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PlanetGeo: The Geology Podcast — 295 episodes
The Silicates. Geology 101: Minerals Part 2
What is a Mineral? Geology 101: Minerals Part 1
Lithium 101 with Joe Lowry: Brines, Pegmatites, DLE, and the Smackover
How to Find Copper — Dr. Tim Ireland, First Quantum
The Rock 50 Light-Years Away
The Room Problem (and how Geochronology solves it)
Rocks for the Future - with MIT Prof. Oli Jagoutz
The Fundamentals of Geology (Exam)
Granite Wars: The Debates That Built a Science
The Geologist's License: How the FG and PG Exams Get Built — with Keith Rapp
What Makes Supervolcanoes? With Professor Shan de Silva and Dr. Rachel Phillips
Eating Rocks For Breakfast
What is a Professional Geologist? An Intro to Licensure
Visualizing the Deep Earth - CEO and Founder Christie Capper
The Anatomy of Mountain Ranges
Geology Meets Deep Tech - Danielle Bennett
Here Be Dragons - Exploring the Unknown with NASA Ames Chief Scientist for Innovation Dr. John Stock
Banded Iron Formations - A Deep Dive
Venezuela’s Black Gold
Rocks, Risks, and Riches: Strategies and Stories with CEO Doug Heller
Petrification - Rerelease
How to Identify Rocks - Rerelease
Rockhounding 101 (ReRelease)
The Moon-Forming Impact - Q&A with Dr. Rachel Phillips aka GeoGirl
Whence Plate Tectonics? Q&A with Dr. Rachel Phillips aka GeoGirl
Rocks and Rules, Putting Things in Order (Re-Release #1)
The Length of Day 2.5 Billion Years Ago - BIFs, Milankovitch, and Geochron with Dr. Josh Davies
What is a Continent? Part 1 - The Composition
Stories in Stone - with David Williams
From Rifts To Rifles - The Regional Geology of the Battle of the Gettysburg
Flash Floods
Calderas and Confederates - The Geology of South Mountain and the Gettysburg Campaign
Eruptions and Extinctions - The Geology of the Gettysburg Sill
Capitol Curiosities - Fanglomerate and the Gettysburg Basin
Magnetic Sand and Other Listener Questions
Sasquatch Eruptions
Landslides and Lidar - Dr. Phillip Prince @Geomodels
Silent Sculptors - The Stones Shaping Gettysburg's Battlefield
America's Oldest Rocks - Part 2 - The Unveil
Rift, Rock, and Revolution - The Beginnings of the Gettysburg Basin
America's Oldest Rock - Part 1
The Geology of the Battle of Gettysburg - A PlanetGeo Field Trip
The White Cliffs of Dover - Nature's Chalkboard
Of Stones And Startups: A Geoscience Transformation?
The Great River - Boyce Upholt
Blue Gold? The Geology of Cobalt
Think Like a Rock Star - It's a Good Time to Be a Geologist
Caldera Chronicles - Unzipping the Mysteries of Long Valley With Dr. Andy Calvert
The Boiling Point - Decoding Long Valley Caldera's Volcanic Future
Heat Without the Show - Long Valley's Hydrothermal System
The Geological Fruit Fly - The Bishop Tuff and Long Valley Caldera Eruption
The Basalt Before the Blast - The Leadup to The Long Valley Caldera
Between a Rock and a Hot Place: Long Valley's Tectonic Tale
Evolution of Eruption - Intro to the Long Valley Caldera
How to Get Hired - CEO Lindsey Schultz
The Answers Are in the Rocks - It's a Good Time to Be a Geologist
Induced Earthquakes, Fracking, and the Future of the Subsurface with Dr. Katie Smye
The Future Lies At Depth - It's a Good Time to be a Geologist
The Geology of Petoskey Stones
Buy Low, Sell High - It's a Good Time to Be a Geoscientist
Navigating Rocks - Field Geology and the Evolving Geosciences
Geology of Puddingstone
Gaia - The Earth As a System with Dean Lee Kump
Geology's Ologies
Are These Earth's Oldest Rocks?
The Hit and Run Rockies - With Professor Basil Tikoff
Idaho to Iceland - Shawn Willsey
Earth's Oldest Sediments - The Isua Supracrustal Belt
The Geology of Quartz
Our Past Favorites #8 - Plants, Meanders, and How to Read a Geoscience Paper
Our Past Favorites #7 - Not All Who Meander Are Lost
Our Past Favorites #6 - The Geology of Wine with Brenna Quigley
Our Past Favorites #5 - Geology and National Defense with Dr. Stefanie Tompkins
Our Past Favorites #4 - The Geology of Countertops
Our Past Favorites #3 - The Age of the Earth or, How to Build a Planet
Our Past Favorites #2 - Only The Strong Survive, The Geology of Sand
Our Past Favorites #1 - The Basics of Carbon Dating
The Geology of Garnet
Measuring Rocks - Brunton CEO Lauren Heerschap
How To Be a Geoscience Student
Moving Boulders - The Geology of Fieldstones
Inspirational Geology - The Yale Peabody Museum
Is Geology Getting Worse?
The Science of Elevation - Hypsometry
Gymnast to Geoscientist - GeoGirl Dr. Rachel Phillips
Smash and Grab - How Big of a Sample Do You Need?
The Michigan Basin
The Garnets Have Eyes
The Geology of Eskers
Field Observations - a How-To
Columnar Jointing - Icelandic Version
The Big Fill Slide - And Landslides Generally
Kickstarting Continents - The Acasta Gneiss Complex Part II
Cave Decorations - Mammoth Size
Home Away From Home - The Grand Tetons
Discovering Earth's Oldest Rocks
Making a Mammoth Cave
The Geology of Clay
The Longest Cave System in the World
The Uniqueness of Iceland
Tough Soil - The Geology of Hardpan
Some Rocks You SHOULD Know - Metamorphism and Plate Tectonics
When Continents Became Stable
Earth's Oldest Stuff
Geo-Tripping - A How-To Guide
The Rocks You Need to Know
Cutting the Grand Canyon - Dr. John Douglass
Uranium and the Start of the Earth? - How Geochronology Works
The History of Granite - Dr. Mike Ackerson
The Devil's Metal - The Geology of Nickel
Geology From Above - Dr. Anji Shah
The Fast Carbon Cycle
The Geology of Asbestos
We Just Don't Have Enough - Prof. Adam Simon
How Do Rocks Really Crystallize?
Why is Water "Hard"?
Exploration and Mining Geology - Dr. Steph Mrozek
The Epic Earthlings Grand Canyon Questions - Answered!
And...We're Back! The Greenhouse Effect
Cure the Winter Blues - Yosemite National Park (ReRelease)
Cure the Winter Blues - The Grand Canyon (ReRelease)
Cure the Winter Blues - Glacier National Park (ReRelease)
Cure the Winter Blues - Yellowstone National Park (ReRelease)
Cure the Winter Blues - Grand Teton National Park (ReRelease)
Cure the Winter Blues - Devil's Tower National Monument (ReRelease)
Cure the Winter Blues - The Black Hills (ReRelease)
Cure the Winter Blues - Badlands National Park (ReRelease)
Slow Carbon - The Rock Carbon Cycle
The Infiltration Game - Soils and Flooding
Forming Earth's Ocean - Office Hours
The Anthropocene
Remapping Yellowstone National Park
The Geology of Copper
Explore or Optimize? Interview with Erica Dalman
Chris and Jesse Finally Agree
Are You Karsty? Sinkholes and Karst
Geoscience is EVEN MORE Important
Going, Going, Gone - Disappearing Streams
Geoscience Careers #1 - Renewable Consulting with Andrew DeWitt
Petrification
Creepy Soil
Stream Drainage Patterns
Earth's Geological MRI Scan
Rockhounding 101
How To Identify Rocks
Yellowstone's "Rock" Music
The Geology of Uranium
Yellowstone's Other Volcanoes
A Geologist in National Defense - Dr. Stefanie Tompkins - Director of DARPA
Drove the Chevy to the Levee - The Geology of Levees
New York City is Sinking!
Office Hours - Back-to-School and Mass Spectrometers
Plants and Meanders - How to Read a Geoscience Paper
Not All Who Meander Are Lost - Meandering Streams
The Geology of Oakland - Andrew Alden author of Deep Oakland
Office Hours - Pollution and Slab Pull
Banded Iron Formations - BIFs
Barrier Islands
Observing Yellowstone National Park - Scientist-in-Charge Yellowstone Volcano Observatory Dr. Mike Poland
The Shape of Yellowstone - Dr. Mike Poland, Scientist-in-Charge, Yellowstone Volcano Observatory
PlanetGeo LIVE at Grand Valley State University
So You Think You Know Plate Tectonics? Part 7 - Rocks and Climate
So You Think You Know Plate Tectonics? Part 6 - Interior of the Earth
What's Inside That Rock? Rock Man Ethan Penner
Mass Confusion - How to Name a Mineral
So You Think You Know Plate Tectonics? Part 5 - Magnetism
When Did Plate Tectonics Begin? Plate Tectonics Part 4
Terroir - The Geology of Wine with Brenna Quigley
So, You Think You Know Plate Tectonics?!? Part 3
Making Magnets - The Geology of Neodymium
Elemental Geology 4 - Lithium, Making Batteries (ReRelease)
Elemental Geology 3 - Critical Minerals with Dr. Nedal Nassar (ReRelease)
Elemental Geology 2: Iridium, the Meteorite Tracer (ReRelease)
Elemental Geology 1 - Radon, the Unwelcome Houseguest (ReRelease)
Volcanoes Revisited: Part 4 - Volcanology Director Tina Neal
Volcanoes Revisited: Part 3 - Volcano Basics
Volcanoes Revisited: Part 2 - Dr. Andrew Calvert ReRelease
Volcanoes Revisited: Part 1 - Volcanologist Dr. Diana Roman
Office Hours: Plate Tectonics Questions/Thoughts
So You Think You Know Plate Tectonics? Part 2
A Groovy Geologist - Cate Larsen
So... You Think You Know Plate Tectonics? Part 1
Discovering Diamonds: The Story of Canada's Diamond Rush with Kevin Krajick
Communicating the Earth Observatory: Author Kevin Krajick
Don't Take it For Granite - Geology of Countertops
Capturing Carbon - The Basics of Carbon Capture and Storage
Introducing campGEO
The Doomsday Glacier - Professor Richard Alley Part 2
Earth: The Operator's Manual - Professor Richard Alley Part 1
The Worst Year to Be Alive - 536 AD
Canyonlands National Park
Arches National Park
Great Rocks, Summer Excursions, and Confusing Minerals
Only the Strong Survive - Sand
Rocks and Rules - Putting Things in Order
Red River Gorge, Kentucky
Age of the Earth - or, How to Build a Planet
Magma Oceans and Triple Junctions - Listener Questions Part 2!
Making Batteries: The Geology of Lithium
Earth's Leaky Core and Michigan Geology - Your Questions Part 1
Devils Tower National Monument
Badlands National Park
Breakthrough Energy: Ashley Grosh
Soccer, Mining, and Investing: Ashley Grosh of Breakthrough Energy Fellows
Carbon Dating: The Method and Misconceptions
Geoscience News this Week!
Super_Volcanoes: Dr. Robin George Andrews
Who Becomes a Volcanologist? Dr. Robin Andrews
Hiking Great Smoky Mountain National Park
Great Smoky Mountain National Park
Industrial Ecology and Critical Minerals: Dr. Nedal Nassar
What is a Critical Mineral? Dr. Nedal Nassar
Radon: The Unwelcome Houseguest
Your Questions! Road Collapse in the United Kingdom (GeoShort)
National Geographic and Geoscience Writing - Dr. Maya Wei-Haas
Daylight Saving Time: Interview with Dr. Maya Wei-Haas
A Geology Bullseye: The Black Hills of South Dakota
Eruption, The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens: Author Steve Olson
Modern Mount St. Helens: Author Steve Olson (GeoShort)
Volcanoes Around the World: Tina Neal - Director of the United States Volcano Science Center
The Geology of Iridium, The Meteorite Tracker
Meteors+Dinosaurs+Geology = Extinction!
Water Issues Part 4: The Geology of Hard Water (Re-Release)
The Volcano Heard Around the World: Literally!
Water Issues Part 3: Dams Revisited (A Geology Re-Release)
Water Issues Part 2: Dammed if We Do, Dammed if We Don't (Geology Re-Release)
Water Issues Part 1: Where is the World's Water? (A Geology Re-Release)
Energy and Climate Part 4: Geothermal Energy (Re-Release).
Energy and Climate Part 3: Ancient Nuclear Reactors (Re-Release).
Energy and Climate Part 2: Professor Michael Mann (Re-Release).
Energy and Climate Part 1: The Greenhouse Effect (Re-Release).
Where to see Yosemite Geoscience (GeoShort)
Yosemite National Park
Can Aliens See Us? Dr. Jackie Faherty
Manhatten-henge - Dr. Jackie Faherty (GeoShort)
What's in a Name? Volcano Edition
Mount St. Helens and Volcano Plumbing Systems (GeoShort)
Earth's Toxic Twin: An Interview About Venus With Professor Martha Gilmore
Testing Venus - Preview to Interview with Professor Martha Gilmore
Geothermal Energy - The Basics
Common Misconceptions Part I (GeoShort)
Gems, Museums, and Minerals: Interview with Dr. Gabriela Farfan
How Museums Get Their Gemstones: Preview to Interview with Dr. Gabriela Farfan (GeoShort)
Geoscience Across the Pond: Interview with Professor Chris Jackson
What is Sustainable Geoscience? Preview to Interview with Professor Chris Jackson (GeoShort)
The Geoscientific Method: Study Design and Mass Spectrometers
Are Continents Growing? (Geoshort)
Why Continents Exist: Bowen's Reaction Series
The Great Salt Lake: Historically Low Water Levels
Geysers and Hot Springs: Why They Matter with Examples From Yellowstone National Park
Rock Circles: Geologically Curious Phenomena (GeoShort)
Dammed Up Again: Streams and Dams Part Two
Big Valuable Crystals: Pegmatites (GeoShort)
The Spartans Last Stand: Geology of the Hot Gates
Shasta Tourism (Geoshort)
Observing Volcanoes: Dr. Andrew Calvert, Scientist-in-Charge of CalVO
Lava’s All You Need: Preview to Interview with Dr. Andrew Calvert (GeoShort)
The Day the Dinosaurs Died: Dr. Ian Miller, Director of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Asteroids and Extinctions: Excerpt from Interview with Dr. Ian Miller (Geoshort)
Glacier National Park
Glacier Questions From Our Live Event (GeoShort)
Discovering Ancient SuperQuakes: Why Large Earthquakes Occur and Where
2.5 Billon Tyrannosaurus rex (GeoShort)
Ancient Nukes: 1.9 Billion-Year-Old Nuclear Reactors
Grand Canyon Hiking Recommendations (GeoShort)
The New Climate War: Dr. Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor and Author
The Feeling of Discovery with Prof. Michael Mann (GeoShort)
The Grand Canyon National Park
A Recent Triple-Threat - Earthquakes Shake New Zealand (GeoShort)
The Rise of Geoscience Education: Interview with Professor Steve Mattox
Gold in The Outback, Stories with Professor Steve Mattox (GeoShort)
Rocks get better with age: HOW and WHY we date them
The Viral Cookie Monster Agate and How Agates Form (GeoShort)
How We Know What's Inside of the Earth (and Other Listener Questions)!
Identifying Rocks Can Be Hard! (GeoShort)
Astronomy and Geoscience: Interview with Astrophysicist Dr. Jackie Faherty
Jupiter, Space Time, And a Preview to Our Interview with Dr. Jackie Faherty (GeoShort)
Dammed if We Do, Dammed if We Don't!
How is water in the ground measured? (GeoShort)
How is Obsidian Formed? (GeoShort)
The Voices of Volcanoes: Interview with Volcanologist - Dr. Diana Roman
Why don't beaches erode quickly? Plus an interesting beer question (GeoShort)
Where is Earth's Water? Examples from the Great Lakes
Bonus Story from Harlan Kredit: Yellowstone Park Ranger
Interview with a Yellowstone Park Ranger - Harlan Kredit - 48 years and counting
Listener Question - Can Human Noise Damage the Earth? (GeoShort)
Hiking Recommendations for the Tetons (GeoShort)
The Greenhouse Effect Unpacked
Grand Teton National Park: A geological story
Diamonds: Earth's Deepest Gem
Hard Water and What Makes the Ocean Salty
Covid19: it's not ALL bad
Yellowstone National Park
What is a Tectonic Plate?
Geoscience is Important. Period.