Dr Adam Jeffery

S2 "Voices of Belonging" with Kelly Jeffery The ConnectED podcast · Episode

In Ep.9 of Voices of Belonging we showcase the work of @agpaitic-adam.bsky.social and colleagues @keeleuniversity.bsky.social to remove barriers to #belonging for #autistic learners #autism #neurodiversity #inclusion #nothingaboutuswithoutus #student #belonging
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Scenic view of a valley near Seathwaite in the lake district, U.K.

Scenic view of mountainous terrain near Wrynose Pass, Lake District, U.K.

My office has become very big and breezy this week, with more cavorting fighter jets than usual. Spectacular #geology in the lake district. #fieldwork

Please do!

Very welcome, hope you enjoyed the talk.

The inaugural publication for the #geoscienceeducation thematic collection in Earth Science, Systems, and Society (#ES3) (a @geolsoc.bsky.social journal). Written by Natalie Bursztyn and team about ‘Using Immersive Virtual Reality to Measure Strike and Dip and Teach Geological Mapping Concepts’.

Autistic voices in geoscience: lessons to enhance inclusive practice. Adam Jeffery, Steven Rogers, Kelly Jeffery, Mark Lucherini, Julie Hulme, Martin Griffin, Elizabeth Derbyshire, Kristopher Wisniewski, Jamie Pringle, Catherine Hallam, Isobel Stemp, Lisa Lau, Liam Bullock.

If you're at #EGU and interested in hearing what #autistic students have to say to you about #geoscience #education and #inclusion, we'll be sharing their voices on Thursday (1st May) at 12:10-12:20 CEST in Room 2.21.

An image of a rock thin section under the microscope showing an array of brightly coloured crystals of the mineral olivine.

Olivine olivine, and some more olivine in a peridotite.

#thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks

A rock thin section showing an interstitial space between feldspar crystals which change in colour from brown to blue to green as the mineralogy changes.

A nice transition from katophorite (brown) into ferro-eckermannite (blue) and then aegirine (green) in the interstitial space of a peralkaline syenite

#thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks

Cross polarised light view of basalt with large olivine phenocrysts, elongate plagioclase laths and interstitial clinopyroxene.

Cross polarised light view of basalt from the Massif Central with large olivine phenocrysts, beautiful elongate plagioclase laths and interstitial clinopyroxene #ThinSectionThursday 🧪⚒️

An image of a rock in thin section, displaying crystals of various minerals (kyanite, sillimanite, muscovite, chlorite, plagioclase). A schistose texture is observed, with the muscovite being aligned and appearing to 'flow' from top right to bottom left of the image.

A nice schist with muscovite, kyanite/sillimanite, chlorite, and twinned plagioclase.

#thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks

A serpentinite mesh texture for #ThinsectionThursday. Or is it a piece of modern art? 🖌️
Note how there are several generations of serpentine, among them a clear one that filled the first fractures, and a dark one (full of magnetite) that replaced the rest of the olivine.

Just one of the best thin section images you're likely to see. Brightly coloured fresh olivines in blues, yellows, and oranges among smaller black, white and grey plagioclases, which generally define a fabric from left to right.

The isle of Rùm and its layered intrusion remain undefeated for thin sections. Foliated troctolite (ol+plag) or 'allivalite' from Hallival, in the NMS rock collection. #ThinSectionThursday

Plane polarised light view of lava with glomerophyric pyroxene and plagioclase surrounded by rounded vesicles, which represent bubbles frozen into the brown, glassy matrix.

Glassy lava from Tongoa Island, Vaunatu, in plane polarised light. Clinopyroxene and plagioclase form glomerophyric clusters. These are surrounded by rounded vesicles (gas bubbles) frozen into the brown glass (liquid) when the lava was rapidly quenched #ThinSectionThursday 🧪⚒️

a quartz grain in a thin section (a polished rock slab mounted on glass), resembling a face, as seen under the petrographic microscope

Last #ThinSectionThursday of the day.
Depressed quartz.

aka an embayed #quartz phenocryst in a foliated #granite

FOV 3 mm

⚒️ #geology #igneousrocks #petrography #science

A large olivine crystal showing bright second order interference colours. Fractures cut across the majority of the crystal, along which the olivine is being replaced by first order grey serpentine.

A relict olivine crystal being insidiously replaced by serpentine in a forsterite-diopside marble.

#thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks

That's a fantastic idea which I must now find a way to implement!

A Powerpoint slide with an early morning sky in the background and a silhouette of trees, dear, and birds in the lower right corner.

A Powerpoint slide with a midday sky in the background and a silhouette of trees, a rabbit, and a T-Rex in the lower right corner.

A Powerpoint slide with an early evening sky in the background and a silhouette of trees, and Jill Valentine fighting zombies with a shotgun in the lower right corner.

A Powerpoint slide with an late evening morning sky in the background and a silhouette of trees, Darth Vader, and Luke Skywalker in the lower right corner.

Tried a diff. approach w/ PPT slides this year. Rather than slide numbers, the slides transition from morning through to evening to indicate progression, with diff. animals throughout.

Gives the chance to sneak one easter egg into each lecture too.

#highereducation #teachers #edusky #education

A photomicrograph of a basalt between crossed polars. It is full of large colourful clinopyroxenes, some round grey vesicles, and some yellowy grey altered olivines. The groundmass is full of little plagioclase feldspars and iron oxides.

A local #ThinSectionThursday today. Clinopyroxene- and olivine-phyric basalt from Holyrood Park, Edinburgh. Location given as St Anthony's Chapel, so probably lava two or three of the Arthur's Seat lava succession.

An microscope image of a thin section of rock

Clinopyroxene, plagioclase, and abundant leucite (hiding in plain sight) in a tephritic lava from Vesuvius, Italy

#thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks

Quartz and alkali feldspar in a swirling rhyolite from Arran, Scotland.

#thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks

Cross polarised light view of ophitic texture in dolerite with clinopyroxene crystals growing around plagioclase laths. Relatively abundant iron oxide present too.

Tholeiitic dolerite from Ben Hiant summit, Ardnamurchan, Scotland, which forms the highest point on the British mainland's most westerly projection. On a clear day the 360° (horizontal) panorama is unbeatable ... but this beauty is beneath your feet! #ThinSectionThursday
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A rock in thin section viewed under the microscope.

A coarse grained, amphibole-bearing glomerocryst (right) contrasted against crystal-rich, porphyritic basaltic andesite (left).

#thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks

An image of a rock under the microscope. A large crystal of brightly coloured aegirine surrounded by alkali feldspar crystals.

Aegirine in a peralkaline syenite from the Azores.

The darker patch in the middle (and the crystal above) is ferro-eckermannite or arfvedsonite, a Na-rich amphibole.

The surrounding grey crystals are a cumulus framework of alkali feldspar.

#thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks

Skye big feldspar basalt in XPL. Outrageously parading a thick section for #ThinSectionThursday ⚒️🧪🌋

I do it the old fashioned way with a mechanical stage and some panoramic image stitching software. Usually around 40-60 overlapping images per sample to cover a whole thin section - can get about 3 done (in PPL and XPL) per hour so not too bad.

An image of a rock thin section viewed under the microscope in cross-polarised light. Three minerals (olivine, clinopyroxene, and plagioclase feldspar) are visible.

Interlocking olivine, clinopyroxene, and plagioclase feldspar in a relatively pristine gabbro.

FoV = 2.5 x 1.5 cm

#thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks

A photograph of an old glass microscope slide on a white background. The pale round rock section is covered by a glass coverslip with yellow resin round the edges. A green handwritten label at the top says "No. 69 Forellenstein Volpersdorf, Schlesien". A tan coloured label at the bottom says "Krantz 1893, 24, 369".

The rock slide from the previous image zoomed in slightly and between crossed polars. It shows black, grey, and pale yellow striped plagioclase and purple and orange olivine.

A nineteenth century Krantz thin section of 'forellenstein' (literally "trout-stone"), an old German name for troctolite – an ultramafic olivine+plagioclase rock. From the NMS thin section collection. #ThinSectionThursday

A rock thin section showing a contact between coarse syenite and medium grained, prophyritic syenite.

I used to do this somewhere else: a nice contact between coarse agpaitic syenite and finer grained metaluminous syenite.

The latter includes a mixed mineral assemblage with forsterite and diopside derived from mixing with hawaiitic magmas.

#thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks