Geology Bites
By Oliver Strimpel
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What moves the continents, creates mountains, swallows up the sea floor, makes volcanoes erupt, triggers earthquakes, and imprints ancient climates into the rocks? Oliver Strimpel, a former astrophysicist and museum director asks leading Earth science researchers to divulge what they have discovered and how they did it.
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Alec Brenner on When Tectonic Plates First Moved
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Materials in Extreme Environments
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Esther Sumner on Turbidity Currents
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Hal Levison on the Mission to Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Sara Pruss on the First Reef Builders
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Michael Manga on Wet Eruptions
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Carina Hoorn on the Evolution of the Amazon Basin
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Anat Shahar on What Makes a Planet Habitable
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Keith Klepeis on How Plutons Form
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Tom Herring on High-Precision Geodesy
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Jiří Žák on the Orogenies that Shaped Central Europe
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Claudio Faccenna on the Dynamics of Subduction Zones
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Cees Van Staal on the Origin of the Appalachians
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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Andreas Fichtner on the Frontiers of Seismic Imaging
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Renée Tamblyn on the Origin of Continents
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Folarin Kolawole on Continental Rifting
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Mike Hudec on Salt Tectonics
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May 11, 2025 |
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Vic Baker on Megafloods
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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Lindy Elkins-Tanton on the Origin of Earth's Water
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Joeri Witteveen on Golden Spikes
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Isabel Montañez on Using the Late Paleozoic Ice Age as an Analog for Present Day Climate
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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Ruth Siddall on Urban Geology
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Richard Fortey on Deep Time
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Mike Searle on the Mountain Ranges of Central Asia
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Rob Strachan on the Caledonian Orogeny
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Joe MacGregor on Mapping the Geology of Greenland Below the Ice
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Adam Simon on Battery Metals
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Rufus Catchings on Pinning Down California's Faults
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Sara Seager on Exoplanet Geology
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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Evan Smith on Diamonds from the Deep Mantle
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Roberta Rudnick on the Continental Crustal Composition Paradox
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Alex Copley on Soft Continents
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Shanan Peters on Quantifying the Global Sedimentary Rock Record
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Paul Smith on the Cambrian Explosion
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Jun 08, 2024 |
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Scott Bolton on the Most Volcanically Active Body in the Solar System
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May 25, 2024 |
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Bob White on How Magma Moves in the Crust
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May 06, 2024 |
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Richard Ernst on Large Igneous Provinces
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Damian Nance on What Drives the Supercontinent Cycle
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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David Kohlstedt on Simulating the Mantle in the Lab
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Claire Corkhill on Geological Radioactive Waste Disposal
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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Mahesh Anand on What Human Return to the Moon Means for Lunar Geology
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Susan Brantley on Earth's Geological Thermostat
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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Clark Johnson on the Banded Iron Formations
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Catherine Mottram on Dating Rock Deformation
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Martin Van Kranendonk on the Earliest Life on Earth
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Rob Butler on the Origin of the Alps
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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John Wakabayashi on the Franciscan Complex
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Bruce Levell on Bias in the Sedimentary Record
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Sujoy Mukhopadhyay on Probing the Hadean World with Noble Gases
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Patrick Fulton on the 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Romain Jolivet on the 2023 Turkey-Syria Earthquakes
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Dan Rothman on Thresholds of Catastrophe in the Earth System
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Nadja Drabon on a New Lens into the Hadean Eon
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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John Cottle on the Petrochronology Revolution
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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Martin Gibling on Rivers in the Geological Record - Part 2
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Martin Gibling on Rivers in the Geological Record - Part 1
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Anna Fleming on the Experience of Rock Climbing
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Brian Upton on the Unique Rift Zone of South Greenland
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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Geoff Abers on Subduction Zones and the Geological Water Cycle
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Maria McNamara on Seeing the Ancient World in Color
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Phil Renforth on Carbon Sequestration
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Tony Watts on Seamounts and the Strength of the Lithosphere
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May 12, 2022 |
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Neil Davies on the Greening of the Continents
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Apr 24, 2022 |
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Ben Weiss on the Mission to Psyche
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Roger Bilham on Himalayan Earthquakes
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Susannah Porter on Tiny Vampires in Ancient Seas
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Ana Ferreira on Seeing Flows in the Mantle
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Phil Gibbard on the Anthropocene
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Feb 12, 2022 |
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David Bercovici on How Plate Subduction Starts
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Feb 05, 2022 |
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Bob Hazen on the Evolution of Minerals
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Matt Jackson on the Heterogeneity of the Mantle
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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Carmie Garzione on Reconstructing Land Elevation Over Geological Time
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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Chuck DeMets on High-Resolution Plate Motions
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Dec 25, 2021 |
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Mike Searle on Ophiolite
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Dec 18, 2021 |
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Mackenzie Day on Dunes
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Dec 11, 2021 |
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Sue Smrekar on the VERITAS Mission to Venus
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Dec 04, 2021 |
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Rick Carlson on Probing the Early Solar System
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Nov 28, 2021 |
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Ed Marshall on Iceland's 2021 Eruption
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Nov 13, 2021 |
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Richard Fortey on the Trilobite Chronometer
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Nov 07, 2021 |
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Paul Hoffman on the Snowball Earth Hypothesis
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Peter Cawood on When Plate Tectonics Started
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Oct 23, 2021 |
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Becky Flowers on Deciphering the Thermal History of Rocks
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Oct 16, 2021 |
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Ulf Linnemann on the Assembly of Central Europe in the Paleozoic
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Oct 09, 2021 |
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Douwe van Hinsbergen on What Drives the Motions of Tectonic Plates
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Sep 18, 2021 |
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Mathilde Cannat on Mid-Ocean Ridges
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Kathryn Goodenough on the Sources of Lithium for a Post-Carbon Society
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Steve D'Hondt on Reviving a 100-Million-Year-Old Bacterial Colony
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Harriet Lau on the Motions of the Earth on Timescales from Hours to Millennia
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Jun 12, 2021 |
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Craig Jones on the Iconic Landscapes of the American Westerns
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Claude Jaupart on Whether the Earth is Cooling Down
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May 26, 2021 |
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Peter Molnar on Why the Tibetan Plateau is So High
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May 13, 2021 |
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Katie Stack on Mapping the Geology of Mars with the Perseverance Rover
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May 08, 2021 |
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Jan Smit on Resolving a Single Hour of the Cataclysm That Ended the Cretaceous 66 Million Years Ago
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May 03, 2021 |
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Marie Edmonds on Volcanic Gas
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Gillian Foulger on Explaining Intra-Plate Volcanism Without Mantle Plumes
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Sarah Stewart on a New Scenario For How the Moon Formed
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Dietmar Müller on Reconstructing Plate Motions Over a Billion Years of Earth History
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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Bob Anderson on How Geology Affects Landscape
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Mar 28, 2021 |
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David Evans on Supercontinents
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Mike Howe on the UK National Geological Repository
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Mar 14, 2021 |
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Lee Groat on How Gemstones Form
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Mar 07, 2021 |
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Allen McNamara on the Deep Mantle Structure of the Earth
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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Tomo Usui on the Mission to the Martian Moon Phobos
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Rachel Wood on the Emergence of Complex Life in the Precambrian
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Jan 31, 2021 |
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Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni on Dynamic Topography
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Cathy Constable on Mapping the Earth's Magnetic Field in Time and Space
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Jan 09, 2021 |
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Bärbel Hönisch on Reconstructing Climate in the Distant Past
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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David Rothery on Volcanism in the Solar System
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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Harold C. Connolly Jr. on Bringing an Asteroid Sample Back to Earth
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Nov 28, 2020 |
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Laurent Jolivet on the Origin of the Mediterranean
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Nov 21, 2020 |
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Sir Mark Moody-Stuart on Transitioning to a Post-Carbon Economy
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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John Marshall on the Riddle of the Mass Extinction 360 Million Years Ago
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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Laurence Robb on Where our Mineral Resources Come From
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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Bruce Buffett on Probing the Earth's Core
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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David Sandwell on Seeing Plate Tectonics Under the Oceans
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Barbara Romanowicz on Seeing Deep into the Earth
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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John Valley on the Early Earth
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Sep 20, 2020 |
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Sara Russell on What the Asteroids Can Tell Us About the Earth
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Clare Warren on Divining the History of a Rock
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Aug 09, 2020 |
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Steve Sparks on What Makes a Volcano Erupt
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Aug 01, 2020 |
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Dan McKenzie on What Venus Can Tell Us About the Earth
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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James Jackson on the Fatal Attraction Between Cities and Earthquakes
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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Mike Searle on Why Mountains Exist
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Jul 27, 2020 |