Visited Smith Point County Park (a Fire Island barrier beach) today. It’s in Suffolk County on the Atlantic. Typical post-ice-age sandy...

Less than 90 minutes from New York City is one of the most amazing facilities ever constructed in the United States—a location where some...

I just obtained this stunning piece of Banded Iron Formation (BIN), a rock from the bottom of an ancient sea, over 2.5 billion years old,...

The small crab-like animal fossil is a 430 million year-old Trilobite, one of Earth's first animals. It came from an ancient...

This is my new stereo microscope which is great for looking at 3D specimens such as fossils and rocks. The slightly different angling...

Here, my special lab assistant conducts an olfactory investigation on a piece of rock which has some seas shells in situ from an ancient...

Sometimes I find things in nature on my own, sometimes I purchase things. This I purchased at a fossil and mineral show in New York City....

Couple months ago I stopped by the Big Brook Preserve (BBP), a sort of well-known fossil location in New Jersey, about 90 minutes from...

This past winter I was in New Jersey and stopped by a creek where I found this. This is a part of a belemnite [Belemnitella americana],...

Being a dedicated Citizen-Geologist and a true science hobbyist and aficionado, this is my blog-space to post the occasional fascinating...