We were at Crater of Diamonds in April and tried our luck. Wow that mud dries as hard as concrete but chips off from shoes and arms and legs easily. The area was bustling with people as it was eclipse week. Everyone was digging, chipping away, or throwing their hands up in frustration, but there was a black lab running about trying to help everyone dig. Fun times.
I was at Crater of Diamonds with my parents about 20 years ago. None of us found anything the entire weekend. :-/ edit: While I was there I was chatting with a couple that comes there frequently. They said that once every few months the park is closed for a day while someone runs through the crater with a tractor turning over the soil to expose newer diamonds. They also said that the best way to find one is just after it rained as the sun glistens off of the diamonds in a way like you have never seen. Also to never take your eyes from it while you walk towards it to get it or you may not see it again.
@@operands I was going to mention quartz, but decided not to since illegal collection is a real problem, especially on private land. But you are correct, there are several good spots available
I have a tip to share, The area is plowed in the spring and early summer, include this in your planning along with the last time it rained. You'll want to hit it just after a fresh plow and right after a good rain comes through. It ups your chances of finding something nice.
Do more videos on Arkansas Geology! Its has so many fascinating areas and is probably one of the most diverse states in the country for geology. Considering this it is criminally under studied versus so many states out west and in the Appalachians. Arkansas has a large sections of the The New Madrid seismic zone which is one of the most unique seismic zones on the planet. It has traditional mountain building geology in the Ouachitas. It has hot springs and sand blows. It has (old) volcanism as shown here complete with diamonds! It has a large, heavily dissected plateau with karst topography and countless caves, some quite large, in the Ozark Mountains. It has a semi-mysterious string of mountains just south of the Arkansas river (Mt. Magazine, Mt. Nemo, Petit Jean Mountain) that are not part of the Ouachitas, but also not part of the Ozarks or they are and may be a little of both! It has a huge chunk of the MS river alluvial plain which is kind of boring at the surface but literally contains rocks and sands from the Rocky mountains to the Appalachians to as far north as parts of Canada. It even has some limited oil and gas production for you petro geologiest. Its a really great state for geology!
Don't forget our Nepheline Syenite glades - extremely rare igneous rock intrusions at the surface. Nepheline syenite is very uncommon globally and is only found in Pulaski and Saline counties.
If you drive south on Arch Street Pike from downtown Little Rock, you will pass between a granite quarry on your left and a Cypress swamp on your right. An oil geologist friend of mine told me that he knows of no other place on earth where this occurs. Arkansas, the natural state, is practically supernatural!
The Fayetteville Shale formation is a large reservoir of natural gas. Most wells that were placed back in the 2010's are producing, but many have been placed on hiatus when the prices fell. For a while this provided land owners and workers a good income. Also, let's not forget about the large lithium deposits around Magnet Cove.
I just went here this week. It was fun and cheap 15 dollars for the day. They provide rental tools , bring a 5 gal bucket to take your gravel home . 60% of the diamond are found in the take home gravel. Also go after a good rain and go early and bring shade and cool rags.
Took my family there years ago, and while we did not find a diamond, we had a fabulous time trying. Treasure hunting is almost always a worthwhile thing to do. We rented a bucket, shovel, and several screens from the visitor's center, and made good use of them. But they say another strategy is to just walk around looking.
Yes I have not been there, but an amazing member of the CZcams rock communities, Lisa, sent me some bags from there that were dug by an experienced digger! I have gone through some and recently been finishing the bags, they actually had some tiny diamonds in them!! I’m so excited. I hope to visit one day!
It was on my bucket list. My husband surprised me on day and took me there. We drove from South Texas (about 12 hours). It was a hot spring day. I last a few hours until I realized the odds of me finding a diamond were very slim. So I called it a day. Checked it off my bucket list and headed to a hotel for a cool shower. Glad I did it, but one trip was enough for me 😊
I have lived in Arkansas since 1990. The geology and geography of Arkansas is really neat. You should make a video about the lithium deposits and the Magnet Cove area. Crystal Bridges art museum has an absolutely massive quartz slab on display that was unearthed in Arkansas. Quartz hunting is fun.
We were there several years ago, and while we didnt' find a diamond, a girl by us found one that was larger than 1 carat in size. A good time to go is right after a rainfall (not to where things are muddy, but enough to where things are washed off a bit) and just walk around and look for them laying on the surface. A lot are found that way.
I was there years ago, at the time if someone found a diamond and brought it to the interpretive center there, they sounded a big horn to let everyone know. People would be getting tired and digging slowly, then that horn would sound and everyone started digging like crazy lol. It was fun.❤️🤗🐝
Really can't figure out why you showed operation storax Sedan as an example of an eruption. However, I did learn about styrax, or styrax americanus snowbell, or silverbell. Styrax silverbell grows in Arkansas. A flower known for its fragrance. Pretty cool. So I guess if you find a diamond you can go to Nevada known for its silver and lead mines. Plus, the largest man made crater of operation storax Sedan is there as well. ⚛️☣️.The US has so much to offer. Silver bells, silver bells. It's Christmas time in the city. Dean. Peace and Ahev
Agreed, I'm not sold on the "Bermuda Hotspot" or at least I'm not sold on their proposed track. Too much empty space between Arkansas/Mississippi and Bermuda with exactly zero evidence of volcanism.
@@nothanks3236 Yeah this Mesozoic intraplate volcanism beneath NA notably all occurred beneath a large subducted slab now in the lower mantle which appears to have been potentially at the right depths and configurations to have been a stagnant subducted slab. That does require the Bermuda islands to have a different volcanic origin but that can be fairly easily explained by tectonic strain aligning to result in a crustal weak point.
Hey GeologyHub! There is a volcanic field in southwestern Wyoming called the Leucite Hills and it would be awesome if you did a video on it. The volcanic buttes and necks are composed of rare Lamproite which can sometimes have diamonds in it! I am a big fan of ultramafic lavas so Id love it if you could do that! just an idea from a fellow geology student!
Very cool educational video! You rock, dude! (Pun intended😄). And I am definitely going there, excited as a kid to pick up ancient rock from within the planet! And also way awesome that mountains in Arkansas made from same process making Bermudan!
I had one day to gather gravel and wet sift in May of 2018. Around noon I found a tiny & shiny piece of ??? Later at the office after giving it to the staff member to identify it as a diamond or not. The lady working at the desk comes back out of the back room to tell me that I had found a diamond. I was allowed back into the room where the geologist did their thing and they told me I had a 2 point diamond. It takes 100 points to make a carat. It was so small you could fit my diamond inside the letter O printed on paper. Needless to I was very happy. Later that night I just had to take a look at it again and opened the little container they put it in for "safe keeping." And that's when I dropped it onto the carpet in our hotel room. I verbalized something rather flavorful and got back on my knees and several minutes later re-found my diamond. This time I named it. "Lost and Found". I cannot wait to go back. Watch the videos about wet sifting. 70% of the diamonds found are by wet sifting.
There are similar (little known and less cared about) sites in NW NM, and the Oklahoma Panhandle, which features somewhat eroded volcanic cones, straddling the NM/Oklahoma State Line. In one location, diamonds are quietly being mined -- commercially -- in an ancient, badly-eroded volcanic formation.
Please talk about the geology of Iran and Afghanistan, why there volcano there? Aren't they coalition not subduction but why there are volcano even the tallest in Asia?
I think he did talk about it in a video recently specifically the part related to Iran there is still subduction thare basically though it is a bit weird. From further reading it appears to be the case that the area is basically a dying subduction zone arc undergoing slab failure as the oceanic crust that composes the Persian gulf is becoming increasingly continental in affinity which is too buoyant to fully subduct thus jamming the subduction zone and causing the slab to split off from the continental shelf of the Arabian plate. As this happens silica rich melts rush in to fill the displaced crustal slab material causing large scale batholith formation and volcanoes where the melts reach the surface. In the case of a full on continental continental collision like this the system eventually transitions towards a Himalayan style mountain building event but magma generation doesn't suddenly stop rather the overlying crust becomes too thick for magmatic intrusions to reach the surface statistically speaking. TDLR the transition between an Andean style Continental Oceanic collision and a Himalayan style Continental Continental collision doesn't happen instantly but has overlapping transitional phases involving large scale melt production. Volcanism does eventually cease but this shut down is led not by ceasing magma production entirely but through crustal thickening making it increasingly more difficult for resultant orogenic melts to reach the surface.
@@Dragrath1 Wow! I just don't understand why coalition can make volcano so i know now.. That's fascinating! Thank you very much for explaining it to me.. With love and respect, greetings from Indonesia 👋:], hope you doing well and healthy:3..
I was there many years ago. To me it might be a nice day trip, if you're in the area, but I wouldn't drive from the East Coast to see it. You might be disappointed.
Your arrows for the Bermuda hotspot point the wrong direction. Bermuda is the youngest and due to the Mid-Atlantic ridge pushing North America to the West and the hot spot remaining stationary the arrows should show the direction of the tectonic plate's movement.
A Lamproite eruption like this is always explosive so there isn't really a need for a phreatomagmatic component the carbonate rich material was already extremely rich in volatiles which were responsible for accelerating its ascent and may have been connected with an associated stagnant subducted slab which is still present in the lower mantle today. This Lamproite pipe is apparently one of 7 in the area which contain diamonds but is the only one accessible to the public as the rest are privately owned. The key point here is that each of these was effectively a single intrusion and associated eruptive sequence. There was a video by a mining industry guy @Genuine Diamonds in AR talking about how the faults within and around the Ouachita mountains likely provided the weak points in the crust for the intrusions and also showing some of the maps the industry has had made to defect these intrusions.
All that science stuff kinda goes over my head, but what I do know is that the guy you are talking about (Genuine Diamonds in AR) knows what he is talking about. He has spent his life studying the crater of diamonds. He has found many diamonds at the park and in the 90s worked for a commercial mining company that wanted to see if the crater of diamonds was commercially viable. It wasn’t. But he still knows his stuff.
This makes me wonder if all of the volcanic activity in Arkansas, associated with the Crater of Diamonds has anything to do with the quartz crystals in the area, too.?
Short answer is yes. It took time for the crust to cool enough for what we call plate techtonics today to be able to work. Before that there was some movement but not in the same way as now. You need the temp difference between the cooler crust and the hotter inner mantle to get convection currents to move the plates. Also the plates were "too thin" in most areas for mountain building etc. Extinct Zoo just put out a video you will find interesting.
can you please talk about the volcanoes found in New England? Please! I've been told that the whole of Boston and parts of Boston Harbor are an ancient Super Volcano Caldera And I do mean Super Bowl volcano. that the harbor Islands former ring that arc down through the Blue Hills south of Boston through the hills of Natick up to the hills and Wellesley and Newton into Waltham and the area around route two on the northward side of Boston If that is the caldera rim and there is a fault line that runs down through Pros Prospect Hill in Waltham S through Wellesley and Newton on down South And that fault line is still active today there are minor tremors up to I think either Richter three or Richter 4. amper chance after Richter 5 on the earthquakes Believe it's a parallel fault to the Cape Hand fault That produced a level 6 or 7 earthquake back in the 1700s.
You mean the Cretaceous Age hot spot track associated with the White mountains? I believe that is the so called New England hotspot track which is still somewhat active albeit at a waning rate on geological timescales though the hotspot is far off in the Atlantic ocean today.
I'm curious why you qualified this as a 'legal' site? If I happened to find a diamond on my property (near zero chance) is that not legal? Or if I happened to be hiking Yellowstone or some other volcanically active park and stumbled upon a diamond, am I not allowed to take it?
True story: Bill Clinton gave Hillary Clinton an engagement 💍 ring set with a yellow, 2.4 carat diamond that was found in Crater of Diamonds State Park, Arkansas.
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Yes I believe so. That said it should be noted that Crater of Diamonds is only one of 7 Diamond bearing Lamproite pipe intrusions in Arkansas due to this volcanic episode however all of the other 6 are privately owned.
Yes it was mined up into the 50s I know I love next to the mine just don't come in the hottest time of the year I don't go there as it's just a waste of time for me
You are correct not all but most meaning more than 99% of the diamonds are more rounded. Some people have found octahedral diamonds but they are very rare. The reason they are more rounded is due to the fact that they went through a process called resorption. If you just look up resorption diagram for diamonds you will see how that works.
"We still don't even know where human beings came " - yes we do. " much less what happened 3 billion years ago..." - while most of the crust has been overturned, there remains some parts of continental cratons from 3 billion years ago.
We were at Crater of Diamonds in April and tried our luck. Wow that mud dries as hard as concrete but chips off from shoes and arms and legs easily. The area was bustling with people as it was eclipse week. Everyone was digging, chipping away, or throwing their hands up in frustration, but there was a black lab running about trying to help everyone dig. Fun times.
I was at Crater of Diamonds with my parents about 20 years ago. None of us found anything the entire weekend. :-/
edit: While I was there I was chatting with a couple that comes there frequently. They said that once every few months the park is closed for a day while someone runs through the crater with a tractor turning over the soil to expose newer diamonds. They also said that the best way to find one is just after it rained as the sun glistens off of the diamonds in a way like you have never seen. Also to never take your eyes from it while you walk towards it to get it or you may not see it again.
Just be aware the state park is a big money maker. Don't expect to get rich there. That said, digging for shiny rocks can be a fun day out.
Been twice, found nothing. The quartz mines in the area are a far far better deal imo.
@@operands I was going to mention quartz, but decided not to since illegal collection is a real problem, especially on private land. But you are correct, there are several good spots available
You get to keep the diamond 💎 you find, and approximately one "large" diamond is recovered there every 30 - 45 days.
@@operands 100%. Been to Mount Ida quartz mines. 10/10 would recommend again
@@kennyjones559 Yes. But the diamonds are seldom high quality or valuable aside from the cool factor.
I have a tip to share, The area is plowed in the spring and early summer, include this in your planning along with the last time it rained. You'll want to hit it just after a fresh plow and right after a good rain comes through. It ups your chances of finding something nice.
Thanks for the tips!
Same tip holds for hunting arrowheads. Used to go as a kid with my father. Good memories
Do more videos on Arkansas Geology! Its has so many fascinating areas and is probably one of the most diverse states in the country for geology. Considering this it is criminally under studied versus so many states out west and in the Appalachians. Arkansas has a large sections of the The New Madrid seismic zone which is one of the most unique seismic zones on the planet. It has traditional mountain building geology in the Ouachitas. It has hot springs and sand blows. It has (old) volcanism as shown here complete with diamonds! It has a large, heavily dissected plateau with karst topography and countless caves, some quite large, in the Ozark Mountains. It has a semi-mysterious string of mountains just south of the Arkansas river (Mt. Magazine, Mt. Nemo, Petit Jean Mountain) that are not part of the Ouachitas, but also not part of the Ozarks or they are and may be a little of both! It has a huge chunk of the MS river alluvial plain which is kind of boring at the surface but literally contains rocks and sands from the Rocky mountains to the Appalachians to as far north as parts of Canada. It even has some limited oil and gas production for you petro geologiest. Its a really great state for geology!
Don't forget our Nepheline Syenite glades - extremely rare igneous rock intrusions at the surface. Nepheline syenite is very uncommon globally and is only found in Pulaski and Saline counties.
If you drive south on Arch Street Pike from downtown Little Rock, you will pass between a granite quarry on your left and a Cypress swamp on your right. An oil geologist friend of mine told me that he knows of no other place on earth where this occurs. Arkansas, the natural state, is practically supernatural!
@@EricHunt I didnt even know about this! I will have to add it to my visit list.
The Fayetteville Shale formation is a large reservoir of natural gas. Most wells that were placed back in the 2010's are producing, but many have been placed on hiatus when the prices fell. For a while this provided land owners and workers a good income. Also, let's not forget about the large lithium deposits around Magnet Cove.
He did a video on Hot Springs about 2 years ago.. czcams.com/video/UPtqE_Ni0RU/video.htmlsi=23HwDTR5GhvsW5Wz
I just went here this week. It was fun and cheap 15 dollars for the day. They provide rental tools , bring a 5 gal bucket to take your gravel home . 60% of the diamond are found in the take home gravel. Also go after a good rain and go early and bring shade and cool rags.
Do Wisconsin! I’d love to hear the volcanic history of my state that not alot of people know
Oh that sounds like a good little series. 50 states, 50 volcanoes.
Yes please 🙏
At 2:10, I would like to know more about the hot spot that formed Bermuda.
As would I! Is it still active...did the continent move away from it...where is it now?
@@montylc2001 the Bermuda hotspot is likely no longer active. But I may explore this topic further in a future video.
@@plumtree1846 do you just to know about how Bermuda formed, or the hotspot chain as a whole including Bermuda’s formation?
@@GeologyHub Not OP but I say both!
@@GeologyHubalso not the OP but I want the whole story
Thanks as always, Geology Hub!
That sounds like a good family weekend vacation. Very fun, just 1 night, maybe 2 if the local dinner has good coffee.
Thanks for all the hard work on these videos!
Took my family there years ago, and while we did not find a diamond, we had a fabulous time trying. Treasure hunting is almost always a worthwhile thing to do. We rented a bucket, shovel, and several screens from the visitor's center, and made good use of them. But they say another strategy is to just walk around looking.
Yes I have not been there, but an amazing member of the CZcams rock communities, Lisa, sent me some bags from there that were dug by an experienced digger! I have gone through some and recently been finishing the bags, they actually had some tiny diamonds in them!! I’m so excited.
I hope to visit one day!
I wish someone would do Maryland, and the Meteorite that created the Chesapeake Bay!
I just love it when you start talking ancient volcano 🌋 ❤️
👍 This has been on my bucket lists for years 😎✌️
It was on my bucket list. My husband surprised me on day and took me there. We drove from South Texas (about 12 hours). It was a hot spring day. I last a few hours until I realized the odds of me finding a diamond were very slim. So I called it a day. Checked it off my bucket list and headed to a hotel for a cool shower. Glad I did it, but one trip was enough for me 😊
Could you do a video that expands how Bermuda formed and why it is slowly getting taller over time without erupting?
I have lived in Arkansas since 1990. The geology and geography of Arkansas is really neat. You should make a video about the lithium deposits and the Magnet Cove area. Crystal Bridges art museum has an absolutely massive quartz slab on display that was unearthed in Arkansas. Quartz hunting is fun.
I had forgotten about this park. Since they've had some recent rain, cleaning the sparkles, maybe someone will get lucky. 💎✊🍀
So many rockhounding sites, so little time.
We were there several years ago, and while we didnt' find a diamond, a girl by us found one that was larger than 1 carat in size. A good time to go is right after a rainfall (not to where things are muddy, but enough to where things are washed off a bit) and just walk around and look for them laying on the surface. A lot are found that way.
One of these days i am going to get there!
I was there years ago, at the time if someone found a diamond and brought it to the interpretive center there, they sounded a big horn to let everyone know. People would be getting tired and digging slowly, then that horn would sound and everyone started digging like crazy lol. It was fun.❤️🤗🐝
Speaking of gemstone-transporting volcanism, have you done Montana sapphires?
Really can't figure out why you showed operation storax Sedan as an example of an eruption. However, I did learn about styrax, or styrax americanus snowbell, or silverbell. Styrax silverbell grows in Arkansas. A flower known for its fragrance. Pretty cool. So I guess if you find a diamond you can go to Nevada known for its silver and lead mines. Plus, the largest man made crater of operation storax Sedan is there as well. ⚛️☣️.The US has so much to offer.
Silver bells, silver bells.
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Why is Bermuda island the only significant volcano of the Bermuda hotspot (arch seems pretty empty)
Agreed, I'm not sold on the "Bermuda Hotspot" or at least I'm not sold on their proposed track. Too much empty space between Arkansas/Mississippi and Bermuda with exactly zero evidence of volcanism.
@@nothanks3236 Yeah this Mesozoic intraplate volcanism beneath NA notably all occurred beneath a large subducted slab now in the lower mantle which appears to have been potentially at the right depths and configurations to have been a stagnant subducted slab. That does require the Bermuda islands to have a different volcanic origin but that can be fairly easily explained by tectonic strain aligning to result in a crustal weak point.
Hey GeologyHub! There is a volcanic field in southwestern Wyoming called the Leucite Hills and it would be awesome if you did a video on it. The volcanic buttes and necks are composed of rare Lamproite which can sometimes have diamonds in it! I am a big fan of ultramafic lavas so Id love it if you could do that! just an idea from a fellow geology student!
Wow gonna sell the house and make a claim of the Crater of Diamonds !! :) Great video as always.
Very cool educational video! You rock, dude! (Pun intended😄). And I am definitely going there, excited as a kid to pick up ancient rock from within the planet! And also way awesome that mountains in Arkansas made from same process making Bermudan!
I've never heard of this place before.
Awesome video , thank you!!!!
Nice work.
I went there in 2016 to dig. I didn't find any but it was fun trying.
I had one day to gather gravel and wet sift in May of 2018. Around noon I found a tiny & shiny piece of ??? Later at the office after giving it to the staff member to identify it as a diamond or not. The lady working at the desk comes back out of the back room to tell me that I had found a diamond. I was allowed back into the room where the geologist did their thing and they told me I had a 2 point diamond. It takes 100 points to make a carat. It was so small you could fit my diamond inside the letter O printed on paper. Needless to I was very happy. Later that night I just had to take a look at it again and opened the little container they put it in for "safe keeping." And that's when I dropped it onto the carpet in our hotel room. I verbalized something rather flavorful and got back on my knees and several minutes later re-found my diamond. This time I named it. "Lost and Found". I cannot wait to go back. Watch the videos about wet sifting. 70% of the diamonds found are by wet sifting.
There are similar (little known and less cared about) sites in NW NM, and the Oklahoma Panhandle, which features somewhat eroded volcanic cones, straddling the NM/Oklahoma State Line. In one location, diamonds are quietly being mined -- commercially -- in an ancient, badly-eroded volcanic formation.
I wonder if Verneshot events would have similar mechanisms to this on a larger scale. Would love to see a video for this.
Just passed right by it....good vid
When my dad told me about this place when I was a kid, I didn't believe him.
Please talk about the geology of Iran and Afghanistan, why there volcano there? Aren't they coalition not subduction but why there are volcano even the tallest in Asia?
I think he did talk about it in a video recently specifically the part related to Iran there is still subduction thare basically though it is a bit weird.
From further reading it appears to be the case that the area is basically a dying subduction zone arc undergoing slab failure as the oceanic crust that composes the Persian gulf is becoming increasingly continental in affinity which is too buoyant to fully subduct thus jamming the subduction zone and causing the slab to split off from the continental shelf of the Arabian plate. As this happens silica rich melts rush in to fill the displaced crustal slab material causing large scale batholith formation and volcanoes where the melts reach the surface. In the case of a full on continental continental collision like this the system eventually transitions towards a Himalayan style mountain building event but magma generation doesn't suddenly stop rather the overlying crust becomes too thick for magmatic intrusions to reach the surface statistically speaking.
TDLR the transition between an Andean style Continental Oceanic collision and a Himalayan style Continental Continental collision doesn't happen instantly but has overlapping transitional phases involving large scale melt production. Volcanism does eventually cease but this shut down is led not by ceasing magma production entirely but through crustal thickening making it increasingly more difficult for resultant orogenic melts to reach the surface.
@@Dragrath1 Wow! I just don't understand why coalition can make volcano so i know now.. That's fascinating! Thank you very much for explaining it to me.. With love and respect, greetings from Indonesia 👋:], hope you doing well and healthy:3..
Could you do a show about the U.P. of Michigan? There seems to have been a lot of action by Copper Harbor. Can you shed some light on it?
I was there many years ago. To me it might be a nice day trip, if you're in the area, but I wouldn't drive from the East Coast to see it. You might be disappointed.
Your arrows for the Bermuda hotspot point the wrong direction. Bermuda is the youngest and due to the Mid-Atlantic ridge pushing North America to the West and the hot spot remaining stationary the arrows should show the direction of the tectonic plate's movement.
It is a frame of reference question. Both yours and his interpretation are technically correct depending on how one defines the frame of reference.
Been and dug there. Hard work and they take your money. Odds are like getting a lottery ticket and winning.
I'm like 3 hours from there
I been there with my grandparents :)
A Lamproite eruption like this is always explosive so there isn't really a need for a phreatomagmatic component the carbonate rich material was already extremely rich in volatiles which were responsible for accelerating its ascent and may have been connected with an associated stagnant subducted slab which is still present in the lower mantle today. This Lamproite pipe is apparently one of 7 in the area which contain diamonds but is the only one accessible to the public as the rest are privately owned. The key point here is that each of these was effectively a single intrusion and associated eruptive sequence.
There was a video by a mining industry guy @Genuine Diamonds in AR talking about how the faults within and around the Ouachita mountains likely provided the weak points in the crust for the intrusions and also showing some of the maps the industry has had made to defect these intrusions.
All that science stuff kinda goes over my head, but what I do know is that the guy you are talking about (Genuine Diamonds in AR) knows what he is talking about. He has spent his life studying the crater of diamonds. He has found many diamonds at the park and in the 90s worked for a commercial mining company that wanted to see if the crater of diamonds was commercially viable. It wasn’t. But he still knows his stuff.
This makes me wonder if all of the volcanic activity in Arkansas, associated with the Crater of Diamonds has anything to do with the quartz crystals in the area, too.?
Is there a correlation between the time when Plate Tectonics started and the Earth's internal cool rate after the Theia Impact?
Short answer is yes.
It took time for the crust to cool enough for what we call plate techtonics today to be able to work. Before that there was some movement but not in the same way as now.
You need the temp difference between the cooler crust and the hotter inner mantle to get convection currents to move the plates. Also the plates were "too thin" in most areas for mountain building etc.
Extinct Zoo just put out a video you will find interesting.
i'm curious why you didn't purchase photos of rough uncut and only showed cut stones. ?
I think it's more likely the diamonds formed from a cosmic impact. That would explain the crater.
I would go there & try my luck,,if the county allows the sale of liquor,,a small buzz amounts to more fun(thankx-professor)
can you please talk about the volcanoes found in New England? Please! I've been told that the whole of Boston and parts of Boston Harbor are an ancient Super Volcano Caldera And I do mean Super Bowl volcano. that the harbor Islands former ring that arc down through the Blue Hills south of Boston through the hills of Natick up to the hills and Wellesley and Newton into Waltham and the area around route two on the northward side of Boston If that is the caldera rim and there is a fault line that runs down through Pros Prospect Hill in Waltham S through Wellesley and Newton on down South And that fault line is still active today there are minor tremors up to I think either Richter three or Richter 4. amper chance after Richter 5 on the earthquakes Believe it's a parallel fault to the Cape Hand fault That produced a level 6 or 7 earthquake back in the 1700s.
You mean the Cretaceous Age hot spot track associated with the White mountains? I believe that is the so called New England hotspot track which is still somewhat active albeit at a waning rate on geological timescales though the hotspot is far off in the Atlantic ocean today.
Thanks.
I'm curious why you qualified this as a 'legal' site? If I happened to find a diamond on my property (near zero chance) is that not legal? Or if I happened to be hiking Yellowstone or some other volcanically active park and stumbled upon a diamond, am I not allowed to take it?
You cannot legally take any rocks from a National park.
Not if it's a national park, this is a rare exception
True story: Bill Clinton gave Hillary Clinton an engagement 💍 ring set with a yellow, 2.4 carat diamond that was found in Crater of Diamonds State Park, Arkansas.
Reflect, oh, sentient ones. Recite the hex of final vows.
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"Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength resteeled. But to earn final peace at the Universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again."
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-- Diamond Dragons (series)
I would have thought that this would've been an excellent site for industrial Grade diamonds. Was this site ever mined for industrial diamonds?
Yes I believe so. That said it should be noted that Crater of Diamonds is only one of 7 Diamond bearing Lamproite pipe intrusions in Arkansas due to this volcanic episode however all of the other 6 are privately owned.
It was mined industrially after it was first discovered in the early 1900s but there were not enough diamonds for it to be profitable.
Yes it was mined up into the 50s I know I love next to the mine just don't come in the hottest time of the year I don't go there as it's just a waste of time for me
Where does the gas in the magma come from? How many time more gas rich does the magma have to be compare to magma from other mantle plumes.
I thought most, if not all the diamonds at Crater of Diamonds are more rounded in shape?
You are correct not all but most meaning more than 99% of the diamonds are more rounded. Some people have found octahedral diamonds but they are very rare. The reason they are more rounded is due to the fact that they went through a process called resorption. If you just look up resorption diagram for diamonds you will see how that works.
Weird!
y city next to acorn contains volcanic hill acorn arknsass
chile again 7.3, interesting
$15 bucks to play in the dirt!😂
well your damn blasting is causing earhquakes in fayetteville and breaking our ground
I kinda wandered when I would see 4 seconds of footage of a lava lamp!!!😊
02:02 THE TRUTH IS OUT, diamonds are grown/hatched by giant, Mesozoic lizards.
@@RICHARD-mn3nd funny.
Can I bring my tractor?
It all has to be hand dug. No battery operated equipment.
Perhaps it’s a great spot to get lucky…jus sayin..😂😂
We still don't even know where human beings came from much less what happened 3 billion years ago...
"We still don't even know where human beings came " - yes we do.
" much less what happened 3 billion years ago..." - while most of the crust has been overturned, there remains some parts of continental cratons from 3 billion years ago.
@@TheDanEdwards keep on eating crayons that people who don't know what they are talking about while pretending to be the answer to everything...
BS been there. Nope