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This week we talk about meteor crater.

• Meteor Crater
• Kring, David A. "Air blast produced by the Meteor Crater impact event and a reconstruction of the affected environment." Meteoritics & Planetary…

John's company ran the second iteration of the GEARS workshop (read about 2021 here). After learning some hard lessons last year, this year's workshop was much different and hopefully even better!

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Lightning produces many phenomena, but one is pops, clicks, and whistles in the radio frequencies. Learn why, how, and what the upper atmosphere has to do with it!

• Listen to a Whistler
• Listen to Sf…

This week we talk about sounds from the Aurora and strange atmospheric conditions that create it.

• Sound producing mechanism in the temperature inversion layer and its sensitivity to geomagnetic act…

• Listen to singing ice!

Fun Paper Friday

• Science makes you feel stupid and that's okay!
• Schwartz, Martin A. "The importance of stupidity in scientific research." Journal of Cell Science 121.11 (2…

This week we're talking about ringing rocks and why we think they sound just like cast iron bells.

• Video of Ringing Rocks in PA

Fun Paper Friday

Krioukov, Dmitri. "The Proof of Innocence." arXiv…

How can some wind and sand make booming, singing, and wailing sounds? Find out what we know this week and then dive into geo-economics with a short and graphical fun paper!

• Example of singing sand

If you're new in the field, caliche might fool you the first few times you encounter it. This week we talk about what it is, how it forms, and why you should always carry your hammer and chisel!

Fu…

This week we talk about fracture of toughness of materials or how resistant they are to cracking.

Fun Paper Friday

• Morrill, Kathleen, et al. "Ancestry-inclusive dog genomics challenges popular bre…

Hardness, toughness, and brittleness are all unique, but related quantities. In this week's show we explore how they each relate to the atomic structure of the rocks and what they mean for us as geol…

• Bouma Sequence
• Lowe Sequence

Fun Paper Friday

• Nikolić, Hrvoje. "Would Bohr be born if Bohm were born before Born?." American Journal of Physics 76.2 (2008): 143-146.

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What happens when rivers meet oceans? All kinds of fun sedimentary processes that build deltas. Learn more this week along with a discussion of one man's favorite boulders.

Fun Paper Friday

• Beaty,…

This week it's all about conglomerates. How do these sedimentary trash cans form and how can we classify them?

Fun Paper Friday

• Turns out it may be difficult to estimate parasite population in poo…

Last week Shannon was out in the field taking samples in the area of the Colorado River. This week we find out what she was doing and the history of that region.

Fun Paper Friday

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This week it's all about hot spots and Hawaii!

• Loihi
• Emperor Seamount Chain
• HUGO

Fun Paper Friday

• Does removing something take more brain power than adding something?
• Adams, Gabrielle S., et al…

What would we be doing in an alternate universe? We explore careers we almost took and how they relate to things we talk about all the time.

Fun Paper Friday

• Electron Band Structure In Germanium, …

LaTeX is a beautiful way to make documents, especially when they have lots of equations, tables, and more. This week we dive into how you too can talk TeX.

• Download MikTeX

Fun Paper Friday

• Mats…

John and Shannon are tired of the wintery mix weather they've been getting, but at least now we understand what makes it! We also introduce the term "heated fellowship" and talk about if packs of wol…

The Hunga Tonga eruption is one of the largest eruptions observed with modern equipment. This week we'll dig into what happened, how it was observed, and what we think is next for the island chain.

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