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PlanetGeo: The Geology Podcast — 291 episodes

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1

The Rock 50 Light-Years Away

2

The Room Problem (and how Geochronology solves it)

3

Rocks for the Future - with MIT Prof. Oli Jagoutz

4

The Fundamentals of Geology (Exam)

5

Granite Wars: The Debates That Built a Science

6

The Geologist's License: How the FG and PG Exams Get Built — with Keith Rapp

7

What Makes Supervolcanoes? With Professor Shan de Silva and Dr. Rachel Phillips

8

Eating Rocks For Breakfast

9

What is a Professional Geologist? An Intro to Licensure

10

Visualizing the Deep Earth - CEO and Founder Christie Capper

11

The Anatomy of Mountain Ranges

12

Geology Meets Deep Tech - Danielle Bennett

13

Here Be Dragons - Exploring the Unknown with NASA Ames Chief Scientist for Innovation Dr. John Stock

14

Banded Iron Formations - A Deep Dive

15

Venezuela’s Black Gold

16

Rocks, Risks, and Riches: Strategies and Stories with CEO Doug Heller

17

Petrification - Rerelease

18

How to Identify Rocks - Rerelease

19

Rockhounding 101 (ReRelease)

20

The Moon-Forming Impact - Q&A with Dr. Rachel Phillips aka GeoGirl

21

Whence Plate Tectonics? Q&A with Dr. Rachel Phillips aka GeoGirl

22

Rocks and Rules, Putting Things in Order (Re-Release #1)

23

The Length of Day 2.5 Billion Years Ago - BIFs, Milankovitch, and Geochron with Dr. Josh Davies

24

What is a Continent? Part 1 - The Composition

25

Stories in Stone - with David Williams

26

From Rifts To Rifles - The Regional Geology of the Battle of the Gettysburg

27

Flash Floods

28

Calderas and Confederates - The Geology of South Mountain and the Gettysburg Campaign

29

Eruptions and Extinctions - The Geology of the Gettysburg Sill

30

Capitol Curiosities - Fanglomerate and the Gettysburg Basin

31

Magnetic Sand and Other Listener Questions

32

Sasquatch Eruptions

33

Landslides and Lidar - Dr. Phillip Prince @Geomodels

34

Silent Sculptors - The Stones Shaping Gettysburg's Battlefield

35

America's Oldest Rocks - Part 2 - The Unveil

36

Rift, Rock, and Revolution - The Beginnings of the Gettysburg Basin

37

America's Oldest Rock - Part 1

38

The Geology of the Battle of Gettysburg - A PlanetGeo Field Trip

39

The White Cliffs of Dover - Nature's Chalkboard

40

Of Stones And Startups: A Geoscience Transformation?

41

The Great River - Boyce Upholt

42

Blue Gold? The Geology of Cobalt

43

Think Like a Rock Star - It's a Good Time to Be a Geologist

44

Caldera Chronicles - Unzipping the Mysteries of Long Valley With Dr. Andy Calvert

45

The Boiling Point - Decoding Long Valley Caldera's Volcanic Future

46

Heat Without the Show - Long Valley's Hydrothermal System

47

The Geological Fruit Fly - The Bishop Tuff and Long Valley Caldera Eruption

48

The Basalt Before the Blast - The Leadup to The Long Valley Caldera

49

Between a Rock and a Hot Place: Long Valley's Tectonic Tale

50

Evolution of Eruption - Intro to the Long Valley Caldera

51

How to Get Hired - CEO Lindsey Schultz

52

The Answers Are in the Rocks - It's a Good Time to Be a Geologist

53

Induced Earthquakes, Fracking, and the Future of the Subsurface with Dr. Katie Smye

54

The Future Lies At Depth - It's a Good Time to be a Geologist

55

The Geology of Petoskey Stones

56

Buy Low, Sell High - It's a Good Time to Be a Geoscientist

57

Navigating Rocks - Field Geology and the Evolving Geosciences

58

Geology of Puddingstone

59

Gaia - The Earth As a System with Dean Lee Kump

60

Geology's Ologies

61

Are These Earth's Oldest Rocks?

62

The Hit and Run Rockies - With Professor Basil Tikoff

63

Idaho to Iceland - Shawn Willsey

64

Earth's Oldest Sediments - The Isua Supracrustal Belt

65

The Geology of Quartz

66

Our Past Favorites #8 - Plants, Meanders, and How to Read a Geoscience Paper

67

Our Past Favorites #7 - Not All Who Meander Are Lost

68

Our Past Favorites #6 - The Geology of Wine with Brenna Quigley

69

Our Past Favorites #5 - Geology and National Defense with Dr. Stefanie Tompkins

70

Our Past Favorites #4 - The Geology of Countertops

71

Our Past Favorites #3 - The Age of the Earth or, How to Build a Planet

72

Our Past Favorites #2 - Only The Strong Survive, The Geology of Sand

73

Our Past Favorites #1 - The Basics of Carbon Dating

74

The Geology of Garnet

75

Measuring Rocks - Brunton CEO Lauren Heerschap

76

How To Be a Geoscience Student

77

Moving Boulders - The Geology of Fieldstones

78

Inspirational Geology - The Yale Peabody Museum

79

Is Geology Getting Worse?

80

The Science of Elevation - Hypsometry

81

Gymnast to Geoscientist - GeoGirl Dr. Rachel Phillips

82

Smash and Grab - How Big of a Sample Do You Need?

83

The Michigan Basin

84

The Garnets Have Eyes

85

The Geology of Eskers

86

Field Observations - a How-To

87

Columnar Jointing - Icelandic Version

88

The Big Fill Slide - And Landslides Generally

89

Kickstarting Continents - The Acasta Gneiss Complex Part II

90

Cave Decorations - Mammoth Size

91

Home Away From Home - The Grand Tetons

92

Discovering Earth's Oldest Rocks

93

Making a Mammoth Cave

94

The Geology of Clay

95

The Longest Cave System in the World

96

The Uniqueness of Iceland

97

Tough Soil - The Geology of Hardpan

98

Some Rocks You SHOULD Know - Metamorphism and Plate Tectonics

99

When Continents Became Stable

100

Earth's Oldest Stuff

101

Geo-Tripping - A How-To Guide

102

The Rocks You Need to Know

103

Cutting the Grand Canyon - Dr. John Douglass

104

Uranium and the Start of the Earth? - How Geochronology Works

105

The History of Granite - Dr. Mike Ackerson

106

The Devil's Metal - The Geology of Nickel

107

Geology From Above - Dr. Anji Shah

108

The Fast Carbon Cycle

109

The Geology of Asbestos

110

We Just Don't Have Enough - Prof. Adam Simon

111

How Do Rocks Really Crystallize?

112

Why is Water "Hard"?

113

Exploration and Mining Geology - Dr. Steph Mrozek

114

The Epic Earthlings Grand Canyon Questions - Answered!

115

And...We're Back! The Greenhouse Effect

116

Cure the Winter Blues - Yosemite National Park (ReRelease)

117

Cure the Winter Blues - The Grand Canyon (ReRelease)

118

Cure the Winter Blues - Glacier National Park (ReRelease)

119

Cure the Winter Blues - Yellowstone National Park (ReRelease)

120

Cure the Winter Blues - Grand Teton National Park (ReRelease)

121

Cure the Winter Blues - Devil's Tower National Monument (ReRelease)

122

Cure the Winter Blues - The Black Hills (ReRelease)

123

Cure the Winter Blues - Badlands National Park (ReRelease)

124

Slow Carbon - The Rock Carbon Cycle

125

The Infiltration Game - Soils and Flooding

126

Forming Earth's Ocean - Office Hours

127

The Anthropocene

128

Remapping Yellowstone National Park

129

The Geology of Copper

130

Explore or Optimize? Interview with Erica Dalman

131

Chris and Jesse Finally Agree

132

Are You Karsty? Sinkholes and Karst

133

Geoscience is EVEN MORE Important

134

Going, Going, Gone - Disappearing Streams

135

Geoscience Careers #1 - Renewable Consulting with Andrew DeWitt

136

Petrification

137

Creepy Soil

138

Stream Drainage Patterns

139

Earth's Geological MRI Scan

140

Rockhounding 101

141

How To Identify Rocks

142

Yellowstone's "Rock" Music

143

The Geology of Uranium

144

Yellowstone's Other Volcanoes

145

A Geologist in National Defense - Dr. Stefanie Tompkins - Director of DARPA

146

Drove the Chevy to the Levee - The Geology of Levees

147

New York City is Sinking!

148

Office Hours - Back-to-School and Mass Spectrometers

149

Plants and Meanders - How to Read a Geoscience Paper

150

Not All Who Meander Are Lost - Meandering Streams

151

The Geology of Oakland - Andrew Alden author of Deep Oakland

152

Office Hours - Pollution and Slab Pull

153

Banded Iron Formations - BIFs

154

Barrier Islands

155

Observing Yellowstone National Park - Scientist-in-Charge Yellowstone Volcano Observatory Dr. Mike Poland

156

The Shape of Yellowstone - Dr. Mike Poland, Scientist-in-Charge, Yellowstone Volcano Observatory

157

PlanetGeo LIVE at Grand Valley State University

158

So You Think You Know Plate Tectonics? Part 7 - Rocks and Climate

159

So You Think You Know Plate Tectonics? Part 6 - Interior of the Earth

160

What's Inside That Rock? Rock Man Ethan Penner

161

Mass Confusion - How to Name a Mineral

162

So You Think You Know Plate Tectonics? Part 5 - Magnetism

163

When Did Plate Tectonics Begin? Plate Tectonics Part 4

164

Terroir - The Geology of Wine with Brenna Quigley

165

So, You Think You Know Plate Tectonics?!? Part 3

166

Making Magnets - The Geology of Neodymium

167

Elemental Geology 4 - Lithium, Making Batteries (ReRelease)

168

Elemental Geology 3 - Critical Minerals with Dr. Nedal Nassar (ReRelease)

169

Elemental Geology 2: Iridium, the Meteorite Tracer (ReRelease)

170

Elemental Geology 1 - Radon, the Unwelcome Houseguest (ReRelease)

171

Volcanoes Revisited: Part 4 - Volcanology Director Tina Neal

172

Volcanoes Revisited: Part 3 - Volcano Basics

173

Volcanoes Revisited: Part 2 - Dr. Andrew Calvert ReRelease

174

Volcanoes Revisited: Part 1 - Volcanologist Dr. Diana Roman

175

Office Hours: Plate Tectonics Questions/Thoughts

176

So You Think You Know Plate Tectonics? Part 2

177

A Groovy Geologist - Cate Larsen

178

So... You Think You Know Plate Tectonics? Part 1

179

Discovering Diamonds: The Story of Canada's Diamond Rush with Kevin Krajick

180

Communicating the Earth Observatory: Author Kevin Krajick

181

Don't Take it For Granite - Geology of Countertops

182

Capturing Carbon - The Basics of Carbon Capture and Storage

183

Introducing campGEO

184

The Doomsday Glacier - Professor Richard Alley Part 2

185

Earth: The Operator's Manual - Professor Richard Alley Part 1

186

The Worst Year to Be Alive - 536 AD

187

Canyonlands National Park

188

Arches National Park

189

Great Rocks, Summer Excursions, and Confusing Minerals

190

Only the Strong Survive - Sand

191

Rocks and Rules - Putting Things in Order

192

Red River Gorge, Kentucky

193

Age of the Earth - or, How to Build a Planet

194

Magma Oceans and Triple Junctions - Listener Questions Part 2!

195

Making Batteries: The Geology of Lithium

196

Earth's Leaky Core and Michigan Geology - Your Questions Part 1

197

Devils Tower National Monument

198

Badlands National Park

199

Breakthrough Energy: Ashley Grosh

200

Soccer, Mining, and Investing: Ashley Grosh of Breakthrough Energy Fellows

201

Carbon Dating: The Method and Misconceptions

202

Geoscience News this Week!

203

Super_Volcanoes: Dr. Robin George Andrews

204

Who Becomes a Volcanologist? Dr. Robin Andrews

205

Hiking Great Smoky Mountain National Park

206

Great Smoky Mountain National Park

207

Industrial Ecology and Critical Minerals: Dr. Nedal Nassar

208

What is a Critical Mineral? Dr. Nedal Nassar

209

Radon: The Unwelcome Houseguest

210

Your Questions! Road Collapse in the United Kingdom (GeoShort)

211

National Geographic and Geoscience Writing - Dr. Maya Wei-Haas

212

Daylight Saving Time: Interview with Dr. Maya Wei-Haas

213

A Geology Bullseye: The Black Hills of South Dakota

214

Eruption, The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens: Author Steve Olson

215

Modern Mount St. Helens: Author Steve Olson (GeoShort)

216

Volcanoes Around the World: Tina Neal - Director of the United States Volcano Science Center

217

The Geology of Iridium, The Meteorite Tracker

218

Meteors+Dinosaurs+Geology = Extinction!

219

Water Issues Part 4: The Geology of Hard Water (Re-Release)

220

The Volcano Heard Around the World: Literally!

221

Water Issues Part 3: Dams Revisited (A Geology Re-Release)

222

Water Issues Part 2: Dammed if We Do, Dammed if We Don't (Geology Re-Release)

223

Water Issues Part 1: Where is the World's Water? (A Geology Re-Release)

224

Energy and Climate Part 4: Geothermal Energy (Re-Release).

225

Energy and Climate Part 3: Ancient Nuclear Reactors (Re-Release).

226

Energy and Climate Part 2: Professor Michael Mann (Re-Release).

227

Energy and Climate Part 1: The Greenhouse Effect (Re-Release).

228

Where to see Yosemite Geoscience (GeoShort)

229

Yosemite National Park

230

Can Aliens See Us? Dr. Jackie Faherty

231

Manhatten-henge - Dr. Jackie Faherty (GeoShort)

232

What's in a Name? Volcano Edition

233

Mount St. Helens and Volcano Plumbing Systems (GeoShort)

234

Earth's Toxic Twin: An Interview About Venus With Professor Martha Gilmore

235

Testing Venus - Preview to Interview with Professor Martha Gilmore

236

Geothermal Energy - The Basics

237

Common Misconceptions Part I (GeoShort)

238

Gems, Museums, and Minerals: Interview with Dr. Gabriela Farfan

239

How Museums Get Their Gemstones: Preview to Interview with Dr. Gabriela Farfan (GeoShort)

240

Geoscience Across the Pond: Interview with Professor Chris Jackson

241

What is Sustainable Geoscience? Preview to Interview with Professor Chris Jackson (GeoShort)

242

The Geoscientific Method: Study Design and Mass Spectrometers

243

Are Continents Growing? (Geoshort)

244

Why Continents Exist: Bowen's Reaction Series

245

The Great Salt Lake: Historically Low Water Levels

246

Geysers and Hot Springs: Why They Matter with Examples From Yellowstone National Park

247

Rock Circles: Geologically Curious Phenomena (GeoShort)

248

Dammed Up Again: Streams and Dams Part Two

249

Big Valuable Crystals: Pegmatites (GeoShort)

250

The Spartans Last Stand: Geology of the Hot Gates

251

Shasta Tourism (Geoshort)

252

Observing Volcanoes: Dr. Andrew Calvert, Scientist-in-Charge of CalVO

253

Lava’s All You Need: Preview to Interview with Dr. Andrew Calvert (GeoShort)

254

The Day the Dinosaurs Died: Dr. Ian Miller, Director of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science

255

Asteroids and Extinctions: Excerpt from Interview with Dr. Ian Miller (Geoshort)

256

Glacier National Park

257

Glacier Questions From Our Live Event (GeoShort)

258

Discovering Ancient SuperQuakes: Why Large Earthquakes Occur and Where

259

2.5 Billon Tyrannosaurus rex (GeoShort)

260

Ancient Nukes: 1.9 Billion-Year-Old Nuclear Reactors

261

Grand Canyon Hiking Recommendations (GeoShort)

262

The New Climate War: Dr. Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor and Author

263

The Feeling of Discovery with Prof. Michael Mann (GeoShort)

264

The Grand Canyon National Park

265

A Recent Triple-Threat - Earthquakes Shake New Zealand (GeoShort)

266

The Rise of Geoscience Education: Interview with Professor Steve Mattox

267

Gold in The Outback, Stories with Professor Steve Mattox (GeoShort)

268

Rocks get better with age: HOW and WHY we date them

269

The Viral Cookie Monster Agate and How Agates Form (GeoShort)

270

How We Know What's Inside of the Earth (and Other Listener Questions)!

271

Identifying Rocks Can Be Hard! (GeoShort)

272

Astronomy and Geoscience: Interview with Astrophysicist Dr. Jackie Faherty

273

Jupiter, Space Time, And a Preview to Our Interview with Dr. Jackie Faherty (GeoShort)

274

Dammed if We Do, Dammed if We Don't!

275

How is water in the ground measured? (GeoShort)

276

How is Obsidian Formed? (GeoShort)

277

The Voices of Volcanoes: Interview with Volcanologist - Dr. Diana Roman

278

Why don't beaches erode quickly? Plus an interesting beer question (GeoShort)

279

Where is Earth's Water? Examples from the Great Lakes

280

Bonus Story from Harlan Kredit: Yellowstone Park Ranger

281

Interview with a Yellowstone Park Ranger - Harlan Kredit - 48 years and counting

282

Listener Question - Can Human Noise Damage the Earth? (GeoShort)

283

Hiking Recommendations for the Tetons (GeoShort)

284

The Greenhouse Effect Unpacked

285

Grand Teton National Park: A geological story

286

Diamonds: Earth's Deepest Gem

287

Hard Water and What Makes the Ocean Salty

288

Covid19: it's not ALL bad

289

Yellowstone National Park

290

What is a Tectonic Plate?

291

Geoscience is Important. Period.