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Right after Mt. St. Helens erupted I worked in the red zone of the mountain, there were big pieces of pumice there. I would grab these huge boulders of pumice and throw them into the stream that flowed thru the area. These boulders would float down the stream. It is quite the sight seeing huge bouders floating down a stream.

Basalt is not boring at all. It morphs😎👍

I've watch those gloves grow old over the episodes. They look like they're near the end. I will miss them😢.

Basalt is also one of my favorite rocks, especially because of all of the accessory minerals that go along with it. Around me the areas in between the pillows usually contain lots of interesting minerals. Also if you break the pillows open sometimes some of the water gets caught inside the pillow making them solid which usually results in interesting mineralization.

Mate, that was riveting, for a curious geologically uneducated Australian that loves to look at rocks it revealed so much. Mainly I guess it’s the fact that I have examples of all but Obsidian, and the very orange rock. Just don’t get time to study but I do travel to most parts, I’ll subscribed.

1:10 in and I’ve already learned something new.. thanks

This is my absolute, most favorite video yet ! You Sir. You helped me decide, almost a year ago. That, Basalt is my favorite type of rock. We've gathered quite a few "mini pillows" around Spokane. I can't wait for your next Basalt video. It looks boring when it's not the columnar stuff. But You have helped me understand and appreciate what's inside of the weathered, sun beaten crust. Hey ! It's like getting to know me ! Ha Ha. Thank You very much Jared. Thank You.

Bringing me back to Nick Zentner's columnar basalt video when he dropped his rock hammer, haha

I love it too! Until, when living in E.WA you have to replace your fence posts. Thats when you no longer love basalt haha! Should I spy an almond shaped basalt I will send it your way

Finally a good video on basalt. Thank you you helped me better understand.

I just identified what I now know as basalt all along our river and my son said "that one looks like a hexagon or something" now I see why, and we found round ones. So it's really cool that you've explained that. I just identified it when I got home then watched this vid. Cheers

Imagine sitting at your dinner table and YOU need seasoning for your food. "Can you hand me Ba-salt" LMAO

Glad to have you post this, I agree with you! When you do your in-depth it would be great to see examples of it given a polish, run thru the grits. I do this with conglomerates and discover it to be rewarding. Appreciate your post.

Show and tell is fun❣️ So interesting 🥰

If you like basalt you should come visit the Flagstaff, AZ area. There’s soooooooo much here. Over 600 cinder cone volcanoes. I’m hoping to do a volcano video soon. 😁

My is a geologists PhD a met a classmate , an astronaut among Apollo mission they examined moon rocks , not only basalt but pyrite fools gold.

This video came in handy, thanks a lot. I didnt know there were so many types of it😊

Excellent information. We loved seeing the different samples you showed. Basalt is rad!

Thank you for doing this video, this is the information that I was looking for. I love your videos because they're so casual and informative and there's no hype around them. Thanks again.

You have answered many things I've been searching 4 in 10mins. THANK YOU VERY MUCH SIR👍

Super excited,that you just showed me what I found in a basalt cliff.

I live on the big island. Had my driveway bulldozed and saw some cool rocks. Started prying them up to check out. Year later my yard looks like a quarry 😂 it's like treasure hunting. First the plan was a rock wall...now I'm thinking of building a castle😎

Basalt is really interesting, as you said the variety of Basalts , is amazing

I learned something new today, thank you!

I love basalt too!

a new " ROCK " to collect? maybe? just about time to head for the hills!!! thank you for many more ideas!!

Thank you so much for shearing!!! Great educational video and very helpful!!!!! Thank you thank you, thank you!!!

Had a great time

Yes more basalt videos please!

That is VERY interesting. You teach well. I have collected some basalt and really didn't know why. I just found it interesting. Now I know why lol. Havagudun Jared and thanks.

Awesome information. Crust to pillow basalt Cool! Your rock examples and explanations are very helpful 🧐

excited for more basalt, got plenty of it here in jersey, hope there are some tips for finding minerals within the basalt! cheers

Love this! What a great idea to share this type video. Very educational.

Thank you for the information!

Great video. Love geology and from WA so this was perf

I absolutely love basalt and I'm admittedly kind of jealous of your collection. You have some incredible basalt pieces.

Very Interesting!

Didn't know it could be so cool 😂 I found one with green rocks in it I left it there in fear of it being radioactive ☢️ but it looks Coolio

Great info. Thanks!

Columnar Basalt looks like it radiates from a centre point, on cross section. Fractured layers from cooling and heating and cooling and heating. Super cool ! Basalt is cool because it shows it’s multiple beginnings. Nice rock examples..

Thanks man . It’s a great video

Hey I have some vesicular basalt you can add to your collection from the Mojave desert of Southern California. When we lived down there we collected a bunch of rocks for our pet snakes to shed on. They’re rough but not sharp so it helps slough their skin. Because it’s so dry out there we never got any of the agate or zeolites growing in the holes.

awesome, thank you! I love basalt.....ok, I 'like like' basalt. I love old bedrock more but basalt is very cool! I often don't give it the respect it deserves. I mean, I live right near a basalt cliff....showing how high the lava floods were and how much was removed via floods! that's amazing! it tells us a lot about our history. columnar basalt exposed by ice aged floods, pillow basalt (telling us that water was here), obsidian....so cool! I have a decent basalt collection but nothing like that! I was given a some nice obsidian but the rest was found. great vid!

So very informative, Ive noticed vesicular/amyloidal basalt and am looking for a way of removing those filled pockets without destroying the fill.

Thanks for the video, very interesting indeed.

Loved this! Thanks bro 👊🏼👍🏼

Some pumice has so much air in it that it will float. That was a fun trick when I was a child. You could see basalt being created by going to the Big Island of Hawaii where Kilauea is active. There's a green sand beach there made of olivine that comes out of lava that's rapidly cooled by ocean water. And you can walk on lava flows of many different ages and see cool formations like tree molds and lava tubes. Check out apau hawaii tours, a KZfaq channel created by a fellow who witnessed the 2018 Kilauea eruption up close and personal. It erupted in his neighborhood and he now owns a lava lot near his home where there used to be jungle, houses and streets. (His property wasn't damaged.) Cool video! Basalt doesn't get enough respect! 😁

Basalt is in my Top 5 as well. So underrated for being cool.

I found this video very interesting xx thnx xx luved it xx

Thank you for the info, 😎

Cool stuff!

Looking forward to the regional lava show. This was great, what's there not to love about basalt (German Chocolate Cake)!

8:34 I have some. Found them in Panama. I have been trying to figure them out.

Sounds like you need a trip to Hawaii! Lots of basalt there!

I also like basalt!

There is boring basalt. It is found in Boring, Oregon. I came out of local lava domes.

Are you around Missouri are you sure that's not a Missouri weaubleau egg? That second piece you showed could be formed by meteorite impact doing breccia tumbling through the air and hitting and snowballing and forming roundish egg-shaped concretions.

Very educational Thx!

Really interesting. I like the silvery almost obsidian. I wonder what that looks like tumbled. 🤔

Hey I picked up some of that obsidian-like basalt on the way to an ammonite collection site in eastern Oregon! Been trying to figure out what it was because it's glassy in texture but crumbles like a rock.

Great video. TED talks for rockhounds. :-)

This embarrassing but i think i might have mistaken some basalt as sand stone? We live on the Columbia River frontage and in a pretty rocky area (less than a mile east of the Port of Camas Washougal). My daughter and i LOVE going down to the water to look at rocks. Also, there are very large rocks that end up getting shaved into sheets of rocks from the water and wave patterns, which eventually sometimes break off into relatively flattish rock sheets. I think awhile back i thought it was sand stone due to the granularity but now i assume it mostly natural basalt? And how would we know if it is sandstone MADE of basalt particles vs actual solid basalt? I just never gave much thought to it before that it made some of the fireplace rock masonry (sheets of black / grayish rock) to the place that the original owner put in the house when they built it in the 50s or 60s and that it was basalt, not sandstone. 🤪 Sometimes it’s difficult learning how to ID rocks just using books and videos on your own with no mentor peering over your shoulder live as you are picking rocks out from rivers or the ground. I wish i did have that!

Very interesting. I will need to rewatch this. So much information. I do have a lava bomb. Great vide!

I enjoyed the education

it's amazing samples

I got a jar full of little ones!

Awesome thanks for sharing I also collect rocks 💪

I always wanted to make a driveway out of columnar basalt.... Way too expensive though.

come to central oregon we got splatter we got columns we have many obsidian types

I have to admit, basalt is not my favorite rock - but that vesicular basalt with agate was awesome! Have you ever tried extracting the stones from the basalt?

Have you been to deep creek canyon near Spokane? Awesome pillow basalt. Clay etc.

This is awesome but there was still giant tree stumps that got petrified and turned to stone...

What are the names obsidian composed of vitrified basalts. They seem much tougher that that more transparent volcanic glass.

More input! Me likey!

I can’t figure out how watch the members only videos posted below. I’m subscribed here but can’t find a link to anything else.

He I have a question dou you now some thing about rocks in Europe specially the Netherlands and Germany?? By the way I love your videos

Those are some pretty nifty rocks dude. I was not aware of the variety basalt to be honest. Are you sure though, that the pillow basalt is not in fact a petrified dragons egg that got blown out of its volcano nest and into the ocean with the lava flow? It looks like you cracked the shell off of it already, maybe you could cut it to see the dragon baby inside??

i actually really like the diversity. i thought basalt was just basalt. cool stuff as always

I've been looking for this video for alittle over 5 years now. I live in nrtheastrn colo. And have found around 20 wut look like basalt bombs for lack of a better term, that look like meteorites. In your opinion,?, could they be remints of Yellowstone last burp? It seems that it's a long way from Yellowstone to been blasted this far.. or could they really be meterorites?

Very nice samples! I still think basalt is the 2nd most boring rock in the solar system though. 😉

Are you trying find a diamond? You know kimberlite has highest amount of trapped of carbons .

I sprinkle basalt on my bapopcorn.

I’m trying really hard to carve some blanks, any advice on how to cut a stone, with a wet saw?

In my place lot of basalt rocks and mountains, stone , but there no volconlo How it came?

I've just bought 20 tonnes of Basalt rock dust. It smells like petrol. Is this normal for crushed basalt ?

When industry makes products from basalt does it matter what type they use?

Hello! Can the basalt stone respond to the magnet?

Plz tell me basalt rocks contains diamonds or chaldency stone?

I have a app that identifies rocks and it said basalt rock and it says it contains gold how often can you find gold in these rocks

Last weekend I spent a couple hours around the Bowl & Pitcher area looking at basalt. In a couple tan colored boulders of basalt (what makes them this color thru and thru), I broke them and found a grainy, yellow, (NOT sulphur), "filling" in the vesicules. I posted some pictures on Look what I found, on Facebook. I've only seen this material inside a vug (this time), other stuff that you've shown us like siderite, I've seen but this was suprising! Check it out:facebook.com/groups/943030942827086/permalink/1120287715101407/

No l don't catch the Drift...how does a pimple or tick on Basalt turn into Agate? 😂

I’m pretty new to minerals and geology. Are you calling obsidian a basalt? Isn’t obsidian a felsic rock and basalt a mafic rock?

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Ragnar ❤️ finding treasures in basalt. #vuglife

You need to replace those gloves mate

So that’s not gold I’m seeing in my Basalt? ☹️

Lava is basalt,🤔⚖️🫵🏼 what heats the rock vibration obviously what causes the vibration⚖️ anybody know

The information on basalt was interesting, but basalt itself is blah and boring. Most host rock or matrix is, but they are monumentally important to the formation of the rock we all know and love.

look up basalt on rule34