Field guide No. 1416

A crater in white, cracked ground is packed with glossy black bubbles of every size. The desert exhaled and nobody mentioned it.

Black breath bubbles in a white desert

Something below breathed out

A crater in white, cracked ground is packed with glossy black bubbles of every size. The desert exhaled and nobody mentioned it.

Field noteMud pots bubble in grey; these keep their round shape dry, black and stacked in a heap.

Specimen
No. 1416
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Material
Where it doesn’t exist
A cracked white desert floor, in a sunken bowl.
Nearest existing relative
A mud pot.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking material