What a great idea, there should be more of it, business working with community to provide fun and eduction, and today I learnt there are many uses for pizza boxes, who would have thought of fossil education storage. Thanks for sharing.
What a great place to start looking for fossils. Next time I’m up there in the area I must go there. Thanks @Michigan Rocks for sharing your experience here.
"you're pretty good at that... you should do dishes more often at home... j/k he does"... love it. Great channel, great people, great education, great rocks. Looking forward to the next video.
I love seeing you and that lady out enjoying the wonderful state of Michigan we live in. Happy Hunting. I wonder if tumbling some of these finds would work out? Most likely not as it would take away the detail.
Very cool! That giant Petoskey stone is something else. I've seen a few big one's but nothing like that, where the whole stone is Petoskey, usually those big ones are a mix of stuff. If it ends up missing someday, I promise it's not in my rock garden, no matter how much I wish it were.
What an amazing place! I like that it's hands for the kids and big kids and educational too. So many wonderdul places we missed so This means we may have to come back to Michigan to visit the east side . Thank you for this post.
Great place to visit! Added to my bucket list. Great to see a local business working with the community! Thanks for sharing! Cheers from the 920 of Wisconsin!
My wife and I watch your videos often. This one prompted us to visit Alpena and the museum (from Byron Center MI). What a great museum! We highly recommend it to everyone. We also ended up at Seagull Point Park in Rogers City and Sturgeon Point Lighthouse in Harrisville for some rock hunting and enjoying the beautiful lake. Thanks, Rob!
Rob, Keep up the good work. I will be back in Spruce this August, and I think visiting the museum would be great. I haven't been there since I was a kid.
@@redwingsnut I sure remember Kevin. We hung out a lot together when we were kids. I have a vague memory of you, but it's pretty fuzzy. Seems like that happens more and more as I get older. I miss Mt. Mariah!
@@MichiganRocks Thank you! I signed up for emails. I took a picture of it at a beautiful rental property last year in Saugatuk. I think I spelled that wrong! I’ll try to find it!
I used to find trilobytes all the time in the sandy hills I'd play in when I was a kid. That was in Lake Leelanau. I wish there were more jobs outside of tourism up there. I live in Ohio now and I always think of Michigan. When I was a kid I thought southern Michigan was ugly... little did I know what Ohio held for me as an adult
@@MichiganRocks The big sandy hill doesn't seem to be there anymore. We lived at what is now 1516 N Lake Leelanau Drive. Back then it was an address off of 641 and the dirt road was just our driveway. There was a defunct apple orchard in front of the house and no neighbors. It's a bit more built up now, unfortunately
Hi! I really like your channel and your relaxed style. I am a flower farmer in Oregon and I designed some "Oregon Rocks!" gear such as bags and backpacks that I sell on my "Wet Rock" website. The reason I mention this is that I have been thinking about doing other states and I would be willing to design and offer "Michigan Rocks!" gear if you like the idea. If you do, please send me (or reply here) a list of all the most important rockhounding stones of Michigan. I can make a Bag and backpack available. If you want me to make shirts or something else, just let me know. No pressure to buy anything, I just like the idea of adding them to my shop.
@@MichiganRocks Cool, Thanks. If you look at my Oregon Rocks! bags and want to steal the idea of how I did them, feel free 🙂 I might do more states eventually, but will probably wait for someone who knows their state's rocks to give me a list so I do not miss any important ones 🙂
Looks like another very fun trip (hot though)! I would love to visit one day with the family. So I guess since the rock comes from the quarry the bulk is ground up for industrial use? Has to be done I guess but that’s a lot of lost fossils. Would be excited to find a trilobite! In your travels have you ever come across a specialist in Cretaceous ocean invertebrates?
Yes, tons and tons of limestone is made into cement here. Lots of that is fossils. But all the bedrock around here is limestone, so that's only a drop in the bucket. I did a couple videos with Dr. Tony Swinehart of Hillsdale College last year. He's a biologist who know a thing or two about fossils, but I don't know about the Cretaceous Period specifically. The rocks in the park at Besser are Devonian aged fossils. Paleo Joe is another Michigan guy who knows a lot about fossils. I ran into him at Rockport a few years ago and he made a short appearance in a video.
@@MichiganRocks So interesting! I asked since I found a few specimens in Northern British Columbia of something that may be new. Drumheller & Cornell were not able to identify it. Looks like a non articulated lobster claw. Anyway, happy you and your wife had another fun day out!
@@MichiganRocks we were off US 23 on Star Route. Cottage was across from N end of Grand Isle. Wait our last name is Brown?! Interesting. I only knew of Grand Isie and Three Sisters Islands but I was a kid. My bro would take me across the lake to somewhere we got snacks. Sassins store was N of us on 23.
@@arizonaraven419 Ok, I know the general area. Brown Island is one of the bigger islands on the lake. It's south of Grand Island. All those islands make Grand Lake really interesting. I just wish it was a little deeper.
Hello Rob, thank you for another great video! I have been wondering, would you consider selling any of the rocks that you find and polish? If you are willing to, I would love to buy one/several small polished rocks from you. I'm not looking for anything in particular, I just find your work beautiful and am not able to set up a tumbler where I live right now to replicate it (despite your clear information about how to do so, which is much appreciated). Even if you are not interested in selling anything, thank you for showing me the beauty hiding inside the stones all around us!
I'm a Christian, so please don't take this the wrong way, but I don't see how these could be from a global flood. I just looked up how fast coral grows. According to NOAA, it grows between .3 and 2 cm per year. In the quarries where this came from the coral layer can be many feet thick. I'm not sure how thick, but the calcite quarry in Rogers City is 150 feet deep. I'm not sure if there is coral all the way down, but I wouldn't be surprised based on other quarries I have been in. If the flood lasted about a year, how could all that coral grow in such a short period of time? Geologists think that this was formed about 350-360 million years ago. At that time, this area was around the equator and moved here due to plate tectonics. That makes a lot more sense to me. I don't take the first chapters of Genesis literally. I think the point is that God created everything. I'm every bit as impressed if he took billions of years to do that. In fact, I'm more impressed if he took that much time to make a suitable place for us to live. I'm in awe when I think about it.
@MichiganRocks I just trust God's word and the creator of Science over man's understanding of it. None of us could even fathom the knowledge and power of God or what he is capable of.
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What a wonderful museum! Thank you for introducing us to it! That huge Petoskey stone is amazing.
What a great idea, there should be more of it, business working with community to provide fun and eduction, and today I learnt there are many uses for pizza boxes, who would have thought of fossil education storage. Thanks for sharing.
My favorite use for pizza boxes is still to get pizza to my house.
Fun! Once a teacher, always a teacher. 🙂
What a great place to start looking for fossils. Next time I’m up there in the area I must go there. Thanks @Michigan Rocks for sharing your experience here.
I think Chris's suggestion of starting here to get an idea of what you're looking for is great.
Rob, once again, an exceptional adventure and presentation. Thank you for sharing these expeditions with us.
You're welcome, Jim!
"you're pretty good at that... you should do dishes more often at home... j/k he does"... love it. Great channel, great people, great education, great rocks. Looking forward to the next video.
I'm glad you're amused.
I love seeing you and that lady out enjoying the wonderful state of Michigan we live in. Happy Hunting. I wonder if tumbling some of these finds would work out? Most likely not as it would take away the detail.
I don't tumble fossils other than Petosekey stones, Charlevoix stones and maybe a couple others occasionally.
I have pictures of my grandchildren digging for fossils. They loved it. The museum was so much fun!
No shortage of fossils there.
Wow. What a showcase of a great museum practically in my back yard. I had no idea! Thanks!
They've got some new exhibits that are going to be constructed starting late this year. Looked like some great plans.
That is a neat place. If I ever get out that way, I'll check it out. Thanks for sharing it.
You're welcome!
Nice! thank you for bringing us along with you, Great video!
I was there last year with my sister. Did not find a thing, but Chris found several for us. We enjoyed ourselves a lot.
You've got to get down and get your hands dirty, but there are fossils galore there.
Oh how much i wish i could come there one day😍
Really great video 👍❤️thx for showing this place 🙏💕
Very cool! That giant Petoskey stone is something else. I've seen a few big one's but nothing like that, where the whole stone is Petoskey, usually those big ones are a mix of stuff. If it ends up missing someday, I promise it's not in my rock garden, no matter how much I wish it were.
Yes, I've seen plenty of those big ones with Petoskey parts here and there. In the quarries, these huge ones are fairly common, I think.
That's so cool. Right in your community. That's awesome.
What an amazing place! I like that it's hands for the kids and big kids and educational too. So many wonderdul places we missed so This means we may have to come back to Michigan to visit the east side . Thank you for this post.
You're welcome, Stacey.
Very cool place to visit. Very cool shirt Rob
One of the subscribers here made that for me.
@@MichiganRocks that’s very sweet that one of your subscribers made that for you.
Wow that place is cool! I would love to go there someday.
Rob, thanks for showing this. What a great place to visit.
Great place to visit! Added to my bucket list. Great to see a local business working with the community!
Thanks for sharing! Cheers from the 920 of Wisconsin!
Great place, we love Alpena!
What a terrific resource for your community! It's inspiring!
Rob, that shirt totally cracked me up!! 👏👏👏 Man, I miss the 70s…
A subscriber here made that just for me. I love it.
@@MichiganRocks Super clever! A one-of-kind for a one-of-kind! 👌
Love museums and rocks...great way to spend the day.
My wife and I watch your videos often. This one prompted us to visit Alpena and the museum (from Byron Center MI). What a great museum! We highly recommend it to everyone. We also ended up at Seagull Point Park in Rogers City and Sturgeon Point Lighthouse in Harrisville for some rock hunting and enjoying the beautiful lake. Thanks, Rob!
I'm glad you were happy. I'd hate for you to drive all that way to be disappointed.
WOW! That would be an awesome place to check out! I love history! 💕
There's lots of that there.
That would be a great place to take the grandkids. Thanks for sharing !
It's not bad for adults either.
This is great, I love hands-on museums. :-)
Field trip Friday 😃
Woo-hoo!
Very cool place! Wow! That’s one big fossil rock❤
It's a whopper alright.
Doggone it Rob. I learned something again watching your video!! I'm not supposed to do that, learning and everything!! Lol!!
A fun place to visit! ❤
DYNOMITE!!! 😂 love the shirt
I love it too.
Alright, I have some time off in August, I added this to the itinerary.
I think you'll like it.
I’m currently waiting for my #80 grit, do you think it’s good grit for the first part of tumbling
Yep, that's a good choice for the first stage.
What a cool place!
The shirt is 🧨🧨🧨
Rob, Keep up the good work. I will be back in Spruce this August, and I think visiting the museum would be great. I haven't been there since I was a kid.
Spruce? I think you're the first to mention tiny little Spruce in the comments. Most people would have no idea where that is.
@@MichiganRocks you might remember me, we skied at Mt. Mariah together. Jerry Timm, Kevin's cousin.
@@redwingsnut I sure remember Kevin. We hung out a lot together when we were kids. I have a vague memory of you, but it's pretty fuzzy. Seems like that happens more and more as I get older. I miss Mt. Mariah!
Great father!
Do you guys happen to have seen a map of Michigan, that shows the various stones from various areas?
I have my eyes peeled for stones all the time!
This map is sort of like that: www.michiganrockhounds.com/map
@@MichiganRocks Thank you! I signed up for emails. I took a picture of it at a beautiful rental property last year in Saugatuk. I think I spelled that wrong! I’ll try to find it!
If they’re big enough, are you going to cut some in half and polish?
No, I didn't take anything home with me.
Great fun
Like the repurposed pizza box display case.
It works well as a display board combined with a container.
I used to find trilobytes all the time in the sandy hills I'd play in when I was a kid. That was in Lake Leelanau. I wish there were more jobs outside of tourism up there. I live in Ohio now and I always think of Michigan. When I was a kid I thought southern Michigan was ugly... little did I know what Ohio held for me as an adult
I'd love to know more about those hills with the trilobites. I have still not found one, although they can be found around Alpena where I live.
@@MichiganRocks The big sandy hill doesn't seem to be there anymore. We lived at what is now 1516 N Lake Leelanau Drive. Back then it was an address off of 641 and the dirt road was just our driveway. There was a defunct apple orchard in front of the house and no neighbors. It's a bit more built up now, unfortunately
@@billiondollardan Oh, bummer!
Hi! I really like your channel and your relaxed style. I am a flower farmer in Oregon and I designed some "Oregon Rocks!" gear such as bags and backpacks that I sell on my "Wet Rock" website. The reason I mention this is that I have been thinking about doing other states and I would be willing to design and offer "Michigan Rocks!" gear if you like the idea. If you do, please send me (or reply here) a list of all the most important rockhounding stones of Michigan. I can make a Bag and backpack available. If you want me to make shirts or something else, just let me know. No pressure to buy anything, I just like the idea of adding them to my shop.
I have some print on demand shirts that I'm already selling. You're welcome to do some of your own if you like.
@@MichiganRocks Cool, Thanks. If you look at my Oregon Rocks! bags and want to steal the idea of how I did them, feel free 🙂 I might do more states eventually, but will probably wait for someone who knows their state's rocks to give me a list so I do not miss any important ones 🙂
Great video! Worth the visit.
Cool place!
Dolomite!!😂
Very cool
Never heard about, gotta go, thank you. (Did ya' see what I did there? I didn't write you a comment that takes till Easter to read.)
Nice!
Love it 🤙🏼💚🏵️
Cool beans.
Looks like another very fun trip (hot though)! I would love to visit one day with the family. So I guess since the rock comes from the quarry the bulk is ground up for industrial use? Has to be done I guess but that’s a lot of lost fossils. Would be excited to find a trilobite! In your travels have you ever come across a specialist in Cretaceous ocean invertebrates?
Yes, tons and tons of limestone is made into cement here. Lots of that is fossils. But all the bedrock around here is limestone, so that's only a drop in the bucket.
I did a couple videos with Dr. Tony Swinehart of Hillsdale College last year. He's a biologist who know a thing or two about fossils, but I don't know about the Cretaceous Period specifically. The rocks in the park at Besser are Devonian aged fossils.
Paleo Joe is another Michigan guy who knows a lot about fossils. I ran into him at Rockport a few years ago and he made a short appearance in a video.
@@MichiganRocks So interesting! I asked since I found a few specimens in Northern British Columbia of something that may be new. Drumheller & Cornell were not able to identify it. Looks like a non articulated lobster claw. Anyway, happy you and your wife had another fun day out!
I’m almost 66 n still have horn coral n few other fossils from Grand Lake where our cottage was.
My in-laws had a cottage there while our kids were growing up. We were off US-23 across from Brown Island. Lots of fun times water skiing there.
@@MichiganRocks we were off US 23 on Star Route. Cottage was across from N end of Grand Isle. Wait our last name is Brown?! Interesting.
I only knew of Grand Isie and Three Sisters Islands but I was a kid. My bro would take me across the lake to somewhere we got snacks. Sassins store was N of us on 23.
@@arizonaraven419 Ok, I know the general area. Brown Island is one of the bigger islands on the lake. It's south of Grand Island.
All those islands make Grand Lake really interesting. I just wish it was a little deeper.
👁👁
Always a pleasure…
Hello Rob, thank you for another great video! I have been wondering, would you consider selling any of the rocks that you find and polish? If you are willing to, I would love to buy one/several small polished rocks from you. I'm not looking for anything in particular, I just find your work beautiful and am not able to set up a tumbler where I live right now to replicate it (despite your clear information about how to do so, which is much appreciated). Even if you are not interested in selling anything, thank you for showing me the beauty hiding inside the stones all around us!
I should sell some, but I just don't have time to package them up and ship them out. Making videos is really time consuming.
@@MichiganRocks That's fair enough! If you ever have time I'll keep my eye out, but I'm grateful that you take the time to make these videos!
I bet you could use a dremel tool to get some of the matrix off.
A Dremel would be a very bad choice for a rock of that size. Sort of like mowing the lawn with a pair of scissors.
Fossils 👍
I have bought pyritized braicyopodd, ammonites ❤😂😂😂 to B there go NUTS.
I call them seafood gumbo fossils.
That works.
Global Flood Fossils.
I'm a Christian, so please don't take this the wrong way, but I don't see how these could be from a global flood. I just looked up how fast coral grows. According to NOAA, it grows between .3 and 2 cm per year. In the quarries where this came from the coral layer can be many feet thick. I'm not sure how thick, but the calcite quarry in Rogers City is 150 feet deep. I'm not sure if there is coral all the way down, but I wouldn't be surprised based on other quarries I have been in. If the flood lasted about a year, how could all that coral grow in such a short period of time?
Geologists think that this was formed about 350-360 million years ago. At that time, this area was around the equator and moved here due to plate tectonics. That makes a lot more sense to me. I don't take the first chapters of Genesis literally. I think the point is that God created everything. I'm every bit as impressed if he took billions of years to do that. In fact, I'm more impressed if he took that much time to make a suitable place for us to live. I'm in awe when I think about it.
@MichiganRocks I just trust God's word and the creator of Science over man's understanding of it. None of us could even fathom the knowledge and power of God or what he is capable of.
@@michiganmade297 I agree with that!