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They are embedded.@jim mcnamara it looks like he was able to upload it now.
@ReevesN76R -- Welcome to the PF. Can you take a closeup picture of the marks on the rock? Are those marks (like drawn), or are they something embedded?
Looks like a porphyritic basalt.
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/KeweenawGeoheritage/BlackLavas/Basalt_Textures.html
Large phenocrysts are plagioclase feldspar, groundmass is typically very fine grained olivine and pyroxenes.
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The rock is rounded and river worn, so it was not taken directly from an outcrop. It has probably been carried by a glacier or an ice sheet during the last glacial period. It may have traveled a long way south from some volcanics in Canada.how come you found it in Minesota
Pudding stone is a sedimentary "conglomerate" of rounded pebbles in a fine matrix. It looks like a cut slice through a plum pudding.It looks like what I have known as a "pudding stone"