Andy Parsons

Lecturer in Geoscience interested in tectonics and deformation from subgrains to tectonic plates and everything in between. Likes beer, bikes and mountains too.

[Andy Parsons @AndyPTectonics]

The #IODP-3 Science Office has officially opened at
@PlymUni 🥳🥳🥳

https://t.co/I1xrNR9kZ1

[University of Plymouth @PlymUni]

University takes helm of global scientific drilling research programme that aims to unlock secrets hidden beneath world’s seafloor. 🌊⚓️
https://t.co/EwGp64i1C1

[Andy Parsons @AndyPTectonics]

Today I start my new job as Lecturer in Geoscience at the University of Plymouth. Yes!

https://t.co/R6KJr8tbFq

[University of Plymouth @PlymUni]

Rocks that originated in Earth’s mantle could reveal secrets of the planet’s history 🪨🌍

The mantle forms a 2,900km layer beneath the Earth’s crust which is not normally accessible from the surface.

Read the full study here 👇https://t.co/dhMfmf7DwC

[Andy Parsons @AndyPTectonics]

The first paper from our IODP Expedition 399 to the Atlantis Massif oceanic core complex is now published in Science. Read more about it here:

A long section of serpentinized depleted mantle peridotite | Science https://t.co/LNfhzAwKg6

[Andy Parsons @AndyPTectonics]

Bidgood et al. 2024: Check out our new paper on Tso Morari UHP complex in the NW Himalaya, linking petrocrhonology with plate kinematics

The Geodynamic Significance of Continental UHP Exhumation: New Constraints From the Tso Morari Complex, NW Himalaya
https://t.co/gRTIjdAeqF

[Andy Parsons @AndyPTectonics]

@BerylBikes please can you come get your bike out of radford lake (plymstock)?

[Anna Bidgood (she/her) @akbidgood]

*New paper*

"The geodynamic significance of continental UHP exhumation: New constraints from the Tso Morari Complex, NW Himalaya"

Access the preprint here: 10.22541/essoar.170965042.27714389/v1
@AndyPTectonics @nickmwroberts @OxUniEarthSci @PlymUni @BritGeoSurvey

[Andy Parsons @AndyPTectonics]

@vaillantuk For what is advertised as the best and certainly the most expensive heating systems on the market, not being able to do a simple thing as using a thermostat to control the heating is unacceptable. We have completely lost faith in the system.

[Andy Parsons @AndyPTectonics]

@vaillantuk Our Vaillant central heating system is not working. A Vaillant engineer has visited our premises and looked at our system and has been unable to resolve the problem.

Currently the only way we can control the boiler is by manually using the control panel on the the boiler.

[Andy Parsons @AndyPTectonics]

@EarthSciPlymUni @PlymUni @TheJR Its good to be back! Lots to tell. The work has only just begun.

[Earth Sci @ Plymouth @EarthSciPlymUni]

We are excited to welcome @AndyPTectonics back to @PlymUni soon to hear about his adventure onboard @TheJR sampling mantle rocks #exp399 #mantle

[Andy Parsons @AndyPTectonics]

DEADLINE 2ND JUNE:

Are you a geoscience undergraduate student in the UK looking for summer research experience?

We have an 8 week PAID project @PlymUni using paleomagnetism and geochemistry to investigate how oceanic crust forms.

Apply now!

https://t.co/Gn2m6uCxi9

[Andy Parsons @AndyPTectonics]

We have a 3.5 year NERC ARIES PhD @PlymUni investigating how oceanic crust forms in the Oman ophiolite.

Fieldwork + paleomagnetism + petrology!

UK applicants only.

DEADLINE 19TH MAY: https://t.co/5cyxLQUb7u

[Andy Parsons @AndyPTectonics]

@ActiveMargins @PlymUni Hi Danny! Eligibility rules state that sudents must be undertaking their first undergraduate degree studies (or integrated Masters) – you may not be in your final year of your undergraduate degree.

More details:
https://t.co/ucag4jobCC

[Andy Parsons @AndyPTectonics]

We have an 8 week paid undergraduate summer research project at @PlymUni

"Reconstructing magma pathways to understand how oceanic crust forms"

A great opportunity for udg students interested in plate tectonics and marine geoscience

Deadline 3rd June:

https://t.co/Gn2m6uCxi9

[Andy Parsons @AndyPTectonics]

@PlymUni CORRECTION: DEADLINE 2ND JUNE.

[Andy Parsons @AndyPTectonics]

This link gets around the paywall: https://t.co/yQpDiATkyq

[Andy Parsons @AndyPTectonics]

In April I'll be heading on an IODP scientific drilling expedition to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (Exp 399).

The Wall Street Journal decided to write about it! (If you can get past the pay wall, then please let me know what it says!)

https://t.co/yQpDiATkyq

[Andy Parsons @AndyPTectonics]

Want to study how the oceanic crust forms at fast spreading ridges?
We have a PhD project on this topic utilising paleomagnetism, petrology, and fieldwork in Oman at the University of Plymouth. Apply here:

https://t.co/5cyxLRbLZ2