Collecting Carboniferous Fossils (Virginia)

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8 жыл бұрын

*Carboniferous Fossil Collecting*
Description: After getting a lead for a new fossil location in Virginia, we decided to travel out in search of the old stories that could lead us to a new Carboniferous fossil location! Little did we know that this location would produce an incredible amount of fossils with remarkable preservation! The video of the dig site was cut because we wished to protect the integrity of the formation. This turned out to be a remarkable trip with tons of museum quality specimens. The video also includes a nice segment on the geology of the formation and specimens which were recovered! Please be sure to hit subscribe, share with your friends, and follow our main page on Facebook!!
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@MountainJohn 4 жыл бұрын

The ending just made me tear up. Something feels so nostalgic about earths history. Like some part of me remembers the carboniferous and all the other eons. I feel like I can taste the air and feel the humidity with the sounds of amphibians and insects. Though its all gone, we still have amazing fossils to hold to remember this ancient story which has been forgotten for literally 358,000,000 years. It doesn't look like much as a number but compared to your entire life if you're 20, its all your memories, friend, family, hardships and love. Seventeen million, nine hundred thousand times. If you're 100 years old, its three million, five hundred and eighty thousand times. That is so old, simply to hold these fossils would make me shake. Even though I own older fossils, Ice age things make me shake. Time is an amazing thing.

@bjs362 2 жыл бұрын

Glad I found this video. We live alongside Cambria County so these fossils are in these strip mines. Much of the info I was looking for was here, thank you

@christopher4163 10 ай бұрын

Enjoyed the video stigmaria tree my favorite fossils sometimes ill find them in mountains in a strip jobs usually do good nice video love cleaning fossils so much and been my favorite since i was a little boy keep it up

@BearSF 7 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for sharing and for explaining as well. Way to go!

@createyourownwithtkay788 8 жыл бұрын

Absolutely amazing video. Thanks

@MsMonas1 8 жыл бұрын

So exciting!. Great preservation in the fossils. Other fossils are possible too, such as insects, land snails, foot prints... Show us your next find!

@TreasureTracker 8 жыл бұрын

Cool fossils! Keep it up! :)

@falllittlestar 7 жыл бұрын

Seriously all of these videos in Virginia are amazing. I love my state and so wish I could do this for my job everyday

@CloudSplitter 7 жыл бұрын

Great paleobotany vid! I get earliest Devonian Gilboa Tree fossils out of the Catskill Delta of NY

@johnhunt5540 2 жыл бұрын

Some nice finds . I've found quite a few sections the same here in the uk

@trptrungblogs Жыл бұрын

❤️❤️⭐💎⭐💎

@douglasfindlay3497 4 жыл бұрын

nice presentation, as the lycopod tree was essentally hollow, that is the stem and stigmaria were hollow with hollow appendices, suggesting these plants grew on water your sample of the central stele confirmed this, the stele has collapsed generating the surface groove.

@diggingappalachia954 3 жыл бұрын

We find a lot of fossils similar to those in Pennsylvania.. check out the Gastropods I’ve been finding ... the quality of the lepidodendron is wild

@MTreatVO 7 жыл бұрын

Hey man, any new videos coming? Really enjoy your finds and techniques. Happy hunting either way!

@512cbratch 6 жыл бұрын

Do you sell them?

@cindywilliamson1044 3 жыл бұрын

That's HAIR .🥰🎯🌍🖐

@donlawler9510 7 жыл бұрын

I LOVE your videos! ...but... at the 0:44 second mark, you called the trunk sections of Lepidodendrons "root sections of ferns". They do have fern-like leaves, but those were sections of the tree trunks and limbs. ... and around the 3:00 mark, you are calling the scale imprints "where all the roots came out". Those are all trunk and limb sections - the roots are smooth, just like a regular tree root nowadays. (you can see pictures on Google of the limbs, leaves and roots). We have LOTS of them around here... and Calamites, too ( you say "horsetail" at 4:10, they're related to our horsetail, so close enough..)

@duckguide4109 4 жыл бұрын

Hey. Serious and quick question, did yours have pyrite in them??

@beckybenfer5689 3 жыл бұрын

Is that possible? The pieces I found look as though they do!

@tomstanley7568 3 жыл бұрын

i also have them with several hearts each and the heart is mostly the center of a tree

@fortisrisuspater 4 жыл бұрын

Where is a good place to look in the Shenandoah Valley?

@tomstanley7568 3 жыл бұрын

i have some where the limb meets the tree not all are roots and all hardwood trees have hearts alot of times the tree heart dies and turns brown and black purple