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A core component of the natural world is the geology, in the rocks and the landforms that have been created by their erosion. The plants that cover so much of the world's land areas, ant the myriad animals that inhabit each environment, form the wonderful world of nature, but the backdrops to all of them are the landscapes that are the world of geology.So many of the world's great natural attractions â the sites, the sights, the national parks, the wow places that folk travel to see â are features of their geology, with landforms that range from awe-inspiring to simply beautiful. And then there are so many more terrains and landscapes that have great stories to tell.Travelling the world, always armed with a camera, led to the author compiling a substantial collection of photographs, many of which reflected his own interests in their geological theme. This has grown into a worldwide overview of just a fraction of the magnificent sights, both natural and influenced by mankind, that make the geological world so totally fascinating and frequently so beautiful.Within these pages, the photographs and their short, accompanying texts offer just a taste of the visual delights within the world of geology. They constitute a grand tour across the surface of our planet, taking in as many as possible of our most spectacular and most fascinating sites. The whole book is perhaps best viewed as a glorious journey of discovery.
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- 1: Granite laccolith at Torres del Paine
- 2: Perito Moreno Glacier
- 3: Dinosaur tracks
- 4: Cerro Rico at Potosi
- 5: Debris avalanche at Parinacota
- 6: Chuquicamata copper mine
- 7: Gruta do JanelĂŁo
- 8: Trinidad Asphalt Lake
- 9: Panama Canal
- 10: Banded amber
- 11: Subsidence in Mexico City
- 12: The Copper Canyon ignimbrites
- 13: Lava stalagmites in Apua Cave
- 14: How close can you get to a lava flow?
- 15: Gypsum chandeliers in Lechuguilla Cave
- 16: Monument Valley
- 17: Rainbow Bridge
- 18: Antelope Canyon
- 19: Angels Landing, Zion Canyon
- 20: Dead Horse Point
- 21: Crystal Geyser
- 22: Exfoliation on Half Dome
- 23: The Crazy Horse carving in granite
- 24: Niagara Falls
- 25: Morning Glory, Fading Glory
- 26: Underneath an icefield
- 27: Mendenhall Glacier
- 28: Mendenhall glacier cave
- 29: Novarupta
- 30: Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes
- 31: Gilkey Glacier
- 32: Moraines of the Meade Glacier
- 33: Stone polygons
- 34: Pipeline over the permafrost
- 35: Gold at the end of the rainbow
- 36: Permafrost at Tuktoyaktuk
- 37: Icebergs of Ilulissat
- 38: Plate divergence at Myvatn
- 39: Strokkur
- 40: The icebergs of Jökulsårlón
- 41: Cutting peat in Mayo
- 42: Cliffs of the Aran Islands
- 43: Old Man of Hoy
- 44: Thornton Force
- 45: Pippikin Pot
- 46: Malham Cove
- 47: Idol Rock at Brimham Rocks
- 48: The Mam Tor landslide
- 49: Peak Cavern
- 50: Landslide at Ainthorpe
- 51: Coastal erosion on Holderness
- 52: Dudley limestone mine
- 53: Rock blasting at Cheddar Gorge
- 54: Folds of Millook Haven
- 55: Preikestolen
- 56: Geirangerfjord
- 57: Alluvial fan on Spitsbergen
- 58: Gasterntal
- 59: Landslide at Vaiont
- 60: The sinking of Venice
- 61: Modro Jezero sinkhole
- 62: Fire fountain at Mount Etna
- 63: Emerging lava on Etna
- 64: Strombolian eruption
- 65: El Chorro Gorge
- 66: Gibeon iron meteorites
- 67: The Big Hole
- 68: Sof Omar Cave
- 69: Lava lake in Erta Ale
- 70: Socotra coast
- 71: The White Desert of Farafra
- 72: Travertine cascades at Pamukkale
- 73: The towers of Zemi in Cappadocia
- 74: Sandstone colours at Petra
- 75: Sap Bani Khamis cliff village
- 76: Flash flood at Nizwa
- 77: Namakdan salt cave
- 78: Mud volcano near Baku
- 79: The Amber Room
- 80: Underground ice in Lomonosovskaya
- 81: Demise of the Aral Sea
- 82: Hunza
- 83: Caves of Ellora
- 84: Confluence on the Ganges
- 85: Mount Kailas
- 86: Gangapurna Glacier
- 87: Mount Everest
- 88: Glacier firn line in Tibet
- 90: Earthquake protection in Kamchatka
- 91: Kamchatka volcanoes
- 92: Mutnovsky caldera
- 93: Lahar damage at Toyako
- 94: Mine collapse at Moonkeuk
- 95: Huanglong travertine terraces
- 96: The tower karst of Guilin
- 97: Halong Bay
- 98: Mount Popa
- 99: The Batad rice terraces
- 100: Rock Islands of Palau
- 101: The Pinnacles of Mulu
- 102: Deer Cave
- 103: Wolfe Creek meteorite crater
- 104: Folds in Banded Ironstone
- 105: Sandstone hills of the Bungle Bungles
- 106: The Devils Marbles
- 107: The Welcome Nugget
- 108: Tongariro volcano
- 109: Pohutu Geyser
- 110: Moeraki Boulders