Geology Bites
What moves the continents, creates mountains, swallows up the sea floor, makes volcanoes erupt, triggers earthquakes, and imprints ancient climates into the rocks? Oliver Strimpel, a former astrophysicist and museum director asks leading researchers to divulge what they have discovered and how they did it. To learn more about the series, and see images that support the podcasts, go to geologybites.com. Instagram: @GeologyBites Twitter: @geology_bites Email: geologybitespodcast@gmail.comPodcasts
Adam Simon on Battery Metals
Published: Oct. 23, 2024, 1:02 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 14 seconds
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Rufus Catchings on Pinning Down California's Faults
Published: Sept. 20, 2024, 10:06 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 33 seconds
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Sara Seager on Exoplanet Geology
Published: Sept. 1, 2024, 9:13 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 33 seconds
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Evan Smith on Diamonds from the Deep Mantle
Published: Aug. 14, 2024, 3:02 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 36 seconds
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Roberta Rudnick on the Continental Crustal Composition Paradox
Published: July 31, 2024, 6:34 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 53 seconds
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Alex Copley on Soft Continents
Published: July 15, 2024, 1:28 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 4 seconds
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Shanan Peters on Quantifying the Global Sedimentary Rock Record
Published: July 1, 2024, 1:36 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 14 seconds
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Paul Smith on the Cambrian Explosion
Published: June 8, 2024, 1:42 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 44 seconds
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Scott Bolton on the Most Volcanically Active Body in the Solar System
Published: May 25, 2024, 8:58 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 45 seconds
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Bob White on How Magma Moves in the Crust
Published: May 6, 2024, 12:42 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 45 seconds
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Richard Ernst on Large Igneous Provinces
Published: April 10, 2024, 11:41 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 56 seconds
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Damian Nance on What Drives the Supercontinent Cycle
Published: Feb. 24, 2024, 2:47 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 58 seconds
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David Kohlstedt on Simulating the Mantle in the Lab
Published: Feb. 9, 2024, 2:25 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes
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Claire Corkhill on Geological Radioactive Waste Disposal
Published: Jan. 7, 2024, 4:10 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 7 seconds
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Mahesh Anand on What Human Return to the Moon Means for Lunar Geology
Published: Dec. 22, 2023, 6:23 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 30 seconds
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Susan Brantley on Earth's Geological Thermostat
Published: Dec. 10, 2023, 8:35 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds
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Clark Johnson on the Banded Iron Formations
Published: Nov. 12, 2023, 7:48 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 42 seconds
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Catherine Mottram on Dating Rock Deformation
Published: Oct. 18, 2023, 11:55 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 5 seconds
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Martin Van Kranendonk on the Earliest Life on Earth
Published: Sept. 12, 2023, 6:50 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 28 seconds
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Rob Butler on the Origin of the Alps
Published: Aug. 17, 2023, 1:56 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 46 seconds
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John Wakabayashi on the Franciscan Complex
Published: July 3, 2023, 6:41 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 45 seconds
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Bruce Levell on Bias in the Sedimentary Record
Published: June 20, 2023, 7:47 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 56 seconds
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Sujoy Mukhopadhyay on Probing the Hadean World with Noble Gases
Published: April 20, 2023, 11:25 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 50 seconds
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Patrick Fulton on the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake
Published: March 23, 2023, 11:33 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 9 seconds
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Romain Jolivet on the 2023 Turkey-Syria Earthquakes
Published: March 2, 2023, 12:23 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 52 seconds
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Dan Rothman on Thresholds of Catastrophe in the Earth System
Published: Feb. 10, 2023, 2:36 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 26 seconds
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Nadja Drabon on a New Lens into the Hadean Eon
Published: Jan. 2, 2023, 1:02 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 28 seconds
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John Cottle on the Petrochronology Revolution
Published: Dec. 3, 2022, 8:53 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 8 seconds
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Martin Gibling on Rivers in the Geological Record - Part 1
Published: Nov. 10, 2022, 7:11 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 39 seconds
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Anna Fleming on the Experience of Rock Climbing
Published: Oct. 10, 2022, 11:04 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 28 seconds
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Brian Upton on the Unique Rift Zone of South Greenland
Published: Sept. 2, 2022, 11:10 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 28 seconds
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Geoff Abers on Subduction Zones and the Geological Water Cycle
Published: Aug. 10, 2022, 8:50 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 39 seconds
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Maria McNamara on Seeing the Ancient World in Color
Published: June 17, 2022, 8:03 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 38 seconds
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Phil Renforth on Carbon Sequestration
Published: June 1, 2022, 5:45 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 24 seconds
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Tony Watts on Seamounts and the Strength of the Lithosphere
Published: May 12, 2022, 12:45 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 33 seconds
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Neil Davies on the Greening of the Continents
Published: April 24, 2022, 10:28 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 43 seconds
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Ben Weiss on the Mission to Psyche
Published: April 12, 2022, 10:23 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 3 seconds
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Roger Bilham on Himalayan Earthquakes
Published: March 22, 2022, 6:03 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 33 seconds
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Susannah Porter on Tiny Vampires in Ancient Seas
Published: March 1, 2022, 10:11 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 21 seconds
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Ana Ferreira on Seeing Flows in the Mantle
Published: Feb. 21, 2022, 9:53 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 42 seconds
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Phil Gibbard on the Anthropocene
Published: Feb. 12, 2022, 8:51 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds
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David Bercovici on How Plate Subduction Starts
Published: Feb. 5, 2022, 6:35 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 3 seconds
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Bob Hazen on the Evolution of Minerals
Published: Jan. 25, 2022, 8:11 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 4 seconds
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Matt Jackson on the Heterogeneity of the Mantle
Published: Jan. 8, 2022, 5:03 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 17 seconds
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Carmie Garzione on Reconstructing Land Elevation Over Geological Time
Published: Jan. 1, 2022, 3:43 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 17 seconds
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Chuck DeMets on High-Resolution Plate Motions
Published: Dec. 25, 2021, 2:57 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 50 seconds
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Mike Searle on Ophiolite
Published: Dec. 18, 2021, 3:07 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 4 seconds
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Mackenzie Day on Dunes
Published: Dec. 11, 2021, 5:02 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 36 seconds
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Sue Smrekar on the VERITAS Mission to Venus
Published: Dec. 4, 2021, 4:10 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 27 seconds
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Rick Carlson on Probing the Early Solar System
Published: Nov. 28, 2021, 5:09 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 24 seconds
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Ed Marshall on Iceland's 2021 Eruption
Published: Nov. 13, 2021, 11:07 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 28 seconds
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Richard Fortey on the Trilobite Chronometer
Published: Nov. 7, 2021, 12:55 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 28 seconds
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Paul Hoffman on the Snowball Earth Hypothesis
Published: Nov. 1, 2021, 2:57 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 59 seconds
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Peter Cawood on When Plate Tectonics Started
Published: Oct. 23, 2021, 4:32 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 26 seconds
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Becky Flowers on Deciphering the Thermal History of Rocks
Published: Oct. 16, 2021, 10:33 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 34 seconds
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Ulf Linnemann on the Assembly of Central Europe in the Paleozoic
Published: Oct. 9, 2021, 3:08 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 49 seconds
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Douwe van Hinsbergen on What Drives the Motions of Tectonic Plates
Published: Sept. 18, 2021, 10:59 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 22 seconds
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Mathilde Cannat on Mid-Ocean Ridges
Published: Aug. 19, 2021, 1:53 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 40 seconds
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Kathryn Goodenough on the Sources of Lithium for a Post-Carbon Society
Published: Aug. 9, 2021, 1:59 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 25 seconds
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Steve D'Hondt on Reviving a 100-Million-Year-Old Bacterial Colony
Published: July 28, 2021, 1:20 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 31 seconds
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Harriet Lau on the Motions of the Earth on Timescales from Hours to Millennia
Published: June 12, 2021, 5:47 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 8 seconds
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Craig Jones on the Iconic Landscapes of the American Westerns
Published: June 3, 2021, 1:55 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 32 seconds
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Claude Jaupart on Whether the Earth is Cooling Down
Published: May 26, 2021, 3:05 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 34 seconds
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Peter Molnar on Why the Tibetan Plateau is So High
Published: May 13, 2021, 2:01 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 20 seconds
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Katie Stack on Mapping the Geology of Mars with the Perseverance Rover
Published: May 8, 2021, 1:04 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 7 seconds
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Jan Smit on Resolving a Single Hour of the Cataclysm That Ended the Cretaceous 66 Million Years Ago
Published: May 3, 2021, 8:57 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds
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Marie Edmonds on Volcanic Gas
Published: April 30, 2021, 11:38 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 12 seconds
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Gillian Foulger on Explaining Intra-Plate Volcanism Without Mantle Plumes
Published: April 26, 2021, 8:09 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 44 seconds
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Sarah Stewart on a New Scenario For How the Moon Formed
Published: April 20, 2021, 2:04 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 26 seconds
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Dietmar Muller on Reconstructing Plate Motions Over a Billion Years of Earth History
Published: April 5, 2021, 4:37 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 31 seconds
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Bob Anderson on How Geology Affects Landscape
Published: March 28, 2021, 2:27 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 18 seconds
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David Evans on Supercontinents
Published: March 24, 2021, 7:44 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 33 seconds
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Mike Howe on the UK National Geological Repository
Published: March 14, 2021, 12:46 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 27 seconds
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Lee Groat on How Gemstones Form
Published: March 7, 2021, 11:18 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 4 seconds
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Allen McNamara on the Deep Mantle Structure of the Earth
Published: Feb. 28, 2021, 12:13 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 53 seconds
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Tomo Usui on the Mission to the Martian Moon Phobos
Published: Feb. 11, 2021, 11:26 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 42 seconds
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Rachel Wood on the Emergence of Complex Life in the Precambrian
Published: Jan. 31, 2021, 12:02 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 39 seconds
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Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni on Dynamic Topography
Published: Jan. 19, 2021, 7:43 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 7 seconds
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Cathy Constable on Mapping the Earth's Magnetic Field in Time and Space
Published: Jan. 9, 2021, 8:41 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds
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Barbel Honisch on Reconstructing Climate in the Distant Past
Published: Dec. 17, 2020, 11:18 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 14 seconds
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David Rothery on Volcanism in the Solar System
Published: Dec. 3, 2020, 9:40 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 39 seconds
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Harold C. Connolly Jr. on Bringing an Asteroid Sample Back to Earth
Published: Nov. 28, 2020, 5:29 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 20 seconds
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Laurent Jolivet on the Origin of the Mediterranean
Published: Nov. 21, 2020, 3:42 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 9 seconds
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Sir Mark Moody-Stuart on Transitioning to a Post-Carbon Economy
Published: Nov. 18, 2020, 11:44 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 9 seconds
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John Marshall on the Riddle of the Mass Extinction 360 Million Years Ago
Published: Nov. 1, 2020, 4:27 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 19 seconds
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Laurence Robb on Where our Mineral Resources Come From
Published: Oct. 29, 2020, 10:18 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 30 seconds
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Bruce Buffett on Probing the Earth's Core
Published: Oct. 21, 2020, 7:18 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 59 seconds
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David Sandwell on Seeing Plate Tectonics Under the Oceans
Published: Oct. 1, 2020, 10:40 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 8 seconds
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Barbara Romanowicz on Seeing Deep into the Earth
Published: Sept. 28, 2020, 7:45 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 33 seconds
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John Valley on the Early Earth
Published: Sept. 20, 2020, 7:58 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 23 seconds
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Sara Russell on What the Asteroids Can Tell Us About the Earth
Published: Sept. 18, 2020, 7:04 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 45 seconds
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Clare Warren on Divining the History of a Rock
Published: Aug. 9, 2020, 11 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 25 seconds
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Steve Sparks on What Makes a Volcano Erupt
Published: Aug. 1, 2020, 10:27 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 10 seconds
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Dan McKenzie on What Venus Can Tell Us About the Earth
Published: July 29, 2020, 7:46 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 20 seconds
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James Jackson on the Fatal Attraction Between Cities and Earthquakes
Published: July 28, 2020, 8 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 40 seconds
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Mike Searle on Why Mountains Exist
Published: July 27, 2020, 8 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds
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