Iguaza Falls, On The Border Of Argentina And Brazil, Is One Of The Widest Waterfalls On Earth.

I legit cannot wait to go do amethyst hunting in GA again! What a blast. Take a look at the dark purple in this one. 😍💎⛏😁👍

paleocris

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it is starting to bloom outside!!! smell like earth and worms!! the grass is tall and awake!!! flowers are here and scattered everywhere!!! it’s raining and humid and fresh!!! i know i say this every other day!!! i love!!! spring!!!

Rime-rimmed rocks

Looking a bit like white moss, these cairn stones on Mountbenger Law in Scotland (at an elevation of 543 m) are covered in a special type of ice known as rime.

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Peering back in time over 420 million years ago into the Silurian Period when the first land plants emerged. Pictured in the foreground are Baragwanathia and Zosterophyllum with their pinkish coloured sporangia for dispersing spores. More to come soon from this project with biologist and fellow fossil plant enthusiast Ken Kwak.

Coyote Buttes South 1, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, AZ

the great bear rainforest in british columbia is one of the largest coastal temperate rain forests in the world, with twenty five thousand square miles of mist shrouded fjords and densely forested islands that are home to white furred black bears.

neither albino nor polar bear, these rare black bears (there are fewer than five hundred) are known as kermode bears, or what the gitga’at first nation call mooksgm’ol, the spirit bear — a word they did not speak to european fur traders lest the bears be discovered and hunted. to this day, it remains taboo to hunt a spirit bear, or to mention them to outsiders.

the white fur in these bears is triggered by a recessive mutation of the same gene associated with red hair and fair skin in humans. though it remains unclear as to how the trait arose (or disappeared), it is especially pronounced on certain islands.

photos by (click pic) paul nicklen x, fabrice simon, denis binda, kyle breckenridge, and paul burwell

Smoky quartz with the inclusion of hydrocarbons ( oil and bitumen ) Alatau Ridge, Republic Of Bashkortostan, Ural, Russia Photo: Pakhneva Ekaterina