While usually it’s just the hard bits that fossilize, occasionally the fossil record can preserve things like skin, organs, blood and more. This episode talks about what happens when soft tissue fossilizes, and what weird things scientists have done upon finding it. CW: Dead animals/babies, eating gross things, blood and gushy body bits, placentas.
Hot, hot, hot, rocks! This episode is going to be a real burn, because we are going to talk about metamorphic rocks that have experienced very high temperature metamorphism, deep in the crust, the so called Ultra High Temperature or UHT conditions. Professor Mahyra Tedeschi from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) explains what […]
Geology in America’s biggest backyard!
Derek Field (M.Sc) is a geologist from Calgary, Canada. After getting his B.Sc in Geology from California Lutheran University and working as a volcanology intern for the University of Colima, Mexico, he migrated to Flagstaff, Arizona, to pursue Sierra Nevada research under Nancy Riggs at Northern Arizona University. Derek specializes in doing fieldwork in remote, […]
Introduction As I hiked up to the tallest point in my field area, I looked to the south in awe, observing thousands of feet of sedimentary rocks that make up the Swauk Formation. And as I turned to the north, I tilted my head up to see the very top of the even higher mountains, […]
