Podcast Index
Most episodes span more than one field of study and are therefore listed under multiple headings.
The Early Earth
John Valley on the Early Earth
Sara Russell on What the Asteroids Tell Us About the Earth
David Evans on Supercontinents
Sarah Stewart on a New Scenario for How the Moon Formed
Claude Jaupart on Whether the Earth is Cooling Down
Peter Cawood on When Plate Tectonics Started
Rick Carlson on Probing the Early Solar System
Bob Hazen on the Evolution of Minerals
Martin Gibling on Rivers in the Geological Record - Part 1
Nadja Drabon on a New Lens into the Hadean Eon
Sujoy Mukhopadhyay on Probing the Hadean World with Noble Gases
Geochemistry
Ed Marshall on Iceland’s 2021 Eruption
Matt Jackson on the Inhomogeneity of the Mantle
Phil Renforth on Carbon Sequestration
Brian Upton on the Unique Rift Zone of South Greenland
John Cottle on the Petrochronology Revolution
Nadja Drabon on a New Lens into the Hadean Eon
Dan Rothman on Thresholds of Catastrophe in the Earth System
Sujoy Mukhopadhyay on Probing the Hadean World with Noble Gases
Geochronology
John Valley on the Early Earth
Ulf Linnemann on the Assembly of Central Europe in the Paleozoic
Becky Flowers on Deciphering the Thermal History of Rocks
Richard Fortey on the Trilobite Chronometer
Phil Gibbard on the Anthropocene
John Cottle on the Petrochronology Revolution
Sujoy Mukhopadhyay on Probing the Hadean World with Noble Gases
Geomorphology
Bob Anderson on How Geology Affects Landscape
Craig Jones on the Iconic Landscapes of the American Westerns
Becky Flowers on Deciphering the Thermal History of Rocks
Carmie Garzione on Reconstructing Land Elevation Over Geological Time
Neil Davies on the Greening of the Continents
Martin Gibling on Rivers in the Geological Record
Bruce Levell on Bias in the Sedimentary Record
Geophysics
Dan McKenzie on What Venus Tells us About the Earth
Steve Sparks on What Makes a Volcano Erupt
Barbara Romanowicz on Seeing Deep Into the Earth
David Sandwell on Seeing Plate Tectonics Under the Oceans
Bruce Buffett on Probing the Earth’s Core
Laurent Jolivet on the Origin of the Mediterranean
Cathy Constable on Mapping the Earth’s Magnetic Field in Time and Space
Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni on Dynamic Topography
Allen McNamara on the Deep Mantle Structure of the Earth
Gillian Foulger on Explaining Intra-Plate Volcanism Without Mantle Plumes
Peter Molnar on Why the Tibetan Plateau is So High
Claude Jaupart on Whether the Earth is Cooling Down
Harriet Lau on the Motions of the Earth on Timescales of Hours to Millennia
Douwe van Hinsbergen on What Drives the Motions of the Tectonic Plates
Ana Ferreira on Seeing Flows in the Mantle
Tony Watts on Seamounts and the Strength of the Lithosphere
Geoff Abers on Subduction Zones and the Geological Water Cycle
Romain Jolivet on the 2023 Turkey-Syria Earthquakes
Paleontology
John Marshall on the Riddle of the Mass Extinction 360 Million Years Ago
Bärbel Hönisch on Reconstructing Climate in the Distant Past
Rachel Wood on the Emergence of Complex Life in the Precambrian
Mike Howe on the UK National Geological Repository
Steve D’Hondt on Reviving a 100 Million-Year-Old Bacterial Colony
Richard Fortey on the Trilobite Chronometer
Susannah Porter on Tiny Vampires in Ancient Seas
Neil Davies on the Greening of the Continents
Petrology
Clare Warren on Divining the History of a Rock
Lee Groat on How Gemstones Form
Paul Hoffman on the Snowball Earth Hypothesis
Matt Jackson on the Inhomogeneity of the Mantle
David Bercovici on How Plate Subduction Starts
Roger Bilham on Himalayan Earthquakes
Brian Upton on the Unique Rift Zone of South Greenland
Planetary Science
Dan McKenzie on What Venus Tells Us About the Earth
Sara Russell on What Asteroids Tell Us About the Earth
Harold C. Connolly, Jr. on Bringing an Asteroid Sample Back to the Earth
David Rothery on Volcanism in the Solar System
Tomo Usui on the Mission to the Martian Moon Phobos
Sarah Stewart on a New Scenario for How the Moon Formed
Katie Stack on Geological Mapping of Mars with Perseverance Rover
Rick Carlson on Probing the Early Solar System
Sue Smrekar on the VERITAS Mission to Venus
Ben Weiss on the Mission to Psyche
Mahesh Anand on What Human Return to the Moon Means for Lunar Geology
Plate Tectonics
Mike Searle on Why Mountains Exist
David Sandwell on Seeing Plate Tectonics Under the Oceans
Laurent Jolivet on the Origin of the Mediterranean
David Evans on Supercontinents
Dietmar Müller on Reconstructing a Billion Years of Earth History
Gillian Foulger on Explaining Intra-Plate Volcanism Without Mantle Plumes
Peter Molnar on Why the Tibetan Plateau is So High
Craig Jones on the Iconic Landscapes of the American Westerns
Mathilde Cannat on Mid-Ocean Ridges
Douwe van Hinsbergen on What Drives the Motions of Tectonic Plates
Ulf Linnemann on the Assembly of Central Europe in the Paleozoic
Peter Cawood on When Plate Tectonics Started
Chuck DeMets on High-Resolution Plate Motions
Carmie Garzione on Reconstructing Land Elevation Over Geological Time
David Bercovici on How Plate Subduction Starts
Ana Ferreira on Seeing Flows in the Mantle
Tony Watts on Seamounts and the Strength of the Lithosphere
Geoff Abers on Subduction Zones and the Geological Water Cycle
Patrick Fulton on the 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake
John Wakabayashi on the Franciscan Complex
Rob Butler on the Origin of the Alps
David Kohlstedt on Simulating the Mantle in the Lab
Social and Industrial Aspects of Geology
James Jackson on the Fatal Attraction Between Cities and Earthquakes
Laurence Robb on the Origin of Mineral Resources
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart on Transitioning to a Post-Carbon Economy
Lee Groat on How Gemstones Form
Mike Howe on the UK National Geological Repository
Kathryn Goodenough on the Sources of Lithium for a Post-Carbon Economy
Phil Gibbard on the Anthropocene
Roger Bilham on Himalayan Earthquakes
Phil Renforth on Carbon Sequestration
Brian Upton on the Unique Rift Zone of South Greenland
Anna Fleming on the Experience of Rock Climbing
Martin Gibling on Rivers in the Geological Record
Dan Rothman on Thresholds of Catastrophe in the Earth System
Romain Jolivet on the 2023 Turkey-Syria Earthquakes
Patrick Fulton on the 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake
