Field guide No. 849

A pale branching crystal formation stretches through a dark basalt pool. The tide has left its minerals in an unusually dramatic shape.

Crystalline lightning in a basalt tide pool

Lightning took the rocky route

A pale branching crystal formation stretches through a dark basalt pool. The tide has left its minerals in an unusually dramatic shape.

Field noteA branching crystal lies in a dark tide pool. The storm has left a mineral behind.

Specimen
No. 849
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Nothing
Where it doesn’t exist
A rocky tide pool.
Nearest existing relative
A salt-crystal formation.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking nothing