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Aerial view of tall dark basalt cliffs and rocky ridges dropping to a broad grey-green plain beside a turquoise sea dotted with small icebergs. — Disko Island, Vaigat formation basalt. Robert Jackisch

Slope of broken angular rock fragments coated in dark brown and black desert varnish, with paler surfaces where they are freshly cracked and a handheld GPS unit lying among them. — Outcrop of Desert Varnish Metwally Hamza

Wide, rugged grey rock riverbed pitted with countless potholes, a narrow gorge of dark water running through it, two people sitting on the rocks, an arched bridge behind. — Pothole Formation in the Kukadi River at Nighoj Namdev Telore

Person in a blue jacket standing on a bright green grassy slope above a small turquoise lagoon, enclosed by steep green layered cliffs that open to the sea under low cloud. — The Magic of Saksun, Føroyar Harald Crepaz

View from a grassy, rocky hilltop over a wide dark blue fjord between steep green mountains with layered cliffs, with fields and a village on the left shore under a cloudy sky. — Faroe Islands from a Puffin's perspective Harald Crepaz

Jagged black basalt sea stacks rising from the sea beyond a black sand beach, with dark boulders washed by white foaming waves under a blue sky with white clouds. — Reynisdrangar basalt sentinels Francesco Ioli

Looking up at a towering cliff of grey basalt columns: long straight six-sided columns running down the wall and broken ends forming a honeycomb pattern, against a pale blue sky. — The Symphony of Stones Hossein Barkhordari

Fountain of glowing orange lava spraying red-hot fragments into a pale sky above the dark grey rocky rim of a volcanic vent. — Fagradalsfjall eruption2021 - Iceland Jan Oliver Eisermann

Cliff of grey hexagonal basalt columns, curved and fanning in different directions, rising above a black beach where a small person stands at the base for scale. — Basalt colums at Reynisfjara Sarah Weick

Aerial view of a tall white waterfall plunging over a curved cliff of brown rock into a deep gorge, surrounded by dense green forest. — Cascata do Caracol, Brazil Ana Laura Lordi Dias

Flat-topped green hill with steep sides and a small building on its highest point, rising behind a village, scattered trees and wet fields with pools under a cloudy sky. — Mesa in the basaltic Deccan Traps Namdev Telore

Close-up of a cave wall coated in glossy blobs and drips of lava in maroon, reddish-brown, orange and dark grey-green, like spilled and frozen paint. — Pyroduct lava splatter Stephan Kempe

Underwater close-up of an octopus hiding in a crevice of dark rock, its speckled skin matching the rock and only a reddish tentacle underside and one eye showing clearly. — Pyroclastoctopus: a hiding lesson Miguel Llorente

Inside a dark lava tube cave, the rubble floor crowded with pale translucent ice stalagmites and icicles hanging from the walls, with daylight from the opening at the back. — The Lava Tube Cave Raufarholshellir Osip Kokin

Dark polygonal basalt column tops forming stepping stones along a shore, holding small pools, with a pink sunburst setting behind a headland over a misty, blurred sea. — Sunset on The Giant's Causeway Osip Kokin

Bright green grassy slopes rising to a long dark cliff edge with jagged rock pinnacles beyond, under heavy grey storm clouds. — A' Chuith-Raing - A beauty of 175 Million years old Alessandro Righetti

Fur seal sitting upright on a dark rock among heaps of brown kelp, with white breaking waves, dark rocks and flying seabirds behind under a grey sky. — Antarctic Fur Seal and columnar basalt Etienne Pauthenet

Aerial view of a dark rocky headland of polygonal basalt jointed like paving stones, with two arches through which white surf foams in a turquoise sea. — Volcanic island pavement Lavinia Tunini

Two people stretching a measuring line across a fractured rock face streaked yellow, orange, purple and green, one with a backpack and one standing higher on loose rubble. — Shades of yellow of ambivalency Enes Zengin

Rough dark lava field in the foreground, with steaming ground and orange and ochre volcanic hills behind, under a blue sky. — Krafla lava field in Mývatn region Chiara Arrighi

Coast of stacked hexagonal basalt columns glowing golden in low sunlight while white waves crash and spray over the rocks, with dark sea and a pale sky behind. — Shining Giant's Causeway Chaosheng Zhang

Rock face made of many-sided grey basalt columns seen end-on, patched with green lichen, a tree growing out of a crack beside it under a blue sky. — In to the heart of the volcano David Tanner

Close-up of the tops of tightly packed basalt columns, mostly hexagonal, dark grey with patches of yellow lichen, some with shallow bowl-shaped hollows, stretching away like stepping stones. — Giants Causeway Bernhard Aichner

Tops of many closely packed basalt columns seen from above, mostly five- and six-sided, grey and spotted with yellow lichen and green cushions of moss. — Basalt heads David Tanner

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