GEO Podcast

You can find the GEO podcast on iTunes right here.You can also find GEO Podcast or all the major podcast capture platforms!(Go on...subscribe and do not miss the new episodes)In this episode, I talk about the major types of microfossils and how they are important for us to understand the environments in which rocks formed in the past.Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out! Support the show

You can also find GEO Podcast or all the major podcast capture platforms!(Go on...subscribe and do not miss the new episodes)In this episode, I talk about shale, some major types, and how humans have used shale over time.Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support the show

You can find the GEO podcast on iTunes right here.You can also find GEO Podcast or all the major podcast capture platforms!(Go on...subscribe and do not miss the new episodes)In this episode, I talk about sandstone and what the sand grains can tell us about how far away from he source rock the material has traveled. Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support what I do to help you...Support the show

You can also find GEO Podcast or all the major podcast capture platforms!(Go on...subscribe and do not miss the new episodes)In this episode, I explain what apparent polar wandering curves are and how the information was then used to work out the position of the continents over time. Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support the show

In this episode, I explain how seismic waves are used to see the internal structure of the Earth including the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core.You can also find GEO Podcast or all the major podcast capture platforms!(Go on...subscribe and do not miss the new episodes)Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Don't miss a thing!   Join our email list.Support the show

In this episode, I talk about the structure of a tectonic plate and introduce the terms crust, mantle, lithosphere, moho discontinuity, and asthenosphere.You can find the GEO podcast on iTunes right here.You can also find GEO Podcast or all the major podcast capture platforms!(Go on...subscribe and do not miss the new episodes) Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support the show

In this episode, I talk about the three reasons why people and civilizations grew up around active volcanoes.   Why did people need to live close to the dangers of eruptions?  What was it that drove and kept them there?Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support the show

In this episode, I talk about how salt acts as a physical weathering agent to break down rocks.  Physical weathering is the breaking down of rocks without a chemical change, and salt can act as the agent that breaks down rocks especially close to the ocean, but also in salt-rich soils, etc.Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support the show

In this episode, I explain in simple terms what is happening in Iceland these last few years on the plate boundary.  I explain the two geological phenomena in Iceland, the recent eruptions and earthquake activity, and how they are related to Plate Tectonics.Support the show

In this episode, I talk about fake fossils and why people create them, as well as pseudo fossils such as dendrites.Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Come and check out all we have to offer at GEOetc.comSupport the show

In this episode, I talk about how molten rock is formed inside the Earth - what are the mechanisms that cause our planet to produce molten rock to feed volcanoes?Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support the showSupport the show

In this episode, I talk about the different forms of limestone and how they form including chalk, coquina, fossiliferous limestone, travertine, and oolitic limestone.   Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support the show

In this episode I talk about Bowen's Reaction Series - and how it tells us the order of crystallization of minerals from molten rock.Support the show

The Earth is a huge system made up of a number of 'spheres' - the geosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere.  What are each of these spheres and how can they interact?  This episode explains each sphere and gives examples of the interaction between them.Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support the show

In this episode, I talk about the things to consider when buying a geologic hammer - what to look for and the decisions you will need to make.  You can find this information and more in my blog post about buying a forever hammer. Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support the show

In this episode, I talk about the recent eruption of Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hawaii.  The eruption was in 2022 and lasted just two weeks - but produced massive around of lava.Come and join us in Hawaii, or on any of our field adventures.  See here for the trips for educators and here for the trips for geocachers.Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support the show

In this episode, I talk about the three common minerals that fool people into thinking they have found gold - pyrite, chalcopyrite, and mica.  I talk about the simple tests you can do to find out if what you found was really gold or one of these three. Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support the show

In this episode, I talk about the four reasons I just love to take people on tours around the volcanoes in Hawaii. It is about the accessibility of seeing the planet's largest and most active volcanoes and more.Come join us on an field adventure: www.geoetc.com/field-adventuresSupport the show

In this episode, I talk about the five great extinction events - events in which more than 70% of species on Earth become extinct.  When did these occur and what might have caused each event.Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support the show

In this episode, I talk about the extinct colonial animal we call graptolites.  These are fascinating fossils as they not only show an evolutionary trend that goes from complex to simple, but their wold-wide distribution makes them a perfect index fossil.Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support the show

In this episode, I talk about the major elements needed for an EV battery (lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese and graphite).  How much is needed for just one EV battery?  Where are these materials currently coming from?Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support the show

In this episode, I talk about the Volcanic Explosive Index (VEI) and how that logarithmic scale is used to rate eruptions.  It is based on the amount of material ejected, the size of the eruption plume and the length of the eruption.Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support the show

In this episode, I talk about the five major eruption styles - Icelandic, Hawaiian, Strombolian, Vulcanian, and Plinian.  What are the characteristics of these different styles of eruptions and what materials do they produce?Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support the show

In this episode, I talk about the corundum family of minerals - their chemistry, how they form, and what makes them different from each other.Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support the show

In this episode, I talk about how sand moves along a beach due to longshore drift.Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support the show

In this episode, I talk about how volcanic eruptions can affect climate - by releasing ash, gas, and aerosols.  We talk about the role of CO2 and SO2 and what effect they may have.   I talked specifically about Pinatubo, Tambora, and the Laki eruptions.I also mention an activity available for GEOetc Members called Climeworld that members can download and use in their classrooms to show students how the volcano's location can affect climates in different hemispheres.Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support the show

In this episode, I talk about the difference between the terms focus and epicenter.  What do the terms mean and how are they used?  How is the information about an earthquake's focus used?  How about the information about the epicenter of an earthquake?Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support the show

In this episode, I talk about what is causing the Pacific Ring of Fire.   Why do 75% of all active volcanoes and 90% of all earthquakes happen around the edge of the Pacific Ocean?Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support the show

In this episode, I talk about diamonds - where they form, how they are brought to the surface and even about different colors and uses.Visit our Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support the show

In this episode, I talk about index fossils - what are they and what makes one fossil better than another for dating layers in a sedimentary sequence.   I aven leave you pondering what human product would make a great index fossil.Visit our GEOetc Members Section - Over 100 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support the show

In this episode, we talk about the main causes of landslides and provide examples - California and Thredbo, NSW, Australia.  What is the role of water?  What about trees and deforestation?   How can earthquakes be involved etc?This is a great introduction to landslides as a natural disaster.Support the show

Rocks can contain radioactive elements that breakdown (decay) over time at a set rate.  We can use this decay to work out the age of the rocks.  In this episode, we do a brief look at the process, and how we know it works.Visit our Members Section - Over 90 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support the show

Where did the Theory of Plate Tectonics come from? How did it evolve? What started it all off and how did new evidence change the theory?Visit our Members Section - Over 90 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Support the show

What drives the movement of the Earth's huge lithospheric tectonic plates? In this episode, we talk about mantle convection currents and slab pull - the too well-accepted theories for what is driving Plate Tectonics.Visit our Members Section - Over 90 teaching resources that are classroom-ready to help you teach Earth science. Check them out!Don't miss a thing!   Join our email list.Support the show

Why do we see such variation in the sand around the world - white, yellow, black and green, and more!  What can the grains of sand tell us about the age of the sand?   And how can sand on an island that contains just black rocks have white sand?   This one is for the sand collectors!Support the show

Earth scientists in the field recognize that a sequence of rocks may be missing layers of rocks that represent a period of time.  We call those unconformities.  In this episode, we discuss what an unconformity is and the four main types of unconformities - angular, paraconformity, disconformity, and nonconformity.Don't miss a thing!   Join our email list.Support what I do to help you...Support the show

How do we know about the inside of the Earth?   Using earthquake waves and visitors from out of space (meteorites), we can see the layers and work out the chemistry of the layers that make up our planet.Visit us at GEOetc.com to learn more about our amazing planet!Support the show

Trilobites are amazing fossils!  They can be used for accurate correlation between sedimentary layers because they evolved rapidly, lived in almost all marine environments, and have exoskeletons that were easy to preserve.   Here is a link to the activities mentioned in the episode:Trilobite IDTrilobite (and other fossil) modelsSupport the show

The Earth is made up of layers - and we can define those layers in two ways  - as being chemical (crust, mantle, core) or mechanical (lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, outer core, inner core).  This episode explains the layers and why they are important for plate tectonics and more.Teachers can download a worksheet for their students to complete based on the content of this episode right here :  https://geoetc.com/earths-layers-free/Support the show

What is a glacier?  How is it formed?  Where can I find them and how are they classified?Support the show

A dike is a planar igneous intrusion that cuts through the existing rocks.  They have always fascinated me - and in this episode, I talk a little about them and why I think they are awesome!Support the show

Why does the island of Iceland exist?  Learn how two major geological phenomena occur together to make this amazing and unique place on our planet.  Plate Tectonics and Mantle Plumes interact to provide us with a beautiful island.Support the show

In this episode I discous how magma chemistry and water work together to create the massive explosive eruptions of Tonga (January 15th, 2022) and  Krakatoa (1883).Support the show

Hawaii is a wonderful place to see, learn and teach about aspects of Earth Science.  In this episode I mention six reasons Hawaii is a place to visit if you love Earth science.Support the show

Reducing the risk to people of volcanic eruptions is an important job for geoscientists.  In this episode, we talk about four tools geoscientists can use including earthquakes, deformation, gases, and well water temperatures.This would make a great introduction to students before having them do the Thunder Island volcano simulation activity.Interested in joining us on a trip?   Check out our field adventures here.Support the show

Rivers are so important as they provide water for drinking and agriculture.   They are also important as they move mountains (over time) to the ocean!   In this episode, we talk about the basic morphology of rivers - bedrock and alluvial rivers as well as the concepts of young, mature, and old rivers.  It is a very basic introduction to ways of looking at rivers. Interested in joining us on a trip?   Check out our field adventures here.Support the show

The formation of Banded Iron Formations (BIFs) are so important as a resource of the element iron, but also as they tell us about how our atmosphere evolved some 2,500 million years ago.  In this episode, we talk about the major theory of the formation of BIFs as well as some alternative theories, and what BIF's can tell us about how the evolution of simple blue-green algae changed our Earth for ever!Support the show

What are the six groups of natural geological resources that humans have learned to utilize to build our society into the form that we now live within?    Humans have been using water, ores, aggregates, energy, stones, and soil to live on Earth - and understanding them is so important to be able to keep using them in a sustainable way.This is a great introduction to natural resources.Interested in joining us on a trip?   Check out our field adventures here.Support the show

The Earth's tectonic plates are made up of the lithosphere - that outer hard rock layer of the Earth.  In this episode, we talk about the lithosphere, the underlying asthenosphere, and the moho boundary between the crust and the upper mantle portion of the lithosphere.  And all in under 9 minutes!This is essential listening for students learning about Plate Tectonics!Interested in joining us on a trip?   Check out our field adventures here.Don't miss a thing!   Join our email list.Support the show

You can also find GEO Podcast or all the major podcast capture platforms!(Go on...subscribe and not miss the new episodes)We all live on Earth's continental crust - and so it's the part of our planet we are most familiar with.  But do you know what makes this type of crust so special?  In this episode, we talk about the continental crust, what it is made up from, how thick it is, and why it contains the oldest rocks on Earth.This is essential listening for students learning about Plate Tectonics!Interested in joining us on a trip?   Check out our field adventures here.Support the show