History of the Earth

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.

Episodes

April 30, 2018

Carbonatites are strange igneous rocks made up mostly of carbonates – common minerals like calcite, calcium carbonate. Igneous rocks that solidify from molten magma u...
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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, turbidites. But they accoun...
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This episode is about some of the interesting connections that arise in science.

We’ll start with me and my first professio...
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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 ...
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Today we’re going to the Mountains of the Moon – but not those on the moon itself. We’re going to central Africa.

The...
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March 20, 2018

Today’s episode focuses on one of those wonderful jargon words geologists love to use: Ophiolites.

It’s not a contrived term ...
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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...
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As the name implies, mud volcanoes are eruptions of mud – not molten rock as in igneous volcanoes.  They’re found all around the world, amounting to about a th...
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February 27, 2018

Vanadium is a metal, and by far its greatest use is in steel alloys, where tiny amounts of vanadium improve steel’s hardness, toughness, and wear resistance, especially...
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You may have seen some of the spectacular images of the earth in southern Algeria, curves and colors like some Picasso in the opposite of his cubist period. If you ...
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February 13, 2018

It isn’t true that all geologists drink beer. But many do, and I’m one of them. Today I’m going to talk about the intimate connection between geology and beer.

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