Fossilized Rainforest Found in an Abandoned Coal Mine
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- On this episode, Jeff @MrTropics64 and I take a good friend of ours underground to help us identify fossils. This abandoned coal mine was in operation from the 1890s, until the 1920s. In what we have seen in all of our underground explorations, this is possibly one of the largest concentrated group of fossils around the southeast. As we traverse through many workings, we will discuss the types you are seeing and hopefully educate you a little on how the process of coal was formed as well as how these impressions were captured.
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Marvelous video. Shame -- who is the professor ? He made the video.
he really did. he's our good friend James Lowery. His knowledge is endless.
Just stumbled here and I agree. 👍 Guy is awesome.
The gentleman who knows the fossils must be a geologist or professor because he seems to be extremely knowledgeable in coal forest plant life. I am sure I have watched this video 100 times and each time pick up something new. Thank you so much for the effort!!
Horsetails have an affinity for gold. Interesting view of the fossilized pre Noah flood world!
“When Africa formed the Appalachian Mtns”… now think about how awesome that is.”
As a boy I used to love getting the Mazon Creek nodules from the coal mines around Morris IL and break them open for all these types of plants and aquatic animals like shrimp, tulley monsters, Aitches and Wyes, etc., though mostly leafy plants like those horse tails and sometimes large pieces of diamond shaped impressions. I still have some of them all these years later. My grandpa worked in the mines when he was a little kid because kids would fit in the tight places the adults couldn't get into.
it's amazing what kids did to help provide for the family. seeing old photos of them as miners is an eye opener
I love when we get a free geology lesson! It always blows me away what we find underground.
Have you ever been spelunking? It's is literally a different world. Fascinating.
@@greatplainsman3662 When I was younger I did. There's a small cave system by my dad's house that my scout troop would go to. I'm way to big nowadays, at 6'2" I don't fit in all those squeezes anymore. But it had a little bit of flowstone, opened up into a few large passes with one being long enough no amount of light would reach the end. Nothing overtly technical, but more than enough to tire out a bunch of young teenagers.
Makes sense as I have found sea shells in WV at about 1800’ above sea level. Also dug out petrified stumps from high walls. Trunk and part of root ball.
I have found seashells and sharks teeth in Montgomery Alabama.
Hey Big guy, looking forward to some more video's.
i bet those stump could be dangerous while bolting
It is easy to find fossilized sea shells in rocks in much of rural Pennsylvania. Suggests a universal flood at some point.
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Yeah it does don't it. I found my fossils in about 20 ft deep in something called Blue marl it's almost Rock but it's like clay and it's very hard it reminded me of slate the way it came apart in sections.
I was working in a coal mine in WV and found this beautiful fossil. It appeared to be tree bark that resembled reptilian skin. It was about 6 ft long and about 18 in wide. It was among some bad top and had to be scaled down so after taking it down with a slate bar I broke off some pieces with my rock hammer and took them home to my kids. It was one of the nicest fossils I’ve ever found. I have also found some resembling a snail’s shell and another one that reminded me of a sand dollar.
Whenever I was at the face watching the continuous miner exposing newly mined coal I am fascinated to think of the millions of years that has elapsed from when this material last saw the light of day.
it is kinda amazing if you think about it. your eyes are one of the only few that has seen that in all the time that has passed.
Charcoal was formed in spirit lake by Mt St. Helens volcano, in a matter of days. So these coals seams chock full of fossils are only a few thousand years old from the time of the worldwide flood. Why else do you find soft tissue in so many "million year old" dinosaur fossils? The writings of Marco Polo describe a T-rex found in the Gobi desert and Leviathan and Behemoth are also described in the Bible.
The vegetation isn't crushed up violently or rotted as to lose its shape. It's as if it was covered gently with silt.
It looks like it was instantly done, as the high pressures to fossilize it would require massive quantities of silt/mud/rocks/water etc.
@@earlysda yes. This has been done in a laboratory that can do that. Layers of treebark, waterlogged during the great flood, covered in volcanic ash, heavy duty pressure, and they proved that you could make coal in 20 minutes. Burn coal and you get the same substance that served as the catalyst for the initial reaction.
@@alancadieux2984 Alan, it's amazing that these have been proved in laboratories, and still textbooks teach kids that it had to take "millions of years" to form. That teaching is child abuse.
Equisetum (sometimes called a living fossil) also was used like a tooth brush, the structure is silica like diatoms instead of cellulose. It is very common along aquaducts in the deep south of the US.
thank you for the added info
Extremely interesting content. Hopefully some of those can be pulled out of the mines and preserved.
we hope we can do something to help preserve it.
My dad worked the strip mines only an hour or so away from where they are in a place called "Townley" and I have several dozen of these same fossils he found and brought home to us. The best one is a fern leaf that didn't fossilize in shale- instead it fossilized into some other type of rock which is a palish brown color- and the leaf is black- and it stands up off the rock so you can see the thickness of it- really cool fossil.
He brought home some other things that I don't really understand- they're round and they come apart in layers really easily but- I have no idea what they are. Looks like mud maybe got into a tunnel an animal or something had dug, plugged it- then that plug of mud fossilized. That's all I can come up with anyway. The rest is mostly fossilized pieces of wood, the inside cast of Horsetail, and the one fern leaf. We had one that had snake skin on it but- we lost it. I think someone stole it but- it was just a flat piece of shale that had the perfect impression of something that looked like snake skin on it- you could see the shape of the scales. But like I said- I can't find it anymore- someone took it I'm sure, dad showed them to everyone he could get to sit still for a minute.
Been there for a long long time you think people can do a better job then the cave?
@@bobabooey285 honestly
You will laugh out loud if you watch my short 2 part documentary, on my channel, then cone back to this question. I'm not telling you what it is, but if you see it, your eyes will be forever changed. Forget ALL of what this guy is telling you.way off! It's not his fault though..we we r e all taught lies.
Honestly i stumbled upon this video by accident. But it is very interesting and informative, thank you.
Thanks for the kind comment, Stefan, glad you enjoyed it.
I worked at a coal mine in central qld Australia and there was fossilised logs everywhere as landscaping.
Mostly around 12" wish I had pictures of them. Other mines nothing exciting come out
yea, it's hit and miss here as well. some have fossils, others don't
Dear Friends, How about the deep iron mines of Birmingham that had military guards stationed there many years after WWII? I know there were some mysterious finds there!!!
The Sloss furnaces?
I heard about that. In my area of Red Mountain, now a park.Tell the story.Still have machines in them.
What was in them?
This looks like coal deposited in the Pottsville Formation. This is a unit of sandstone interbedded with coal seams from the Pennsylvanian. I live in Northeast Alabama where similar sandstone is represented as a couple of plateaus that extend into Georgia called Sand and Lookout Mountains.
there are some pretty cool caves in northeast bama
@@UndergroundBirmingham there are a few nice deep ones hidden just a bit ESE of Birmingham, near Calcis, in Shelby county.
Thanks for the lesson in how that all took place! What a nice well spoken gentleman.
i'll let him know you enjoyed it. glad you enjoyed the education
I cant even imagine some of the fossils where destroyed during mining a friend of mine is a modern day coal mining and I asked him about fossils he said you have no idea :)
Some British seams were very similar. If there were stumps in the mudstone roofs of roadways (our roofs are different to most US ones) they were dangerous because they could drop out and kill or injure anyone they fell on. They were known as pot lids.
Seems a massive flood rearranged everything. Great video!
Yes the Great Flood caused total destruction. Everything that was once here has been burried, calcified, and petrified. There's much much more burried in mountains and earth. 🙏🏻
@@jesusistruth6673 Amen!
@@jesusistruth6673 You're correct... we can learn how to survive what is coming next(Armageddon) just like Noah and his family survived the flood.
@@IamMe10-4
Earth is going to be nearly extinct again- “unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved” Revelation says that we have an asteroid on the way. The sun is going to “scorch men on the earth” according to 2 Peter. Happy Sabbath to you.
@@jesusistruth6673God never meant for these things to be hidden......all we had to do was dig.
Common findings in our mines in West Virginia. I’ve seen, over the decades, much of these very same things but most were destroyed by the continuous miner to remove the coal seams and I guess you take these things as just a common daily occurrence or sight and
Ignore such things. A shame really. Some are really interesting.
yea, over the years, i have noticed roof bolts through many of them. i guess it makes sense seeing them daily, plus you're job is to get the mineral, not the fossils, so i can see where the focus isn't on saving them
The best fossils I've seen underground was in the sago mine in Buchanan wv
I fnd some on the local riverbank probably discarded from coal measures upstream, the guy who invented paraffin had mines 20 mins walk from here, two of the three I know are still accessible but I'd only venture into one of them, one has gas warnings and the other has a half fallen slab at the entrance, I've spoken to people who have squeezed in but I'm not brave enough for that.
Carboniferous rainforest plants are amazing to see in situ, I'm near a spot in Scotland where a coal seam and strata from ~318 Mya / mid Pennsylvanian is exposed outdoors. Scotland was once part of the Appalachians - our coal is from the same forests as these, with mostly the same plants. James' ID sheet looks really neat.
The shale/mudstone above and below coal seams was deposited where forests grew in flood basins or areas of continental shelf that were normally deep underwater but got exposed during several short-lived mini ice ages that caused sea levels to rise and fall by around 70m / 230ft.
Fine sediment indicates slow-moving deep water, lime indicates warm shallow seas, sand indicates fast-moving shallow water like rivers & beaches. So if you're looking at shale - coal - shale - limestone - sandstone (bottom to top) that tells a story of seafloor - rainforest - seafloor - shallow sea - beach.
You find loads of Stigmaria (roots & stumps from giant Lycopods) in the lower shale from the plants that colonised the exposed silt after the water retreated, and thick wads of stems, fronds and other leafy stuff in the upper shale from the rainforest plants that got flooded and buried.
Horsetails then and now are great at growing in wet mud & sediment at the bottom of lakes - if you find shale full of Calamites and nothing else, those were the last stragglers that kept pushing up new shoots until the sea rose too deep even for them. You can find rocks packed so full of horsetail stems they peel apart like a book.
If you hate ticks, you must love wasps.
Wasps hunt ticks. An enemy of your enemy is a friend. 🐝
Good content. 👍🏻
thanks you :) wasps don't bother me, and i don't bother them lol
@@UndergroundBirmingham yup , tid bits of wisdom
Good to know, got hundreds, ticks out here
Opossums eat a lot of ticks also.
I get paralysis ticks, if you disturb them in any way, they vomit venom into you or your animal, you may get sick, your animal has a very good chance of dying. The poison paralyses their legs first (or wings) from an hour to 10 hours later, it will not be able to move at all, will lose control of its bladder, in a birds case, i had to nurse 4 muscovy 3 Khaki Campbells and 3 geese at different times, you have to hold the animal on your lap andcwhen it twitches their neck creases and they suffocate. Horrible bloody things.
(sorry for the tick lesson. 😉☺️) i have a couple of videos on my channel showing how to get them out without poisoning your pet. .
Coal doesn’t take “millions of years” to form, folks.
So interesting! Great work! Thanks for sharing! Have a great day!👍👍👍
thank you so much., have a great day as well :)
Amazing geological find.(bucket list!)
I really enjoyed seeing all the fossils and the explanations of how they formed. Thank you. :-)
that guy knows his shit, great vid
Fascinating content! I enjoy botanizing in my N. Georgia area. Keep showing what's blooming in your woods as you explore, it will drive viewership. We have old gold mines in my area, I wonder if fossils have been found. New sub.
_"For this they willingly are ignorant of, that...the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished"_ (2 Peter 3:5-6). Blessings!
Silly religious nonsense, is for kids. Grow up. Let science open your eyes, to a real world, full of beauty and wonder.
I learnt much more interesting things in this 10 minutes than during my whole high school years. Keep up with these vids! :)
DAMN FASCINATING!!!!!!!! Can't imagine the sense of awe.....finding these fossils!!!!
This is Amazing Discovery and in England
I visited Wokey Hole. 2 weeks ago
I love Rocks, Crystal's, Stones
When we made a pond in our Garden in Cobham Surrey We found sea shells and little Fossil
Well done all of you ❤️
Yvonne Mullion Cornwall England 🏴
I heard Wokey Hole is a pretty impressive cave. I have a few brick from some industrial sites in my garden :)
Wow those are nice specimens, I've found some calamites but not near that size and those lepidodendron are mind blowing, I've collected around forty pieces over the years but again this spot you've discovered is extra special.
Once upon a time when CO2 levels was at least 8 times higher than today this planet was covered in forests like that.
interesting to imagine
Also oxygen levels were higher than today
I think the gravity was way different before Noah’s flood…
That’s why people were moving giant stones around. They were living in an atmosphere that allowed them to be strong enough
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So cool. Great video. A little different but great. Thanks for the adventure.
a little different, but i figured some may enjoy it :)
this is fucking cool as. nice work dude, keep it up
thanks you so much. :)
I can't tell how I got to this video, but that was really exciting! I could listen for hours to that man. Thank you very much!
Very exciting video and a very knowedgable professor. Thanks for posting.
Love the nugget about shale and coal, makes sense, learned something new
agreed, he taught us a lot as well
So everything was gigantic back in the old times? What about the giant trees? Devil's tower in WYOMING?
i would have to defer to him on all that, all i have is a guess
Devils tower is a rock formation lol
I found a perfect calamite fossil one day walking my dog. Area where they use mine rubble in parks. It was slightly flattened with a crease in the bark. Very cool
Great Video! Geomorphology is one of my favorite disciplines. I live in a part of Illinois that was a Coal Age Swamp 250 million years ago. Imagine Dragonflies with a 3 foot wingspans. Incredible stuff.
If everything in the prehistoric world was bigger and more prolific doesn't that mean that this present age of the planet is not as life supporting as the prehistoric past ? Another words the planet we live on is winding down. We are along with this planet coming to the end of it's life cycle ?
they way it seems, yes, but as far as how long until the end, that's the million dollar question
Exactly right Ted. Jesus spoke this world into perfect existence roughly 6,000 years ago, and we humans chose to rebel against him, so everything is winding down now. But Jesus will come back, destroy this earth with fire, and remake it into the beautiful garden he originally planned for it, (or maybe even better!) Hallelujah!
...Fascinating stuff, ...thanks for sharing...!
I found tons of fossils like these at a strip mine by my house in southwestern PA when I was a kid. Even found a trilobite.
This guy is awesome. That is the best description I've ever heard and he makes it very understandable.
This educational, interesting, and fascinating video, just made my day. Your Geologist was super, and he showed no condescending tone. I enjoy people who know a lot, but don't try to make you look, dumb, compared to themselves, when they are teaching you. Many do like to do that though. Thank you.
That was an amazingly interesting video, thank you.
Thank you for posting
What a really kool video thanks a lot guys and ya know it was so good that I had to subscribe lol
I wonder if they have a methane spotter or aware of black damp ?
Yes
Nice job fellas, great content, I learned something, lol. And a lot of great comments!
I pulled a tick from my urethra one time. That gave me nightmares.
Outstanding video. Learned a lot from the mine video and the professor!
Thank you so much, Chuck, glad you enjoyed it.
Fabulous episode 👏
Outstanding video. Very interesting and informative as well. Thanks for sharing. Subbed👍🐊
Thanks so much, glad to have you along for the ride
Just subbed to you as well
My neighbor had a coal stove and I used to look through the call for fossils
That was really neat.
ONE THING YOU MISSING>.. All of the rock in the mines is from Petrified Organics and especially giant trees of old. Just like the plants used to be huge. The trees were even BIGGER.. Some have been proven to be miles across at the stump which in many places around the world still stands.. Gold, Silver and all gems came from the trees...
One mile, my mind can not even visualize that. Thank you for the info
That is ridiculous. Why would you think something so silly?
36 foot wide fern leaf in southern Indiana coal mine that takes up an entire intersection. One single leaf
This is mind-crushingly incredible. 😳😳😳
Wow! 😳 Great video. My father has to see this one.
I worked I. A deep underground coal mine in pa and I’ve seen many of the same fossils in the roof 900 feet down pretty neat
This video has me dying to go fossil hunting in a coal mine! I'm experienced underground, and I know the risks, but if I come across one, I'm definitely taking a peak.
The ticks have been horrendous this past year or 2 up here in the northeast.
Loved it!! Absolutey amazing and educational
How cool
Rocks were once living and breathing, petrafication is what it's called, we are literally living on top of ancient giant life.
If it wasn't for the cataclysms piling everything up andcovering everything in mud. There'd be no coal.
What are you talking about?
@@TheScreamingFrog916 what's coal and how is it formed?
@@TheScreamingFrog916 hello???
Enjoyed the video
Prime habitat for morel mushrooms lol. Trust me, I'm looking, yelling at my screen...check for morels. They sell for good money per pound.
This is so cool!
Fantastic ✌️
A tick on your eye? That IS nightmare fuel.
Seems like this all happened during Noah's flood
What are you talking about? Why do you believe such crazy stuff?
@@TheScreamingFrog916 I believe a serpent talked, a donkey a rebuke the man, Jesus was raised from the dead and his blood redeems me from my sins praise Jesus
Went fossil hunting today in an above ground coal deposit. Ended up finding a nice lepidodendron and some calamites.
Solid Content.
Very informative, many thanks
Two weeks ago starting seeing horsetail herb around me not flavor from boiling but lots of good minerals.
It's great to do gold prospecting or any other kind of prospecting with people who understand their job! 🙂Awesome👍
I shit at the thought of all the fantastic fossils which have been destroyed by mining
Lads if you’re ever in the West Midlands again would you mind a local lad joining you? Always wanted to do something like this!!
Every bit of that actually occurred just prior to the Great Flood, when the fountains of the deep were broken up.
Yes and Amen!
the flood of Noah jacked this world UP!!
Only a matter of time before you get a million subs and are doing exploring and videos for a living man ...
I appreciate the kind words. 0 subs or 1 million, I'd still be doing it
Of course it’s completely safe to crawl around in abandoned deep mines.
I was about to say I bet this video will go viral just based on the way you titled it very good choice of title and I currently live in oakman Alabama actually I live on an old strip pit and a place called Marietta but don't you know that's not fossilized tree bark that's a mermaid's tail
My gosh a tick bite in the eye...very interesting video, I live in the Appalachian mountains-coal country and have seen similar fossils in shale.
thankfully i got the tick right before it bit. We are on the very end of the mountain, Alabama.
@@UndergroundBirmingham One of my friends hiking in wet tropical rainforest got a little leech in his eye, under lower lid. Luckily a doctor was also in group hiking, and got it out for him. Eww. I think a tick is possibly worse though....😬
What county & state is this coal mine located?
James Lowery is a former u.s. professor.
That's where the coal came from... tropical rain forests and millions of years. Presto... Coal. Great video and lots of fun discoveries. Where I live, we don't have coal, but we do have Petrified Forests.
So How long does the beginning go back
Well I for one was glad to get out of there. 😆
we invite you to Poland, the deepest coal mine is open to tourists
We're can I find fosel in NJ in east Brunswick or lincroft NJ kathy losche
That is where coal comes from
How did a forest get hundreds of feet underground?
Coal is wood. As above so below.
wood turns to rock you can see the petrification process in lots of places, some petrificated trees where 500 meters high and now the lie on the sind and peopel think it is a mountain
Yes petrification happens.
No, nobody educated, thinks that trees were 500 meters high.
@@TheScreamingFrog916 YOU CAN SEE EVIDENCE IN Utah, Ohion of massive long pieces of wood trees lying every where it looks just like bbq wood coal that has dried up in the sun it is blatenly obvious factual evidence that cannot be denied.
Man! I've never even had a tick and now I'm going to have nightmares about ticks in my eyes....
My dad had to have one removed from his belly button, by a Dr.
I had one on my neck. Yuck!!!
@@TheScreamingFrog916 🤢 lol