Field guide No. 1455
Knotted amethyst geode in quarry stone
Crystal, tied off.
A cracked grey rock opens on purple amethyst grown into tight rope knots. Somebody tied it before it set.
Field noteQuartz crystals grow straight and brittle, yet these points line a rope that was tied while hard.
- Specimen
- No. 1455
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A grey quarry face split open on its knots.
- Nearest existing relative
- A string of rosary beads.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking material
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