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PlanetGeo: The Geology Podcast — 286 episodes

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

2

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

3

Eating Rocks For Breakfast

4

What is a Professional Geologist? An Intro to Licensure

5

Visualizing the Deep Earth - CEO and Founder Christie Capper

6

The Anatomy of Mountain Ranges

7

Geology Meets Deep Tech - Danielle Bennett

8

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

9

Banded Iron Formations - A Deep Dive

10

Venezuela’s Black Gold

11

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

12

Petrification - Rerelease

13

How to Identify Rocks - Rerelease

14

Rockhounding 101 (ReRelease)

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

What is a Continent? Part 1 - The Composition

20

Stories in Stone - with David Williams

21

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

22

Flash Floods

23

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

24

Eruptions and Extinctions - The Geology of the Gettysburg Sill

25

Capitol Curiosities - Fanglomerate and the Gettysburg Basin

26

Magnetic Sand and Other Listener Questions

27

Sasquatch Eruptions

28

Landslides and Lidar - Dr. Phillip Prince @Geomodels

29

Silent Sculptors - The Stones Shaping Gettysburg's Battlefield

30

America's Oldest Rocks - Part 2 - The Unveil

31

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

32

America's Oldest Rock - Part 1

33

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

34

The White Cliffs of Dover - Nature's Chalkboard

35

Of Stones And Startups: A Geoscience Transformation?

36

The Great River - Boyce Upholt

37

Blue Gold? The Geology of Cobalt

38

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

39

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

40

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

41

Heat Without the Show - Long Valley's Hydrothermal System

42

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

43

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

44

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

45

Evolution of Eruption - Intro to the Long Valley Caldera

46

How to Get Hired - CEO Lindsey Schultz

47

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

48

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

49

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

50

The Geology of Petoskey Stones

51

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

52

Navigating Rocks - Field Geology and the Evolving Geosciences

53

Geology of Puddingstone

54

Gaia - The Earth As a System with Dean Lee Kump

55

Geology's Ologies

56

Are These Earth's Oldest Rocks?

57

The Hit and Run Rockies - With Professor Basil Tikoff

58

Idaho to Iceland - Shawn Willsey

59

Earth's Oldest Sediments - The Isua Supracrustal Belt

60

The Geology of Quartz

61

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

62

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

63

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

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

65

Our Past Favorites #4 - The Geology of Countertops

66

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

67

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

68

Our Past Favorites #1 - The Basics of Carbon Dating

69

The Geology of Garnet

70

Measuring Rocks - Brunton CEO Lauren Heerschap

71

How To Be a Geoscience Student

72

Moving Boulders - The Geology of Fieldstones

73

Inspirational Geology - The Yale Peabody Museum

74

Is Geology Getting Worse?

75

The Science of Elevation - Hypsometry

76

Gymnast to Geoscientist - GeoGirl Dr. Rachel Phillips

77

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

78

The Michigan Basin

79

The Garnets Have Eyes

80

The Geology of Eskers

81

Field Observations - a How-To

82

Columnar Jointing - Icelandic Version

83

The Big Fill Slide - And Landslides Generally

84

Kickstarting Continents - The Acasta Gneiss Complex Part II

85

Cave Decorations - Mammoth Size

86

Home Away From Home - The Grand Tetons

87

Discovering Earth's Oldest Rocks

88

Making a Mammoth Cave

89

The Geology of Clay

90

The Longest Cave System in the World

91

The Uniqueness of Iceland

92

Tough Soil - The Geology of Hardpan

93

Some Rocks You SHOULD Know - Metamorphism and Plate Tectonics

94

When Continents Became Stable

95

Earth's Oldest Stuff

96

Geo-Tripping - A How-To Guide

97

The Rocks You Need to Know

98

Cutting the Grand Canyon - Dr. John Douglass

99

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

100

The History of Granite - Dr. Mike Ackerson

101

The Devil's Metal - The Geology of Nickel

102

Geology From Above - Dr. Anji Shah

103

The Fast Carbon Cycle

104

The Geology of Asbestos

105

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

106

How Do Rocks Really Crystallize?

107

Why is Water "Hard"?

108

Exploration and Mining Geology - Dr. Steph Mrozek

109

The Epic Earthlings Grand Canyon Questions - Answered!

110

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

111

Cure the Winter Blues - Yosemite National Park (ReRelease)

112

Cure the Winter Blues - The Grand Canyon (ReRelease)

113

Cure the Winter Blues - Glacier National Park (ReRelease)

114

Cure the Winter Blues - Yellowstone National Park (ReRelease)

115

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

116

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

117

Cure the Winter Blues - The Black Hills (ReRelease)

118

Cure the Winter Blues - Badlands National Park (ReRelease)

119

Slow Carbon - The Rock Carbon Cycle

120

The Infiltration Game - Soils and Flooding

121

Forming Earth's Ocean - Office Hours

122

The Anthropocene

123

Remapping Yellowstone National Park

124

The Geology of Copper

125

Explore or Optimize? Interview with Erica Dalman

126

Chris and Jesse Finally Agree

127

Are You Karsty? Sinkholes and Karst

128

Geoscience is EVEN MORE Important

129

Going, Going, Gone - Disappearing Streams

130

Geoscience Careers #1 - Renewable Consulting with Andrew DeWitt

131

Petrification

132

Creepy Soil

133

Stream Drainage Patterns

134

Earth's Geological MRI Scan

135

Rockhounding 101

136

How To Identify Rocks

137

Yellowstone's "Rock" Music

138

The Geology of Uranium

139

Yellowstone's Other Volcanoes

140

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

141

Drove the Chevy to the Levee - The Geology of Levees

142

New York City is Sinking!

143

Office Hours - Back-to-School and Mass Spectrometers

144

Plants and Meanders - How to Read a Geoscience Paper

145

Not All Who Meander Are Lost - Meandering Streams

146

The Geology of Oakland - Andrew Alden author of Deep Oakland

147

Office Hours - Pollution and Slab Pull

148

Banded Iron Formations - BIFs

149

Barrier Islands

150

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

151

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

152

PlanetGeo LIVE at Grand Valley State University

153

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

154

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

155

What's Inside That Rock? Rock Man Ethan Penner

156

Mass Confusion - How to Name a Mineral

157

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

158

When Did Plate Tectonics Begin? Plate Tectonics Part 4

159

Terroir - The Geology of Wine with Brenna Quigley

160

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

161

Making Magnets - The Geology of Neodymium

162

Elemental Geology 4 - Lithium, Making Batteries (ReRelease)

163

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

164

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

165

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

166

Volcanoes Revisited: Part 4 - Volcanology Director Tina Neal

167

Volcanoes Revisited: Part 3 - Volcano Basics

168

Volcanoes Revisited: Part 2 - Dr. Andrew Calvert ReRelease

169

Volcanoes Revisited: Part 1 - Volcanologist Dr. Diana Roman

170

Office Hours: Plate Tectonics Questions/Thoughts

171

So You Think You Know Plate Tectonics? Part 2

172

A Groovy Geologist - Cate Larsen

173

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

174

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

175

Communicating the Earth Observatory: Author Kevin Krajick

176

Don't Take it For Granite - Geology of Countertops

177

Capturing Carbon - The Basics of Carbon Capture and Storage

178

Introducing campGEO

179

The Doomsday Glacier - Professor Richard Alley Part 2

180

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

181

The Worst Year to Be Alive - 536 AD

182

Canyonlands National Park

183

Arches National Park

184

Great Rocks, Summer Excursions, and Confusing Minerals

185

Only the Strong Survive - Sand

186

Rocks and Rules - Putting Things in Order

187

Red River Gorge, Kentucky

188

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

189

Magma Oceans and Triple Junctions - Listener Questions Part 2!

190

Making Batteries: The Geology of Lithium

191

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

192

Devils Tower National Monument

193

Badlands National Park

194

Breakthrough Energy: Ashley Grosh

195

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

196

Carbon Dating: The Method and Misconceptions

197

Geoscience News this Week!

198

Super_Volcanoes: Dr. Robin George Andrews

199

Who Becomes a Volcanologist? Dr. Robin Andrews

200

Hiking Great Smoky Mountain National Park

201

Great Smoky Mountain National Park

202

Industrial Ecology and Critical Minerals: Dr. Nedal Nassar

203

What is a Critical Mineral? Dr. Nedal Nassar

204

Radon: The Unwelcome Houseguest

205

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

206

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

207

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

208

A Geology Bullseye: The Black Hills of South Dakota

209

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

210

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

211

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

212

The Geology of Iridium, The Meteorite Tracker

213

Meteors+Dinosaurs+Geology = Extinction!

214

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

215

The Volcano Heard Around the World: Literally!

216

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

217

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

218

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

219

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

220

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

221

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

222

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

223

Where to see Yosemite Geoscience (GeoShort)

224

Yosemite National Park

225

Can Aliens See Us? Dr. Jackie Faherty

226

Manhatten-henge - Dr. Jackie Faherty (GeoShort)

227

What's in a Name? Volcano Edition

228

Mount St. Helens and Volcano Plumbing Systems (GeoShort)

229

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

230

Testing Venus - Preview to Interview with Professor Martha Gilmore

231

Geothermal Energy - The Basics

232

Common Misconceptions Part I (GeoShort)

233

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

234

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

235

Geoscience Across the Pond: Interview with Professor Chris Jackson

236

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

237

The Geoscientific Method: Study Design and Mass Spectrometers

238

Are Continents Growing? (Geoshort)

239

Why Continents Exist: Bowen's Reaction Series

240

The Great Salt Lake: Historically Low Water Levels

241

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

242

Rock Circles: Geologically Curious Phenomena (GeoShort)

243

Dammed Up Again: Streams and Dams Part Two

244

Big Valuable Crystals: Pegmatites (GeoShort)

245

The Spartans Last Stand: Geology of the Hot Gates

246

Shasta Tourism (Geoshort)

247

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

248

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

249

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

250

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

251

Glacier National Park

252

Glacier Questions From Our Live Event (GeoShort)

253

Discovering Ancient SuperQuakes: Why Large Earthquakes Occur and Where

254

2.5 Billon Tyrannosaurus rex (GeoShort)

255

Ancient Nukes: 1.9 Billion-Year-Old Nuclear Reactors

256

Grand Canyon Hiking Recommendations (GeoShort)

257

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

258

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

259

The Grand Canyon National Park

260

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

261

The Rise of Geoscience Education: Interview with Professor Steve Mattox

262

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

263

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

264

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

265

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

266

Identifying Rocks Can Be Hard! (GeoShort)

267

Astronomy and Geoscience: Interview with Astrophysicist Dr. Jackie Faherty

268

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

269

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

270

How is water in the ground measured? (GeoShort)

271

How is Obsidian Formed? (GeoShort)

272

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

273

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

274

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

275

Bonus Story from Harlan Kredit: Yellowstone Park Ranger

276

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

277

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

278

Hiking Recommendations for the Tetons (GeoShort)

279

The Greenhouse Effect Unpacked

280

Grand Teton National Park: A geological story

281

Diamonds: Earth's Deepest Gem

282

Hard Water and What Makes the Ocean Salty

283

Covid19: it's not ALL bad

284

Yellowstone National Park

285

What is a Tectonic Plate?

286

Geoscience is Important. Period.