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Stony desert plain with small concrete huts and a power pylon in front of pale cream layered rock hills on the left meeting darker brown jagged mountains on the right. — Sedimentary rocks versus Basement, Gulf of Suez, Egypt Yasser Salama

Person in a blue suit, clear domed helmet and white backpack stepping past a layered sandstone ledge, with another suited person and a small off-road vehicle in reddish desert below snowy mountains. — Collecting Samples on Mars Maria Grulich

Ground covered almost entirely by flat reddish brown slate and schist fragments, with rounded green shrubs dotted across it under a cloudy sky. — Stony soil: Lithic Leptosol Antonio Jordán

Towering quarry walls of pale, layered stone cut into a grid of blocks, with a person standing on a narrow stepped ledge that climbs diagonally across the face. — Torretta quarry Arnoud Slootman

Close-up of a rock surface covered in tiny opaque brick-red quartz crystals, with scattered white, crusted cavities and thin slit-like openings. — Eisenkiesel SiO2 Konstantinos Kourtidis

Two people in the field, one in a red shirt and wide-brimmed hat, kneeling at a cut face of dark volcanic sand and examining it with their hands. — Antonio and Nancy describing a volcanic soil (Mexico) Antonio Jordán

Flat summit paved with broken slabs of reddish sandstone beside a grassy edge, overlooking a ridge path and distant flat-topped hills under white clouds. — On top of Corn Du, Brecon Beacons Annique van der Boon

Stony dirt track where muddy water has spread thin fans of fine grey sediment around pebbles and stones, beside young olive trees and scrub. — Fine sediment deposition María Burguet

Pinkish orange rock surface with curved concentric layers and scattered small pebbles, with a white scale card marked in centimetres. — Paleozoic Diamictites Nuno Correia

Red half disc of the sun or moon sinking behind a hazy city skyline next to a mosque dome and two pointed minarets, under a tall orange sky crossed by a long dark cloud. — The Almost Bloody Moon Taner Sengor

Two people working beside a geyser jetting white steam on a barren brown plain, with equipment and a cable reel on the ground and snow-dusted hills behind. — Revealing geyser dynamics at The Three Vicuñas Wouter Deleersnyder

Muddy orange river winding in tight loops through a deep canyon whose walls show many horizontal grey and red rock layers, seen from a rocky rim. — Geology meets meandering river Andreas Kellerer-Pirklbauer

Straight gravel road stretching across flat tundra of yellow, green and red shrubs towards grey mountains with pale slopes, under a blue sky with white clouds. — Looking down the Dempster Matthew Herod

Metal ring sampler filled with a flat-cut slice of fine brown soil, set among fallen dry leaves and ivy on the ground beside a black lens cap reading Canon for scale. — Soil slice for determination of bulk density Antonio Jordán

Close-up of reddish-brown soil eroded into many small pillars and spikes, several capped by pale stones, with a fallen branch and dry plants behind. — Soil stands up María Burguet

Close-up of a sandstone wall with swirling bands of red, pink, white and purple, its surface eroded into smooth curves, ledges and small hollows. — Sandstones of Petra Pierrick Nicolet

Ptygmatic fold: a pale orange-pink vein twisting in tight snake-like loops across a dark, finely banded grey-brown rock face dotted with lichen. — Ptygmatic fold in paragneisses Sophie Graul

Aerial view looking straight down on a volcanic summit: a round dark grey crater floor ringed by pale grey and reddish rock and ash slopes. — Flying in the danager zone Kieran Wood

Aerial view looking down on parallel bands of yellow, orange, white and brown salt and mud along a shore, crossed by a long dark crack, with curved white scallops along the lower bands. — Shoreline retreat at the Dead Sea Djamil Al-Halbouni

Series of ten photos showing a rock arch on a beach cliff collapsing: the small opening grows, rock breaks away and falls, and a large dust cloud billows up at the foot of the cliff. — Arch Collapse Robert Wills

Short, deep gully cut into bare reddish stony soil, running up a slope towards shrubs on the skyline, with a strip of young crop rows at the right edge. — Short gully in a cultivated area Antonio Jordán

Two adult elephants and a calf walking across a dry sandy plain among reddish boulders, with rocky hills and mountains behind. — Desert elephants on the move Samira Ellmer

Pale sandy hillside showing faint bent and broken layers, behind a paved street lined with palm trees, young staked saplings and a row of red flowering plants. — A Sedimentary Outcrop: graben lead to normal fold Metwally Hamza

Hills banded in stripes of red, pink, grey and white below a red rock cap, with small green junipers and a rustic wooden fence along a dirt road in front. — Stripes beyond the fence Giulia Vico

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