Barry Goldman
@barrygoldman1.bsky.social
was studying origins of life, that got too narrow, now studying #Geology. ... maybe this time i'll regularly post original content, what should i write?
https://blackskimmer.blogspot.com/2018/07/finally-i-can-post-my-science-salon.htm
#Astrobiology
https://blackskimmer.blogspot.com/2018/07/finally-i-can-post-my-science-salon.htm
#Astrobiology
I found my first Pyrrhotite softer than fluorite and attracted to magnet! Found in quartz vein in marble outcrop, Berkshires MA usa
October 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I found my first Pyrrhotite softer than fluorite and attracted to magnet! Found in quartz vein in marble outcrop, Berkshires MA usa
I'm guessing this shiny purple layer inside the fracture is the same as the metal oxide films floating in water formed by bacteria? @darkmicrobio.bsky.social #geology
October 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I'm guessing this shiny purple layer inside the fracture is the same as the metal oxide films floating in water formed by bacteria? @darkmicrobio.bsky.social #geology
closest I ever got to a volcano is Stark's Knob pillow lava in Schuylerville NY. cool place
October 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
closest I ever got to a volcano is Stark's Knob pillow lava in Schuylerville NY. cool place
I have found this sample.. close to phyllite? Interesting texture but very hard.
September 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I have found this sample.. close to phyllite? Interesting texture but very hard.
What metamorphed to make this weird stuff? Im suppozed to be able to find kyanite grade schists south of me (troy ny) due to taconic orogeny. So far iv found phyllites (i need better fotos of my green ones) must hunt further for schist. This all from deep ocean mud
September 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
What metamorphed to make this weird stuff? Im suppozed to be able to find kyanite grade schists south of me (troy ny) due to taconic orogeny. So far iv found phyllites (i need better fotos of my green ones) must hunt further for schist. This all from deep ocean mud
#MinCup no minerals yet but sorting out different grades of schist and gneiss along the road where i camped in the berkshires. 9 samples in abiut a mile or 2? If i could do thin sections id find ALL THE MINERALS. bear town mtn road.
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
#MinCup no minerals yet but sorting out different grades of schist and gneiss along the road where i camped in the berkshires. 9 samples in abiut a mile or 2? If i could do thin sections id find ALL THE MINERALS. bear town mtn road.
Good view that th shiny little blobs in my franklin marble are graphite. Look at this tiny little sheet. From mt adam warwick ny.
September 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Good view that th shiny little blobs in my franklin marble are graphite. Look at this tiny little sheet. From mt adam warwick ny.
Y is this shale so glossy?
September 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Y is this shale so glossy?
Some pages of a rock book printed in the Iapetus ocean muds Cambrian times. Brought to proto new york during the Taconic orogeny. Now is the Rensselaer plateau graywacke, tho this is closer to slate #geology
September 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Some pages of a rock book printed in the Iapetus ocean muds Cambrian times. Brought to proto new york during the Taconic orogeny. Now is the Rensselaer plateau graywacke, tho this is closer to slate #geology
But then what is this crumbly mystery rock found in the same outcrop? It is harder than th calcite. More analysis required
September 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
But then what is this crumbly mystery rock found in the same outcrop? It is harder than th calcite. More analysis required
So few geology departments anywhere now. Sucks.
I want to learn geology
So much happening in phyllite beds (Harlemville NY)
I want to learn geology
So much happening in phyllite beds (Harlemville NY)
September 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
So few geology departments anywhere now. Sucks.
I want to learn geology
So much happening in phyllite beds (Harlemville NY)
I want to learn geology
So much happening in phyllite beds (Harlemville NY)
Maybe more pics tomoro. We drove al around it and searched, only shale. Even found the edge of th pillow mtn where it joins th shale
September 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Maybe more pics tomoro. We drove al around it and searched, only shale. Even found the edge of th pillow mtn where it joins th shale
No #MunCup2025 today cuz we went and found th only pillow lava in new york state.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark%2...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark%2...
September 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
No #MunCup2025 today cuz we went and found th only pillow lava in new york state.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark%2...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark%2...
Ps i i love tremolite
Found a place t camp out in dark one night and next morning it was a fern and tremolite wonderland. Never saw that mineral befor
Found a place t camp out in dark one night and next morning it was a fern and tremolite wonderland. Never saw that mineral befor
September 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Ps i i love tremolite
Found a place t camp out in dark one night and next morning it was a fern and tremolite wonderland. Never saw that mineral befor
Found a place t camp out in dark one night and next morning it was a fern and tremolite wonderland. Never saw that mineral befor
September 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
#MinCup2025 Th interchanging structures are wild
Primary structures are silicate plates
Secondary structures, th plates either stack, roll up into laminar tubes or even more complex.
Tiertiary atructures the tubes stack to form th wavy fibrous serpentine/asbestos.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Primary structures are silicate plates
Secondary structures, th plates either stack, roll up into laminar tubes or even more complex.
Tiertiary atructures the tubes stack to form th wavy fibrous serpentine/asbestos.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
September 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
#MinCup2025 Th interchanging structures are wild
Primary structures are silicate plates
Secondary structures, th plates either stack, roll up into laminar tubes or even more complex.
Tiertiary atructures the tubes stack to form th wavy fibrous serpentine/asbestos.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Primary structures are silicate plates
Secondary structures, th plates either stack, roll up into laminar tubes or even more complex.
Tiertiary atructures the tubes stack to form th wavy fibrous serpentine/asbestos.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
i will nominate Tremolite, the new mineral to me that i discovered last year
these samples from Bartholomew's Cobble, near Sheffield MA, north america. growing in a mix of quartzite and marble.
these samples from Bartholomew's Cobble, near Sheffield MA, north america. growing in a mix of quartzite and marble.
August 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
i will nominate Tremolite, the new mineral to me that i discovered last year
these samples from Bartholomew's Cobble, near Sheffield MA, north america. growing in a mix of quartzite and marble.
these samples from Bartholomew's Cobble, near Sheffield MA, north america. growing in a mix of quartzite and marble.
hey! i found an Amandinea polyspora on a twig
Alas, I'm not sure I have a macro pic of it. silly me!
it was on the same day as this pic. possibly it was one of the upper lichens in next pic.
the # and shape of spores matched spp.
Alas, I'm not sure I have a macro pic of it. silly me!
it was on the same day as this pic. possibly it was one of the upper lichens in next pic.
the # and shape of spores matched spp.
August 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
hey! i found an Amandinea polyspora on a twig
Alas, I'm not sure I have a macro pic of it. silly me!
it was on the same day as this pic. possibly it was one of the upper lichens in next pic.
the # and shape of spores matched spp.
Alas, I'm not sure I have a macro pic of it. silly me!
it was on the same day as this pic. possibly it was one of the upper lichens in next pic.
the # and shape of spores matched spp.
hmm.. now i'm thinking. we need a survey of butterfly wing bites. like
August 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
hmm.. now i'm thinking. we need a survey of butterfly wing bites. like
might need microscope to distinguish. spores are quite different.
August 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
might need microscope to distinguish. spores are quite different.
even when i split pieces open i can't find what xtals were occupying these boxy holes
weathered away pyrites?
weathered away pyrites?
July 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
even when i split pieces open i can't find what xtals were occupying these boxy holes
weathered away pyrites?
weathered away pyrites?
found a phyllite hoard, SO cool.
rt 22 and rt 71, Austerlitz, NY, North America. context photos to follow. stuff flakes so thin and oily slick shiny, with crazy waves.
rt 22 and rt 71, Austerlitz, NY, North America. context photos to follow. stuff flakes so thin and oily slick shiny, with crazy waves.
July 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
found a phyllite hoard, SO cool.
rt 22 and rt 71, Austerlitz, NY, North America. context photos to follow. stuff flakes so thin and oily slick shiny, with crazy waves.
rt 22 and rt 71, Austerlitz, NY, North America. context photos to follow. stuff flakes so thin and oily slick shiny, with crazy waves.
nice place to have head. nice pics. that's pretty much my view of mountains too!
my view of mt manodnok in New Hampshire
my view of mt manodnok in New Hampshire
July 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
nice place to have head. nice pics. that's pretty much my view of mountains too!
my view of mt manodnok in New Hampshire
my view of mt manodnok in New Hampshire