Ruby Beach in Olympic fascinates with its impressive sea stacks and sand patterns in the back light of the sunset. The Pacific coastline in Washington is a tectonically very active region and is repeatedly struck by severe earthquakes and tsunamis.
Ruby Beach on the coastline of Olympic in Washington is famous for its impressive sea stacks and tree-topped offshore islands. In the wake of a low-pressure system moving in from the Pacific Ocean, the sunsets can be impressive.
Fairy Falls of Wahkeena Creek in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon cascades over mossy basalt, lined with maidenhair ferns concealing the cataclysmic geological events of this landscape.
The living rocks in the Hamelin Pool lagoon of Shark Bay in Western Australia convey a vivid impression of how Earth may have looked like at the beginning of life 3500 million years ago. The black structures in the water are living rocks, called stromatolites. They...
The Marra Mamba banded iron ore of Karijini’s Hamersley Range in northwest Australia is an archaic natural artwork, created by the first microorganisms that inhibited the early Earth. About 2500 million years ago, the shallow seas off the coasts of the Pilbara...
