Robin Gilbert Charles Bathurst (21 March 1920, Chelsea, London – 24 May 2006, Derwen Dêg Fawr, North Wales) was a British geologist, known as a leading expert on the diagenesis of carbonate sediments.
[1] In 1951 Robert Millner Shackleton appointed Bathurst to teach sedimentology at the University of Liverpool.
[1][3] In 1980 he introduced the important hypothesis that "stromatactis is the cement (and sediment) fill of a system of cavities which developed between submarine-cemented crusts on a carbonate mud mound.
[1][7] In 2006 the University of Liverpool named in his honour the Bathurst Laboratory, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences.
In retirement, his skill in watercolours of natural scenes led to exhibitions and invitations into professional artists's societies.