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Orange-brown hillside cut exposing thin pale rock layers bent into tight arching folds, with agave plants and shrubs on top under a grey sky. — Rock lines written by pressure Antonio Jordán

Close-up of vertical rock layers standing side by side like books on a shelf, alternating pale grey and brown beds of different thickness, some stepped and cracked. — Geological perspectives Maela Baldan

Steeply tilted rock layers alternating dark brown and pale grey, their eroded edges forming jagged saw-toothed ridges like stylised mountains against a pale blue sky. — Stylized “mountains” of the Basque Coast Maela Baldan

Sea cliff of tightly folded grey and ochre rock layers bending into arches, with a person in a white hat for scale on a sandy beach. — Paleozoic Folds (Portugal) Nuno Correia

Flat, light brown sandstone slab covered in fine parallel grooves running across it, cut by a few thin cracks, on a white surface above a pink ruler marked to 15 centimetres. — Whispers across the Mediterranean Sea Antonio Jordán

Jagged dark rock peaks sitting on a pale grey cliff band, with a sharp boundary between the dark upper rock and lighter rock below, above scree slopes with snow patches and green meadows. — Glarus Thrust and Tschingelhörner viewn from South Christian Heine

Silhouette of a person with a backpack photographing from a grassy clifftop as the sun sets over the sea, lighting long ribs of tilted rock layers on the shore below. — On the crest of space and time Cristina Accotto

Coastal cliff of tightly zigzag-folded pale rock layers, overlain at the top by flatter beds, with a bird flying in the deep blue sky above. — Zig-zag toward the unconformity Cristina Accotto

Dark grey rock block with thin pale and dark layers folded into tight swirls and contorted loops, a camera lens cap resting on top for scale. — Don't get your bedding in a twist David Tanner

Close-up of a dark grey rock surface with the ribbed, fan-shaped imprint of a fossil bivalve shell, a black lens cap reading Canon placed below for scale. — I bet you didn't know what hit you David Tanner

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