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Oman

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Mountain village of pale buildings on a green terraced slope among date palms, overlooking a wide dry valley and a jagged rocky range. — Mountain Oasis - Oman Silvia Favaro

Pale cream and orange layered limestone cliffs rising above a narrow beach, seen from the turquoise sea under a cloudless blue sky. — Ras al Jinz from the sea Stefano Costanzo

Close-up of a dense layer of countless small pink and white snail shells, with a few larger shell fragments and greenish pebbles among them. — Gastropod beachrock in the making Stefano Costanzo

Micrograph of rock salt coloured deep blue, showing rounded grains outlined by networks of fine white lines, a few dark spots and a thin pale streak crossing diagonally. — Domal Salt Microstructure, Oman Janos Urai

Two four-wheel-drive cars crossing a wide shallow stream of fast-flowing water over a stony riverbed at dusk, with bare rocky hills under a pale orange sky. — flash flood and car crossing, Oman Anita Di Chiara

Brown hill covered in rubbly stones, crossed diagonally by a band of dark purplish-brown slabby rock, with a person climbing among the slabs and power lines overhead. — Umbers, the ancient ocean floor! Anita Di Chiara

Huge grey road cutting exposing banded, finely layered rock with criss-crossing fractures, with a person and a black-and-white measuring pole at its foot beside an empty road. — Layered gabbros, Oman Anita Di Chiara

Large brown rock outcrop made of stacked rounded pillow shapes, with a pointed peak and a person standing at its base beside a shallow pool, under a clear blue sky. — Amazing pillow lavas and lava flows Anita Di Chiara

Person in a purple top and wide-brimmed hat standing at the foot of a rough grey-green rock plug with rusty orange blocks, rising above a stony slope under a clear sky. — Lava plug on an ancient ocean floor Anita Di Chiara

Fast brown water rushing over stones in a wide gravel channel at sunset, with a car at the far edge and a dirt track climbing between rocky hills. — Flash flood in Oman cut roads! Anita Di Chiara

Deep green pool of water winding through a gorge of smooth, pale rock, beneath rocky desert slopes with sparse shrubs and a sky of white clouds. — Discover Water in the desert of Oman Mariasilvia Giamberini

Black-and-white aerial view of an eroded badland plateau whose rock layers show on the surface as wavy concentric lines like contour lines, cut by deep gullied valleys. — Geological Contours yuichI hayakawA

Waves crashing on a dark rocky shore at sunrise, sending a tall plume of spray into the glare of the low sun, with white foam spreading over the rocks and a hazy golden sky. — Stormy Sunrise Anne Roepert

Camp at night under a starry sky: a campfire lights an overhanging rock wall orange, with a person in a camp chair, a white off-road car and a tent nearby. — Fieldcamp at a Cave Simon Virgo

Thick cream-coloured vein of fibrous mineral running through a dark grey limestone ledge, with a field notebook lying below it for scale and a brown rucksack resting on top. — 3D outcrop of fibrous quartz-calcite veins Max Arndt

Rugged wall of pale and grey rock running like a spine across dry scrubby hills towards distant brown mountains, under a deep blue sky. — Fault core of Northern Boundary Fault Max Arndt

Smooth grey limestone surface crossed by rows of parallel white veins arranged in staggered lines, with a person walking on it among scattered rocks and shrubs. — En echelon crack seal vein pavement Max Arndt

Two thin white mineral veins crossing in an X on a flat grey rock surface, seen from above, with a walking boot and trouser leg at the bottom and a tuft of dry grass at the side. — Calcite vein interactions Max Arndt

Low hillside of rock made of thin alternating white and dark red layers, bent and tilted into steep folds, with a small leafless tree on the left and a deep blue sky above. — BatainRadiolarites Simon Virgo

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