Primary structures, sedimentary, magmatic rocks

A typical ligurian ophiolitic sequence

Abandoned quarry, Quarziti Fm.

Active cones on stromboli

amalgamated channels

Andalusite bearing micaschist

Angular fold train

angular unconformity

Angular unconformity

Angular unconformity

Argillaceous limestones

Argille a Palombini (Upper Cretaceous) – Chioma – Quercianella – Livorno – Italy

Badlands on Pliocene limestone (Fm. Monte Narbone, Southern Sicily)

Bagni san Filippo

Bagni san Filippo

Bagni san Filippo

Basalt clast bearing coral conglomerate

basalt dyke in granite

basalti a pillow

Besano Fm Upper Ladinian – Lower Aniasian

Beşkonak Columnar Basalt

Bhuban Mohan Behera

Bimodal magmatism

Bread-crust bombs

Brecciated Corrella Formation

Cambrian unconformity

Cambrian Unconformity

Capo Bianco aplite

Carboniferous/Triassic discontinuity at clues de Verdaches, France

Carnian clastic rocks

Caruaçu Member – Maracangalha Formation

Channel deposits in floodplain environments

Chapman Peak Unconformity

civita di bagnoregio

Clast in breccia with algae

Cleator Exhalites

COLUMNAR JOINTING IN BASALT

Complete view of the crater area

Conjugate normal faults

Contact between cherts, gabbro and gabbroic breccia, Internal Liguide Units, Northern Apennines

contact gabbro and basalt

Contact of Pont-de-Montvert pluton

Contatto fra i marmi Triassici e i calcescisti del Jurassico – Coperture del Massicio Dora Maira

Crater of Vulcano Island

Cross bedding in Triassic quartzite

Cross-bedding sandstones in Marseille basin

Cumulites, Mattarana, Italy

Cyclic igneous layering

Deformation bands in Eolian sandstone

Disharmonic folds, Marble Point

Dolerite sills in Jurassic sandstone, Taylor Valley, Antarctica

Dolomite peridital cycle

Duck Creek Formation – Fort Worth

Earthquake damage to dam

erosion-protected columns

Finero peridotite

flattened xenoliths

Fluvial Channel, Trias

Flysch Monte Cassio

Fold interference pattern

folded metasediments

Folded Ribbon Cherts

Folding in a ductile shear zone

Folds in comendites

Foliated gabbro cross cut by an amphibole rich-vein

Fossil wood in sandstone

Fratture in aplite.

Garlaban and Sainte-Baume from Ruissatel

Goodland Formation – White Settlement

Granite dykes in metamorphic rocks of Calamita schist, Elba Island

granite intrusion in Warrawoona seq

Hedenbergite Skarn

Herchenberg scoria cone

Honeycomb weathering on sandstone, Livorno

Hunstanton Cliffs

Hydrothermal Breccia

Igneous contact aplite-porphyritic granite

Km-scale leucogranite sill, Bhagirathi

La Fossa Crater

La Fossa, as seen from the INGV center

Las Cañadas collapse caldera

lava tunnel on Reunion

Layered intrusion

Leucocratic dykes cutting across migmatitic schists

Lighthouse Cap de Creus

Limestone, Piombino

Little Yosemite – Sunol Wilderness

Macigno formation, Livorno

Magmatic foliation in a granodiorite, Elba island Italy

Magmatic Jointing in Aplite

Magmatic layering in granite

Magmatic stoping (Costa Brava)

Mega K-feldspar phenocryst

Messinian Gypsum outcrop in Southern Sicily

Metagabbro of the Oman ophiolite

Meteor crater, Arizona

Mildford Sound, New Zealand

Miocene molasse

Moeraki boulders beach, New Zealand

Mont Blanc granite

Monte Prinzera Parma Italy – Ophiolitic Outcrop

Monte Sporno Flysch – Northern Appenninies – Parma – Italy

Mt. Makalu south face

Nummulitic limestone

Nummulitic limestone, Colle di tenda

Oblique stratification in Upper Jurassic limestones

Oncoids in Arc Basin

Ophiolitic Breccias

Overturned pillow lavas

Pillow Basalt at Tennessee Point

Pillow Basalt Sea Arch at Point Bonita

Pillow basalts and their sedimentary cover

Pillow Lava – Oman – Wadi Jizzi

Pillow lavas, Liguride Units, Elba Island

Pillows lavas of the Monte Viso

Piramidi di terra, Earth Pyramids, Euseigne, Switzerland

Pliocene / Quaternary limit in Northern Appennines – Parma – Italy

Polygenic conglomerate intercalated in the marine molasse (Langhian-Tortonian)

Pumphouse Wash Cross Beds

Pyroclastics and lava flows intercalation

quartz veins and mullions

quartz veins and mullions

racetrack rocks

Rainy Cove Angular Unconformity

Ranzano Formation – turbidite deposition accumulating a thick clastic complex (latest Eocene to the Late Rupelian) – Parma – Italy

Ranzano Sst and Montepiano marl

Rheomorfic folds

Ribbon channel complex

Rio de las Peñas thrust

Ripple Marks, Quarziti Fm.

Ripple marks, Scisti Verdi Fm

Ripples on bedding

River channel in floodplain at Le Tholonet, south flank of Sainte Victoire mountain

Rosignano ophiolite

Rosignano ophiolite

Rudist limestone (Senonian) in Sorrento Peninsula

Santa teresa di Gallura

Sardic Angular Unconformity

Sedimentary veins

Sheath fold in mylonite

Sierra Estrella Pegmatites

Slump folding in the Karaj Formation

Soft-sediment deformation

South Tibetan Detachment

South-verging folds (Samaria Gorge)

Spiaggia di Barbarossa-Elba

Sublimated Sulphur

Sulphur and Borates in fumaroles

Sulphur crystals

syntectonic granite sheets

The K/T boundary in the Basque coast.

The pillows lavas of the Collet Vert

The Upper Eocene-Oligocene Montepiano Marl and Ranzano Sandstone formations. Val Mozzola -Parma – Italy

Theespruit pluton

Tilted layers of Dolomia and Limestone. Photo by D. Dana

Torrente Scoltenna Sandstone

Torrente Scoltenna Sandstones – Cervarola Unit – Middle Miocene

Tortonian sedimentary cycles on Fm. Licata (Southern Sicily)

Travertine of the Huveaune source, France

Triassic conglomerate, Verrucano sequence, Monti Pisani

Turbidite deposits

Turbidite sequence, Macigno fm.

Upper Carboniferous deposits in the Aiguilles-Rouges Massif

Urban geology and Strabo Tools downtown Torino

Variscan unconformity

Verrucano, Lucca

Vredefort Shatter cones

Wadi Rahma dykes

Wadi Rahma dykes

waterfall caused by fault scarp

Welsh Basin Turbidites

West Bay, Dorset

Staurolite Porphyroblasts 2

K7T Boundary at Barrranco del Gredero,

Mount Meager 2360 BP lahar deposit