Sam Woodcock (he/him)

3rd Year Geology student at the University of Bristol, founding member of UoB Quiz Soc and igneous petrology boi

[Lilly Wilson @Geochem_Pip]

Boscastle, Cornwall is home to some of the most spectacular folding and quartz veins I’ve seen. Every hillside you look there’s a new array of mangled rocks from the Variscan Orogeny!

[Oluwaseye P. Oyetade @mistisheye]

Hi everyone, I'm Oluwaseye a geoscientist, with interest in sedimentary basin analysis.
#BlackGeoscientists #BlackinGeoscienceWeek #BiGRollcall #DiversityinBiG

[Sam Woodcock (he/him) @LeuciteTephrite]

Elderberries from a local park and apples from my garden, now a delicious jam!

[Sam Woodcock (he/him) @LeuciteTephrite]

Go #Elbaite!

[Mineral Cup #MinCup @MineralCup]

That's a resounding win for the tourmaline #Elbaite!

Goodbye, #Vermiculite, better luck next year!

[Sam Woodcock (he/him) @LeuciteTephrite]

@MineralCup Weirdly excited for my fav tourmaline, elbaite, to be on the list. Go lithium-bearing minerals!

[Sam Woodcock (he/him) @LeuciteTephrite]

The damson tree in our back garden was bearing ripe fruit early-mid August rather than September. I picked our first apples in August too

[Megan @FavColour_Green]

This traditional cider orchard has been in my family since 1977.

*We used to have apple picking in November
*We had to move it to late October
*Then mid october
*Now late September.

The apples are already ripe.

Climate change is real, it's here & it's fucking with my apples

[Sam Woodcock (he/him) @LeuciteTephrite]

But the fossil I actually collected, from Saltwick Bay, was this gorgeous /Hildoceras/ ammonite. It's locally relevant too, being named for St Hilda of Whitby, an early mediaeval abbess who according to legend turned snakes to stone to form ammonites.

[Sam Woodcock (he/him) @LeuciteTephrite]

I'm back off holiday so that means I get to share some #geology geology from wanderings in N Yorkshire! First up, check this cool folding in a block of gneiss used as sea defense near Whitby!

[Sam Woodcock (he/him) @LeuciteTephrite]

A good number of Jurassic fossils here from Robin Hood's Bay: some belemnites, ammonites and plenty of bivalves.

[Rhys Charles @tweetodontosaur]

Mind boggling. There's a reason palaeontological consultants like myself exist... It's the one scenario in which involving me can help you AVOID public embarrassment.

[Sam Woodcock (he/him) @LeuciteTephrite]

@rpancost Happy birthday Rich!

[Sam Woodcock (he/him) @LeuciteTephrite]

This is probably the best bit of #macrophotography I will ever do, all due to luck. Bumblebees at the Alnwick Garden, Northumberland.

[Sam Woodcock (he/him) @LeuciteTephrite]

Third and maybe finally for now, the Farne islands sit on the Whin Sill but a probably more famous for their seabirds than their geology. We managed to catch the last few puffins for this year before they fly back out to sea!

[Sam Woodcock (he/him) @LeuciteTephrite]

Ah, Twitter - I certainly didn't miss you but you are at least useful for sharing pictures of geology I saw on my hols. So first from Northumbria is the contact between the Whin Sill and Carb sediments at Dunstanburgh Castle (plus a great many kittiwakes)

[Sam Woodcock (he/him) @LeuciteTephrite]

Second, a pretty poor picture of a root in coal measures near Amble where we were staying. I think it was /Stigmaria/ but I'm no palaeobotanist! Also including pictures of cross-bedding from the same sequence.

[Phil Vixseboxse 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @philvixseboxse]

If you thought I had a joke about the Avalon Assemblage of Newfoundland, you’d be mistaken.

[Asenati 🇵🇸 @_Asenati]

Attorneys for the Defendant in a matter we're pursuing just sent us a letter in Afrikaans 😂

Soon as I'm done translating this nonsense, I'm replying in IsiXhosa lol

[Sam Woodcock (he/him) @LeuciteTephrite]

Weird thing I noticed yesterday - a geological map of the Sudbury impact crater in Makoto Shinkai's "your name.". Had to pause the film to check I'd seen it right! #unexpected #geology

[Dr. Meaghan L. Pimsler @PleaseBugMe]

Is this peak irony?