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Folded Layers

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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

Looking up a pale, banded rock cliff at a smooth, cone-shaped column of streaked grey and tan rock tapering upwards between rough grey blocks, under a blue sky. — Example of a "twisted" fold from the Cap de Creus, Spain. Sophie Graul

Group of people on a rocky wave-cut platform below a cliff where steeply folded grey layers are capped by flat-lying red sandstone, under a blue sky. — Telheiro Beach Variscan Unconformity (Geology) 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

Pyramid-shaped mountain peak lit pink by the low sun, its flank showing rock layers bent into a tight arch picked out by snow, against a pink sky. — Alpenglow on Elliot Peak Stephen Paul Michalchuk

Panorama of snow-covered peaks lit gold by the rising sun, with tilted and folded rock layers on their faces, above a dark forested valley and an icy river. — Sunrise in the Canadian Rockies Stephen Paul Michalchuk

Person in a blue jacket and helmet standing at the foot of a towering rock wall of tightly folded grey, white and brown gneiss bands that swirl and curve. — Folded gneiss in Norway Simon Fuhrmann

Tightly folded layers of grey and rusty brown limestone bent into a sharp V shape like a chevron, cracked into blocks, with small tufts of grass growing in the joints. — I bend so I don't break Giuliana Rossi

Rock face of thin layered beds in tan, grey and bluish tones bent into a deep V-shaped downfold, a syncline, with bare soil at the top and flowering plants at the bottom. — Nudilithic Leptosol showing a syncline Antonio Jordán

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

Steep gorge wall of thin, tightly stacked grey rock layers tilted almost vertical and curving across the face, with tufts of grass, small trees and a leafy slope at the side. — Layered Rocks of the Préalpes Fabio Crameri

Stream rushing as a white blur over rounded pebbles into a clear green pool at the foot of a curving wall of steeply tilted, thinly layered grey rock. — Flowing Erosion of the Préalpes Fabio Crameri

Narrow gorge with steep layered rock walls covered in moss and trees, a stream cascading white between mossy boulders into green pools, and a railed footbridge high on the right. — Gorgeous Gorge of the Préalpes Fabio Crameri

Close-up of tightly folded and crumpled thin rock layers in reddish brown and pink tones, with a folding pocket knife for scale. — You do the washing, I'll do the folding Antonio Jordán

Rock face of brown, finely layered metasediment where the thin layers bend in sharp angular kink-band folds, with grey pebbles along the bottom. — Angelic Kink-Band Folding David Tanner

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

Towering coastal cliff of brown and grey rock layers folded into sharp zigzag chevrons, above a grey pebble beach where a small person in a yellow coat walks. — Walk at the beach... Dirk Simon

Flat grey rock surface crossed by dark layers folded into sharp zigzags that stand out in relief, with loose stones and a patch of grass along the top edge. — Rock folded by a glacier (Lahka national park) Ivana Richterova

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

Mine wall of orange-banded rock salt enclosing a folded grey anhydrite layer broken into blocks, with white salt filling the gaps, and a person in a red helmet and white overalls holding a ruler. — Folded and Boudinaged Anhydrite Layer 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

Aerial view of arid ridged terrain where a long curving band of tilted rock layers forms a spine-like ridge, partly veiled by a streak of white cloud, in low warm sunlight. — Dragon Spine Laura Kerber

Rock face of dark grey and brown layers bent into tight, crumpled folds and arches, with white veins running through the broken blocks. — Fold Stephanie Zihms

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