*Notes regarding readings:
    All readings are in Stanley's Earth System History, except for web pages, which are labeled "WWW", and for numbers labeled "CS", which are nunbers for stories in Creation Stories from around the World.
    Pages in brackets are not required reading, and they will not be used to generate exam questions. They are suggested reading that may make lecture material easier to understand.
    Reading assignments do not include "Earth System Shift" ("ESS") inserts unless specifically noted.
    Reading assignments include all figures to which reference is made, even if the figures fall outside the page range indicated. Figure 18.5 is a good example.

GEOL 1122 webpages:

How to do better in GEOL 1122 or How to study for college exams.

A little bit of advice for first-semester freshmen.

A letter that student athletes can print out and use to request that their grades by reported to an advisor in the athletic program. After filling all the blanks, they should give the letter to Dr. Railsback.

Past grade distributions in Railsback's GEOL 1122 lecture sections.

Questions asked frequently or recently by 1122 students, and the answers to those questions.

Part 1 of a glossary of terms used in Railsback's lectures in GEOL 1122.

Part 2 of a glossary of terms used in Railsback's lectures in GEOL 1122.

There's no longer a lecture on evolution of plants, but for persons trying to find one of the readings, here's the link to An Ode to Plants.

A table of possible course grades given certain Exam 1 grades.

An extra-credit exercise..

The essay questions for, and other information on, this year's final exam.

Other Links

Geological
A detailed geologic time scale.
An online glossary of geologic terms.
A set of paleogeographic maps.
An online plate tectonic paleogeographic reconstruction service.

Biological/Evolutionary
The University of Arizona's Tree of Life of modern and ancient organisms.
The University of Georgia Department of Botany's Greenhouse Tour (see the plants we will or have talked about).
The University of California-Berkeley Museum of Paleontology's Exhibits on modern and ancient life.
The Royal Tyrrell Museum's of Paleontology's Early plant page and another page on Early land plants.
A spectacularly thorough, if spectacularly dry, online text on the evolution and phylogeny of vertebrates.
The Smithsonian Institution's on-line Index of Mammal Species.
A nicely illustrated and organized Primate Gallery.

Other
A host of Web resources on Historical Geology from Pam Gore's web site at Georgia Perimeter College.
An overview of The Geology of Georgia.
A list of links to lists of Geologic Resources on the World-Wide Web.
The U.S. Naval Observatory's Time Service web page by which the professor sets his watch to assure that he begins class and ends class on time.
To illustrate the arbitrary nature of how humans denote time, an online list of dates for today generated by the world's various calendars (a fun page) and another.

Creationism
This GEOL 1122 section approaches the topic of creationism by reading a series of creation stories from cultures around the world. If you're interested in more direct arguments about American creationism, you might want to visit the following webpages with scientific views of creationism:
- - - Answers to FAQs about creationism and evolution at "Talk Origins"
- - - Mark I. Vuletic's list of creationist arguments, with responses
- - - Jim Merritt's somewhat flippant responses to creationist arguments
- - - George Bakken's evaluation of creationist arguments (scroll down past Darwin etc.)

    Another page of interest might be one on the Scopes Trial.
    Enthusiasts of the Hebrew Old Testament's stories of the earth's origin might be interested to read pages on the origins of those stories, their authorship, and some of the scholarship about them.

Email to Railsback (rlsbk@gly.uga.edu)
Railsback's main web page
UGA Geology Department web page