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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

Edge of a horseshoe-shaped waterfall on a grey day, dark green water curving over the brink and disappearing into a thick wall of mist on the left. — A view to a waterfall... Asimina Voskaki

Roadside cutting in dark grey layered rock folded and tilted to near vertical, above a grassy verge and a two-lane road, with houses and pine trees on top. — Fold & Thrusted Kootney Formation, Canmore, Alberta Brant Gaetz

Dark grey ropy lava field with a collapsed hollow opening into a small cave, tufts of dry pale grass between the rocks and hazy mountains in the background. — Cape Verde near the CVAO Observatory Rolf Sander

Rainbow arching over a grey sea beside a sandy beach with breaking waves, a green wooded headland and a band of rain, shown turned on its side. — A Pot of Gold in Wave Energy Matt Lewis

Person bending over with a pickaxe on rust-red mounds of glacial debris dotted with small ponds, with two more people in the distance and a layered grey mountain under cloud reflected in a fjord behind. — Digging out the story of a glacier Monika Mendelova

Sun breaking through dark clouds over a sea with long white breakers, its light reflected on wet sand where a thin line of foam curves along the beach. — Point Reyes National Seashore Rolf Sander

Broad calm river flowing between autumn-tinged trees and a pebbly bank in a mountain valley under a clear blue sky, with several people standing in the shallow water fishing. — Portrait of the Valtellina Giuseppe Esposito

Close-up of a skarn rock with fans of radiating golden-green hedenbergite crystals intergrown with black ilvaite and patches of pinkish mineral, a 20 cent euro coin for scale. — Hedenbergite - Ilvaite skarn, Calamita, Island of Elba Samuele Papeschi

Close-up of a wet, bright orange deposit covered in a network of fine wavy ridges like small terraces, between dark brown and black glistening rock. — Weathering "terraces" Samuele Papeschi

Close-up of a single small barnacle with pale, star-shaped plates sitting on the ribbed, green-dusted surface of a clam shell. — Marooned barnacle in Aberlady Bay Guillaume Goodwin

Hand holding a clear, glassy chunk of glacier ice with trapped bubbles and specks of grit, in front of people in outdoor jackets on a dark rocky shore. — Icelandic glacier ice melting in our hands Manuel Queisser

Close-up of a single rounded water drop sitting on top of dry brown soil, among small clods, rootlets and a bit of charred wood. — The static water droplet Giuseppe Esposito

Two teal cylindrical instruments full of glass tubes and red valves on a metal rack above a rocky shore, with the sun setting behind mountains over the sea. — Mist chamber measurements at São Vicente Rolf Sander

Feet in brown shoes resting on a metal lattice tower high above the ground, looking straight down the mast at cables, a small cluster of buildings, cars and dirt roads. — Boulder Atmospheric Observatory tower, Colorado, USA Rolf Sander

Dark layered sea cliffs on both sides of a narrow inlet where turquoise and white foaming waves surge around a rock stack, with pink sea thrift on the grassy clifftops. — Wild Atlantic Dagmar Henner

Steep green-topped headland with folded, layered rock cliffs in brown and pink, seen from a boat whose white wake churns in the foreground, with a gull in the blue sky. — Cliff in Kerry Dagmar Henner

Close-up of a bright orange mineral crust of rounded lumpy terraces, with clusters of small spiky white and grey crystals growing on it. — Active mineralisation Katja Laute

Large open-pit marble quarry: a stepped white rock face streaked with dark stains, with cut blocks, a yellow crane, a small cabin and muddy puddles on the quarry floor below a grassy hill. — Marble mines Fuad Rahimov

Granite peaks rising out of a sea of white clouds in soft golden light, with people standing at a railing on top of a sheer cliff on the right and pine trees clinging to rocks. — Sea of clouds on the top of Mount Huang Haifeng Zhuo

Shore of pale grey mud broken into a network of polygonal cracks, leading to a calm, silvery lake with a low green shoreline on the far side. — Larnaca Salt Lake Rolf Sander

Aerial view through an aircraft window of brown mountains carved by countless branching valleys of many sizes, the lower slopes dusted white with snow, and a town on the plain beyond. — Scales of fluvial dissection Katja Laute

Steaming hot pool with green water edged by a bright orange rim and a white mineral crust, beside a second orange and yellow pool, with forested hills under a cloudy sky. — Hot colours Katja Laute

Close-up of a desert rose: thin, blade-like gypsum crystals in shades of orange and brown, stacked and overlapping like petals, glinting in the light. — Close-up of a desert rose Katja Laute

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