Episodes

  • Seeing Inside the Earth
    Sep 30 2024

    In this episode, I explain how seismic waves are used to see the internal structure of the Earth including the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core.

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    10 mins
  • Tectonic Plates - Lithosphere, Moho, Asthenosphere
    Sep 11 2024

    In this episode, I talk about the structure of a tectonic plate and introduce the terms crust, mantle, lithosphere, moho discontinuity, and asthenosphere.


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    4 mins
  • Three reasons why civilizations grew up around volcanoes
    Mar 29 2024

    In this episode, I talk about the three reasons why people and civilizations grew up around active volcanoes. Why did people need to live close to the dangers of eruptions? What was it that drove and kept them there?

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    6 mins
  • Salt Weathering
    Mar 21 2024

    In this episode, I talk about how salt acts as a physical weathering agent to break down rocks. Physical weathering is the breaking down of rocks without a chemical change, and salt can act as the agent that breaks down rocks especially close to the ocean, but also in salt-rich soils, etc.

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    6 mins
  • Current Iceland Volcanic Activity 101
    Jan 19 2024

    In this episode, I explain in simple terms what is happening in Iceland these last few years on the plate boundary. I explain the two geological phenomena in Iceland, the recent eruptions and earthquake activity, and how they are related to Plate Tectonics.


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    8 mins
  • Fake & Pseudo Fossils
    Dec 22 2023

    In this episode, I talk about fake fossils and why people create them, as well as pseudo fossils such as dendrites.

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    5 mins
  • Where does magma come from?
    Dec 16 2023

    In this episode, I talk about how molten rock is formed inside the Earth - what are the mechanisms that cause our planet to produce molten rock to feed volcanoes?

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    6 mins
  • All about limestone
    Jun 30 2023

    In this episode, I talk about the different forms of limestone and how they form including chalk, coquina, fossiliferous limestone, travertine, and oolitic limestone.

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    9 mins