Thanks for the kind words Simon, I am on my way to another fossil hunt right now, so more videos are on their way. I found a new species for my collection yesterday, Waiparaconus, so that video should be out soon.
Hey, I'm the geology student from Canada again. Though sedimentation isn't my strong suit, as a general rule, the clasts, in this case the fossil concretions, have to form before they are deposited. I remember there was a Japanese paper that said concretions actually form pretty quickly, in a matter of months or years. So I suspect that the concretions formed, settled to the seafloor, and then were buried in the volcanic sediment later, which is why they are all preserved in layers. I can see if I can dig up the articles and papers later this weekend.
@@Doxymeister Oops sorry, it's exam season so I forgot! Science daily has a nice concise article here: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180502103931.htm It links to the original university if you want some more pictures and graphs. The full paper is here on Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-24205-5 but be aware it is fairly dense. Hope that helps!
Concretions tend to form due to the animal’s decomposition changing the local chemistry of the sediment around it. The fact they’re in those layers just shows that there was locally varying areas of biological activity and higher energy (I.e. sand) interspersed with areas of anerobic low-oxygen and low energy deposition (mud, a low-energy sediment). Over time those areas show up in the geology (like in your cliff) as layers; in 3D they’re actually lenses. You are correct in noticing the nodules are generally in line with each other though!
Man, so interesting mate, honestly I love it, it’s not just the collecting that’s so much fun in itself but then you get to play with them. Seriously really interesting mate. Good luck with working them and can’t wait to see eventually what they come out like. Good times mate 👍
Thanks so much! Yeah, I love the fossils and the fact that you can go and research them afterwards and work on them as well. Keeps me busy and out of trouble. I need to sort out my timelapse gear. The last one didn't come out at all.
Mamlambo OH MY GOSH DUDE!!!!! I owe you the biggest apology! I when I heard you say to please subscribe, I had to move on to keep editing my next one but I was just talking to agate dad and he told me what you did and I realised I missed it!!!! I just saw it. Mate you are way too kind brother. I thank you so much, and I’m so super passionate about trying to get these types of videos out to as many people as possible, because the “algorithm” can sometimes be terrible and if it wasn’t for Taylor, Agate Dad, putting your channel in his playlist, I wouldn’t have found your vids!!!! That’s just nuts that it never came up, so, I just want to push people like you and I and Taylor and our videos not for numbers or anything, but just for people to get the chance to realise they’re out there and that they’re rad. I hope that makes sense man. Thank you honestly and keep creating brother!
@@Rookie_Rockounding I totally get you! This is a passion project for me, I just love exploring and finding things I can research and wanted to share that with some other people. I must thank Agate dad for putting my video on his playlist - that's actually a really good idea!
Mamlambo Yeah it’s a way of sharing other people’s rad videos. I’ve got a list called “other people’s rad rocks collecting and stuff” hahaha! Worsts name but kinda makes sense. Should be a couple of hours on there I think. 😉👍
Rapid burial without oxygen and no time for any other species to eat it. With pressure. Must have been a massive flood and tsunami type waves. Very good videos, very inspiring. Thank you
Excellent! So Cool. The concretions here are in "line" or at the same level as well. However, in my area the cliffs are shale and slate. They also differ in size and shape...some are "flying saucer" shaped to "round".
First time watching one of your vids, and I really enjoyed it! Think it's cool that you also like Rookie Rockhounding and gave him a shout out. Small world, lol.
Thanks for watching Amanda, I'm glad you enjoyed it 😄 Yeah, I love Rookie Rockhounding's channel. I do a bit of rockhounding as well so really enjoy seeing what he is finding across the ditch. I have a rockhounding channel as well if you are interested in that side of things: th-cam.com/channels/yIYDaFNKo2UHkJg7mlwRQQ.html
It's no surprise to see so many ocean fossils in New Zealand once known as Zealandia . Over 26 Million years ago most of the continent of New Zealand stretched and then sunk beneath the waves, and the New Zealand that we see today only rose up above the waves again because of the clash between the Australian plate and the pacific plate, the result of which pushed New Zealand back up above the waves and coupled with Volcanic eruptions more land appeared But Much of the continent of New Zealand that was once above sea level didn't benefit from this and remains under the waves. New Zealand today is tiny compared to what it use to be.
Did ya see those brilliant huge 'Candy Corn' bills on those Oystercatcher birds at about 7:18!? Marvelous! Good advice you gave: stay several feet away from the bottoms of eroding beach cliffs in New Zealand or otherwise suffer the revenge of the gravity-assisted fossil crabaloid! I'm 60 & immature, but if I found 2 'Tusk' shells I'd stick 'em under my top lip & do my best Walrus show for the young neighbor kids...I look like one anyway(!)
Nice prep! You’re turning it into something nice to look at. For the large concretion keep a very close eye on the crack in the middle and when you approach is you’ll want to really slow down. Also no need to put extra glue around the carapace. That’s all going to come off anyways but you did what’s write in gluing the nodule back into one whole. Looking forward to seeing your progress!
Oooh ~ the *Nerve* to Crack these open . . . and *Skill* to Glue back together. _Then the _*_Magic_*_ to Reveal them again_ Curiosity vs Patience. eeeeek lol - and all those Rocks i've seen. Curiosity wins . . maybe. *Thanks!*
Yeah, locals that know the waipara area will know the beaches. They just keep going all the way to Motunua. Thanks for watching! Might see you at the fossil ground!
I used to work as a possum hunter and whilst working a creek in the Ashley Forrest I found a seam of fossil sea shells , ill dig out the map n find the location for you
@@MamlamboFossils Yeah! There's a place on Signal Hill here in St. John's, called The Johnson Geo Centre. According to them Australia is 2-300,000 years older than the Island. They have lots of cool stuff there. Cheers!
@@MamlamboFossils Hey! Have you watched any of the Northern Mudlarkers videos? They are new to TH-cam. You should subscribe to them. They are trending on here. They are really nice ladies.
Lovely nodules. These crabs are beautiful. Be interested to see your air pens and what you use buddy. I live and collect in the u.ķ. mostly Jurassic, lots of our ammonites are in nodules. Love to see that big nodule prepped.
Hi, would an x-ray reveal the crab inside? Have you ever tried it...made a video of it. I would interested in watching a video like that if you make it. 😊 I enjoyed watching this one today. Thx
I know that you can use an MRI machine to see what is inside a concretion. The Canterbury museum have done it to see whether a particular concretion had a dolphin skull in it. I think it's expensive though 😀
Hi Mamlambo, today I found my first concretion! It still has a bit of clay around the sides however…would you recommend soaking it to help remove the clay? I read an article somewhere that recommended soaking and then freezing to crack it open - would you?
I have an electric engraver and it doesn't have as much power as my pneumatic ones. It could just be the brand I have though! They are also difficult to use as the motor needs to be in the part you hold which makes it bulky.
This video was super great man!! I love seeing the adventures you go on, but I could honestly watch you crack open concretions all day! haha thanks for the video! p.s. thanks for the shout out! I think my jaw literally dropped haha!
Hello I'd like to say thank you for uploading your videos with your knowledge on this subject. I found your videos by luck I've been trying to find the exact situation that I have. I live on the beach close to Ensenada Mexico and I've been finding what I think are fossils and now I know what to really look for and what to do when I find some. One other thing I have found what looks to be a teeth roughly 6" long and close to 4" wide at the top and goes to a 1/2" point can you help me figure out what it might be thank you very much
I'm no expert but I would had cut down the side with the "shell" in just to make it more manageable and for the reason you could hog away a large amount of rock and still have a more accurate clue of where the crab are in the rock then I would had glued it back together as it would had been hard to mess up the mess up the alignment of the two sides.
You're killing me not showing them prepped. We have nothing like this here, rock is too old, but I wish we did. Keep up the good work and showing all your cool finds. I had a thought, here you can buy a roll up plastic sled used by hunters for deer. My bet is you could do something similar to get some of the heavier stones at least closer to your vehicle. My brother and I used cheap children's plastic sleds.
Using a sled is a really good idea! I might give that a go. I am uploading another prep video in the next week 😄 It takes time to do the prep and then edit all the footage - sometimes more than 20 hours of 4K video! Thanks for watching and thanks for the suggestion!
@@MamlamboFossils oh I know I have prepped enough in the hard limestone we have and done enough editing. It takes a lot longer than people realize. If you can find a roll up plastic sled you can carry it on the side or under your pack. They are ok I like the rigid ones more but remember either you get to figure out a way to secure your goodies.
If you find a fully intact crab. Like 100% all the bits. Would it be possible to fully remove it from the matrix of the concretion? So then you have a fully articulated crab as it would have looked when it was alive.
Where a lot of my family come from ,up North,there are some really huge round rocks. i wonder if they are just bigger versions of the same thing you have there?
Hi mercmad, it's certainly possible. Ask around, or investigate some of the broken ones to see if you see anything sticking out. I know they have them towards Taranaki as well. Thanks for watching!
I've had a look at the Rissiona shells online and they look very similar, I've also had someone say it could be a Mauithoe insignis which looks to be very close to it. Thanks for the ID - it's pointed me in the right direction!
The way those conclusions are made is the creatures are caught in the mud flow and trapped in it. In the moving of the water it rolls them around and around and it hardens on them rather quickly because there’s volcanic ash mixed with this mud which makes it like concrete, then these rocks get rubbed some more against each other and worn down so that some parts of the creature are erased. Could only have happened during unusual geological conditions.
I think there is a variety of methods these concretions can form. I think some of them form in situ as I have found them with the crab legs still in the clay outside of the concretion. I don't think there has to be volcanic ash involved in every instance either, but some good theories 😄
I’m thinking of the Moeraki boulders which are another puzzle. The fact that they are also spherical and seem to be built up in layers suffers that they were rolled around the way you roll a piece of plasticine on the table to make it round. It would have to be done with clay of the right sticky consistency which hardened fast enough to allow multiple layers to form.
In New Zealand you can collect fossils from public beaches. It is recommended to let a museum know if you find something cool, I do that if I don't know what it is or if I suspect it is something rare. Twice now the museum has then asked if they could have the fossil I collected which I then donate to them to study further. It is against the law to export a fossil out of the country without a permit as well.
@@nehab4148 Definitely that rush when I find something which looks like it could be important or rare 😄 Like when we found that penguin on day 2 of the hike we did, was such a rush!
I thought the concretions were formed by sea action but you're shown they were formed before they were swept up in the siltstone or mudstone. They must have been formed by river action, rolling around millions of years ago
Good question Jerrod! This is so I can use my air prep tool to fuller expose it later on. I will be doing a video showing a similar one in the near future. Thanks for watching! 😀
@@MamlamboFossils Any results or new video of that big giant fossil crab being finished? Love to see more videos. cheers from Los Angeles, California! USA
Thanks for watching! I think Belemnites are an older species compared to Tusk shells. Belemnites were up to Cretaceous where Tusk shells are younger, Miocene to present day.
Ok just finished watching another video with the “monster” crab. The legs are visible from the rock rolling around and rubbing against abrasives. In this video you mention these items are about 12million years old. Well how has that rock not rubbed away to nothing by now? 12 million years of abrasive water and other rocks, sand etc. very very strange.
Hi Sandro! Google "tusk shell dentalium" to see the miocene era tusk shells we find there. Belemnite fossils are older, cretaceous if I'm not mistaken. Thanks for watching! 😀
@@MamlamboFossils These cliffs of clay were laid down as sediment layers over millions of years. The continents as we now know them shifted in different shapes and sizes from different places all over the globe (450 million years ago to today (The earth's mantle is still moving.) small and large pieces bumped against each other and accreted themselves onto each other. Major movements up to 50,000 years ago. Since that time there's been more piled on top either by sea sediment or volcanic action. If you find some fossils are "from" the ancient warm tropical waters of Malaysia or The South Seas, they probably are or where you live now was once where warm shallow seas covered it. They are above the sea level now due to either the sea level having lowered slowly or the base layer far below being slowly thrust up because a different mantle plate is thrusting up that layer as the plate slips under or over the plate in that area. I'm not familiar with the ancient plate movements forming your area or the current tectonics occurring where you live. Check out accretions and terranes history for your area. (Yes, they are spelled terranes and not terrains.) Where I am from there were tusk shells found from Alaska to Baja California and were used in pre-white man times as money and making trade goods. These were most often traded to First Nation people's east of the Cascade Mt.s and some items making it as Far East as the American Plains and SW tribes. The Nez Perce mentioned in the photo of the bracelet and necklace lived in the rugged area of NE Oregon. They are most famous for their development of the American Appaloosa Horse long before the white men came. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dentalium_shell Dentalium shells could also be found in fresh water rivers having contact with the Pacific Ocean when I was a kid in the 60's. Thank you for such interesting videos. I'm fossil collecting vicariously through your shows.
Hi Sally, it makes it easier to work on with the air scribe. Some of the crab is in one half, some in the other. So glueing it back together is the best way of ensuring they line back up 😄
Crab??? I don't see it... Why would you glue them back together, why?? Maybe you can show me exactly what kind of crab I'm supposes to be looking at 😦 humm....... I couldn't even see any shell fragments either 😕😦🙆 sorry I don't get it or do I see what you're looking at 😯
Hi Jerrod, thanks for watching! A very large flood could cause some sediment build-up from the rivers flooding out into the ocean. I'm unsure whether this could cause concretions to form, we would have to ask a geologist 😄
Totally enamored with thus Channel I been binge watching for days your energy is so soothing and very kind 🙏
Thoroughly absorbing, a shame it ever had to end. Thanks so much for uploading.
Thanks for the kind words Simon, I am on my way to another fossil hunt right now, so more videos are on their way. I found a new species for my collection yesterday, Waiparaconus, so that video should be out soon.
@@MamlamboFossils Wow, intriguing, looking forward to an update. Be lucky hunting today.
I love watching your videos when i wake up n the morning. Makes me think thats theres more to explore everyday.
I love that! I feel the same everyday, there are 100s of spots I still want to explore just within a few hours drive.
Hey, I'm the geology student from Canada again. Though sedimentation isn't my strong suit, as a general rule, the clasts, in this case the fossil concretions, have to form before they are deposited. I remember there was a Japanese paper that said concretions actually form pretty quickly, in a matter of months or years. So I suspect that the concretions formed, settled to the seafloor, and then were buried in the volcanic sediment later, which is why they are all preserved in layers. I can see if I can dig up the articles and papers later this weekend.
Thanks so much for the explanation. It does make sense, and thanks for taking the time to reply - I really appreciate it!
Hi there, it's three weeks on, and I was wondering if you had found that paper? It does sound interesting!
@@Doxymeister Oops sorry, it's exam season so I forgot! Science daily has a nice concise article here: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180502103931.htm
It links to the original university if you want some more pictures and graphs.
The full paper is here on Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-24205-5 but be aware it is fairly dense.
Hope that helps!
I just found this channel . Very nice the way you handle the fossils and clean them up.
Thanks Dena! Thanks for watching and commenting 😄
These videos are do beautiful . The scenery and the sounds of the ocean and wildlife etc.
Thanks Michael!
Concretions tend to form due to the animal’s decomposition changing the local chemistry of the sediment around it. The fact they’re in those layers just shows that there was locally varying areas of biological activity and higher energy (I.e. sand) interspersed with areas of anerobic low-oxygen and low energy deposition (mud, a low-energy sediment). Over time those areas show up in the geology (like in your cliff) as layers; in 3D they’re actually lenses. You are correct in noticing the nodules are generally in line with each other though!
What an amazing moment when the halves split!
Cool idea, polish the outside of the bolder and under the carapace.
I dont know if it will take a polish 🤔 it's pretty sandy
Great finds congrats, love rookie rockhounding channel he’s a good dude
Yeah, he has a really cool channel! He finds some amazing bits of agate!
Nice Crab nice Video
Thanks Tim!
Nice job Mamlambo... Fantastic ...
Congrats...
Thanks Thiago, this is that concretion I was telling you about. Got one more video to put together then I will do the one where we went out 🦀🦀
Man, so interesting mate, honestly I love it, it’s not just the collecting that’s so much fun in itself but then you get to play with them. Seriously really interesting mate. Good luck with working them and can’t wait to see eventually what they come out like. Good times mate 👍
Thanks so much! Yeah, I love the fossils and the fact that you can go and research them afterwards and work on them as well. Keeps me busy and out of trouble. I need to sort out my timelapse gear. The last one didn't come out at all.
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OH MY GOSH DUDE!!!!! I owe you the biggest apology! I when I heard you say to please subscribe, I had to move on to keep editing my next one but I was just talking to agate dad and he told me what you did and I realised I missed it!!!! I just saw it. Mate you are way too kind brother. I thank you so much, and I’m so super passionate about trying to get these types of videos out to as many people as possible, because the “algorithm” can sometimes be terrible and if it wasn’t for Taylor, Agate Dad, putting your channel in his playlist, I wouldn’t have found your vids!!!! That’s just nuts that it never came up, so, I just want to push people like you and I and Taylor and our videos not for numbers or anything, but just for people to get the chance to realise they’re out there and that they’re rad. I hope that makes sense man. Thank you honestly and keep creating brother!
@@Rookie_Rockounding I totally get you! This is a passion project for me, I just love exploring and finding things I can research and wanted to share that with some other people. I must thank Agate dad for putting my video on his playlist - that's actually a really good idea!
Mamlambo
Yeah it’s a way of sharing other people’s rad videos. I’ve got a list called “other people’s rad rocks collecting and stuff” hahaha! Worsts name but kinda makes sense. Should be a couple of hours on there I think. 😉👍
I'm a fan of your work and I'm in Brazil.
Thanks so much! I love your videos as well, such beautiful locations.
The inside of a coconut, you can't fool me! 😂
Hahahah it does look like that, if only it weighed that little as well! Carrying that back up the cliff was quite an effort 😂
Very interesting and informative. Thanks
My pleasure Harvey!
Rapid burial without oxygen and no time for any other species to eat it. With pressure. Must have been a massive flood and tsunami type waves. Very good videos, very inspiring. Thank you
Excellent! So Cool. The concretions here are in "line" or at the same level as well. However, in my area the cliffs are shale and slate. They also differ in size and shape...some are "flying saucer" shaped to "round".
Hopefully they have some in them 😄 Very cool that they are in shale. Wouldn't have expected it!
First time watching one of your vids, and I really enjoyed it! Think it's cool that you also like Rookie Rockhounding and gave him a shout out. Small world, lol.
Thanks for watching Amanda, I'm glad you enjoyed it 😄 Yeah, I love Rookie Rockhounding's channel. I do a bit of rockhounding as well so really enjoy seeing what he is finding across the ditch. I have a rockhounding channel as well if you are interested in that side of things: th-cam.com/channels/yIYDaFNKo2UHkJg7mlwRQQ.html
Hi from the UK, great video. Nice to see videos from other collectors. I have subscribed. Happy hunting :)
Thanks Fossil Adventures! I'm going to check your channel out as well 😀
Very good jop mamlambo!!
Thanks Goksel 😁
It's no surprise to see so many ocean fossils in New Zealand once known as Zealandia . Over 26 Million years ago most of the continent of New Zealand stretched and then sunk beneath the waves, and the New Zealand that we see today only rose up above the waves again because of the clash between the Australian plate and the pacific plate, the result of which pushed New Zealand back up above the waves and coupled with Volcanic eruptions more land appeared But Much of the continent of New Zealand that was once above sea level didn't benefit from this and remains under the waves. New Zealand today is tiny compared to what it use to be.
Did ya see those brilliant huge 'Candy Corn' bills on those Oystercatcher birds at about 7:18!? Marvelous! Good advice you gave: stay several feet away from the bottoms of eroding beach cliffs in New Zealand or otherwise suffer the revenge of the gravity-assisted fossil crabaloid! I'm 60 & immature, but if I found 2 'Tusk' shells I'd stick 'em under my top lip & do my best Walrus show for the young neighbor kids...I look like one anyway(!)
Hahhaha now that is an image I won't get out of my head soon 😄 Thanks for watching!
Nice prep! You’re turning it into something nice to look at. For the large concretion keep a very close eye on the crack in the middle and when you approach is you’ll want to really slow down. Also no need to put extra glue around the carapace. That’s all going to come off anyways but you did what’s write in gluing the nodule back into one whole. Looking forward to seeing your progress!
Thanks Jason! I need to get some confidence before I attempt this one :)
Oooh ~ the *Nerve* to Crack these open . . . and *Skill* to Glue back together. _Then the _*_Magic_*_ to Reveal them again_
Curiosity vs Patience. eeeeek lol - and all those Rocks i've seen. Curiosity wins . . maybe. *Thanks!*
Hahahaha my pleasure :)
What an amazing life....
I'm enjoying it!
amazing video, love fossil hunting
Thanks Caique! And thanks for watching!
Wondering what remote beaches you went to but then I realized I've been there as well looking for fossils😂
Yeah, locals that know the waipara area will know the beaches. They just keep going all the way to Motunua. Thanks for watching! Might see you at the fossil ground!
I used to work as a possum hunter and whilst working a creek in the Ashley Forrest I found a seam of fossil sea shells , ill dig out the map n find the location for you
I've seen those kinds of round rocks in the cliffs along the coast of San Diego where I grew up. I often wondered if there were fossils inside.
Hi Lance! Could well be if they are found still in the cliff. Can't hurt to take a look in a few 😁
Very interesting 👍👍👍
Thanks! 😄
Nice find. Congrats from Newfoundland, the second oldest rock on the planet!
Thanks Rod! I didn't know that about Newfoundland 😁
@@MamlamboFossils Yeah! There's a place on Signal Hill here in St. John's, called The Johnson Geo Centre. According to them Australia is 2-300,000 years older than the Island. They have lots of cool stuff there. Cheers!
@@MamlamboFossils Hey! Have you watched any of the Northern Mudlarkers videos? They are new to TH-cam. You should subscribe to them. They are trending on here. They are really nice ladies.
@@rodwhite9737 I haven't checked them out yet, but will do so! 😁
@@rodwhite9737 that is amazing! I will have to visit it sometime 😄
Very good
Thanks Alberto 😄
@@MamlamboFossils 👍
12:22 -when the universe decides to save you about 50hrs worth of work...
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Lovely nodules. These crabs are beautiful. Be interested to see your air pens and what you use buddy. I live and collect in the u.ķ. mostly Jurassic, lots of our ammonites are in nodules. Love to see that big nodule prepped.
Great video!!
Thanks so much! And thanks for watching and commenting 😁
Hi, would an x-ray reveal the crab inside? Have you ever tried it...made a video of it. I would interested in watching a video like that if you make it. 😊 I enjoyed watching this one today. Thx
I know that you can use an MRI machine to see what is inside a concretion. The Canterbury museum have done it to see whether a particular concretion had a dolphin skull in it. I think it's expensive though 😀
And thanks for watching 😁
Hi Mamlambo, today I found my first concretion! It still has a bit of clay around the sides however…would you recommend soaking it to help remove the clay? I read an article somewhere that recommended soaking and then freezing to crack it open - would you?
Here in the states we hear 10 degrees and think OMG!! But......centigrade LOL
Oh funny you should mention Rookie Rockhound. I found you through his channel haha
That's awesome! I love his channel so much!
You seriously amaze me !! I wanna find great fossils I'm planning to go to the gayhead cliffs
Thanks so much Angie!
Ayy I recognise that Driftwood Hut :D
Looks like a lot of fun, I wonder if electric engraver could chip away a little easier and are cheaper than the more expensive ones.👍👍👍✌
I have an electric engraver and it doesn't have as much power as my pneumatic ones. It could just be the brand I have though! They are also difficult to use as the motor needs to be in the part you hold which makes it bulky.
This video was super great man!! I love seeing the adventures you go on, but I could honestly watch you crack open concretions all day! haha thanks for the video!
p.s. thanks for the shout out! I think my jaw literally dropped haha!
Thanks mate! I'm still learning which ones to break open and which ones to leave. Perfectly round ones I will be leaving from now on 🦀🦀🦀
@@MamlamboFossils that's what's great about these kind hobbies, you're always learning! You're doing awesome bud!
Those were some awesome finds man! Time lapse prep video on that beauty?
Time lapse for sure! I'm busy prepping a smaller one at the moment. Need to practice before I try one of the big ones! Thanks for the sub!
Hello I'd like to say thank you for uploading your videos with your knowledge on this subject. I found your videos by luck I've been trying to find the exact situation that I have. I live on the beach close to Ensenada Mexico and I've been finding what I think are fossils and now I know what to really look for and what to do when I find some. One other thing I have found what looks to be a teeth roughly 6" long and close to 4" wide at the top and goes to a 1/2" point can you help me figure out what it might be thank you very much
My pleasure! I'd love to see it, send me a photo please to mamlambo82@gmail.com
I'm no expert but I would had cut down the side with the "shell" in just to make it more manageable and for the reason you could hog away a large amount of rock and still have a more accurate clue of where the crab are in the rock then I would had glued it back together as it would had been hard to mess up the mess up the alignment of the two sides.
You're killing me not showing them prepped. We have nothing like this here, rock is too old, but I wish we did. Keep up the good work and showing all your cool finds. I had a thought, here you can buy a roll up plastic sled used by hunters for deer. My bet is you could do something similar to get some of the heavier stones at least closer to your vehicle. My brother and I used cheap children's plastic sleds.
Using a sled is a really good idea! I might give that a go. I am uploading another prep video in the next week 😄 It takes time to do the prep and then edit all the footage - sometimes more than 20 hours of 4K video! Thanks for watching and thanks for the suggestion!
@@MamlamboFossils oh I know I have prepped enough in the hard limestone we have and done enough editing. It takes a lot longer than people realize.
If you can find a roll up plastic sled you can carry it on the side or under your pack. They are ok I like the rigid ones more but remember either you get to figure out a way to secure your goodies.
Name the larger one: 'Death Star' :)
Sir. You can sleep till dawn. These fissils will not run away. They are waiting there for millions of years :D
I just have to time the tides :)
What is the mini electric jack hammer tool you use to clean down to the fossil, is it an electric engraver?
It's an air scribe. Google the CP9361 air scribe, mine is similar to that.
If you find a fully intact crab. Like 100% all the bits. Would it be possible to fully remove it from the matrix of the concretion? So then you have a fully articulated crab as it would have looked when it was alive.
Yip, totally possible! Just time consuming and if the legs are hollow they are going to explode!
Just returned from an overnight fishing trip(12 "grueling" hours gathering content).
Immediately back to fossil birthing!🤣
That concrete on has quite a bit rougher surface, having freshly come out of the cliff.
Where a lot of my family come from ,up North,there are some really huge round rocks. i wonder if they are just bigger versions of the same thing you have there?
Hi mercmad, it's certainly possible. Ask around, or investigate some of the broken ones to see if you see anything sticking out. I know they have them towards Taranaki as well. Thanks for watching!
1:16 me driving through a sketchy part of town
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The other shell could be from a miocene reef/mudflat - ref Rissoina ?
I've had a look at the Rissiona shells online and they look very similar, I've also had someone say it could be a Mauithoe insignis which looks to be very close to it. Thanks for the ID - it's pointed me in the right direction!
How did you know where to chisel on the Rock so it splits perfectly like that? what if you did it the other way and it split the crab in half?
The way those conclusions are made is the creatures are caught in the mud flow and trapped in it. In the moving of the water it rolls them around and around and it hardens on them rather quickly because there’s volcanic ash mixed with this mud which makes it like concrete, then these rocks get rubbed some more against each other and worn down so that some parts of the creature are erased. Could only have happened during unusual geological conditions.
I think there is a variety of methods these concretions can form. I think some of them form in situ as I have found them with the crab legs still in the clay outside of the concretion. I don't think there has to be volcanic ash involved in every instance either, but some good theories 😄
I’m thinking of the Moeraki boulders which are another puzzle. The fact that they are also spherical and seem to be built up in layers suffers that they were rolled around the way you roll a piece of plasticine on the table to make it round. It would have to be done with clay of the right sticky consistency which hardened fast enough to allow multiple layers to form.
It might have been what in the UK fishing as a peeler crab soft shell
theyre so weirdly round! id definitely would love to find someone to do this with. just dont know where to start
Hi Lewis! There are quite a few facebook groups around, might be a good place to find fellow fossil hunters in your area 😁
Beach is amazing 😻 . What do you do to the fossils ?
It's a beaut of a beach! I prep them and put them on display or donate them to New Zealand museums.
So does the decaying gas cause the round shape?
I don't think it's the gas that causes the round shape, just the way it decomposing bits form a round area of sediment that becomes harder.
Why are they encased in the rock so perfectly?
Love your channel. I have a question, where I am it’s not permitted to remove fossils or any rocks from public beaches. Is the law different in NZ?
In New Zealand you can collect fossils from public beaches. It is recommended to let a museum know if you find something cool, I do that if I don't know what it is or if I suspect it is something rare. Twice now the museum has then asked if they could have the fossil I collected which I then donate to them to study further.
It is against the law to export a fossil out of the country without a permit as well.
Mamlambo thanks for your prompt response :) that’s so cool! What would you say is the highlight of your fossil hunting?
@@nehab4148 Definitely that rush when I find something which looks like it could be important or rare 😄 Like when we found that penguin on day 2 of the hike we did, was such a rush!
I think your shell is a type of volute like athleta ficulina
Thank you for the ID! And thanks for watching 😁
What is the point of glueing the halves back together??
I thought the concretions were formed by sea action but you're shown they were formed before they were swept up in the siltstone or mudstone. They must have been formed by river action, rolling around millions of years ago
Why glue back together. You can't see fossil.
Good question Jerrod! This is so I can use my air prep tool to fuller expose it later on. I will be doing a video showing a similar one in the near future. Thanks for watching! 😀
@@MamlamboFossils Any results or new video of that big giant fossil crab being finished? Love to see more videos. cheers from Los Angeles, California! USA
Why are they so round?
Willlllllsonnnnnnnn!
Hahahaha it does look like Wilson 😂
Is the tusk shell a Belemnite?
Thanks for watching! I think Belemnites are an older species compared to Tusk shells. Belemnites were up to Cretaceous where Tusk shells are younger, Miocene to present day.
Hahahha, only saw now that I replied from my Rockhounding channel account.
How can I buy an unexposed mini concretion from you? The process if revealing the crab must be breathtaking. Please, help.
why do you go for a hunt when its dark? what are the advantages?
It was the only time that worked with the tides 😀
@@MamlamboFossils ohh, i see. thanks
0:59 definitely sasquatch
Ok just finished watching another video with the “monster” crab. The legs are visible from the rock rolling around and rubbing against abrasives. In this video you mention these items are about 12million years old. Well how has that rock not rubbed away to nothing by now? 12 million years of abrasive water and other rocks, sand etc. very very strange.
The rocks have been in the cliff for 99% percent of time and only been eroded recently.
And they make a little air compressor Jackhammer for this .
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Sounds like something I need 😁
Can I ask why you're so excited about whale ear bones? Just curious. I think all whale bones would be cool
You can identify the species from them!!
@@MamlamboFossils well that is pretty awesome then. Is it likely to be anything extant? Like sperm whales or orca?
That tusk Shell is One belemite fóssil.
Hi Sandro! Google "tusk shell dentalium" to see the miocene era tusk shells we find there. Belemnite fossils are older, cretaceous if I'm not mistaken. Thanks for watching! 😀
@@MamlamboFossils you right 😅
@@sandrorex2250 I only know because I thought the same thing 😁
@@MamlamboFossils These cliffs of clay were laid down as sediment layers over millions of years. The continents as we now know them shifted in different shapes and sizes from different places all over the globe (450 million years ago to today (The earth's mantle is still moving.) small and large pieces bumped against each other and accreted themselves onto each other. Major movements up to 50,000 years ago. Since that time there's been more piled on top either by sea sediment or volcanic action. If you find some fossils are "from" the ancient warm tropical waters of Malaysia or The South Seas, they probably are or where you live now was once where warm shallow seas covered it. They are above the sea level now due to either the sea level having lowered slowly or the base layer far below being slowly thrust up because a different mantle plate is thrusting up that layer as the plate slips under or over the plate in that area. I'm not familiar with the ancient plate movements forming your area or the current tectonics occurring where you live. Check out accretions and terranes history for your area. (Yes, they are spelled terranes and not terrains.)
Where I am from there were tusk shells found from Alaska to Baja California and were used in pre-white man times as money and making trade goods. These were most often traded to First Nation people's east of the Cascade Mt.s and some items making it as Far East as the American Plains and SW tribes.
The Nez Perce mentioned in the photo of the bracelet and necklace lived in the rugged area of NE Oregon. They are most famous for their development of the American Appaloosa Horse long before the white men came. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dentalium_shell
Dentalium shells could also be found in fresh water rivers having contact with the Pacific Ocean when I was a kid in the 60's.
Thank you for such interesting videos. I'm fossil collecting vicariously through your shows.
I want to move to New Zealand
It is a beautiful country!
How on Earth can you tell which are just round rocks and which ones are fossils??
It does take a bit of practice but usually you look at the shape of the rock and any bits of leg or claw sticking out
@@MamlamboFossils is a rule of thumb the rounder the higher chance of it being a fossil?
Y glue it back 2gether?
Hi Sally, it makes it easier to work on with the air scribe. Some of the crab is in one half, some in the other. So glueing it back together is the best way of ensuring they line back up 😄
Do you ever let us see the finished item?
Yip, I sometimes do update videos - often on my Patreon as well
A bit morbid but in reality the coast line seems to be a really really old graveyard.
Definitely not a white trainers day :D
swear you sound like thor
Big egg...
Very big!
Blair witch house...lol
It really had a creepy vibe to it! 😄
They form from historic tsunamis
Crab??? I don't see it... Why would you glue them back together, why?? Maybe you can show me exactly what kind of crab I'm supposes to be looking at 😦 humm....... I couldn't even see any shell fragments either 😕😦🙆 sorry I don't get it or do I see what you're looking at 😯
If you look at some of my other videos where I do the full prep you might see it better 😀
You should purchase a llama
How is Buff not sponsoring this channel?
That would be so cool!!
Worldwide flood?
Hi Jerrod, thanks for watching! A very large flood could cause some sediment build-up from the rivers flooding out into the ocean. I'm unsure whether this could cause concretions to form, we would have to ask a geologist 😄
Who’s pouring concrete in the ocean?
Are you south African
Yip, I was born in South Africa :)
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Thanks Necmettin!