The Geologic Oddity in Hawaii; Green Gemstone Filled Beach
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2024
- Within the Big Island of Hawaii is a fascinating geologic oddity. There exists a green beach which is completely filled with the gemstone peridot. This beach, referred to as Papakolea Beach, is located near the southern tip of the island. So, how did this gemstone filled beach form? This video will discuss this green beach came to be, and mention the scope of this geologic wonder.
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this is the closest beach to my house I love living in south point. It’s truly amazing to go to a green sand beach
What wildlife have you seen while there? I sadly did not get the opportunity to go scuba diving or snorkeling, but loved the experience on the beach
Blessed you! I absolutely loved the energy at South Point and didn't want to leave. I looked for the Green Sand but now I see that I didn't go nearly far enough. Mahalo for bringing this to us. I saw the periodots in your shop and was tempted to buy one.
My ‘ohana is from the South Point area, green sands is truly a special place. (The boat ramp area does have a tiny beach though)
I’d like to buy like 10 gallons of olivine...
I lived in Ho'okena beach for years and would sometimes drive down to green sand beach when friends from the mainland visited.
I started watching your videos half a year ago and I hadn't decided what to study in university and thanks to your videos I decided to study geology as a degree
I'm starting next week 😁😁
That’s so awesome! I discovered geology too late in life to make it my job but it is fascinating
how do you like it so far?
I’m glad that you chose a career in geology! Now, you need to figure out what type of geologist you want to be; what work you want to do. The easiest possibility is a mine geologist, where you’d need to study various ore deposits and know your important minerals such as chalcopyrite (copper), galena (lead), and Sphalerite (zinc)
Beautiful island, I'm green with envy.
The green sand beach is a fun place to visit. The olivine/peridot rich sand occasionally even contains spinel crystals. You may even see a few sea creatures in the adjacent reef :)
Yessir I dig this
Outstanding! Normally you need a rock hammer and gloves to expose olivine in the rocks. Here nature has done it for you! Wish I could have known about this beach when I visited the Volcano National Park. Next time.
There's a beach somewhere in Oregon that has garnets in the sand. There's a fellow on Facebook that does macro-photography of them.
I need to go now
@@GuantanamoBayBarbie2 there's a beach here in South Australia which is virtually made of garnet and rutile crystals. They even called it Ruby Cove; though only geologists and locals seem to know about it.
I've been to this beach and the pictures showing it as very green looking are very photo shopped. There's a lot of peridot in the sand, but it's mostly normal sand.
I was worried about the hike because before hiking there I got mountain sickness hiking down into Haleakala crater and back up and could only go a few steps before needing to rest. I did fine on the sea level hike to the beach.
There's a lot of cool stuff to see in Hawaii.
was at this besch this summer!! super pretty but it was raining while we were there
There is a small beach in interior BC near Adams lake where it is exactly what you mentioned with pyrite crystals- the dense material lines the beaches while the sand and other rock get sucked into the lake. Its only possible to access when the water is low and the beach itself is fairly small, but getting handfuls of pyrite crystals is an incredibly cool and worthwhile :)
My lake is named Adam's lake. Possible...
Adams Lake is pretty big. As a BC resident I would like to visit this beach. Can you narrow down the location for me?
@@paulhopkins8148 It is at one of the sites at Brennan creek thats sort of out of the way, and the water has to be fairly low to see them.
Have any photos of this? I’m glad that what I hypothesized truly exists :)
@@GeologyHub
It's a pretty great feeling lol
Nature is truly amazing!
I can't believe you pack so much satisfaction into 4 minutes of video. Outstanding as always. When at the beach, I was always drawn to pieces of lava with olivine in it. I recall hearing of the green sand beach a couple times in the 70s while in Hawaii but forgot about it until now. Thank you.
Another excellent video! Thank you.
Thank you again for honoring my request a few weeks ago to see more videos about Hawaii.
This like the third video in the last two weeks alone. I am very grateful to you for making these videos! ❤
We got to visit this beach with my aunt when I was 12. It was a great experience, but had to be cut short due to an undersea earthquake triggering a tsunami warning
Got to visit this beach. The route requires 4 wheel drive and best to do it on a dry day. I was fortunate to follow a " guide" and we picked up a min and daughter who did not have correct transport to get there. We had fun being there. It is very cool .
Wow! I just learned that the hotspot is why there's peridot/ olivine from the upper mantle. That's cool
Thats amazing! When I was a kid I had heard of the "black sand beach", that apparently no longer exists? But never heard of the peridot beach! wow!
Walking the trails in Volcano national park about an hour drive away you can see olivine crystals glittering everywhere, made visible from the same abrasive action as the ocean, from hiking boots and wind blowing away the lighter lava. The island is incredibly rich 💚
There is a small beach in Western Australia near Hopetoun just inside the Fitzgerald National Park that is made completely of detrital garnet eroded out of the surrounding schist and gneiss. Cool place that not many people know about since it's in an isolated area that you just wouldn't bother trekking to. Awesome place to take the geology students during their structural field trip in the Albany Fraser Orogen.
I have been to this beach! The olivine is my birthstone! It's really cool!
Kilbourne Hole Maar in Southern NM also has lots of Peridot
I didn't know that and I was born and raised near there - will have to go look!
@@mssixty3426 mostly on the north side of the crater
These videos are all fascinating! Keep up the great work.
I'm so glad I found this channel. I LOVE rocks and your voice!
I was at this beach it was awesome as well as the black sand beach loved it as well as the turtles 🐢 awesome time
Black sand beach, surreal. Looks like the asphalt parking lot just dissolved into a beach.
Been there! Stunning!
That is so crazy! I really love these strange places you show. I love all your vids but these are just so unique.
Such good content, rich in information and excellent use of graphics. Well done and thank you.
I worked at an Olivine mine and mill back in the mid 80's in the mountains of NC. The final product was olivine sand for use in foundry castings. The MgO content allowed for higher heat at the mold face where ordinary silicon sand would crack.
The majority of the deposit was old and weathered with a lot of vermiculite and some chrysotile present which was removed with shaker decks and flotation tanks.
Once in a while we'd hit a nice section at the mine with peridot crystals the size of bb's.
I found a beach here in Mexico that has an abundance of glittery gold grains in it. I was told it was pyrite but I have no idea for sure.
I have seen the same on inland river beaches in central California where pyrite has washed from the mountains.
Where exactly is it? 😁Only joking, don't tell anyone, or the tourists will trash the place. If it was gold it would have been gobbled up by now. If it's not pyrite, it's something else that looks like it. Its value is still priceless as a special part of nature, as I'm sure you are aware. Cheers
When I was young I lived on the big Island and we used to hike there to that beach all the time. Its actually a felony to remove sand from there. I also witness a man jump off the the cliff into water there. Doesnt at all look possible and he nearly missed the rocks in the water literally landing in between them. I also climbed the slope there kinda fun because it made little avalanches of sand there.
Good thing The Authorities never knew how much sand we kids took home in our swimming clothes.
Wow! Amazing! I love geology! Thanks for the video!
Same here 🤗
Pure excellence! Thank you for such amazing content. This is fascinating. 👍🏼💯🌎
I just linked this video and a few others to the Sacramento mineral society slack page. I enjoy them and my fellow hounds do too.
Not a geology guy. But I keep watching your videos. Because they're so damn interesting. I finally subscribed. Durr.
your videos are feeding my scifi worldbuilding imagination
My "home" beach when I was little was green like that. That green sand when it's dry and the sun shines on it, gets HOT. Other than that it's pretty neat.
Amazing! The Earth contains many wonders.
Golden pyrite beach...ahhhh my next idea...
Needed a scene with description distraction.. your the man... thanx
I took a detour to visit this beach on the way to Naʻalehu a few years ago, and it was awesome! It’s a really cool part of the island
So cool! I'm from the Big Island, been to the green sand beach a ton of times, but had no idea it was part of a tuff ring! Thanks!
Find Diamond there
Good video. I never heard of this place. Is pretty cool. Ranks right up there with a beach in California where you can pick up small pebbles of jade.
Thanks for this interesting video. I'll share this with my youngest son who shares my interest in earth science
This is my favorite spot on the island of Hawaii.
Fun geek fact: the beaches of Valinor are also composed of gemstones, but their source were the Elves. ;)
Ah, for a silmarill to bind on my brow and sail to that blessed realm!
That’s a beautiful beach. It is well worth the visit.
I have a vial of this sand, part of a set from a "Hawaiian Sands" souvenir from the Cocoa Joe's souvenir company, the seller of the classic Black Lava statues. I can attest that it is indeed cool stuff. Excellent video.
Thank you, very interesting presentation.
I truly enjoyed this video 💚
Wowzer...interesting...beautiful & amazing place👍👍👍👍👍😊
Fantastic video! Almost 50 years ago, I was on a beach on Oahu that is part of the Kaneohe Marine Air Station. We found a section of the beach that had a small amount of green sand. I put some in a bottle, and still have that sand to this day. The sand I have is a bit darker, but definitely looks green, especially when wet. Thanks for sharing!
How has your life been since? Taking sand or lava rock from Hawaii is bad luck until returned.
@@c_dubbzz6127 Rubbish
@@idahomusic You should go take some
Watching "all" of your videos, learning about interesting places -- many thanks! One funny catch: "[...] this beach is one of only four on the planet, making it a truly unique feature [...]" :-)
A bucket list item I accomplished twice, 1st when lived on Ohau with co-workers then 2nd with family on holiday. Awesome route to 4-wheel drive or hike accessing this unique beach from South Point, this one of which only 4 in the world exists.
If visiting Big Island I highly recommend to go on sunny day enhances the dark olive green "sand", Aloha!!!
Thanks for your information !!!
Thanks for Sharing.
Very interestingbm flic. Thank you for sharing.
Great this is like a roadmap for souvenir hunters to go and defile this sacred beach of native Hawaiians…good job!
Thanks for video and mini science lesson
I love this channel.
I would.love to see the green beach of Guam. I lived on Guam several years and never heard of such a beach. Interesting.
Super fascinating!! And… Peridot is my daughter’s birth stone!! Beautiful!! 😀
Great Video
Recently, I was was watching an Iceland, Lava Flowing Video, an the person making it showed some samples of the recently cooled lava an it had green crystals in the sample.
Thank You for this information
R. Everett Fadden
I saw a lot of peridot in the old lava we hiked across in Hawaii. I think that was on the big island when we were hiking out to a fresh lava flow.
A GutnTag video, probably. Yep, that was olivine.
Wow gem stone beaches 😊 and in Norway too? how mystical and beautiful. Thank you for this video, now I can tell my son about something he didn't know. 😁
Fascinating 🖖🏼
Lovely, thank you.
Wow it’s weird seeing a video about a geological wonder so close to my house lol
Marvelous, do you ever view and gather up some of the Precious💎💍💎💍 gemstones⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️❓❓❓❓
@@blessingsofparadise4439 I enjoy looking at the sand but I never take any I’m a strong believer in leaving the place how I left it
My son and I walked the 3 plus hot miles to see the green beach. Our arrival coincided with the arrival of several large vans and a couple pickup trucks, local entrepreneurs who will drive weak legged tourist to "The Green Beach". Soon the tiny beach was overwhelmed and we soon left. Oh, and be warned, the "green" beach is really, at best, "olive drab", like and old army jeep. If you watched this video, that should be all you need.
Weak legged tourist here, actually the ride is an adventure in itself, $20 well spent.
Perhaps if i ever make it back, ill try the hike with an early start 🤔
Amazing!
I feel like ”flash to steam” could be part of a drinking game centred around your videos haha
Maars happen.
ancient creatures may have seen a streak of light, and a shockwave raced away from the impact site for up to 50 miles
@@1224chrisng That's better now, I was getting withdrawl symptoms.
I live on the Big Island and it is amazing. This beach is more endangered with more tourism. Many people on the beach mixing the sand back with the olivine and disturbing the wave action sorting that kept the green on top. It's a shame that the photo you show doesn't exist today. Some pockets are still there but the black sand is more prevalent.
That's too bad. I blame rent-a-Jeeps. They shouldn't allow driving. Make them park where the road ends and make em walk.That would change things in a heartbeat. Same thing happened on the west side of Kauai.
We were going to go there in 2013 while at the big island. Unfortunately, I got badly sunburned the day before snorkeling and we couldn't go. I was so sad, that I bought a small packet of the green sand with a post card nearby. Olivine (Peridot) is one of the few gemstones found in meteorites from outerspace. Thanks for sharing. 👍
Did you make any good sand castles 🏰 while you were there?
That is really cool.
Pyrite beaches are somewhat possible actually. I remember visiting Lake Tahoe back in 2017 when the water levels were lower than usual and some of the sand closer to the water was gold and silver. While the entire beach wasn't made of the gold/silver sand it was still pretty interesting.
Pyrite need water and oxygen to rust. Low oxygen levels in deeper water preserves it thus why unusual low water levels exposed them.
I love the gemstones videos
MMMagma! I moved to Oahu 20 years ago after my Hawaii life was wiped out in a "Perfect storm". I do miss Hawaii sometimes & have been back in 2012 and 2016. I liked the Austin Powers movie I saw when I lived on the 9th Island-Vegas.
One of my favorite beaches on the BI.
It's a Peridot invasion! :)
Very interesting!!!
Despite living on the Big Island for 8 years in the 20-teens I'm ashamed to say I never got around to visiting Papakōlea...but I'm moving back later this month and I'm definitely going to go see it when I can. Would be cool to see some shots of the other three green-sand beaches, but maybe they're not as famous/accessible.
Interestingly, you can also occasionally find bits of olivine-looking rock high up on the slopes of Mauna Kea; more of these 'xenoliths' erupted from deep in the mantle, I think.
A gold beach sounds nice.
I'm from the big island. Played on that beach many times. And surfed the shore break as well when it's good
Again I'm so glad that I subscribed here, the folklore of the peridot is that if it's matches your eye color you could go insane.
That explains why I am crazy
Not true. My mom's birthstone was peridot and she had hazel eyes that often looked that beautiful shade of green, depending on what she wore. 🙂
She died last year at age 94. I sure do miss her.
@@GuantanamoBayBarbie2 I said folklore, sorry for your loss my condolences, I know about on what green eyes and hazel eyes wear and like 20 per cent are green eyes, I'm surrounded by green eyes and Gemini's I have brown eyes.
@@danman7477 no it's just folklore
Definitely true. Also true that if it doesn’t match, you could go insane. The power of wiggle words.
Olivine I remember it as a child growing up on south shore.
Certainly the 8th wonder of the World.
Thank you for Sharing.
I love that place!
I would love to see something about the volcanism in Antarctica, where you wouldn't think there would be volcanoes like Mt. Erebus.
I’ve only been to Hawaii once, over a decade ago. I stayed on the island of Oahu. And I USED TO have earrings featuring peridot. They were beautiful. Stolen in a break in while I was away for the weekend. I hated living in Oakland.
Ditto, regarding Oakland.
Ditto.
I went to the black sand beach east of the island that was amazing also. I seemed to miss this one. I’ll check it out next time 👍🏻
this was secretly a face reveal video but none of you noticed that
I claim title of #1 fan of Geology Hub :^)
I'd be curious to hear about how the Pão de Açúcar of Rio de Janeiro were formed
It is beautiful... and....windy! The truck ride there was fun as we are happy to support the locals...the walk back zen like.. We looked at tourists in flip flops and felt bad for them. I recommend water, hiking boots and sun block for this adventure 🍄😃🌈🤙
Use to spend many days at green sands. Sure miss that place.
Amazing
We have tons of limestone and high grade dolostone around Guelph, Ontario where I live. Much of the surrounding area is home to the old Niagara escarpment, which I have been told was once the tallest mountain in the world, taller then Everest currently stands. The region is also home to many karst systems and limestone pot holes. The formation of the escarpment, the extensive bedrock and the karsts would be really interesting.
I can highly recommend the book Geology of our Romantic Niagara by A.H. Tiplin. It focuses on features in the Niagara Region but it's an engaging read!
Awesome video, thank you!
I have a request for you:
Ilopango caldera in El Salvador, please cover it in one of your videos.
I studied gems videos, bar graphs, Frames, and pictures for 3 years
Aye, my home island is getting featured! Please do NOT take sand it is a non-renewable resource
I miss The Big Island... I still have my olivine crystal collection with me... a little piece of home.
Live close to this beach and it is just awesome! 🧜♀️🌈🤙
Green is my favourite colour. I'd love to visit an olivine beach 🤩
Thank you for this informative video. If I'm ever lucky enough to visit Hawaii again I'd like to visit this beach.
It could be some years though as the Australian borders are still closed.
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I remember camping long ago at Pit river in california. The riverbank we were fishing at was covered with flecks of what appeared to be gold. I was sure it couldn't be gold because they were rather light and far too abundant for it to have not been mined already. I think it must have been pyrite, but it was a pretty sight nonetheless. it wasn't enough to make the sand gold or anything though.
When I was a child, 50 years ago, we camped along the Stanislaus River. Its sand was flecked with pyrite. I wonder if it still is.