Keith Gordon Cox FRS[1] (25 April 1933 – 27 August 1998) was a British geologist and academic at the University of Oxford.
He then took a scholarship to The Queen's College, Oxford, where he obtained a first-class degree in geology in 1956.
[4] Cox's doctoral and post-doctoral research at Leeds was on the Masukwe Complex in the Nuanetsi region of what was then called Southern Rhodesia.
This led to his developing a particular interest in flood basalts, upon which topic he in due course became a world expert.
His research at Oxford also covered flood basalts in the Parana region of South America, the Hebrides and Antarctica.