• Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    Certified 🆒 🪨

    I wonder what the inclusions in the rock are? I don’t think this is what it is, but the patterning reminds me of some obsidian with perlite I’ve seen before.

    • Mobiuthuselah@mander.xyzOP
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      2 months ago

      From a geologist friend of a friend: Looks to be a pyroxene rich with olivine, or perhaps a basalt with olivine phenocrysts.

      • Korval@lemmy.today
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        2 months ago

        From a friend of an “anthropologist” friend: looks to be DNA from one of the prehistoric giants that populated North America (bigger person equals bigger DNA).