Real geologists, still teaching

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A few geology YouTubers worth your time — real geoscientists sharing field videos, lectures, and ongoing coverage of what the Earth is doing right now.

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GEO GIRL (Dr. Rachel Phillips)

A PhD geologist who started the channel in 2020 as remote lectures and grew it into one of the most-watched geoscience education channels online — physical geology, field videos, and interviews with working geoscientists, covering nearly every branch of the field in approachable detail.

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Nick Zentner

A geology lecturer at Central Washington University whose long-running lecture series and “Nick on the Fly” virtual field trips dig deep into Pacific Northwest geology — Ice Age floods, Columbia River Basalt, Cascades volcanism — the same landscape covered on this site's Cascades and basalt pages, told with real classroom depth.

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GeologyHub

Run by a geologist/volcanologist, this channel tracks active volcanic eruptions around the world as they happen, alongside videos on impact craters, unusual minerals, and geologic oddities — a good ongoing companion to this site's Volcanism and Notable Volcanic Eruptions pages.

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Myron Cook

A retired petroleum geologist with 35 years in the field, now making calm, unhurried videos about the geology of Wyoming and the wider region — roadcuts, ancient seaways, and deep-time stories like the Great Unconformity, told the way a patient friend would explain what you're looking at.

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Shawn Willsey

A geology professor at the College of Southern Idaho and author of Geology Underfoot in Southern Idaho and Roadside Geology of Idaho — his videos cover geodes, roadcuts, Ice Age floods, and the volcanic landscape of the Snake River Plain with real field-teaching depth.

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TheGeoModels

A channel built around visualizing geology directly — models and diagrams that show geologic structure and process in a way plain description can't, a good companion to this site's own interactive-diagram approach.

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