WTH is this ??????

[Paula Savino]

Ok, dont mean to sounds tooo frustrated, But, ive posted this item in a few forums, and nobody knows what it is. I found it near my home in NE North Carolina area, near the Virginia border. (45 Minutes) I am 2 hours drive distance from the beach, and this was in a very wooded area, many hills, but no houses, no people for miles. I didnt see any other rock in the area like this, and it was normal heavy weight. Sometimes campers area around in secluded areas similer to this one, but since it butts up to a state park its pretty much unanhibited. Please Please help meout.

 

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[BurntBear]

I can see your interest in this specimen. Can you get multiple photos of it at different angles? Maybe some close ups as well? I'm sure we can give you an idea of what it is but I think we need to see more. Thanks!

 

[melanievoita]

It looks like when I emptied a full can of that spray foam into my wastepaper basket. it is rock right it wont melt or disolve

 

[pat-tekker-cat]

It almost looks like it wasn't a rock, before it was a rock. Or a bunch of rocks rolled in to a rock.
Interesting, please do share more, if able.
(I see leaves of 3, let it be, poison ivy, be careful, too)

 

[yakker]

Fossilized some-thing-or-other?? That's one crazy-looking rock! More pics!! I keep jumping back and taking a closer look. (and don't worry- that's not poison ivy- even though it's a 3-cluster. Here's a good pic of what I think it is- Virginia Creeper with poison ivy on the tree in the background) Post it on the fossils forum and see what those guys have to say! Yakker

 

[Eu_citzen]

Granitoid, perhaps even bordering on pegmatite? Uncertain.

 

[NaturalJWL]

Question: Did you take it home >? I have seen something fairly similar before, which was a jewelry box that had been through a house fire sometime in the distant past. Enlarging the pic, then using the magnifier, it looks as if there are charcoal remnants around it. Top left magnified is interesting to say the least. BTW the melted jewelry box after a week and a half with an ice pick, 175 in gold to my local buyer. Worth fooling with even though I heard " what you gonna do with that mess" LOL.

 

[DDancer]

Pretty sure I saw this picture posted elsewhere here... didn't comment on it then. Anyrate I have seen similar formations and its not a melt piece. The base matrix is usually a limonite/quartz mix and the zigzag formations are almost jasper chalcedony. Its a hydrothermal formation and that's the most I ever figured out about similar pieces. Where I've found one I've often found others. The one pictured is probably a bit of float from a nearby source that just happens to be on the surface.