John Warvelle Harbaugh (1926-2019) was an American

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who spent most of his professional career at

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devoted to research on

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sedimentary basin Sedimentary basins are region-scale depressions of the Earth's crust where subsidence has occurred and a thick sequence of sediments have accumulated to form a large three-dimensional body of sedimentary rock. They form when long-term subsidence ...

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and

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risk analysis. Since 1999, he is Professor Emeritus both at the Geological and Environmental Sciences Department and at the Energy Resources Engineering Department.
He received numerous honors and awards for his accomplishments and service to the profession that include the Haworth Distinguished Alumni Award of

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(1968), the A.I. Levorsen Award (1970) from the Pacific Section of the

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(AAPG), the Distinguished Service Award also from AAPG (1987), the

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from

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(1986), and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the

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(2003). In 2001, his colleagues and friends presented him with a

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. In 2013, the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences elected him as Honorary Member.

Education

*Ph.D. in Geology,

*M.S. in Geology,

*B.S. in Geology, University of Kansas

Books

* John W. Harbaugh, John C. Davis, Johannes Wendebourg (1995). Computing Risk for Oil Prospects: Principles and Programs. Pergamon, 452 p. * John W. Harbaugh, John C. Davis, John Doveton (1977). Probability Methods in Oil Exploration. John Wiley & Sons, 284 p. * John W. Harbaugh (1975).Northern California Field Guide. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 123 p. * John W. Harbaugh and Graeme Bonham-Carter (1970). Computer Simulation in Geology. John Wiley & Sons, 575 p. * John W. Harbaugh and Daniel F. Merriam (1968). Computer Applications in Stratigraphic Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, 282 p.

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John W. Harbaugh
{{DEFAULTSORT:Harbaugh, John W. University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni Stanford University faculty University of Kansas alumni 1926 births 2019 deaths