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Black-and-white view of a two-tiered waterfall plunging down a tall granite cliff, framed by dark pine trees in the foreground. — Water and Granite: Yosemite Falls, California. Merryn Thomas

Old dry-stone dam wall built of flat grey stones with small square openings, across a narrow stream gully overgrown with shrubs and dry grass. — The Stone Ghost of the Streams. Ekaterini Koniari

Two rivers meeting in a mountain valley: clear turquoise water on the left and muddy light brown water on the right flow side by side with a sharp foamy boundary, beside a gravel bar and steep slopes. — Muk su + Qezel su => Surkhob Hossein Barkhordari

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

Two tall pale limestone sea stacks rising from calm blue-green sea, the larger one pierced by an arch, seen from a grassy cliff top beside more white cliffs. — Pigeon Rocks of Lebanon Maria Salama

Tall, flat-topped red sandstone monolith standing in a wide canyon below layered cliffs, framed by a gnarled, partly dead juniper tree on the right under a clear blue sky. — Colorado National Monument Fabien Darrouzet

Close-up of a honeybee on a sunflower head, with bright yellow petals, a spiral of brown and green florets and curling green bracts against a turquoise background. — The bee and the sunflower Asimina Voskaki

Person in a red cap walking along a yellow and orange volcanic crater rim carrying two heavy white sacks on a shoulder pole, with other people further along the dusty path. — Living in the Ring of Fire Ratri Andinisari

Close-up of a sloping sandstone face with grey and dark streaked layers and ochre-yellow crusts, with a hand wearing a watch touching it for scale. — Past river deposits. Maryam Mirzaloo

Two pairs of feet in trainers and camouflage shoes on grey layered shoreline rock, beside a large rounded block with curved, deformed laminae, next to shallow water. — Sediment deformation Maryam Mirzaloo

Huge dark cave chamber with a reddish earthen floor, moss-covered boulders and a wooden staircase walkway climbing towards the back, a rope hanging from the roof. — Niah National park/Cave Maryam Mirzaloo

Tall grey quarry face of thin rock layers folded into steep tight curves with orange stains, bushes at its base and the hats of two people in the foreground. — Complex structural geology of Thailand Maryam Mirzaloo

Sloping outcrop of rounded reddish-brown pebbles in pale sand above a dark layer of black plant fragments like matted straw, with a pen for scale. — Brunei, past river deposits Maryam Mirzaloo

Glowing orange lava with a wrinkled skin pushing out through a crack in shiny silver-grey pahoehoe lava, with thin red cracks glowing in the crust around it. — Active lava flow at Kīlauea east rift zone, Hawai'i 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

View straight up into the crown of an old oak, its dark, twisting branches spreading against a blue sky through bright green sunlit leaves. — Life branches - tree elegance and harmony Chiara Palandrani

Sheer granite dome with a flat vertical face and rounded back glowing orange in the last light, among forested mountains under a twilight sky with faint star trails. — Sunset and Moonrise at Yosemite Teamrat Ghezzehei

Black-and-white X-ray image of sea shells digitally mirrored and repeated into a symmetrical pattern, with a row of rounded shell shapes across the middle like a kaleidoscope. — Artificial mirror effect on radiographic image of sea shells Dursun Acar

View from a snowy mountain ledge down over frosted forested ridges and valleys partly filled with low cloud, with a rocky crag on the left and distant snowy hills. — Explore the beauty of the Ceahlău Massif Vasilică-Dănuț Horodnic

Clusters of yellow, blue and green tents and a white dome spread over a rocky glacier with jagged ice ridges, below a steep, snow-dusted grey mountain face. — Spontaneous Temporary City Ana Maria Machedon

Misty layers of forested hills and pointed mountains under a pale grey sky with a lens-shaped cloud, autumn trees in the foreground. — Pirin horst, South-West Bulgaria Rumiana Glavcheva

Close-up of grey limestone carved into fine parallel grooves and sharp ridges radiating from shallow hollows, like a miniature mountain landscape. — The power of water drops Giuliana Rossi

Small, dry, grey-brown shrub with stiff tangled twigs sitting on flat reddish-brown silty ground scattered with small pebbles and shell fragments, seen from above. — Silt covering the soil surface and plants in Ria Formosa (S Portugal) Antonio Jordán

Person in a black top and jeans sprawled with arms and legs flung out on a slope of white lumps at the foot of a huge pale cream mound of salt under a cloudy sky. — Falling from a mountain of salt Antonio Jordán

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