This is my holiday fantasy. No one in my family would even take a hike with me, let alone go rock hounding and have a best rock competition! What a wonderful family.
I'm from Indiana and I absolutely love going to Michigan! I'm a crazy fossil/rock hunter and appreciator. Amazing to hold something in your hand that is maybe millions or more years old. Thank you for posting this! Best part of my year so far!
So glad you are enjoying what Michigan has to offer. Twice now we have taken our three granddaughters, ages 11-16, to Lake Huron and we have had a blast. Have you heard of Yooperlites? Only discovered in 2017. These are two billion years old, though there's a fight about this.
Old Disabled House Bound Dusty Rusty Rockhound here: What a wonderful way to celebrate the holidays! I'm here in DeWitt, Michigan. It's been really cold! B-r-r-r! How are you staying warm enough in that frigid water? Those are wonderful pudding stones! I love pudding stone! Top notch Petoskey stones and cool fossils, too! To all my fellow rockhounds out there... I wish each of you and your families a Happy New Year full of health and happiness!
@MichiganRocks Old Disabled House Bound Dusty Rusty Rockhound here: I've watched the video where y'all rock hunt in the ice and snow! Made my hands and feet throb just watching it! 😆 I would have to classify that one under, "Extreme Sport." 😅 I'm not the tough old bird I used to be... now I'm more of a skinny feather-less pigeon! 🤣 I have to settle for buying my rocks now. Thanks for taking this old-timer along for your adventures!
12:52 I absolutely love how rocks tell the story of our planet ❤️ I’d never really thought about this when looking at my rocks, until watching another video here on your channel. Thank you so much for that!
I love this video. Someone was bound to get wet so I wasn't disappointed,.These videos make me so homesick for Michigan. Thanks for the fun. Happy New Year.
Rob, you know your grandson very well! All the rocks were winners but I have to admit that, like Joe, I like that little orange sherbet one too! Your granddaughter was trying hard to participate, very cute! Thank you for another great annual rock hunt. Happy New Year to you, your family, and rockhounding buddies! 🎉
I love when my husband is building a house or addition to a house on a lake, he has brought me home some very nice pudding stones that I now have around my flower garden! Love living in Northern Lower Michigan!
@ he does but also when he is doing a job on one of our many lakes up here he found some that the ice has pushed ashore! In the spring I will have to do a video of them! Stay warm!
I'm so jealous over the quality and the amount of banded chert you guys find. I just love banded chert. All the rocks you guys found were very nice. Great hunt.
@donnalantz7981 I agree, as every one of those pieces of chert would have come home with me. That first one was amazing! But even the weathered one was a keeper for me.
You guys had so many fantastic finds on that beach. What a fun way to get everyone involved with the game. Amazing polished on all of the Petoskey Stones.
Really nice day u had(exept poor David who fell😂). Great finds and weather was not too bad💕 Ur petoskey was really amazing, i would have pick that (and the orange colour was my favourite too) but jury has spoken😁
Holy smokes...................you have the big rocks there. It looks like the hunting grounds had good pickings. You even had guest stars to join you in the hunt. I made my own pudding stone out of cement and gravel. It will have to due until Gods gives me a real one. My tumbler has been running no stop for 11 weeks now. You videos are always interesting.
What a great idea with the competition! I like it. And I love Petoskey stones. I only own a small one. I got it as a gift from my English teacher who comes from Michigan, but has been living in Germany for about twenty years now. So I would keep nearly all of your findings.
Lots of Petoskey stones! I saw a few sheets of ice forming in the video. That is a good sign. Maybe we will have lots of ice and storms this winter and it will push a few more good rocks up on shore. Especially if the lake level is down.
It looks like you guys had a blast. So many beautiful rocks found. I feel for David. Several years ago in late October we went to Charlavoix. The waves were really rolling in. I lost my balance and fell in on my knees. Before I could get up the next wave came along and totally knocked me over. I was completely soaked and lost all of the rocks in my bucket. Luckily my wife had brought a complete change of clothes for me and the restroom at the beach was still open. Then on the way home we got rear ended by a guy that left the scene. I guess this contest just goes to show that bigger is better. Ha Ha !!!
Ok picture this, the big petoskey at 25:06 The big petoskey part is the turtle shell, the Charlevoix is the turtles head. And then the part that’s broken in the back, you just cut that off flat with your saw and you can connect it to the wall. Like a mounted deer head. If you polished it up real nice, it would look cool as a mounted petoskey stone. Whatta ya thing, huh huh huh? I know you didn’t take it, but next time Rob, next time.😉🤣😂
I looked again and it even has the flippers in the front too. Like a sea turtle. Looks like they’re tucked under. It is so perfect!!! Just needs a little shaping by the expert. It would always be starring at you when you’re polishing down stones, in the shot of the camera. 😂 That would be the ultimate prize mounted on the wall. Have I convinced you yet, to go right back?
I don't know, James. I was taking down Christmas lights outside today and it's a lot colder than it was a week ago. Maybe I'll just hope that it's still there in the spring. Maybe I'll also acquire the skills to carve a turtle by then too.
Wonderful video. Thanks! I’ll also watch the other one with the gale-force winds on the tundra. I need a reminder why i moved from New Hampshire to Northern California
You won the Petoskey round and lost the open round in a split decision!! It pays to know your judges! You called Joe and the orange rock quite clearly!! Great video!
David was eloquent this year. I really enjoyed the explanations. I liked the large Petosky and the brachiopod. Might be common but was a very nice specimen. I also liked the Horn Coral/Petosky combo that David brought in.
I just love this one. So many beautiful petoskeys and puddings. And the score pick up of that brachiopod. Wow. I appreciate the holiday hunt. (We do the same). You were on spot about joseph liking that orange.😊.That beach is wild. Health and happiness to you and the family.
I was thrilled with that big one a I polished. We really don't have that many rocks on display around the house, but Nancy put that one in a cabinet in the living room right away. She's hard to impress since she sees so many rocks that I have polished.
What a great video! I have only been doing this a few years but it really seems to me that the Petoskey stones from the Lake Michigan side are much lighter in color and don’t have nearly the beautiful contrast of the Petoskey stones you find on the Huron side. I have found darker Petoskey’s on the Lake Michigan side but none with the ideal contrast of dark core and lighter hexagonal lines. I hope to get to Huron this year to try to find some good ones. Thanks you for all your hard work in creating, editing and posting such a fun video.
That's funny because I think most people believe that Lake Michigan has the better Petoskey stones. You do have a species over there that we don't have on this side. It has very uniform hexagons with very clear circles in the middle. I like that kind, probably because I don't find that many of them.
I can't believe how low Huron is. I was at Sturgeon Point last weekend and can't believe how much is sticking out of the water. Would love to hit that beach 👍🏼
Papa needs new boots. What boot is Sam wearing? Happy New Rock'in Year. Good job Joe and little Sister. She really was examining the rocks. Very observant.
Haven't caught up with Ur vids for a bit but I now have several to watch while temps are 44 Celcius. To hot to go out unlike Ur lovely cool weather. Difference between Australia and America. Appreciate U sharing Ur rock hunting adventures. ppreciate U sharing Ur rock hunting adventures
🙋♀️❤️. Wow! So worth it! Bestones! Great to see Dave and Sam braving the weather with you! Thanks to Dave for explaining the story in the rock lines! Love Sam's pudding stones, your banded Chirp and big Petoskey, and David's horn coral Petoskey! . .. .waiting to see what the judges say!
30:56 I think that the orangest rock ever is likely a very vibrant clast of orthoclase. You have some large pegmatite boulders sloshing around up there and orthoclase is near the bottom of Bowen's reaction series, so it likes crystallizing late and often ends up in pegmatites. It would be feasible for a fist sized clast to get broken free from a pegmatite boulder and end up in your bucket. The cleavage/fracture pattern on that rock also shows a bit of that parallelogram shape that's a dead giveaway for feldspars like orthoclase.
I have found feldspar rocks like you're describing, but they have cleavage planes that glint in the sun. This one is completely flat in color, no reflections like with orthoclase. A rock that I find fairly often along here is meta-arkose. From what I understand, that's a sandstone with a lot of feldspar that has metamorphosed into quartzite. It's not quite as orange as the rock I found in this video and has a much more speckled appearance. I thought this rock was more like that, but with almost all feldspar, rather than a mix of feldspar sand and other sand.
@MichiganRocks A meta-arkose could be the animal, it's cool nonetheless. If that's the case then that's an alluvial fan deposit that's been metamorphosed. Given the age of the rocks you're working with, it could be Precambrian to early Paleozoic. If that's the case then it would be evidence of an arid terrestrial environment, as arkosic alluvial fans are most commonly encountered in deserts in the modern day. Another thought that occurred to me was that it could be a dolomite. The HCl test will work on dolomites, but it will be far more tame than the test on limestones. There are similarly aged rocks in Vermont where I did my geology undergrad and the Dunham Dolomite is known for its striking red and buff mottling, so showy colors aren't foreign to dolomites. There may have been an orange dolomite outcrop from Canada that got scooped up by the Laurentide Ice Sheet and deposited into the Great Lakes. Regardless, great video! That gigantic Petoskey stone was museum quality.
@@MichiganRocks understood, just liked his description of pegmatites and their formation. Want to ask him what the conditions were that led to the formation of conglomerates like puddingstone, etc.
Alright Rob, how were you giving Joe the secret "high" sign to pick your stones? Lay your finger along side your nose ☝️🏼👃🏼? Give him a secret 👍🏼?? 😅😂😅😂 That was a lot of fun! Thanks for sharing. Happy New Year to you and your family!
What a great rock hunting trip! So many good finds. Thank you so much for taking me along!
Thanks for not running in front of us and grabbing all the good ones!
This is my holiday fantasy. No one in my family would even take a hike with me, let alone go rock hounding and have a best rock competition! What a wonderful family.
Well that's a bummer.
I'm from Indiana and I absolutely love going to Michigan! I'm a crazy fossil/rock hunter and appreciator. Amazing to hold something in your hand that is maybe millions or more years old. Thank you for posting this! Best part of my year so far!
Three days in and my video is at the top of your year. Yay!
So glad you are enjoying what Michigan has to offer. Twice now we have taken our three granddaughters, ages 11-16, to Lake Huron and we have had a blast. Have you heard of Yooperlites? Only discovered in 2017. These are two billion years old, though there's a fight about this.
@@CarolynMcPherson-r3z Yep, I have hunted them several times.
No slicing to see what they look like inside?
@@claudiosaltara7003 Yep. ua-cam.com/video/xJUMoIpOhoo/v-deo.html
Old Disabled House Bound Dusty Rusty Rockhound here: What a wonderful way to celebrate the holidays! I'm here in DeWitt, Michigan. It's been really cold! B-r-r-r! How are you staying warm enough in that frigid water? Those are wonderful pudding stones! I love pudding stone! Top notch Petoskey stones and cool fossils, too!
To all my fellow rockhounds out there... I wish each of you and your families a Happy New Year full of health and happiness!
It was about forty degrees that day, so it wasn't too terrible. The water never bothers me when I'm wearing waders. It's my hands that get cold.
@MichiganRocks Old Disabled House Bound Dusty Rusty Rockhound here:
I've watched the video where y'all rock hunt in the ice and snow! Made my hands and feet throb just watching it! 😆 I would have to classify that one under, "Extreme Sport." 😅 I'm not the tough old bird I used to be... now I'm more of a skinny feather-less pigeon! 🤣 I have to settle for buying my rocks now. Thanks for taking this old-timer along for your adventures!
And to you, too.
That big Petoskey stone is absolutely incredible.
I sure was happy with it.
That brachiapod that David found was beautiful!
OMG. Two years ago….all snow! You are hardy men, for sure.
Cute family. Thanks.
Last year was practically balmy.
12:52 I absolutely love how rocks tell the story of our planet ❤️
I’d never really thought about this when looking at my rocks, until watching another video here on your channel. Thank you so much for that!
We can both thank David and other geologists who have been nice enough to appear in my videos.
Glad to see Joe picked both his grandpa's rocks!
Good boy!
I love this video. Someone was bound to get wet so I wasn't disappointed,.These videos make me so homesick for Michigan. Thanks for the fun. Happy New Year.
I'm just glad he didn't fill his waders. That would have sent us home early.
Rob, you know your grandson very well! All the rocks were winners but I have to admit that, like Joe, I like that little orange sherbet one too! Your granddaughter was trying hard to participate, very cute!
Thank you for another great annual rock hunt. Happy New Year to you, your family, and rockhounding buddies! 🎉
I couldn't believe how well he cooperated with my ploy. It was almost too good that it looked like I arranged it.
As one who just loves rocks, this is a super cool episode.
I would love to go rock hunting on that beach. Nice job, guys! Pudding stones and petoskey stones are beautiful.
Loving the mini geology lessons - fascinating!
Thanks!
A good day for hot cocoa…
nice “harvest”…
Thanks, Joni! I can buy several hot chocolates with that!
A reunion of Petoskys
What a great time you guys had. Loved the pudding stones and banded chert. A "raft" of Petosky stones.
I love when my husband is building a house or addition to a house on a lake, he has brought me home some very nice pudding stones that I now have around my flower garden! Love living in Northern Lower Michigan!
He probably finds a few from the foundation excavations too.
@ he does but also when he is doing a job on one of our many lakes up here he found some that the ice has pushed ashore! In the spring I will have to do a video of them! Stay warm!
Grandpa knows his grandson well!!
I'm so jealous over the quality and the amount of banded chert you guys find. I just love banded chert. All the rocks you guys found were very nice. Great hunt.
Sam's the best at finding banded chert, although I have found some big ones.
@donnalantz7981 I agree, as every one of those pieces of chert would have come home with me. That first one was amazing! But even the weathered one was a keeper for me.
Fun video, it's great that you're getting your grandkids involved. 🙂
I'm so jealous! What a great tradition!
What a fantastic video, Rob. Looks like you hit the Lake Huron jackpot! And phenomenal Petoskey and polish. Thanks for sharing it all.
You're welcome, Jim. Glad you enjoyed it.
Love the competition at the end, beautiful polishing.
Love the little orange stone.
Cute little grandies too.❤
We sure enjoy the grandkids.
ONE OF MY FAVORITE VIDEOS, so far ,from you
Wow, thanks!
May be the best video you’ve done. Thanks for sharing.
That's a pretty big compliment considering how many videos I've made. Thanks!
Awesome finds and a fun hunt. Looked like much milder weather than 2 years ago. I was surprised to see so much beach exposed.
We had some snow for awhile, but then it all melted just after Christmas. It's cold again now, but we still don't have snow.
You guys had so many fantastic finds on that beach. What a fun way to get everyone involved with the game. Amazing polished on all of the Petoskey Stones.
I would love to have the ‘problem’ of only two cab machines!😂 Another awesome hunt and video to start the new year off!
I know, I'm so deprived! I still can't get over companies sending me free equipment. I never would have imagined any of this five years ago.
@ You give so much back to the community, it’s well deserved and appropriate!
Difficult choices, so many fine rocks. Congratulations and Happy New Year.
36:55 your master plan worked😂
I couldn't believe it. Now I need to learn to predict my wife's reactions.
Yes I’m in stone/rock paradise. Beautiful place . Ty’s for sharing your rock finds.
Really nice day u had(exept poor David who fell😂). Great finds and weather was not too bad💕
Ur petoskey was really amazing, i would have pick that (and the orange colour was my favourite too) but jury has spoken😁
Yep, we have to go with the official judges.
Great beach with so much to choose from 😊
That was wonderfull, thanks!! I wich you and your family, Sam and others a VERY HAPPY 2025!!! ALL THE BEST!!
Happy New Year, Ana.
Rob, you know Joe so well! You all did a beautiful job on your stones/fossils! Great job! 😊
Joe couldn’t have responded any better to that orange rock. I thought I was going to be accused of coaching him to say that.
@MichiganRocks it just shows that you are a wonderful grandpa! 😊
Holy smokes...................you have the big rocks there. It looks like the hunting grounds had good pickings. You even had guest stars to join you in the hunt. I made my own pudding stone out of cement and gravel. It will have to due until Gods gives me a real one. My tumbler has been running no stop for 11 weeks now. You videos are always interesting.
That's funny that you made your own puddingstone. They do look sort of like concrete.
@MichiganRocks concrete will polish up nicely. Been there done that.
@@jimSP500 I should try that sometime.
I vote for Sam's Stones.
Sorry, votes are already in.
@@MichiganRocks 😅 Anyway, all of them are very beautiful. And your grandkids are so cute. Wish you all a fruitful year.
What a great idea with the competition! I like it. And I love Petoskey stones. I only own a small one. I got it as a gift from my English teacher who comes from Michigan, but has been living in Germany for about twenty years now. So I would keep nearly all of your findings.
The Petoskey stone is a long way from home.
🥶🥶🥶Looked cold, brrr, like here up north, snow and minus, but you three found a lot of good stuff. Nice trip✌✌✌
It was cold, but not super cold. We were wearing rain coats, so the rain didnt' really bother us either.
Absolutely beautiful, and wild looking there.
Amazing rocks, and it looks chilly.
Love those Pudding stones.
It was a little chilly, but not as bad as it could have been.
This makes me cold just watching this!
Troll butt rock and a ghost eyes rock? Man that was fun. Thanks guys. Great video Rob. Amazing petoskey btw.
It was a fun day.
These rock samples are so rare
Not too rare here.
Best panel of judges ever! ❤😊
They're some of my favorite people.
I liked the rock with the crystals and stripes and weird film!
Lots of Petoskey stones! I saw a few sheets of ice forming in the video. That is a good sign. Maybe we will have lots of ice and storms this winter and it will push a few more good rocks up on shore. Especially if the lake level is down.
That would be great. I love a good ice bulldozing.
It looks like you guys had a blast. So many beautiful rocks found. I feel for David. Several years ago in late October we went to Charlavoix. The waves were really rolling in. I lost my balance and fell in on my knees. Before I could get up the next wave came along and totally knocked me over. I was completely soaked and lost all of the rocks in my bucket. Luckily my wife had brought a complete change of clothes for me and the restroom at the beach was still open. Then on the way home we got rear ended by a guy that left the scene. I guess this contest just goes to show that bigger is better. Ha Ha !!!
That sounds like a horrible day, Dave. Was losing the bucket of rocks the worst part?
@ Yep !
Rob certainly knows his grandson!!
That even surprised me.
That black matrix on the Petosky Stone polishes okay! I did them by hand with no power tools, but it looked nice when I was done.
Yes it does. That doesn't bother me on Petoskeys because there are usually some crinoid stems in there.
Great outing, nice commentary on the rocks ( I learned a lot) -- but beautiful family!
That was very nice! And I Love finding pudding stones!
Awesome video. Beautiful beach! Oh and the rocks too!
13:36 wow! That is beautiful breath taking
Yep, that's a good one. Nice all the way around.
Ok picture this, the big petoskey at 25:06 The big petoskey part is the turtle shell, the Charlevoix is the turtles head. And then the part that’s broken in the back, you just cut that off flat with your saw and you can connect it to the wall. Like a mounted deer head. If you polished it up real nice, it would look cool as a mounted petoskey stone. Whatta ya thing, huh huh huh? I know you didn’t take it, but next time Rob, next time.😉🤣😂
I looked again and it even has the flippers in the front too. Like a sea turtle. Looks like they’re tucked under. It is so perfect!!! Just needs a little shaping by the expert. It would always be starring at you when you’re polishing down stones, in the shot of the camera. 😂 That would be the ultimate prize mounted on the wall. Have I convinced you yet, to go right back?
I don't know, James. I was taking down Christmas lights outside today and it's a lot colder than it was a week ago. Maybe I'll just hope that it's still there in the spring. Maybe I'll also acquire the skills to carve a turtle by then too.
Wonderful video. Thanks! I’ll also watch the other one with the gale-force winds on the tundra. I need a reminder why i moved from New Hampshire to Northern California
That day wasn't as fruitful as this day, but it sure was interesting.
Incredible hunt guys!
Sam's puddingstone is just wow.
I was doubting that big Petoskey you found as well, but turned out amazing.
I was as shocked as anyone with that big Petoskey. I just knew I didn't have any smaller ones that would compete with some of the ones Sam found.
Oh wow! So many beautiful rocks! Please tell me there is a public access point to this beach!
I was sworn to secrecy when I was shown this beach.
@@MichiganRocksI completely understand why but as a total beginner this bothers me :(
@@elemeno0pee Sorry.
I just want to find one petosky in the wild 😂 how fun!!!!! Amazing pudding stones!
Thanks, personally, I liked the orange stone. I've owned several Hugger orange Z28 Chevy Camaros. TN is also home to the Vols.
You have good taste in rocks, David (and cars too!).
You won the Petoskey round and lost the open round in a split decision!! It pays to know your judges! You called Joe and the orange rock quite clearly!! Great video!
I couldn't believe Joe's immediate reaction to that orange rock. I didn't expect it to be quite that spot on.
Definitely beautiful rocks guys!
This was an awesome one Rob. Loved that big petoskey you had.
Thanks! That big one really surprised me.
Very good rockhounding video!
I'm with Joe, the big Petoskey for the win!
Also, that was a sweet BIF.😅
I think that BIF is going to look good slabbed.
Please post it when you cut it, Rob.
Happy New Year!
I like the big Petoskey Stone. Reminds me of the large cauliflower tops I see at the Farmer's Market, only shiny. 🙂
I see that resemblance.
David was eloquent this year. I really enjoyed the explanations. I liked the large Petosky and the brachiopod. Might be common but was a very nice specimen. I also liked the Horn Coral/Petosky combo that David brought in.
I liked David's combo Petoskey and horn coral too.
Absolutely "Top Drawer" video guys!! So fun to watch!!
Thanks!
I loved them all, great job guys !
That Brachiopod is insane! What a find!
Wow Rob, amazing hunt! You really hit it with your grandsons love of orange!
I guess so. His favorite color changes daily, so I lucked out.
Thank you, Sam!
I was wondering what was inside a Petosky stone. Rob helped us see.
My favorite part was jo picking the orange rock ❤ just like grampa thought!
I didn't have any idea he would go for it with that much enthusiasm. Good boy, Joe!
Ooooooo it’s cold 🥶 out there
Burrrrrr🥶
Finding wonderful rocks …👏Happy to drop by…
I just love this one. So many beautiful petoskeys and puddings. And the score pick up of that brachiopod. Wow. I appreciate the holiday hunt. (We do the same). You were on spot about joseph liking that orange.😊.That beach is wild. Health and happiness to you and the family.
I was surprised at just how well I predicted Joe' response.
Sam's large pudding stone! Outsanding!!
You left the Sleestack rock !!! 😲 I'd need more buckets and a wagon lol
Is that the one Sam found? Sleestaks use to scare the heck out of me, but I loved that show.
What a fun adventure
Great adventure and yearly tradition. I think unakite and red jasper are two of my favorite rocks.
I love unakite too.
Monster pudding stones
That was fun! Thanks! Happy New Year to you and yours.
Wow what a hunt guys, carrying them all back would be the issue, but lovely stuff.
Call me sick, but I could probably watch this all day. 😂. That complete petosky was pretty cool to see.
I was thrilled with that big one a I polished. We really don't have that many rocks on display around the house, but Nancy put that one in a cabinet in the living room right away. She's hard to impress since she sees so many rocks that I have polished.
Nice petoskies! Great puddings! Happy New Year everyone!
Happy New Year!
You have to really love picking rocks to be in that blizzard.
What a great video! I have only been doing this a few years but it really seems to me that the Petoskey stones from the Lake Michigan side are much lighter in color and don’t have nearly the beautiful contrast of the Petoskey stones you find on the Huron side. I have found darker Petoskey’s on the Lake Michigan side but none with the ideal contrast of dark core and lighter hexagonal lines. I hope to get to Huron this year to try to find some good ones. Thanks you for all your hard work in creating, editing and posting such a fun video.
That's funny because I think most people believe that Lake Michigan has the better Petoskey stones. You do have a species over there that we don't have on this side. It has very uniform hexagons with very clear circles in the middle. I like that kind, probably because I don't find that many of them.
Are you in the land of the giant rock hounders? Giant Puddingstones, Giant Gowganda Tillites, Giant Gneiss…..
Maybe. No I need a giant bucket and giant arms to carry it.
I can't believe how low Huron is. I was at Sturgeon Point last weekend and can't believe how much is sticking out of the water. Would love to hit that beach 👍🏼
I was really surprised too. Good for rock hunting, though.
One of your funniest videos. Poor Sam is going to get frostbite.
Papa needs new boots. What boot is Sam wearing? Happy New Rock'in Year. Good job Joe and little Sister. She really was examining the rocks. Very observant.
Sam had Muck boots on. He left his waders up at school.
I laughed out loud when Joe picked Rob's rock. You called it hahaha
I had trouble not reacting as I was filming that. It was so good I thought I was going to be accused of bribing the judges or something.
Haven't caught up with Ur vids for a bit but I now have several to watch while temps are 44 Celcius. To hot to go out unlike Ur lovely cool weather. Difference between Australia and America. Appreciate U sharing Ur rock hunting adventures.
ppreciate U sharing Ur rock hunting adventures
I had to convert 44 C to Fahrenheit. Gosh, that's hot. It was around 40° F the day we were out. Cold, but not awful.
🙋♀️❤️. Wow! So worth it! Bestones! Great to see Dave and Sam braving the weather with you! Thanks to Dave for explaining the story in the rock lines!
Love Sam's pudding stones, your banded Chirp and big Petoskey, and David's horn coral Petoskey! . .. .waiting to see what the judges say!
I'd say the judges did a pretty good job!
I would be there for days and needing a dump truck for the rocks I’d want…lol
Great Hunt!
30:56 I think that the orangest rock ever is likely a very vibrant clast of orthoclase. You have some large pegmatite boulders sloshing around up there and orthoclase is near the bottom of Bowen's reaction series, so it likes crystallizing late and often ends up in pegmatites. It would be feasible for a fist sized clast to get broken free from a pegmatite boulder and end up in your bucket. The cleavage/fracture pattern on that rock also shows a bit of that parallelogram shape that's a dead giveaway for feldspars like orthoclase.
I have found feldspar rocks like you're describing, but they have cleavage planes that glint in the sun. This one is completely flat in color, no reflections like with orthoclase. A rock that I find fairly often along here is meta-arkose. From what I understand, that's a sandstone with a lot of feldspar that has metamorphosed into quartzite. It's not quite as orange as the rock I found in this video and has a much more speckled appearance. I thought this rock was more like that, but with almost all feldspar, rather than a mix of feldspar sand and other sand.
@MichiganRocks A meta-arkose could be the animal, it's cool nonetheless. If that's the case then that's an alluvial fan deposit that's been metamorphosed. Given the age of the rocks you're working with, it could be Precambrian to early Paleozoic.
If that's the case then it would be evidence of an arid terrestrial environment, as arkosic alluvial fans are most commonly encountered in deserts in the modern day.
Another thought that occurred to me was that it could be a dolomite. The HCl test will work on dolomites, but it will be far more tame than the test on limestones. There are similarly aged rocks in Vermont where I did my geology undergrad and the Dunham Dolomite is known for its striking red and buff mottling, so showy colors aren't foreign to dolomites. There may have been an orange dolomite outcrop from Canada that got scooped up by the Laurentide Ice Sheet and deposited into the Great Lakes.
Regardless, great video! That gigantic Petoskey stone was museum quality.
Want those Pudding boulders
Yes, me too.
great video!
NICE! Bring Geologist more often! 🙂
I bring him when I can. He doesn't live very close.
@@MichiganRocks understood, just liked his description of pegmatites and their formation. Want to ask him what the conditions were that led to the formation of conglomerates like puddingstone, etc.
Did you notice the rock you picked up at 14:31 looks almost exactly like your camo jacket.
What rock? I don't see a thing.
Alright Rob, how were you giving Joe the secret "high" sign to pick your stones? Lay your finger along side your nose ☝️🏼👃🏼? Give him a secret 👍🏼?? 😅😂😅😂 That was a lot of fun! Thanks for sharing. Happy New Year to you and your family!
I know, his response was almost too perfect.