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Petrification

Season 3 Episode 31

Today, we are talking about the process of making petrified wood.  Basically, wood has to be quickly buried in a wet setting where the water is also …

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Creepy Soil

Season 3 Episode 30

Today, we talk about all things soil creep.  Have you ever been on a steep slope and seen bent or curved trees, slanted fence posts, slanted headston…

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Stream Drainage Patterns

Season 3 Episode 29

Just as in so many aspects of the way the world works, geology determines the drainage patterns (or watershed) of rivers.  Today, we discuss the majo…

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Earth's Geological MRI Scan

Season 3 Episode 28

Today, we cover something very interesting - a new initiative by the United States Geological Survey to map Earth's resources at a new level. Geology…

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Rockhounding 101

Season 3 Episode 27

Today, we cover one of our favorite past times - RockHounding! It's a totally fun, engaging activity that gets you outside and learning about nature.…

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How To Identify Rocks

Season 3 Episode 26

In this episode we start a looong conversation about how to identify rocks. We begin by outlining a few simple rules to go by, and how to start to th…

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Yellowstone's "Rock" Music

Season 3 Episode 25

Listen to Yellowstone's rock music here!

Today we talk about the fun exercise of turning seismic activity recorded live from Yellowstone National Par…

2 years, 6 months ago

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The Geology of Uranium

Season 3 Episode 24

Today, we talk about Uranium!

Uranium is a really interesting element and today we talk about how it's used, a bit about nuclear reactors, then dive …

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Yellowstone's Other Volcanoes

Season 3 Episode 23

In PlanetGeo today, we discuss one aspect of Yellowstone National Park Geology that goes under-appreciated - the Absaroka Volcanics. They are a geolo…

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A Geologist in National Defense - Dr. Stefanie Tompkins - Director of DARPA

Season 3 Episode 22

Today we are extremely honored to get the opportunity to discuss all things geoscience and National Defense with Dr. Stefanie Tompkins, the Director …

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