Podcast Episodes

Sedimentary Maturity - Geology 101: Sediments Part 2

Season 6 Episode 24

Show Notes

Quick news up top: alongside the Roadside Geology of Colorado audiobook, the Camp Geo mobile app now also has Colorado Rocks, a shorter, lo…

8 hours ago

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Intro to Sediments - Geology 101: Sediments Part 1

Season 6 Episode 23

First, some news. The Roadside Geology of Colorado is now an audiobook on the Camp Geo mobile app, produced in partnership with the Geological Societ…

5 days, 20 hours ago

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Introducing: Audiobook version of the Roadside Geology of Colorado

Season 6

Big Announcement: Roadside Geology Comes to Audio — Plus an Introduction to Sedimentary Rocks

The glove-compartment classic is now in your headphones.…

2 weeks, 5 days ago

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How to Identify a Mineral. Geology 101: Minerals Part 4

Season 6 Episode 22

Chris's college mineralogy lab final was 20 specimens, and one of them was a quartz crystal his professor had dipped in graphite. The luster was off,…

1 month ago

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The Rock-Forming Minerals. Geology 101: Minerals Part 3

Season 6 Episode 21

There are roughly 7,000 known minerals on Earth. You need to know about ten of them. In the third installment of the Camp Geo Intro to Minerals serie…

1 month, 1 week ago

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The Silicates. Geology 101: Minerals Part 2

Season 6 Episode 20

Ask an intro geology class what the most abundant element in the crust is and, year after year, the answer comes back "carbon." It doesn't make the t…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

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What is a Mineral? Geology 101: Minerals Part 1

Season 6 Episode 19

Ask a room full of intro geology students whether a snowflake is a mineral and almost every hand says no. Ask why, and someone will tell you it's bec…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

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Lithium 101 with Joe Lowry: Brines, Pegmatites, DLE, and the Smackover

Season 6 Episode 18

What happens when a finance guy who's never heard of lithium takes a job in a small North Carolina town because it's near where his favorite author l…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

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How to Find Copper — Dr. Tim Ireland, First Quantum

Season 6 Episode 17

There's a photo on Tim Ireland's Google Scholar profile of a toddler standing on the floor of an open pit gold mine in Australia's Northern Territory…

2 months, 4 weeks ago

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The Rock 50 Light-Years Away

Season 6 Episode 16

What if you could tell whether a rock exists on a planet 50 light-years away — without ever leaving Earth? This week Chris and Jesse welcome back fri…

3 months, 1 week ago

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