Podcasts

All about limestone

Published: June 30, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 18 seconds

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Bowens Reaction Series

Published: June 23, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 18 seconds

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Earth's Major Systems

Published: June 16, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 59 seconds

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Buying a rock (geologic) hammer

Published: June 9, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 59 seconds

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Earth's largest volcano erupts - Mauna Loa 2022

Published: June 2, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 21 seconds

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Have I found gold? Simple tests to find out!

Published: May 26, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 35 seconds

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Hawaii - why I love taking people to visit the volcanoes

Published: May 19, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds

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The 5 Great Extinctions

Published: May 12, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 17 seconds

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Graptolites

Published: May 5, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 26 seconds

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Elements needed for an EV battery

Published: April 28, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 11 seconds

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Volcanic Explosive Index

Published: April 21, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 15 seconds

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Volcanic Eruption Styles

Published: April 14, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds

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Sapphires, Rubies & Corundum (oh my!)

Published: April 7, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 15 seconds

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Longshore Drift - the shifting sands

Published: March 24, 2023, midnight
Duration: 7 minutes 3 seconds

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Volcanoes & Climate

Published: March 16, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 28 seconds

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Focus & Epicenter - important earthquake terms

Published: March 10, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 15 seconds

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Ring of Fire - what's happening around the Pacific?

Published: March 3, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 1 second

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Diamonds - all about those gems!

Published: Feb. 24, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 18 seconds

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Index Fossils - the keys to dating layers

Published: Feb. 17, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 25 seconds

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Landslides - the 'other' natural disaster!

Published: Feb. 10, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 49 seconds

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Radioactive dating - how does it tell us how old rocks are?

Published: Nov. 12, 2022, 3 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 30 seconds

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The History of the theory of Plate Tectonics

Published: Nov. 4, 2022, 8 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 24 seconds

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What are the mechanisms that drive Plate Tectonics?

Published: Oct. 28, 2022, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 32 seconds

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Sand - why do we see such variations?

Published: Oct. 21, 2022, 4 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 19 seconds

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Missing time - what are unconformities?

Published: Oct. 14, 2022, 8 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 15 seconds

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Seeing inside the Earth

Published: Oct. 7, 2022, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 50 seconds

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Trilobites - King of the fossils!

Published: Sept. 30, 2022, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 47 seconds

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The Earth's layers explained

Published: Sept. 23, 2022, 8 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 41 seconds

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What is a glacier?

Published: Sept. 16, 2022, 8 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 36 seconds

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Why are dikes awesome?

Published: Sept. 9, 2022, 2 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 23 seconds

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Why is Iceland an island?

Published: Sept. 2, 2022, 4 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 30 seconds

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Why are some volcanic eruptions, like Tonga and Krakatoa, so explosive?

Published: Jan. 18, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 30 seconds

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Why is Hawaii such a great learning laboratory

Published: Jan. 14, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 26 seconds

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Volcanic eruptions - how we monitor what a volcano is doing

Published: Feb. 28, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 55 seconds

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Rivers - simple morphology and classification

Published: Feb. 19, 2021, 11 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 41 seconds

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Banded Iron Formations and what they tell us about the Earth's evolution

Published: Feb. 6, 2021, 9 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 30 seconds

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Earth's natural (geological) resources - what are they?

Published: Jan. 30, 2021, 9 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 42 seconds

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Lithosphere, Asthenosphere and Moho- what's that all about?

Published: Jan. 22, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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Continental Crust - whats it all about?

Published: Jan. 15, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 12 seconds

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Oceanic Crust - what is it all about?

Published: Jan. 8, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 59 seconds

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Metamorphic rocks for beginners

Published: Sept. 7, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 18 seconds

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Life as a Geologist - Dr Chris Spencer

Published: July 10, 2020, 11 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 26 seconds

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Four ways to get field experience - for college/university students

Published: July 5, 2020, 11 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes

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Evidence for past climate change

Published: June 28, 2020, 11 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 54 seconds

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Volcano shapes - shield, composite/stratiform, caldera - and chemistry

Published: June 21, 2020, 10 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 14 seconds

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Transform fault plate boundaries - what are their features?

Published: June 14, 2020, 11 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 22 seconds

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Convergent plate boundaries - subduction, collision and Island arcs - what are their features?

Published: June 8, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 14 seconds

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Divergent plate boundaries - what are their features?

Published: May 31, 2020, 9 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 20 seconds

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The Evidence for Plate Tectonics

Published: May 24, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 40 seconds

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Tsunami - the science behind the waves

Published: May 11, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 1 second

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Limestone Caves - how do they form (the chemistry of solution caves)

Published: May 4, 2020, 9 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 40 seconds

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Earth's Magnetic Reversals and Plate Tectonics

Published: April 26, 2020, 9 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes

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Mineral Occurrence through to Ore Deposit. What do these terms mean?

Published: April 20, 2020, 11 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 57 seconds

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Oil - how is oil formed and trapped.

Published: April 12, 2020, 11 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 20 seconds

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Relative Dating - working out what happened first, second...

Published: April 5, 2020, 10 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 39 seconds

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Erosion - moving stuff around

Published: March 30, 2020, 8 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 19 seconds

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Weathering - breaking down in place.

Published: March 29, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 2 seconds

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Starting off rock and mineral collecting

Published: March 22, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 41 seconds

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The Science of Gold

Published: March 15, 2020, noon
Duration: 16 minutes 7 seconds

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Earthquakes - what you need to know!

Published: March 9, 2020, 8 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 1 second

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Silicate minerals - for non scientists

Published: Feb. 17, 2020, noon
Duration: 13 minutes 24 seconds

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Geoscience jobs - just some of the types of geologist!

Published: Feb. 9, 2020, 9 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 46 seconds

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All about granite

Published: Feb. 6, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 28 seconds

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Simple rock classification - Igneous, Sedimentary & Metamorphic Rocks

Published: Feb. 2, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 27 seconds

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Introduction to Plate Tectonics

Published: Feb. 2, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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Mineral color and streak

Published: Jan. 29, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 10 seconds

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Mineral hardness - and how to work out the hardness of an unknown mineral

Published: Jan. 27, 2020, midnight
Duration: 8 minutes 41 seconds

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Why geology and what got me hooked?

Published: Jan. 26, 2020, midnight
Duration: 16 minutes

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