Dr. Bob F. Perkins (1930-1999)

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Education
  • Ph.D., University of Houston, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
  • M.S., Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.
  • B.S., Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.

Bob Perkins was the Executive Director of the Gulf Coast Section of the Society for Sedimentary Geology. Bob was a prolific author as well as a gifted editor. During his early academic career he was an avid researcher of Cretaceous rudistids and many of his early publications focused on the systematics of these fossil mollusks. Through the years he developed an extensive collection of these Cretaceous reef-builders.

Relevant to the biota of the Gulf of Mexico, Dr. Perkins has published the following:

Turney, W. J., and B. F. Perkins. 1972. Molluscan distribution in Florida Bay. Sedimenta III. University of Miami, Fisher Island Station, Miami Beach, Florida. 37 pp.

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