Gary M. Mavko
Academic
1949 –
Who is Gary M. Mavko?
Gary Mavko is a Professor of geophysics at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in geophysics from Stanford in 1977. Gary then joined the Tectonophysics branch of the USGS in Menlo Park where he worked in areas of rock physics and earthquake fault mechanics. He returned to Stanford in February, 1989, and is now Professor of Geophysics. Mavko was a 2006 Distinguished Lecturer of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. In 2001 he was elected an Honorary Member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists "for his deep understanding of rock physics and for the distillation of his ideas into the “squirt” theory for porous, saturated rocks".
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- Born
- 1949
United States of America - Also known as
- Gary Mavko
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Stanford University
- Cornell University
- Lived in
- United States of America
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on July 23, 2013
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