Kevin C. A. Burke

British-American geologist and a leading figure in the plate tectonics revolution, whose early fieldwork across the Gold Coast (Ghana), the United Kingdom, Korea, Jamaica and Nigeria grounded his later synthesis of continental rifting, hotspot volcanism and mantle processes. As a visiting professor at the University of Toronto in 1972 and 1973 he became a close colleague of J. Tuzo Wilson, and in 1975 he named the recurring pattern of ocean basin opening and closing along old continental sutures the Wilson cycle. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/