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Any geologists out there?

I found this interesting rock in a creek bed. I'm wondering what this formation is called and how it's created.
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DrWatson · 70-79, M
I once learned about something similar.For what it's worth, I'll share it with no guarantee that this is the whole story.

I once toured a cave whose ceiling was covered with that kind of formation. Our guide said it was called box work.

My imperfect memory of the explanation: ages ago, fissures developed in the rock. The fissures got filled with (molten?) rock of a different type.

The river that flowed through the cave caused erosion. But the filled-in rock was the harder of the two, so it remains while the softer rock around it has eroded away.
@DrWatson that's interesting. Thank you.
ScreamingFox · 41-45, F
Oooohh good find! That looks like a fossil! Perhaps some old roots or a leaf!

That's awesome!! I get a little excited about rocks lol that's really cool you found that and thank you for sharing.
@ScreamingFox I wondered fossil too but I'm pretty sure it's a natural formation. I have some vague memory of seeing it before, maybe in school.

I considered taking it home but scrambling up a steep ravine and walking 20 minutes back to the car with a rock the size of a skateboard under my arm didn't seem fun. But I put it somewhere obvious so I can find it again if I change my mind.
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Notsimilarreally · 31-35, F
Join a Facebook rockhounding group for your general area. People get these types of questions answered all the time.
Jessrf · 18-21, F
I dont know what it is or how it formed but that is a really cool looking rock!!! Tge lines look great
I think you should take the time to ask the owner of the shoe if he’s okay.
@Mamapolo2016 I'm not sure what you're saying. I put my foot there for scale.
@robingoodfellow It doesn’t look attached to anything. Like a leg.

Never mind me.
SageWanderer · 70-79, M
Maybe in Google images? I tend to agree with @ScreamingFox that it looks like a fossil in a sedimentary rock.
@SageWanderer I tried that first, couldn't come up with anything definitive.
SageWanderer · 70-79, M
@robingoodfellow Wish I knew a geologist who could help. Everyone I know is either medical or metallurgical.
To my pretty ignorant eye, it kinda looks like shale that got fractured in sedimentary rock and then stuck there.
But without actually feeling it, i really wouldn't know for sure
It looks very cool.
@OogieBoogie now that you say it, the part with the relief does have that reddish- shale look to it, different from the other half of the rock. I'm thinking you nailed it.
@robingoodfellow in truth - it really doesn't matter does it?

We see beauty in the most randomest of things.

And that's all that counts in the end,🤗
@OogieBoogie YES 😃
I'm a geologist..it rocks.
Frostcloud · F
idk but that's suuuuper cool 🙂‍↕
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
Interesting whatever it is. I would keep that one.
Lava flow mark maybe? Depending where at

Fossilized organisms?

 
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