Cone-in-Cone
The mineral here is just calcite (even though it’s mostly almost black), but it shows interesting features. Cone-in-cone structures are nest...
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History of the Earth
We've concentrated the history of Planet Earth into one year. Follow the geology podcasts chronologically from the origin of the Earth to the origin of Mankind.
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Listen to History of the Earth, a Science & Medicine podcast by Richard I. Gibson. Stream 25 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 25 episodesThe Llanite Dike
Mineral Monday + Tectonic Tuesday. Blue quartz is uncommon and is usually colored by inclusions of unusual minerals like crocidolite, tourma...
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History of Geology: Recognizing overthrusts
Middle section of the 38-inch cross-section Cover This Tectonic Tuesday is also an example of the History of Geology. “The thrust producing...
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Epitaxy
Epitaxy, from Greek words meaning “upon” or “above” and “ordered arrangement,” in minerals means crystals of one (or the same) mineral growi...
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An extension of the Mid-Continent Rift?
In the far northwest corner of the flat, flat Texas panhandle, extending into New Mexico, there’s a narrow, elongate magnetic low. The inten...
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Thulite
Thule was the far north in Greek and Roman literature, often identified with Scandinavia. Thursday was named after Thor, the Norse god of th...
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150 years of the Periodic table
2019 marks the sesquicentennial of Dmitri Mendeleev’s Periodic Table of the elements, which was not just an effective organizational scheme...
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Artinite and the Coast Ranges of California
The mineral is artinite, a magnesium carbonate that is an alteration product of high-magnesium serpentinites of the Diablo Range in central...
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Fuchsite
Fuchsite is a chromium-bearing variety of the mica muscovite, K(Al,Cr) 3 Si 3 O 10 (OH) 2 . Chromium gives the green color to the muscovite....
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Timan-Pechora Basin
This is part of the magnetic map of the former Soviet Union. It reveals three continental blocks and their amalgamation to form part of Eura...
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Barite with inclusions
Beginning with this post, the blog is "blog only" - no more podcasts, at least not for now. The brownest zones of barite in this example res...
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Episode 397 Carbonatites
Carbonatites are strange igneous rocks made up mostly of carbonates – common minerals like calcite, calcium carbonate. Igneous rocks that so...
Episode 396 Turbidity currents
As near as I can tell in the original daily series in 2014, I never addressed the topic of turbidity currents and their sedimentary product,...
Episode 395 Connections
This episode is about some of the interesting connections that arise in science. We’ll start with me and my first professional job as a mine...
Episode 394 The Mangrullo Formation of Uruguay
Today we’re going back about 280 million years, to what is now Uruguay in South America. 280 million years ago puts us in the early part of...
Episode 393 The Mountains of the Moon
Today we’re going to the Mountains of the Moon – but not those on the moon itself. We’re going to central Africa. There isn’t really a mount...
Episode 392 Ophiolites
Today’s episode focuses on one of those wonderful jargon words geologists love to use: Ophiolites. It’s not a contrived term like cactolith...
Episode 391 Valles Marineris
In today's episode we’re going to space. Specifically, Mars. You didn’t really think that earth science is really limited to the earth, did...
Episode 390 Mud Volcanoes
As the name implies, mud volcanoes are eruptions of mud – not molten rock as in igneous volcanoes. They’re found all around the world, amoun...
Cretaceous and Cenozoic Vertebrates compilation
Smilodon and dire wolves (drawing by Robert Horsfall, 1913) Running time, 1 hour. File size, 69 megabytes . This is an assembly of the episo...
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