A great fossil hunting adventure

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  • čas přidán 5. 09. 2024

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  • @ArellanoAgriculture
    @ArellanoAgriculture Před 7 lety +15

    Usually I like to think that the littlest things have the BIGGEST history.

  • @frankedgar6694
    @frankedgar6694 Před rokem +1

    Go to Lowe’s or Home Depot and get some tile nippers. They’re like wire cutters. You can nip T the thinner edges and carefully remove some of the superfluous rock. It lightens the load.

  • @stephaniemeadows6796
    @stephaniemeadows6796 Před 3 lety +1

    I love fossil hunting around where I live wv is such a beautiful place. From Huntington wv.

  • @tweet-tweettweety9704
    @tweet-tweettweety9704 Před 6 lety +1

    Beautiful view! There is a cliff like that behind my house further back in the woods. My dog and I used to go there and sit. I would get us in and he would get us out. After he died, I didn't go back there any more. I could look at fossils and fossil ferns all day, especially if I'm getting to find them! lol A friend took me on a hike once in his hometown which had been a coal mining area and I found lots of fossil ferns. It was a fantastic day!

  • @geraldinesera8915
    @geraldinesera8915 Před 3 lety

    I love the ferns and tree trunks. Thanks for sharing it all.

  • @nrgltwrkr2225
    @nrgltwrkr2225 Před 7 lety

    I love fossils! I love your nature walks and talks. I learn so much, and enjoy your videos immensely.

  • @lindataylor2131
    @lindataylor2131 Před 6 lety +1

    When I was a kid I went with my dad's class at Purdue to some strip mines in Indiana. I got a whole box full of fern fossils. My dad taught Geology for 26 years here in Central Florida. You need yourself a good geo hammer. It has a pick on one side and a flat hammer on the other. You can use them to delicately open enclosed fossils.

  • @katiefyock9607
    @katiefyock9607 Před 3 lety +1

    You probably open up your garage door and instead of tools and a weight bench, there's totes upon totes of fossils, rocks, bark samples, and shells. Probably an old wasp nest or two. Ever think of opening up an educational center or museum? You're certainly knowledgable enough for it.

  • @G8rquest
    @G8rquest Před 7 lety +4

    My cousin and I were hissed at by the vulture in that hole. Yes, really. Just over the ridge to the south is a great view too, the Lebanon reservoir.

  • @elainebates6967
    @elainebates6967 Před rokem

    The one you showed at 9:10 looked like a group /stem of flowers.

  • @thegreaterbilby2171
    @thegreaterbilby2171 Před 7 lety

    Thanks for recording this back then, and sharing yet another really interesting excursion.

  • @joekennon6567
    @joekennon6567 Před 6 lety

    Really like your video I hope you keep making them thanks for showing us the pictures of all those trees I live in Tennessee we don't have anything like that down here

  • @kateclark7250
    @kateclark7250 Před 3 lety

    The tree bark fossils are amazing... I have never seen one.

  • @FrontierLegacy
    @FrontierLegacy Před 7 lety +2

    Fossils in general are pretty damn awesome.

  • @mooshymoo9595
    @mooshymoo9595 Před 7 lety +11

    1:57
    Him: ''I might take that one home''
    Me: *Sees possible bug on it* ''NOPE''

  • @sr24084
    @sr24084 Před 3 lety

    Awesome stuff! What a cool day to document

  • @amp3cx10000a7jp
    @amp3cx10000a7jp Před 6 lety +3

    Hi Hello
    I will comment from Japan.
    Here Pennsylvania's coal mineral plant fossil production area is known but it is very wonderful.
    If there is such a fossil in Japan, it will be instantly designated as a natural treasure and it will be banned from collection.
    In Japan, fossils of the Carboniferous are mostly sea biological fossils, but slightly
    Scaly fossils are known.
    Two places on the cliffs of the Jurassic plant fossilsbed sank to the bottom of the dam.

  • @pauliether.c.guy.3349
    @pauliether.c.guy.3349 Před 4 lety

    Puff balls omg I remember those. That area your in right now could be the remnants of an late carboniferous period swamp.

  • @jbojm9
    @jbojm9 Před 7 lety +3

    Great video. I was going to ask about your camera (I've been making fossil hunting videos myself) but I scrolled down and saw someone else already asked. Nice work. Very informative.

  • @3doyoyolifestylegood534

    Hi love watching your videos. Is it possible to find fossils and megalodon teeth near cresco pa. I don't know where to start looking. Any help would be appreciated.

  • @ragnarlithium5029
    @ragnarlithium5029 Před 5 lety +1

    Awesome video ,1:00 oh man I laughed so hard
    Hot chock hot chocolate

  • @TheDarthBobul
    @TheDarthBobul Před 6 lety

    At 9:05 if you step back a bit and look at that piece the markings look like flowers.

  • @marylucycollins7008
    @marylucycollins7008 Před 3 lety

    Don’t know if you’ll see this comment but I didn’t catch where this was? Would love to check it out after the big thaw out.

  • @micheleaustin8328
    @micheleaustin8328 Před 6 lety

    Awesome! Place!?? Great fossils😊👍

  • @Carolbearce
    @Carolbearce Před 4 lety

    Love looking for fossils in creek beds. I agree, squeezing pff balls never gets old.

  • @TallDiana
    @TallDiana Před 5 lety

    At 19:06, I see several flowers! 🌸🌸🌸🌸

  • @aj.adventures2177
    @aj.adventures2177 Před 5 lety +1

    I love this guy

  • @vikkinicholson2300
    @vikkinicholson2300 Před 5 lety

    Cliff.....you are a chocaholic, right? It's the best. Maybe a trip to Hershey?

  • @brucepreston3794
    @brucepreston3794 Před 7 lety +2

    Treverton, Pa. is also another good spot for fossil ferns

  • @onlyspicekitty
    @onlyspicekitty Před 6 lety

    i have a spot here in Kentucky i find lots and lots of Crinoid Stem's , is you back pack getting heavy ? go to a local thrift store and find a Suitcase cart or i use a fold-up lightweight Golf Bag cart, last month i carried out a large piece 7 inch x 7 inch 4 inch thick piece,, yea it was heavy, i didnt bring cart,,,lol

  • @InlikeMikeQuinn
    @InlikeMikeQuinn Před 6 lety

    Great video, I'm local (not to far, Pottsville) to that area and have a great spot to show you for fossils if you are up for it someday. Did you recommend parkng at the reservior and walking in from that side? Or is there a better way, (i see roads on the other side of mountain but assume they are gated/controlled access.)?

  • @MrDrinkblood
    @MrDrinkblood Před 7 lety +5

    Great finds. How do you know where to look for fossils?

    • @thewanderingwoodsman7227
      @thewanderingwoodsman7227  Před 7 lety

      Lots of research and lots of exploring....plus a little luck I guess

    • @tristanwilliams4180
      @tristanwilliams4180 Před 7 lety

      did you know these tree's and ferns and bark are from the period called the carboniferous it's the time when gigantic tree's and vast swamp areas was once exist

    • @tristanwilliams4180
      @tristanwilliams4180 Před 7 lety

      oh and prehistoric bugs and amphibians or even smaller reptiles

    • @MeargleSchmeargle
      @MeargleSchmeargle Před 6 lety

      Tristan Williams Proof that's the age? Good guess but can't be certain until we know the location and formation.

    • @MountainJohn
      @MountainJohn Před 5 lety

      @@MeargleSchmeargle its a good guess assuming that he finds trilobites in his area so we know it goes back really old before plants. Chances are that those ferns could be carboniferous.

  • @daryanahibina7226
    @daryanahibina7226 Před 6 lety

    Fair enough, you cannot take the larger ones home ( 3 min 58 sec in video); but you CAN take your home to them and move there, for good. Yep. A solid excuse to indulge in hot chocolate treat for the rest of your life on a daily-daily basis is surely GUARANTEED for you that way. Yep. Seriously though, big thank you for this video and the awesome views in it. A very good sophisticated job you did there indeed. God bless.

  • @saigenrose1032
    @saigenrose1032 Před 4 lety

    Beautiful foliage 🌞🌬

  • @karenpacker8862
    @karenpacker8862 Před 4 lety

    Amazing fossils be hard to decide which ones to leave behind!!!!

  • @thomasbiel7741
    @thomasbiel7741 Před 4 lety

    Cool plant fossils.

  • @brianferris1233
    @brianferris1233 Před 6 lety

    Nice finds.

  • @MeargleSchmeargle
    @MeargleSchmeargle Před 6 lety +3

    Location? Been on many fossil hunts to find inverts like Trilobites and vert fossils (like my newly found complete Megalodon tooth I can't stop gloating about), but I haven't really looked for good sites to find plant material. As I want to add some ferns to my 200+ specimen collection, where is this site's location? Knowing location can also help pinpoint the formation they came from, and thusly their age.

    • @thewanderingwoodsman7227
      @thewanderingwoodsman7227  Před 6 lety +4

      40.567133 -76.484903

    • @davigilmar3528
      @davigilmar3528 Před 6 lety +1

      MeargleSchmeargle you already have 200 fossils and whant more??? You are a selfish unhappy man

    • @gkess7106
      @gkess7106 Před 6 lety

      PA. near Outwood.

    • @TryItWithRanch
      @TryItWithRanch Před 5 lety +1

      @@davigilmar3528 he has a hobby and enjoys the adventure. who cares.

    • @theicechinchilla
      @theicechinchilla Před 4 lety

      @@thewanderingwoodsman7227 Is it legal to collect from here? If so, where do you usually park?

  • @tomstanley7568
    @tomstanley7568 Před 3 lety

    wow you can just see where the flood came over the mtn and dumped a thick layer trees plants and sea life behind you at the one spot

  • @michellemorris2706
    @michellemorris2706 Před 3 lety

    What city and state?

  • @barry3565
    @barry3565 Před 5 lety

    Interesting place ! Are you an archeologist ?

  • @michellemorris2706
    @michellemorris2706 Před 3 lety

    Where is this at?

  • @randyjerrett3062
    @randyjerrett3062 Před 4 lety

    Nice video!

  • @timchandler4427
    @timchandler4427 Před 6 lety

    I live in Vermont and have the oldest exposed fossil rifs in the world over 480 million years old my yard is full of them

  • @Fannysadventures
    @Fannysadventures Před 7 lety +1

    amazing!!!

  • @peter990099
    @peter990099 Před 7 lety

    what camera are you using? pretty quick focus when zooming in

  • @buckotte1414
    @buckotte1414 Před 5 lety

    at 8:15....is that a feather..[!]...adhered to the fern ? [near the top side right end in picture ]

  • @pryonation
    @pryonation Před 4 lety

    is this near Sharpe mountain?

  • @Friskee62
    @Friskee62 Před 6 lety

    VERY interesting, man, love that kind of thing. How old would you say the fossils are?

    • @MeargleSchmeargle
      @MeargleSchmeargle Před 6 lety +1

      THOMAS FISKE Wild guess would be Carboniferous. This is, however a guess without knowledge on the formation.

    • @Friskee62
      @Friskee62 Před 6 lety

      www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/carboniferous/carboniferous.php

    • @Friskee62
      @Friskee62 Před 6 lety

      Thanx...

  • @TREEHUGGAH1
    @TREEHUGGAH1 Před 4 lety

    ever find any fish or mammal fossils ? Much Respect

  • @dawnmorning
    @dawnmorning Před 5 lety

    Beautiful

  • @brandenstinson3144
    @brandenstinson3144 Před 7 lety

    We're is this? Great video by the way!!

  • @earthtraveler313
    @earthtraveler313 Před 7 lety +2

    Have you ever found any fish fossils?

  • @RockHoundingAdventures

    What part of KY is that

  • @alexanderbontempo554
    @alexanderbontempo554 Před 5 lety

    Do you have some fossils for sell? Id like to have some. Thank you

  • @matteonator
    @matteonator Před 7 lety +1

    Very nice material, my friend. But better video skills required to make it pleasant to watch

  • @B4uzzy
    @B4uzzy Před 7 lety

    Puff balls. Lol

  • @coreyjackson9035
    @coreyjackson9035 Před 7 lety

    is there any way you could provide an exact location on this fossil site?

  • @monstercolorfunco4391
    @monstercolorfunco4391 Před 7 lety

    how old are they.

  • @joshc63111
    @joshc63111 Před 7 lety +3

    I live in Greensburg pa were is this place would like to take my kid? I like your chanel keep the video coming!

    • @thewanderingwoodsman7227
      @thewanderingwoodsman7227  Před 7 lety

      It's up in Northern Lebanon county, rather remote area.

    • @joshc63111
      @joshc63111 Před 7 lety

      Cool thanks

    • @dawnrabbitt3072
      @dawnrabbitt3072 Před 7 lety

      The Wandering Woodsman Danke

    • @InlikeMikeQuinn
      @InlikeMikeQuinn Před 6 lety

      well is it a secret then? Near Box car rocks area?

    • @Friskee62
      @Friskee62 Před 6 lety

      I use to work for a band, we played at the Holiday Inn on top of the hill. Late 80's early 90's. Great place...

  • @user-wp6by6zo1v
    @user-wp6by6zo1v Před 6 lety

    جميل 👍🇸🇦

  • @SB-qm5wg
    @SB-qm5wg Před 5 lety

    A lot of fossils.

  • @palehorsepayton4428
    @palehorsepayton4428 Před 7 lety

    clover i think

  • @gabrielevigevani4146
    @gabrielevigevani4146 Před 5 lety

    where can I find fossils in MA? Or New England?

    • @elgringo1893
      @elgringo1893 Před 5 lety

      In the ground

    • @trjb1767
      @trjb1767 Před rokem

      Basically no. Wrong rocks. Join a mineral collecting club. Sometimes trips to Albany or Central ny. Fossils there. But not ma so much. Western mass some maybe. Nothing like this

  • @axelg4263
    @axelg4263 Před 6 lety

    2:30 what is it ?

  • @thedmvhistorian8964
    @thedmvhistorian8964 Před 6 lety

    Is there a specific trail that we go down to get here?

  • @RimfireRat
    @RimfireRat Před 6 lety

    If that Game land best not get caught with any in your pkts

  • @pamwalsh729
    @pamwalsh729 Před 6 lety

    You are making me dizzy...… later

  • @nyloaf
    @nyloaf Před 5 lety

    Hot chOCOLAte

  • @joybastet5247
    @joybastet5247 Před 6 lety

    Camera sounds horrible