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Aerial view of a deep, barren brown canyon in arid hills, with tilted and folded rock layers in its dark slopes and a pale dry riverbed winding below, under a cloudy sky. — Folded Early Cretaceous rocks in the Andean forearc Ambrosio Vega Ruiz

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

River in a gorge flowing past a grey cliff of quartzite layers bent into tight curved folds, with green plants along the banks. — Senhora do Salto Fold Nuno Correia

Panorama of a rugged mountain with a light dusting of snow, its grey rock layers bent into large tight folds and arches across the face, lit warm orange by a low sun under a pale sky. — Mega Fold, Mega Fault! Hossein Barkhordari

Rocky mountain peak with strongly folded grey limestone layers in its cliff face, above a small dark lake and a scree-covered valley under a cloudy sky. — The origin of the mountains Manuel de Paz Álvarez

Wide rock face of thin grey layers bent into a small syncline and anticline, some beds standing almost vertical, with grass and shrubs on top and a pile of grey boulders at its foot. — Syncline Anticline sinphony in Taiwan Cristina Biete

Panorama stitched from several photos of a rock outcrop with sandstone beds bent into a tight fold, tree roots and plants on top and a path in front, black gaps at the edges. — I don't know how I got pushed into it David Tanner

Slab of grey micaschist with orange-brown staining, its surface covered in very fine, closely spaced wavy ridges running top to bottom, on a white background. — Folding on the microscale David Tanner

Grey layered rock with tight curved folds and many small hollows, with an orange notebook lying on it for scale. — Small scale fold Stefano Urbani

Steep rock face of contorted grey, white and black crystalline rock with folded bands, partly covered in shrubs and small trees, below a concrete wall and a green railing. — Folded crystalline rocks - Tasmania Jennifer Ziesch

Grey rock outcrop in a forest clearing showing a broad gentle fold cut by closely spaced inclined cleavage planes, with a group of people seated in front of it. — Cleaved Fold David Tanner

Mine wall of grey and brown rock salt with dark and white streaky layers folded into a flat-lying, tightly closed fold, with a blue marker pin on the wall. — Isoclinally-folded Salt David Tanner

Scanned slab of rock with black and white stripes, flat and parallel on the left and bending up into a steep fold on the right. — Progressive Detachment Fold David Tanner

Grey and orange banded rock surface with layers curled into a closed oval loop, a pocket knife in its centre and boots at the top for scale. — Type 2 Refolded fold David Tanner

Finely banded grey, white and tan rock surface with layers folded into an oval loop and tight wavy folds, with a pair of boots at the top for scale. — Type 2 Refolded fold David Tanner

Steep mountain face of grey, brown and white rock layers bent into tight folds and curves, with scree slopes below and patches of snow along the ridge. — Folding in the Himalaya Prakasam Muthusamy

Road cutting through a thrust ramp anticline: thin buff rock layers stand vertical on the left and bend sharply over to the right, above grey scree and an asphalt road with a yellow line. — Thrust ramp anticline Derya Gürer

Dry rugged valley of tilted grey rock layers and terraced slopes, with a small red-roofed church in the middle, pine trees in front and a cloudless blue sky. — Skyward Seafloor Hannes Koopmann

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

Looking up at pale rock whose layers bend tightly round in a fold towards a blue sky with white cloud, with yellow wildflowers in the foreground. — Endless Fold Jens Rößiger

Aerial view of desert mountains where bands of tilted rock layers bend into tight curving folds, casting dark shadows across a sandy brown plain with a pale dry stream bed. — Plunge Ian Watkinson

Weathered sandstone boulders on a shore whose curved layers form arcs riddled with dark holes, set among misty smooth water in a tilted long-exposure view. — Hinges Cemetery Jose Julian Esteban

Barren pale ridge with steeply tilted rock layers rising to a sharp peak with a white cap, above a flat stony plain dotted with small shrubs under a blue sky. — Fold Mehdi Zarei

Person standing at the foot of a pale rock wall whose layers are folded into tight, sharp zigzag chevron shapes, holding a hammer. — Chevron Folds,North of Zahedan (Iran) Saeed Jabbari Boukani

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