Lesley Cherns's research while affiliated with Cardiff University and other places

... Fortunately, during the lockdown a large number of active and imaginative resources were designed to replace the basic school laboratory equipment and field work-from virtual field trips, videos, TV programmes, smartphone apps or podcasts, among others, with new and revisited websites with a myriad of activities being implemented (King, 2020;Pokhrel & Chhetri, 2021). Many newly developed virtual field trips and other resources are now available in the literature (Bond & Cawood, 2021;Rader et al., 2021;Barth et al., 2022;Bursztyn et al., 2022;Paz-Álvarez et al., 2022) and on websites (e.g., Geología en Acción, n.d.; NAGT, 2022). In the specific field of mineralogy and petrology, optical mineralogy tutorial videos were shared, showing multiple examples that cover a range of characteristics in thin sections (Kohn, 2021). ...

... Erosional features include scour marks, which are generally oriented to local flow of water or wind (Lallensack et al. 2022b). Erosion may remove chunks of rock from the walls of existing depressions that, when smoothed by subsequent weathering, can result in an undulating margin that may resemble digit impressions (Falkingham et al. 2021). A slab from the Late Triassic of Gloucestershire, England, shows two apparent reptile footprints, but Larkin et al. (2020) demonstrated with macro photography that one of these impressions is an complex erosional trace initiated by broken bivalve shells that are still visible within the 'digit impressions' (Figure 4A). ...

... Another reason is that locomotion is crucially linked not only to the usually well-conserved shell but also to the soft body parts, the funnel and the mantle cavity. These have little possibility of preservation [15] and, in any case, are largely limited to muscle scars on the internal shell [15,16]. In fact, the hyponomic footprint is only known for endocochleate coleoids so far [17]. ...

... In addition to the potential for digital photogrammetry to provide quantitative structural data, digital outcrops can be important tools for geoscience education (e.g. Pringle, 2014;De Paor, 2016;Houghton et al., 2016;Carbonell Carrera and Bermejo Asensio, 2017;de Paz-Álvarez et al., 2021). Digital outcrops have the potential to improve geological 3D thinking and can provide a mechanism to improve equality, inclusion and diversity in geoscience education and training (Bond and Cawood, 2021). ...