Elizabeth Cassel
Elizabeth Cassel
Associate Professor
Office
McClure 301B
Phone
208-885-4289
Email
Web
Mailing Address
Department of Earth and Spatial Sciences
University of Idaho
875 Perimeter Drive MS 3025
Moscow, Idaho 83844-3025
- Ph.D., Geological and Environmental Sciences, 2010—Stanford University
- B.A., Geology, 2003—Carleton College
Courses
- GEOL 102: Historical Geology
- GEOL 324: Stratigraphy and Sedimentation
- GEOL 407/507: Basin Analysis
- GEOL 448/548: Tectonics
- Orogenesis and the interactions of tectonics, climate, and erosion
- Convergent margins
- Basin analysis
- Stable isotope geochemistry
- Sedimentology and stratigraphy
- Geo- and thermochronology
- Earth surface processes
- Tectonic and topographic evolution of the Cordilleran hinterland: implications for the timing and magnitude of Basin and Range extension
- Drivers for basin formation and lacustrine evolution through the Eocene-Oligocene sedimentary and volcanic record in eastern Nevada
- History of Cenozoic uplift and forearc basin evolution in the southern Peruvian Andes
- Late Eocene flora and depositional systems in eastern Oregon
- Hydration processes and stable isotope systematics in felsic volcanic glass
- Paleotopography, drainage system evolution, and exhumation history of the western Cordillera: Idaho, Nevada, Utah, & B.C.
- Jackson Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011-2013—University of Texas at Austin
- NSF grant: Record of Tectonics in the Cordilleran Hinterland