These geology lessons combined with beautiful scenery are fantastic! Seeing minerals in their natural formations is really cool. Even though I know about things like molybdenum, I have never actually seen them or really thought about what they might look like in their mineral form. Thank you for talking about what you see and speculating on how it might have formed. The earth certainly is full of amazing materials! It's great to see a new video from you. I hope the rock club leads you to more great adventures! Take care!
Thanks!! there's always more to learn when it comes to geological formations. I've hardly even scratched the surface, just so much out there to see!! Really hope to meet up with the rock club again, they're a long ways away but I had a great time digging with them!!🙂
Wow! I found one i missed! Your adventures and scouting trips i learn so much about your geology and its fascinating! That and watching you scale a logjammed mountainside! You are incredibl! Thanks Liam!
I was hoping you'd be able to drop another video soon! It's always incredibly entertaining and informative watching you scout around for amazing items in your 'neck of the woods'. Thanks for sharing.
For the graphite, I believe they form when a layer of particularly hydrocarbon rich sedimentary rocks are metamorphosed into schist. There are schists that have enough graphite all throughout them and are called graphite schists.
Awesome, that makes sense!! I've heard of some graphite schists around here, it tends not to be quite as pure but you can definitely tell they contain graphite. I've also come across some crystalline graphite myself too. I've heard that graphite could be a good indicator for gems like ruby and emerald but I don't think it really has much to do with the formation aside from the right geological conditions🤔
Yea a little bit haha, not really the best to climb in gumboots either but I can't help myself sometimes. The rock was fairly solid, the trees were the only thing I'd be worried about. Also if there were to be a slide it'd be pretty hard to escape out of that canyon😅
Interesting! Very educational and informative. You talk about everything except the crumbly black stuff at the 5:08 mark. What was that? Looked crystalline. Graphite?
Honestly I'm not too sure!! it seems like it could be some variety of amphibolite. I'll have to do some research to see if i can learn more about it. I'm learning tons myself and making these videos really helps me see the things I should learn more about!!🙂
Wow! I think if I didn't know you made it back in one piece by the posting of this video, I'd be nervous watching you climb those tree falls. Do you ever run into bear where you are? Looks like a very beary place. Love how you take such interest in the smallest of finds. Awesome as always!
Thanks!! Interestingly there's a grizzly bear sanctuary just north of me but I don't really run into any. I have seen a few black bears but they're usually uninterested or they smell me from a mile away and run off. I'm a pretty noisy hiker, always smacking on rocks and my solid metal shovel tends to ring a lot. It gives any bears or other animals a fair warning🙂
Hello, i am also a canadian. But i have recently found a large ish rock of quartz with pink black and red colours in it.. i think the red is rust. But the black and pink colors are in the rock. Idk what im looking at and was wondering if you would be able to help identify it?
I'd say you probably have better information on the sample than I would have even in a picture. I'd recommend going through steps of identification to see if you could narrow it down. Minerals can be identified based on a number of properties. The properties most commonly used in identification of a mineral are colour, streak, lustre, hardness, crystal shape, cleavage, specific gravity and habit. you basically use each property to help narrow it down. You're basically just doing detective work to find the suspect if you think about it, the more information and clues you can find the better!! Then you can use the information and clues to rule out the minerals that it couldn't be😉
Ok. Well I'll go through identification steps according to what information is available.. I appreciate the answer it helped greatly. You never really know how to think until your told 😜 also keep making videos :)
Awesome video! Thank you for your great information!❤
These geology lessons combined with beautiful scenery are fantastic! Seeing minerals in their natural formations is really cool. Even though I know about things like molybdenum, I have never actually seen them or really thought about what they might look like in their mineral form. Thank you for talking about what you see and speculating on how it might have formed. The earth certainly is full of amazing materials! It's great to see a new video from you. I hope the rock club leads you to more great adventures! Take care!
Thanks!! there's always more to learn when it comes to geological formations. I've hardly even scratched the surface, just so much out there to see!! Really hope to meet up with the rock club again, they're a long ways away but I had a great time digging with them!!🙂
Wow! I found one i missed! Your adventures and scouting trips i learn so much about your geology and its fascinating! That and watching you scale a logjammed mountainside! You are incredibl! Thanks Liam!
Thanks!! Just got back from another adventure!! I'll be editing that vid up soon. It didn't go as planned but it was still a fun time!!
One of the few channels I have notifications turned on.
Always enjoy seeing your adventures man
Thanks!! Always glad to get out and explore new areas, there's always something to see🙂
I was hoping you'd be able to drop another video soon! It's always incredibly entertaining and informative watching you scout around for amazing items in your 'neck of the woods'. Thanks for sharing.
thanks!! It's always fun to get out and explore, always something interesting to see out there. Hopefully I'll get some more videos up soon!!🙂
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For the graphite, I believe they form when a layer of particularly hydrocarbon rich sedimentary rocks are metamorphosed into schist. There are schists that have enough graphite all throughout them and are called graphite schists.
Awesome, that makes sense!! I've heard of some graphite schists around here, it tends not to be quite as pure but you can definitely tell they contain graphite. I've also come across some crystalline graphite myself too. I've heard that graphite could be a good indicator for gems like ruby and emerald but I don't think it really has much to do with the formation aside from the right geological conditions🤔
That climb looked sketchy
Yea a little bit haha, not really the best to climb in gumboots either but I can't help myself sometimes. The rock was fairly solid, the trees were the only thing I'd be worried about. Also if there were to be a slide it'd be pretty hard to escape out of that canyon😅
Interesting! Very educational and informative. You talk about everything except the crumbly black stuff at the 5:08 mark. What was that? Looked crystalline. Graphite?
Honestly I'm not too sure!! it seems like it could be some variety of amphibolite. I'll have to do some research to see if i can learn more about it. I'm learning tons myself and making these videos really helps me see the things I should learn more about!!🙂
Wow! I think if I didn't know you made it back in one piece by the posting of this video, I'd be nervous watching you climb those tree falls. Do you ever run into bear where you are? Looks like a very beary place. Love how you take such interest in the smallest of finds. Awesome as always!
Thanks!! Interestingly there's a grizzly bear sanctuary just north of me but I don't really run into any. I have seen a few black bears but they're usually uninterested or they smell me from a mile away and run off. I'm a pretty noisy hiker, always smacking on rocks and my solid metal shovel tends to ring a lot. It gives any bears or other animals a fair warning🙂
Hello, i am also a canadian. But i have recently found a large ish rock of quartz with pink black and red colours in it.. i think the red is rust. But the black and pink colors are in the rock. Idk what im looking at and was wondering if you would be able to help identify it?
I'd say you probably have better information on the sample than I would have even in a picture. I'd recommend going through steps of identification to see if you could narrow it down. Minerals can be identified based on a number of properties. The properties most commonly used in identification of a mineral are colour, streak, lustre, hardness, crystal shape, cleavage, specific gravity and habit. you basically use each property to help narrow it down. You're basically just doing detective work to find the suspect if you think about it, the more information and clues you can find the better!! Then you can use the information and clues to rule out the minerals that it couldn't be😉
Ok. Well I'll go through identification steps according to what information is available.. I appreciate the answer it helped greatly. You never really know how to think until your told 😜 also keep making videos :)
Boden is German and means ground
cool!! I believe there is also a sausage called boudin, I suppose the formation kind of looks like sausage links so they named it that🙂