The podClast – episode 10

Published 2009-04-09 by Chris

Episode 10 (double figures! woo!) of the podClast is ready for download. You can grab the mp3 here (22.9 Mb, 33:20), or subscribe through iTunes here. You can subscribe to the podClast RSS feed here. If you’re trapped behind a firewall, there’s a zip version too.  Or you can listen to it right here:

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This week’s episode discusses the eruption of Mt Redoubt in Alaska and whether geolphysicists are geologists. Plus the GSA timescale including a discussion on why the Quaternary exists and details on palaeomagnetics .

Participants (links in brackets are Twitter feeds)

Chris - goodSchist (@yorrike)

Chris –  Highly Allochthonous (@allochthonous)

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

Eruptions of  Mt Redoubt in Alaska

The Big Picture, yet again, has beautiful pictures of the eruptions.

Eruptions has details about Mt Redoubt here, here and here. Plus details on the Oil Terminal and there securing thereof.

The Volcanism Blog also has details here, here and here.

Webcams of Mt Redoubt can be found at the Alaskan Volcanic Observatory.

Geologists and Geophysicists

Maria from Green Gabbro asks Are Geophysicists Geologists? and follows up with Are Geophysicists Geologists? Part II.

The GSA Timescale

You cand find details about the updated GSA timescale at All My Faults Are Stress Related and at About:Geology.

Palaeomagnatism

Chris’s posts on Palaeomagnatism can be found here.

del.icio.us/podclast

We have a del.icio.us account which can be found at http://del.icio.us/podclast. All the web pages and resources we’ve found and used in the discussions on the podclast can be found here. A convenient way to browse per episode is to go to, for example, http://del.icio.us/podclast/episode10 (for this episode).

If you find a link to a topic that you’d like to hear discussed on the podclast, or have a link to a topic that’s already been discussed, you can add links to the podclast page through your own del.icio.us account.

When saving a link, include the tags for:podclast and episodeX (where X is the episode number – for example episode10). You can add more than one episode tag if the link applies to multiple episodes.

Next Episode

We like to have a new episode of the podClast every fortnight, so the next episode will be recorded on Sunday the 19th of April 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.

Text Addresses

The post that accompanies this podcast can be found at http://www.goodschist.com/2009/04/08/the-podclast-episode-10 or http://is.gd/rv9W and an archive of all  podClasts can be found at http://www.goodschist.com/category/podclast/

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