Fossil Or ??

[Cariboo5]

My son found this while gold panning off a small creek. Looks like it could be some type of leaf, plant impression. Is imbedded in the rock surface and does not rub off. Suggestions appreciated..

 

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[Tuberale]

Looks like a dendritic inclusion in quartz to me: kind of moss that grew inside the rock.

 

[Cariboo5]

Tuberale...I think you nailed it. Moss was not one type we had thought of. Thanks a bunch...

 

[Tuberale]

Glad to help. If that's it.

I don't have that good a track record with rocks.

 

[Cariboo5]

I'd have to say your're batting a 1000. Following up on your lead I have found many different examples of " dendritic " Some of the images fromed by this process are beautiful art work by nature.

Dendritic: A branching tree like mark made by one mineral crystallizing in another. A stone or mineral with such a mark.

The stone that my son found is exactly that...