Fossils Galore at Partridge Point Park
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- Опубликовано: 22 апр 2021
- Check out Partridge Point! I found some pretty cool fossils. There are lots of crinoid stems here. I also found a crinoid calyx, a blastoid, some brachiopods, a bryozoa and a couple other fossils.
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6.92 inch trilobite found at Partridge Point, see plate 1 near the end of the paper.
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Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: Rob, Thanks for the fossil hunt! I love fossil hunting!
Just came back to Michigan from Illinois found some beautiful fluorite but nothing beats Michigan Rocks!
Fluorite would be fun to find. I haven't found that one yet. But you're right, we have some amazing rocks here.
I follow Rob here too,..I couldn't help to see your post,I'm a HUGE fluorite collector,I see you said you were in illinois?.. could you help a fellow rock hound out and point me in a good location for a good fluorite hunt??..I have a youtube channel as well,and on instagram @manisteerocks!
Theres 2 road cuts in southern IL an hour away from the flourite mines that produce these same Mississippian fossils ✌ .
I love when you found the long crinoid and you ask “2 inches/3inches long”. Looked like 4-5” to me but, hey, you’re the Math teacher!! Love the videos!!
Definitely not that long. I'll have to bring my tape measure next time.
That drone footage was awesome. Pretty shallow water there. Another beautiful spot with great videos. Was fun to watch. Great video
I am loving the drone shots. Seeing the water makes me fall in love all over again with my Lake Huron.
Thanks for the relaxing video. As a fellow doer, the dew at the end of the vid was a nice touch.
That was supposed to be my parody of a Corona ad.
Absolutely love your videos! Educational, beautiful & relaxing! Could listen to those gentle waves on the show for hours. Thank you for taking us along!
Did you catch the part about the trilobite in the U of M study? There are a lot of old papers that have lots of pictures. One is linked in the description.
I did catch the reference. Going to check it out. Love those fossils !
You live in such a beautiful area. With beautiful rocks, fossils. Your very blessed.
I am blessed. I thank God every day that I live where I do.
My husband and I visited this park last November, when we had that nice 4-5 day spell of great weather. Stayed in Alpena and visited Rockport first, then drive south to Partridge Point. Such fun finding all the fossils! Your drone shots are the coolest and always show what a beautiful state we live in. Just bought a tent so hoping to stay at one of the nearby parks this summer. Can't wait to get out on the beaches, looking for rocks and fossils. Another super video, Rob. Thanks!
I'm glad you were able to get to some of the great fossil spots in Alpena, Linda. Next time you come, check out Burkholder Drive, right across from Sytek Park. As soon as you turn on to Burkholder, pull off onto the wide shoulder on the right side of the road. There's a ditch there that's full of fossils. Also, across the road in Sytek park, go to the open area toward the credit union. There's a small pond there that has a lot of fossils around it, especially on the side closest to the road.
Very interesting how all the lakes offer different things. But then they ARE so big! It's great that you can visit so many.
Heck, the same lake offers a lot of different things. This beach is very different than other beaches in the area. Even the island I pointed out in this video is only a mile away and has different rocks. I think it's interesting that there are either no Petoskey stones here or very, very few. They're the same age fossils, but just aren't here.
That calyx was really cool. It is amazing how you can dig a hole and find a crinoid stem every 5-10 seconds. As always, love the drone shots.
I wasn't sure if that video of me digging through the small rocks near the end of the video would be boring. I did it for exactly the reason you mentioned. These things are thick here.
@@MichiganRocks In the metal detecting world, we call finding multiple coins in a single hole a "coin spill". In your case, you found a "crinoid spill". :-)
@@jimknarr The whole beach is a crinoid spill then!
Fascinating Fossil Field Trip! Love the perspective that you get with the drone footage. Those plates are amazing -- full of oddities. Thanks for taking us out on a new adventure.
You're welcome. I really enjoy the drone shots too. Even though I have been here a lot, I had never seen it from this perspective either.
I get such a feeling of calmness and peace watching your beach combing videos. Please keep doing them.
I don't think you could stop me.
How amazing - I was participating in a livestream of an ROV marine science expedition last night - living crinoids and bryzoans! And there you were with remains of their ancestors!
Where were the crinoids? Do I remember correctly that they live in Australia?
@@MichiganRocks yep - Ashmore Reef (Schmidt Ocean dives - all up on RUclips!)
That looks alot like my creek. Uploading crinoid creek walk video soon. Lots of plates here. Horned coral I think was one. Grinder came, compunds gotten, polishing buffing wheels on. Crinoid plates to hopefully get shiny... great inspiration. Thank you.
I haven't tried polishing one of the death plates too much. My neighbor polished one on my flat lap, and it turned out okay, but not great. I'll have to try one some day.
@@MichiganRocks I will be doing first work this weekend. Too cold to plant outside and rain. Great rocky weekend.
So every time you mention Thunder Bay, I think Th.Bay, ON... lol 😆 but only because I live 3 hours west of there 🇨🇦.. great video... keep bringing to us, it feels that I am actually on the beaches with you instead of lockdown, and that makes me feel so much better ☺️
Yeah, that Thunder Bay is more well known than our Thunder Bay. I have to be careful if I ever refer to our bay.
I use to find those tube like things when I was a kid, but they had a hole in the middle and they were separate little round pieces, we called them Indian beads, we would make necklaces out of them.
I find a lot of those in a ditch near my house. My daughter made a bracelet with them when she was younger.
Way hey fossils!!! So exciting. Your crinoid stems are bigger than I find here. Also the biggest death plate ever. It's hard to wrap my head around the fact this was once the ocean floor. Limestone is our friend. 7" trilobite? Damn. Thanks so much for doing this. 💖🦅🦅
You're welcome, I'm glad you liked it. Alpena is a great place if you like fossils. We have a lot of them here. The quarries are full of them.
@@MichiganRocks Groan
It’s amazing you gave the location. Most fossil hunters on RUclips keep their hunting grounds a huge secret.
Blastoids are my absolute favorite. We always called them “rose buds”. When I was a kid there was a huge drainage ditch I called “rose bud ditch” because it was absolutely covered in blastoids. Every time it would rain I would make a trip to the ditch because the rainwater would expose more of them. I would bring home hundreds every time. Then my last trip to the ditch they were covering it in concrete. Totally ruined it forever. Heartbreaking.
This is a pretty well known location and it's completely accessible. I always give locations in my videos when they're easy to get to. I only keep places secret if someone asks me to keep it secret or if it requires crossing private property to get there. There are plenty of fossils here.
That's always a bummer when good spots are covered over, and there's not much we can do about it. That sounds like it was a great spot with that many blastoids. They're not as easy to find on this beach. The crinoids seem to have been the more dominant animal here.
Loved your video! You must have a lot of fun looking for these treasures!
I do!
Love the fossils, those death plates are amazing. Thanks for sharing this and the gorgeous scenery!
You're welcome. I enjoyed watching your podcast with Jesse the other day. Thanks for that.
Very neat! I would’ve have kept that colony of corals! Great trip, calms my soul.....thx!
I only brought a handful home. I will keep the crinoid calyx and the blastoid. I brought the crinoid stems to give away to people who have never seen one.
@@MichiganRocks; nice!
That’s a completely different beach than what we normally see. The only crinoid stems that I have found are imbedded in the death plate rocks. Often in Lake Michigan they are in this blackish looking rock that gives off an oilish oder if you try and drill into it.
Cladopora is like that. It's a black matrix with light colored coral and smalls like oil when you work with it.
Thanks for taking us with you! Very interesting! Happy Weekend! Kim 😊
You're welcome, Kim!
Nice spot you have there Rob!!..a cornucopia of fossils!.. wonderful finds. I'm going to have to get over that way one day this summer. Cool drone footage too!!
You have good fossils on your side of the state too, right?
@@MichiganRocks lol..many!!..it's next to impossible to walk down my local beaches and rock hunting spots and NOT find fossils!. Alot of horn coral, crynoids,abc stone, and a plethora of fossils that I cannot pronounce. I enjoy fossils,but I don't really collect them unless it's something that just jumps up from the sand and gut punches me. If I picked up half of the cool fossils I've seen,my basement would be full,and I'd be living in the garage by my wife's orders..lol
Good to see a collector that has more interest than just collecting crystals & gems. Fossils very nice change. Would be happy just having one of those "Dead Plates." Crinoids abundant here in UT too, but I like em'
I have a few other fossil videos if you liked this one. I don't think I have collected a crystal yet, so that would be a change for me too. Around here, Petoskey stones and puddingstones are the big thing, so if I'm in a rut, that's it.
Love the aerial shots. I can't believe how many you left. You have good impulse control.
I have been doing this long enough to know better. I have a very small fossil collection. Some of this stuff is very common and I don't need tons of it. I'm not really a fossil guy. I enjoy looking for them and seeing them on the beach, but I'd rather find pretty rocks that I can polish or make something out of. The Petoskey Stone is one fossil that I can do that with, so I pick more of those up.
Partridge Point is a great place. Thanks for telling me about it last year. When I was there in August, the poison Ivy along the beach was thick and the waves were crashing all the way up to the vegetation. I didn’t stay long as it was simply too nasty outside. But I’ll be back!
The water is down about a foot this year, although it's been raining a lot the last couple of weeks. I was able to walk on dry beaches the whole time I was there.
Remanants of the great flood, amazing.
Thank you for crinoid identification I have a couple given to me and I’m very grateful to know what they are.
You're welcome!
The crinoid stems are fantastic, and the blastoid as well!! I have a few of each from my local shores here on west side of Lake MI, although they've been incredibly hard to find. This was a really fun and educational video.. my sons and I enjoyed watching!
There are a lot of fossils on the east side of Lake Michigan straight across from where I am. The Petoskey area is good. I have never hunted your side of the lake.
Thanks for this, Rob. We plan to check out Partridge Point Park the next time we camp at Harrisville. SP.
I think you’ll have fun there.
Very nice - interesting location and finds. Thanks!
This is always a fun spot to visit. It's a different kind of hunt for me. There's more sitting, less walking.
Oh my! Cool finds! Thanks for the ride along.
You're welcome. I was pretty happy with what I found.
I like that you have been mixing it up a bit recently. Very interesting beach. The fossils are amazing. Thanks for showing it to us...
I'm trying to do more of a mix, but there's only so much variety. Getting over to your side of the state was my way of trying to show a variety of beaches last summer.
I did a video on this same beach two years ago, but you probably weren't watching then. It was a very gloomy day on that video, so I wanted to go on a sunnier day.
@@MichiganRocks I believe I have watched your entire library and enjoyed all of them. It certainly was a beautiful day...
Awesome adventure such a beautiful place fantastic finds awesome video thank you
You're welcome!
Neat. You found lots of great stuff. Interesting how it all ends up in the same place. Another beautiful sky day. The water was pretty calm too. I always look forward to your videos.
I don't think it ends up here as much as it originates from here. This is a spot where the bedrock is exposed.
I could sit there and dig in the dirt all day. Did you take anything home with you?
@@sparband I brougt a handful home. It all fit in a snack sized ziplock bag. I'll keep the blastoid and crinoid heads. I took a few crinoid stems to give away.
Really great video to view. Enjoyed it. Thank you.😊
You're welcome!
Love the drone shots. The water is so clear...probably too cold for algae blooms😀
There is algae in the lake. It's out a little deeper. The waves keep the rocks close to shore cleaned off better.
wonder what it actually looked like back then millions of years ago, thank you for sharing!
I would guess that it would have been much more colorful.
Nice.. I love how you have self-control I'd be bringing home everything. Thank you for picking up the trash. Thank you for sharing
I have a few samples of most of this at home. I brought home a handful. I will keep the crinoid calyxes and the blastoid. I took some crinoid stems to give to people who don't have any.
@@MichiganRocks I am people who don’t have any! 🙂
My Dad died on April 18th 2021, thank you Rob, for just taking my mind off of my sorrow for a minute.
I will be traveling to Michigan on the 8th
I'm really sorry, Sandra. I lost my dad a few years ago. Hang in there.
@@MichiganRocks I'm trying, thank you
Fossils! So nice. Hunting for fossils on a deserted beach. Sun. Water. Fresh air. Lovely drone footage. I’m always a bit surprised to never see schools of fish. The water is so clear.
Except for the drone shots, the water in the video was only a few inches deep. I don't think fish would show up from the drone. I never really thought about that until just now though.
@@MichiganRocks I always look for fish in your drone shots. Must come from being part of a family that loves fishing.
@@txwaterbird6115 I do a little hunting, but I don't really like fishing too much. Strange for someone who grew up on a lake. I never had the patience for it. I need to move around more.
Your father in-laws fish craving looks like a real fish!
He's good at carving fish.
You weren't wrong about the title of this video. Fossil heaven there. I really like the death plates. Nice finds!
Of course I wouldn't mislead you with my title. This really is a great spot for fossils. They're just everywhere.
Thankyou so much for showing us the fossils. I love to go looking at stones at the beach seeing what I can find. I live in Devon, U.K, not far from 'the Jurassic Coast'.
I had heard of the Jurassic Coast, but didn't know much about it. I just looked it up, so now I know just a little more. The pyrite ammonites look really cool.
That would be a lot of fun to find those!
Yes, it was.
Great spot. I see you had a video with Paleo Joe! He did a presentation at our local library and inspired us to take a trip up to Rockport a couple summers ago. Hoping to venture up there again this year for more exploring and fossil hunting.
He does a lot of guided trips to the Alpena area. I see his dinosaur car parked at Sytek park a few times a summer.
I’ve never been that good at finding fossils awesome finds for you 😊💙✌🏻
I’m better at finding rocks 😝😊💙
It would be hard not to find fossils here. If you're looking for something more rare and smaller, like blastoffs, it gets more difficult.
Nice job again with the drone!
Thanks! I was pretty happy with the drone shots too. It's fun to see places that I've been to lots of times from a new angle.
Great day in the sunshine 🌞
Sure was!
Perfect Stones my dear
15:53...and at that moment I understood the "no chisel" policy 😎
It wouldn't be very scenic with a bunch of rocks split in pieces.
Very interesting, I've never heard of this place. Thanks much
You're welcome! I did a video here two years ago. Guess you missed that one.
@@MichiganRocks I wasn't a rock hound yet like I am now
That crinoid head is super cool! Never seen one before
You should see the ones with the geometric patterns on them. Here's one: michiganbasinfossils.org/viewrecord/1132
@@MichiganRocks Perfect star, unreal!
Sulfer island?
That's not fire lake is it?
Bc, I recall Bob Segar mentioning that in a song.
Ha ha ha ha!
Great video. Cool fossils!
Have a great weekend and be safe out there.
Ha ha! Good 'ol Bob. I have heard that he used to stop by this area occasionally. I think his mother lived around here.
@@MichiganRocks
Awesome!!!
Holy Ground!!!
I'm soooo jealous!!!
My father lives outside of Dexter, MI, NW of Ann Arbor. When I was a teenager, Bob was purported to have a house and property the next road over from my Dad’s. Would have LOVED to have run into him sometime! I believe he lives in Clarkston, MI now.✌️🤟🏻😎
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VERY Cool, Dawn.
Bob Segar is a true rocker, through and through!
I have most of Bob's albums.
My son and I got our portrait taken in the style of the Beautiful Loser album cover.
We rented the tuxedos and top hats for the day. He really enjoyed the father-son time. Travis is in the USAF alaska. Bought a house up there. And plans to retire from the air force.
Down here in Cleveland Ohio. We have our version of Bob Segar. A band called, The Michael Stanley Band.
Have a wonderful weekend, Dawn. Be safe out there. The world is losing its sense of humor and empathy.
"Let's get the show on the road", is my favorite MSB song.
i would love to see you ro region based hunts so i know what to look for in every area of every lake! love your vids!
I do put the location of the beach on most videos. I have thought that it would be nice to have a webpage with a map of Michigan and with links to videos on each lake.
@@MichiganRocks please let us know if you ever do! thanks!!
Fossilized bolts, sweet!😂But seriously, very cool fossils! Your description of the tube and tentacles sounded a bit like like a sea anemone.
That's funny that you thought they looked like bolts. I think this is the first place I ever saw these and I didn't know what they were at the time. I said the same thing when I found them.
Totally different kind of beach ! Very interesting fossils ! I have a complete petrified Trumbos shell , I found it on the beach 😊
I don't know what a Trumbos shell is and it didn't come up on a Google search. Can you send a link so I can see what you're talking about?
Apparently it is a totally Australian name for a banded tulip shell 😊
@@easterazali9237 Ok, I didn't know that name either, but I was able to look it up. Thanks!
What an amazing place to fossil hunt. Incredible finds.
There are a few other great places in this area too. The bedrock here is limestone and it has lots of fossils.
Awesome. I love fossil hunting. Near the end there was a blastoid you missed when you were finding a bunch of crinoid stem pieces.
That doesn't surprise me at all. I tend to go too fast as I look through the rocks. I went even faster since the camera was on in an attempt to find more for the video. I wanted to show how much stuff there is to find.
I love your videos. Loved the geese❤️
Kind of a long shot on the geese. I almost caught them landing, but I had my GoPro in my hand at the time. The GoPro has such a wide angle lens that I can never get bird shots. I had my other camera with me to get close ups of the tiny fossils because the GoPro is bad at that too.
Another well done video, thank you. Have you ever used acid on the "death plates" to see if it would bring out more detail or relief? And do you think they would get upset if you used a trowel or garden claw to dig with? And of course fill them back in when done. Thanks.
I don't know for sure, but I doubt that would be a problem. I cover my holes up too. I just use a nearby flat rock to dig with and it works fine. I had a little garden shovel with me and never felt the need to use it.
I have never soaked a death plate in acid. I think it would dissolve it all equally. I soaked a chain coral and it turned out really cool. I don't think these death plates would work as well. ruclips.net/video/hjk3_KMLYXs/видео.html
You live in a beautiful area. I can envision a garden wall or fireplace front made from the flat, irregular pieces of those fossil rocks. It would be very interesting.
Thanks for showing us your piece of the world.
That would be pretty interesting. I'm not sure if they'd hold up to the weather though. That sort of limestone tends to flake apart as it freezes and thaws.
I have found a few pieces of death plates on my favorite beach about 100 miles south of where you are in this video. But the ones I have found are more of a black-gray so the fossils really show up. I actually call them Chop Suey rocks because to me they look like the little fossils were mixed up in a bowl and fell asleep on a big rock and never woke up. Great video.
There are some of those black rocks around here too. It's pretty common to have a Petoskey Stone that has that black rock attached with some little fossils in it.
@@MichiganRocks Someone once told me the darker shades on certain rocks are a result of the enormous amount of limestone on the other side of our pond here on Lake Huron.
Aren't Devonian reefs great!
Partridge Point is another one of those places where I've heard of it, but never stopped. We may have to visit this summer when we're in the area...
Let's do it! I can show you a couple other places if you're in town.
@@MichiganRocks Sounds like a plan!
Yes, the crinoid cup/head would be pretty rare. Nice find.
Caution is the better part of valor...wise choice, Michigan!
I am one up on you as far as trilobite finds. So sorry. ;8)
I'm jealous, but it gives me something to look forward to.
Those Bryozoa colonies are neat!
I can't believe the detail in some of those. Sometimes I find them about a millimeter thick and they're still intact.
Hi Rob, great views, have a great evening
Thanks!
@@MichiganRocks hi and welcome to thecaptainshow
Love that place..so nice and quite...😍
It was a nice, peaceful day. Lots of geese honking throughout the day. I love hearing geese.
Wow !! Those are great what I found is much bigger than the blastoid but looks the same !! Thank you for identifying !! East Southern lake MI 😁 is where I found them. Those death plates? We call cement lol with the croinds in them so cool !!
The death plates are like natural concrete, I guess. So are puddingstones.
@@MichiganRocks alot of larger stones got churned up this winter 😁 cool ones never seen before on this shore. Even went for walk at local creek found a 2.5" cronoid, fat one 😁 love your drone shots its like being there.
@@MichiganRocks makes you wonder what part of the earth did those pudding stones come from millions of years ago. Rare down here.
@@angelawesel4654 Not sure what you're asking here, Angela. The puddingstones come from the Lorrain Formation near Bruce Mines in Ontario. The Lorrain is interpreted to be formed as sedimentary fillings in the troughs and channels of either alluvial fans or braided river systems. Even though they formed during the Huronian Glaciation, they are interpreted to be non-glacial in origin.
@@captpaul8827 cool yes and thanks 😁
Wow you have some really good fossils there,beautiful area you live in .Can I ask how do clean them ,I use distilled vinegar it really brings out the detail of the death beds.The big piece you found with the rings on it could be where the coral anchors itself to the floor,I’ve seen similar in our museum.Thx again good video.👍🇬🇧
The only fossil I have used any sort of acid on is chain coral. I soaked one in muriatic acid and it turned out really cool. That's a little stronger than vinegar though. I have soaked some in water and then drained the water and put them in the freezer. I do that a few times rinsing or scrubbing with a toothbrush between cycles and it loosens up some stuff.
Thank you for sharing, you made my day
You're welcome, Nathalie!
Ooooh I'd like that spot...cool finds
There are several great spots for fossils around Alpena.
The fossils you find will be of great value to science.
These have been studied pretty thoroughly by the University of Michigan. I linked to one paper in the description.
@@MichiganRocks very good 👍
Thank you.... enjoyed.
Wow again. When you encounter these fossils don't you feel in awe thinking about how long ago they were alive.
Tumbling they get quite small starting with a smaller rock.
I don't tumble these. It would just ruin them. And it is awesome how old they are.
I know I’m always amazed when I stop to think how old the fossils are! Now, THAT’S something that’s truly ‘awesome’, not something that’s commonly seen in everyday life! To think that you’re holding history in your hands- touching it, smelling it, (sometimes) tasting it, and seeing it. In fact, there’s a very high percentage chance that you’re ONLY ONE of very few numbers of HUMANS to have seen that very particular type of fossil, in the last century! I can certainly see the allure of geology and archeology! 🔬⛏🔦📡🗿🐚🪨🦣
@@littledabwilldoya9717 Yes, it's sort of mind boggling when you really think about it. This limestone was at one time south of the equator, according to my wife who taught earth science.
Fascinating!
On my list to visit...😮
I could spend all day looking for fossils, but I prefer find them away from the water where they aren't so damaged. Some of the most spectacular ones of that era that I've come across in Indiana were clusters of crinoid stems the length of my arm with calyx crowns the size of softballs and basketballs. Impossible to collect since they were in slabs the size of a small truck. I think some of the parts you found were also the radixes which are the base of the crinoid. Thanks!
I don't know what a radix looks like. I'm going to have to go look that up. I have never found any whole crinoids like I have seen in pictures. They seem to always be in little pieces here. I have looked in quarries and ditches as well as on the beach.
@@MichiganRocks I used to make the rounds on weekends to quarries and wherever new cuts were being made for roads, ditches, building foundations and such. If I found something too big to pick up at the quarry, it would usually be gone by the next weekend. Probably crushed for gravel.
Years ago, I managed to get into the Medusa Quarry near Charlevoix for some research work. While there, I found a boulder the size of a pickup where one entire face was nothing but Hexagonaria (Petoskey Stone) fossils, probably at least 80-100 sq. ft. of surface area. I'm sure they crushed it, but I mentioned they might want to contact a museum or visitor centre for a display specimen.
@@captpaul8827 Wow! What an amazing find.
@@captpaul8827 There's a big one at the Besser Museum in Alpena. It's only about three feet across, but it's entirely hexagonaria. I have heard Paleo Joe say that he has parked his truck on top of hex heads in LaFarge Quarry.
Fossils? Big change from the Petosky and Puddingstone I’m used to.Nice to switch it up a bit.
Not that big of a change, since Petoskey stones are fossils too. Strange that I don't find them on this beach. I did quite a few fossil videos a couple years ago. I even did one on this same beach.
On Friday, my husband came home from work and told me about the front page of the Alpena News and Partridge Point Park. He said we need to check it out. Then I go on RUclips and watch your video about Partridge Point Park. We left Saturday morning, had breakfast at Connie's Cafe and then went to partridge Point Park! We found a lot of crinoids. Thanks for video. Is there a park where we can go on the Huron side to find "pretty rocks"?
Yep, there are a few places. My favorite place is all surrounded by private property, so I don't share the location.
Here are some that have public access:
Harrisville State Park - This is a campground, so the beach will be well picked over. However, someone just told me that they were able to find puddingstones and Petoskey stones a couple weeks ago. The rocks here tend to be smaller although there are some bigger ones too. Great Lakes beaches are state land. That means you can walk as far as you want, even if someone puts up a sign telling you that you're leaving the park or that it's private property. It's ok to walk right in front of someone's house since they don't own the beach. State land goes up to the high water mark. If in doubt, keep your feet wet and you won't be trespassing. I have never been yelled at by a homeowner. ruclips.net/video/5g0tzGhrKaI/видео.html
Sturgeon Point Lighthouse - This is close to Harrisville and the rocks are pretty similar. If I remember correctly, the rocks were a bit larger here than at Harrisville. ruclips.net/video/roKD6QxpaW4/видео.html
Rockport State Park - This is an old quarry with lots of fossils. It's full of fossils. There's also a beach to walk. To the south, it's mostly just limestone. You'll find Petoskeys but they tend to be bad quality. Right by the south parking lot, there are some really cool huge fossils on the beach. If you walk the beach to the north, you'll find some more glacial rocks mixed with the limestone. The water is really high here, so you may not be able to walk very far on dry beaches. A kayak would be helpful. Behind the quarry, there are sinkholes. They're a mile or so behind the quarry, so it's a pretty good walk by the time you walk through the whole quarry to get to the back side. ruclips.net/video/L7_yh6OBLw8/видео.html ruclips.net/video/DH6-oeny4qI/видео.html ruclips.net/video/SizZWI2dpJc/видео.html ruclips.net/video/XRJBk3Ue7uY/видео.html ruclips.net/video/zNKCZhwFFt8/видео.html
Negwegon State Park - To the south is nothing but sand. Beautiful, but who wants sand? There’s sand to the north for quite a ways too. Take the path to the north from the parking lot. Walk 1.1 miles to the first camping spot, called Blue Bell. Walk to the water there and hunt to the north. This is a good spot for puddingstones.
Singing Bridge Public Access near Augres - You should watch my video before going here. With the water being high, I had to wade around some break walls in knee deep water. I wouldn't want to do that in rough water. I found several nice puddingstones and a few Petoskey stones too. ruclips.net/video/JF469dElD3E/видео.html
@@MichiganRocks Thank you for the information. We were thinking Negwegon State Park, since we have never been there. I appreciate the clues on where to go once in Negwegon.
Looks like a good place to snorkel
I was thinking the same thing. The water has to warm up a little bit first, then maybe I'll make a snorkeling video.
Cool spot and that water looks so inviting! @17:32 reminded me of a partial cow pat stone, (stromatolite). Are they known in that area?
I have never heard of a cow pat stone, but there are stromatolites in Michigan. I don't know of any in this area, but they are in the U.P. for sure. Kona Dolomite is a stromatolite. I made heart pendants of Kona Dolomite in this video: ruclips.net/video/Ind9PXxJQSY/видео.html
@@MichiganRocks I have heard, that stromatolites have been found in the Devonian limestones around Alpena, but I have never seen one.
@@captpaul8827 I don't think I'd recognize one if I saw it.
@@MichiganRocks If you're in the UP this summer let us know..... I'll take you to some.
@@captpaul8827 I saw some at Horseshoe Harbor. My daughter was into geocaching and there's an Earth cache there.
That big and cool looking in 17:38 is stromatoporoid fossil from silurian or devonian. We have those in Saaremaa Island
Cool, I didn't know that. I found a smaller, strange rock a couple years ago and it was identified as a stromatoporoid. It looked different than this, but I believe you might be correct. It would be from the Devonian, since that's the period all the fossils around here are from.
That would certainly be a rare find for the Alpena area...
@@captpaul8827 I’ll see if I can find it and send you a picture.
Wow, very cool
Very cool video...:)
Thank you!
AWESOME! my wife and i look for rocks but we love looking for fossils. i will be going there in october hopefully on my alpena trip lol.
Alpena is great for fossils. Partridge Point and Rockport are great spots. Burkholder Drive used to be good, but it got landscaped when a new bridge was put in over the river. Across the road around the marshy spot in Sytek park has some fossils worth looking at.
@@MichiganRocks i think that's our plan. partridge point one day and rockport the next. is there a good chance of finding the black rock style of crinoid fossils? i find lots of limestone embedded ones but very few of the black ones that polish so well. we opened our first run on the model b and im hooked now lol
@@invictusfarmer7188 I'm not sure what you mean about black crinoids. We have cladopora, which is a black matrix with gray coral.
@@MichiganRocks what ive noticed is we have crinoids in sand stone or limestone and then there is another rock that is a black matrix with the white crinoids. it tends to just feel harder than its limestone or sandstone counterparts
@@invictusfarmer7188 Sounds like the same matrix that is in cladopora. It's not really harder if that's the same stuff.
Very cool finds! Maybe a stupid question but why dont I ever see boats on the lakes?
It was a good day!
Thank you for a wonderful excursion. Those things you call "death plates"? We call them "hash". Ours don't tend to be nearly as big as yours.
I think they're also called "fossil soup".
Have heard them called ‘fossil soup’, also.😁
@@MichiganRocks Oops! Sorry, Rob. Didn’t see your comment on that one first!😆
@@littledabwilldoya9717 No problem.
I wouldn't mind picking rocks behind you. Some of the rocks you toss away would be keepers for me.
They're probably still there. Go get 'em!
@@MichiganRocks Gonna have to wait until next year. I'm booked up this weekend.
Are you able to take the plates home to get the fossles out? This is a great place!
I think they would be difficult to remove from the matrix. I would probably start by soaking them in water and then freezing them, then repeating. I think that's how a lot of this stuff comes loose in the first place. I have used that method with some success to clean up fossils that were already loose.
@@MichiganRocks thank you! You found some good fossles.
Love the shot at 6:50
Do you know what kind of birds those are?
Those are Canada geese.
@@MichiganRocks Wasn't sure. They looked huge on my phone screen.
How hard is the rock the fossils are in ? They would make great table mats, if they would polish up
It's limestone, so very soft, about 3 on the Mohs scale. They are also somewhat crumbly, depending on the individual rock.
@@MichiganRocks , rats. so much for a good idea.
Hey Rob, you mention finding fossilized coral? I’ve got 100 pounds of the stuff, from Apple to cantaloupe size. Most have lots of visible crystal formations. Power washed some with great results, acid dipped the ones full of iron oxide with fabulous results. I’m displaying the nicest ones in my unused fireplace, but still so much remains. Any ideas on what to do with them?
Not really. I don't take much home for that reason. The exception is Petoskey Stone which can be made into jewelry and other things. They also just look really nice polished without changing the shape at all.
@@MichiganRocks , mine were half buried in a garden just north of Detroit (Warren) along with some nice quartz, large chunks of amethyst, nice light brown shale with mirror-like silica, raw shattered marble, all kinds of stuff. Looks like a collector’s stash, died or just left it when the sold. Anyway, I believe the football sized pieces are oceanic and we’re once very large, much larger than the pieces I’ve got left.
@@berjo77 Yeah, that doesn’t sound like Michigan stuff or anything that would be naturally found in the same location.
The water was really clam. That seems pretty rare.
No, there are clams in the water. I think they're out a little deeper.
@@MichiganRocks lol
that was a different beach hunt but I quite enjoyed it :)
I prefer the beaches with hard rocks, but fossil hunting is fun once in a while.
You found a Shipwreck spike.....my land looks exactly like this- we have so many fossils here but no one knows anything about them.
I live on the water and we have 3 Bluffs full of these fossils... the ones here in Ontario are a lot bigger in size. I’ve found huge clam like fossils, devil horns, long cylindrical, coral.
These are the ones we put in vinegar to eat the sediment away and leave the bones... you once commented that you didn’t understand why people would do that but it’s the only way to gentle separate the clay from the fossil.
I thought that spike could have been from a shipwreck, but I wasn't at all sure enough to say so. If it is from a shipwreck, I don't think I can take it from the beach, which is why I left it behind. We have a National Marine Sanctuary here to protect the shipwrecks. Taking anything from underwater is a huge no-no. thunderbay.noaa.gov
I have soaked chain coral in muriatic acid to remove the matrix and leave the fossil coral behind. What I don't understand is why people soak Petoskey stones in vinegar because it dissolves the whole rock equally. I have tried soaking some other local fossils in muriatic acid and all parts dissolved. Here's my video on soaking chain coral: ruclips.net/video/hjk3_KMLYXs/видео.html
A great video..is there a way to contact you?
I'm on Instagram.
Wow , so fascinating! Those fossils looked really awesome. Did you find any ammonites? What was the biggest fossil you've found ?😍🥰😇😍🥰😇😍🥰😇👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
We don't have ammonites here, as far as I know. We do have gastropods in the area that look similar. I'm not sure how to answer your biggest fossil question. In the video, I showed bedrock that was packed with tiny fossils. Does that count as a big fossil because the rock was big or a tiny fossil because the animals were small? I brought some sort of coral colony into my wife's room that I found on school property. It was about a foot long and was a struggle to lift.
@@MichiganRocks Amazing ! I think coral is so fascinating because it forms such interesting and unique structures. 😍🥰😇👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😍🥰😇👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻