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Fossil?
Rock? What do you see... |
| This photo was taken in an ancient dry riverbed, which probably still washes spring run-off into Pyramid Lake from the surrounding hills. As I was positioning for a shot of a nearby rock formation, I looked down and saw this seemingly out-of-place shape between the two halves of a split open slab of flat, hardened stone. The floor of the riverbed is strewn with tile-like slabs which have been worn flat by the merciless arid desert, and tossed about like a giant jigsaw puzzle. The fallen piece shown here appears to have broken off from the perfectly fitted curve in the rock above. Why did it break in this odd shape? Does it resemble a leg bone? A foot? Nothing at all? And what is that weird little indentation on the end that looks like the marrow area of a bone? I've sent this photo, and the location where I took it, to the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe for their analysis. What do you see - a fossil? Or just folly! | |
