This is fascinating! Thank you for this video. I am trying to learn about all the different kinds of rocks Ive collected. I just found my first pudding stone on a beach outside of Sault ste Marie this weekend! So interesting to learn how old they are.
In the future my wife and I want to visit Michigan again (her home State) and rock hound for pudding stones along great lakes beaches. Our favorite pudding stones are from a 1.8 billion year old formation in SW Colorado named the Vallecito Conglomerate. We collect water-rounded cobbles of it out of the Pine and San Juan Rivers and add them to our landscaping. I've recently started cutting slabs of it for lapidary work. The matrix is light gray quartz with streaks of black hematite and green epidote. The clast lithologies are white quartz, red jasper, gray chert, and brown banded iron formation. The Vallecito is slightly metamorphosed and due to its hematite content, it is a very heavy stone. Cut slabs are attractive due to the variation in clast colors plus the many facets of fine hematite crystals reflecting light.
Had me wondering about the map at first.....and then I realised that the video was flipped horizontally. Love the explanation of the stones we find on Boiler Beach.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge of this beautiful piece of stone a lot of people do not realize how old these magnificent items are
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is fascinating! Thank you for this video. I am trying to learn about all the different kinds of rocks Ive collected. I just found my first pudding stone on a beach outside of Sault ste Marie this weekend! So interesting to learn how old they are.
Yay! So exciting, they are so beautiful and nice to find.
I have 4 very large boulders and several small ones at my home. They are beautiful
They are such wonderful rocks! ☺
In the future my wife and I want to visit Michigan again (her home State) and rock hound for pudding stones along great lakes beaches. Our favorite pudding stones are from a 1.8 billion year old formation in SW Colorado named the Vallecito Conglomerate. We collect water-rounded cobbles of it out of the Pine and San Juan Rivers and add them to our landscaping. I've recently started cutting slabs of it for lapidary work. The matrix is light gray quartz with streaks of black hematite and green epidote. The clast lithologies are white quartz, red jasper, gray chert, and brown banded iron formation. The Vallecito is slightly metamorphosed and due to its hematite content, it is a very heavy stone. Cut slabs are attractive due to the variation in clast colors plus the many facets of fine hematite crystals reflecting light.
Had me wondering about the map at first.....and then I realised that the video was flipped horizontally. Love the explanation of the stones we find on Boiler Beach.
M Class planet😊
Haha! When you blank on real terminology, just turn to the next best universe!