@@MichiganRocks how is that work? We cannot say that frase unless we quote you ? Or, No use it at all? Pay to use it?? Asking honest question bc I dont know - plz educated me 🙏
Rob I found this lesson in geology fascinating!! At 70, I still have so much to learn about rocks. I've always looked at rocks and wondered what they went through to form them into what we see when we find them. Growing up, we always looked for Lake Superior Agates. Your channel has helped me to gain appreciation for other rocks!
@@MichiganRocks I don’t think I’ve ever found an agate. Not much in Milwaukee county in that regard unless I’ve just been unlucky! But but I love basalt, and yes Rob, I love granite too!😁
Rob, thank you so much for taking us on an absolutely fun day of rock collecting. And extra thanks to you and Nancy for such a delicious dinner! We look forward to seeing you again!
I'm glad you enjoyed the day, Nat. I sure did too and Nancy and I both enjoyed dinner and good conversation with you and Paul at our house. If we don't get a chance to see each other in the U.P. let's make sure we get together again next summer.
Wow !! After watching this video & hearing the 2 geologists explain how rocks are formed & their names, I realize how little I know about rocks. I know a few, but not even close to identifying them like they do. Great educational video 👍
@@MichiganRocks This video is an absolute must for rockhounding to educate people on the variety of rocks & how they came to be. I didn't realize how many types of rocks moved from here in Canada to where you are in Michigan
love this video . i learned so much. They're explanations of what the rock is and how it was formed was so easy to understand. I could listen to them for hours at a time. Thank you for having them on your video. 👍
Great information. My cottage is in Hillman Michigan, Lake Avalon. The rocks I find are similar to the ones you’re showing me from Lake Huron. Awesome.
I learned so much from them. Thanks for making this video, Rob! They were answering the questions that I always ask myself when rockhounding: “what is THIS?”
@@MichiganRocks tell them to come up north for the summer. Better weather up here then. We'd all love it! They help bring what we see come together, make sense.
Thank you for having them with you on what looks to be a beautiful day by the shore. There is so much to learn. Another day where you hit the Jackpot on finding rocks.
Super informative and interesting as heck. I love their obvious joy in their craft, this video blew by so fast for me. Another great share, thanks Rob!
I have been mentally teleported back to my physical geography classes in the 1980s. Had a geologist boyfriend back then, too. This channel is about the hunt for me but it was fun getting more of the science for a change.
Paul, Nat, and Rob thank you for the rock lessons. Nat I took a look at many of your short clips on your channel...LOVED THEM. All of you are amazing teachers and speak to us, with limited geology backgrounds, in a way that we understand. Thank you!🤗
I agree. Paul makes a lot of comments on my videos and has never once made me feel stupid, even when he's correcting me. I'm not sure what he's thinking though!
Jerry from S.W. Michigan. My father and I were rockhounding all over Upper and Lower Peninsulas' back in the late 50s through the 70s.One time near Petoskey in the woods we found a rock 3 foot in diameter. it was covered in Petoskey stone. We ended up just chipping a piece off to prove our story. Love the videos, but most I love the rocks, because Michigan "ROCKS"
There's a huge Petoskey Stone at the Besser Museum in Alpena. It's probably a couple feet square and it's completely Petoskey Stone all over. It's an awesome rock.
Thanks Rob, this video was very helpful to me, especially since I find a lot of the same rocks being an roughly 2-2.5 hours south from you. I plan on watching this one a few time, because there's so much great information throughout the whole video, non-stop knowledge. I really love geology, just have no clue where to start, so I start with your videos! Wow so many different kind of rocks and fossils I've heard of before.
Thank you, Paul, Nat, and Rob! That was a very cool lesson! I love hearing about the history of rocks. That's what makes them special to me. Dr Nat's videos are great!
What a great video Rob, it was gneiss, well interesting anyway. My identification of rock my just improve for green ones, red ones, striped ones and lumpy ones. Oh and George, the name rocks get if I don’t know what they are. Thanks for sharing
Thank you very much Rob, Nat and Paul, it's SO INTERESTING to ear all these explanations, how were born these rocks and what are they made of! I hope there will be more of these great collaborations. Good idea also to have transcribed in clear the names 😊
@@MichiganRocks Hi!!! I just got this reply from you tonight!!! You Welcomed me a month ago!!! I see you have some new videos!! I’ll check them out later today!!! Been busy! Let us hope we get this beautiful Fall weather for along time!!! Let’s say, “Tell January!!!!!”. Onky in our dreams, huh?!?!? Take Care, both you and Nancy!!! 🤗❤️🙏
@@kimfrommn7162 That's weird. At least you got it eventually. I have a few projects I'd like to get done before the snow flies too, so I hope we have a long, warmish fall.
@@MichiganRocks interesting! Watching your videos it always seemed like huron was different. The Petoskey often looks different to me and ive never found a pudding stone... but maybe i just havent gone far enough north. I hunt manistee to Leland...
@@enricojaun2880 Hey Enrico, do you live in the Manistee area ? We hunt between Manistee and Charlavoix and the Pudding stones are almost nonexistent. If you do find one there very small. I live in extreme northern Indiana but have a place in Wellston, Mi which is on M-55 about half way between Manistee and Cadilac.
@@davidhile5363 hi david, i wish i lived up that way! Im unfortunately in Maryland, but we have a family cottage in manistee that my grandfather had built. I get up there for 2 or 3 weeks of vacation a year... Thanks for the pudding stone info!
We just got to Cheboygan and I see this pop up! Great timing as my 8 year old girl loves rocks. She wants to find a pudding stone, a petoskey stone, and we hope to make it up to find a Yooperlite. It’s nice seeing what other rocks and fossils we can see since we are staying on Lake Huron. We are horrible rock finders as we are very new to the hobby, but Michigan Rocks has provided a great education. Thank you for the great content.
You're too far north to find Petoskeys. You might get luck and find a stray one, but most are south of Rogers City. Cheyboygan is a great area for finding puddingstones though.
Thanks to the three of you. That was very interesting and informative information. My wife, dogs, and I were in the UP and around the upper glove a couple of weeks ago and thoroughly enjoyed our trip.
Thank you Dr. Nat, Captain Paul and Rob. This was excellent !!! I’ll be reviewing this quite often and I’ve learned what some of the rocks are that I’ve been wandering what they were. I’m going to share this with my rockhounding daughters.
🙋♀️🌞Neat! Your friends are excellent teachers! I'll put this one aside to watch again and learn a bit. But I'm sure glad there won't be a test on Monday!🙃
Thanks for the amazing and informative video Paul Nat and Rob. Wish there was a way to download all that knowledge to my brain cause it would be nice to know more of what I'm looking at or for. Will say though that you can't replace the experiences and memories while learning while you're out rock hounding.
This was an awesome video with so much info! I was in michigan last week and I was surprised at myself for being able to identify so many rocks! I owe that to your channel Michigan Rocks!
I have a little red rock with a white stripe through it I got from lake Michigan, Indiana dunes side. I thought it was a little piece of marble. I guess it's not?
Wow! I really enjoyed having Dr. Nat and Paul describing the processes of formation and history of each stone. THAT'S what I'm talkin' about! LOL! I'm subbing Dr. Nat's channel. Thanks for having them on.
Wow this was a awesome video. Thanks Paul and Nat! So interesting listening to them identifying rocks and hearing how they were made. I just got a book on Great Lakes rocks. And have been reading about the ice ages and the Canadian shield. Thanks Rob!
Very nice team you’ve put together, always so cool to learn things, but more info on our rocks? Outstanding! Thanks to your guests as well as you Rob. Your work is always appreciated.
@@MichiganRocks Agreed! I’ve already followed up on your recommendation on Dr. Nat’s videos. I watched the one on the formation of banded iron (fascinating), then subscribed. Good stuff.
I have never been particularly interested in rocks. I spend every summer on Lake Huron in Ontario, so when this video was suggested to me, it caught my interest. I have watched quite a few in the past week, but this video was by far the most informative and interesting!
Nat and Paul are great. They really know how to explain things at a level I can understand. Do you have Petoskey Stones on your side of the lake? Anything over there that is common that wasn't covered in this video?
duuuude... this was AWESOME! Rob you gotta bring them along with you more often each year! Please do more of these videos. ....and i dunno if you've ever been to the Canadian side of Huron, but all the way from Tobermory down to Grand Bend, there remains an extraordinary assortment to marvel at. This is now one of my favourite videos... hundreds of types to find, would love to learn them all ;-)
I’d love to have Nat and Paul on more often, but they live in Texas. They come to Michigan every summer, so I’ll try to meet up with them at least once a year.
My fiancé got his Masters in geology (studied geography as an undergrad) and he loves it when I show you his videos! He grew up within spitting distance of Lake Michigan and I went to school in Duluth and, suffice it to say, we both LOVE the Great Lakes and love looking at Lake Michigan from a different perspective (as well as Lake Huron)!!
Great informative video! By the way Rob, I finally was able to get one of your Petoskey stone turtles and a few of your crosses. They are beautiful! Love your videos, keep em coming! 👍😊
Wow, a lot of words I have to look up! Thank you Paul and Nat for your thoroughly interesting geology lesson. I'm going to be busy tonight reading definitions and rewatching the video. And, of course, thank you Rob for having these wonderful experts on to educate me so I can brag to my two sons about how much geology I know, next time we are rock hounding on the great Gitchie Gumee! 😅
That was really kind of you to include me in the list of people to give you a geology lesson. In reality, I was just the guy holding the camera. I hope you really impress your sons with your newfound knowledge.
@@MichiganRocks I've learned a lot from you too!! You were literally the first channel that I found that renewed my interest in rock hounding and lapidary work. You also introduced me to Agate Dad, Wild Kyle and now Paul and Nat. I'm struggling with lower back issues right now and haven't been able to get out on the beaches of late but I am hoping for late September after my therapy is finished. You keep me excited about what's out there to find when I'm up and at it again. Dude, you're the GOAT! ☺
We are going to have to ask you if you brought all these rocks because we find amazing rocks but never anything like that lol. Super great video! These two were so interesting and so full of knowledge and I learned so much from them. Thank you so much for introducing them and I will check out her channel..
Beautiful enthusiasm this is exactly why I love RU-vid videos like this, you get to see people talking about subjects you know nothing about and their passion brings it alive in the exact same way that you remember the good teachers in school making a subject more interesting by the passion they bring to it.
I really like your channel and I bet you would love our North Cascades crystalline core. It draws Geologists from far away to work in the complicated geology
this was fantastic! both are very knowledgeable & great at explaining how/what/why. what a great idea to have geologists on a rock hunt. brilliant! but i enjoy your enthusiasm on a regular basis. having experts is good on an occasional basis. btw the spotty rock at 11:50 is gorgeous. at 14:40 this reminds me of a gustav klimt painting. 17:20 is stunning but somehow nightmarish. there’s a slimy creature wrapping itself around the pale stone. lots of great examples today. i’m def going to watch again
I have watched this video three times. I have learned so much about our Great Lakes geology from your guests. Thank you!! Sometimes the information from geologists bypasses my understanding. But in this video, it sticks to the wall real well.
Oh my gosh! I have large Stramatoporoid here in the rocks in my yard!! Everyone always comments; “What the heck is that?” Now to remember that tongue twister!🤪🤣 Now I finally know! Their knowledge is incredible!Thanks!
What an awesome video, what a treat! That was a great refresher for rock identification. Thanks for the fun video and please pass along my appreciation to Paul and Nat!
This vid brings back memories. My father was a bricklayer and stone mason when I was growing up in the drumlin region of southern Wisconsin. Every local farmer had big piles of rocks that the farmers had removed from their fields. On weekends, to earn extra money, we'd go to the farmers' fields to split the stones. My father would then either sell the split field stone, or use it in his work. Many of the rocks had been brought down from Canada and Upper Michigan by the glaciers. So, I recognize many of the rocks that you show.
Thank you so much for this! I learned a lot from the 3 of you! I especially appreciate all the different examples of quartzite. This video helped me identify some of the rocks that I’ve collected in AK and WA:) I subscribed to Dr. Nat’s channel!
OMG they're so freaking amazing! I could listen to them all the time. If I knew them I would pay them to stay on the beach with me and describe every rock on the beach. I love their wealth of knowledge. Jealous doesn't even come close. 😮
I really appreciate this episode; thanks so much top Paul and Nat! I studied geology in NY and have lived most of my life in VT, and being able to identify field samples has always been a critical skill. This video reminded me of a field course I took at RPI (in Troy NY), wherein the professor would pick up a piece of rock, toss it to a student, and say "Tell me 3 things about the life and times of this rock." I still do that to this day, 40 years later! What a fun place to walk the shoreline!!
I used to think that every rock on the beach would have a name, like "unakite" for example. Now I understand that rocks may not have a one word name as much as a story describing how the rock formed.
