The Geology Flannelcast

The flannelcasters talk about using smart phone data to analyze earthquakes and track seismic waves, and a discussion on the possibility of life outside of Earth with the Fermi Paradox and Drake Equation.

In this installment of the Geology Flannelcast, the boys talk about a potential sign of life that was discovered on Venus, if Planet X could be a primordial black hole, and how does hematite form on the moon.

The boys take down Jurassic Park! In this episode they comment on the classic dinosaur movie. So sync this podcast up with Jurassic Park and learn some dino knowledge!

In this episode, the boys talk about the history of how the Paleozoic and Mesozoic Eras came about in the geologic time scale.

This week on the Geology Flannelcast, the boys talk about recent geology stories in the news like 300 million year old footprints found at the Grand Canyon, a hypothesis that supernovas caused a mass extinction event 359 million years ago, and moon dust build up on retroreflectors.

This week the boys take on a list of topics suggested by one of their Patreon sponsors. You can request your own topic on the Geology Flannelcast by becoming a Patreon sponsor.

Zealandia is an overlooked continent that wasn't described until 1995. The Flannelcasters talk about what is Zealandia and how it formed.

In this episode of the Flannelcast, the boys talk about a study that revives 100 million year old microbes and meteorites locked inside 460 million year old limestone.

In this installment of the Geology Flannelcast, the boys talk about Venus being tectonically active, a new study modeling the beginning of plate tectonics on Earth, and how COVID is affecting seismographs all over the world.

In this week’s installment, the Flannelcasters talk about some random topics, some in the news, some not in the news.

In this installment of The Geology Flannelcast, the boys talk about Iceland volcanoes, a honey moon hike in New Zealand gone horribly wrong, new evidence that suggests that the asteroid impact was the the sole driver in killing off the dinosaurs, increased earthquake activity in the San Jacinto Mountains in California, and a coccolithophore bloom in the the English Channel.Links: Dinosaurs wiped out by asteroid, not volcanoes, researchers say Newlywed suing Royal Caribbean describes volcano-eruption horror: 'Could feel my skin burning' Over 4,500 Earthquakes Hit Iceland as Volcano Shows Sign of Eruption Channeling a Bloom Natural fluid injections triggered Cahuilla earthquake swarm

This week's episode is a live stream. We talk about predicting earthquakes, mantle superplumes (aka LLSVP), and the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)

We have a lot going on in this week’s installment of the Geology Flannelcast. Our guest this week is Chris Conwell. Chris is a Ph.D. candidate at THE Ohio State University and he studies ancient glacial activity on Earth nearly 450 million years ago. Also, Ryan Thornburg (Jesse’s brother) stops by and we determine once and for all if Jesse and Ryan really didn’t go swimming for a whole summer in 1992 because it was too cold due to the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in 1991. And if that wasn’t enough… we also cover a huge tanzanite discovery and the end Permian extinction event.

Here’s a bonus episode for this week because we were late getting our regularly scheduled episode out. We cover current events in geology like the 7.5 magnitude earthquake this week in Mexico, a giant dust storm moving across the Atlantic Ocean, microbes that may live in impact craters, and a mega-blob under New Zealand.

Desmond O'Brien joins the Geology Flannelcast this week. Desmond works in the United States and Canada as a mineral prospector for gold, silver, and zinc.