John M. Hunt (1 December 1918 – 23 July 2005) was a geologist, chemist, and oceanographer. He worked at the
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution beginning in 1968. His specialty was
petroleum geochemistry Petroleum geochemistry is the branch of geochemistry which deals with the application of chemical principles in the study of the origin, generation, migration, accumulation, and alteration of petroleum...(John M. Hunt, 1979).Hunt, J.M., 1979. ''Petr ...
, and he wrote the standard textbook ''Petroleum Geochemistry and Geology''.
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American oceanographers
American petroleum geologists
1918 births
2005 deaths