Thundereggs | What Do You Really Know About Them? 

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I really like how you explain the geologic processes that created the thundereggs. Keep up the good work!

Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: Great explanation 👍!

Doh, this space was blank so I just had to put something here! 🤦‍♂️ thanks for sharing~ 👍

nicely done Jared, thank you!

Good stuff. The more I know about the surrounding rocks, the easier it is to find what I'm looking for. It's almost more important to know what the outside looks like because that's what I see first when hounding.

The yin-yang on the big nodule!! So cool!

This video makes me want to cut thundereggs. Nice to finally see the triple egg I sent ya. Beautiful.

Maaaan I learn sooo much from your videos!!! Thanks for sharing and please keep them coming.

The thunder egg @8:25 reminds me of the liberty bell!

I am also passionate and very fond of rock can support me so that I can continue on the path of my passion

That was helpful as always. Nice specimens as well!

Sweet video. I've never been a huge fan of thundereggs until you showed us that lillypad spot, that is the most epic material I've ever seen! Can't wait to go back and get more!

Hi once again Jared, that was an interesting explanation of geodes and with your samples showing their unique structure it was developed. You have given us some great info. Keep Safe & Keep Rockin

Excellent video! Thunder eggs are just fascinating. Love them!

Great vid again. Can't wait to find my first thunderegg. Love searching and lookin at the ground wherever I am.

Thank you, Jared! I am learning soooo much from you!

Thank you, please continue to educate us!!!

Great looking specimens and of course your explanation of the process is easy to follow and understand. Thanks!

I never thought about the fact that tue beauty of an agate or thunder egg or geode tells the story of its life. Beautiful.

Thank you so much for explaining the differences. I was wondering and my husband was asking, too. Enjoy your videos, Jared. Keep 'em coming!

Another outstanding video ! Thank you for sharing all in information you do.

Like your educational information. The more we learn the better equipped we are as rockhounds.

This has got to be in my top 3 favorite videos.🔥 I Just love how you explain this so perfectly!!!😎

This is an absolutely fantastic explanation, Jared.

Awesome tutorial video,, greetings from Egypt

You answered several questions I had about the creation of those waterlines and such! Thank you! I find several thundereggs near Del Norte here in Colorado!

This was super useful!! Please do more like this.

Another awesome video! I appreciate you and your way of explaining things, very interesting & informative. Thank you!👍✌😎

Thanks man! More killer, unique content. Awesome rocks and info!

Thank you for sharing your adventures and knowledge. You can keep my attention too so thats a bonus!

Thank you for all your videos I really appreciate it. It helps teach us a few things about what were digging up.

Thank you for this educational video Jared 😊 very appreciated 😊

Awesome informational video!!

Again, I always learn something! Thanks so much and keep up the cool work man!

MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS PLEASE PROFESSOR JARED! Super helpful😃

Beautiful, great explanations too 😀

This was a great explanation buddy. I can honestly say that I learned multiple things from this one video. chat soon buddy

Awesome video. Always makes me want to get out and hunt!

Loved this xx

you do a good job explaining everything

Great video mate

Thank you!

This is a great educational video for the world of thundereggs!

I’ve always wondered how they are made so interesting thank you your always so informative information 💙😊my hubby really loves thunder eggs 😊💙

Another grea video. The explanations were right on point and very informative. Keep the good information coming. Be happy, safe and stay healthy. Hope the pups fingernail is better. Woof to the pup 😷⚒🐕

Good stuff!!

Class is in session. Thank you Jared for the glass on a thunder eggs formation. I love the different types and the knowledge behind the thunder eggs and I’m surprise you didn’t say that no to thunder eggs are alike even though the minerals that form them make up differentPicturesque scenes inside the thunder egg especially like the thunder egg from Lucky strike the hard iron X terrier formed and removing him from the the wall is a lot different than the Richardsons Thunderegg which is in like a sandy bed. Thanks again for all your videos I can’t wait for the next one.

Thanks, Jared! now I know what I found in the MOSI geode barrel, it has the same embossed netting that your thundereggs have! - mine is also the size of a large chicken's egg and oval to boot!

Great video brother

Your first nodule from Red Top looks a lot like the blue agate/chalcedony pictures I’ve seen. I went looking for Ellensburg blue agate this past week, but I don’t think I was in the right area and found nothing but basalt. You do a great job explaining how these thundereggs are formed and make it very interesting…thank you!

Great video! did you learn some of that from Georocknerd's channel? I like how you explained the formation it was very easy to understand. there are also jasper thunder eggs from central and eastern oregon! so many different variations and stories in each one. The little naches ones are so different from all the ones ive seen here in Oregon, those are really awesome.

Great video. If you get a lame thunderegg you don't want to keep, send it my way. Thanks

i honestly didnt know the difference between a nodule and thundeeggs... thank you for making it clear and easy to understand.

That was good Thankyou.

Good morning to you over on the west coast. I'm in NE Tennessee just about 50 miles fro Spruce Pine, NC. Went there last weekend and bought 2 geodes. Heavy ones. Thought they were going to be great. Well one of the had a moderate opening with quartz points. The other was solid quartz when halved. Cleaned them up. Now what can I do with the nodule? I'd like to see if I can take a smidgen of the outside layer of brown hard stuff off by a gentle sanding. I can see some quartz peeking through. New sub. Love your teaching and enthusiasm.

👁👁 … thank you rock-professor 👑

I love your videos you’re fantastic some thing I would like to know is how do you know you have a thunder egg in your hand when you’re digging in the dirt?

Very good video.

Is there a starting orientation to optimize a slab face cut? Such as with, at an angle to or perpendicular to agate lines.

Just got back from the prairie. This was a great video and lesson Jarad. Thank you. What is the cream-colored mineral on the top part of the thunderegg at 10:38?

Good info!😎 Thanks for posting this. "Rock Bottom" in Ohio

Sooo many different opinions of how to delineate between those three. That is one of the better explanations I've heard. Was hoping you would have a Dugway "geode" and talk about it.

I'm still trying to understand how the first example formed and developed the layers.

Your so lucky to be were you have different minerals i live in Harlan ky an I look on our river bank an never find nothing so my ?? Is how can I buy some thunder eggs Ive got a tile saw already or do u no if there’s any thing at all enjoy watching you though

So is that consistent? I mean when dealing with the bubble gas bubble, or in principle any bubble with a physical structure like it is she considered a fortification line is the skin of a bowl the membrane says freak is that to be considered the walls of a fort? is that nature sealing it off just in case or is it that gas or whatever in the bubble am trying to stay unmixed with a greater atmosphere I’m asking because looking at nature and wondering how it applies to the individual consciousness is as mankind in what function is the causes when to seem feel, and believes the separate from another

Not sure if this is the video that you wanted to direct me to, but you explain the formation of agate well. I still am so curious on how the core forms. You see the eggs with pressure ridges, and the typical 4-6 ridges going vertical around the egg. And then the cap on thr top and bottom connecting all of them together, with a dimple on thr bottom of thr core and a bump on the top of the core. The main theory you hear is "well it was just a gas bubble in the rhyolite/perlite flows" But that doesn't make sense. How would rhyolite get in the bubble afterwards, and get those folds and bumps and ridges? How would it form that core almost everytime? Ive also heard the theory it was like mud bubbles, and when those dried up, they shrunk to leave a open space for agates and such to fill in, which isnt a bad theory, but still... how would a core form like that everytime? Maybe its possible that way. I almost wonder if its some mineral that starts forming as the rhyolite and perlite flows are still hot and moving. You can see on some eggs, on the bottom of the core, where the dimple is, theres a unique sphere in the rhyolite. Lava cap eggs have them really pronounced. Those spheres seem like some weird point where the egg might start. Like a nucleation point and things grow from there. Still doesn't explain the core growth though. The cores on the outside look like what the inside of a popsicle looks like if you bite into it haha, how the ice crystals go from center, to out, in that striated look. Egg cores kinda look like that too. I need to do even more research, i nerd out about this too much 😂

Awesome. Where’s a good place to order whole thunder eggs?

First I'd like to say the Wife and I really enjoy your channel but I do have a quick question. The wife and I have been rock/mineral collecting for about 8 months now and she recently bought me a small Thunder Egg and I would like to know the best Lapidary saw to get for a beginner that won't break the bank. Thanks for all you do.

Can you find thunder eggs on beaches or are they found in mines. Are there thunder eggs or any of those eggs found in Ontario Canada, like Lake Superior.

How do you decide which axis to cut the thunderegg or geode? Somewhat obvious in a double but not so much in a single.

Can you do one of these on radioactive rocks? 😁

New here! How do you know if something could be inside or not?

How hot can water get? Not close enough to melt quartz. Challenge status quo. Also curious how two or three gas bubbles form separately then merge. Wouldn’t the Bible’s collapse on themselves and become one? What about 3or4 bubbles? How about a thunderegg conglomerate made up of hundreds of various size spheroids? Just trying to make sense of what makes no sense from my perspective as a hands on artist working with melted metals and clays and glazes.

Lol..Dug by me..