Fossilized Coral from Florida and Georgia - Rocks in a Box 8
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- Опубликовано: 20 апр 2020
- This is fossilized coral from Georgia and/or Florida. I'm hoping @WILDKYLE stops in to tell us more about it. Thanks to Jim from Rock Tumbling Hobby for sending this to me.
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Thay look amazing!!!!!! Stay safe!!!Thanks again.
Nice 😊🌻thank you for sharing 😊🌻🌻🙏👍...
Wow speechless !!! Beautiful!
Beauts again....thank you....Enjoyed.
Completely mesmerizing! Such beautiful specimens!! Thanks for showing us! Ah, could watch you go through each one for hours.
Those are beautiful stones. Thank you for showing them to us. Very nice.
Back in 1852(?), Gold was discovered in Delonega, Georgia.
We went to the few working mines that are still open for Tourists and mining. It took all day to get a 1/4 full of a tiny vial of gold. But it was a lot of fun. Also, gem mining in Franklin, North Carolina, was a great day. We got a handful of raw rubies.
I don't live in Georgia anymore, but we would go into the mountains looking for rocks for our landscaping. Rock hunting is a lot of fun. I really enjoy your Channel because I love looking at rocks.
Whenever a friend takes a trip, I will say, bring me back a cool looking rock!
I have spent a fair amount of time panning Lake Superior black sand for gold. You can almost see the results in the vial. It helps that the vial is full of water and round, so it magnifies the contents. I would love to find a 1/4 vial full, even if it was a very small vial.
@@MichiganRocks Well I hope you find a gold vein someday, you have explored so many remote areas! Your day trips are worth more than gold! Fresh air, nature, exercise, and doing things you love! Truly, you are living the dream!
@@yeswing10 I'm happy with what I'm finding. I don't need to find gold. There's only one gold mine that I know of in Michigan. The Ropes Gold Mine closed down long ago. Must not have produced enough. Michigan is not known for gold. It's more known for iron, copper, and limestone. There are lots of minerals here, but I think those are probably the most mined. There's also salt, I guess.
These corals are great. The colors and textures are amazing, but the polishing you do makes them perfect. Thanks for the showing.
Glad you like them!
Thank you for your videos..I'm just an amateur but I have learned so much from you..hope to someday have your tumbling skills.
Tumbling isn't difficult. If you have the right equipment and patience, it's just a matter of following a recipe.
6:55 probably my very favorite out of all you showed......this one is gorgeous!!!!
I agree!
Oh, there's subtle beauty in these ancient rocks. Thanks for sharing.
Really enjoy the slide show, last stone was amazing!!
I really like that one too.
Gran video y gran trabajo como siempre, gracias un saludo
That slab with the note was pretty awesome. Another batch of cool stuff. Happy New Year. Was fun to watch. Great video
Awesome vid I really like your polished coral
Thank you!
Some pretty impressive specimens... Thanks for sharing.
Oh my goodness...more eye candy! Thank you for sharing these lovely pieces 💚
You're welcome. Thanks for looking at them.
Verry good a friend.👍👍👍👍👍👍
Wow, the last one in the slide show is fantastic! What cool things fossils are. Thank you for this week's show!
Yeah, most of them don't look like that. I wish more of them did.
I love the beauty of a well polished rock and also the glassy sound they make when rubbing against each other. 8:07 my fave.
That's probably my favorite too. Kind of looks like a Petoskey Stone, which makes sense since they're both corals.
Those agates wood look great in a table or shadow box reversible to switch it around.
I've thought of making a table with a shallow box covered in glass to display rocks. Haven't gotten around to that project yet. There's too much to do!
So cool ! I had just tumbled some coral and was looking to see if anyone had done it when I found your video. I have another batch in the tumbler. All found in my home landscaping rock.
This stuff is really hard and tumbles great.
Amazing video!!! my favorite rock is agate
Any particular type of agate? There are so many different types.
I love the ones from the Czech Republic :))
That is some beautiful stuff. How is it heat treated? Amazing. Thanks for sharing. Davin
I have never heat treated anything myself, but from what I understand, you slowly heat it up in something like a roaster. The rocks are alternated with layers of sand for more even heating. It's brought up to 600 degrees, then held at that temperature for several hours before being gradually cooled.
Those are just so beautiful in color and add the fossilized coral is another bonus!!!!
Corals are really cool 😎
Nice one
Really cool pieces.
Very impressive
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Absolutely beautiful pieces! I'm guessing most of this was found in the Withlacoochee river in Southern Georgia and North Florida. It erodes from the Oligocene aged Suwannee Limestone, so the Coral is around 33 million - 29 million years old!
I have a couple videos of hunting for this stuff and cutting open the geodes on my channel. There are some gorgeous geodes to be found! I was hoping on coming up your way in June but I'm not sure that will happen with all this going on :(
Would you please make a new comment with links to your videos? I'll pin it.
@@MichiganRocks Absolutely! Thank you!
@@WILDKYLE I was just reading some of Jim's posts about his coral collecting. He mentioned the Withlacoochee and also the Suwanee.
Very neat stuff. A couple of the pieces looked a bit like chert. Check out Wildkyle’s friend’s channel paleochris. I love the last rock you held up. Wow!
I've seen a couple of PaleoChris's videos. That last one I held up was really cool. Looks sort of like a Petoskey Stone and different at the same time.
Michigan Rocks exactly how I thought of that stone. I comnfess to a certain amount of envy at your collection! lol
I'm am so jealous. Those rocks are gorgeous and amazing.
Very pretty! All my fossils, except for pet wood, are mostly limestone which I can't tumble. I've been on RTH for years but not a lot the last year or so.
Same with my fossils. There is a lot of limestone around here. What's your name on RTH?
@@MichiganRocks I think it's icatzaz1. I was mainly in wire wrapping and metalsmithing groups.
@@icatz That would explain why I don't remember seeing you there. Those were two groups I didn't participate in much.
@@MichiganRocks I remember seeing a lot of grooved wraps from the guy who showed you. I loved his Fordite.
@@icatz That's Chuck or Drummond Island Rocks on RTH. He's really good at what he does and I agree about the Fordite.
Oh they are all nice but the last one is magnificent, I wish I have shirt made of fabric with such pattern! I also think it can be great wire wrapped pendant. And every time I see tiny pieces of odd elongated shapes I think it also could be nice base for earrings or tiny pendants
Although such rocks are perfect for simply touching them and starry at them like all rock amateurs do :D
I like that last one a lot too. It’s sort of like a Petoskey stone but really different at the same time.
4:30 Love the blue side of this one. And that last one in the pictures ... WOW stunning. Of course I think they are all beautiful but those two were my favorites. Thank you for showing more of your collections.
I look forward to this ever Tuesday !!! At the very beginning of the video I noticed a large white one at the front of the pile that sort of resembled a Petoskey stone. I’m not sure if it’s one that you showed us later on. In some of the stones you can see ghosts of the hexagon patterns. I wonder if these are from the same time period as the Petoskey stones? The very last still picture kind of reminded me of snowflakes. Thanks for an awesome presentation!!!
It is not the same age. Wild Kyle has a channel where he looks for fossils in Florida and made this comment, "It erodes from the Oligocene aged Suwannee Limestone, so the Coral is around 33 million - 29 million years old!" Petoskey Stones are from the Devonian Era. They're around 350 or 360 million years old. This coral is very hard, but Petoskey Stones are very soft limestone.
Peefect stones my dear.💕
I have a big chunk of fossilized coral i found a few weeks ago in hardy pond. Would love to get it cut up so I can tumble it.
Muito uaoooooo
Would you explain more about heat treating?
I have never done heat treating myself, so take all of this with a grain of salt. I've heard of layering rocks and sand in something like a roaster. It has to be heated slowly to avoid fracturing the rocks. It's heated slowly to 600 degrees and held at that temperature for several hours. Then it is slowly cooled down. This changes the color. I think it may also make it easier to knap. Anyone who knows more about this, please jump in and correct me.
Michigan Rocks What does the term “knap” mean ?
@@davidhile5363 It's when you chip a rock into something like an arrowhead. Obviously native Americans did this hundreds of years ago, but modern people also do this as a hobby. It's a segment of the lapidary arts that I haven't delved into.
Michigan Rocks thanks for the explanation !
Michigan Rocks Some of this really makes sense. I wonder if the Indians did heat treating when they made their arrow heads ? I worked in the tool and die trade most of my career. When we made a metal stamping die component or a tool after it was made we would harden it by heating it to 1400 to 2000 degrees depending on what type of tool steel was used. After the tool had cooled to room temperature we would then reheat it to 400 to 600 degrees again depending on the type of steel and the desired ending hardness. This second operation was called “drawing or tempering”. This was done to remove the internal stresses that would cause cracking or fracturing of the tool.
When you say heat-treated what do you mean it looks like someone took a torch to some of the rocks or is that natural?
I have never done it myself, but it's heated up slowly in something like a roaster (different methods are used) to something like 600 degrees. It's held at that time for a few hours and then slowly cooled down. It changes the color.
@@MichiganRocks thank you for your kindness
Oiiiii,que maravilha,lindas.
You have to heat treat coral to make it look like that?
I got this from someone else who heat treated some or all of it. Heat treating makes it more colorful. I have never actually done it myself.
usted vende piedras?.....perdon no entiendoingles
No, no vendo piedras.
Dense head? I feel a little better about my ADD comment. Apologies any way. Been trying to locate it.
My head is a bit dense at times.
You mentioned some of the coral was heat treated? Is this something your friend does or did this happen naturally?
My friend heat treated it. It involves slowly heating it, holding the temperature for a while, and then slowly cooling it down again.
Not a huge coral fan tbh, I prefer your petosky stones like on min 3:21 [bth it's kinda funny because the meaning of my name is "coral reef" (Shoonit שונית)]
I really like the last one in the slide show, but I agree that the rest are somewhat plain. Actually, I like the ones that have some of the outside crust still intact.
II would rather carry these around than coins. Not sure if I could use them to buy anything though. Is there a difference between a rock and a stone? I read that stone usually refers to an excavated form of rock (limestone, quarry stone, millstone) while rock usually refers to the material found in nature (bedrock, rocks on a beach, rocks in a box). However a Petoskey stone seems to not follow that rule.
I know of no difference between the meaning of "rock" and "stone". I use them interchangeably. That's not to say that there's not a difference. I do remember reading an article on the excellent gardening website "Renegade Gardener" entitled "Don't call Boulders or Stone, 'Rocks'". He had strong feelings about this. renegadegardener.com/dont-do-that-archive/dont-call-boulders-or-stone-rocks/
Thanks for the link.
Very nice. I thought of trying to put some in a rock tumbler but I read they are so soft they put dings in each other.
I knew some of what I've found was artifacts. Man I've got some nice pieces.
You have awesome pieces here.
This Florida fossilized coral is really hard and easy to tumble. The local coral where I live in Michigan is limestone and very soft. It can be tumbled, but takes a special method.
@@MichiganRocks yeah I have a ton of fossilized coral I dip in acid and polish with a dremel if it needs it. I need to make some videos for my RUclips. I only put them on Facebook so far.