Earth & Environmental Sciences

 Education

• Tulane University, M.S., 1992
• Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico  B.S., 1986

Research Interests

• Igneous Petrology
• Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of Igneous Rocks.
• Isotopic Geochemistry of Volcanic Rocks
• Volcanism of Mexico

Courses Taught

• EENS 1130 Physical Geology Laboratory
• EENS 2110 Mineralogy Laboratory
• EENS 2120 Petrology Laboratory

Publications

Nelson S.A., Gonzalez-Caver E., and Kyser T.K.,  “Constraints on the Origin of Alkaline and Calc-alkaline Magmas from the Tuxtla Volcanic Field, Veracruz, Mexico.  Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 122 (1-2):191-211, 1995.

Gonzalez-Caver, Erika,   Nelson, Stephen A. and Kyser, Kurtis T.,"Sr, Nd, Pb, and O Isotopic Characteristics from Basic Lavas in the East-Central Mexican Volcanic Belt.”  Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, 26, no. 7., 1994. 

Delgado-Argote L.A., Casar-Aldrete I., Gonzalez-Caver E., Morales-Puente P., and Giron-Garcia P., "Geologic Controls of Hydrogen Isotope Ratios of Structural Water in Serpentinites from San Pedro Limon-Palmar Chico, Tierra Caliente, Mexico." Geofisica Internacional.  32 (3):415-427., 1993.

Nelson S.A., and Gonzalez-Caver E. “Geology and K-Ar Dating of the Tuxtla Volcanic Field, Veracruz, Mexico.”  Bulletin of Volcanology.  55 (1-2):85-96, 1992. 

Nelson, Stephen A., and Gonzalez-Caver, Erika,  "Geochemistry of late Miocene to Recent Alkaline and Calc-alkaline Volcanic Rocks of the Tuxtla Volcanic Field, Veracruz, Mexico." Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 21, no. 6., 1989.

Gonzalez-Caver, Erika, and Nelson, Stephen A.,"Geology and K-Ar age dating of the Tuxtla Volcanic Field, Veracruz, Mexico; a late Miocene to Recent
Alkaline Volcanic Field." Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 21, no. 6., 1989

Gonzalez-C., E., Jaimes-M., Nieto-O., J., Casar-A., I., Morales, P., Cortez, A., Ramos, S. and Delgado-A., L.,  “Implicaciones Metalotectonicas del Skarn de Zimapan Basadas en Datos  Isotopicos de Rb/Sr y de *¹³C.”  Abstract GEOS Boletin, Union Geofisica Mexicana Epoca II, no. 3, p.14, 1985.