List of Geologists - K

K

• Michael John Keen (1935–1991), Atlantic Canada, marine geoscientist
• Clarence King (1893–1971), USA, first director of the U.S. Geological Survey
• James Kitching (1922–2003), South Africa, Karoo vertebrate palaeontologist
• Sir Albert Ernest Kitson (1868–1937), Australian (born England) economic geologist, mineral exploration in Africa
• Maria Klenova (1898–1976) Russian marine geologist
• Andrew H. Knoll (born 1951), USA, Harvard geologist and paleontologist
• Alan S. Kornacki (born 1952), USA, Harvard meteoriticist and geochemist for Royal Dutch Shell
• Danie G. Krige (born 1919), South African mining engineer, inventor of kriging
• M. S. Krishnan (1898–1970), Indian geologist, author of Geology of India and Burma
• Thomas Edvard Krogh (1936–2008), Canada, geochronologist, revolutionized uranium-lead radiometric dating
• William C. Krumbein (1902–1979), USA, sedimentologist
• Nikolai Kudryavtsev (1893–1971), Russian petroleum geologist