Maria Luisa Crawford is an American geologist

Geologist

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She graduated from Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College

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 and from University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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 with a PhD in geology in 1964.
In 1982 and 1999, she spoke at the Philadelphia Geological Society.
She taught at Bryn Mawr until retiring in 2006.

She married William A. Crawford.
The Association of Women Geologists award the Crawford Field Camp Scholarships.

Awards

• 1993 MacArthur Fellows Program
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• Fulbright Fellowship in Norway.
• 1960 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship

Works

• "A bimodal volcanic–plutonic system: the Zarembo Island extrusive suite and the Burnett Inlet intrusive complex". Lindline, Jennifer, Crawford, W.A. and Crawford, M.L., Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 41, p. 355-375.
• "Using incongruent, equilibrium hydration reactions to model latter-stage crystallization in plutons: examples from the Bell Island tonalite, Alaska". Beard, J.S., Ragland, P.C., and Crawford, M.L. Journal of Geology, v. 113, 589-599.
• "Reactive bulk assimilation: A model for crust-mantle mixing in silicic magmas". Beard, J.S., Ragland, P.C., and Crawford, M.L. Geology: v. 33, 681–684.
• "105 million years of igneous activity, Wrangell, Alaska, to Prince Rupert, British Columbia". Crawford, M.L., Crawford, W.A. and Lindline, J. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 42, p. 1097-1116.
• "Paleomagnetism of Late Jurassic to mid-Cretaceous plutons near Prince Rupert, British Columbia". Butler, R.F., Gehrels, G.E., Hart, W., Davidson, C. and Crawford, M.L. In: Haggart, J.W., Enkin, R.J., Monger, J.W.H., eds., Paleogeography of the North American Cordillera; evidence for and against large-scale displacements. Geological Association of Canada Special Paper, vol. 46, pp.171-200, 2006

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