Geology Bites Podcast
1) Sara Pruss on the First Reef Builders
The first multicellular animals to build reefs lived in the Early Cambrian around the time of the Cambrian explosion. They were sponges called archaeocyaths. In the podcast, Sara Pruss suggests that t...Show More
2) Michael Manga on Wet Eruptions
Water can have a dramatic effect on the style of an eruption. In the podcast, Michael Manga explains how the most powerful eruptions, such as the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption, occur when hot magma comes ...Show More
3) Carina Hoorn on the Evolution of the Amazon Basin
The Amazon Basin is the most biodiverse region on Earth, being the home of one in five of all bird species, one in five of all fish species, and over 40,000 plant species. In the podcast Carina Hoorn...Show More
4) Anat Shahar on What Makes a Planet Habitable
Over 6,000 exoplanets have now been found, and the number is constantly rising. This has galvanized research into whether one of them might host life. Since all forms of life on Earth require liquid ...Show More
5) Keith Klepeis on How Plutons Form
Plutons are bodies of igneous rock that crystallize from magma at depth below the Earth’s surface. But even though this magma never makes it to the surface, it still has to travel many kilometers up ...Show More
6) Tom Herring on High-Precision Geodesy
There are three main types of geodetic measurement systems — satellite-based systems such as GPS, very long baseline interferometry (VLBI), and interferometric synthetic-aperture radar (InSAR). While ...Show More
7) Jiří Žák on the Orogenies that Shaped Central Europe
In this episode, Jiří Žák describes the two main orogenies whose remnants figure prominently in central European geology: the Cadomian orogeny that lasted from the late Neoproterozoic to the early Cam...Show More
8) Claudio Faccenna on the Dynamics of Subduction Zones
Subduction zones can be very long-lived, persisting for tens of even hundreds of millions of years. During that time they rarely stay still, but instead retreat, advance, move laterally, or reverse di...Show More
9) Cees Van Staal on the Origin of the Appalachians
In the podcast, Cees Van Staal tells us about the Paleozoic tectonic events that led to the formation of the Appalachians. The events are closely related to those involved in the Caledonian orogeny an...Show More
10) Andreas Fichtner on the Frontiers of Seismic Imaging
In previous episodes of Geology Bites, Barbara Romanowicz gave an introduction to seismic tomography and Ana Fereira talked about using seismic anisotropy to reveal flows within the mantle. In this ep...Show More