The hunt for Thunder Eggs | Oregon Field Guide | OPB
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- Опубліковано 6 бер 2014
- Rock Hunters take kids out to discover the the beautiful inside of thunder eggs at the Richardson Ranch, near Madras, Oregon.
Thunder eggs are fascinating. The egg-shaped rocks with the rough, gray exterior hide agate, opal, jasper and other gemstones and minerals that evoke fantastic interior landscapes. Along with being Oregon’s official state rock, Thunder eggs are often found in the High Desert of Oregon.
“Thunder Eggs” is also one of the most popular “Oregon Field Guide” stories ever. This video produced by Vince Patton and filmed by Nick Fisher. #opb #thunderegg #rockhounding #oregonfieldguide
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I love watching passionate people explain their passion
Nobody wants to hunt thunder potatoes in my ranch..😢
That dad and his little girl are making some amazing memories.
remember that time we spent the day picking rocks?
I think the Mother is there too hahaha poor Mom
As opposed to "Do you remember the day you spent watching youtube videos on your iPad?"
Their answer: "Which day, they all blend in"! Lol.
By using her to make him money and do his labor? If you say so
Magnificent treasures. They are wonderful.👍🤩🌏👏👏❤️
I'm 62, read thousands of books, lived on several continents, watched God knows how many documentaries, but I'd never heard of thunder eggs. Goes to show you - there is always something fantastic to discover.
Just imagine the gazillions of possible different designs that can be found inside those rocks.
Thank you for teaching me about thunder eggs, I had never heard of them before & I'm 69 years old I know quite a bit about gems &stones like Moss agate Jasper onyx and so on but thundereggs totally stumped me. I love you learn about Nature's beauties so once again thank you very much for teaching an old woman new tricks lol, have a great life and keep teaching 👍🤗
That Is Truly Beautiful
Amazing and mind blowing video what our mother nature has to offer.
Those are nice, looking inside of them really pretty.
love this! what a great hobby! 😊🤩
One of my geodes has gotten broken open more. You know I like it even more now. Now there are two where there was one. The more I learn about these rocks. The more I want to go hunting them.
Im not sure why everyone is saying we don't know how these are formed, we learned about this in seventh grade earth science. Thunder eggs are almost like geodes they form the same way as gold and quartz super heat and under super amounts of pressure turns it all into a slurry of gases that come up from way down and as soon as it finds space it begins to cool and pressure lowers the gases cool condensing and depositing what it carries on to the surrounded rock. Slowly over centuries the void is filled completely making a thunder egg, when the void is not completely filled it's called a geode. Oh you can have both a geode within a thunder egg those are super amazing, but you can't have a thunder egg inside a geode
Kurt Fox listen fuck nuts at 3:25 or so the "expert" says that they dont know how they are formed. And that's bulshit because we do know how they are formed
I try and only comment on video topic and or subject, but when you comment on my comment and haven't even watched the video we're talking about, that kinda makes you the loser.
Have a nice day
Kurt Fox bazinga bitch
Kurt Fox finally, a bitch with a little sass! You could be my next ex wife
Soy boys for joy
I for one enjoyed you explaining how they are formed. nice to see a real UA-cam comment
IMO robert wasnt being rude, just making an assumption and the kurt came in calling ppl a loser sooooo... yeah. I guess not everyone can be kind lol. Thanks for the extra explanation. Good comment.
This is amazing, the looks of theses eggs are absolutely stunning
This was a great video and I super appreciate it!
THESE ARE ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS
Wow beautiful stones!
I have died and gone to heaven! I would GIVE anything to be right there with you. My house is a cave, filled w/ quartz, Amethyst, coral, agate, shells. My heart is soaring just watching, the total aaahhh of pulling MOTHER 🌎 treasures out. WISH I were there!!!
ROBIN HESS OMG I would love to live in a cave, you are so lucky, that is my dream!
How high are you?
Are you a hobbit?
he didn't mean a literal cave xD
You need help seal your cave with yourself inside problem solved 😉
Looks like super fun to dig here, would love to bring my kids here.
So so cool ,, love to cut and see what was in them,,👍🏻👍🏻
Thrill of the hunt ..it great way to connect and spend times with family..😂
Rock hounding is very addictive. I started 6 months ago, haven't found anything special but I love the hunt
These are so beautiful!
I was having a tree stone, a thunder egg too with spiney cristial inside and a huge fossile stone in my grandparent home. And i love to see them.
Thank you rocks, very cool.
I have learned a little about rock hunting but I have never been out on a hunt. It looks really fun. I do have rocks and geodes and love them all.
Oh wow! Makes me want to go find some now.
Thanks tou for showing
Lovely, digging under Chemtrail Sky.
Thank you for this great video! Very informative. Makes me want to go to Oregon!
I love these things so beautiful
Wow that’s cool ! I would love to find some ! Take care! 😊 peace ✌️ from Welland Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
Cool !!! Ummmm rocks
I was watching a standup comedian, but I feel like a video titled, “thunder eggs,” is much more appropriate while on the toilet.
thanks for the video!
Amazing!!!
I love to dig for thundereggs in Madras, Oregon!
I love thunder eggs and all minerals. I used to pan gold in Idaho wilderness. Unfortunately I only got tiny flakes not nuggets, lol. There is an opal mine in nothern Idaho and my friend brought me a rock contained opal a long ago. I also love Agate with scenery.
Never heard of this wow those a beautiful
Cool video. Its my 50th birthday and I have been cutting 50lbs of thundereggs for my birthday.. I should be done by next month lol
I just found my very first thunder egg. In a dirt lot in my town, just a couple blocks away, *somewhere* in the Mojave desert. Alas, I don't have a big enough blade for it, it's a bit bigger than a softball. God I love rockhounding! I also love how lucky I've been hunting IN TOWN. Methinks nobody but me knows about these places, but since it's not isolated I wonder if people know what I'm doing and move in on my secret locations...
WE'RE on our way!
Tried this in the height of summer in Australia. Was sweating buckets at the end. Maybe a winter pursuit for us Aussies
I was fortunate to have found 3 Thunder Eggs this season agate hunting up in the UP of MI by Superior out of a quarry. That specific area has thunder eggs, but it is much more well known for the beautiful Lake Superior agates we find there. A sliced Thunder Egg reminds me, in some ways, of some sliced moss agates. In fact, the first Thunder Egg I found in that area was about the size of a baseball and at first, I thought it was a moss agate. I have one Egg from OR that was given to me by my son in law, who lives out there, and the OR Thunder Eggs seem to have a wider variety of colors than the ones we find in that area of the UP of MI.
😮 Ugly outside, Beautiful inside. Lessons from Mother Nature.💖💖💖💖💖
This is cool!
He's so lucky. Spending time with his little girl digging for goodies. I'd give anything to do this with my baby.
Very cool.
5:50 "Trapped for eternity, until now." Lol
Damn nice geodes!
I had no idea of that museum in Hillsboro! I’m so going like tomorrow
with a title called “Thunder eggs” i had no other option but to watch this video
i been picking rocks of all kinds for yrs and just learned about thunder eggs right this second smh cool lol
I miss Deming NM rock hunting.
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Interesting !
thank you, see you soon !
Road trip!!!🚗
NICE............
That big one looks like Joe Dirt's space rock!
IronMadDog big ol frozen chunk of shit
IronMadDog uhhh it’s got a peanut in it
It's a space peanut
IronMadDog I got the poo on me! How much is in there, dang!
Dude I was literally dipping my fries in ketchup as I read this
Make jewelry
I'd love it..I dug for crystals..in South Carolina..one year..still have em..brought em home.. beautiful..n fun to dig for .I'm addicted
Now I need to get a Tumblr
I Like to Rock!
That one guy with the red hat seems like the brains of the operation to me.
cool stuff
Awsome Red Neck: I'M A ROCKAHOLIC AND I SNIFF ROCKS FOR A LIVING!!!
Green shirt guy can tell me a bedtime story anyday
I used to work there at Richardson rock ranch
Awesome
Bourdain has thunder rolls!~
Urghh....this reminds me of my time doing teaching assistantship. I has to polish sections of thunder eggs by hand with just different sized abrasive mess...no tools at all....and this thing is hella hard.....my nemesis
My theory about how geodes are created is that when during an eruption there are globules of lava tossed into the atmosphere that cool enough before landing to form a shell. Then as they become part of the pyroclastic flow steam is injected into them furthering the cooling causing them to seal further and from the partial evaporation of the liquid inside, crystals are formed making the beauty within. Just a thought.
Very cool, but Lord get them folks some sunblock!
Bhuahahaha
I noticed that too! Holy
IKR
They probably have some they’ve just been in the sun so long.
That guys neck was fried, lol.
WOW ITS A ROCK, HOPEFULY I WILL BE ABLE TO GET ME ONE IN ABOUT 300 YEARS, OR SO.
I think i just like everything
China beautiful stone Crystal and agate Collection
Bremerton!!! Hell ya
this is very many in my village .
you can having in the long river...
Thats a lot of rocks
When you find any sort of crystal on a rock it feels like a jackpot
Need some spaghetti to go along with that meatball...😂
I wish i could banish my worries and go hunt “thunder eggs”
MrRedeyedJedi it'd fun, go to Deming NM
Mto Lindas! 👏🏼💎💓💓😍
Geode is evolving!
Geode evolved into Thunder Egg!
is this on richardsins rock ranch here in madras?
wooouuww ..
Awe man I was hoping this was about eggs of the mythical thunderbird
Thanks
am i the only one who thinks these would make great gun/knife handles?
da hora muito bom
It's like a time capsule
Look this is one reason why I want to be a geologist
Gorgeous. How does these and geodes get made.
Dawn FKA hamilton-doerfler yes
Wow
Interesting
“It’s fun and dirty “ 😂😂
Wow
I would love to try this what do i need to get started, where to go?? Wish i could find someone to go with!! maybe they have a club??
I want some of them. Can i buy it. They are so beautiful.
Doesn't take millions of years for water to fill in the center with minerals. What is the shortest amount of time for these things to take place?
Was the mudfossil so big that he thundered,? is that why they are called thunder eggs?.
so how much does it cost if it's sold and why people are hooked in it?