Crystal Casts...

This is the texture you get when crystals dissolve out of the surrounding rock, leaving angular pits the shape of the original crystals. I think this is quartz, because it was rock upon which amethyst was growing. Or it may simply be a travertine type rock with amethyst growing on it

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