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A Geology and Earth Science Podcast. Join Chris, an award-winning geology teacher, and Jesse, a geoscience professor, in discussing the amazing features of our planet and their impact on your everyday life. No prior knowledge required. New episodes coming at you every week. Listen, subscribe, share with someone you know!

PlanetGeo: The Geology Podcast Chris and Jesse

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    • 4.8 • 143 Ratings

A Geology and Earth Science Podcast. Join Chris, an award-winning geology teacher, and Jesse, a geoscience professor, in discussing the amazing features of our planet and their impact on your everyday life. No prior knowledge required. New episodes coming at you every week. Listen, subscribe, share with someone you know!

    Cure the Winter Blues - The Black Hills (ReRelease)

    Cure the Winter Blues - The Black Hills (ReRelease)

    We now have a live Mobile App for iOS and Android. There you can learn all the basics of geoscience with our CampGeo content, purchase a visual audiobook on the Geology of Yellowstone National Park, and listen to past PlanetGeo episodes!
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    • 50 min
    Cure the Winter Blues - Badlands National Park (ReRelease)

    Cure the Winter Blues - Badlands National Park (ReRelease)

    We now have a live Mobile App for iOS and Android. There you can learn all the basics of geoscience with our CampGeo content, purchase a visual audiobook on the Geology of Yellowstone National Park, and listen to past PlanetGeo episodes!
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    • 49 min
    Slow Carbon - The Rock Carbon Cycle

    Slow Carbon - The Rock Carbon Cycle

    Today, Jesse and Chris tackle the topic of the Slow Carbon Cycle.  We've been talking about this for a while now.  This is a very complicate cycle that involves many variables.  In this episode, we work through some scenarios such as the Himalayan uplift and plug them into the Carbon Cycle.  It's a little bit of mental gymnastics.  The ingredients for the Carbon Cycle to operate are freshly exposed rock, water (both in the oceans and the atmosphere), and plate tectonics.  If one of these variables is taken out, the Carbon Cycle ceases.  

    Join us in this fun and interesting discussion.
    We now have a live Mobile App for iOS and Android. There you can learn all the basics of geoscience with our CampGeo content, purchase a visual audiobook on the Geology of Yellowstone National Park, and listen to past PlanetGeo episodes!
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    • 37 min
    The Infiltration Game - Soils and Flooding

    The Infiltration Game - Soils and Flooding

    In this episode, we tackle the issue of infiltration capacity.  The idea came to us in the form of a listener question due to recent events.  Infiltration capacity is simply a way of describing the ability of soil and regolith to soak up water during storm events that drop a lot of rain in a short period of time.  There are several variables that must be accounted for in describing the infiltration capacity for a given area.  Humans have also caused a significant change related to this topic.  Join us in this fun conversation that has a lot of relevance in todays world.
    We now have a live Mobile App for iOS and Android. There you can learn all the basics of geoscience with our CampGeo content, purchase a visual audiobook on the Geology of Yellowstone National Park, and listen to past PlanetGeo episodes!
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    • 45 min
    Forming Earth's Ocean - Office Hours

    Forming Earth's Ocean - Office Hours

    We now have a live Mobile App for iOS and Android. There you can learn all the basics of geoscience with our CampGeo content, purchase a visual audiobook on the Geology of Yellowstone National Park, and listen to past PlanetGeo episodes!
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    • 31 min
    The Anthropocene

    The Anthropocene

    We now have a live Mobile App for iOS and Android. There you can learn all the basics of geoscience with our CampGeo content, purchase a visual audiobook on the Geology of Yellowstone National Park, and listen to past PlanetGeo episodes!
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    • 37 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
143 Ratings

143 Ratings

ELunceford31 ,

Great at the “so what”

This podcast is great and breaks down geology in an interesting way so that it is easily understandable. Chris and Jesse balance the conversation and explain why the geo science is important while providing the technicalities. Would like a little more girl power, but they do this with many of their guests.

bsmit2013 ,

Great content

But the former student is really rude

Bassman28 ,

Great info, great platform

The right amount of geology with a dash of backstory and a pinch of sidebars and tangents. They love what they do and they do what they love. I wish there was a new episode every other day.

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