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Elongated blue-grey rock specimen with wavy pale green streaks and scattered dark red garnet crystals, on a black background with a 5 cm scale bar. — Blue schist from the Isle of Groix Sophie Graul

Pale green rock specimen packed with long, dark, needle-like crystals in random orientations, on a black background with a 1 cm scale bar. — Blue schist sample from the Isle of Groix with ferroglaucophane Sophie Graul

Rock specimen made mostly of glossy dark blue-black blade-shaped crystals with pale yellow-green patches between them, on a black background with a 1 cm scale bar. — Blue schist sample from the Isle of Groix with ferroglaucophane Sophie Graul

Panorama of a calm cove of clear turquoise and deep blue water enclosed by rugged brown and grey rock headlands, with a small white motorboat moored near the left shore under a cloudless sky. — Cove in the Cap de Creus Sophie Graul

Hand specimen of schist with dark, needle-like hornblende crystals in fan-shaped sprays across a grey and silvery matrix, with pale and rust-brown patches at the edges. — Hornblende schist from Est Tyrol, Austria Sophie Graul

Heap of thin, flat, grey and brown rock plates split into sheets and standing at angles among smaller stones, with a few yellow flowers at the edge. — Weathering of sheet shale Antonio Jordán

Close-up of a banded rock face with pale grey quartz lenses wrapped by wavy dark grey and brown mica-rich layers, with a gold-coloured coin for scale. — S-C mylonite in the Calamita Schists (Island of Elba, Italy) Samuele Papeschi

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

Person holding out a lumpy blocky soil aggregate with roots dangling from it, while another person with a camera stands beside them in a sunlit forest. — Soil science students observing a blocky aggregate in the field Antonio Jordán

Close-up of a hand holding a flaky piece of weathered schist split into many thin pale brown and grey layers, above a gravel path. — Weathered schist from southern Portugal Antonio Jordán

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