Geologist here! That area you collected from seems to be eroding a metamorphic zone and I believe all three of your samples are indicative of that. The first rock looks to be composed of aluminum silicates (maybe andalusite or sillimanite) it really depends on the temperature and pressure of the metamorphosis. That rock might be a Hornfel. The second rock is almost certainly a gneiss which is metamorphosed granite. And lastly, I think the third stone is a low grade metaconglomerate because of the color of the matrix between the clasts. You can find these where the clasts have been stretched and elongated like taffy and it is quite impressive. This one seems a little "undercooked" which may mean it was the host rock that was fractured and filled in as the original igneous body invaded the country rock before cooling.
A couple people mentioned that you sent them my way, so I had to come see what you were talking about over on your channel. Nice rocks, especially the gneiss. Ha! There are various types of conglomerates that are called puddingstones from all over the world. You have one in UK called Hertfordshire puddingstone, but after looking at a few pictures, I don't think that's what you have. It does have a resemblance to the puddingstones we have here in Michigan. I'm no geologist, as you know, but that first rock might be a type of porphyry. That flint nodule is by far the most interesting rock of the four. That's just super cool inside. I was expecting just a monochrome rock all the way through.
This is quite a relaxing video, very comfy. It's really nice to watch videos like this that just take it slow and show appreciation both for nature and art. Whether it be carving a spoon or admiring a rock, we live in such a beautiful world.
I was feeling very anxious, and I saw a new AtomicShrimp video was out, so I put it on. Listening to Mike talk about rocks and plants for 20 minutes really helped calm me down. Thanks.
Well, I have my laugh for the week. I can't get the hilarious image out of my head of our early ancestors GNAWING wood to make tools. 😆 This will probably keep me amused for weeks. I was also happily surprized to see you commenting on Max Miller's site, Tasting History. Two of my favorite youtubers for the price of one. I'm also fond of nice looking but humble rocks. All the Best JIM Oaxaca
I want to share that I’ve started carving spoons largely based on your videos! It’s a wonderful and relaxing activity and I thank you for introducing me to it. 🙏🏻💛
As someone who's also looked into growing Shepherd's Purse, which is eaten widely in China and Korea, I've seen sources from both countries mention cold stratification for the seeds. It's well-known as an early spring ephemeral (for culinary use) in some areas, so it makes sense that its seeds might be programmed to time germination to the end of winter. I'm sure your source on random germination is right as well, because even with cold stratification, it seems like a plant that has a high degree of seed dormancy in general, but I'd consider the fact that various cultures eat it in the spring to indicate some degree of seasonal germination on top of that.
Seconding this! Cold stratification can be done easily by leaving the seeds in the fridge for 2-3 days (cover in foil or a lid to keep them from sprouting due to the fridge light) and then taking them out and letting them grow normally. We use this method for growing a. thaliana plants in the lab, which are in the same family. I would imagine that many of the same methods for growing a. thaliana will work for shepherd's purse.
I always assumed that the reason it was called Shepherd's Purse was due to the bright yellow colour of the seeds resembling coins if the pods are split while green.
There is definitely something about home made wooden spoons. I still have the one I made in wood working class back in high school - well over 40 years ago. It has lasted much longer than the knowledge of most of the things I was taught back then 😃
Mike, a trick I've used in refinishing gun stocks to combat the "fluffiness" from sanding is to raise the grain of the wood by wiping with a damp rag and hastening the drying with a hair dryer or heat gun. This causes the wood fibers to stand up allowing me to remove them with each successive sanding with higher grits. This leaves a very smooth finish that can then be oiled, stained, or both depending on the firearm the stock will be mated to. I love the spoon and I'm sure your friend will as well!
Just love the look of that spoon. For me nothing beats any gift that's homemade and wooden items to me they are the best gifts. Stay safe everyone and especially @Atomic Shrimp
There was never any need for you to apologize about the way you carve spoons or for the results that you get. Anyone who gets off the couch, makes something with their own creativity and whatever tools they choose, gets my respect. Further, you made something for another person in the spirit of a joke. What better reason is there to make a gift? If anything, your activities are evidence of an exceptional mind. Kudos and keep rockin'! ✌😄
Small stones melted back into a surrounding rock are call ligmiths. There is a river near me lined with bedrock that has huge boulders meted into it worn down by the river. It looks so amazing.
TIL Shepherd's Purse is edible! :0 It was growing everywhere and I have some childhood memories of eating the leaves with friends but thinking about it now I always assumed it was just child's play, just like we sometimes (out of curiosity) munched on grass or daisy flowers and not something people normally do. Fascinating :D
Reminds me back at school when I was about 17 and we studied geology (well, very basic geology at least). Everyone thought it was upmost garbage, but I fondly remember these classes. The formation of the crystals is so interesting, and changing the conditions can have drastic impact on the shape of the crystals, and thus the rocks formed. Once again, amazing video, loved it ! Both entertaining and informative, always a pleasure.
You should get a rock tumbler! That would allow you to polish the rocks to a brilliant shine, and make all of the rocks you select from that beach look even better than they do as-is
When I was little and we lived out in the boonies, we had someone come mow our lawn. I discovered that rocks left in the yard would often get broken by the mower blade. Amazed by the crystalline insides I started leaving out rocks on purpose whenever he was going to show up. I probably ruined a lot of mower blades lol.
Reminds me a bit of some of the round pebbly beaches of Lake Superior in the US. Only been on the Minnesota side though in the past 30 years, but will be visiting the Michigan side later this year.
Yessssss. I was about to reccomend a rock tumbler. I think your viewers will enjoy random tumbler videos. Sort of a passive hobby. Hello, from Canada!!!
If you suspect a fossil inside a nodule, put it under water for a week or so and then put it in the freezer. If there's an obvious line visible, hit the frozen nodule with a hammer and it will cleanly break along the weakest point, sometimes reveiling a fossil.
Bit of advise regarding your drill for sanding. The shaft and bearings are designed for forward resistance and using a cylinder or flap sanding attachment will eventually wear the drill out, via side friction which they are not designed for. Its better to invest in a small bobbin sander if you want to do this sort of thing more than a few times. Another excellent video. Love this channel.
@@AtomicShrimp Fair play. I ruined one of my pillar drills doing this, It became slack and loose, (i have seen it been bought up by others on a few machining forums over the years). Sorry was only speaking from experience. :)
In Australia we have a tree, the Banksia, who's seeds need a fire to pop open and then fall to the ground, or are already on the ground but won't open till they have been through a fire.... hence bushfires actually help these to grow. The original people who live here did controlled burns,.
Memories of Northern California beaches.Update on the wilderness rant.After the chicken thief broke into a closed trailer to kill a rooster and hen put there for safety there the owner waited at night.It was a pair of raccoons who have now been sent to Raccoon Heaven.Just in time,someone abandoned a sweet female cat who seems like a house pet that was dumped,not a farm cat so hopefully she will be safe now.Ages ago my dad taught me about sanding wood.It may need more curing and then gradually using finer and finer sandpaper then a cloth.Google seemed to agree with my memories.My dad had some kind of special cloth I think.
the spoon looks AMAZING omg and i loved the rocks ive always been so fascinated by rocks since i was a kid so it was super cool seeing u cut right into them
Oh man. I need to find that video where you made the super funny intro about spoons being the ultimate creation of mankind, down to an edit of using spoons as microchips.
What I find really remarkable about beaches like that is the variety, which have obvious come from different places and different depth layers. A DIY home made rock tumbler could be good subject for video.
I think I'd quite like to see you make a giant spoon on a CNC machine. Nice and ornate (almost too ornate), decorated with motifs appropriate to your channel and the content you have produced.
my take on the knife safety comment. i never cut myself while cutting stuff. relatives with hypermobility however are legendary for their ability with knifes. on their own body, accidentally... yup, biology plays a factor on knife safety. love the spoon b.t.w. great gift.
Yeah, I think it probably is a personal thing - some people are just hamfisted too. The most important thing is to understand your own capabilities, which comes more from careful practice and experience than it does from blanket rules like 'always cut away'
The Spoon looks like a Sauna type of ladle they use to pour water over the hot stones. Or you make a giant pot of stew. You know - for your entrie neighborhood.
We take a lot of those rocks for granite where I live. 🙂 The rocks with rocks cemented are called conglomerate. Conglomerate is a sedimentary rock formed by pressing other stones into mud at a very high pressure. You are very close in thinking about puddingstone which is related. Granite is an igneous rock, and the striped rock may be some quartzite or contain some anyway. Back in college, I took a wonderful geology class as one of my electives for my unfinished music degree. I absolutely loved this class because I am a rockhound. During storm chasing trips, I came home with luggage that weighed at least twice as much as it did when I arrived at my hotel. I used to find all kinds of things including limestone, fossils, large chunks of quartz, and some semi-precious stones.
shepherd's purse micro greens can be grown, i have done it myself. i left the seed pods in the sun for a couple of days to dry, then i just scatterd them around in a pot on dirt. they tasted good
You really like patterns in your life, particularly triangles which you have on your shirts and in your kitchen too. Sometimes in your food videos virtually everything you use has a different bold pattern. I think that this says something profound about your personality but I'm not sure what it is :)
Geologist here! That area you collected from seems to be eroding a metamorphic zone and I believe all three of your samples are indicative of that. The first rock looks to be composed of aluminum silicates (maybe andalusite or sillimanite) it really depends on the temperature and pressure of the metamorphosis. That rock might be a Hornfel. The second rock is almost certainly a gneiss which is metamorphosed granite. And lastly, I think the third stone is a low grade metaconglomerate because of the color of the matrix between the clasts. You can find these where the clasts have been stretched and elongated like taffy and it is quite impressive. This one seems a little "undercooked" which may mean it was the host rock that was fractured and filled in as the original igneous body invaded the country rock before cooling.
Do you know what the red bits in the 3rd rock are?
I think the 1st rock is really cool looking, I'm going to look up hornfels after this.
@@0therun1t21 I don't, it would be really hard to visually ID it. It's possibly fragments of arkose sandstone?
@@zsandmann I’m getting sandstone vibes
@@davidnelson5533
It's currently a trend again so yeah
What is your favourite ever rock ZSandmann?
You need to add pudding stone to your list of types of puddings!
A couple people mentioned that you sent them my way, so I had to come see what you were talking about over on your channel. Nice rocks, especially the gneiss. Ha! There are various types of conglomerates that are called puddingstones from all over the world. You have one in UK called Hertfordshire puddingstone, but after looking at a few pictures, I don't think that's what you have. It does have a resemblance to the puddingstones we have here in Michigan.
I'm no geologist, as you know, but that first rock might be a type of porphyry.
That flint nodule is by far the most interesting rock of the four. That's just super cool inside. I was expecting just a monochrome rock all the way through.
Amazing to see you here. I loved the co-hosted style of your latest upload. It had a really good vibe.
@@AtomicShrimp Thanks! I am going to encourage Nancy to take the camera more often. She does a good job with it.
"Hope to see you again spoon" gets me everytime haha
Agreed!
I don't know... last time I was like "ok, sure" This time I was kind of over it.
I was literally about to post the same comment - it makes me chuckle every time :)
Every time? How many times have you heard it?
"looks like blue cheese"
You turned it into a cooking video right away didn't you.
Always
This is quite a relaxing video, very comfy. It's really nice to watch videos like this that just take it slow and show appreciation both for nature and art. Whether it be carving a spoon or admiring a rock, we live in such a beautiful world.
Your videos are so good to watch till the end. Thanks for being here.
I was feeling very anxious, and I saw a new AtomicShrimp video was out, so I put it on. Listening to Mike talk about rocks and plants for 20 minutes really helped calm me down. Thanks.
Well, I have my laugh for the week. I can't get the hilarious image out of my head of our early ancestors GNAWING wood to make tools. 😆 This will probably keep me amused for weeks.
I was also happily surprized to see you commenting on Max Miller's site, Tasting History. Two of my favorite youtubers for the price of one.
I'm also fond of nice looking but humble rocks. All the Best JIM Oaxaca
I want to share that I’ve started carving spoons largely based on your videos! It’s a wonderful and relaxing activity and I thank you for introducing me to it. 🙏🏻💛
As someone who's also looked into growing Shepherd's Purse, which is eaten widely in China and Korea, I've seen sources from both countries mention cold stratification for the seeds. It's well-known as an early spring ephemeral (for culinary use) in some areas, so it makes sense that its seeds might be programmed to time germination to the end of winter. I'm sure your source on random germination is right as well, because even with cold stratification, it seems like a plant that has a high degree of seed dormancy in general, but I'd consider the fact that various cultures eat it in the spring to indicate some degree of seasonal germination on top of that.
Seconding this! Cold stratification can be done easily by leaving the seeds in the fridge for 2-3 days (cover in foil or a lid to keep them from sprouting due to the fridge light) and then taking them out and letting them grow normally. We use this method for growing a. thaliana plants in the lab, which are in the same family. I would imagine that many of the same methods for growing a. thaliana will work for shepherd's purse.
I think we need to give credit to Eva for finding that rock. Great random content as usual.
That last rock was so beautiful! Looks like a painting. If u got a cheap little water fountain they could stay moist and be displayed really nicely :)
"See you again spoon." Ouch, groan and applause.
Edit: And now you know - yes I do tend to watch your videos all the way through :)
I always assumed that the reason it was called Shepherd's Purse was due to the bright yellow colour of the seeds resembling coins if the pods are split while green.
I loved splitting those little pods when I was young.
Oh, that makes sense!
It boggles my little mind that we still don't know how flint forms... Fascinating video!
There is definitely something about home made wooden spoons. I still have the one I made in wood working class back in high school - well over 40 years ago. It has lasted much longer than the knowledge of most of the things I was taught back then 😃
if you put the wood into a bit of water, all of the stray fibres will stand up on end, which makes it easier to sand and remove :)
Mike, a trick I've used in refinishing gun stocks to combat the "fluffiness" from sanding is to raise the grain of the wood by wiping with a damp rag and hastening the drying with a hair dryer or heat gun. This causes the wood fibers to stand up allowing me to remove them with each successive sanding with higher grits. This leaves a very smooth finish that can then be oiled, stained, or both depending on the firearm the stock will be mated to. I love the spoon and I'm sure your friend will as well!
Just love the look of that spoon. For me nothing beats any gift that's homemade and wooden items to me they are the best gifts. Stay safe everyone and especially @Atomic Shrimp
I really really love you're style and your personality x
There was never any need for you to apologize about the way you carve spoons or for the results that you get. Anyone who gets off the couch, makes something with their own creativity and whatever tools they choose, gets my respect. Further, you made something for another person in the spirit of a joke. What better reason is there to make a gift?
If anything, your activities are evidence of an exceptional mind. Kudos and keep rockin'! ✌😄
The layered stone is Gneiss, a metamorphic rock.
Nice gneiss!
@@AtomicShrimp Gneiss.
what was the tear drop one though?
@@jacobe2995 A geode.
@@jacobe2995 I think he said a flint nodule i.e. a form of quartz (silica)
I would kill for more videos of you cutting random rocks and just seeing what's inside!
Thankyou for showing us.
Small stones melted back into a surrounding rock are call ligmiths. There is a river near me lined with bedrock that has huge boulders meted into it worn down by the river. It looks so amazing.
The black rock cut in half at 9.25 sec looks like a little hippo 🦛 so cool.
I haven't see n your bench before. How amazing it looks at the end of the video!!!!!
Thanks, see you ladle.
TIL Shepherd's Purse is edible! :0
It was growing everywhere and I have some childhood memories of eating the leaves with friends but thinking about it now I always assumed it was just child's play, just like we sometimes (out of curiosity) munched on grass or daisy flowers and not something people normally do. Fascinating :D
Reminds me back at school when I was about 17 and we studied geology (well, very basic geology at least). Everyone thought it was upmost garbage, but I fondly remember these classes. The formation of the crystals is so interesting, and changing the conditions can have drastic impact on the shape of the crystals, and thus the rocks formed.
Once again, amazing video, loved it ! Both entertaining and informative, always a pleasure.
I love your lil' bench with the mosaic.
"The craving of spoon is nice. For they are beautiful" They only time I've agreed with a scammers. LOL
Forbidden scotch egg caught me so off guard, gave me such a chuckle
I remember nibbling shepherd's purse when I was a child! Lovely stuff. I am an admirer of your spoons.
I do believe you are the most interesting specimen of the lot Mr Shrimp.
this man is so pure
fantastic mix of random interesting stuff 👌
I subscribe to over 520 channels on CZcams, and if the word “eclectic” could apply to any channel, it would be this one. Love your content Shrimp.
He indeed is that and I had to check what "eclectic" means. Been trying to diversify myself as well. Variety is good and keeps interest going.
I subscribe to over 521.
@@ricos1497 I just checked, it’s 583. BEAT THAT.
🤣
"shut up Eva!" lol always gets me :D
Yet again, a very satisfactory video!
You should get a rock tumbler! That would allow you to polish the rocks to a brilliant shine, and make all of the rocks you select from that beach look even better than they do as-is
The Big Giant Spoon is cool.
When I was little and we lived out in the boonies, we had someone come mow our lawn. I discovered that rocks left in the yard would often get broken by the mower blade. Amazed by the crystalline insides I started leaving out rocks on purpose whenever he was going to show up. I probably ruined a lot of mower blades lol.
Reminds me a bit of some of the round pebbly beaches of Lake Superior in the US.
Only been on the Minnesota side though in the past 30 years, but will be visiting the Michigan side later this year.
Michigan Rocks is a great channel haha! How I would love to walk that crunchy beach!
it is but I only enjoy like 1 in 10 if his videos.
I find myself wanting to know (or get a better look at) the rocks that he doesn't pick up, or even seem to to notice
That spoon is gorgeous
Rock collecting was one of my earlier hobbies.. 👀
And, I love simple wood carving.
What a lovely surprise .
Thanks so much for sharing. 👍🏼
Yessssss. I was about to reccomend a rock tumbler. I think your viewers will enjoy random tumbler videos. Sort of a passive hobby.
Hello, from Canada!!!
If you suspect a fossil inside a nodule, put it under water for a week or so and then put it in the freezer. If there's an obvious line visible, hit the frozen nodule with a hammer and it will cleanly break along the weakest point, sometimes reveiling a fossil.
Nice work there.
Your spoon looks like fun to make. I found the seed pods being purse shape very interesting. These videos are educational. Thank you.
I love these grab bag videos Shrimp!
I love your Random Stuff videos. It's like a greatest hits of your channel, never knowing what will end up in them is charming. See you again Spoon!
You are funny and clever, thanks!
I appreciate the little punshrimp at the end!
Thanks for helping me to mellow out a bit.
Bit of advise regarding your drill for sanding. The shaft and bearings are designed for forward resistance and using a cylinder or flap sanding attachment will eventually wear the drill out, via side friction which they are not designed for. Its better to invest in a small bobbin sander if you want to do this sort of thing more than a few times. Another excellent video. Love this channel.
I've been using it occasionally like this for 25 years. I think you're worrying about an imaginary problem.
@@AtomicShrimp Fair play. I ruined one of my pillar drills doing this, It became slack and loose, (i have seen it been bought up by others on a few machining forums over the years). Sorry was only speaking from experience. :)
Yeah, I did wreck my pillar drill by using it as a power plant for my weird HDPE grinder, so fair comment!
What an impractical yet lovely spoon. I was looking foward to see the result
That flint nodule looks like a stinkhorn egg mushroom when you cut it in half :D
In Australia we have a tree, the Banksia, who's seeds need a fire to pop open and then fall to the ground, or are already on the ground but won't open till they have been through a fire.... hence bushfires actually help these to grow. The original people who live here did controlled burns,.
It's like Some sort of forbidden scotch egg 😅🤣
Great spoon we can call you a stirrer
That pun ending 🤣
I'm living for forbidden scotch egg🤣
Memories of Northern California beaches.Update on the wilderness rant.After the chicken thief broke into a closed trailer to kill a rooster and hen put there for safety there the owner waited at night.It was a pair of raccoons who have now been sent to Raccoon Heaven.Just in time,someone abandoned a sweet female cat who seems like a house pet that was dumped,not a farm cat so hopefully she will be safe now.Ages ago my dad taught me about sanding wood.It may need more curing and then gradually using finer and finer sandpaper then a cloth.Google seemed to agree with my memories.My dad had some kind of special cloth I think.
Ethylene can break seed dormancy. Ripe banana or apples should produce plenty enough to treat a batch of seeds.
Great video mr shrimp.
"hope to see you again spoon"
This was an assault, how dare you
the spoon looks AMAZING omg and i loved the rocks ive always been so fascinated by rocks since i was a kid so it was super cool seeing u cut right into them
Oh man. I need to find that video where you made the super funny intro about spoons being the ultimate creation of mankind, down to an edit of using spoons as microchips.
I love Rock Videos
You need to make a book on identifying plants 😁
Yay, the big spoon is finished! It looks terrific!
What I find really remarkable about beaches like that is the variety, which have obvious come from different places and different depth layers.
A DIY home made rock tumbler could be good subject for video.
I love all the safety comments after a crafting session with tools! It’s almost like you are a small boy 😂
I think I'd quite like to see you make a giant spoon on a CNC machine. Nice and ornate (almost too ornate), decorated with motifs appropriate to your channel and the content you have produced.
my take on the knife safety comment. i never cut myself while cutting stuff.
relatives with hypermobility however are legendary for their ability with knifes. on their own body, accidentally... yup, biology plays a factor on knife safety. love the spoon b.t.w. great gift.
Yeah, I think it probably is a personal thing - some people are just hamfisted too. The most important thing is to understand your own capabilities, which comes more from careful practice and experience than it does from blanket rules like 'always cut away'
@@AtomicShrimp yes for sure!
This channel has turned out more interesting than I thought. Noone talks about the "up-sides" to the CZcams algorithm
Granite, Gneiss & conglomerate. You have the 3 basic rock types, volcanic, metamorphic & sedimentary. :)
"See you again spoon" haha I love it 🤣
I love your hands. reminds me of my favorite biology teachers hands. he could probably crush a coconut in his hands!
Forbidden scotch egg 😂
I enjoy making spoons myself.
The Spoon looks like a Sauna type of ladle they use to pour water over the hot stones. Or you make a giant pot of stew. You know - for your entrie neighborhood.
We take a lot of those rocks for granite where I live. 🙂
The rocks with rocks cemented are called conglomerate. Conglomerate is a sedimentary rock formed by pressing other stones into mud at a very high pressure. You are very close in thinking about puddingstone which is related. Granite is an igneous rock, and the striped rock may be some quartzite or contain some anyway.
Back in college, I took a wonderful geology class as one of my electives for my unfinished music degree. I absolutely loved this class because I am a rockhound. During storm chasing trips, I came home with luggage that weighed at least twice as much as it did when I arrived at my hotel. I used to find all kinds of things including limestone, fossils, large chunks of quartz, and some semi-precious stones.
20:09 I like to think that this is a deliberate remake of Pink Floyd's Seamus
Tou are stirring up trouble again lol
Wow. I've never seen one quite like the third one. Not with such colorful inclusions. Nice find 👍
Come visit Michigan sometime! Our lakes are beautiful in every season 😁
Take my spoon Blodwyn!!
Danny
The spoon turned out awesome. I'm hoping to get a hatchet axe and carving knives soon .
Keep it it up shrimp
Nice video mate
I'm a little disappointed you didn't bring home the "Blue Cheese" rock but, this is still a good video. Keep up the good work!
Eclectic or eccentric? Or neither? Whatever it is I love your different content!
Original, that’s what it is, no narrative it is what it is
The red sandstone inlaid with other stuff is like a nice rock I found on the coast of the Gower Peninsula.
shepherd's purse micro greens can be grown, i have done it myself. i left the seed pods in the sun for a couple of days to dry, then i just scatterd them around in a pot on dirt. they tasted good
Underground, its amazing
You really like patterns in your life, particularly triangles which you have on your shirts and in your kitchen too. Sometimes in your food videos virtually everything you use has a different bold pattern. I think that this says something profound about your personality but I'm not sure what it is :)
Yep, big fan of patterns and colours