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  • Microfossils
    Feb 7 2025

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    In this episode, I talk about the major types of microfossils and how they are important for us to understand the environments in which rocks formed in the past.

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    9 min
  • Shale - and how we use it
    Jan 31 2025

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    In this episode, I talk about shale, some major types, and how humans have used shale over time.

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    6 min
  • Sandstone - quartz, arkose and lithic
    Jan 24 2025

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    In this episode, I talk about sandstone and what the sand grains can tell us about how far away from he source rock the material has traveled.

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    6 min
  • Apparent Polar Wandering & Plate Tectonics
    Jan 17 2025

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    In this episode, I explain what apparent polar wandering curves are and how the information was then used to work out the position of the continents over time.

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    5 min
  • Seeing Inside the Earth
    Sep 30 2024

    In this episode, I explain how seismic waves are used to see the internal structure of the Earth including the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core.

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    10 min
  • Tectonic Plates - Lithosphere, Moho, Asthenosphere
    Sep 11 2024

    In this episode, I talk about the structure of a tectonic plate and introduce the terms crust, mantle, lithosphere, moho discontinuity, and asthenosphere.


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    4 min
  • Three reasons why civilizations grew up around volcanoes
    Mar 29 2024

    In this episode, I talk about the three reasons why people and civilizations grew up around active volcanoes. Why did people need to live close to the dangers of eruptions? What was it that drove and kept them there?

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    6 min
  • Salt Weathering
    Mar 21 2024

    In this episode, I talk about how salt acts as a physical weathering agent to break down rocks. Physical weathering is the breaking down of rocks without a chemical change, and salt can act as the agent that breaks down rocks especially close to the ocean, but also in salt-rich soils, etc.

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    6 min