Rock Hunt along Rock Creek in Montana's Beartooth Mountains

[@Rockingruvin]

Nice ... I love rocks in rivers n creeks.

[@chrissgraniteparadise2656]

Nice, river rocks have always been my favorite as well. I hope you enjoy the channel!

[@puliendopiedrasdecostarica]

Beautiful river. One rock and another of the ones I like 👌👌

[@chrissgraniteparadise2656]

I would imagine that in Costa Rica you find a lot of volcanic rocks, and especially porphyries. True?

[@torreyintahoe]

My grandparents lived across the highway from Rock Creek north of Red Lodge. I spent a lot of time fishing it as a kid.

[@chrissgraniteparadise2656]

Sounds like a nice place to have grown up. Thanks for checking out the video!

[@Johny-JJI]

That’s nice

[@chrissgraniteparadise2656]

Thanks!

[@andrewmovius1654]

I grew up on the East Boulder South of Big Timber. We would occasionally find “pudding stone” rocks that we were of various colors. The imbedded stone were much more separated/distinct than the rocks you found.

[@chrissgraniteparadise2656]

I have never found puddingstones (or leopard rocks, as I remember them being called) in Rock Creek, but I am assuming you watched my short on those - which are from the Yellowstone. As a kid, I remember visiting someone in the area you are mentioning, and their house was SURROUNDED with huge puddingstones they had collected in the river, which was on their property. I remember my mom's friend was so happy when I pulled another giant one out of the river for her. I am curious what you mean by "separated" - do you mean more space between the phenocrysts?

[@johnnynephrite6147]

I dont think thats aventurine. Looks more like hydrogrossular garnet. Any known ophiolitic material in that area?

[@chrissgraniteparadise2656]

The reason I say aventurine is that it is full of that greenish mica. But I think I do have some pieces with the garnet you mentioned. A very bright green, correct?

[@johnnynephrite6147]

@@chrissgraniteparadise2656 it varies from pine needle greed to electric bright green chromium. Its often mixed with a tea colored translucent idocrase and a white matrix. The serpentine, HGG, idocrase, nephrite, listwanite, diopside, and even jadeite are all subduction zone metamorphics. they are often mixed together in the same rock.

[@tambramccauley2132]

would have found this much nicer without the stupid screams

[@chrissgraniteparadise2656]

It took me a minute to remember what screams - you mean the cheering for the stills? Can't please everyone, I guess.