24 January 2020
Posted by Callan Bentley
Steve Mirsky of Scientific American contributed this week’s Friday fold: it’s in a boulder adjacent to Pelham Parkway in the Bronx, which he spotted while cycling a few weeks ago.
Thanks for sharing, Steve! This is a gneiss find!
Callan Bentley is Associate Professor of Geology at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. For his work on this blog, the National Association of Geoscience Teachers recognized him with the James Shea Award. He has also won the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia, and the Biggs Award for Excellence in Geoscience Teaching from the Geoscience Education Division of the Geological Society of America. In previous years, Callan served as a contributing editor at EARTH magazine, President of the Geological Society of Washington and President the Geo2YC division of NAGT.
Other geobloggers are writing about
Fordham Gneiss perhaps? Hartland Formation? Looks like the Fordham, but the local Hartland is also gneissic in places. I am reminded of some NYC Uni’s geo-club t-shirts ‘Da Bronx is gneiss, but Manhattan’s full of schist…’