A Tour Of My Fossil Collection
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2 жыл бұрынLast time you saw me I was hiking through the woods looking at fossils in the rocks. Now I've brought back a collection of my findings and it's time to take an up-close look and my haul. Join me as I examine each fossil to learn what it can teach us about the ancient Earth!
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@adamjohnson2914 2 жыл бұрын
Fossils are seriously so cool. you can just look around the ground/stream and find hundreds of millions of years of history, right in your hand.
@autismman6360 2 жыл бұрын
And extremely tasty
@ghash242 2 жыл бұрын
Ayo????
@autismman6360 2 жыл бұрын
@@AllenMBanks no he means millions
@autismman6360 2 жыл бұрын
@@AllenMBanks how’s he wrong?
@AbdoZaInsert 2 жыл бұрын
Because it’s tasty
@danlittlejohn1913 2 жыл бұрын
A simple half inch Cole chisel is great for parting layers of rock - couple of bucks or maybe ten depending.. Find a seam or grove between the layers, line up the chisel blade and tap lightly a couple of times. Move the chisel along the seam and repeat until a long way around. If it doesn't work and split, start again and go deeper. Nice video Pro
@LeoiCaangWan 2 жыл бұрын
Also safety goggles
@jayyydizzzle 2 жыл бұрын
Cole chisel or cold chisel?
@dylan0003 2 жыл бұрын
@@jayyydizzzle Chold Chisel
@jayyydizzzle 2 жыл бұрын
@@dylan0003 lol
@jacobestrada7655 Жыл бұрын
@@LeoiCaangWan twtttttttt
@candle340 2 жыл бұрын
10:09 Ahh, yes. A fossilized "media offline" - my very favorite! 😂
@sawyerstudio 2 жыл бұрын
My guy, as a science educator, your work keeps getting better and better. This is one of the coolest videos you've made. Your recent videos are really inspiring in the category of reminding folks that interesting history is all around us, and we never know what we might find if we just take the time to look.
@user-gr9fq9gt9w 2 жыл бұрын
10:09 That is one of my favorite fossil imprints
@AlexxAmadeo 2 жыл бұрын
I had no idea I was going to watch a video of a man smashing rocks today and utterly enjoy it :)
@963ag 7 ай бұрын
I have been an avid collector since childhood. Through the decades, I have lost my collection, sadly... ( long story) But at 60 years old, I have had an urge to rekindle my former passion for all things pertaining to fossils. I especially like trilobites, crinoids, sea slabs, echinoderms, bryozoans, and corals; but also fish and plant fossils. Videos such as this one help revitalize my interest.
@maksiksq 2 жыл бұрын
23:06 I live in a private house and I smashed a ton of rocks, however generally big ones not as delicate as yours. I think you should've made small accurate cracks on the side, this way you not only could make it crack faster but also could divert where the crack will go, but I think the main thing you did wrong was taking a screw, screws are made to stay, you should've found a beefy nail or just used pliers and kept fixing a single(or a bunch) of nails again and again. Or you could buy an electric saw with disks name of which I don't know in English, it can even break concrete but you might need to find someone's garage because using it on the street is a bad idea
@robertstone9988 2 жыл бұрын
12:35 I have one of them in my collection. I was hoping you would tell me what it is. Mine is from Bloomington IN and has one of the ends preserved, it tapers at the ends if thet helps. If you walk behind my house to the creek every single rock is made out of crinoid stems. I used to collect it when I was a kid but there's so many that you just can't take them all home. And out of the millions and millions and millions of chronic stems I have found one crinoid crown with the feeding tentacles. Just one that's how rare they are. I also have a handful that have fish scales and a bunch of seashells. 350 million years ago Morgan County Indiana was the epicenter of crinoids.
@stephenpinon8836 2 жыл бұрын
If you have a drill with a concrete bit, you can probably make a few intrusive holes that are less that 1/8 in across, minimizing damage to the fossils. Then using a chisel and possibly a 5lb sledge, you can hit the rock along your drilled holes to get a very clean opening
@dumassjoe 2 жыл бұрын
I expected this to be boring, but you made it as interesting and educational as every other video you produce. Loved it
@ger5956 2 жыл бұрын
The best method I’ve found for splitting rocks is to drill a few pilot holes and hammer in wedges fairly gently to give more control over how the rock splits.
@tomasmondragon883 2 жыл бұрын
Watching a geologist (amature or pro) show off their collection of cool rocks they found is always entertaining. I had a geo teacher in high school that had a sand collection 😁
@redtailpunk 2 жыл бұрын
not many things can bring me back to that child sense of wonder, but i remember searching for fossils as a kid in the summer and havent much thought about it since. thanks for another interesting dive into a new world! always a good time here
@daythechampion7609 2 жыл бұрын
Ah yes posted 44 seconds ago, we early today
@Atius 2 жыл бұрын
Same here for some reason but for me it's minutes
@Jaxystan 2 жыл бұрын
Early gang?
@jasonzervos 2 жыл бұрын
For me it was 17 minutes ago when video started
@p.d.nickthielen6600 2 жыл бұрын
As a retired geological engineer I had a good laugh. I remember trying to collect a chunk of rose quartz from a huge bolder and failing. I even Had a real rock hammer. You needed a larger set of tools. A large screw driver or a thin chisel. Would work and your want to hit the driver sharply, then move to the right or left and repeat. It will create a line along the cleavage. After several hits it will split. Anther option is to use a masonry bit and drill a series of small holes then drive a wedge in each hole in series and one little deeper on each hole. Email me and we can talk if you like
@Gingerchalky 2 жыл бұрын
This makes me want to go to the fossil beach here in the UK 😊😊
@AtlasPro1 2 жыл бұрын
Do it!
@Freyja-Sister 2 жыл бұрын
Whitby and Lyme Regis are prolific providers.
@Gingerchalky 2 жыл бұрын
@@Freyja-Sister Lyme Regis is the one I was thinking of. Didn’t know about Whitby
@Freyja-Sister 2 жыл бұрын
@@Gingerchalky Perhaps you could follow in the steps of the noble Mary Anning, the palaeontologist that changed the world back in the day. The film "Ammonite" provides a reasonable appraisal of her life and achievements. Whitby was where I was born, Dorset is where I now reside. Happy and safe hunting in which ever direction you choose to investigate.
@xelleowl Жыл бұрын
Port Mulgrave is a great spot near Whitby
@s.rosephotography 2 жыл бұрын
So cool to have that many fossils on your doorstep! I go miles away to go fossil hunting haha. Great vid :)
@bhsiao9352 2 жыл бұрын
One of the best educational channels man - keep it up!
@stevelapointe180 2 жыл бұрын
This is literally my favourite KZfaq Chanel. Every video is top notch.
@tedetienne7639 2 жыл бұрын
Very interesting video! I really enjoyed it. But, wow, did I want to reach through the screen and hand you my geologist hammer! I’ve never seen a geologist trying to split a rock using a nail, and now we know why! Please keep making more like this!
@garywait3231 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this delightful video, in which I re-lived my own fossil hunting in the Helderbergs and on the shore of Lake Champlain more than a half century ago. Having just discovered your channel, I hope to see more of your interesting and informative presentations. Thanks.
@AlexAzureOtaku 2 жыл бұрын
Your collection rocks
@AtlasPro1 2 жыл бұрын
I see what you did there
@morgan0 2 жыл бұрын
really enjoying the fossil content, especially from relatively nearby
@einsteinwasright1044 2 жыл бұрын
Use a very hard chisel, such as cold chisels, mason or brick chisels, some of which are available with hand guards so that you can really hit them without risking hitting your hand. Wear eye protection goggles! A small sledgehammer is heavier than the nail hammer that you were using, and its extra weight will be more effective.
@kingace6186 Жыл бұрын
Epic and interesting. I loved watching you nerd out over your cool Fossil Collection.
@ipathanirfan 2 жыл бұрын
It's getting more interesting and the way of explaining makes it even more interesting....Thank you for the knowledge....
@rodchallis8031 2 жыл бұрын
17:00 With mountain building, in this case I'm guessing the Taconic Orogeny, we also get a lot of erosion. Bays and inlets and shallow seas that supported corals can get silted over, killing those life forms. I'm no expert, but it's my guess as to what that rock represents.
@innosam123 2 жыл бұрын
Being so early makes me feel like you’re watching a small, unknown channel. :)
@ScottysHaze 2 жыл бұрын
I had a fantastic time with these two fossil videos. You really are one of the best content creators. I'm a subscriber, and watch every single one of your videos. Thank you so much for what is clearly a lot of time and effort on your behalf to bring such fascinating content to those who enjoy the subject material. You do a fantastic job, and I always find myself getting so happy when I see that Atlas Pro has posted a new video. Thanks again! Please keep up the incredible work!
@MannenFromNorth 2 жыл бұрын
At work when splitting big rocks or parts of mountains we hit with a sledge and create like a line of stress in the rock by hitting in multiple places that all connects up to eventually splitt it in controlled manner, not sure how well it works on smaller rocks but could be worth try to learn (it's extremely easy) before buying a set of specialized tools.
@emmakersten4916 2 жыл бұрын
I've fossil hunted on the shores of Skaneateles Lake, and I've found a few small trilobite fossils before. They're not eurypterids, but trilobites can definitely be found in the most fossil rich areas of that Devonian rock. Also, other people have said it, but a solid chisel is what you want to split those rocks. Works like a charm on that soft shale.
@jthomashair 2 жыл бұрын
I live in Appalachia too (North Carolina) and you’ve made me want to go the mountains and look for fossils myself!
@simonnygaardjensen1367 2 жыл бұрын
All this fossilhunting could make for a really cool collab with @PBS Eons
@Nickleplate765 2 жыл бұрын
A good day when I come across one of my favorite channels new videos this early!
@Wizard_Pepsi 2 жыл бұрын
Amazing video, bringing attention to the smaller yet still very interesting fossils most people tend to overlook
@jefftokman 2 жыл бұрын
Depending on how close you are to the finger lakes it might be worth your while to collect shale because they often have fossils embedded in them and are easily broken apart. In Ithaca (where I’m located) it’s relatively easy to find shale near Cayuga lake or anywhere that has exposed rocks like Taughannock state park or Truman state park or any of the other waterfalls nearby.
@a.cornelia Жыл бұрын
I really loved this video! Hope to see more like this soon 😃
@Jukindza Жыл бұрын
Yess! Please do so, find and explain more of them) Can't wait to see it)
@joechavez1761 2 жыл бұрын
That bit of you trying to break open the rock was the biggest tease of the century
@froytii 2 жыл бұрын
Amazing video! I absolutely loved the content and would like to see more content of this type keep posting videos!
@nope3361 2 жыл бұрын
That super fascinating and I’m glad you’re willing to do stuff like this. Good luck on your future expeditions
@santoshr2984 5 ай бұрын
Good one .. thoroughly enjoyed. Definitely waiting for the second video :0)
@magicbluewolf94 Жыл бұрын
Looks like you might have a gastropod impression at 18:48 or so! Check out the little spiral! I'd be more inclined to call the brachiopod at 20:10 an internal mold, but very cool nevertheless. I'll also echo what others have said about getting a proper rock hammer. You'll want a chisel-tipped one for working with sedimentary rocks.
@kate-xf3vg 2 жыл бұрын
i grew up in northeastern ohio with a small creek in the woods behind my house. when i was 7 a tornado touched down for a bit on the creek which tore up an insane amount of trees. while sad for the trees, it exposed the roots which allowed me and my dad to dig around for fossils. tons of lil shells super similar to the ones in this video. long story short, this vid brought me back soooo many memories of spending afternoons trying to break open the rocks on the driveway, either with tools similar to the ones used in this or just chucking them at the ground and hoping for dinosaurs 😂 and despite never finding a sauropod, finding each tiny shell was truly magical experience! i hope this video inspires more people to explore the world around them 😁
@Imperiused 2 жыл бұрын
Grew up in NE Ohio too. We had this big rock pile out back that my dad and mom had either dug up out of the garden or some other hole they were digging, and my sisters and I used to climb all over it looking for fossils. I eventually learned there were no dinosaur fossils in Ohio to my eternal disappointment but we did find lots and lots of imprint fossils!
@auroraasleep 2 жыл бұрын
I always enjoy seeing other people's fossil collections.
@auroraasleep 2 жыл бұрын
Highly recommend a rock hammer & chisels. They are inexpensive, but be careful where you carry them in NY, because some places you can collect without an issue, and other places you'll get in trouble. We tend to leave ours home and only break stuff open here, but So. Much. Easier.
@jayyydizzzle 2 жыл бұрын
Congrats on 1 million subs dawg!!!
@jjawesome1803 2 жыл бұрын
23:10 - MONKE SMASH ROCK 😂
@takenname8053 2 жыл бұрын
Very Nice, I hope that you find more to show us!
@SnifferAndFrens 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading this informative video. It helped me in identifying several of my own fossils I've found in my local area.
@Jayce1701 2 жыл бұрын
I love your work in general, but this was an amazing video!! Please keep up the great work!
@MrStillions 2 жыл бұрын
I came here after twitter recommended your tweet about the missing clip and now I'm subscribed. 😂👍🏼
@hatsudopia5085 2 жыл бұрын
Hope you get to do a part 2 to this
@xentrix1024 2 жыл бұрын
20:49 "technically this isn't the right tool for the job" 3 minutes later: "So, I'm admitting defeat for now, at least until I have the proper tools" Nice video, thank you 😄
@SaxonSuccess 2 жыл бұрын
Good stuff, great that you're in such a prolific fossil belt.
@monicabello3527 2 жыл бұрын
Wow, the last two videos was amazing, I love working on the field, and as I cannot do it everywhere, it's lovely to what peoples from onother continent can find
@arvidberg1530 Жыл бұрын
Love this, great collection!
@aerocabin 8 ай бұрын
@2:30 - The rock with many "baby" echinoderms is actually a rock with many crinoid stem fragments. Underwater currents break apart the crinoid's stem and segment the stem into many smaller pieces, which you misidentified as baby echinoderms. Crinoids are also echinoderms. @8:49 - I think you might be mistaken again. You claim that the rock displays a crinoid and an archaeocyathid, however I suspect they are both crinoids. Reasons for them having a difference pattern include being from a different part of the stem (stalk) or perhaps being a different taxon. Also, a cursory search seems to suggest that crinoids and archaeocyathids did not live contemporaneously - with archaeocyathids going extinct prior to the start of the Ordovician when crinoids make their first appearance. Additionally, a cursory image search of archaeocyathids shows their cross-section morphology as being more ovoid. @11:10 - I think that's a crinoid stem on its side. It might be partially weathered away, which might be why it's more difficult to identify.
@theothenintendomaster3717 2 жыл бұрын
Very nice video . Keep up the good work
@Eyes_Spies 2 жыл бұрын
Fossils are so diverse and cool love em
@jlassiterstudio 2 жыл бұрын
I've loved these past 2 videos.
@kingalex105x7 4 ай бұрын
your videos feel like they have thier own lore to them with it all being interconnected
@foryouphilanything 2 жыл бұрын
These videos about fossils have been great, you're awesome!
@neilscole 2 жыл бұрын
Totally enjoyed these videos, like all of your videos. 🙂
@endrawes0 2 жыл бұрын
Different is good. Geology/geography... Same thing! I don't mind you keeping things fresh!
@voidandwood6724 2 жыл бұрын
Hello atlas pro your fossil review looks interesting what’s even more interesting is you may be right about the fossil being related to something like the ammonite. Though not from america you do find ammonites commonly in partials and the patterns of ammonites being small ridges spaced out make it look like something from an ammonite. If not maybe it could be some sort of fossil tree or an uncoiled ammonite Which is basically and Ammonite but it’s not curved and is just strait with the small bumps/ridges spaces out. Although an u coiled ammonite is least likely.
@meytechify 2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video. More like this please.
@pp87 2 жыл бұрын
Oh! This could be a great collaboration opportunity for The Water Jet Channel!
@stevekemble8911 2 жыл бұрын
I loved collecting fossils when I was young. I entered my collection in a NOLA school science fair where it was stolen. I never got back into it... Enjoy what you have.
@fosilbol Жыл бұрын
iin 28:07 you have 2 cosicle's crinoid, your fosil comes from Devonian Rocks, the ARCHAEOCYATHA is almost exclusive from Cambrian. I have the same fossils from Bolivia.
@joshschmidt4546 2 жыл бұрын
your intro gives me goosebumps every time, best intro on youtube.
@peterwolf4230 2 жыл бұрын
I've seen a video in how to crack big rocks apart before, the key is to use multiple pressure points. Think multiple nails/screws, not just one. And each one gets tapped in a little further until the total pressure breaks them....
@ethaneverglades7512 2 жыл бұрын
A fantastic place in the U.S to look for fossils from many different periods that occurred after the dinosaurs is the Peace River in Florida
@cozmictwinkie9260 2 жыл бұрын
Those sea lily things are so gnarly, I like 'em!
@adam2956 2 жыл бұрын
I love the part where you were smashing the rock, it's so out of character and refreshing to see you talk casually in real life😂
@maksiksq 2 жыл бұрын
10:09 haha when you deleted a file and didn't rewatch the video, so relatable
@alannabanana6255 2 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed this video very much. Watched it while trying to relax, found it soothing and informative, and I would definitely be interested in more content like this. It makes me wish I pursued sciences instead of arts. You have a new subscriber :)
@Spacemongerr 2 жыл бұрын
Good rock video
@01k 2 жыл бұрын
I love this video, thanks for sharing
@amygrant9434 2 жыл бұрын
Safety glasses! Where are your safety glasses???? As a lifelong rockhound, you need eye protection when breaking rocks open. So many flakes flying! Thanks for the video.
@jamesrapp9778 2 жыл бұрын
Cheers for the video mate 😎 👌
@basilbrush9075 2 жыл бұрын
5:04 hey, former part time palaeontologist here, you may be interested in looking at death assemblages versus life assemblages! Though bivalves and brachiopod can indeed live in large groups as seen in your fossil casts, these collections can also be found in 'death assemblages', for example when a partial sea floor shelf collapse concentrates a swathe of sea floor creatures into a smaller space, sometimes taking some of the water column creatures with it too! This can also happen in low oxygen conditions when, say, hundreds of thousands of ammonites die over the space of many thousands of years at one site, but their shells are preserved and stack upon one another before becoming lithified. This also applies to your conclusion at 17:30 ! Rise in preservation and fossil concentration does not necessarily equal a rise in life present at a particular time, life is rarely so simple (or straightforward for geologists!)
@basilbrush9075 2 жыл бұрын
I also suspect 12:30 is a cast of the exterior of an ammonoid shell, but it's hard to tell!
@basilbrush9075 2 жыл бұрын
Ok next one! Brachiopods and bivalves are indeed a tricky one, but identifying hand specimens is generally a question of symmetry - if you look at one of the two shell parts of a brachiopod, it will have left to right symmetry, but one shell will be shaped differently to the other, one often curls around the other at the hinge. Bivalves on the other hand have two shells that are mirror images of one another. They may be symmetrical (like Pecten) or not, like the one you pictured when referencing your bivalve web search. Hope that helps!
@basilbrush9075 2 жыл бұрын
Lovely video, I'd definitely recommend a cheap chisel to try again to split the rocks, but sometimes it just won't happen! Beautiful specimens!
@mattsummerville4113 4 ай бұрын
Hey! Just wanted to chime in. Those stars on the Echinoderm rock are not baby Echinoderms, but rather I believe pieces of crinoid lily stems that have fragmented off! The star shape is like the lumen of the stem, filled in with sediment over time. Also, the crinoid skeleton is magnesium rich calcium, hence the different colour on the circle part around it
@mattsummerville4113 4 ай бұрын
Just watched further and you covered it, but sea lilies are Echinoderms y’all! They’re the weird cousins of the starfish and urchins! I love those lil’ guys
@gtbkts 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the awesome content
@reneeglover4819 2 жыл бұрын
Love this!
@loveisthekey Жыл бұрын
Super video, Thank You
@NinjaKitty91_ Жыл бұрын
I have a few fossil too. Two Orthocones, a fern, and a big rock that I found in the Desert east of San Diego, California. It has fish, seashell fossils and imprints of some kind of seagrass. I originally was looking for geodes and happened upon that rock with all the fossils in it. I had a museum ask if I wanted to donate it but I polity declined and it's with the rest of my rock/crystal collection
@larisael-netanany488 2 жыл бұрын
To break them open you need to consider some physics. A screw or a nail will not cause it to break. Nor slamming them edge on. What you need to do is create a hit that will bend them beyond its elastic limit - which is not much movement, but then again - it is a hard material. All the gentle hits you did with your hammer are small enough to be absorbed by the material elastic capacity, and so are the slams you gave edge on. However. If you take three hard stones of gravel and place them as far apart as your rock allows, laying the rock flat above them practically on air and hit it in its center - it’s more likely to create a movement the rock will not be able to absorb, and thus, break.
@omrivol Жыл бұрын
Great video!
@jameskirkland3187 2 жыл бұрын
23:00 and here we see the return to monke.
@darthmaul216 2 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing
@pabloquijadasalazar7507 2 жыл бұрын
Yoooooo! New video! You been good homie?
@maarirs12894 2 жыл бұрын
Get rock splitting tools from Trow and Holden. Wedge and feather or a chisel that u can use to score the rock.
@WAMTAT 2 жыл бұрын
Very cool rocks
@Nodegama 2 жыл бұрын
good work. And who could have predicted that rocks are so hard ^.^
@joshschmidt4546 2 жыл бұрын
your sound design is so good to.
@voidandwood6724 2 жыл бұрын
I would recommend atlas if u think it’s something like a cephalopod dig it out to see what’s inside the rock. Because sometimes details are hidden inside and outside. I’d think it’s a partial of an ammonite
@sergioacevedo2254 2 жыл бұрын
I'm just imagining your neighbours asking "why is that guy kneeling on his driveway for hours, banging on a rock with a hammer???"
@BrendanAndres 2 жыл бұрын
I would check out the channel Mamlambo Fossils to get an idea for what to look for with some fossils and how to approach extracting them from their respective rocks!
@corro202 2 жыл бұрын
Awesome video.
@bengiyardimli1925 2 жыл бұрын
Hey thanks for delivering on my fossil/rock request.
@AtlasPro1 2 жыл бұрын
I did it all for you!
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