The podClast – episode 7

Published 2009-02-25 by Chris

The post that accompanies this podcast can be found at http://www.goodschist.com/2009/02/22/the-podclast-episode-7-2/

Episode 7 of the podClast is ready for download. You can grab the mp3 here (42.5 Mb, 46:24), or subscribe through iTunes here. Or you can listen to it right here:

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This week’s episode discusses the ancient sponge biomarkers recently described in a formation in Oman, palaeomagnatism, geology on Google Earth and more. This is the first episode in 7 months and it’s the longest podClast ever at just over 46 minutes.

Participants (links in brackets are Twitter feeds)

Chris - goodSchist (@yorrike)

Ron – Ron Schott’s Geology Home Companion Blog (@rschott)

Chris –  Highly Allochthonous (@allochthonous)

Dave – Geology News (@rockbandit or @geologynews)

Jess - Magma Cum Laude (@tuff_cookie)

Ryan – Staff Geologist (@staffgeologist)

Sponges, Palaeomagnetism and Ophiolites

You can read this brief article on the ancient sponge biomarkers or read through the Google News results regarding these ancient Omani trace fossils.

Chris’s post at Highly Allochthonous on Magnetic Polar Reversals

Wikipedia on Ophiolites

Google Earth and Geology

Ron’s blog article on Building  a Google Earth Geology Layer

Jess on Using Google Earth to Visualize Volcanic and Seismic Activity

Kim on similar matters in Google Earth Explosion

The OneGeology project

Chris’s post on Geoaggregation

And a few other links

The Dibblee Geological Foundation

The HMS Beagle Project which Chris mentioned.

Ryan’s Staff Geologist page

Ron’s Geoblogosphere Search Engine

del.icio.us/podclast

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Next Episode

We like to have a new episode of the podClast every fortnight, so the next episode will be recorded on Sunday the 8th of March at 2000 GMT.

Contributing

If you’re keen to hear a specific topic talked about, or would like to join the discussion during the next episode, either leave a comment below or email chris [the at symbol] goodschist.com. You’ll probably also do well reading the details on joining the podclast. If you don’t have the time to join us but would like to contribute a 3-5 minute audio clip to the show simply record it, make sure it’s an mp3, and send it to the address above.

Credit

The intro and exit music was Roots Fi Cool by Burning Babylon.

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