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Big Announcement: Roadside Geology Comes to Audio — Plus an Introduction to Sedimentary Rocks
The glove-compartment classic is now in your headphones. In this episode, we announce a partnership between Camp Courses (the team behind the CampGeo app) and the Geological Society of America to produce audio-visual editions of Roadside Geology of Colorado and ...
Chris's college mineralogy lab final was 20 specimens, and one of them was a quartz crystal his professor had dipped in graphite. The luster was off, the color was off, and Chris got it wrong even though every other property said quartz. That one exam question shows why mineral ID is hard and why you need a system. This episode lays out that system.
We finish the minera...
There are roughly 7,000 known minerals on Earth. You need to know about ten of them. In the third installment of the Camp Geo Intro to Minerals series, Chris and Jesse finish the minerals chapter by working through the rock-forming minerals — the short list that makes up the overwhelming majority of the rocks in Earth's crust — and by explaining where minerals actually...
Ask an intro geology class what the most abundant element in the crust is and, year after year, the answer comes back "carbon." It doesn't make the top eight. That gap between what feels right and what the planet is actually made of is where this lesson lives.
Chapter 2 of the Camp Geo audio textbook starts with the layered Earth — crust, mantle, an...