             
 
| | Bruce Railsback's Geoscience ResourcesThis page is the index to the website hosting various geoscience and other resources generated by Bruce Railsback, who was a professor of geology at the University of Georgia from 1989 to 2024. Much of this material was available until about 2019 at www.gly.uga.edu/railsback. General resources
An Earth Scientist's Periodic Table - a new synthesis of geochemistry and mineralogy. Some Fundamentals of Mineralogy and Geochemistry -
a collection of more than 350 one-page illustrations. Fundamentals of Quaternary Science -
a collection of one-page illustrations. Dynamic Plate Tectonics - illustrations by a non-tectonicist. Petroleum Geoscience and Subsurface Geology -
a collection of more than 130 one-page illustrations. Illustrations in Oceanography -
a collection of one-page illustrations. An Atlas of Speleothem Microfabrics -
an e-picture-book of stalagmites etc. with more than 100 illustrations. Creation Stories from Around the World - a collection of twenty-one origin stories from various cultures. Virtual field trips - images and illustrations of geology in the field. A modern reprise of T.C. Chamberlin's Multiple Working Hypotheses. What Science is (and isn't): as a series of webpages or a single pdf document. Railsback's Alpine and Glacial Geology,
a 196-page pdf textbook (and 47 MB download!). Beach and Shoreline Sands From Around the World - a gallery of sands. Buildings and Building Stones - a gallery for fun. A Trip Down the Inn - a 32 MB pdf file of a slide show about the valley of the Inn River in Austria between 1997 and 2008. Railsback's website of posters and photographs about the Lost River Mountains, the Big Lost River Valley, and the Arco Desert of southeastern Idaho Railsback's website of photographs of the Snake River from the Tetons to the Columbia Course materials
Earth's History of Global Change - Links to three large pdfs of lecture summaries and (more importantly) many illustrations Elementary Oceanography - Links to more than eighty illustrations Pages for Students
Advice to students about graduate school and about academic careers A page of Comments on ethical issues about research Advice on Writing scientific papers and theses Advice on Writing grant proposals Advice on Editing scientific writing, mostly for grad students Advice on Making plots to accompany papers Advice on Giving a scientific talk Unpublished manuscripts, and a supplement to a published paper:
The Transilience Project - a theory of everything. Heterogeneity of C and O stable isotope compositions among closely-spaced samples along layers at crests of stalagmites, and its implications for paleoenvironmental research A table of time boundaries of Quaternary/Pleistocene marine isotope substages (MIS) derived from Railsback et al. (2015) in .xlsx and .csv formats
The content and opinions expressed on this web page, or any web page in the same directory, do not necessarily reflect the views of nor are they endorsed by the University of Georgia or the University System of Georgia. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Mail to rlsbk@uga.edu. | | |
