Rockhounding glacial till, finding lots of coral on a local creek, agate too
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2025
- I get this weird sort of kick finding good material right in the middle of town. One would think it would be picked over and nothing is left, but here is a good example of how that's not the case.
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Illinois
Agate
petrified coral
beekite
chalcedony
Nice to see that you can compliment your rural river adventures with some urban rockhounding! That little banded gem sure looked like a rare central Illinois agate to me!
My husband and I really enjoy your channel. We are in Champaign, and have found similar coral pieces in our area, and lots of the white chalcedony nodules. Before we found your channel, we didn't realize how many glacial goodies could be found so close to home. :)
great town finds! I love that bigger coral specimen, so well preserved. Here in western oregon we urban rockhound quite a bit. they use river gravels to decorate the planters at all the grocery stores and there are big carnelian agates and pieces of petrified wood, jasper in them! Its always fun to find rocks where you least expect them!
Thanks for sharing your finds! Very informative.
i find all sorts of goodies in my town gander newfoundland i found a Silurian period shell cast fossil on a trail behind my house last night LOL
here in the preserves in palos park...in a creek system along worth by the golf coarse....finding glacial till. jaspers, agates, slate with drag marks, basalt, volcanic rock and porphy, chert, quartzite stone, unakite, red jasper and green jasper, felspar, and quartz....ryallite, pumus, and solid green volcanic stone with quartz salting in it like on a pretzel also beach stones that used to be in lake michagan but were dropped by the glacier. finding sand stones where the water cuts into the banks. cronid fossils too. on long beach near michagan city you can find alot of the same things as well.
At 10:32, While rockhounding a tributary to Farm Creek in East Peoria, I found a chunk of possibly the very same type coral...at first I thought is was a fossilized wasp nest! That was 44 yrs ago.
When you "clean something up", what do you do?