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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

Rounded mountains streaked in brown, rust, cream and pale green, with patches of snow in the gullies, behind a field of black lava blocks and a yellow gravel plain under a grey sky. — Landmannalaugar painted mountains Francesco Ioli

Near-infrared view of a towering dark grey ash column rising from a volcano with a small orange glow at its base, above flanks of silvery-white vegetation and dark lava flows. — Cloudy ash eruption at Mt. Etna Jonas Kuhn

Near-infrared view of a volcano with a small pink glow of lava at its summit, giving off white plumes of gas that drift across a dark sky. — Explosive activity at Mt. Etna Jonas Kuhn

Lava fountain of bright red molten rock spraying from a small volcanic cone, with a white plume rising into a blue sky and a glowing lava flow running across a black lava field. — Connection to the deep crust Alberto Caracciolo

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

Close-up of a jagged, spiky pinnacle of dark grey rough lava, with a blurred hilly volcanic landscape and pale sky behind. — Walking on uneven ground: in the middle of a lava flow, Valle del Bove, Etna Anne Sturm

Mountains streaked with snow and bands of ochre, tan and dark grey rock, with black jagged lava outcrops in the middle ground and a slope of reddish-brown gravel in front. — The icing on a lava island Adam Ciesielski

View over a dark volcanic landscape of black scoria and cinder cones patched with bright green moss, with a lake and distant hills under grey cloud and rough mossy rocks in the foreground. — From Fires to peaceful landscape Szabolcs Harangi

Weathered pahoehoe lava: a brown and dark grey rock surface folded into broad curved ropy ridges, with rougher lava blocks behind. — Weathered pāhoehoe lava, Pico del Teide, Tenerife Michael Grund

Large boulders of obsidian streaked with glossy black, grey and rusty orange bands, beside a bright green shrub, a fig tree and a dry stone wall under a hazy sky. — Obsidian rocks, Lipari, Aeolian Islands Michael Grund

Close-up of silvery grey pahoehoe lava whose surface is folded into many curving rope-like wrinkles and coils. — Ropy pāhoehoe lava at Kīlauea east rift zone, Hawai'i Michael Grund

Video of a dark grey slope of loose volcanic ash and rubble seen from close above, with a wisp of white gas at the top left corner. — Getting up close with Pacaya Kieran Wood

Volcano glowing at night, with streams of orange lava running down the cone, glowing fragments shooting up in streaks and a reddish plume drifting left under a starry sky. — Fire on Volcán de Fuego Kieran Wood

Glowing orange arcs of lava fragments thrown high into the night from two vents in a volcanic crater, falling back as fountains of sparks against a dark purple sky. — Double strombolian explosions at Mt. Yasur volcano, Vanuatu (2011) Jean-Guillaume Feignon

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

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

Metal walkways and stairs on stilts leading over and down into the deep, dark opening of a lava tube in black rugged rock, with a blue sea in the distance. — Entering the Earth through a volcano Tamas Miklovicz

Broad green valley with steep sides and a two-tiered waterfall falling into a dark, stony river that winds across the flat floor, under a partly cloudy sky. — Islandic valley created during a volcanic eruption Manuel Queisser

Rock face of pillow lava: rounded, bulbous pale green and grey lobes packed together between darker smooth rock, above a pebbly beach. — Pillow lava Jana Eichel

Dark ropy pahoehoe lava with folded rope-like surface in front, a small sign reading Lave cordée, and a person in pink walking across the lava field below a volcano. — Piton de la Fournaise Ekrem Canli

Volcano cone at night with a glowing red summit and a long orange streak of glowing rock running down one flank, a plume of ash drifting sideways and city lights in the plain below. — The glow of Colima, Mexico Sara Hoffritz

Panorama of a grey lava field strewn with dark blocks, with tall orange fountains of lava spraying from a vent on the left and a smaller glowing vent on the right under a hazy sky. — Holuhraun fissure eruption, September 2014 Robert Askew

Glowing red and orange arcs of lava fragments fountaining out of a dark volcanic crater at dusk, under a cloudy sky. — Nature's fireworks Derya Gürer

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