My daughter and I live outside of Nashville near a large expanse of forest on a hill and I love going to find fossils in our woods. It has a dry stream bed running through it where we find all kinds of gastropod and small marine fossils. I've found two fossilized barnacles even! :) Really well preserved
That’s great ! It’s really amazing what you can find. It’s crazy to think of Tennessee with a tropical shallow sea. We love finding fossils also and it’s good to hear you are sharing this with your daughter! Thanks for watching!
Thank you and we appreciate it. It was a great day in the creek to find material for sure. We should have a tumbling video out soon so stay tuned. Thanks again and we appreciate you watching! 👍🏻
My son and I love ur videos.!! Thank u for sharing.. we hunt for rocks and came pretty lucky with a few spots close to Jackson Co but not Jackson 🤭 have a awesome day 👍
You have some incredible fossil/coral specimens in your area! That honeycomb looking chunk of coral was my favorite! Respect for how much weight you're carrying out of there. That's dedication!
Lol yea it gets heavy. Sometimes I get lucky and I’m not far from where I parked. A good quality backpack is crucial. Thanks for watching and also enjoying your channel.
My family has a farm in the barrens area of north Robertson county tn and it has a lot of that coral rock in a bottum area that is flood prone. Must have been a sea eons ago
I grew up next to a creek in Middle Tennessee. I used to be all over the sand bars when I was a kid, looking for crinoid stems. I thought they were so cool! I had thousands of them(ended up giving most away to children who were fascinated with my rock collection). I also managed to find honeycomb coral (favosites) and horn coral(rugosa). I have other coral looking fossils that I have never identified. Throughout my entire childhood, I only managed to find one arrowhead. It was laying right on top of the bar, after a heavy rain raised the creek a bit for a few days. I'd love to get back on that creek bank again. All my rocks and fossils are purchased now. Although I do still have hundreds of the rocks I found as a child. I use some of my bigger finds from yesteryear as garden rocks in my flower beds. You have some stunning finds there, and I think I'll follow since you're hunting in Tennessee creeks, so I can relive my childhood wonder.
We are glad to have you aboard! I remember my first arrowhead find as a child. I was crawling on my belly in a ditch and there it was just laying right on the surface. I was blown away. Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoy walking the creeks with us.
My property backs up to a creek that feeds into Cummins falls. We literally have hundreds probably thousands of crinoid stems in our yard and ditch as well. I went down by the creek and found some cool stuff. Ima bout to go excavate the entire creek bed 🤣🤣
@@flanneldaddy5220 I had to look that waterfall up on Google Maps. That would be an awesome place to rock hunt! Keep your eyes peeled for geodes too. The creek I hunted in was in Columbia, Tn. I found thousands of rocks, mostly criniods, in my youth. I miss the heck out of wading creeks, fishing and rock hunting.
Wow! That crazy rock is awesome! It can be sooo hard to figure out what you’re looking at! The coral is amazing too! TN is so much richer in gems and minerals than is talked about!
We have lived in middle Tennessee all our life. We walked creeks to fish and hunt for most of it. When we slowed our walk and started to really pay attention to the type of rocks and minerals we were really intrigued at the beauty and richness of what the area has. I think most states probably have there treasures but just need to slow down and look closely. Thanks you for watching and commenting!
Thanks and it’s on the to do list. I’m still tumbling some agatized brachiopods at the moment. Tumble video is coming soon on the results of that material. Thanks for watching
I’ve done a little kayaking in the southern part of Mississippi. The stream was called Okatoma Creek. We had a blast ! Fun state to visit! Thanks for watching
Hey thanks for watching and leaving a comment. We find some pretty neat stuff in our area from time to time. That’s awesome your tuning in from Canada. We have always wanted to visit. We gave your channel a sub and you find some beautiful material. Take care my friend! 👍🏻
Thank you so much! We really enjoy finding different kinds of rocks. We appreciate you watching the channel and we subscribed to yours as well. Take Care and Happy Hunting!
Are you in Williamson Co? Just wondered bc I am and it just stopped raining here too about same time you posted this video. Lol. I enjoy seeing all your great "finds" and keeps me hunting too. Haven't found anything good but still fun. Thanks for sharing!! Too cold for me to go today so I'm living thru this video!! Lol.
Thanks for watching Sherry. I do the same thing when the weather turns bad. Lots of good rock hounding to be done on RU-vid. We don’t give our exact location out. We just say middle Tennessee. Thanks again Sherry and happy rock hunting.
Im on the edge of my seat because your finds in this video are beyond magnificent! Im a rockhounder from Michigan & just came back from Tenn. yesterday & found a ton of the rocks/gem you showed at end of your video before you displayed them all at home. Its the crystally egg looking object you picked up. You talked about all the others you picked up but didnt say a word about this particular one that I most needed to know more about. Even the name. Im guessing a type of agate but not sure. Got beauties alongside the road near river btwn Gatlinburg & Pigeon Forge. I am desperate to know more of the small egg like spheres-white, yellow, orange & red in color. Help me please....appreciate anything you pass on. Smiles from Michigan.
You must be referring to the Geodes that was found. These rocks are formed in pockets/voids in other rocks usually cotton rock in our area. The cotton rock is eroded away from water then the Geodes are left in the creek. Geodes are typically hallow and are filled with calcite or quartz crystals. Thanks for watching!
The white/clear oval rock he picked up in the video but didn't say anything about? Thats pieces of quartz that have been tumbled over the last few millions of years. I call them creek diamonds, lol. When you hold them up to the sun, they shine like a diamond. I have them all over in the branch on my property. The red and yellow are stained by Iron oxide. I'm in West TN😊
4:00 this is a nice agate/jasper with fossil inclusions I noticed when i rockhounded Tennessee in crockett county that some areas of the chert had more agate/jasper and some areas less this area you are in has quite a few good chalcedony concentrations which are what agate and jasper is. the piece in hand was created by fractures in the earth that got filled in by steam and liquid until they deposited the fracture entirely creating its own rock. Like a caulking the fracture will fill in mixing in with the seabed’s fossils and getting color from iron oxides. That rock is just like all the other rocks around just higher in chalcedony with the fossils mixed in.
Thanks Travis for leaving that comment! We are learning a lot from other fellow rock hounds. The fossils in that rock I believe are bryozoan. Thanks again for that information Travis and thanks for watching!
Really cool finds in this rainy vid. I hunt southern middle Tennessee. Lots of cool stuff to find in and along the creek. My favs are the fossils and geodes. Though coming across a nice point makes me do a lil dance! Love y’all! And would love to walk a creek with y’all one day! Take care:))🖤💖
@@ScotsyCajn thanks Lydia I’m excited about the bryozoan rock. I hope I can tumble it and it takes a good polish. Never know we may run into each other on the creeks one day. Thanks for watching and wish you a full rock bucket.
@@rockandfound I have heard you can find some good geodes around Woodbury TN. That’s not far from there. In my area agates are very rare but on the west side of the Cumberland plateau paint rock agate can be found. Have fun and thanks for watching!
That strange coral is a Favosite fossil, also known as a honeycomb coral! I found a really big one at one of my daughter's Girl scout meetings and then another one again a separate time :-) the first one I found even had some sort of organic material still inside. I thought at first it was wood but once I realized what it was, that it was a coral fossil, it made me wonder
Hey thanks for the information on the honeycomb coral. I think one of the reasons I have always loved finding the coral is like you said it makes you wonder. Wonder about a time so long ago that Tennessee would have been unrecognizable! Thanks for watching!
@@MrMarkAMartin great comment Mark. I was looking in my roadside geology of Tennessee book and it was saying Tennessee does not have a Permian rock record. I think that’s due to heavy erosion. You could be right though. Would love to look into that deeper. Most of the rock exposures that we have in the central basin are of Mississippian and Ordovician layers. This is in the Paleozoic. You bring up a great question. Thanks for watching my friend!
As I recall Favosites arose in the early ordivician, we find several varietys of tabulate corals and some rugosa in the Carters formation of Stones RIver Group 454mya on up through Hermitage and esp the Catheys formations galore in wilson COunty TN east of axis Nashville Dome, all layers ordivician. I think they went Extinct in the Permian. @@TennesseeRocks
@@MrMarkAMartin thanks Mr Mark for the info and we wish y’all good fossil hunting. You are reminding me to get back to studying more Geology. So much to learn. Thanks again!
Thanks and we appreciate you watching and the comment. I’ve always wanted to visit your area and look for rocks. Tennessee is a wonderful state to live and rockhound in. Good luck on finding some property and we wish you the best! 👍🏻
Hey thanks for the comment! We are in middle TN and yes the creek is located not far from where the Mississippian rock transitions into Ordovician. The creek carves through Ordovician limestone. I wonder sometimes how much of the chert is pushed down stream from the Mississippian layers. Thanks for watching!
We live in middle Tennessee on the edge of the central basin and the western highland rim. Your area has some amazing amethyst geodes. Would love to rock hound over that way. Thanks for watching!
Thanks Janie for watching and leaving a comment. I often have wondered if there were others places in the state that these brachiopods could be found in a cluster like we find them here. Was the fossil you found agatized in chert or was the matrix limestone ? Thanks
I have a couple pieces now going so should know more in about a month. Trick is finding some that is very dense and not to porous. I cut a few pieces into squares so they would tumble quicker. So far you can visually see the coral structure in the rock. Hope it polishes up. Thanks for watching!
That’s awesome! We love finding different species of coral in our creeks. If you can find them fossilized in chert it’s possible to tumble them or cut them open with a tile saw to reveal there inside structures. Congratulations on your find and happy hunting!
I'm about to take a trip to southern Tennessee with my 7 yr old son for a rockhounding road trip coming from just north of Columbus Ohio. Do you have any suggestions for a good area?
Sorry for the late reply! I hope y’all enjoy your visit to Tennessee. There are a lot of creeks and steams to hunt. I like using google maps on satellite view to look for nice gravel bars. We don’t give out specific creek info on the ones we hunt but I think you can’t go wrong anywhere in southern part of middle Tennessee. Thanks for watching!
Could you tell me where I can find rocks within an hour or so around Clarksville, TN? I am here from MI visiting my grandson for a few days. I can return the favor. I am looking for small creeks or dried up creeks. Thank you!
I haven’t done any rock hunting in that area but it looks like Wells Creek in El Paso has some gravel bars. Look at Google Maps and select the Satellite view and check it out. Wish I could make a good recommendation but that’s not a area I have hunted before. Good luck and enjoy your visit! Thanks for dropping a comment!
Very cool I haven’t heard it called that. Thanks for the info. It has a lot of agatized bryozoan. I’m in the process of tumbling it so we will see how it goes. Thanks for watching!
It’s amazing what you can find. I would recommend having someone from your local college archeology or palo anthropology department take a look at it. Have fun out there!
I live in Newport by the bowling alley. I been getting into prospecting. Do you ever find any larger than a spec greenstone? Also I've learned gold follows with quartz
Thanks for the comment! We live in Middle TN and I believe greenstone is found more in East Tennessee but yes in East Tennessee I have found flakes of gold in quartz rocks. We were around Coker creek. Never had a lot of luck with prospecting but would be a blast if I lived in East Tennessee. Thanks for watching!
@@TennesseeRocks I have found green stone under a huge rock ground covered in moss. But they are tiny tiny. And I found 3 HUGE pure white quartz 2 the size of my hat
And 1 14" long 8" wide 5 " thick crystal pure white with yellow all over them. They are making a new highway so I walked the construction area and it looks like bleach white eggs popping up everywhere
But to 1 up all that. Right past bricks and conagra in Newport under this railroad bridge I found a large magnetic schist rock chunks of silver copper and hopefully gold. I'm afraid to take it apart. I put everything in my pan and nothing but mica copper pyrite gold silver and whatever else. And same day I found a tiny piece of meteorite magnetic leaves no marks on porcelain it changes from Blue to purple to green and is rusty
I’ve never been great at spotting those. I’m always afraid of reading into them more than I should. Really appreciate the comment and I’ll keep my eyes open for them!
We don’t give out exact locations but most of our creek hunting is in middle Tennessee where the highland rim meets the central basin. Thanks for watching!
I have heard of people finding nice geodes around Woodbury TN but that’s just outside of Murfreesboro. Not very familiar with your area. Best thing to do is look at google maps on satellite viewer and just go for it. Have fun !
@@Beorn-Dash I’m sorry we don’t give out specific location info we always just say middle Tennessee. I recommend just really digging into your local area and I believe you will be surprised what you can find. It will require patience and persistence. Good luck!
I apologize we have been busy but one thing we would like to do is make a video with the tile saw cutting some of the agatized brachiopods. Also the big rock with the agatized bryozoan is finished with stage 1 tumble it will still be a little while. I hope it turns out decent it’s hard to tumble large rocks. We have a video about the agatized brachiopods tumble. Thanks for watching !
Nice finds Johnny ! We love finding agates here but it’s rare in my neck of the woods. Most of the agates we find are agatized brachiopods. That’s probably my favorite rock to hunt. Thanks for the invite and we will keep that in mind. Have fun and happy rock hunting my friend!
