#3171: Geologic Core Sample

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[Caption at the top of the panel:] Typical geologic core sample

[Below this is a drawing of a cylindrical core sample with various labels, in order from the top of the panel toward the bottom.]

[A short, dark section of core:] Topsoil

[A more obviously granular shorter section with a diagonal transition:] Till

[A light and lightly-marked phase:] Granite bedrock

[Repeating the Topsoil appearance:] Bottomsoil

[A short/squat and possibly squeezed 'lump':] Roof of subway car

[A similar squeezed-out lump:] Floor of subway car

[A longer length of the 'granite' texture, within which...:] More granite

[Not quite half of a pipe-width, cut out as a gap perpendicular and not quite all the way across the core:] Municipal water main

[Slightly more grainy version of the 'granite':] Slightly different granite

[In a junction between 'granites', an squat, unidentifiable lump:] Piece of screaming spelunker's arm

[Within a longer granite layer, a short stretch of spiky/crystalline features:] Cool crystals with no resale value

[Within the same granite layer, an intrusion of mechanical-looking junk:] Mangled fragments of drillbit from previous attempt

[As per granite, but slightly more grainy:] Some boring intrusive rock that's basically granite but has a name like "diorite" or "andalite" that you always have to look up

[Dark, cobbly textured stone:] Netherrack

[Within a stretch of granite, a short, dark but otherwise unidentifiable lump:] Balrog wing

[At this point, there is a discontinuity indicating that an arbitrary length has been omitted. The sample then resumes:]

[Still 'granite':] Granite

[Dark soil texture:] Topsoil

[Light, fine and sparse 'grains':] Cement

[Two very short cross-sections, each with contrasting wood-grain stripes:] Floorboards

[Two very short sections with a textile-base plus piles appearance:] Carpet

[A mish-mash of 'stuff', possibly including cloth, metal components, grainy wood and 'topped' at the lowest end by something equally puzzling at an angle:] Possesions of a confused and angry homeowner in the other hemisphere