Field guide No. 1606
Rock around
One layer is out of turn
A road cutting of striped rock layers with a round plug in the middle whose stripes run off true, as if it had been turned. Several million years, slightly rotated.
Field noteStrata run unbroken through a cutting, yet one round plug has been twisted out of line.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Knotted ridge in the desertSandstone arches are carved by wind. Wind has not been known to tie one in a knot and leave it.
An elephant leaves square footprintsEach print behind the elephant is a neat square. Round was considered and declined.
Misty marsh with a looped neck heronHeron necks fold into an S already. Looping it all the way round is more yoga than anatomy.
Pearly teeth in a purple figFruit growing dentition is biology going off-script. Dentists would cope; botanists less so.