All Episodes

Alec Brenner on When Tectonic Plates First Moved

Materials in Extreme Environments

Esther Sumner on Turbidity Currents

Hal Levison on the Mission to Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids

Sara Pruss on the First Reef Builders

Michael Manga on Wet Eruptions

Carina Hoorn on the Evolution of the Amazon Basin

Anat Shahar on What Makes a Planet Habitable

Keith Klepeis on How Plutons Form

Tom Herring on High-Precision Geodesy

Jiří Žák on the Orogenies that Shaped Central Europe

Claudio Faccenna on the Dynamics of Subduction Zones

Cees Van Staal on the Origin of the Appalachians

Andreas Fichtner on the Frontiers of Seismic Imaging

Renée Tamblyn on the Origin of Continents

Folarin Kolawole on Continental Rifting

Mike Hudec on Salt Tectonics

Vic Baker on Megafloods

Lindy Elkins-Tanton on the Origin of Earth's Water

Joeri Witteveen on Golden Spikes

Isabel Montañez on Using the Late Paleozoic Ice Age as an Analog for Present Day Climate

Ruth Siddall on Urban Geology

Richard Fortey on Deep Time

Mike Searle on the Mountain Ranges of Central Asia

Rob Strachan on the Caledonian Orogeny

Joe MacGregor on Mapping the Geology of Greenland Below the Ice

Adam Simon on Battery Metals

Rufus Catchings on Pinning Down California's Faults

Sara Seager on Exoplanet Geology

Evan Smith on Diamonds from the Deep Mantle

Roberta Rudnick on the Continental Crustal Composition Paradox

Alex Copley on Soft Continents

Shanan Peters on Quantifying the Global Sedimentary Rock Record

Paul Smith on the Cambrian Explosion

Scott Bolton on the Most Volcanically Active Body in the Solar System

Bob White on How Magma Moves in the Crust

Richard Ernst on Large Igneous Provinces

Damian Nance on What Drives the Supercontinent Cycle

David Kohlstedt on Simulating the Mantle in the Lab

Claire Corkhill on Geological Radioactive Waste Disposal

Mahesh Anand on What Human Return to the Moon Means for Lunar Geology

Susan Brantley on Earth's Geological Thermostat

Clark Johnson on the Banded Iron Formations

Catherine Mottram on Dating Rock Deformation

Martin Van Kranendonk on the Earliest Life on Earth

Rob Butler on the Origin of the Alps

John Wakabayashi on the Franciscan Complex

Bruce Levell on Bias in the Sedimentary Record

Sujoy Mukhopadhyay on Probing the Hadean World with Noble Gases

Patrick Fulton on the 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake

Romain Jolivet on the 2023 Turkey-Syria Earthquakes

Dan Rothman on Thresholds of Catastrophe in the Earth System

Nadja Drabon on a New Lens into the Hadean Eon

John Cottle on the Petrochronology Revolution

Martin Gibling on Rivers in the Geological Record - Part 2

Martin Gibling on Rivers in the Geological Record - Part 1

Anna Fleming on the Experience of Rock Climbing

Brian Upton on the Unique Rift Zone of South Greenland

Geoff Abers on Subduction Zones and the Geological Water Cycle

Maria McNamara on Seeing the Ancient World in Color

Phil Renforth on Carbon Sequestration

Tony Watts on Seamounts and the Strength of the Lithosphere

Neil Davies on the Greening of the Continents

Ben Weiss on the Mission to Psyche

Roger Bilham on Himalayan Earthquakes

Susannah Porter on Tiny Vampires in Ancient Seas

Ana Ferreira on Seeing Flows in the Mantle

Phil Gibbard on the Anthropocene

David Bercovici on How Plate Subduction Starts

Bob Hazen on the Evolution of Minerals

Matt Jackson on the Heterogeneity of the Mantle

Carmie Garzione on Reconstructing Land Elevation Over Geological Time

Chuck DeMets on High-Resolution Plate Motions

Mike Searle on Ophiolite

Mackenzie Day on Dunes

Sue Smrekar on the VERITAS Mission to Venus

Rick Carlson on Probing the Early Solar System

Ed Marshall on Iceland's 2021 Eruption

Richard Fortey on the Trilobite Chronometer

Paul Hoffman on the Snowball Earth Hypothesis

Peter Cawood on When Plate Tectonics Started

Becky Flowers on Deciphering the Thermal History of Rocks

Ulf Linnemann on the Assembly of Central Europe in the Paleozoic

Douwe van Hinsbergen on What Drives the Motions of Tectonic Plates

Mathilde Cannat on Mid-Ocean Ridges

Kathryn Goodenough on the Sources of Lithium for a Post-Carbon Society

Steve D'Hondt on Reviving a 100-Million-Year-Old Bacterial Colony

Harriet Lau on the Motions of the Earth on Timescales from Hours to Millennia

Craig Jones on the Iconic Landscapes of the American Westerns

Claude Jaupart on Whether the Earth is Cooling Down

Peter Molnar on Why the Tibetan Plateau is So High

Katie Stack on Mapping the Geology of Mars with the Perseverance Rover

Jan Smit on Resolving a Single Hour of the Cataclysm That Ended the Cretaceous 66 Million Years Ago

Marie Edmonds on Volcanic Gas

Gillian Foulger on Explaining Intra-Plate Volcanism Without Mantle Plumes

Sarah Stewart on a New Scenario For How the Moon Formed

Dietmar Müller on Reconstructing Plate Motions Over a Billion Years of Earth History

Bob Anderson on How Geology Affects Landscape

David Evans on Supercontinents

Mike Howe on the UK National Geological Repository

Lee Groat on How Gemstones Form

Allen McNamara on the Deep Mantle Structure of the Earth

Tomo Usui on the Mission to the Martian Moon Phobos

Rachel Wood on the Emergence of Complex Life in the Precambrian

Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni on Dynamic Topography

Cathy Constable on Mapping the Earth's Magnetic Field in Time and Space

Bärbel Hönisch on Reconstructing Climate in the Distant Past

David Rothery on Volcanism in the Solar System

Harold C. Connolly Jr. on Bringing an Asteroid Sample Back to Earth

Laurent Jolivet on the Origin of the Mediterranean

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart on Transitioning to a Post-Carbon Economy

John Marshall on the Riddle of the Mass Extinction 360 Million Years Ago

Laurence Robb on Where our Mineral Resources Come From

Bruce Buffett on Probing the Earth's Core

David Sandwell on Seeing Plate Tectonics Under the Oceans

Barbara Romanowicz on Seeing Deep into the Earth

John Valley on the Early Earth

Sara Russell on What the Asteroids Can Tell Us About the Earth

Clare Warren on Divining the History of a Rock

Steve Sparks on What Makes a Volcano Erupt

Dan McKenzie on What Venus Can Tell Us About the Earth

James Jackson on the Fatal Attraction Between Cities and Earthquakes

Mike Searle on Why Mountains Exist