Jungle

Field guide No. 1238

A clear quartz boulder beside a muddy forest track carries a dark tire tread pressed deep into its surface. The truck is long gone, and the crystal is not talking.

Tire tread in quartz

Set in stone, then driven on.

A clear quartz boulder beside a muddy forest track carries a dark tire tread pressed deep into its surface. The truck is long gone, and the crystal is not talking.

Field noteA truck tread pressed deep into clear quartz. Crystal does not take a print, but a boulder with one is coherent.

Specimen
No. 1238
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Material
Where it doesn’t exist
Muddy forest tracks, where mud takes the print
Nearest existing relative
a tire print in wet clay.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking material