About Victor A. Gostin
Born 1940. Victor A. Gostin is a geologist.
Victor A. Gostin (born 1940) is an Australian geologist, who discovered in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, a deposit of volcanic material that was ejected from the 300-kilometre distant Acraman crater when the impact was created by a meteorite some 580 million years ago.
Awards and honors
Main-belt asteroid 3640 Gostin, for "his major contributions to Earth Sciences education and various aspects of geology, including environmental geology, marine geology, planetology and sedimentology over the last forty years."
Personal life Gostin is an active member of the Theosophical Society in Australia and edits the e-newsletter Theosophy and Science.
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Who is Victor A. Gostin?
geological professor
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Victor A. Gostin was born in 1940.
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Victor A. Gostin is a geologist.
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