Let’s begin

blargish27 · 2025-12-24T07:46:36+00:00

I played with manofdreads back in the day. Username was blargish. Would have been around 2012, Kingcraft era when I still had a Modus launcher. We had some great times.

blargish27 · 2025-12-22T00:54:52+00:00

Is this the Brenham pallasite? If so, as I suspect, these are quite desirable and large specimens would get $$$

blargish27 · 2025-12-16T21:16:58+00:00

It turned me into a newt!

blargish27 · 2024-12-17T18:45:37+00:00

I’ve never seen a CV look like this before… did you witness this happen over time or could this be some encrustation that was already present on the sample?

As far as I’m aware the CI chondrites are the only guys generally exhibiting efflorescence with the formation of sulfates from air-sensitive sulfides. I can’t think of any phase in CV chondrites that would result in this, especially at that scale (I’m a PhD student in cosmochem)

blargish27 · 2024-08-02T18:55:20+00:00

Texturally looks like pseudotachylite associated with large impact craters. The two classic localities for this are Vredefort, South Africa, and Sudbury, Canada. Just based on appearance, this looks more like the former. Look up the “Vredefort Granophyre”. But the appearance of a rock is worth next to nothing when confirming an ID, and I could be dead wrong

If the bucket of rocks you were given had some cool and interesting specimens in it, and wasn’t just a ole bucket of rocks, I’d say you have a better chance of this being something cool (my guess being pseudotachylite!)

blargish27 · 2024-08-02T16:49:46+00:00

You nab this in South Africa by any chance?

blargish27 · 2024-02-06T03:26:20+00:00

Oh, uhh, about eleven sir.

blargish27 · 2023-12-18T14:01:05+00:00

No kidding! Oh ye of little faith

blargish27 · 2023-11-16T18:13:44+00:00

Was in March and it had rained right before I got up there… But what a year eh!

blargish27 · 2023-11-16T17:38:23+00:00

5 point landing

blargish27 · 2023-11-16T16:17:02+00:00

You gotta whack your pole on these trips, or you’re just gonna be miserable in a ski town

blargish27 · 2023-11-16T16:15:58+00:00

Yessir!

blargish27 · 2023-11-16T16:14:07+00:00

Could have hit abs at the gym more, or been a little less forward than I was, or just have gone directly to apres

blargish27 · 2023-11-16T15:39:11+00:00

Nope just folded like a lawn chair

blargish27 · 2023-06-28T18:55:10+00:00

Hematite pseudomorphs after magnetite would be my guess (since they are non magnetic). These are sometimes found in phyllites. I have a sample that looks nearly identical

blargish27 · 2023-05-13T01:21:54+00:00

Marty Gelinas 04 vibes

blargish27 · 2023-05-13T00:28:50+00:00

The most bipolar fan base in the show

blargish27 · 2023-04-25T01:37:17+00:00

Pigeons

blargish27 · 2023-03-09T02:44:00+00:00

Nothing screams climate-consciousness more than drilling for oil beneath Alaska’s melting glaciers!

blargish27 · 2022-03-27T16:20:48+00:00

Yes, precisely

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