PlanetGeo: The Geology Podcast
PlanetGeo: The Geology Podcast
Latest Episodes
What is a Mineral? Geology 101: Minerals Part 1
Ask a room full of intro geology students whether a snowflake is a mineral and almost every hand says no. Ask why, and someone will tell you it's because no two snowflakes are alike. Chris Bolhuis has been asking that question for 25 years — he...
Lithium 101 with Joe Lowry: Brines, Pegmatites, DLE, and the Smackover
What happens when a finance guy who's never heard of lithium takes a job in a small North Carolina town because it's near where his favorite author lived?Joe Lowry is the founder of Global Lithium LLC, host of the...
How to Find Copper — Dr. Tim Ireland, First Quantum
There's a photo on Tim Ireland's Google Scholar profile of a toddler standing on the floor of an open pit gold mine in Australia's Northern Territory, wearing a hard hat and — because it was the early 1980s — flip flops. That toddler is now the...
The Rock 50 Light-Years Away
What if you could tell whether a rock exists on a planet 50 light-years away — without ever leaving Earth? This week Chris and Jesse welcome back friend-of-the-show Dr. Jackie Faherty (American Museum of Natural History) for her fourth appearan...
The Room Problem (and how Geochronology solves it)
Granite is everywhere — it makes up much of the continental crust beneath our feet; yet, for over a century geologists were stuck on a deceptively simple question: where does all that magma find room? In this episode, Jesse and Dr. Mik...