Dedication of Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution VI to Álvaro Penteado Crósta

This paper does not have an abstract. Originally, Álvaro Penteado Crósta (born on 7 August 1954) intended to be one of the volume editors of this GSA Special Paper. He was also looking forward to participating in the Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution VI conference in October 2019, for which he had long served on the organizing committee. Unfortunately, a long and serious illness derailed both these plans. Therefore, we are instead honoring our dear friend and valued colleague, Álvaro Crósta, for his longstanding and successful impact cratering work, as the mainstay of impact cratering studies in Brazil and indeed in South America, by dedicating this Special Paper to him. Álvaro Crósta has been a Full Professor (Professor Titular) of Geoscience in the fields of remote sensing, mineral exploration, and planetary geology at the Instituto de Geociências of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil. He has had a highly distinguished academic career, culminating in his tenure (2012–2017) as vice-rector of his university. In 2017, Álvaro was inducted as a Full Member (Membro Titular) into the Academia Brasileira de Ciências...

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