John C. Crowell
John J. Chambers Crowell (born May 12, 1917 in State College (Pennsylvania) , † May 13, 2015 in Montecito ) was an American geologist and professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
Crowell graduated from the University of Texas with a bachelor's degree in geology in 1939 and wanted to be a petroleum geologist at Shell when World War II changed his career. He served as an officer in oceanography and meteorology and was involved in weather forecasting for the Normandy landing on June 6, 1944, and in the invasion of Burma and preparation for the invasion of Japan. He married in 1946, earned a master's degree in oceanographic meteorology from the Scripps Institute in La Jolla, and received a PhD in geology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1947 . He then became a professor at UCLA. In 1967 he moved to UCSB, where he founded the university's environmental studies program with Preston Cloud . He dealt with tectonics and gave courses in global field studies for petroleum geologists.
He dealt with tectonics, paleoclimatology, sedimentology and the geology of California. He studied turbidites and the origins of submarine canyons and the flysch sediments in the Alps and California in the 1950s . Crowell studied the kinematics of the San Andreas Fault , its tectonics and its sedimentation history. He studied similar processes in Australia, Southeast Asia, the North Sea and the Caribbean. He investigated sediments formed by landslides such as scree and how they were differentiated from glacial boulder clay and then from the 1960s onwards worldwide ice age sediment formations in various geological epochs.
In 1995 he received the Penrose Medal . He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He was a Guggenheim Fellow and an honorary doctorate from the University of Leuven. In 2013 he received the Society for Sedimentary Geology's Lifetime Achievement Award .
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Crowell, John C. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Crowell, John J. Chambers |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | State College (Pennsylvania) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 2015 |
| Place of death | Montecito |