Geology Bites

by Oliver Strimpel

What moves the continents, creates mountains, swallows up the sea floor, makes volcanoes erupt, triggers earthquakes, and imprints ancient climates into the rocks? Oliver Strimpel, a former astrophysicist and museum director asks leading Earth science researchers to divulge what they have discovered and how they did it.

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Brian Wernicke on Lithospheric Extension and the Basin and Range Province

Where tectonic plates collide, the result is clear: the edge of a plate crumples and throws up a mountain belt. But where a plate is stretched rather ...

34m

•Aug 27, 2026

Bernhard Steinberger on Whether Hotspots Are Fixed

Volcanic island chains like Hawaii record the passage of a plate over a hotspot — a plume of hot rock rising from deep within the mantle. For decades,...

28m

•Jul 16, 2026

Sonia Tikoo on the Moon's Magnetic Field

We have known for decades that the Moon once generated a strong magnetic field — comparable in strength to Earth's — throughout the period from about ...

32m

•Jun 27, 2026

Steve Brusatte on the Dinosaurs That Survived the Asteroid

Birds are the only dinosaurs that survived the asteroid impact 66 million years ago — but not all birds did. In this episode, Steve Brusatte draws on ...

32m

•May 28, 2026

Alec Brenner on When Tectonic Plates First Moved

A key development in the history of the early Earth is the formation of lithospheric plates that move independently of one another. In this episode, B...

28m

•Apr 30, 2026

Materials in Extreme Environments

Most of the material in the Earth and other planets exists under extremes of pressure and temperature quite unlike those we inhabit on the surface of ...

35m

•Apr 15, 2026