Design, Development and Value

Sarah Morse introduces the second issue of the IJPLE and flags up the 3rd Annual Street Law Best Practice Conference scheduled for September 2018

Beyond the 4 Skills: Looking at 21st century skills

The advent of internet and digital media has significantly added to the types of skills that students need to acquire in the ESL classroom to be successful in communication. The digital skills of viewing and representing should be added to the traditional four skills to prepare students for experiencing and creating multimodal texts

Public Legal Education - sharing best practice in changing times

I hope that this editorial finds you safe and well.  Undoubtedly these are scary and challenging times and the global pandemic has had far reaching and long lasting consequences for us all.  In times of crisis, inequalities in our society are highlighted and it is increasingly important that individuals have access to legal information in order to be able to deal with legal issues they face, seek redress and know how and when to seek support.  Public legal education plays a vital role in this.  It is therefore important that our work continues and that we support each other by sharing best practice and resources in a time when we may have to revisit or reconsider our normal practice and programmes

Constraining High Temperature Deformation and Metamorphism in the Southern Wet Mountains, Colorado, USA: Implications for the Regional Extent of the Picuris Orogeny

The Wet Mountains of Colorado are underlain by exhumed Proterozoic metamorphic rock that lies north of the recently identified 1.46 to 1.40 Ga Picuris orogen in northern New Mexico. The Picuris orogen is inferred to have formed in response to a Mesoproterozoic (ca. 1.49-1.40 Ga) contractional to transpressional event extrapolated to be regional in extent. It has been proposed that the Picuris orogen composes the westernmost tectonic segment of the Pinware-Baraboo-Picuris orogen that formed along an evolving convergent margin that becomes younger from northeast to southwest. This study is focused on the record of high temperature deformation, metamorphism, and plutonism in the southern Wet Mountains interpreted as a consequence of Mesoproterozoic tectonism related to the Picuris orogeny. Geochronology results yielded two populations: ~ 1.45 Ga age of crystallization for granitic intrusions and ~ 1.7 Ga date for a metasedimentary rock. P-T thermobarometric results for a Grt + Sil + Crd + Bt + Kfs + Pl + Qtz migmatite yielded inferred peak conditions of \u3e 0.6 GPa and \u3e 700oC. These results suggest that the Picuris Orogeny was the deformative and metamorphic event that displaced sediments to \u3e 0.6 GPa and caused a regional overprinting of foliation throughout the Wet Mountains

Constraining High Temperature Deformation and Metamorphism in the Southern Wet Mountains, Colorado, USA: Implications for the Regional Extent of the Picuris Orogeny

The Wet Mountains of Colorado are underlain by exhumed Proterozoic metamorphic rock that lies north of the recently identified 1.46 to 1.40 Ga Picuris orogen in northern New Mexico. The Picuris orogen is inferred to have formed in response to a Mesoproterozoic (ca. 1.49-1.40 Ga) contractional to transpressional event extrapolated to be regional in extent. It has been proposed that the Picuris orogen composes the westernmost tectonic segment of the Pinware-Baraboo-Picuris orogen that formed along an evolving convergent margin that becomes younger from northeast to southwest. This study is focused on the record of high temperature deformation, metamorphism, and plutonism in the southern Wet Mountains interpreted as a consequence of Mesoproterozoic tectonism related to the Picuris orogeny. Geochronology results yielded two populations: ~ 1.45 Ga age of crystallization for granitic intrusions and ~ 1.7 Ga date for a metasedimentary rock. P-T thermobarometric results for a Grt + Sil + Crd + Bt + Kfs + Pl + Qtz migmatite yielded inferred peak conditions of \u3e 0.6 GPa and \u3e 700oC. These results suggest that the Picuris Orogeny was the deformative and metamorphic event that displaced sediments to \u3e 0.6 GPa and caused a regional overprinting of foliation throughout the Wet Mountains