That's not lava. That's coke from the train that once ran through there (the railroad bridge is in the video). Coke is the burned up coal from steam engines. I live in Lancaster and that's extremely common in this part of PA.
my property in eastern PA is full of large pumice-like rocks. I looked it up, apparently there were volcanoes in this area about a billion years ago, pretty cool to hold something a billion years old in your hand.
Yes there was volcanos in Pa. You can find lava rock - frothy lava rock, obsidian (aka volcanic glass), chryosocolla, and other volcanic related rock such as quartz which is everywhere in some form. Finding the good stuff is the challenge.
I drilled water wells for many years. You will find granite all over PA. I found some directly south of the Wernersville, south of Reading off of 222 and off of Rt611 outside of Bethlehem. A geologist told me that granite can only be formed in a volcanic active area.
Hello Ya'll I Just Finished The Video And Wanted to Comment To Say That I've Found Obsidian And Lava Rock Here Near Reading In The Schuylkill river also
No magma or volcano in centralia pa lol, it's a mine fire that's been burning since 62. I live just a few miles away from the old ghost town and it's a pretty interesting area. and actually there's a geyser caused by the mine fire in the area too!! It's really cool!
That is not from a volcano or metamorphic rock. It's "Clinker", "Cinders" or Slag from a coal fire. The coal burns and leaves ash. Glassy minerals melt together and form clinker. You will find lots of it on railroad beds. It was also used to make running tracks for schools.
Recently discovered obsidian and cooled lava at freedom falls you will find obsidian in large quantities along one side of the creek very cool mixed with metals has Interesting colors
I would definitely go Upstream until the volcanic rocks disappeared, and test pan for gold while you're doing it. Go up both Forks. After all lava flow can flow for miles and miles before it cools and then deteriorates. It could be off to one side of the other of the rivers. Interesting to hear that there's a volcano in Pennsylvania.
I'm not from the USA so not very familiar with location but is Chester hill anywhere near this area as there is activity under Chester hill but not sure if this is in the area ?.
monocacy hill used to be a volcano. very akin to the hot spot volcanos in hawaii. idk if they were a connection between the volcanos that used to be in pa and the long dead new england volcanic system but they would've been around the same time.
Try looking for the Jacksonwald formation outside of reading near 422, only true lava flow you can find in pa, the rest of the Newark basin and Wilmington complex to the southeast are various intrusion volcanic rock types.
Thank you for this film and your other with the kayak. I had been told rocks I hammered out of a hillside were "clinkers" by people who never heard of siderites. We should go explore together -- I'm on a mission to demonstrate ancient meteoritic impacts in PA. The kayak video proves it's not clinkers. What you didn't notice or mention were some of the potential explosive patterns I saw in the way the rock broke & in the background...Can still be volcanic, but would be cool to bring my lighter weight microscope along (just in case you have 2 processes going on)! Do you do FB?
2018 comment)) Yes! A Very recognizable Ash cooled rock. Dunno why... Very Little has been mentioned of the Once...)) fissure volcanic activity in the eastern part of the US. 🔬☎📡📚
@@Zia01023 I dont worry as much about poison ivy in that kind of growth, as I do ticks. Especially that time of year, at least in my weirdness. Lol For the most part up until a few years ago, I had no issue with PI while it is leafy... but I swear it will cover parts of my body that haven't seen sunlight in ages, if I so much as GLANCE at a hairy vine, even in the dead of winter. But 2014 marked the first year in over a decade that bare skin touched leaves (my feet, because I wore sandals too far into the woods")... and my torso and arms made it look like I had some form of leprosy. Ticks gross me out.
There is actually a lot of rhyolitic lava deposits in PA. It was quarried by Native Americans to make stone tools and weapons because it knaps easily. However, the rock that you picked up is NOT lava. It is coke stone, produced by burning coal. Pennsylvania rhyolite has a very smooth, fine-grained texture.
There's a geologist that did a whole book on gold in pa with his dad and has a whole section on volcanos in pa. He's a state geolgist. The other spot I've often wondered is behind hershey...between hershey and middletown. The rocks are metallic and round. Not like the shale and slate near me. The creeks have a lot of heavy metal in them too.
Hike with Mike not at all. Its a coal mine that started burning. After many efforts to extinguish the fire, it became out of control. Pennsylvania has MANY deep coal veins. If you get one going, good luck putting the fire out as there are many sources both man made and natural for air flow to the fire.
@dottieeden9153 There are 0 volcanoes or volcanic structures in PA, all that stuff you find that looks like volcanic rock is slag from the states long mining history
That's not lava. That's coke from the train that once ran through there (the railroad bridge is in the video). Coke is the burned up coal from steam engines. I live in Lancaster and that's extremely common in this part of PA.
my property in eastern PA is full of large pumice-like rocks. I looked it up, apparently there were volcanoes in this area about a billion years ago, pretty cool to hold something a billion years old in your hand.
Yes there was volcanos in Pa. You can find lava rock - frothy lava rock, obsidian (aka volcanic glass), chryosocolla, and other volcanic related rock such as quartz which is everywhere in some form. Finding the good stuff is the challenge.
Have found veins of cobalt obsidian in my neck of the woods and plenty of coal ash coke and lava rock black obsidian
There is absolutely no obsidian in PA that has been recorded to date
Well let’s update the records. I have some too
I drilled water wells for many years. You will find granite all over PA. I found some directly south of the Wernersville, south of Reading off of 222 and off of Rt611 outside of Bethlehem. A geologist told me that granite can only be formed in a volcanic active area.
To simplify the findings of one paper on the Jonestown formation - the volcanic activity preceded the formation of the Appalachian Mountains.
Hello Ya'll I Just Finished The Video And Wanted to Comment To Say That I've Found Obsidian And Lava Rock Here Near Reading In The Schuylkill river also
No magma or volcano in centralia pa lol, it's a mine fire that's been burning since 62. I live just a few miles away from the old ghost town and it's a pretty interesting area. and actually there's a geyser caused by the mine fire in the area too!! It's really cool!
Mark Lawrence would you messenge me the location please?
@@eatingplaydoh Just Google "Centralia PA" and click for maps. It's a really cool place to visit. The place is a complete ghost town.
That is not from a volcano or metamorphic rock. It's "Clinker", "Cinders" or Slag from a coal fire. The coal burns and leaves ash. Glassy minerals melt together and form clinker. You will find lots of it on railroad beds. It was also used to make running tracks for schools.
I beg to differ, that absolutely is Metamorphic Rock
Yes we have tons of it on the tracks by me. I thought found something too the first time I found it.
Recently discovered obsidian and cooled lava at freedom falls you will find obsidian in large quantities along one side of the creek very cool mixed with metals has Interesting colors
I would definitely go Upstream until the volcanic rocks disappeared, and test pan for gold while you're doing it. Go up both Forks. After all lava flow can flow for miles and miles before it cools and then deteriorates. It could be off to one side of the other of the rivers. Interesting to hear that there's a volcano in Pennsylvania.
Sir, you are so knowledgeable, and your pocasts so interesting. I have lived in Pa my whole life. Thanks for all the history lessons.
I used to fish there by that bridge when I lived down that way.
I'm not from the USA so not very familiar with location but is Chester hill anywhere near this area as there is activity under Chester hill but not sure if this is in the area ?.
monocacy hill used to be a volcano. very akin to the hot spot volcanos in hawaii. idk if they were a connection between the volcanos that used to be in pa and the long dead new england volcanic system but they would've been around the same time.
Try looking for the Jacksonwald formation outside of reading near 422, only true lava flow you can find in pa, the rest of the Newark basin and Wilmington complex to the southeast are various intrusion volcanic rock types.
I lived at the base of Monocacy Hill in Douglassville, PA. It is an ancient volcano. There are amazing different rocks and minerals there.
I think the area of douglassville maybe a caldera.
Very interesting. Thank you
there's a "blue pipe" out near Pittsburgh...never been mined as far as I know
Babyrazor --What part of Pittsburgh?
Thank you for this film and your other with the kayak. I had been told rocks I hammered out of a hillside were "clinkers" by people who never heard of siderites. We should go explore together -- I'm on a mission to demonstrate ancient meteoritic impacts in PA. The kayak video proves it's not clinkers. What you didn't notice or mention were some of the potential explosive patterns I saw in the way the rock broke & in the background...Can still be volcanic, but would be cool to bring my lighter weight microscope along (just in case you have 2 processes going on)!
Do you do FB?
I just started watching this video on my tv TH-cam and it popped up on my Google, when I wad asking questions. That's crazy funny. Ha ha ha ha.
2018 comment)) Yes! A Very recognizable Ash cooled rock. Dunno why... Very Little has been mentioned of the Once...)) fissure volcanic activity in the eastern part of the US. 🔬☎📡📚
What about the Stonersville Volcano?
What creek are you on here?
20 seconds in... and all I am thinking so far is TICK CHECK! 🕷
@@Zia01023
I dont worry as much about poison ivy in that kind of growth, as I do ticks. Especially that time of year, at least in my weirdness. Lol
For the most part up until a few years ago, I had no issue with PI while it is leafy... but I swear it will cover parts of my body that haven't seen sunlight in ages, if I so much as GLANCE at a hairy vine, even in the dead of winter.
But 2014 marked the first year in over a decade that bare skin touched leaves (my feet, because I wore sandals too far into the woods")... and my torso and arms made it look like I had some form of leprosy.
Ticks gross me out.
What a beautiful place : )
There's actually a spot near the airport in allentown pa the whole hillside is volcanic rock
GreenGang where at exactly?
I found lava rock in Susquehanna River
Pretty cool!
The only volcano is in Stonersville, Pa
I think those were fossilized sponges not volcanic rock
You're in my backyard..
I found a ton of obsiden in my stream
There is actually a lot of rhyolitic lava deposits in PA. It was quarried by Native Americans to make stone tools and weapons because it knaps easily. However, the rock that you picked up is NOT lava. It is coke stone, produced by burning coal. Pennsylvania rhyolite has a very smooth, fine-grained texture.
slag from steel mill
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Uhm...don't forget ski round top too.
Absolutely.
There's a geologist that did a whole book on gold in pa with his dad and has a whole section on volcanos in pa. He's a state geolgist. The other spot I've often wondered is behind hershey...between hershey and middletown. The rocks are metallic and round. Not like the shale and slate near me. The creeks have a lot of heavy metal in them too.
Very interesting, thanks for the geology lesson, but isnt there magma and a vocano in Centralia, PA? Lol
Hike with Mike not at all.
Its a coal mine that started burning. After many efforts to extinguish the fire, it became out of control. Pennsylvania has MANY deep coal veins. If you get one going, good luck putting the fire out as there are many sources both man made and natural for air flow to the fire.
Hike with Mike n
Little roundup in Gettysburg... Is a volcano in pa also
Interesting, because I've been to Gettysburg, and there's some pretty big boulders that look volcanic in nature.
It's not a volcano, he's lying or misinformed@truthseeker2321
It is a lava tube...
The big rocks were placed there by glacier
@dottieeden9153 There are 0 volcanoes or volcanic structures in PA, all that stuff you find that looks like volcanic rock is slag from the states long mining history
Coke