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and was assigned to work on the planned invasion of Japan. Upon the end of WW II, he returned to the United States and in 1946 met and married Betty Marie Bruner (1920–2007) in Los
Angeles County. Their daughter Martha (nicknamed "Marty") was born in 1951.
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Crowell's wife died in 2007 after 61 years of marriage. Upon his death in 2015 he was survived by his daughter, two grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren — all of whom were living in
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and the origins of pebbly mudstone. In the late 1960s
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and tectonics (including field studies in tectonics) at UCSB, as well as short courses all over the world for the
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symposium volume containing the text of papers presented at the Kay
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208:. In his honor, a mountain, mapped in the 1960s, is named Mount Crowell, which is located in Antarctica's
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Crowell, John C. (1962). "Displacement Along the San Andreas Fault, California".
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Proterozoic Geology: Selected Papers from an International Proterozoic Symposium
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continents and elucidated the histories and causes of continental glaciation.
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Frakes, Lawrence A.; Kemp, Elizabeth M.; Crowell, John C. (April 1975).
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Crowell, J. C. (1979). "The San Andreas fault system through time".
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Crowell, John C. (1983). "The recognition of ancient glaciations".
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from India into China. In 1945 he became stationed in
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