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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ส.ค. 2024
- If you're like me, you're bound to be curious when traveling the wide-open spaces of Oregon. I need to know everything I can.
That's how it was when we headed south on US 97 searching for the forty million years of geologic history found in the Oregon state rock called "Thundereggs." I cherished these magical, mysterious golf ball size rocks as a child for their drab exterior, but their oh-so-creamy and colorful agate interiors that continue to be trophy prizes for young and old rock hounds alike.
Technically a thunderegg is not a rock; it's a nodule or a geode that forms inside other rocks. But if you were to judge by the throngs of visitors who stream through the Richardson's Recreational Ranch just off US 97 near Madras, thundereggs are without question the most popular rock in Oregon.
The expansive seventeen-thousand-acre ranch allows rock hounds the opportunity to dig and discover countless secrets in the soil. On a recent visit to the ranch, Casey Richardson, co-manager of the expansive operation, led us across seven miles of bumpy back road to a mother lode akin to thunderegg heaven on Earth.
I remember going here as a kid, it was tons of fun!
So beautiful👍
This is pretty nice
The digging at Richardson Ranch is of no more!
The shop is still going and you can buy material there..
Its sad you can't dig at Richardsons Ranch anymore. Please Casey Come back :(
I've been rockhounding for nearly two years, and I do 99% of my hounding within 15 miles of my apartment. I live somewhere in the californian mojave desert. Anyway, after all this time, many days spent hunting for agate, and finding a lot, I'd never found a thunderegg. I don't even know if they're all that plentiful around these parts. But a few weeks ago I found a thunderegg! About the size of a softball, and I found it in a dirt lot in betwixt suburbia. I don't have a saw big enough to handle slicing it open and im dying to know whats inside.
I want the blooper reels
Hi, ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙋🏿♂️
PolkaDot Agate Mine is Open
The only eggs I'm likely to find are coyote eggs.
Its true
RockHounds lick rocks to see the color.
The rocklickers. Its a thing.
Now I know what a thunder egg is..does anybody know what a thunder mug is? LOL!!!!
I bet he’d like minecraft
Isn’t that illegal?
Can it sell about 1000$
35 million years ago? LOL!!!
Geologic time moves slow. Where you have rhyolite, you would have once had some sort of a volcano. Many years of erosion brought the mountain down.
He talks funny
Well he just trashed that one
We are commercial cutters of Oregon
Sunstones in brilliant cut, calibrated
sizes. Pls send your rough to:
GPO Box 1142, Bangkok, Thailand.
Fake voice. Annoying. Cannot watch.
Love Grant's adventures but....The earth is not 35 million yrs old...God created the Heavens and the Earth in 6 days and rested on the 7th Genesis 1 and Genesis 2:2,3.
seventhday is sabbath you're such an idiot.
Are you serious? You poor thing.
seventhday is sabbath Why on this video do you have to push your religious BS? Keep it to yourself. Nobody wants to read it!!!
I feel like creating a sock puppet account and then spamming the hell out of religious channels. But I wont. Why? Because I'm basically a decent person. Oh yeah, I'm also an ever so eeeeevil atheist. And a rock hound. What ever.
We all have the right to express our opinions, it is good to be able to say our differences in a respectful way and not put people down for their beliefs.
The problem today is, the world is filled with a "my opinion" is the only way and tolerance does not exist..So sad...
Dude get. A life