It seems to be flat, and it's certainly colorful, but what exactly is it? Answer that question and you'll know how it came to be.
Bonus points if you know where it is.
National Park Mystery Photo 16: Something Curious This Way Came
By Kurt Repanshek - December 2nd, 2009
What is this, and where is it?
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Is it petrified piece of wood in the Petrified Forest National Park?
It reminds me a little of pipestone
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I like the tree idea.
I'm thinking in terms of a wound where an animal scraped/rubbed the bark off of a pine.
My bet is a bear, rubbing to mark territory or to scratch an itch, but I won't feel bad if it is porcupine (obviously lower on the tree) or even other wildlife.
Maybe its petrified tree showing some missing bark.
Not volcanic glass, not amber, not pipestone. John's close, very close, but it's not sedimentary.
And no, not petrified tree.
The layer on top appears to have an embedment of organic debris, a mix of mud and dirt perhaps. So if the base layer has been scrubbed by a glacier, are we in Glacier National Park?