Some explicit reading and review assignments from Stanley, Earth System History (1999). Some of the lecture notes on the web also list relevant text book pages and figures. Chapter Summary and Review Questions listed are those relevant to the material presented in lecture.

Climate and Environment - Chapter 4

read esp. p. 98-101 (The Atmosphere)
and p. 109-112 (The Marine Realm)
see also reference to textbook in lecture notes
Chapter Summary 7, 8, 11, 13
Review Questions 6, 8

Sedimentary Environments - Chapter 5

read esp. p. 126 (glacial) through 134 (meandering rivers)
and 138 - 148 (marine environments)
see also reference to textbook in lecture notes
Chapter Summary
Review Questions, p. 149, 1 - 4, 12, 13

Stratigraphy and Correlation - Chapter 6

most of chapter is relevant
see lecture notes for explicit citations of text pages
Chapter Summary
Review Questions, p. 178, 1 - 3, 5 - 8

Evolution and the Fossil Record - Chapter 7

read esp. p. 185-195
Chapter Summary, p. 204, 1-7
Review Questions, p. 205, 1, 2, 6, 7

The Carbon Cycle and Climate - Chapter 10

read 257-278
chapter summary 1-6, 8, 10
Review Questions 1-2, 4-9, 12

Origin of the Earth, Oceans, Atmosphere, and the first Continents - Chapter 11

read 285-305

The Origin and Growth of Laurentia, Rodinia, Gondwana - Chapter 12

read 329-338 (minus section on Middle Proterozoic Rifting)

Archean Life - Chapter 11

read 306-311

Proterozoic Life and Evolution of the Atmosphere - Chapter 12

read 321-328

The Cambrian Revolution and Early Paleozoic Animal Life - Chapter 13

read esp. 341-353

The Appalachian Orogen - Chapters 13, 14, 15

Cambrian paleogeography: 355-356
Taconic Orogeny: 361-364
Taconic clastic wedge: Acadian Orogeny: 389-394
Appalachian Orogeny :421-422
Ouachita Orogeny: 422

Evolution of Vertebrates and Invasion of the Land - Chapters 14, 15

evolution of fish: 374-380
invasion of the land: 381-386
Late Pz terrestrial life: 405-414
Permian extinctions: 418-420

The Breakup of Pangea - Chapters 16, 17

Breakup of Pangea: 453-454
Rift Basins (Newark Basin): 456-458
New Continents and Oceans: 476-479

The Western Cordillera - Chapters 14, 16, 17, 18, 19

Antler Orogeny: 394-395
Jurassic Magmatism: 458-460
Foreland Basin: 461-462
Sevier Orogeny: 487-489
Laramide Orogeny: 511-515
Basin and Range: 536-543
San Andreas Fault: 543

The Alpine Himalayan Mountain Belt - Chapters 9, 19

248-251; 548-549

Life in the Mesozoic - Chapters 16, 17

Mesozoic life: esp. 441-451
Cretaceous life: 472-476
K-T extinctions: 482-486

Cretaceous Greenhouse to Cenozoic Icehouse Climate - Chapters 17, 18, 19, 20

High Cretaceous Sea Level: 479-480
Cretaceous Greenhouse Climate: 481-482
Deterioration of Cenozoic Climate: 526-536
Thermal isolation of Antarctica: 510
Closure of Isthmus of Panama: 534-535
Late Cenozoic glacial cycles: 529-536
Holocene Climate: 562-566; 569-582

Life in the Cenozoic - Chapters 18, 19, 20

Cenozoic life: esp. 499-504
Hominid evolution: 549-556
Extinction of Large Mammals: 567-569