@@KatyDidRocks oh my goodness Katy! The coolest, most colorful concretions, filled with wood, jasper, fossils and so much more! It's a top rockhounding site in MT for sure. Things I have come across there I haven't seen anywhere else. Definitely need 4 wheel drive to get way back there right now. You can go way far back on the gravel road. The contrast in the colors of the landscape is breathtaking. Geologists have been studying that area for a long time- lots on the internet. Everyone reading this needs to check it out! It's a large area, lots of exploring for us all!
Hi Kate! When you cut into petrified wood that is black on the inside it means that the wood began to decompose before the petrification process began. Some so-weet scores!
Don't you hate it when you bump the send icon accidentally "Kate" and to continue from my previous hasty reply, it can't be to much of a secret, we know it's on the North American continent and probable less than 4hrs drive from your home, should be easy😜👍
Thanks for sharing another post KatyDid much appreciated👍 That was really a very nice gesture by Tammy to invite you along to one of her favorite hounding spots. It's great meeting people who enjoy sharing the adventure of searching/finding/exposing lovely bits of mother earth, one of the two main reasons I joined a rock club but I digress. Good people, beautiful places, fun adventures and hopefully good rocks! 😁 One note: At the 5:00 min mark you talk about cutting petrified wood open and its all black inside...I too have experienced this on quite a few interesting pieces and was given a small bit of advice from a guy named Greg out in the PNW who is semi-famous for exposing fossils that changed everything. He said to go ahead and polish up the surface like any other and then when done, soak the specimen in bleach, at first I thought he was pulling my leg but he was very detailed...so I did it... I let them sit for a couple weeks to get good penetration of the bleach and its absolutely amazing, much of the natural wood tone came back along with clearly seeing the rings and still having a really nice polished surface, the black carbon sloughs off into the unused bleach. As the specimen dries, the bleach will crust to the surface as a white powder until completely evaporated, rinse, buff your flat surface again with cerium oxide and voila.😎 Got a great one from an Ash tree with pyrite inclusions that turned out very nice. Ok enough about that, the first agate you picked up was IMHO a really super crazy nice chunk of seam agate/quartz sandwich with beautiful twisty banding. (I immediately thought: Cut it in the center parallel to the exposed side and then flat lap both flat surfaces from the cut and freeform cab the open side showing the quartz, like a big agate mouth with polished lips and quartz teeth..sorry my two cents) Loved the sizes of those pet wood chunks you ladies were finding out there, really great size for bookends! Yes, I believe you could call that orange included carnelian. haha Wow, what a really great spot, you appeared to have pretty good weather, were in a really nice place sky that stretched out wide, hunting and finding lots of really great stuff to expose what's not to like. 🤷♂️🤔👍 Thanks again for bringing your adventures to us rock hungry tubers! Have a nice week ahead~
I am very happy that you had someone to go rock hounding with for this video. Really nice finds at this new location. I especially liked all the petrified wood.
This secret spot is awesome! Definitely not picked over. My favorite spot is the area my friends and I call Pole Creek. If you ever get to Central Oregon, I would gladly take you there.
That sounds awesome. Usually I go to Oregon a couple times a year, as my parents live in The Dalles - but of course, covid. :P I'll take you up on it when we are able to move around again!
Awesome show, the purple and green rock is porcelanite, it is made from burning coal seams baking clay. Also, looks like you are just west of Terry, that first wierd rock early on could be agatized bog, look for little cattail leaf fossils, I know there is a bunch of it south of miles city...
Ps, lots of native American artifacts in Montana were made out of porcelanite as it's very easy to knap and is found anywhere ancient coal seams burned (scoria hills)
That beach was amazing - just find after find. I had to leave my backpack in the car and go out without it, just to make sure that I REALLY wanted to collect the stuff I picked up. :'D
That is an awesome invite to share a collecting site! Thanks Tami! Very pretty finds too. My favorite rocks to find, crystals, petrified wood and jasper's. (Can't have just one)
Lol, no, it’s secret! Someone shared their favorite site with me - it’s not mine to share. However, it is south of a terry - lots of good hunting in that area.
@@KatyDidRocks It literally blew my mind! I was working in a trench trying to pull out a chunk of very gemmy rainbow obsidian when I noticed a very tiny plume of smoke over the crest of a hill about 10 miles upwind. The two guys (total strangers) decided to bail when we all could smell smoke. I already had huge chunks of gold sheen and mahogany in the back of the Xterra so I was basically gilding the lily. I also had all my gear stowed. I stuck around. When I finally yanked that wee beasty out tiny flakes of ash were starting to fall. The little pencil lead thick thread of smoke was now covering an area about the width of both my hands spread out at arms length. I had to drive straight into the smoke with visibility going to about 200 feet at times which is very interesting on a goat trail at about 40 to 50 mph. BUT, I got my piece of the rainbow!
OMG the rock at 8:20 is insane! So cool. I'm going to be in Montana in May. Going to visit Glacier and a few other spots. Will have my kayak and hiking acc. If you're interested in exploring any new spots and could use a buddy, let me know. Cheers! Linda in Portland :D
Luna Ca,t Kayaking Glacier will be fun. Kayaking the Yellowstone River is generally not a good idea in May due to high fast water. Try Fort Peck Lake North of Miles City. Great Rock hounding area and safer.
I had to get a tool out of my big toolbox and in it is the ugliest piece of petrified wood. I got a flat when I was about 15 and was having trouble lining up the tire so grabbed a rock to put under to help center it.... and put it in my tool box and have had it since ( at the time I was only about 100lbs) seeing your videos reminded me of this,, Very similar to 11:35 Edit. I am now a grandfather aka old man...
Amazing! I would give anything for a long day on the beach in the sun and warm weather with a good book, a large backpack, some nutrition and my dog. The perfect day.
Fun to be in a new location with a new friend. I can't help to wonder why she is in a t-shirt and you in a winter jacket :) The rock at about 3:34 was so interesting ! Many great keepers Kate :)
Katy, know the feeling, I live just south of Brisbane in Queensland, to drive north to Queensland's Gem fields is about 12 hrs, to drive west to the opal fields is about 10hrs. More normal finds such as semi precious stones is normally 1 to 4 hrs depending on what your chasing. I am still new at the game so I've racked up a probably a1000km for a near nil result in the last 12 months . I am getting closer as I eliminate each location where I don't have success so eventually I will make some reasonable finds. In the mean time I watch and gather information and locations from some of the local rock hounds Keep Rockin
Perfect primer on what to look for to find pet wood, thank you! There's a stream about an hour away from me that ACoE is going to be doing restoration on soonish and I had no idea really what I was looking for when I went a couple weekends ago, now I'm better informed. Did find some jasper and what I am fairly sure is agate with some nice water lining, gotta have a second look at others I brought home. Thankfully it's somewhere I can go, park, and walk in and not be anywhere near people so I'm still okay with social distancing. Nice at this point to have a hobby that basically requires you go where people aren't.
Hmm. Petrified wood has a distinct grain pattern that looks like the wood it replaced. You often can tell the difference between petwood and a sedimentary rock by looking at the ends - petrified wood sometimes has curves in the grain that are caused by growth rings, something sedimentary stone won't have. I talk more about petrified wood here: th-cam.com/video/TwJtSVpCxc8/w-d-xo.html
11:00 stromatolite exist today! They can be in rock of almost any age! (we don't find many Hadean or Archean rocks, and you can find stroms in Archean, though they're few and far between!)
Haha, I am going to just keep saying they are billions of years old so you have to correct me every time. (KIDDING! JUST KIDDING!) BTW, do you know how to tell if they really ARE stromatolites when cut?
@@KatyDidRocks They should have a distinctive shape, something that goes against original horizontality. The tend to make round mounds, or cones, but can also be branched or just large mats (the mats still tend to have a kind of wavy texture that should distinguish it from non-biogenic beds). They create their structure by fixing grains that were otherwise suspended in the solution, so orientation of grains is also an indicator, but if the grains are too small, you need magnification to see that.
That lavender rock that was in the video, right after the yellow and half Black rock, I'm pretty sure looked like a Native American tool, it looked chipped out in a concave channel, then Tammy threw the rock on the ground
The hard sedimentary purple/green/grey stuff could be argilite. A meta-sedimentary rock formed in association with ophiolites. Sorry for all the big words, but we get a lot of grey/green/black/lavendar tinged stone that looks a lot like it in NZ. and YES it can contain fossils including Ammonites.
@@KatyDidRocks 14:41, the ground looks almost like it's taking on a desert pavement texture. Periods of low humidity and high winds remove finer grains and leave larger rocks. Of course, one flood will more than replace the fines, it's just a matter of if the river still floods or not.
Haha....What a way to start a video....that excitement is incredible with such a great find. Katy, Have you been to Captain Clark Fishing access site. I think it is roughly between us both. If you haven't, I think it would be a good meeting spot if we both can find a day that works for some rock hounding. www.google.com/maps/@46.0745745,-107.7191773,913m/data=!3m1!1e3
Agate Angler I was there on one of our recent dats with 60 mph winds! I wouldn’t worry too much about a site - we always combine trips to Billings with a Costco run. Do you have any weekdays open this week? I know you usually work...
@@KatyDidRocks I have the Friday after next (3/20) off, so that's a possibility. I'm working in the emergency room after that and have a variable schedule, but with a few week-days off so we could coordinate something then as well.
Thanks for sharing another post KatyDid much appreciated👍 That was really a very nice gesture by Tammy to invite you along to one of her favorite hounding spots. It's great meeting people who enjoy sharing the adventure of searching/finding/exposing lovely bits of mother earth, one of the two main reasons I joined a rock club but I digress. Good people, beautiful places, fun adventures and hopefully good rocks! 😁 One note: At the 5:00 min mark you talk about cutting petrified wood open and its all black inside...I too have experienced this on quite a few interesting pieces and was given a small bit of advice from a guy named Greg out in the PNW who is semi-famous for exposing fossils that changed everything. He said to go ahead and polish up the surface like any other and then when done, soak the specimen in bleach, at first I thought he was pulling my leg but he was very detailed...so I did it... I let them sit for a couple weeks to get good penetration of the bleach and its absolutely amazing, much of the natural wood tone came back along with clearly seeing the rings and still having a really nice polished surface, the black carbon sloughs off into the unused bleach. As the specimen dries, the bleach will crust to the surface as a white powder until completely evaporated, rinse, buff your flat surface again with cerium oxide and voila.😎 Got a great one from an Ash tree with pyrite inclusions that turned out very nice. Ok enough about that, the first agate you picked up was IMHO a really super crazy nice chunk of seam agate/quartz sandwich with beautiful twisty banding. (I immediately thought: Cut it in the center parallel to the exposed side and then flat lap both flat surfaces from the cut and freeform cab the open side showing the quartz, like a big agate mouth with polished lips and quartz teeth..sorry my two cents) Loved the sizes of those pet wood chunks you ladies were finding out there, really great size for bookends! Yes, I believe you could call that orange included carnelian. haha Wow, what a really great spot, you appeared to have pretty good weather, were in a really nice place sky that stretched out wide, hunting and finding lots of really great stuff to expose what's not to like. 🤷♂️🤔👍 Thanks again for bringing your adventures to us rock hungry tubers! Have a nice week ahead~
Wow, thanks for that bit of advice about the petwood! I will definitely give it a try. LOL at the agate mouth - I found some agate Mick Jagger lips the other day. :D
Thanks for watching! Do YOU have any favorite rock spots? Leave a comment!
Strawberry Hill in Miles City and anywhere in Terry, MT!
@@MontanaRockMom What can you find on Strawberry Hill?
@@KatyDidRocks oh my goodness Katy! The coolest, most colorful concretions, filled with wood, jasper, fossils and so much more! It's a top rockhounding site in MT for sure. Things I have come across there I haven't seen anywhere else. Definitely need 4 wheel drive to get way back there right now. You can go way far back on the gravel road. The contrast in the colors of the landscape is breathtaking. Geologists have been studying that area for a long time- lots on the internet. Everyone reading this needs to check it out! It's a large area, lots of exploring for us all!
@@MontanaRockMom I'll put it on my list. :)
Clallam Bay beaches! Only a mile from my house lots of agates and jasper
Thanks to Tammy for sharing her special spot. Lovely finds.
Can’t wait to see them cut!!! Awesome finds!!! Tell Tammy thank you for us!
:) Thank you for watching!
Wow!! Gorgeous finds! A fellow rock hound makes a cool friend, sharing new places, awesome!😊👍
:) It was a great day.
Hi from Tasmania Australia 🇦🇺
Love 💕 your Rock Hounding keep up the great videos and stay safe
Hello, Melissa! Thanks for joining me.
Probably some of the nicest petrified wood I have ever seen! Nice job ladies! Katy I can't wait for you to slice open some of those agates!
Thanks, Robin! I was amazed.
Thank you for sharing a great video with your amazing and fantastic videos.
:) Thanks for watching!
What a wonderful video Kate , I bet ( Taylor) Agate Dad was watching in astonishment like I was during the entire video .
:D Agates are definitely bigger in Montana.
This is amazing! You are amazing! So energetic and good vibes
:) Thanks for watching. I do have a good time. Stay safe, and keep on doing!
I love that blue wit blackish brown swirls the purple teal rocks. Katidid that secret spot is far out keep on rocking
Thanks! I agree, some of those colors are amazing.
Really loved your video. So many beautiful finds.
Thank you! It was a good day.
Seriously so nice of your new friend to share a spot with you! You had so many insanely beautiful finds on this hunt!
I was just blown away by her generosity. We had a really good time and hope to meet up some other time for more rock hunting fun.
Thanks Katy& tammy!
:)
So many good finds. It sure is nice going to a new spot sometimes.
It really was fantastic - and fun to have good company. :)
thank you for sharing very nice trip
Thank you for watching!
@@KatyDidRocks I wouldn't miss it for the world have a great day, Young Lady 🌹
You are a joy to watch. You always put a smile on my face and I get a twinge of jealousy with the rocks you find and the beautiful scenery. Thanks
Oh, thank you so much! I do love to make folks smile. :)
Great location, WOW! 👍
It was remarkable. We didn't even BEGIN to cover the ground. :D
Hi Kate! When you cut into petrified wood that is black on the inside it means that the wood began to decompose before the petrification process began. Some so-weet scores!
I didn't know that! Cool!
Awesome video...
Thank you for watching!
So wonderful of her to invite you
It really was. I was humbled by her generosity.
Wow I loved that light blue one that you have picked up; that spot seems new with lots of unexplored stones still waiting to be picked up
Yes, it really was just a crazy beach. Thanks for joining me!
thank you
Thanks for watching!
Great pieces K
Don't you hate it when you bump the send icon accidentally "Kate" and to continue from my previous hasty reply, it can't be to much of a secret, we know it's on the North American continent and probable less than 4hrs drive from your home, should be easy😜👍
Silverback 😂
Silverback this IS Montana - a four-hour drive us nothing! 😝
Thanks for sharing another post KatyDid much appreciated👍 That was really a very nice gesture by Tammy to invite you along to one of her favorite hounding spots. It's great meeting people who enjoy sharing the adventure of searching/finding/exposing lovely bits of mother earth, one of the two main reasons I joined a rock club but I digress. Good people, beautiful places, fun adventures and hopefully good rocks! 😁 One note: At the 5:00 min mark you talk about cutting petrified wood open and its all black inside...I too have experienced this on quite a few interesting pieces and was given a small bit of advice from a guy named Greg out in the PNW who is semi-famous for exposing fossils that changed everything. He said to go ahead and polish up the surface like any other and then when done, soak the specimen in bleach, at first I thought he was pulling my leg but he was very detailed...so I did it... I let them sit for a couple weeks to get good penetration of the bleach and its absolutely amazing, much of the natural wood tone came back along with clearly seeing the rings and still having a really nice polished surface, the black carbon sloughs off into the unused bleach. As the specimen dries, the bleach will crust to the surface as a white powder until completely evaporated, rinse, buff your flat surface again with cerium oxide and voila.😎 Got a great one from an Ash tree with pyrite inclusions that turned out very nice. Ok enough about that, the first agate you picked up was IMHO a really super crazy nice chunk of seam agate/quartz sandwich with beautiful twisty banding. (I immediately thought: Cut it in the center parallel to the exposed side and then flat lap both flat surfaces from the cut and freeform cab the open side showing the quartz, like a big agate mouth with polished lips and quartz teeth..sorry my two cents) Loved the sizes of those pet wood chunks you ladies were finding out there, really great size for bookends! Yes, I believe you could call that orange included carnelian. haha Wow, what a really great spot, you appeared to have pretty good weather, were in a really nice place sky that stretched out wide, hunting and finding lots of really great stuff to expose what's not to like. 🤷♂️🤔👍 Thanks again for bringing your adventures to us rock hungry tubers! Have a nice week ahead~
It really was a great experience. Thanks for watching!
There's something about that area that seems like it would have one of those positive vibes
I agree!
Nice spot to rockhound enjoyed HH
Thanks for coming along!
Those are some awesome finds. Really wish there were places like that near me.
Montana is an amazing place. 😊 But no matter where you are, there’s probably SOMETHING cool to find. Keep on doing!
Great finds, girls! Loving all the petrified wood and agates! ☺️
:) Thank you, Lizzy.
I am very happy that you had someone to go rock hounding with for this video. Really nice finds at this new location. I especially liked all the petrified wood.
Thank you! I was happy to be able to share the excitement in person.
Lol love the enthusiasm at the intro
It was so nice to have someone with me who was equally enthused. :)
Fun video! Happy hunting! :D
Thank you!
Thank you so much Kate it's almost like doing it myself. I get so excited when you find something. so love your videos
Thank you, Renee! I love sharing the fun. :)
This secret spot is awesome! Definitely not picked over. My favorite spot is the area my friends and I call Pole Creek. If you ever get to Central Oregon, I would gladly take you there.
That sounds awesome. Usually I go to Oregon a couple times a year, as my parents live in The Dalles - but of course, covid. :P I'll take you up on it when we are able to move around again!
The Dallas is 2 hours north of where I live. So not to far. But then 2 hours out to Pole Creek. I will drive. I have a 1 ton flatbed quad cab pickup.
Awesome show, the purple and green rock is porcelanite, it is made from burning coal seams baking clay. Also, looks like you are just west of Terry, that first wierd rock early on could be agatized bog, look for little cattail leaf fossils, I know there is a bunch of it south of miles city...
Ps, lots of native American artifacts in Montana were made out of porcelanite as it's very easy to knap and is found anywhere ancient coal seams burned (scoria hills)
I learned the word just a month or two ago - I had been calling it siltstone. It’s very cool!
Great trip out. You had some Wonder finds. Yes the last one was special indeed.
That beach was amazing - just find after find. I had to leave my backpack in the car and go out without it, just to make sure that I REALLY wanted to collect the stuff I picked up. :'D
What a great place! So much petrified wood!
It was an amazing experience.
That is an awesome invite to share a collecting site! Thanks Tami! Very pretty finds too. My favorite rocks to find, crystals, petrified wood and jasper's. (Can't have just one)
:) I completely agree.
Awesome adventure beautiful finds way to go ladies I hope you do a follow up of the rocks you cut from this find hmmmmm
One of the big pet wood pieces is in one of my latest videos, "What's Inside?"
Wow!! Love everything about this! We're heading that way in a couple days, any chance you could share where exactly this is? 😊
Lol, no, it’s secret! Someone shared their favorite site with me - it’s not mine to share. However, it is south of a terry - lots of good hunting in that area.
Wow. Far and away my favorite vid so far! Some of the most beautiful rocks I've seen. Hi Tammy, thanks for making this possible!
It really was an amazing day. :)
My favorite is very well known. Glass mountain Oregon.
Oh, I do want to go there someday!
@@KatyDidRocks It literally blew my mind! I was working in a trench trying to pull out a chunk of very gemmy rainbow obsidian when I noticed a very tiny plume of smoke over the crest of a hill about 10 miles upwind. The two guys (total strangers) decided to bail when we all could smell smoke. I already had huge chunks of gold sheen and mahogany in the back of the Xterra so I was basically gilding the lily. I also had all my gear stowed. I stuck around. When I finally yanked that wee beasty out tiny flakes of ash were starting to fall. The little pencil lead thick thread of smoke was now covering an area about the width of both my hands spread out at arms length. I had to drive straight into the smoke with visibility going to about 200 feet at times which is very interesting on a goat trail at about 40 to 50 mph. BUT, I got my piece of the rainbow!
Very very cool petrified wood
Thank you! I think that was the biggest chunk I have found.
That was an amazing spot all that pet. Wood that is my favorite but the purple stone is cool to thanks for sharing your day.
I will definitely try.
OMG the rock at 8:20 is insane! So cool. I'm going to be in Montana in May. Going to visit Glacier and a few other spots. Will have my kayak and hiking acc. If you're interested in exploring any new spots and could use a buddy, let me know. Cheers! Linda in Portland :D
Hey there, Linda in Portland! You will have a blast kayaking in and around Glacier. Keep me posted if you plan to come further east!
Luna Ca,t Kayaking Glacier will be fun. Kayaking the Yellowstone River is generally not a good idea in May due to high fast water. Try Fort Peck Lake North of Miles City. Great Rock hounding area and safer.
Thank you Katy for leaving some rocks for me! Lol, now I just neeed to drive fourteen hours to find it👏🏼
:D That would be quite a drive! I think you might find some other rocks along the way.
What us the blue rock at 3 mins...its beautiful! Beautiful finds ladies!
Not really sure? Maybe common opal?
I had to get a tool out of my big toolbox and in it is the ugliest piece of petrified wood. I got a flat when I was about 15 and was having trouble lining up the tire so grabbed a rock to put under to help center it.... and put it in my tool box and have had it since ( at the time I was only about 100lbs) seeing your videos reminded me of this,,
Very similar to 11:35
Edit. I am now a grandfather aka old man...
Jesse, I had to read this twice - I kept imagining that you had kept a piece of petwood in your toolbox all these years. :'D Fun find.
followers. from Iraq Greetings to All
Thank you!
@@KatyDidRocks welcome
Amazing! I would give anything for a long day on the beach in the sun and warm weather with a good book, a large backpack, some nutrition and my dog. The perfect day.
:) It really was pretty perfect. I hope the warm weather and sunshine finds you soon.
KatyDid it’s gorgeous now! Couldn’t pull myself away from the rocks on the riverbed beach yesterday
Yay thank you for sharing I’m planning on heading there when it warms up a little more. I’m in western ND
Nice! There are tons of agates along the Yellowstone between Sidney and Glendive, Terry and Miles City. :)
Fun to be in a new location with a new friend. I can't help to wonder why she is in a t-shirt and you in a winter jacket :) The rock at about 3:34 was so interesting ! Many great keepers Kate :)
CCC, it was quite a warm day. I didn't know how windy it was going to be, so I wore a sweatshirt. Then I was too lazy to take it of. :'D
Katy, know the feeling, I live just south of Brisbane in Queensland, to drive north to Queensland's Gem fields is about 12 hrs, to drive west to the opal fields is about 10hrs. More normal finds such as semi precious stones is normally 1 to 4 hrs depending on what your chasing. I am still new at the game so I've racked up a probably a1000km for a near nil result in the last 12 months . I am getting closer as I eliminate each location where I don't have success so eventually I will make some reasonable finds. In the mean time I watch and gather information and locations from some of the local rock hounds Keep Rockin
One of the disadvantages of living in a huge space. :)
Perfect primer on what to look for to find pet wood, thank you! There's a stream about an hour away from me that ACoE is going to be doing restoration on soonish and I had no idea really what I was looking for when I went a couple weekends ago, now I'm better informed. Did find some jasper and what I am fairly sure is agate with some nice water lining, gotta have a second look at others I brought home. Thankfully it's somewhere I can go, park, and walk in and not be anywhere near people so I'm still okay with social distancing. Nice at this point to have a hobby that basically requires you go where people aren't.
Yes! I am happy my videos are helping you find better rocks - and we are 100 percent lucky that we can stay away from people in the great outdoors.
Got a real hot spot there👊💥
It was so much fun!
You keep picking up all that big stuff ypur going to have to get a pack mule LOL. All my favorite places are the ones with rocks. Havagudun Kate
I am thinking about getting Kava a doggie backpack - THAT will slow her down!
Any tips to identify petrified wood from another funky looking rock???
Hmm. Petrified wood has a distinct grain pattern that looks like the wood it replaced. You often can tell the difference between petwood and a sedimentary rock by looking at the ends - petrified wood sometimes has curves in the grain that are caused by growth rings, something sedimentary stone won't have. I talk more about petrified wood here: th-cam.com/video/TwJtSVpCxc8/w-d-xo.html
My wife and I just love watching your videos. Am I correct in assuming this is in Oregon?
Montana! Miles city area. But, I can see why you'd think Oregon.
Kirk Tingblad hi! No, most of my videos are filmed along the Yellowstone River in eastern Montana. 😊
KatyDid Thanks!
What a nice dog, Austrailian Shepard?
I think she is!
the first clip, y'all sounded like sponge lady hahahaa!
LOL, I don't know who that is. :D
KatyDid oh my gosh look up “rainbow sponge lady”
Olivia Valentine lol? Ok, I looked. I think I channel her pretty often! 😂
KatyDid me too hahahhaa she’s so funny
11:00 stromatolite exist today! They can be in rock of almost any age! (we don't find many Hadean or Archean rocks, and you can find stroms in Archean, though they're few and far between!)
@Jack Richardson Indeed it does! There are also some fresh water lakes in MN and B.C that have them!
Haha, I am going to just keep saying they are billions of years old so you have to correct me every time. (KIDDING! JUST KIDDING!) BTW, do you know how to tell if they really ARE stromatolites when cut?
@@KatyDidRocks They should have a distinctive shape, something that goes against original horizontality. The tend to make round mounds, or cones, but can also be branched or just large mats (the mats still tend to have a kind of wavy texture that should distinguish it from non-biogenic beds). They create their structure by fixing grains that were otherwise suspended in the solution, so orientation of grains is also an indicator, but if the grains are too small, you need magnification to see that.
Agate Dad mentioned you soooo here I am.
Welcome! Agate Dad is a great guy.
That lavender rock that was in the video, right after the yellow and half
Black rock, I'm pretty sure looked like a Native American tool, it looked chipped out in a concave channel, then Tammy threw the rock on the ground
A lot of that stone has natural conchoidal fractures. It sure is pretty!
all kinds of those chert agate on the beach I go to
Nice!
@@KatyDidRocks you have a wonderful day, Young Lady ;-)
The hard sedimentary purple/green/grey stuff could be argilite. A meta-sedimentary rock formed in association with ophiolites. Sorry for all the big words, but we get a lot of grey/green/black/lavendar tinged stone that looks a lot like it in NZ. and YES it can contain fossils including Ammonites.
I will look it up! And don't worry about "big words" - I've got Google. :'D
Good
Thanks!
Interesting locale! Looks like the finer sediments are being slowly removed by wet/dry cycles! That's part of desertification! 😟
Do you mean the cliffs on the other side of the river? Or?
@@KatyDidRocks 14:41, the ground looks almost like it's taking on a desert pavement texture. Periods of low humidity and high winds remove finer grains and leave larger rocks. Of course, one flood will more than replace the fines, it's just a matter of if the river still floods or not.
Always love new spots👍but the rock at 3:30 is a strange one and those can be the best find of the day but great video👍
Thank you! Yes, that circle rock is pretty strange - or strange, but pretty. Thanks for watching...
Haha....What a way to start a video....that excitement is incredible with such a great find. Katy, Have you been to Captain Clark Fishing access site. I think it is roughly between us both. If you haven't, I think it would be a good meeting spot if we both can find a day that works for some rock hounding.
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Agate Angler I was there on one of our recent dats with 60 mph winds! I wouldn’t worry too much about a site - we always combine trips to Billings with a Costco run. Do you have any weekdays open this week? I know you usually work...
@@KatyDidRocks I have the Friday after next (3/20) off, so that's a possibility. I'm working in the emergency room after that and have a variable schedule, but with a few week-days off so we could coordinate something then as well.
Agate Angler after this week, I’m back to weekends. 😊 Friday won’t work - but don’t worry, we’ll find something that will.
Do not if you have thought of the bonsai folks for large pieces of prettified wood to use with their show trees
I have not thought of it before - but it's a great idea!
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Thanks for sharing another post KatyDid much appreciated👍 That was really a very nice gesture by Tammy to invite you along to one of her favorite hounding spots. It's great meeting people who enjoy sharing the adventure of searching/finding/exposing lovely bits of mother earth, one of the two main reasons I joined a rock club but I digress. Good people, beautiful places, fun adventures and hopefully good rocks! 😁 One note: At the 5:00 min mark you talk about cutting petrified wood open and its all black inside...I too have experienced this on quite a few interesting pieces and was given a small bit of advice from a guy named Greg out in the PNW who is semi-famous for exposing fossils that changed everything. He said to go ahead and polish up the surface like any other and then when done, soak the specimen in bleach, at first I thought he was pulling my leg but he was very detailed...so I did it... I let them sit for a couple weeks to get good penetration of the bleach and its absolutely amazing, much of the natural wood tone came back along with clearly seeing the rings and still having a really nice polished surface, the black carbon sloughs off into the unused bleach. As the specimen dries, the bleach will crust to the surface as a white powder until completely evaporated, rinse, buff your flat surface again with cerium oxide and voila.😎 Got a great one from an Ash tree with pyrite inclusions that turned out very nice. Ok enough about that, the first agate you picked up was IMHO a really super crazy nice chunk of seam agate/quartz sandwich with beautiful twisty banding. (I immediately thought: Cut it in the center parallel to the exposed side and then flat lap both flat surfaces from the cut and freeform cab the open side showing the quartz, like a big agate mouth with polished lips and quartz teeth..sorry my two cents) Loved the sizes of those pet wood chunks you ladies were finding out there, really great size for bookends! Yes, I believe you could call that orange included carnelian. haha Wow, what a really great spot, you appeared to have pretty good weather, were in a really nice place sky that stretched out wide, hunting and finding lots of really great stuff to expose what's not to like. 🤷♂️🤔👍 Thanks again for bringing your adventures to us rock hungry tubers! Have a nice week ahead~
Wow, thanks for that bit of advice about the petwood! I will definitely give it a try. LOL at the agate mouth - I found some agate Mick Jagger lips the other day. :D