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Welcome to another cracking geological conversation with Dr Sabin Zahirovic (or should we say, welcome to today's episode of 'what is Sabin 3D printing today'....!!??!!) Here we explore the great Australian tilt, what the mantle has to do with it, and what this continental tilt has meant for the natural evolution of our country. Sabin continues to show us some unbelievable data visualisations that reconstruct the deep Earth through deep time - you won't want to miss the video for this episode!

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Ever noticed that the coastlines of Africa and South America match up like perfect puzzle pieces? Turns out we need to investigate Earth's youngest supercontinent, Pangea, to explain that one! In this episode of Wonder we're joined by the brilliant Dr Sabin Zahirovic, who shows us some mindblowing visual reconstructions of the Pangean supercontinent and the geologic mega-events that rippled through the earth system during its time. Thank you Sabin!!!!!

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The Pangea graphic in the thumbnail is by Fabio Crameri and based on Scotese & Wright (2018). It is available via the open-access s-ink.org repository.

Welcome to the ultimate deep time exploration Down Under! With Professor Pete Betts from Monash University, Holly & Anthony imagine the Australian continent as a geologic mosaic of stone. We ask about the origins of these cratonic blocks, and how they came together to form the Australian jigsaw we know and love today. Prof Betts walks us through it all, from missing ocean basins to that time he sticky-taped together the continent...(And a bonus scoop: he even shares the goss on what new ideas can look and feel like at the frontlines of science). We hope you enjoy our conversation!

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GeoCo connects to you from the traditional country of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains, South Australia. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging.

Welcome to Kīlauea, one of the planet's most active volcanoes in the heart of Hawaii. You've likely seen its incredible lava fountains and ongoing eruptions in the news, or all over your social feeds ... Well, on today's show, we crossed live to geochemist and volcanologist Dr Abigail Nalesnik to talk everything Hawaiian volcanoes. What's up with lava fountains?? What do eruptions sound like (obvious hint: not what you might think)?? Why is Hawaii actually erupting at all??? To top it all off, we couldn't figure out what's cooler: that Abigail has literally just completed her PhD on Kīlauea's explosive eruptions, or, that she's voluntarily dangled from helicopters and descended solo into the depths of Hawaii's volcanic craters...

You can find Abigail her stunning volcano content @volcano.ab

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Thumbnail image credit: Lava fountaining at the summit of Kīlauea, sourced from the U.S. Geological Survey

Welcome to the rock bottom of the Australian continent. Here, hundreds of kilometres underground, there are inverted mountains and valleys beyond anything at our country's land surface. With Dr Caroline Eakin we find out how earthquakes paint pictures of Australia's deep roots, why our country experiences earthquakes, and finally, why those Western Australian's are building an epic 'telescope that points inside the earth'...

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GeoCo connects to you from the traditional country of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains, South Australia. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging.

Today's show begins deep in Earth's mantle. It's mostly a beautiful, green place ... but, apparently, also much like a marble cake? On todays show, Holly & Anthony are joined by the ultimate mantle legend Dr Isra Ezad, who's an igneous experimental petrologist at the University of Western Australia. Dr Ezad walks us through the dark side of Earth's mantle, the kind of experiments that let her simulate these exotic domains, and how metal behaves in these weird subterranean spaces.

We partnered with the ARC Critical Resources for the Future to make this fascinating episode of Wonder possible.

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WOW, we've spoken to some incredible scientists over the last few episodes. We think it's time to hit pause and absorb what we've learned? From the ceaseless cycles of Nature to the evolution of flora and fauna, from Holly's field travels into living landscapes and Anthony's curiosity about Gondwanan ice sheets— let's reflect on the spectacular stories of our recent guests and explore the earth science behind it all.

Here is the paper we quoted at the end of this episode, Bowman and Yeates (2006), and here a video of that earth mosaic/art installation metaphor we explored, too.

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"A nation that loses its connection to its country either culturally, emotionally or scientifically loses. That is our biggest societal and human challenge... how we understand and connect with our planet. As Australians, we have responsibility for our bit of the earth. It's what sustains us as people and everything else we share our planet with..."
Here is part 2 of our conversation Dr Steve Hill on the ancient sculpture of Australian landscapes and our habitation of them today.

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Dr Steve Hill is Chief Scientist at Geoscience Australia, and he has a really cool instagram page ⁠@stevogeo⁠

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Thumbnail image credit: Steve Hill himself!

In today's show we traverse iconic Australian landscapes and uncover their roots in deep time. Dr Steve Hill shows us how 'reading landscapes' reveals their formation - by fire, by ice, by water - thus allowing us to imagine the ancient sculpture of todays world. We find out that encoded in our landscapes today are ancient inland seas, Australia's slow drift across the face of the Earth, and its transformation into arid, fiery lands...

What an utterly joyous conversation— a big thank you to our proud sponsors Geological Society of Australia who made this episode of Wonder possible.

Dr Steve Hill is Chief Scientist at Geoscience Australia, and he has a really cool instagram page @stevogeo

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GeoCo connects to you from the traditional country of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains, South Australia. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging.

In our second episode with Dr Andrew Merdith, we ask why the rise of land plants pushes the pendulum swing of Earth’s climate (who knew moss was so cool? Or that if you're a plant, you can actually have too much of a good thing, *cough cough atmospheric combustion??!!!?* ). During these fascinating Phanerozoic moments in Earth evolution, Dr Merdith also shows us what the ancient landmasses were doing .... and to voyage there, we must introduce you to Gondwana.

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Thanks to the ⁠Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Resources, at the University of Adelaide, ⁠for making this episode of Wonder possible.

GeoCo connects to you from the traditional country of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains, South Australia. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging.

Thumbnail image credits: ⁠⁠⁠ Kiril Dobrev on ⁠Unsplash