I have to write a narrative story about a rock. I got an amethyst and so here I am doing my research, my teacher better be ready for a heart wrenching story with a rollercoaster of emotions.
Yes, in fact I did happen to form in mineral deposits seeping into a porous rock cavity formed by co2 gas trapped inside molten rock! Thank you for asking!
My love for minerals started when I was 9 and my teacher mentioned quartz. My only friend was ill that week so I spent recess looking at different rocks, trying to find some. I read a book on geology, I bought crystals everywhere I could and on a field trip to a museum with a geology room I took several hundred pictures. I stopped obsessing for a while but now it's even worse than before thanks to these videos...
I remember watching a show on the science channel about that one cave full of ridiculously giant crystals once. I was fascinated (yet terrified...cave phobia) by that place so i was researching it and read someone call that place a giant geode. WOULD that giant crystal cave be considered a geode? It would also be cool if you could do a video on that subject sometime!
Geodes are a secondary feature (not formed at the same time as the host rock) and typically have a tough exterior "rind," even in the case of Brazil and Uruguay. Basically, you'll get a massive layer of a mineral or mineraloid (quartz, agate, ...) completely enclosing a void. A nodule, or in the case of agate a thunderegg, is similar but completely infilled. A vug is any open space in rock containing crystals; they can be primary or secondary.
We went on a class field trip to a museum, and it had plenty of these pretty stones. I saw a basket of them at the gift shop and just had to have one. I've never seen one up close before!! They are my favorite stones ever
I really love the enthusiasm you have for rocks it definitely makes your videos enjoyable. I hope you keep making more! I do want to help out with some of the facts/science you talk about in this video in an effort to make things more accurate and a bit less confusing. One thing was the discussion of how geodes form in lavas. It was a good description of how geodes can form in basalt and andesite (two different types of lava), but it isn't how geodes form in rhyolitic lava. Another thing was how you said quartz crystals are generally found in igneous rocks whereas silica is found in sedimentary rocks. You sort of treat silica as different from quartz, but quartz is made of silica (silica = silicon + dioxide). Also, quartz crystals are one of the most common crystalline structures found in geodes from sedimentary rocks with good examples being Keokuk Geodes and Moroccan Geodes. Finally, you talk about how a geode is different from a thunderegg. The explanation for how a thunderegg forms wasn't very accurate and the whole "geode vs thunderegg" thing really confuses the relationship between the two. A thunderegg is a specific type of rock whereas a geode is a feature that any type of rock can have, that feature being a hollow interior lined with crystals. Whether the inside of a thunderegg is solid or hollow doesn't change the fact that it's still a thunderegg, so a thunderegg with a crystal-lined hollow interior is a thunderegg that's also a geode. This happens with septarians too. Most septarians (a specific type of rock that forms in sedimentary formations) are completely solid on the inside but some can develop hollow interiors lined with calcite crystals. Paul Colburn wrote a really great book on thundereggs and his theory on how they form. He spent decades digging thundereggs from locations across the western US and has done more to advance our knowledge of thundereggs than anyone else. I would suggest checking it out if you can, it will help with understanding thunderegg formation and also why it's inaccurate to focus on the "geode vs thunderegg" comparison.
This is a superb explanation, much better than Wikipedia’s article on geodes. I really liked the explanation of how the mineral-laden solution enters the hollow portion to deposit the minerals and form crystals.
I find some nice geodes around where I live. I found a whole one in a rock and cut it out with a grinder, then cut it in half and it has blue-grey layering with a small cluster of glass-clear crystals at the center. The outer shell is very rough and abrasive to the touch, would make a good pumice stone. I have also found fragments of red-white and green-white geodes.
In terms of geode formation, it is not true that it's more likely to get Qtz crystals in igneous rock and microcrystalline silica in sedimentary rocks. Also, only the Brazilian deposit has amethyst geodes. The other localities mentioned did not form in the same way (the amethyst did not form in secondary features like geodes, but in vugs).
Geology of Gems & Minerals oh nothing really, it's the name of a formation I learned from some other UA-cam video on geology, rock formations & minerals. He had called it "Gneiss" pronounced as in the word nice. To be clear, I'm not disagreeing with you at all, nor was I being mean, so please take no offense. Sarcasm doesn't bode well with the comments on this very well for me does it? Actually, it may not have even been sarcasm, but rather a pun. A very dry pun intended joke. I should just delete it. Sorry!
My fascination came from climbing a long steep trail in the Cascades and 'steeling' from an old gem claim that I had to bushwhack to. It was a side rout to a mountain i wanted to climb., originally a gold prospectors trail, very steep. The thready barely there trail was known to climbers and listed in an old anglers book (1920ish) but the start from a logging road was deliberately obfuscated. Below a high pass, a faint side trail led along talus and brush down to a small forested lake. Above was another 600 ft side peak: Rock face on one side, crystal rich brown iron oxide containing talus on the other. Quite the steep climb using my ice ax up the duff/moss/needles/dirt to the talus field. Some boulders almost looked like red clay and broke apart easily. I pulled some nice quartz there. The 300 foot open face (I repelled from top) on the other side was partially exposed by mining I think but might have just been there. The rock massif was an intrusion area with small blast caves and natural looking fishers of mixed old sedimentary rock and silica rich volcanic rock and odd voids. The junction held the purple and green geode goods, a lot of color, but surprisingly not much obvious gold. Obviously hot mineral rich water got in there in multiple events to form larger crystals inside voids, then uplift and erosion to expose it, as well as volcanic activity nearby. Cool stuff. edit: Nice video, thanks.
I love this video mainly because I'm a science freak and I absolutely love anything like this I have a collection of colored Rock's and I own a bunch of sea shells and 3 geodes and my grandpa used to work in the mines so he has a geode he found himself and a small bag of minerals and and other things he got in the mines and I absolutely love it ❤️ I give this video a 👍🏽
I own some ground on a mountain in south central Kentucky (hallsgap) and you can't walk 2 feet without seeing them I have found thunder eggs and everything else but since I read a story about a gentleman finding a diamond in the Carolinas so I'm wondering if the hundreds I've found if maybe(a big maby) I haven't found a diamond too. I didn't think diamonds was found in the United States? Someone please help an old man out?
online states that not any natural occurring diamonds have been found in Kentucky.. But on a different note, during the 1760's Jonathan Swift buried a heaping $150.000 in silver bars and ore somewhere along the breaks of sandy river in a cave.. Said to be along Highway 80, near Elkhorn City around the base of Pine Mountain..
@@gitv2987 ,,yeah I know in wolf County they have a Johnathan swift festival and I have read about a few people finding silver coins and traces of gold around the big sandy river,I think they call it glacier run off or something like that. At least I have a huge sup8of thunder eggs and different shapes and color crystals. Oh well I can dream
being born in the womb of my mother, not sure what kind of minerals surrounded me but I know we all have minute minerals inside of each of us, iron, magnesium etc. literally we are formed from the dust of the earth as it states in Genesis.
Hi Nethan! It has everything to do with the pyrophoricity of iron. Iron combines with oxygen very quickly and generates heat when it does so. Rust happens slow enough and over a large enough surface area that the heat is negligible. However, if tiny particles of iron with a larger relative surface area to their mass are exposed to oxygen, they oxidize very quickly and cause enough heat to ignite flammable materials such as tinder or gas. The quartz or flint is used because it is harder than steel and can scrape particles of iron off of the larger mass fine enough to ignite.
It’s like Freshman year with Ms. Dean all over again. Too hot can’t pay attention. Came here to learn how geodes are formed, I literally have no idea what you said.
Why when I broke my good open it looked like it had a good start amd then like died and kinda weird rusty like bands with empty space between the bands
in iraq i found a geode the size of a basket ball, i spent several hours trying to break it open without shooting it, or doing something that would draw attention to what i was doing. i could lift it and hold it with one hand, it was about 30 pounds, still don't know what was in it.
The just look like a ball or a rock egg. Once you start finding them you get to recognize the way the outer surface looks. Take a hammer with you and always where glasses when you hit a rock.
I found a rock that didn't seem like a geode because the whole inside was grown solid but when I smacked it open with a hammer all this shiny citrine came out what would it have been
I HATE how so many people who make informative videos standing in front of a green screen try to be "funny" and little jokes in the video. I just want a fucking professional informative video AND NOTHING ELSE.
We gave our kids a couple of small geodes for Christmas. They just cracked them open and were amazed. Thanks for making this video to help explain!
Who all came here after seeing amethyst geode opening video
Me
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Me! 🤣
Lmfao me 😂
Me I thought the chain was going to break
I have to write a narrative story about a rock. I got an amethyst and so here I am doing my research, my teacher better be ready for a heart wrenching story with a rollercoaster of emotions.
When youtube teaches you more than science class....😂😂
Dreambeam I know right
I don’t know why teachers think it bad.....
Dreambeam yup
@Seth Ellison that's exactly right. That's why we should become communist, becuase you can't be a slave if you've already starved to death.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
So in 5 grade science we just learned about geodes and now I have a big thing for gems. We watched this vid in science that day.
Yes, in fact I did happen to form in mineral deposits seeping into a porous rock cavity formed by co2 gas trapped inside molten rock! Thank you for asking!
me too! but she isn’t the fortunate one. boo-hoo!
My love for minerals started when I was 9 and my teacher mentioned quartz. My only friend was ill that week so I spent recess looking at different rocks, trying to find some. I read a book on geology, I bought crystals everywhere I could and on a field trip to a museum with a geology room I took several hundred pictures. I stopped obsessing for a while but now it's even worse than before thanks to these videos...
That's incredible! Glad we could help re-spark your interest/love for geology!
I'm not a geode yet, but I àm full of hot air.
2:55 That was adorable!😍😍👏👏
I remember watching a show on the science channel about that one cave full of ridiculously giant crystals once. I was fascinated (yet terrified...cave phobia) by that place so i was researching it and read someone call that place a giant geode. WOULD that giant crystal cave be considered a geode? It would also be cool if you could do a video on that subject sometime!
The Naica gypsum crystal caves are considered vugs, not geodes.
Geology of Gems & Minerals oh wow ! what's the difference between vugs and geodes? :0!!
Geodes are a secondary feature (not formed at the same time as the host rock) and typically have a tough exterior "rind," even in the case of Brazil and Uruguay. Basically, you'll get a massive layer of a mineral or mineraloid (quartz, agate, ...) completely enclosing a void. A nodule, or in the case of agate a thunderegg, is similar but completely infilled. A vug is any open space in rock containing crystals; they can be primary or secondary.
Geology of Gems & Minerals Oh wow! Thanks for explaining that! Rocks, crystals and gems are so fascinating!😍
And that cave was rather deep under ground too, not like you could get scared and just turn around and run out. ha ha ha.
Once I saw a piece of pure raw iron, that’s when my rock fanatic mind started to kick in.
Well she might not be a geode. But she's definitely a gem.
We went on a class field trip to a museum, and it had plenty of these pretty stones. I saw a basket of them at the gift shop and just had to have one. I've never seen one up close before!! They are my favorite stones ever
I really love the enthusiasm you have for rocks it definitely makes your videos enjoyable. I hope you keep making more! I do want to help out with some of the facts/science you talk about in this video in an effort to make things more accurate and a bit less confusing.
One thing was the discussion of how geodes form in lavas. It was a good description of how geodes can form in basalt and andesite (two different types of lava), but it isn't how geodes form in rhyolitic lava. Another thing was how you said quartz crystals are generally found in igneous rocks whereas silica is found in sedimentary rocks. You sort of treat silica as different from quartz, but quartz is made of silica (silica = silicon + dioxide). Also, quartz crystals are one of the most common crystalline structures found in geodes from sedimentary rocks with good examples being Keokuk Geodes and Moroccan Geodes. Finally, you talk about how a geode is different from a thunderegg. The explanation for how a thunderegg forms wasn't very accurate and the whole "geode vs thunderegg" thing really confuses the relationship between the two. A thunderegg is a specific type of rock whereas a geode is a feature that any type of rock can have, that feature being a hollow interior lined with crystals. Whether the inside of a thunderegg is solid or hollow doesn't change the fact that it's still a thunderegg, so a thunderegg with a crystal-lined hollow interior is a thunderegg that's also a geode. This happens with septarians too. Most septarians (a specific type of rock that forms in sedimentary formations) are completely solid on the inside but some can develop hollow interiors lined with calcite crystals.
Paul Colburn wrote a really great book on thundereggs and his theory on how they form. He spent decades digging thundereggs from locations across the western US and has done more to advance our knowledge of thundereggs than anyone else. I would suggest checking it out if you can, it will help with understanding thunderegg formation and also why it's inaccurate to focus on the "geode vs thunderegg" comparison.
This is a superb explanation, much better than Wikipedia’s article on geodes. I really liked the explanation of how the mineral-laden solution enters the hollow portion to deposit the minerals and form crystals.
Best explanation ever with the most enthusiastic and clear information. Gray job!!
Any recommendations for purchasing good quality geods?
I know all about gems. I just watched a 4 minute and 46 second video that was hosted by one. 8-)
And coin collecting. Learned it from a fine dime.
Simp
@@Despotic_Waffle incorrect usage
I understood every single thing , I have to make a ppt on this and I am sure everyone will love my ppt in school
I already saw one..in the mall with a purple shiny stones inside..its really beautiful😊
The purple gems inside is amethyst and rarer than the normal white and clear geodes
Wish I had a gemstone collection but my video game and book obsession doesn't come cheap. They are all stunning though.
same XD
On a totally different subject ... she is absolutely beautiful in form and face!
Without sounding thirsty, I agree.
Wow she is the most beautiful + maybe like a human geode
Bruh
@@billjamal4764 LETS CUT EM OPEN HEHEHE
Great explanation!!!! Brilliant video!!!! Thank you!!!
Thank you!!
It’s 3am and I don’t know I ended up watching videos about geodes for over an hour.
I have a huge glacial erratic boulder in my yard. Is there anything inside it?
Best info. ever! Great job!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
this is going to help me with my science project and the science fair
I find some nice geodes around where I live. I found a whole one in a rock and cut it out with a grinder, then cut it in half and it has blue-grey layering with a small cluster of glass-clear crystals at the center. The outer shell is very rough and abrasive to the touch, would make a good pumice stone. I have also found fragments of red-white and green-white geodes.
In terms of geode formation, it is not true that it's more likely to get Qtz crystals in igneous rock and microcrystalline silica in sedimentary rocks. Also, only the Brazilian deposit has amethyst geodes. The other localities mentioned did not form in the same way (the amethyst did not form in secondary features like geodes, but in vugs).
Geology of Gems & Minerals should I enter my "be gneiss" joke here, or above?
MsButterFlySting80 I don't understand how this relates to my comment.
Geology of Gems & Minerals oh nothing really, it's the name of a formation I learned from some other UA-cam video on geology, rock formations & minerals. He had called it "Gneiss" pronounced as in the word nice. To be clear, I'm not disagreeing with you at all, nor was I being mean, so please take no offense. Sarcasm doesn't bode well with the comments on this very well for me does it? Actually, it may not have even been sarcasm, but rather a pun. A very dry pun intended joke. I should just delete it. Sorry!
No offense taken just wasn't sure what you meant in the context. :-) I am familiar with the pun.
Thanks. Now I don't have to write this comment. I figure she meant that calcium based crystals are more likely in sedimentary geodes.
I was just curious about how geodes were made. This video was very informative and I have subscribed. Thank you.
My fascination came from climbing a long steep trail in the Cascades and 'steeling' from an old gem claim that I had to bushwhack to. It was a side rout to a mountain i wanted to climb., originally a gold prospectors trail, very steep. The thready barely there trail was known to climbers and listed in an old anglers book (1920ish) but the start from a logging road was deliberately obfuscated. Below a high pass, a faint side trail led along talus and brush down to a small forested lake. Above was another 600 ft side peak: Rock face on one side, crystal rich brown iron oxide containing talus on the other. Quite the steep climb using my ice ax up the duff/moss/needles/dirt to the talus field. Some boulders almost looked like red clay and broke apart easily. I pulled some nice quartz there. The 300 foot open face (I repelled from top) on the other side was partially exposed by mining I think but might have just been there. The rock massif was an intrusion area with small blast caves and natural looking fishers of mixed old sedimentary rock and silica rich volcanic rock and odd voids. The junction held the purple and green geode goods, a lot of color, but surprisingly not much obvious gold. Obviously hot mineral rich water got in there in multiple events to form larger crystals inside voids, then uplift and erosion to expose it, as well as volcanic activity nearby. Cool stuff. edit: Nice video, thanks.
I love this video mainly because I'm a science freak and I absolutely love anything like this I have a collection of colored Rock's and I own a bunch of sea shells and 3 geodes and my grandpa used to work in the mines so he has a geode he found himself and a small bag of minerals and and other things he got in the mines and I absolutely love it ❤️ I give this video a 👍🏽
I found this very fascinating
Pov your obsessed with pretty stuff watched she-ra,the owl house,amphibia,and the crystal gems and your favorite subject is science:
I love this update
Just stumbled onto and subbed to your channel.
Amazing natural beauty every frame of this video! 😍 Cracked a first geode this year!
I think I am in love! Thanks for the video, too.
While I did not quite get everything in the video, I really liked it.
Agate geodes are my favorite. But they can't be found here in the U.S. as far as I know
UA-cam have the sweetest teachers ... 🌷😘
Cool stuff, I always wonderd how amethyst was made, thanks for sharing your knowledge, keep rockin on.😎👍
This is a good part
I own some ground on a mountain in south central Kentucky (hallsgap) and you can't walk 2 feet without seeing them I have found thunder eggs and everything else but since I read a story about a gentleman finding a diamond in the Carolinas so I'm wondering if the hundreds I've found if maybe(a big maby) I haven't found a diamond too. I didn't think diamonds was found in the United States? Someone please help an old man out?
online states that not any natural occurring diamonds have been found in Kentucky.. But on a different note, during the 1760's Jonathan Swift buried a heaping $150.000 in silver bars and ore somewhere along the breaks of sandy river in a cave.. Said to be along Highway 80, near Elkhorn City around the base of Pine Mountain..
@@gitv2987 ,,yeah I know in wolf County they have a Johnathan swift festival and I have read about a few people finding silver coins and traces of gold around the big sandy river,I think they call it glacier run off or something like that. At least I have a huge sup8of thunder eggs and different shapes and color crystals. Oh well I can dream
@@hoskinmage thunder eggs look sweet.. wanted to make a video pretending to make one crack out of an egg..
This is good for my project
This is so great. Quality of this one is top notch.
Thank you!!
This is so interesting!
Can you please turn the music up?
I love the Geode area rugs by Safavieh I saw at Lowe's The designs are so beautiful and unique. Getting an 8×10 rug for the living room.
Now I'm intrigued!! Google here I come!
Teacher: Today we are going to learn about how geode amethyst are formed.
Kids who played minecraft for 13 years:
I needed this to find out if i can find crystals in baishawan!
Do you find many where you live?
lol for drNozman (i'm french and when i saw his background I was like :wait rewind that a bit)
julien jean me too!!
I wish my teachers were like her
Great vid but at times the music was kinda loud I couldn't hear everything you said
I want to be a aerialists is that how u spell. It?
I don't even watch anything about rocks and somehow watching simplenailogy I got here.
being born in the womb of my mother, not sure what kind of minerals surrounded me but I know we all have minute minerals inside of each of us, iron, magnesium etc. literally we are formed from the dust of the earth as it states in Genesis.
That is beautiful. Thank you
I have a question. Where do the rocks come from?
Lava/magma
Very well done..Thanks
Great video! You go girl!
Thank you!
Why do they spark when you hit then with steel?
Hi Nethan! It has everything to do with the pyrophoricity of iron. Iron combines with oxygen very quickly and generates heat when it does so. Rust happens slow enough and over a large enough surface area that the heat is negligible. However, if tiny particles of iron with a larger relative surface area to their mass are exposed to oxygen, they oxidize very quickly and cause enough heat to ignite flammable materials such as tinder or gas. The quartz or flint is used because it is harder than steel and can scrape particles of iron off of the larger mass fine enough to ignite.
@@gems Ooooh so it has nothing to do with the geod and is just because of steel in the tool. Cool, thank you!
There are 2 very rare gems in the video 8 , I have only focus on them 2 gems
Earth is so fascinating
You didn't address the formation of Keokuk Geodes.
It’s like Freshman year with Ms. Dean all over again. Too hot can’t pay attention. Came here to learn how geodes are formed, I literally have no idea what you said.
Please get rid of the background noise. Thank you
You are a goofball 😉 and informed and articulate. And a goofball 😀 love it! Thanks
My interest in rocks and gems started with diamonds being the hardest material. And other crystals and fantasy. Btw, you look good with a hat on.
Hi, I need help I got this from a friend from America, he found it in Florida when he went on vacation, he found it in the ocean
"Raspberry Baret" 😂✌💜
Carrie Haines my favorite part I'm going to move my dog's lips and say it when I get home so they look like they're singing it lol
LIKE! Agreement. All About Geodes and How They Are Formed is a very educational (watch many times) video.
Thanks but I can't remember anything you said.... was just looking at the beauty of you!!!
Love the video. Please dont bash wonderballs. They were my best friend when i had no one.
Liked and subscribed!
2:40 Excuse me miss, but quartz is silica...
Why when I broke my good open it looked like it had a good start amd then like died and kinda weird rusty like bands with empty space between the bands
With a bluefish metallic bottom
I seen a geode but its small but nice and thats how it forms. Thx for the info
2:34 quartz and silica are the same thing.
When I was younger, I bought a geode with black crystals inside. What would that be? Thank you!
Maybe Hematite
Her top fits perfectly.
Its just a video about rocks dude come on
It' fascinating!!
Have some of these
When I was 7, I cracked open a rock and found a geode, but....I didn't know you could sell them and get at least $100(it was big)
Wow! That is cool.
This tell you how hard a geode is....
A STONE SLAB BROKE WHEN DROPED ON IT!!!!!!!!!
Is that true? Wow..
the background music lowkey slaps
If they take millions of years to form then how old does that make the rocks their find in?????
Significantly older.
alternative title: How mini-kindergartens are formed
*me over here with a mineral that has other mineral stuck together in one in my right hand as i watch*
Please make a video on alexandrite Or blue amber Or Maybe calcopyrite Plz ^-^
When your parents say leave your ipad youtube won’t teach you anything show them this vid
in iraq i found a geode the size of a basket ball, i spent several hours trying to break it open without shooting it, or doing something that would draw attention to what i was doing. i could lift it and hold it with one hand, it was about 30 pounds, still don't know what was in it.
You should see if some one can cut it in half for you, with a saw. Then polish the cut ends, if it is that type of geode.
@@kfl611 it is still out there in the desert, it is near Arar, Saudi Arabia, that whole area is rich with geodes
@@dysfunctional_vet I always thought geodes were like a piece of magic. So ugly and plane on the outside and so beautiful and magical on the inside.
i like your channel.
👼
I misread the title and was expecting to see a video of how a particular Pokemon was made.
It would have been cool if you could have told us ways to spot geodes in the wild!
The just look like a ball or a rock egg. Once you start finding them you get to recognize the way the outer surface looks. Take a hammer with you and always where glasses when you hit a rock.
Ya'll need to fire your audio-editor, or at least tell them to tone the music track down.
I found a rock that didn't seem like a geode because the whole inside was grown solid but when I smacked it open with a hammer all this shiny citrine came out what would it have been
i was formed like a geode. It was really uncomfortable
I HATE how so many people who make informative videos standing in front of a green screen try to be "funny" and little jokes in the video.
I just want a fucking professional informative video AND NOTHING ELSE.
I wonder what stones are found in the core of the earth