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Exposed rock face with grey and reddish-brown sedimentary layers. The strata are fractured and tilted at various angles, with some blocks displaced, interspersed with green moss and plants. — Falling Rocks and the Birth of Soil Antonio Jordán

A hollow in light grey, textured rock filled with reddish-brown soil and small pebbles. The surrounding rock is pitted and weathered with irregular edges. — A Small Place Where Soil Begins Antonio Jordán

Large, rounded grey boulders with rough, weathered surfaces and patches of green moss. They are clustered together in a natural landscape with green trees under a pale sky. — A Landscape Written in Quartz and Rain Antonio Jordán

Close-up of dark grey, layered rock with diagonal fractures. Patches of bright green and yellowish-green moss grow along the crevices and surfaces. — The Green Side of the Stone Antonio Jordán

Close-up of beige and grey sedimentary rock with a coarse, fossiliferous texture. Several deep, circular holes of varying sizes are eroded into the surface. — Once Upon a Time Beneath the Water Antonio Jordán

Dark grey, fractured rock face with prominent horizontal bedding and vertical joints. Small patches of bright green moss grow in the crevices. — Another brick off the wall Antonio Jordán

Large fractured limestone blocks at Cerro del Hierro, Seville, surrounded by reddish soil and sparse vegetation. The central rock shows several cracks and weathered surfaces. — The Unseen Work of Weathering Antonio Jordán

A small fern, Ceterach officinarum, growing along a narrow crack between two weathered rock surfaces. Its green fronds emerge from the fissure, surrounded by patches of lichen on the dark rock. — A Foothold in the Rock Antonio Jordán

Tall grey limestone pinnacles with fluted surfaces rising from bright red clay soil, topped by green shrubs and small trees under a cloudy sky. — Born to be red (How do Mediterranean red clayey soils form?) Antonio Jordán

Person with a backpack standing on a red earth path between two tall, narrow grey limestone pillars, with trees and a cloudy sky behind. — Blood and stone giants Antonio Jordán

Close-up of a soil face of crumbly brown earth with pale greenish grey fragments of weathered rock, with a pale blue lighter for scale. — (Weathered) rock the casbah Antonio Jordán

Grey limestone surface with a deep, dark hole, its sharp edges grooved by narrow parallel channels and pitted with small hollows, lit by bright sun. — Hole in a (limestone) wall Antonio Jordán

Close-up of a pinkish granite wall patched with pale grey and white lichens, tufts of moss and a few small round green leaves. — Lichens, bryophytes and vascular plants on a granite wall Antonio Jordán

Natural rock arch of pale limestone standing in a calm turquoise sea, its top covered in grass, beside a larger grassy rock headland on the right under a soft pink and grey sky. — Withstanding the Natural Forces Luis Samaniego

Three round patches of yellow lichen on a dark weathered stone ledge, edged with green moss and small plants, in front of a blurred wall and railings. — Lichens on the gate of an old school Antonio Jordán

Close-up of a pale grey limestone surface densely covered with patches of leafy, crinkled orange-yellow lichen. — Lichen on limestone at the Gibraltar Rock Nature Reserve Antonio Jordán

Close-up of a single round patch of crinkled orange lichen with a few bare gaps, on pale grey limestone flecked with darker lichen spots. — Lichen on limestone at the Gibraltar Rock Nature Reserve Antonio Jordán

Rounded boulder half buried in brown soil, its outer shell peeling away in thin curved layers like onion skin around a pale grey core. — Onion skin weathering by thermal stress Antonio Jordán

Close-up of a weathered rock surface in cream, olive green and rusty orange, crazed by a fine grid of cracks into small blocks, with a dark edge on one side. — Weathered peridotite (Cádiz, SW Spain) Antonio Jordán

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

View from inside a sandstone sea cave looking up through a wide opening in the roof to a bright blue sky, the rough rock lit golden at the edges. — Looking through the window in the roof Antonio Jordán

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

Close-up of a weathered grey rock surface split into many small blocks by a network of cracks, with tufts of green and red grass growing out of the cracks. — Weathering of Rock - Soil Formation Alwyn Biju

Outcrop of pale siliceous sandstone: large cracked boulders above a wall of blocky, lichen-spotted beds, with green shrubs and dry grass in front under a white sky. — Outcrop of siliceous sandstone Antonio Jordán

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