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Prof. Trevor Jackson
Professor
trevor.jackson@uwimona.edu.jm

Current Research

  • The pumice deposits of St Lucia and Dominica, Lesser Antilles (with P.W. Scott).
  • Cenozoic volcaniclastic turbidites of Grenada and the Grenadines (with P. W. Scott and S.K Donovan).
  • The petrology of the volcanic rocks of Antigua. (with M.J.M Duke and P.W. Scott).
  • The mineral chemistry of the biotites in the Mountain Pine granites of Belize.

Selected Publications

Books
  • Jackson, T.A. (ed.) 2002. Caribbean Geology: Into the Third Millennium-The Transactions of the 15th Caribbean Geological Conference. The University of the West Indies Press, 287 pp.
  • Donovan, S.K. and Jackson, T.A. (eds). 1994. Caribbean Geology An Introduction. University of the West Indies Publishers’ Association, Kingston, iii+289 pp.
Refereed/edited field guides
  • Robertson, R.E.A. and Jackson, T.A. 2002. Field guide to St Vincent. 16th Caribbean Geological Conference, Barbados, June 16-21, 2002, 117-142.
  • Donovan, S.K. and Jackson, T.A. 2000. A field guide to the geology of the University of the West Indies campus, Mona. Caribbean Journal of Earth Science, 34, 19-26.
  • Jackson, T.A., Draper, G., Robinson, E. and Fleugeman, R.H. 1998. Field guide to the geology of eastern Jamaica. 15th Caribbean Geological Conference, June 29-July 2, Contributions to Geology, 3, 10-21.
  • Donovan, S.K., Jackson, T.A., Dixon,H.L. and Doyle, E.N. 1995. Eastern and central Jamaica. Geologists’ Association Guides, 53: i+62 pp.
Papers in refereed journals/books
  • Jackson, T.A., Scott, P.W., Donovan, S.K., Pickerill, R.K., Portell, R.W. and Harper, D.A.T. 2008. The volcaniclastic turbidites of the Grand Bay Formation, Carriacou, Grenadines, Lesser Antilles. Caribbean Journal of Science, 44, 116-124.
  • Donovan, S.K., Jackson, T.A., Brown, I.G. and Wood, S.J. 2004. Small is beautiful? Progress and collections of the Geology Museum, University of the West Indies. In Winkler Prins, C.F. and Donovan, S.K. (eds) VII International Symposium ‘Cultural Heritage in Geosciences, Mining and Metallurgy: Libraries-Archives- Museums': “Museums and their collections”. Leiden (The Netherlands) 19-23 May 2003. Scripta Geologica, Special Issue 4, 100-107.
  • Comer, J. B. and Jackson, T.A. 2004. Miocene bentonites in the White Limestone Group, Jamaica. In Donovan, S.K. (ed) The Mid-Cainozoic White Limestone Group of Jamaica, Cainozoic Research, 3, (1-2), 31-37.
  • Donovan, S.K. and Jackson, T.A., 2004. Quo Vadis the Transactions? Publishing strategy and the future of the Caribbean Geological Conferences. Caribbean Journal of Science, 40 (1), 1-7.
  • Donovan, S.K., Pickerill, R,. Portell, R, Jackson, T.A., and Harper, D.A.T. 2003. The Miocene
    palaeobathymetry and palaeoenvironments of Carriacou, the Grenadines, Lesser Antilles. Lethaia, 36 (3), 255-272.
  • Abbott, R.N.Jr., Bandy, B.R. Jackson, T.A. and Scott, P.W. 2003. Blueschist-greenschist transition in the Mt. Hibernia Schist, Union Hill, Parish of St. Thomas, Jamaica. International Geology Reviews, 45, 1-15.
  • Bandy, B., Jackson, T.A. and Scott, P.W. 2002 Mineralogy of the sand-sized sediments in the Rio Minho drainage basin, Jamaica. In Jackson, T.A. (ed.) Caribbean Geology :Into the Third Millenium, Transactions of the 15th Caribbean Geological Conference, 217-228
  • Donovan, S.K., Jackson, T.A. and Miller, D.J. 2002. Fieldwork: A key component in teaching geology and geomorphology at UWI, In Jackson T.A. (ed), Caribbean Geology: Into the Third Millennium, Transactions of the 15th Caribbean Geological Conference, 277-286
  • Jackson, T.A. and Scott, P.W. 2002. The Paleogene volcanic rocks of Cuba and Jamaica: similarities and differences. In Jackson T. A. (ed), Caribbean Geology: Into the Third Millennium. Transactions of the 15th Caribbean Geological Conference, 115-126.

Courses

  • GL10A: Introduction to Earth Sciences I.
  • GL10B: Introduction to Earth Sciences II.
  • GL23A/GEOL2003: Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
  • GL32A/GEOL3002: Caribbean Geology
  • GL38B/GEOL3008: Ore Geology and Industrial Minerals

Graduate Students

  • Noel McKenzie. Ph.D. Student. The pozzalanic properties of the Newcastle volcanics in the Wagwater Belt, Jamaica.

Professional Society Memberships

 
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