The hunt for Thunder Eggs | Oregon Field Guide | OPB

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Rock Hunters take kids out to discover the the beautiful inside of thunder eggs at the Richardson Ranch, near Madras, Oregon.
Thunder eggs are fascinating. The egg-shaped rocks with the rough, gray exterior hide agate, opal, jasper and other gemstones and minerals that evoke fantastic interior landscapes. Along with being Oregon’s official state rock, Thunder eggs are often found in the High Desert of Oregon.
“Thunder Eggs” is also one of the most popular “Oregon Field Guide” stories ever. This video produced by Vince Patton and filmed by Nick Fisher. #opb #thunderegg #rockhounding #oregonfieldguide
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  • @heru-deshet359
    @heru-deshet3596 жыл бұрын

    That dad and his little girl are making some amazing memories.

  • @FMFvideos

    @FMFvideos

    5 жыл бұрын

    remember that time we spent the day picking rocks?

  • @lvl4k225

    @lvl4k225

    5 жыл бұрын

    I think the Mother is there too hahaha poor Mom

  • @lvl4k225

    @lvl4k225

    5 жыл бұрын

    As opposed to "Do you remember the day you spent watching youtube videos on your iPad?"

  • @heru-deshet359

    @heru-deshet359

    5 жыл бұрын

    Their answer: "Which day, they all blend in"! Lol.

  • @travesty869

    @travesty869

    5 жыл бұрын

    By using her to make him money and do his labor? If you say so

  • @bozhidarmihaylov
    @bozhidarmihaylov13 күн бұрын

    Nobody wants to hunt thunder potatoes in my ranch..😢

  • @senpaisanchoyt5225
    @senpaisanchoyt52255 жыл бұрын

    I love watching passionate people explain their passion

  • @rosannadesole9092
    @rosannadesole90925 жыл бұрын

    Magnificent treasures. They are wonderful.👍🤩🌏👏👏❤️

  • @shirleyjones9736
    @shirleyjones97365 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for teaching me about thunder eggs, I had never heard of them before & I'm 69 years old I know quite a bit about gems &stones like Moss agate Jasper onyx and so on but thundereggs totally stumped me. I love you learn about Nature's beauties so once again thank you very much for teaching an old woman new tricks lol, have a great life and keep teaching 👍🤗

  • @SomeoneCommenting
    @SomeoneCommenting5 жыл бұрын

    Just imagine the gazillions of possible different designs that can be found inside those rocks.

  • @delnita2064
    @delnita20645 жыл бұрын

    One of my geodes has gotten broken open more. You know I like it even more now. Now there are two where there was one. The more I learn about these rocks. The more I want to go hunting them.

  • @delnita2064
    @delnita20645 жыл бұрын

    Those are nice, looking inside of them really pretty.

  • @Automedon2
    @Automedon25 жыл бұрын

    I'm 62, read thousands of books, lived on several continents, watched God knows how many documentaries, but I'd never heard of thunder eggs. Goes to show you - there is always something fantastic to discover.

  • @jessejameshurtadoiii9916
    @jessejameshurtadoiii99165 жыл бұрын

    That Is Truly Beautiful

  • @tessiemiller9495
    @tessiemiller94955 жыл бұрын

    Amazing and mind blowing video what our mother nature has to offer.

  • @1dDisneyluva
    @1dDisneyluva5 жыл бұрын

    love this! what a great hobby! 😊🤩

  • @delnita2064
    @delnita20645 жыл бұрын

    I have learned a little about rock hunting but I have never been out on a hunt. It looks really fun. I do have rocks and geodes and love them all.

  • @SxTxferlife
    @SxTxferlife5 жыл бұрын

    This is amazing, the looks of theses eggs are absolutely stunning

  • @nakulpandey3577
    @nakulpandey35775 жыл бұрын

    I was having a tree stone, a thunder egg too with spiney cristial inside and a huge fossile stone in my grandparent home. And i love to see them.

  • @yamikayamaha6297
    @yamikayamaha62975 жыл бұрын

    Thrill of the hunt ..it great way to connect and spend times with family..😂

  • @joshuachung5514
    @joshuachung55145 жыл бұрын

    Thank you rocks, very cool.

  • @danielovrebo5853
    @danielovrebo58535 жыл бұрын

    Looks like super fun to dig here, would love to bring my kids here.

  • @michellelee4766
    @michellelee47666 жыл бұрын

    This was a great video and I super appreciate it!

  • @robinhess1777
    @robinhess17775 жыл бұрын

    I have died and gone to heaven! I would GIVE anything to be right there with you. My house is a cave, filled w/ quartz, Amethyst, coral, agate, shells. My heart is soaring just watching, the total aaahhh of pulling MOTHER 🌎 treasures out. WISH I were there!!!

  • @evanraineri5643

    @evanraineri5643

    5 жыл бұрын

    ROBIN HESS OMG I would love to live in a cave, you are so lucky, that is my dream!

  • @junoking

    @junoking

    5 жыл бұрын

    How high are you?

  • @yoyoclockEbay

    @yoyoclockEbay

    5 жыл бұрын

    Are you a hobbit?

  • @sinny5404

    @sinny5404

    5 жыл бұрын

    he didn't mean a literal cave xD

  • @HL-ll4zz

    @HL-ll4zz

    5 жыл бұрын

    You need help seal your cave with yourself inside problem solved 😉

  • @melvinthomas9292
    @melvinthomas92926 жыл бұрын

    Rock hounding is very addictive. I started 6 months ago, haven't found anything special but I love the hunt

  • @mamabearcher2685
    @mamabearcher26856 жыл бұрын

    THESE ARE ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS

  • @ronniepirtlejr2606
    @ronniepirtlejr26065 жыл бұрын

    Wow beautiful stones!

  • @kramsniggah4333
    @kramsniggah43335 жыл бұрын

    These are so beautiful!

  • @gregghatfield9946
    @gregghatfield99465 жыл бұрын

    So so cool ,, love to cut and see what was in them,,👍🏻👍🏻

  • @msp507
    @msp5075 жыл бұрын

    Never heard of this wow those a beautiful

  • @robertbradford3461
    @robertbradford34615 жыл бұрын

    Im not sure why everyone is saying we don't know how these are formed, we learned about this in seventh grade earth science. Thunder eggs are almost like geodes they form the same way as gold and quartz super heat and under super amounts of pressure turns it all into a slurry of gases that come up from way down and as soon as it finds space it begins to cool and pressure lowers the gases cool condensing and depositing what it carries on to the surrounded rock. Slowly over centuries the void is filled completely making a thunder egg, when the void is not completely filled it's called a geode. Oh you can have both a geode within a thunder egg those are super amazing, but you can't have a thunder egg inside a geode

  • @robertbradford3461

    @robertbradford3461

    5 жыл бұрын

    Kurt Fox listen fuck nuts at 3:25 or so the "expert" says that they dont know how they are formed. And that's bulshit because we do know how they are formed I try and only comment on video topic and or subject, but when you comment on my comment and haven't even watched the video we're talking about, that kinda makes you the loser. Have a nice day

  • @robertbradford3461

    @robertbradford3461

    5 жыл бұрын

    Kurt Fox bazinga bitch

  • @robertbradford3461

    @robertbradford3461

    5 жыл бұрын

    Kurt Fox finally, a bitch with a little sass! You could be my next ex wife Soy boys for joy

  • @sinny5404

    @sinny5404

    5 жыл бұрын

    I for one enjoyed you explaining how they are formed. nice to see a real KZread comment

  • @CoachEarl

    @CoachEarl

    5 жыл бұрын

    IMO robert wasnt being rude, just making an assumption and the kurt came in calling ppl a loser sooooo... yeah. I guess not everyone can be kind lol. Thanks for the extra explanation. Good comment.

  • @Stardusted1
    @Stardusted15 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this great video! Very informative. Makes me want to go to Oregon!

  • @jaredpittinger4975
    @jaredpittinger49755 жыл бұрын

    I was watching a standup comedian, but I feel like a video titled, “thunder eggs,” is much more appropriate while on the toilet.

  • @Mikeofindy
    @Mikeofindy5 жыл бұрын

    Cool !!! Ummmm rocks

  • @waltersantos3190
    @waltersantos31905 жыл бұрын

    I love these things so beautiful

  • @me-cq7wv
    @me-cq7wv5 жыл бұрын

    Tried this in the height of summer in Australia. Was sweating buckets at the end. Maybe a winter pursuit for us Aussies

  • @directdescendent.4578
    @directdescendent.45785 жыл бұрын

    Lovely, digging under Chemtrail Sky.

  • @hilham89
    @hilham895 жыл бұрын

    Oh wow! Makes me want to go find some now.

  • @CraftAero
    @CraftAero5 жыл бұрын

    5:50 "Trapped for eternity, until now." Lol

  • @suzilindblad5207
    @suzilindblad52075 жыл бұрын

    This is cool!

  • @DavidHamm02
    @DavidHamm025 жыл бұрын

    I love to dig for thundereggs in Madras, Oregon!

  • @miyubail
    @miyubail5 жыл бұрын

    I love thunder eggs and all minerals. I used to pan gold in Idaho wilderness. Unfortunately I only got tiny flakes not nuggets, lol. There is an opal mine in nothern Idaho and my friend brought me a rock contained opal a long ago. I also love Agate with scenery.

  • 5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks tou for showing

  • @whitefordpipeshandmadebymi7238
    @whitefordpipeshandmadebymi72385 жыл бұрын

    Wow that’s cool ! I would love to find some ! Take care! 😊 peace ✌️ from Welland Ontario Canada 🇨🇦

  • @hitaurala
    @hitaurala5 жыл бұрын

    thanks for the video!

  • @javiervm332
    @javiervm3326 жыл бұрын

    Amazing!!!

  • @burtgummer463
    @burtgummer4636 жыл бұрын

    Cool video. Its my 50th birthday and I have been cutting 50lbs of thundereggs for my birthday.. I should be done by next month lol

  • @Pentapus1024
    @Pentapus10246 жыл бұрын

    I just found my very first thunder egg. In a dirt lot in my town, just a couple blocks away, *somewhere* in the Mojave desert. Alas, I don't have a big enough blade for it, it's a bit bigger than a softball. God I love rockhounding! I also love how lucky I've been hunting IN TOWN. Methinks nobody but me knows about these places, but since it's not isolated I wonder if people know what I'm doing and move in on my secret locations...

  • @exbioman

    @exbioman

    6 жыл бұрын

    WE'RE on our way!

  • @thinkcivil1627
    @thinkcivil16275 жыл бұрын

    I was fortunate to have found 3 Thunder Eggs this season agate hunting up in the UP of MI by Superior out of a quarry. That specific area has thunder eggs, but it is much more well known for the beautiful Lake Superior agates we find there. A sliced Thunder Egg reminds me, in some ways, of some sliced moss agates. In fact, the first Thunder Egg I found in that area was about the size of a baseball and at first, I thought it was a moss agate. I have one Egg from OR that was given to me by my son in law, who lives out there, and the OR Thunder Eggs seem to have a wider variety of colors than the ones we find in that area of the UP of MI.

  • @1OutOf8Billion
    @1OutOf8Billion5 жыл бұрын

    Damn nice geodes!

  • @marajaneee
    @marajaneee5 жыл бұрын

    with a title called “Thunder eggs” i had no other option but to watch this video

  • @judecaplin1860
    @judecaplin18605 жыл бұрын

    i been picking rocks of all kinds for yrs and just learned about thunder eggs right this second smh cool lol

  • @lindaferguson985
    @lindaferguson9855 жыл бұрын

    😮 Ugly outside, Beautiful inside. Lessons from Mother Nature.💖💖💖💖💖

  • @zoesdada8923
    @zoesdada89235 жыл бұрын

    He's so lucky. Spending time with his little girl digging for goodies. I'd give anything to do this with my baby.

  • @sandysand3484
    @sandysand34845 жыл бұрын

    I had no idea of that museum in Hillsboro! I’m so going like tomorrow

  • @elhuddleston17
    @elhuddleston175 жыл бұрын

    I miss Deming NM rock hunting.

  • @tinamitchell1572
    @tinamitchell15725 жыл бұрын

    thank you, see you soon !

  • @churitos12
    @churitos126 жыл бұрын

    NICE............

  • @BeAmbitiousNotContent
    @BeAmbitiousNotContent5 жыл бұрын

    Road trip!!!🚗

  • @eggnog9090
    @eggnog90905 жыл бұрын

    Very cool.

  • @pinkomoco797
    @pinkomoco7976 жыл бұрын

    Awsome Red Neck: I'M A ROCKAHOLIC AND I SNIFF ROCKS FOR A LIVING!!!

  • 5 жыл бұрын

    Obrigado por mostrar

  • @MickersMind
    @MickersMind5 жыл бұрын

    That one guy with the red hat seems like the brains of the operation to me.

  • @TeamAnbu65
    @TeamAnbu656 жыл бұрын

    That big one looks like Joe Dirt's space rock!

  • @manboutuomaeley4311

    @manboutuomaeley4311

    5 жыл бұрын

    IronMadDog big ol frozen chunk of shit

  • @ashton150

    @ashton150

    5 жыл бұрын

    IronMadDog uhhh it’s got a peanut in it

  • @noname-br5lo

    @noname-br5lo

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's a space peanut

  • @JavierFernandez01

    @JavierFernandez01

    5 жыл бұрын

    IronMadDog I got the poo on me! How much is in there, dang!

  • @jadabull

    @jadabull

    5 жыл бұрын

    Dude I was literally dipping my fries in ketchup as I read this

  • @jtapia92
    @jtapia925 жыл бұрын

    Green shirt guy can tell me a bedtime story anyday

  • @alesjamsek1199
    @alesjamsek11995 жыл бұрын

    Interesting !

  • @rb032682
    @rb0326825 жыл бұрын

    cool stuff

  • @lilliampires5006
    @lilliampires50065 жыл бұрын

    Mto Lindas! 👏🏼💎💓💓😍

  • @rustyaxelrod
    @rustyaxelrod5 жыл бұрын

    I Like to Rock!

  • @warzoneclipz
    @warzoneclipz5 жыл бұрын

    I used to work there at Richardson rock ranch

  • @SuperNoncents
    @SuperNoncents5 жыл бұрын

    Awesome

  • @RoastCDuck
    @RoastCDuck5 жыл бұрын

    When you find any sort of crystal on a rock it feels like a jackpot

  • @blessedone843
    @blessedone8435 жыл бұрын

    Need some spaghetti to go along with that meatball...😂

  • @michelemcguire8995
    @michelemcguire89955 жыл бұрын

    Make jewelry I'd love it..I dug for crystals..in South Carolina..one year..still have em..brought em home.. beautiful..n fun to dig for .I'm addicted Now I need to get a Tumblr

  • @tammymccloud2609
    @tammymccloud26095 жыл бұрын

    WOW ITS A ROCK, HOPEFULY I WILL BE ABLE TO GET ME ONE IN ABOUT 300 YEARS, OR SO.

  • @kitingkarapan388
    @kitingkarapan3885 жыл бұрын

    this is very many in my village . you can having in the long river...

  • @estellamoon8766
    @estellamoon87665 жыл бұрын

    I think i just like everything

  • @stevenkimball5592
    @stevenkimball55925 жыл бұрын

    My theory about how geodes are created is that when during an eruption there are globules of lava tossed into the atmosphere that cool enough before landing to form a shell. Then as they become part of the pyroclastic flow steam is injected into them furthering the cooling causing them to seal further and from the partial evaporation of the liquid inside, crystals are formed making the beauty within. Just a thought.

  • @toddd.9433
    @toddd.94335 жыл бұрын

    Bourdain has thunder rolls!~

  • @aspjake123
    @aspjake1237 жыл бұрын

    Very cool, but Lord get them folks some sunblock!

  • @ladymayramorfin413

    @ladymayramorfin413

    6 жыл бұрын

    Bhuahahaha

  • @Alayna87Beatz

    @Alayna87Beatz

    6 жыл бұрын

    I noticed that too! Holy

  • @glendaroberts5965

    @glendaroberts5965

    6 жыл бұрын

    IKR

  • @killereria9945

    @killereria9945

    6 жыл бұрын

    They probably have some they’ve just been in the sun so long.

  • @keniajoaquin-hillery8136

    @keniajoaquin-hillery8136

    5 жыл бұрын

    That guys neck was fried, lol.

  • @aleenaprasannan2146
    @aleenaprasannan21465 жыл бұрын

    Urghh....this reminds me of my time doing teaching assistantship. I has to polish sections of thunder eggs by hand with just different sized abrasive mess...no tools at all....and this thing is hella hard.....my nemesis

  • @ns7027
    @ns70275 жыл бұрын

    Bremerton!!! Hell ya

  • @Chip1189
    @Chip11895 жыл бұрын

    Awe man I was hoping this was about eggs of the mythical thunderbird

  • @MrRedeyedJedi
    @MrRedeyedJedi5 жыл бұрын

    I wish i could banish my worries and go hunt “thunder eggs”

  • @elhuddleston17

    @elhuddleston17

    5 жыл бұрын

    MrRedeyedJedi it'd fun, go to Deming NM

  • @TsetsiStoyanova
    @TsetsiStoyanova5 жыл бұрын

    Thats a lot of rocks

  • @joelbell6275
    @joelbell62755 жыл бұрын

    Geode is evolving! Geode evolved into Thunder Egg!

  • @user-wc7nn1fr3g
    @user-wc7nn1fr3g5 жыл бұрын

    China beautiful stone Crystal and agate Collection

  • @kathyprusak2762
    @kathyprusak27625 жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @charliedilltarde9881
    @charliedilltarde98815 жыл бұрын

    am i the only one who thinks these would make great gun/knife handles?

  • @garimpeirodointerior4786
    @garimpeirodointerior47865 жыл бұрын

    da hora muito bom

  • @dawnfkahamilton-doerfler6982
    @dawnfkahamilton-doerfler69825 жыл бұрын

    Gorgeous. How does these and geodes get made.

  • @memiminmo5386

    @memiminmo5386

    5 жыл бұрын

    Dawn FKA hamilton-doerfler yes

  • @matthewbolton4289
    @matthewbolton42896 жыл бұрын

    is this on richardsins rock ranch here in madras?

  • @hardsalami_6923
    @hardsalami_69235 жыл бұрын

    Look this is one reason why I want to be a geologist

  • @wearemazz9701
    @wearemazz97015 жыл бұрын

    It's like a time capsule

  • @peotpenyok7370
    @peotpenyok73706 жыл бұрын

    Wow

  • @nonggarrioch7545
    @nonggarrioch75455 жыл бұрын

    I want some of them. Can i buy it. They are so beautiful.

  • @lingisblasian3542
    @lingisblasian35426 жыл бұрын

    “It’s fun and dirty “ 😂😂

  • @doniinod9732
    @doniinod97325 жыл бұрын

    wooouuww ..

  • @WOLF2JAK
    @WOLF2JAK5 жыл бұрын

    Interesting

  • @meancookie89
    @meancookie895 жыл бұрын

    Wow

  • @alisalauzon9291
    @alisalauzon92915 жыл бұрын

    I would love to try this what do i need to get started, where to go?? Wish i could find someone to go with!! maybe they have a club??

  • @linden1858
    @linden18586 жыл бұрын

    Its great what are heavenly father made everything ,and theses rocks are great.

  • @chrishuss10
    @chrishuss105 жыл бұрын

    Was the mudfossil so big that he thundered,? is that why they are called thunder eggs?.

  • @hisnameisiam808
    @hisnameisiam8085 жыл бұрын

    Doesn't take millions of years for water to fill in the center with minerals. What is the shortest amount of time for these things to take place?

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