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Video of black sand with fine ripples, close to the ground, with low mounds topped by green grass and misty hills in the background. — Shifting Basaltic Sands Emma Rogers

Close-up of a single shoe print with a ridged tread pattern pressed into fine golden beach sand, with a few small shell fragments around it. — My footprint on the beach Chaimae Beddad

Tall graduated cylinder on a black laboratory bench, filled with brown cloudy liquid that is darker towards the bottom, with a wash bottle and taps behind. — Sand falls and clay waits Antonio Jordán

Clear shallow water over a sandy bottom seen from above, rippled light patterns on the sand and a wavy line where a small wave front meets the sand. — S(tr)anding – Sand, waves and sunlight Veera Haapaniemi

Aerial view of a sandy bay curving in an almost perfect semicircle around turquoise water, between two green rocky headlands, with a lagoon behind and deep blue sea to the left. — The Ω shaped Voidokilia beach Athanasios Serafeim

View out of a rocky sea cave onto a white sand beach with scattered boulders and seaweed, turquoise water and a clear blue sky framed by the rough grey cave mouth. — Bermuda Grotto at Low Tide Josue G Millan

Curving ridges of brown sand on a beach casting long dark shadows, beside a shallow blue pool, with calm sea and a blue mountain in the hazy background. — Tides at Young Sound Maria Scheel

Shallow water over sand, rippled with bright net-like patterns of sunlight, and in the middle a thin coiled sand casting curled into a heart shape. — From a lugworm with love Jenny Ullgren

Wind ripples covering a sandy plain glowing in low golden light, with paw prints in the sand in the foreground, scattered small plants and shrubs under a pale sky. — Everything is in motion Tahsin Gormus

Sandy beach with dark rocks and footprints along the waterline of a clear blue sea, with two small rocky islets and a low headland in the distance. — A walk by the seaside Asimina Voskaki

Tall, smooth, near-vertical pale rock wall streaked with grooves, rising from a sandy slope with tufts of dry grass and footprints under a clear blue sky. — The Wall in Southern Crete Asimina Voskaki

Low tide beach of wet sand with grey clay and silt exposed in rows of small scalloped cusps and ridges, with a few seabirds standing near the water's edge. — Mud cusps at Cap Blanc-Nez Franziska Staudt

Lone person in red walking along the crest of a vast field of smooth pale sand dunes, casting a long shadow across the curving ridges. — Sand dunes of Death Valley Ioannis Daglis

Smooth curving sandstone walls of a narrow slot canyon, finely streaked with layers and glowing in pink, purple, orange and blue light from an opening above. — Colored canyon curves Nikita Churilin

Wind-sculpted sand dune lit golden by low sun in the foreground, a field of large dunes behind and dark mountains with a snowy peak under storm clouds. — Great Sand Dunes Sunset John Counts

Overhead view of a sandy orange surface with pale branching channels and darker patches, a single dark stone casting a shadow, leaving the scale unclear. — Rivers in the sand of time Thomas Dowling

Low sand dune cut back into a steep vertical face, with grass and plant roots hanging over the edge, above a flat sandy beach under a blue sky. — Sand dune eroded by the sea Antonio Jordán

Close-up of grey sandy soil covered in many small round craters with raised rims, like a pockmarked surface, with a few pine needles lying on it. — Dripping dime size drops Antonio Jordán

Mini-disk infiltrometer, a clear graduated tube with a black base, standing upright on pale sandy soil among sparse dry shrubs and lichens. — Analyzing soil water repellency with the mini-disk infiltrometer Antonio Jordán

Diagram of a soil texture triangle in Spanish, coloured fields for clay, silt and sand classes, with yellow dashed lines showing how to read off a sample at 50 percent clay. — Soil texture triangle (in Spanish) Antonio Jordán

Low view along the foot of a sand dune topped with marram grass, its face a pale crust of hardened sand eroded into ridges and hollows, with a green hill under a blue sky behind. — Dune at the interplay of erosion and stabilization Janina Bösken

Sand dune slope, shown turned on its side, with wavy dark bands of grains running in parallel lines along the pale sand towards a sharp crest, a dark plain and a rocky ridge under blue sky. — Magical pattern in the sand Petr Kolinsky

Close-up of a beach made of countless small, almost perfectly round beads in cream, beige and orange, with a few white and red coral fragments scattered among them. — Perfect carving at the beach Petr Kolinsky

Silhouettes of people riding two-humped camels and a person walking alongside on a dark dune, dwarfed by vast pale grey mountain slopes and snowy peaks behind. — Tremendous scenery on a grand scale of Nubra valley Tomas Laburda

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