R.N.Armstrong

Over 1,000 schools in England have started mapping habitats on their sites with the National Education Nature Park, taking part in global research🌸🐝 Young scientists are connecting with nature, boosting biodiversity and building skills for the future🌍 educationnaturepark.org.uk

9th January 2025 — Perthshire

@aimee_smi_ @NHM_Petrology a purely objective view (honest)

@RNArmstrong1 @NHM_Petrology Not just being biased are you? 😉😂 But I would love to see Staffa!

Kicking off 2025 with a trip to the Giants Causeway! 🌋 Was great to see the iconic lava flows of the British and Irish Paleogene Province in-situ! We’re lucky enough to have some samples from the Giants Causeway in the @NHM_Petrology collection! 🪨 #VMSG_MDSG25

5th January 2025 — Montrose

4th January 2025 — Shetland pic.twitter.com/ZIvZOoBdXW

3rd January 2025 — Isle of Rùm

2nd January 2025 — Montrose

1st January 2025 — Perthshire

@EntAntony Thanks for this, are you able to control the Tl speciation in your experiments?

@RNArmstrong1 These were grown in hydroponics dosed with thallium, but thallium accumulation (and human health risks) occur on sites in Italy with contaminated by mine drainage from sulphide mining.

Recent experiment at beamline P06 of PETRA III, DESY looking at the nature of highly thallium-enriched crystals in the hyperaccumulator plant Brassica oleraceae with synchrotron X-ray diffraction mapping. These crystals contain > 40wt% thallium and occur around vascular bundles.

Sometimes a gravity separation is fifty shades of grey.

How can Visible Geology help students understand the complex geological concepts of stereonets and apparent dip? Join Graham Andrews, experienced Structural Geology Professor for a deep dive into Visible Geology at #AGU2024: events.seequent.com/agu2024?utm_me…

@AidaGreenbury @EntAntony how does this land area compare to that lost to agriculture, urban spread, and non-mining related infrastructure. Yes mining leads to forestry clearance, but perhaps the total forested land loss should be flagged as the most important point?

Indonesia tops the list of deforestation due to mining, with more than 3,600 km2 of forest lost, causing carbon emissions of around 132 million tonnes. The research estimated that globally 16,785 km2mining-induced deforestation has led to the release of approximately 490 million tons of CO2. phys.org/news/2024-11-f…

This is something I encountered on my climb up Ben Lawers on Saturday, and it's a phenomenon I've wanted to see for a very long time. Cont./ #glasgow #benlawers #scottishmountains #brockenspectre #hillwalking #hillwalkingscotland #scotland @walkhighlands

Regarding the driven grouse shooting debate, there’s a long overdue class analysis to be done on working class gamekeeper employees in light of their landed gentry employers. Which is why we should crowdfund @ewangibbs to do a year long ethnographic study on the moors.

Really excited to see our #openaccess paper out today! Great work led by @LamontsterTN1 suggesting Laramide porphyry #copper deposits in the western USA resulted from water-fluxed crustal melting during flat-slab subduction. Huge thanks to @bhp & @isotopesUK for funding! 🌟🌵🌎🇺🇲

@BBCPolitics @BBCOne The level of aggression and inability to listen to the person being interviewed answers is quite embarrassing.

Joining #BBCLauraK Chancellor Rachel Reeves New Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch Sunday 9am @BBCOne bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

A thread... With the ongoing terrible situation in Valencia, there are many images of ‘car imbrication' appearing on Social Media with people claiming that this is the same process as that seen in sedimentary particles. (1/6)