Victor Gostin
School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 1970 - ongoing Associate Professor University of Adelaide -
Awards and Achievements
Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount 2011 Honour Geological Society of Australia (SA) Bruce Webb Medal Geological Society of Australia (SA) Australia - -
Language Competencies
Language Competency English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review French Can read, speak and understand spoken Russian Can read, speak and understand spoken -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 1966 - 1968 Australian National University Australia PhD 1962 - 1963 University of Melbourne Australia MSc -
Research Interests
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Journals
Year Citation 2023 Squire, J., Curnow, P., Milnes, A., & Gostin, V. (2023). Notes on the Pens Collection of Australites in the Tate Museum, The University of Adelaide, and their use as artefacts. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 147(2), 161-172.
2021 Murray-Wallace, C. V., Cann, J. H., Yokoyama, Y., Nicholas, W. A., Lachlan, T. J., Pan, T. Y., . . . Gostin, V. A. (2021). Late Pleistocene interstadial sea-levels (MIS 5a) in Gulf St Vincent, southern Australia, constrained by amino acid racemization dating of the benthic foraminifer Elphidium macelliforme. Quaternary Science Reviews, 259, 106899.
Scopus4 WoS12019 Williams, G. E., & Gostin, V. A. (2019). Late Cryogenian glaciation in South Australia: Fluctuating ice margin and no extreme or rapid post-glacial sea-level rise. Geoscience Frontiers, 10(4), 1397-1408.
Scopus8 WoS52014 Gostin, V. A. (2014). Peeling back the layers under Adelaide. Bibliofile, 13(4), 3-8. 2013 Williams, G., Gostin, V., & Prescott, J. (2013). Stratigraphy and optical dating of Pleistocene coastal deposits in the Port Campbell australite strewn field, SW Victoria. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 60(4), 463-474.
Scopus3 WoS32012 Thomas, M., Clarke, J., Gostin, V., Williams, G., & Walter, M. (2012). The Flinders Ranges and surrounds, South Australia: a window on astrobiology and planetary geology. Episodes, 35(1), 226-235.
Scopus4 WoS22012 Bron, K., & Gostin, V. (2012). The Tookoonooka marine impact horizon, Australia: sedimentary and petrologic evidence. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 47(2), 296-318.
Scopus12 WoS102011 Gostin, V., McKirdy, D., & Williams, G. (2011). Ice, an asteroid impact & the rise of complex life. Australasian Science, 32(4), 34-36. 2010 Williams, G., & Gostin, V. (2010). Geomorphology of the Acraman impact structure, Gawler Ranges, South Australia. Cadernos do Laboratorio Xeoloxico de Laxe, 35(35), 209-219.
Scopus62010 Gostin, V., McKirdy, D., Webster, L., & Williams, G. (2010). Ediacaran ice-rafting and coeval asteroid impact, South Australia: insights into the terminal Proterozoic environment. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 57(7), 859-869.
Scopus43 WoS352008 Williams, G., Gostin, V., McKirdy, D., & Preiss, W. (2008). The elatina glaciation, late Cryogenian (Marinoan Epoch), South Australia: Sedimentary facies and palaeoenvironments. Precambrian Research, 163(3-4), 307-331.
Scopus81 WoS782006 Edwards, S., McKirdy, D., Bone, Y., Gell, P., & Gostin, V. (2006). Diatoms and ostracods as mid-Holocene palaeoenvironmental indicators, North Stromatolite Lake, Coorong National Park, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 53(4), 651-663.
Scopus15 WoS152006 McKirdy, D., Webster, L., Arouri, K., Grey, K., & Gostin, V. (2006). Contrasting sterane signatures in Neoproterozoic marine rocks of Australia before and after the Acraman asteroid impact. Organic Geochemistry, 37(2), 189-207.
Scopus24 WoS202005 Williams, G., & Gostin, V. (2005). Acraman-Bunyeroo impact event (Ediacaran), South Australia, and environmental consequences: twenty-five years on. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 52(4-5), 607-620.
Scopus43 WoS432004 Hill, A., Grey, K., Gostin, V., & Webster, L. (2004). New records of Late Neoproterozoic Acraman ejecta in the Officer Basin. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 51(1), 47-51.
Scopus21 WoS192004 Mann, G. A., Clarke, J. D. A., & Gostin, V. A. (2004). Surveying for Mars analogue research sites in the central Australian deserts. Australian Geographical Studies, 42(1), 116-124.
Scopus21 WoS92001 Christie-Blick, N., Williams, G., & Gostin, V. (2001). Discussion on mantle plume uplift in the sedimentary record: origin of kilometre-deep canyons within late Neoproterozoic successions, South Australia. Journal of the Geological Society, 158(3), 573-576.
WoS72001 Gostin, V. (2001). Introduction - Ancient Gondwana and an Australian environmental perspective. Geological Society of Australia, Special Publication, 21, xi-xvi. 2001 McKirdy, D., Burgess, J., Lemon, N., Yu, X., Cooper, A., Gostin, V., . . . Both, R. (2001). A chemostratigraphic overview of the late Cryogenian interglacial sequence in the Adelaide Fold-Thrust Belt, South Australia. Precambrian Research, 106(1-2), 149-186.
Scopus133 WoS1262000 Williams, G., & Gostin, V. (2000). Mantle plume uplift in the sedimentary record: origin of kilometre-deep canyons within late neoproterozoic successions, South Australia. Journal of the Geological Society, 157(4), 759-768.
Scopus43 WoS381999 Gostin, V., & Zbik, M. (1999). Petrology and microstructure of distal impact ejecta from the Flinders Ranges, Australia. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 34(4), 587-592.
Scopus10 WoS121998 Eyles, C., Eyles, N., & Gostin, V. (1998). Facies and allostratigraphy of high-latitude glacially-influenced marine stratigraphy of the Early Permian southern Sydney Basin, Australia. Sedimentology, 45(1), 121-161.
Scopus74 WoS671997 Gostin, V. A., & Therriault, A. M. (1997). Tookoonooka, a large buried early Cretaceous impact structure in the Eromanga Basin of southwestern Queensland, Australia. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 32(4), 593-599.
Scopus23 WoS191997 Eyles, N., Eyles, C. H., & Gostin, V. A. (1997). Iceberg rafting and scouring in the Early Permian Shoalhaven Group of New South Wales, Australia: Evidence of Heinrich-like events?. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 136(1-4), 1-17.
Scopus48 WoS431996 Wallace, M., Gostin, V., & Keays, R. (1996). Sedimentology of the Neoproterozoic Acraman impact-ejecta horizon, South Australia. Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics, 16(4), 443-451.
Scopus341995 Mazzoleni, A., Bone, Y., & Gostin, V. (1995). Cathodoluminescence of aragonitic gastropods and cement in Old Man Lake thrombolites, south-eastern South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 42(5), 497-500.
Scopus8 WoS71995 Zbik, M., & Gostin, V. (1995). Findersyty z Gor Flindersa, unikalne znalesisko odleglych pokryw impaktytowych w Australii. Prezeglad Geologiczny, 43(10), 863-869. 1995 Zbik, M., & Gostin, V. (1995). Flindersites from Flinders Range, a unique discovery of a distal ejecta blanket in Australia. Przeglad Geologiczny, 43(10), 863-868.
Scopus21994 Fuller, M. K., Bone, Y., Gostin, V. A., & Von Der Borch, C. C. (1994). Holocene cool-water carbonate and terrigenous sediments from southern Spencer Gulf, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 41(4), 353-363.
Scopus26 WoS251993 Cann, J. H., Belperio, A. P., Gostin, V. A., & Rice, R. L. (1993). Contemporary benthic Foraminifera in Gulf St Vincent, South Australia, and a refined Late Pleistocene sea-level history. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 40(2), 197-211.
Scopus43 WoS401993 Murray-Wallace, C. V., Belperio, A. P., Gostin, V. A., & Cann, J. H. (1993). Amino acid racemization and radiocarbon dating of interstadial marine strata (oxygen isotope stage 3), Gulf St. Vincent, South Australia. Marine Geology, 110(1-2), 83-92.
Scopus28 WoS241992 JAMES, N. P., BONE, Y., VON DER BORCH, C. C., & GOSTIN, V. A. (1992). Modern carbonate and terrigenous clastic sediments on a cool water, high energy, mid‐latitude shelf: Lacepede, southern Australia. Sedimentology, 39(5), 877-903.
Scopus167 WoS1601991 Wallace, M. W., Keays, R. R., & Gostin, V. A. (1991). Stromatolitic iron oxides: evidence that sea-level changes can cause sedimentary iridium anomalies. Geology, 19(6), 551-554.
Scopus25 WoS231990 WALLACE, M. W., GOSTIN, V. A., & KEAYS, R. R. (1990). SPHERULES AND SHARD-LIKE CLASTS FROM THE LATE PROTEROZOIC ACRAMAN IMPACT EJECTA HORIZON, SOUTH-AUSTRALIA. METEORITICS, 25(3), 161-165.
WoS211990 Young, G. M., & Gostin, V. A. (1990). Sturtian glacial deposition in the vicinity of the yankaninna anticline, North Flinders Basin, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 37(4), 447-458.
Scopus9 WoS101990 Wallace, M. W., Gostin, V. A., & Keays, R. R. (1990). Acraman impact ejecta and host shales: Evidence for low-temperature mobilization of iridium and other platinoids. Geology, 18(2), 132-135.
Scopus85 WoS861989 Gostin, V. A., Keays, R. R., & Wallace, M. W. (1989). Iridium anomaly from the Acraman impact ejecta horizon: Impacts can produce sedimentary iridium peaks. Nature, 340(6234), 542-544.
Scopus52 WoS471989 Young, G. M., & Gostin, V. A. (1989). Depositional environment and regional stratigraphic significance of the Serle Conglomerate: A Late Proterozoic submarine fan complex, South Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 71(3-4), 237-252.
Scopus7 WoS91989 Young, G. M., & Gostin, V. A. (1989). An exceptionally thick upper Proterozoic (Sturtian) glacial succession in the Mount Painter area, South Australia. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 101(6), 834-845.
Scopus38 WoS341989 Wallace, M. W., Gostin, V. A., & Keays, R. R. (1989). Discovery of the Acraman impact ejecta blanket in the officer Basin and its stratigraphic significance. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 36(4), 585-587.
Scopus30 WoS361988 Young, G. M., & Gostin, V. A. (1988). Stratigraphy and sedimentology of sturtian glacigenic deposits in the western part of the north flinders basin, South Australia. Precambrian Research, 39(3), 151-170.
Scopus21 WoS221988 MURRAYWALLACE, C. V., KIMBER, R. W. L., BELPERIO, A. P., & GOSTIN, V. A. (1988). AMINOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE LAST INTERGLACIAL IN SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA. SEARCH, 19(1), 33-36.
WoS181988 Gostin, V. A., Belperio, A. P., & Cann, J. H. (1988). The Holocene non-tropical coastal and shelf carbonate province of southern Australia. Sedimentary Geology, 60(1-4), 51-70.
Scopus74 WoS711988 Cann, J. H., Belperio, A. P., Gostin, V. A., & Murray-Wallace, C. V. (1988). Sea-level history, 45,000 to 30,000 yr B.P., inferred from Benthic foraminifera, Gulf St. Vincent, South Australia. Quaternary Research, 29(2), 153-175.
Scopus69 WoS701987 Compston, W., Williams, I. S., Jenkins, R. J., Gostin, V. A., & Haines, P. W. (1987). Zircon age evidence for the late precambrian acraman Ejecta Blanket. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 34(4), 435-445.
Scopus36 WoS391986 Gostin, V. A., Haines, P. W., Jenkins, R. J. F., Compston, W., & Williams, I. S. (1986). Impact ejecta horizon within late Precambrian shales, Adelaide Geosyncline, South Australia. Science, 233(4760), 198-200.
Scopus86 WoS87 Europe PMC11984 Gostin, V. A., Sargent, G. E. G., & Hails, J. R. (1984). Quaternary seismic stratigraphy of northern Spencer Gulf, South Australia. Marine Geology, 61(2-4), 167-179.
Scopus8 WoS81984 Hails, J. R., Belperio, A. P., Gostin, V. A., & Sargent, G. E. G. (1984). The submarine Quaternary stratigraphy of northern Spencer Gulf, South Australia. Marine Geology, 61(2-4), 345-372.
Scopus37 WoS371984 HAILS, J. R., & GOSTIN, V. A. (1984). SPECIAL ISSUE - THE SPENCER GULF REGION - INTRODUCTION. MARINE GEOLOGY, 61(2-4), R5-R8.
WoS11984 Gostin, V. A., Hails, J. R., & Belperio, A. P. (1984). The sedimentary framework of northern Spencer Gulf, South Australia. Marine Geology, 61(2-4), 111-138.
Scopus57 WoS471984 Hails, J. R., Belperio, A. P., & Gostin, V. A. (1984). Quaternary sea levels, northern Spencer Gulf, Australia. Marine Geology, 61(2-4), 373-389.
Scopus38 WoS381984 Belperio, A. P., Smith, B. W., Polach, H. A., Nittrouer, C. A., DeMaster, D. J., Prescott, J. R., . . . Gostin, V. A. (1984). Chronological studies of the Quaternary marine sediments of northern Spencer Gulf, South Australia. Marine Geology, 61(2-4), 265-296.
Scopus45 WoS421984 Belperio, A. P., Hails, J. R., Gostin, V. A., & Polach, H. A. (1984). The stratigraphy of coastal carbonate banks and Holocene sea levels of northern Spencer Gulf, South Australia. Marine Geology, 61(2-4), 297-313.
Scopus64 WoS521983 Belperio, A., Hails, J., & Gostin, V. (1983). A review of Holocene sea levels in South Australia.. Monograph Series, Geography Department, James Cook University, Occasional Paper, 3, 37-47.
Scopus351983 Hails, J., Belperio, A., & Gostin, V. (1983). Holocene sea levels of upper Spencer Gulf, South Australia.. Monograph Series, Geography Department, James Cook University, Occasional Paper, 3, 48-53.
Scopus111981 Link, P. K., & Gostin, V. A. (1981). Facies and paleogeography of Sturtian Glacial Strata (Late Precambrian), South Australia.. American Journal of Science, 281(4), 353-374.
Scopus27 WoS331981 Rust, B. R., & Gostin, V. A. (1981). FOSSIL TRANSVERSE RIBS IN HOLOCENE ALLUVIAL FAN DEPOSITS, DEPOT CREEK, SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 51(2), 441-444.
Scopus17 WoS161981 Plummer, P. S., & Gostin, V. A. (1981). Shrinkage cracks: desiccation or synaeresis?. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 51(4), 1147-1156.
Scopus260 WoS2241981 Gostin, V. A., Hails, J. R., & Polach, H. A. (1981). Quaternary sea-levels in upper Spencer Gulf, South Australia.. Search, 12(1-2), 43-45.
Scopus6 WoS91980 Hails, J. R., Gostin, V. A., & Sargent, G. E. (1980). The significance of the submarine geology of upper Spencer Gulf, South Australia, to environmental decision making.. Search, 11(4), 115-116.
Scopus6 WoS61980 Gostin, V. A., & Jenkins, R. J. F. (1980). Possible western outlet for an ancient Murray River in South Australia. I. An alternative viewpoint.. Search, 11(7-8), 225-256.
Scopus11979 GRAVENOR, C. P., & GOSTIN, V. A. (1979). Mechanisms to explain the loss of heavy minerals from the Upper Palaeozoic tillites of South Africa and Australia and the late Precambrian tillites of Australia. Sedimentology, 26(5), 707-717.
Scopus11 WoS141979 HAILS, J. R., GOSTIN, V. A., & WRIGHT, W. W. (1979). CUTTER FOR PLASTIC LINER TUBES. JOURNAL OF SEDIMENTARY PETROLOGY, 49(2), 646-648.
WoS21976 Sumartojo, J., & Gostin, V. A. (1976). Geochemistry of the Late Precambrian Sturt Tillite, Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Precambrian Research, 3(3), 243-252.
Scopus11 WoS121976 Plummer, P. S., & Gostin, V. A. (1976). Faulting contemporaneous with Umberatana Group sedimentation (Late Precambrian), southern Flinders Ranges, South Australia. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 100, 29-37. 1975 McKirdy, D. M., Sumartojo, J., Tucker, D. H., & Gostin, V. (1975). Organic, mineralogic and magnetic indications of metamorphism in the Tapley Hill Formation, Adelaide Geosyncline. Precambrian Research, 2(4), 345-373.
Scopus20 WoS181974 Kennett, J. P., Houtz, R. E., Andrews, P. B., Edwards, A. R., Gostin, V. A., Hajos, M., . . . Perch-Nielsen, K. (1974). Development of the Circum-Antarctic Current. Science, 186(4159), 144-147.
Scopus69 Europe PMC51973 Daily, B., Gostin, V. A., & Nelson, C. A. (1973). Tectonic origin for an assumed glacial pavement of late proterozoic age, South Australia. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 20(1), 75-78.
Scopus111973 Gostin, V. A., & Herbert, C. (1973). Stratigraphy of the upper carboniferous and lower permian sequence, southern Sydney basin. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 20(1), 49-70.
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Books
Year Citation 1990 Lemon, N., & Gostin, V. (1990). Glacigenic sediments of the late Proterozoic Elatina Formation and equivalents, Adelaide Geosyncline, South Australia.
Scopus361988 Belperio, A. P., Gostin, V. A., Cann, J. H., & Murray-Wallace, C. V. (1988). Sediment-organism zonation and the evolution of Holocene tidal sequences in southern Australia. Springer Netherlands.
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Book Chapters
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Conference Papers
Year Citation 1997 James, N. P., Bone, Y., Hageman, S. J., Feary, D. A., & Gostin, V. A. (1997). Cool-water carbonate sedimentation during the terminal quaternary sea-level cycle: Lincoln shelf, southern Australia. In N. P. James, & J. A. D. Clarke (Eds.), COOL-WATER CARBONATES (pp. 53-75). GEELONG, AUSTRALIA: S E P M - SOCIETY FOR SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY.
WoS411991 Young, G. M., & Gostin, V. A. (1991). Late Proterozoic (Sturtian) succession of the North Flinders Basin, South Australia; An example of temperate glaciation in an active rift setting. In Special Paper of the Geological Society of America Vol. 261 (pp. 207-222). Geological Society of America.
Scopus461989 Gorter, J. D., Gostin, V., & Plummer, P. S. (1989). The enigmatic sub-surface Tookoonooka Complex in south-west Queensland: its impact origin and implications for hydrocarbon accumulations. In Proceedings of the Cooper/Eromanga Basins Conference, Adelaide (pp. 441-456). Adelaide, South Australia.
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Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2009 - 2015 Co-Supervisor Impact Sedimentation of the Tookoonooka and Talundilly Marine Impact Structures, Australia: An Impact Reservoir Generated by Cratering in a Petroleum Basin Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Katherine Bron 2005 - 2007 Co-Supervisor Coal Facies and Palaeoenvironments of the Middle Eocene to Early Oligocene Bowmans and Lochiel Deposits, Northern St Vincent Basin, South Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Dr Gavin Michael Springbett 1996 - 2005 Principal Supervisor NEOTECTONICS OF THE MOUNT LOFTY RANGES (South Australia) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Victor Tokarev
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