Robin Cocks

Leonard Robert Morrison " Robin " Cocks, LRM Cocks and L. Robin M. Cocks or quoted, OBE, ( born June 17, 1938) is a British geologist and paleontologist.

Cocks was from 1965, scientists at the Natural History Museum in London, where he was from 1986 to 1998 Keeper of Palaeontology.

1997 to 2001 he was a visiting professor at Imperial College.

Cocks described the late 1960s, the first fossils ( brachiopods, trilobites ) from the Soom Shale in South Africa, an important archaeological site of the Ordovician.

1986 to 1988 he was President of the Palaeontological Association, the Lapworth Medal he was awarded in 2010 and whose glory he is a member. 1998 to 2000 he was president of the Geological Society of London, 1985 to 1989, its secretary. 2004 to 2006 he was President of the Geologists Association.

Writings

  • Publisher: The evolving earth, Cambridge University Press 1981
  • Editor with Richard Selley, Ian Plimer Encyclopedia of Geology, 5 volumes, Elsevier, 2005
  • Editor with C. Howard C. Brunton, Sarah Long Brachiopods past and present, Taylor and Francis 2001
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