David T. King, Jr.

Since 1980, David King has been a geology faculty member at Auburn University, and he has been a professor of geology since 1998. He is well known for his work in sedimentology and stratigraphy of the coastal plain regions of the southeastern United States, the northern and southern basins of Belize in Central America, and for his studies of impact craters and the K-Pg boundary.

He is the author of more than 125 scientific papers, more than 350 scientific abstracts, and more than 100 other papers and monographs related to teaching, pedagogy and the public understanding of science.

With the late Hal Levin, he is the co-author of The Earth through Time, 11th edition, a widely used historical geology textbook published by Wiley and Sons in 2016. He is also the author of Alabama Dinosaurs, 4th edition, published by Sentia Press in 2021.

September 2026