Craig S. Feibel

Associate Professor
Undergraduate Program Director

Room 238 Wright Geological Laboratory
(732) 445-2721
feibel@rci.rutgers.edu

Education

• B.A. Dartmouth College
• M.S. Iowa State University
• Ph.D. University of Utah

Teaching

• Undergraduate: Sedimentology, Sedimentary Geology, Environment and Human Evolution, Microstratigraphic Analysis
• Graduate: Quaternary Paleoenvironments

Research Interests

• Stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleoenvironments, geoarchaeology, environmental geology, Africa, Middle East.

• My research focuses on the investigation of the geological context for evolution in terrestrial ecosystems, particularly those related to hominid evolution and the later Neogene. My primary research area is the Turkana Basin of Kenya, where I've worked for over twenty years in association with the National Museums of Kenya. My work there involves stratigraphy, sedimentology and paleontology, to establish a geologic framework and an environmental backdrop to the evolutionary and archaeological record for which that region is so famous. My other active projects at the moment include studies of Pleistocene paleoenvironments along the Levantine Corridor in Israel, stratigraphy of Miocene lake deposits in Hungary and Croatia, and geology at the Hadar hominid site in Ethiopia.

Recent Publications

Spiro, B., Ashkenazi, S., Mienis, H.K., Melamed, Y., Feibel, C., Delgado, A., and Starinsky, A.  2009. Climate variability in the Upper Jordan Valley around 0.78 Ma, inferences from time-series stable isotopes of Viviparidae, supported by mollusc and plant palaeoecology.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 282: 32-44.

Feibel, C. S., Lepre, C. J. and Quinn, R. L.  2009.  Stratigraphy, Correlation, and Age Estimates for Fossils from Area 123, Koobi Fora.  Journal of Human Evolution 57: 112-122.

Feibel, C. S., Goren-Inbar, N., and Frumin, M. 2009.  Historical perspectives on long-term landscape evolution in the Hula Basin. In: Shea, J. J. and Lieberman, D. E.  (eds.) Transitions in Prehistory: Essays in Honor of Ofer Bar-Yosef.  Oxbow Books for the American Schools of Prehistoric Research, Oxford, pp. 23-31.

Campisano, C. J. and Feibel, C. S.  2008b.  Depositional environments and stratigraphic summary of the Pliocene Hadar Formation, Afar Depression, Ethiopia.  In: Quade, J. and Wynn, J. G. (eds)  The geology of early humans in the Horn of Africa.  Geological Society of America, Special Publication 446.  Boulder. pp. 179-201.

Campisano, C. J. and Feibel, C. S.  2008a.  Tephrostratigraphy of the Hadar and Busidima Formations at Hadar, Afar Depression, Ethiopia.  In: Quade, J. and Wynn, J. G. (eds)  The geology of early humans in the Horn of Africa.  Geological Society of America, Special Publication 446.  Boulder.  pp. 135-162.

Roman, D., Campisano, C., Quade, J., DiMaggio, E., Arrowsmith, R. and Feibel, C. 2008.  Composite tephrostratigraphy of the Dikika, Gona, Hadar, and Ledi-Geraru Project areas, northern Awash, Ethiopia.  In: Quade, J. and Wynn, J. G. (eds)  The geology of early humans in the Horn of Africa.  Geological Society of America, Special Publication 446.  Boulder.  pp. 119-134.

Feibel, C. S.  2008.  Microstratigraphy of the Kibish Hominin Sites KHS and PHS, lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia.   Journal of Human Evolution 55: 404-408.

Van Bocxlaer, B., Van Damme, D. and Feibel, C. S. 2008.  Gradual versus punctuated equilibrium evolution in the Turkana Basin molluscs: Evolutionary events or biological invasions?  Evolution 62: 511-520.

Quinn, R. L., Lepre, C. J., Wright, J. D. and Feibel, C. S.  2007.  Tectonic and climatic controls on the paleogeographic distribution of isotopic ratios (d13C, d18O) from pedogenic carbonates in Plio-Pleistocene hominin habitats at Koobi Fora, Kenya.  Journal of Human Evolution 53: 560-573.

Campisano, C. J. and Feibel, C. S. 2007.  Connecting local environmental sequences to global climate patterns: Evidence from the hominin-bearing Hadar Formation, Ethiopia.  Journal of Human Evolution 53: 515-527.

Lepre, C. J., Quinn, R. L., Joordens, J. J., Swisher, C. C., and Feibel, C. S. 2007.  Plio-Pleistocene facies environments from the KBS Member, Koobi Fora Formation: implications or climate controls on the development of lake-margin hominin habitats in the northeast Turkana Basin (northwest Kenya).  Journal of Human Evolution 53: 504-514.

Feibel, C. S.  2005.  Quaternary lake margins of the Levant Rift Valley.  In:  Speth, J. D. and Goren-Inbar, N. (eds.)  Paleoecology of the Levantine Corridor.  Oxbow Books, Oxford.  pp. 21-36.