rifts at high angles to orogenic belts; tests for their origin and the Upper Rhine Graben as an example (1978) (111)
Neotectonics of Hispaniola: plate motion, sedimentation, and seismicity at a restraining bend (1984) (110)
Archean foreland basin tectonics in the Witwatersrand, South Africa (1986) (109)
Upper mantle structure of southern Africa from Rayleigh wave tomography (2006) (105)
Neogene Structures in Jamaica and the Tectonic Style of the Northern Caribbean Plate Boundary Zone (1980) (94)
African lithospheric structure, volcanism, and topography (1989) (93)
Aulacogens and Continental Breakup (1977) (91)
Geochronology and geochemistry of Neoproterozoic Mt. Abu granitoids, NW India: Regional correlation and implications for Rodinia paleogeography (2013) (87)
Evolution of Southern Caribbean Plate Boundary, Vicinity of Trinidad and Tobago (1989) (85)
Tectonic Escape in the Evolution of the Continental Crust (2013) (83)
Is the Ventersdorp Rift System of Southern Africa related to a continental collision between the Kaapvaal and Zimbabwe Cratons at 2.64 Ga ago (1985) (75)
Precambrian palaeomagnetic results compatible with contemporary operation of the Wilson cycle (1976) (75)
Effect of stress fields on magma chamber stability and the formation of collapse calderas (2003) (69)
Tectonic history of Sumba Island, Indonesia, since the Late Cretaceous and its rapid escape into the forearc in the Miocene (2001) (64)
Seismic Areas of the Guinea Coast where Atlantic Fracture Zones reach Africa (1969) (63)
Subaerially exposed Holocene coral reef, Enriquillo Valley, Dominican Republic (1984) (63)
Global sea-level changes and the thermal structure of the earth (1978) (61)
Atlantic evaporites formed by evaporation of water spilled from Pacific, Tethyan, and Southern oceans (1975) (58)
Cenozoic rift formation in the northern Caribbean (1984) (57)
Two Types of Mountain Building (1972) (55)
The Pongola structure of southeastern Africa: The world's oldest preserved rift? (1985) (52)
A Bouguer gravity map of nigeria (1973) (52)
Transverse intra-arc rifting: Palaeogene Wagwater Belt, Jamaica (1990) (51)
Stratigraphy and Radiocarbon Chronology of a Subaerially Exposed Holocene Coral Reef, Dominican Republic (1985) (51)
Early Central Atlantic Ocean seafloor spreading history (2007) (49)
African hotspots and their relation to the underlying mantle (1979) (48)
Trans-African drainage system of the Sahara: Was it the Nile? (1989) (47)
Lithological, structural, and geochemical characteristics of the Mesoarchean Târtoq greenstone belt, southern West Greenland, and the Chugach – Prince William accretionary complex, southern Alaska: evidence for uniformitarian plate-tectonic processes (2016) (45)
Fission track evidence for the source of accreted sandstones, Barbados (1986) (43)
Neotectonics of a Strike-Slip Restraining Bend System, Jamaica (1985) (39)
Ten metre global sea-level change associated with South Atlantic Aptian salt deposition (1988) (38)
Surface deformation in Houston, Texas using GPS (2010) (35)
Four-phase tectonostratigraphic development of the southern Caribbean (1989) (35)
The Geology of the Islands of South Connemara (1955) (35)
The structure and sequence of geological events in the Basement Complex of the Ibadan area, Western Nigeria (1976) (34)
Geochronology of zircon megacrysts from nepheline-bearing gneisses as constraints on tectonic setting: implications for resetting of the U-Pb and Lu-Hf isotopic systems (2007) (33)
Plumes and Concentric Plume Traces of the Eurasian Plate (1973) (32)
Isotopic ages for alkaline igneous rocks, including a 26 Ma ignimbrite, from the Peshawar plain of northern Pakistan and their tectonic implications (2013) (32)
Pleistocene and Holocene geology of the island shelf near Kingston, Jamaica (1966) (28)
The Yallahs Basin: A sedimentary basin southeast of Kingston, Jamaica (1967) (28)
Age of the Jamaican Granodiorite (1963) (26)
Evolution of Continental Rift Systems in the Light of Plate Tectonics (1978) (26)
Geoinformatic approach to global nepheline syenite and carbonatite distribution: Testing a Wilson cycle model (2006) (26)
Kara and Ust-Kara impact structures (USSR) and their relevance to the K/T boundary event (1988) (25)
The nature and location of the suture zone in the Rokelide orogen, Sierra Leone: Geochemical evidence (2006) (21)
The geochemistry of volcanic, plutonic and turbiditic rocks from Sumba, Indonesia (2001) (21)
Magma chamber elongation as an indicator of intraplate stress field orientation: "borehole breakout mechanism" and examples from the Late Pleistocene to Recent Kenya Rift Valley (2000) (21)
Tectonics of the North Anatolian Transform Fault (1982) (20)
Lithospheric stress patterns: A global view (1993) (19)
Ozone depletion, greenhouse gases, and climate change (1989) (19)
Grenville Province and Monteregian carbonatite and nepheline syenite distribution related to rifting, collision, and plume passage (2008) (18)
Outline of the Tectonic Evolution of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Region (1980) (17)
Evolution of the Southern Caribbean Plate Boundary, Vicinity of Trinidad and Tobago: Reply (1) (1991) (17)
Plate Tectonics on the Early Earth (1979) (16)
Importance of the geological record in understanding global change (1990) (16)
Four-dimensional analysis of the inversion of a half-graben to form the Whittier fold–fault system of the Los Angeles basin (2002) (15)
Deposition and deformation in the deepwater sediment of the offshore Barreirinhas Basin, Brazil (2012) (15)
Spat Collection of a Non-Native Bivalve Species (European Oyster, Ostrea edulis) off the Eastern Canadian Coast (2008) (15)
Evolution of the Red Sea—Gulf of Aden Rift System (2005) (15)
An Outline of the Structure of the Galway Granite (1957) (14)
Isotopic evidence for a lithospheric origin of alkaline rocks and carbonatites: an example from southern Africa (2016) (13)
Evolution of Southern Caribbean Plate Boundary, Vicinity of Trinidad and Tobago: Discussion (1) (1991) (13)
Orogenic andesites and plate tectonics (1983) (13)
Alkaline rocks and carbonatites of northwestern Russia and northern Norway: Linked Wilson cycle records extending over two billion years (2007) (13)
Dissolved Gases in East African Lakes (1963) (13)
Submarine-canyon complex among Cretaceous island-arc sediments, western Jamaica (1980) (12)
Miocene rifting in the Los Angeles basin: Evidence from the Puente Hills half-graben, volcanic rocks, and P-wave tomography (2002) (12)
The Oughterard granite, Connemara, Co. Galway (1969) (12)
Age Relations of Connemara Migmatites and Galway Granite (1963) (12)
Plume–plate interaction (2014) (11)
Origin of the Rift Under the Amazon Basin as a Result of Continental Collision During Pan- African Time (1993) (11)
Landscape evolution in Africa during the Cenozoic and Quaternary—the legacy and limitations of Lester C. King (2016) (11)
A Wilson Cycle approach to some Proterozoic problems in eastern North America (1983) (10)
Pangea Breakup: Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, And Central Atlantic Ocean (2006) (10)
The Kara/Ust-Kara twin impact structure; A large-scale impact event in the Late Cretaceous (1990) (10)
Influences on the Development of the Great Escarpment of Southern Africa (2003) (10)
Abstract: Tectonic Significance of the Accumulation of the Voluminous Early Paleozoic Reservoir-Containing Quartz-Rich Sandstones of North Africa and Arabia (1999) (9)
Recent Faulting near the Volta Dam (1971) (9)
Plateau uplifts: Mode and mechanism (1979) (9)
Larval Quality of a Nonnative Bivalve Species (European Oyster, Ostrea edulis) Off the East Canadian Coast (2008) (8)
Workshop on the Early Earth: The Interval from Accretion to the Older Archean (1985) (8)
Continental margins. (1982) (8)
Detritus in K/T boundary clays of western North America - Evidence against a single oceanic impact (1990) (8)
Saharan Glaciation Dated in North America (1973) (8)
General featureCollisional plateaus (1985) (8)
Kara and Ust-Kara Impact Structures, USSR: Geochemical Relationship of the Target Rocks and Ejecta (1988) (8)
Beryl in the Rosses granite, north- west Ireland (1964) (7)
Mode and mechanisms of plateau uplifts (2013) (6)
Deep Mantle Structure As a Reference Frame for Absolute Plate Motions (2014) (5)
Replacement Veins in the Dahomeyan of Ghana (1959) (5)
Why is the areoid like the residual geoid? (2012) (5)
Theorems in pure mathematics can be proved right but the models used in applied mathematics, natural and social science, as well as in engineering, can at most be “not yet proved wrong” (2016) (4)
The Ribbon Continent of South America in Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela (2015) (4)
The Edges of the Ocean: An Introduction. (1979) (4)
The Long-term Evolution of the Crust and Mantle (1984) (4)
Topographic Science Working Group Report (1988) (4)
Geology of continental margins (1982) (4)
Plate tectonic history of the Arctic (1984) (4)
Dancing Continents (2007) (3)
Volcanism and Global Environmental Change: Large igneous province locations and their connections with the core–mantle boundary (2015) (3)
Climatic effects of volcanic eruptions (1985) (3)
Structure of the Melajo clay near Arima, Trinidad and strike-slip motion in the El Pilar fault zone (1986) (3)
ABSTRACT: Age and formation of oceanic basement beneath the Colombian and Venezuelan Basins: magnetic anomaly evidence (1995) (3)
Geophysical Evidence for a Possible Late Jurassic Mantle Plume in the Gulf of Mexico (2001) (2)
Review of plate tectonics (1979) (2)
Boulder Slide on an Inselberg in the Nigerian Rain Forest (1970) (2)
Diverse Geology Of Atlantic-Type Continental Margins And Some Possible Implications For U.S. Offshore Atlantic (1977) (2)
Thrusting on the Tibetan Plateau within the Last 5 Ma (1989) (2)
Are Steep Slopes on Venus Preserved as a Result of Chemical Cementation of Pore-Spaces in Surface Rocks? (1994) (2)
How Widely is the Andean Type of Continental Margin Represented in the Archean (1988) (2)
Greenstone belts are not intracontinental rifts. What then are they (1986) (2)
40 Ar/ 39 Ar Thermochronology of Sedimentary Basins Using Detrital Feldspars: Examples from the San Joaquin Valley, California, Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico, and North Sea (1989) (2)
Types and Characteristics of Terrestrial Anorthosites (1987) (2)
Magnetic anomalies indicate Gulf of Mexico originated by counterclockwise rotation of Yucatan from Gulf Coast (1987) (2)
Aspects of thermal evolution of Anadarko basin, Oklahoma (1987) (2)
Mesozoic Seafloor Spreading History of the Central Atlantic Ocean (2008) (1)
Abstract: Africa's Distinctive Behavior Over the Past 30 Million Years (1996) (1)
K-T impact(s): Continental, oceanic or both (1988) (1)
An illustration of the complexity of continent formation (1988) (1)
Rift basins - Origin, history, and distribution (1985) (1)
Introduction to the petroleum geology of the North Sea: K.W. Glennie (editor). Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1984, x + 236 pp., £stg 28.50 (cloth)/£stg 15.50 (paper) (1985) (1)
The Brazilian Equatorial Margin: A Snapshot in Time of an Oblique Rifted Margin* (2014) (1)
Lithospheric Delamination on Earth and Venus (1988) (1)
The Legacy of Sahelian Management: 1965–1988 (1990) (1)
Plume Generation Zones On The Core Mantle Boundary: their origin and what they tell about how the Earth works - and how it has worked (Arthur Holmes Medal Lecture) (2014) (1)
Drowned Dwarf Atolls South of Jamaica: NOTES (1968) (1)
Tibet: Where continents collide, part 1, South Tibet and the Yarlung Tsangpo Suture; book review (1990) (1)
Comments on: Why do i not accept plate tectonics? (1979) (1)
1989 Bowen Award to Ross Taylor (1990) (1)
Chicxulub impact basin: Gravity characteristics and implications for basin morphology and deep structure (1993) (1)
Were Archaean continental geothermal gradients much steeper than today? (reply) (1978) (1)
Is the Kapuskasing structure the site of a cryptic suture (1983) (1)
The Geology of Continental Margins. C. A. Burk , C. L. Drake (1976) (1)
Abstracts of Other Conference Presentations (1992) (0)
Abstract: Global Geomorphic Survey of Large Modern Subaerial Fans: Distribution and Exploration Implications (2002) (0)
Abstract: Worldwide Distribution of Major Carbon Dioxide Deposits: Geologic Setting and Gas Isotopic Evidence of Mantle Sources in Areas of Crustal Extension and Transtension (2007) (0)
Petroleum and global tectonics [book review] (1976) (0)
A Geology of Ireland (1982) (0)
Confirmation that some rifts are localized on ancient suture zones (2003) (0)
Undeformed and deformed alkaline rocks and carboantites: recorders of rifting and continental collision (2003) (0)
Transform Margin Rift Architecture: An Example from the Brazilian Equatorial Margin (2015) (0)
Planet Earth and the New Geoscience (1986) (0)
Chapter 2: The Ribbon Continent of South America in Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela (2015) (0)
Afria's Distinctive Behavior Over the Past 30 Millwn Years (1996) (0)
Dissolved Gases in East African Lakes (1963) (0)
The Kara Impact Structure (USSR) and the K/T-Boundary Event (1988) (0)
Collisional plateaus. [in earth and Venus lithospheres] (1985) (0)
Plate Tectonic History of the Arctic: ABSTRACT (1985) (0)
Evolution of the Earth's Crust. D. H. Tarling (1979) (0)
Chapter 3 long term dynamics of the solid earth (1989) (0)
ABSTRACT: From Earth's Core to the Industrial Ecosystem in Africa (2002) (0)
Chinese geology: the geology of china. (1986) (0)
Paleostress, Geodynamics and Natural Hazard Studies in the Western Pacific (2000) (0)
Coordination needed between International Oceanic and Continental Scientific Drilling Programs (1998) (0)
Global tectonic studies: Hotspots and anomalous topography (1979) (0)
Cenozoic Basin Development in Hispaniola: ABSTRACT (1984) (0)
Abstract: Evolution of the South-Eastern Corner of the Caribbean During the Last 25 Million Years (1987) (0)
ABSTRACT: Great Aptian Lake System of the South Atlantic (2001) (0)
How far have we come in Caribbean studies (1985) (0)
Author ' s personal copy Surface deformation in Houston , Texas using GPS (2010) (0)
ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE TREE: THE IMPACT OF LEAF ORIENTATION ON THE FRANKS MODEL FOR RECONSTRUCTING ANCIENT CO2 (2022) (0)
Continental rifts and mineral resources (1992) (0)
Geological atlas of Western and Central Europe: P. A. Ziegler. Shell International Petroleum Maatschappij B.V., Den Haag. Distributed by Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1982, 130 pp., 40 maps, Dfl. 160.00, U.S. $68.00 (1983) (0)
Landmark contributions: Credit pioneer in plate tectonics (2017) (0)
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Volume 28, 2000. (2000) (0)
A continental rift. (1979) (0)
Why are the Geoid and the Areoid so similar (2012) (0)
Rock System Science in Earth System Science (1994) (0)
Landmark contributions: Credit pioneer in plate tectonics. (2017) (0)
Africa's Vast Petroleum Reserves (2000) (0)
A crisis in the NASA space and earth sciences programme (1987) (0)
Development and Distribution of Rift Systems: ABSTRACT (1982) (0)
ABSTRACT: Sub-Aerial Basins Below Sea Level Provide Unexpected Reservoirs (2012) (0)
Continental Margins: Dynamics of Passive Margins . R. A. Scrutton, Ed. American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., and Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colo., 1982. vi, 200 pp., illus. $15. Geodynamics Series, vol. 6. (1982) (0)
Guidebook for a Grand Tour (2004) (0)
A Social Approach to Environmental Science. (1973) (0)
ABSTRACT: Great strike-slip plate boundary zone of the SE corner of the Caribbean (1995) (0)
GROWTH OF THE NORTH CHINA CRATON BY ARCHEAN THROUGH PALEOPROTEROZOIC ACCRETIONARY OROGENESIS (2017) (0)
Wilson cycle studies (1987) (0)
Activities at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (1984) (0)
Cenozoic basin development in Hispaniola (1984) (0)
Workshop on The Earth as a Planet (1986) (0)
What the British do best (1993) (0)
Synthesis of proterozoic data as a prerequisite for tectonic and thermal modeling (1984) (0)
Possible Analogous Long-Term History of the Terrestrial Geoid and the Martian Areoid (2008) (0)
Africa's Megafans and Their Tectonic Setting (2016) (0)
Extended Abstract: The Brazilian Equatorial Transform Margin: A Snapshot in Time of an Oblique Rifted Margin (2015) (0)
Abstract: Tectonic significance of the voluminous Lower Paleozoic quartz-rich sandstones of North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (2000) (0)

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