IMPRESSIVE Geologic Finds in an Abandoned Anthracite Coal Mine! Extinct 🌳 Trees, Leaves, & Flowers!🤯
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- In this video, I find the largest intact single fossil/petrified specimen I ever saw underground, dating back to the Carboniferous Period (299-360 million years ago). This piece was a true gem. Something this size and in this condition was truly rare to see in any mine. Luckily I was able to document it and share it with you. There was a whole bunch of fossils also to show to you in this video. I quickly show some of the classic timbering an Anthracite Coal Mine usually has in it on this particular tour also. This abandoned coal mine only went into for a few hundred feet (one of the smallest mines in distance we ever explored), yet I was able to make a video on it, haha. This mine definitely has seen better days however, it was a nightmare down in this one! Sketchville for sure!
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Come along with me while we explore deep into the Earth's underbelly! I think this one actually may have been a portal straight into HELL itself!
DISCLAIMER: Stay Out & Stay Alive!! As you can see from this video, abandoned mines are treacherous. I've worked with the Pa. DEP/Pa. Game Commission (civilian non-employee reporting dangerous mines) over the last 10 plus years to bat gate mines, backfill open vertical shafts that were threats to people & animals, etc.
STAY OUT & STAY ALIVE! I NO LONGER ACTIVELY EXPLORE ABANDONED ANTHRACITE COAL MINES. I HAVE NEARLY 2 DECADES OF EXPERIENCE AND AM TRAINED, HAVE OXYGEN, FLAME SAFETY LAMPS, MAPS, MEDICAL TRAINING FROM THE MILITARY, ETC. YOU CAN EASILY GET HURT OR KILLED IN OLD MINES! Black damp can kill you in mere moments & it is something you cannot smell or see, without training & proper equipment, you will succumb to this. No locations will be given or discussed anywhere on my channel; I will delete them if comments as such arise. I always carried a closed-circuit oxygen self-rescuing apparatus that miners carry. I always a had a ridiculous number of batteries & multiples of flashlights themselves, glow sticks, hard hat, tourniquet, maps of the specific mine, a safety party on standby should I not come out at a predetermined time, etc. I kept my explorations as professional as one possibly could. I also had an extensive knowledge as to how & why miners did what they did underground. I knew what could possibly happen to the roof/walls before it happened in a sense. My geology knowledge was something I worked hard at & most people could miss what I often saw thus resulting in collapses, etc. SO PLEASE STAY OUT & STAY ALIVE!
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Spectacular fossils when you think how many million years ago the tree fell, and how many years it took for the sediment around to petrify, harden, while at the same time the anthracite coal seam itself was also forming. Amazing!
It's spectacular to be honest. Hard to wrap your mind around.
Really neat! Yeah, that's crazy to think one time that was the surface you in!@@AnthraciteHorrorStories
@@jimmyjams5 hell ya. Jungle swamp too!!
Very impressive history lesson 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks Dave!
@@577buttfan I make it all up 🤫
Wow! Unbelievable! Thanks again for all these amazing videos!
Hello Mr. O'Donnell! Many thanks to you sir. Hope all is well on your end.
That’s a beautiful mine there. I’ve always thought the three piece timber sets make for great photos. Cool fossils too. I’ve never seen leaves like that. At this point I have pounds of the fossilized bark in my collection. Allegedly the miners used to use them as doorstops if they found a nice looking fossil at work.
That's awesome!! Petrification is a nice collectable.
"di you just touch me? Well I'm reporting you to HR"
🤔hmmmm, I'll have to reach out to the HR dept. of the Abandoned Coal Mines.
This is very cool i live in georgia i wish we had stuff like that to check out here . Just out of curiosity what got you into exploring the mines and the history of it ?
Nice. I went to basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia (Columbus) back in 2007. Thanks for the kind words. My family came here from Ireland, Poland & Ukraine to mine Anthracite coal here back in the late 1800s & early 1900s, guess it got in my blood. Hahaha. It was just a fascination when I was in high school and I just went for it one day when I found a hole in the ground in the woods. Lol.
@AnthraciteHorrorStories in that case first thank you for your service second that's really cool I would love to see the inside of some abandoned mines there are some strip mines where we go offloading when we go to Tennessee and there used to be a ton of mine shafts but they blocked them all off its in amongst over 100,000 acres of wide open land privately owned as well as Tennessee wildlife resource land alot of it has natural gas wells on it now
@@haydendenard2693 thanks man, appreciate it. That's awesome! Natural gas, interesting, I never knew about that. Be careful if you do go in, you need air detectors because a thing called "black damp" exists. Please research that nightmarish gas. Tennessee is a nice state.
U know our continent was created also spent most of its time at the equator…
Yes. It'll happen again. They say Pangaea Ultima will occur in a few hundred million years...that'd be epic.
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories we’re heading into an epic event currently. Lots of supporting evidence u should know. If ur interested let me know. I believe ur knowledge is worth passing on.
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Well, that definitely beats my lepidododendron rock. That's absolutely a gold mine of fossils.
Its cool to see the wood brattice still intact. Hell yeah! 🪨⛏️🤘
Ya man. Imagine if that thing could be chiseled out. Smithsonian quality fossil.
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories I hope you grabbed the small one on the side. The lines were so clean.