Desert Rock

[pluton]

Here, a volcanic rock in the Mojave Desert of California shown partway along it's disintegration from multi-million ton mass of cooled lava into grains of fine sand. Using the GPS EXIF you can see it's location on the Google Earth of your choice.

[Frank Fremerey]

Definitely looks alien and organic. Great lighting.

[pluton]

Thanks Frank.  I'm gradually building a collection of fractured rock shots.

[David H. Hartman]

pluton,

You don't carry a hammer and chisel with you on your hikes do you?

Dave who thinks GPS might help kids with Easter egg hunts.

[Akira]

Love the amazing texture as witness of the wild behavior of the earth!

[beryllium10]

Keith, Glad to see that someone else has a fascination with fractured rocks!  My work involves dating rock surfaces, so I have (literally) thousands of similar sample photos, though not all are of fractured rocks.  It's always a challenge to make the photos interesting, as well as documenting the sample.  BTW - in some desert environments you will find that rocks of about this size are preferentially fractured north-south, due to the way that tensile stresses build up in the rock interior as the sun passes overhead each day!  (https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsabulletin/article-abstract/117/1-2/161/2131/physical-weathering-in-arid-landscapes-due-to?redirectedFrom=fulltext  unfortunately the full text of this article is behind the GSA paywall).

[pluton]

Just for fun, here are 2 more:  The first an igneous rock from Turtle Mountains in California, the second a chunk of sandstone(Chicken Wing) in Utah(GPS'd):