Granite Wars: The Debates That Built a Science

Granite Wars: The Debates That Built a Science

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Mike Ackerson (Smithsonian) for the kick-off of a deep-dive series on granites and granitoids. This one goes into the weeds: the 250-year history of how arguing about granite shaped nearly every major idea in the geosciences. We trace the great controversies from the 1700s to today: 🌊 Neptunism vs. Plutonism — Did granite precipitate out of a global ocean, or crystallize from molten rock? How James Hutton's fingers of granite at Glen Tilt helped kill the ...

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Lithium 101 with Joe Lowry: Brines, Pegmatites, DLE, and the Smackover

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...

13 Elo 1h 28min

How to Find Copper — Dr. Tim Ireland, First Quantum

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...

30 Heinä 53min

The Rock 50 Light-Years Away

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...

16 Heinä 56min

The Room Problem (and how Geochronology solves it)

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?...

2 Heinä 54min

Rocks for the Future - with MIT Prof. Oli Jagoutz

Rocks for the Future - with MIT Prof. Oli Jagoutz

What does cracking open green-shiny rocks in a German preschool have to do with feeding eight billion people without oil and gas? In this episode, we sit down with Prof. Oli Jagoutz, professor at MIT ...

11 Kesä 44min

The Fundamentals of Geology (Exam)

The Fundamentals of Geology (Exam)

This week we take on the FG test — the Fundamentals of Geology exam — the very first step on the road to becoming a professionally licensed geologist. Jesse just sat the exam this past fall (yes, a ge...

28 Touko 41min

The Geologist's License: How the FG and PG Exams Get Built — with Keith Rapp

The Geologist's License: How the FG and PG Exams Get Built — with Keith Rapp

In this episode, we sat down with Keith Rapp, senior hydrogeologist, longtime volunteer with ASBOG (the Association of State Boards of Geology), and immediate past president of the organization. We du...

30 Huhti 1h 3min

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