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  • Australian Aboriginal rock art on a rock in Kakadu National Park.
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  • Ugandan men use a fire setting system for breaking rock in the Kireka area just outside Kampala.  Most all of these folks are from Gulu in the north. Insecurity with the LRA made them move south and accept jobs that are basically breaking rocks so gravel can be used in construction materials.
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  • A Ugandan man uses a fire setting system for breaking rock.
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  • Ugandan men use a fire setting system for breaking rock.
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  • A Ugandan child watches a fire setting system for breaking rock.
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  • The village of Perce in the shadow of Perce Rock.
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  • A climber hops from boulder to boulder on petrified dunes at Nevada's Red Rock Canyon near Las Vegas, one of Bureau of Land Managment's most visited sites. The world-famous for its climbing where a million people chose the canyon's solitude over the slots every year.
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  • Morning sunlight fills the canyons and rock formations created by erosion as the surrounding Colorado River sliced through the Colorado Plateau near Moab, Utah. Canyonlands National Park’s stunning vistas in Island in the Sky, are red rock Wingate sandstone <br />
cliffs and spires.
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  • Castleton Rock is a 400-foot Wingate Sandstone tower standing on a 1,000 foot Moenkopi-Chinle cone above the northeastern border of Castle Valley, Utah. It is a world-renown desert rock formation that has numerous climbing routes and is located outside of Moab.
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  • A petroglyph of a horned animal carved onto a rock face. Significant late prehistoric archeological sites in the desert Southwest are preserved in Agua Fria National Monument that measures 71,100-acres in Arizona.
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  • Aerial view of Pilot Rock at twilight. The iconic rock face is a plug of volcanic basalt that juts 400 feet above Cascade–Siskiyou National Monument in a crossroads of mountain ranges, geological eras and habitats. The 65,000-acre monument is at the junction of the Oregon and Cascades and Siskiyou Mountains with Mt. Shasta on the left rising in the far distance across the state line in California.
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  • Delicate rock formations shaped by wind erosion overlook the Grand Canyon. The Navajo sandstone layer formed 190 million years ago in the early Jurassic period. Southern Utah was much closer to the equator and giant, wind-whipped sand dunes dominated the landscape. Polar ice caps melted and the climate changed forming an inland sea that covered the Southwest. Water seeped down into the sand, carrying minerals with a mineral composition of iron, calcium carbonate, and manganese which gave the rock warm colors.
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  • Contractors and BLM horse specialists plan a wild horse roundup because of a lawsuit by The Rock Springs Grazing Association.
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  • Trucks hauling waste rock at Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine.
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  • Drivers using cell phones in a parking lot of a scenic stop in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. The 13-mile drive through ancient sand dunes is a protected area near Las Vegas under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management and Southern Nevada Conservancy.
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  • Erosion-chiseled rock formations formed by volcanic eruption.
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  • A silhouetted child runs on a rock studded beach at sunset.
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  • Dawn over the Buttes of the Cross and their shadows on rock cliffs.
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  • Aboriginal pictographs on rock. "Lightning man" at upper right.
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  • Starfish clustered on a rock at low tide.
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  • A group of snails clustered around a seaweed covered rock.
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  • A waterfall cascading down a moss-covered rock face.
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  • Silhouetted trees on a shoreline dotted with rock formations.
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  • A truck dumps rock over the edge of a cliff creating a valley fill at a mountain top removal coal mine.
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  • Rock is dumped down a ridge into a valley at a mountain top coal mining site. Explosives are used to blow up the top of a mountain, and debris is hauled away in order to obtain a small seam of coal. 1000 miles of Appalachian stream beds have been filled in.
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  • Evening shadows climb sunlit rock formations created by erosion as the surrounding Colorado River sliced through the Colorado Plateau near Moab, Utah.
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  • Sandstone rock formation glows in dramatic,  warm orange colors under a dark stormy sky and surrounded by dark shadows in the canyons near sunset outside of Moab, Utah.
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  • Trucks hauling waste rock are monitored at a copper and gold mine.
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  • Trucks hauling waste rock at Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine.
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  • Trucks hauling waste rock at Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine.
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  • Trucks hauling waste rock at Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine.
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  • Trucks hauling waste rock at Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine.
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  • Twilight view of silhouetted rock formations near Kakadu.
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  • Horseback riders and a collie on the rock strewn beach .
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  • Close view of a river sliding over boulders in its bed.  Three autumn leaves ha ve collected on one rock.
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  • Freewheeling four-wheelers trek across Coral Pink Sand Dunes of southwestern Utah. Part state park, part Bureau of Land Management wilderness quality land, the dunes are both playground and battleground. ATV riders fight for wide-open access: environmentalists for rare plant and animal species. <br />
The orange/pink color is from the Navajo sandstone layer formed 190 million years ago in the early Jurassic period. High winds pass through the region whipping sand into piles and water seeped down into the sand, carrying minerals with a mineral composition of iron, calcium carbonate, and manganese which gave the rock warm hues.
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  • A freewheeling four-wheeler flies over the Coral Pink Sand Dunes of southwestern Utah. Part state park, part Bureau of Land Management wilderness quality land, the dunes are both playground and battleground. ATV riders fight for wide-open access: environmentalists for rare plant and animal species. <br />
The color is from the Navajo sandstone layer formed 190 million years ago in the early Jurassic period. High winds pass through the region whipping sand into piles and water seeped down into the sand, carrying minerals with a mineral composition of iron, calcium carbonate, and manganese which gave the rock warm colors.
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  • This is the Kireka area just outside Kampala, Uganda.  Most all of these laborers are from Gulu in the north... insecurity with LRA made them move south and accept jobs that are basically breaking rocks so the gravel can be used for construction materials.  The mothers in these families make about 50 cents a day breaking the rocks their husbands haul out of the quarries.
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  • Glaciers hug the granite rocks in the Stikine-LeConte Wilderness near Devils Thumb. Although melting, the Stikine Icecap covers almost 3,000 square miles with many hanging glaciers along the Coastal Mountains in Southeast Alaska.
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  • Subtle green and orange hues of lichen cover rocks in a sea of sage brush on Bureau of Land Management land near Medicine Lodge Valley in southern Idaho. The greater sage grouse that thrives in this dry habitat is in sharp decline.
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  • An ancient Moai statue stands silently under the stars and night sky on Easter Island, the most remote inhabited island in the world. <br />
Monolithic figures were carved by the Rapa Nui people between approximately 1250 and 1700 A.D.. Many of the more than 900 statues are still at a quarry and some are lie along the roads. But hundreds of the 33 foot high moai weighing more than 80 tons  of volcanic tuff were transported and set on stone platforms around the island's perimeter. <br />
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It is believed that the statues may have "walked" to their destinations by workers using ropes to rock them side to side although some archaeologists disagree thinking they may have been rolled on logs although the island is now treeless.<br />
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The nearest population center is Chile (2300 miles) and the nearest Polynesian center in the opposite direction is Tahiti (2600 miles). Easter Island, (Rapa Nui, Isla de Pascua) is famous for Moai, tall statues carved out of rock that stand guard
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  • A petroglyph of a face at Ahu Tongariki. Often overlooked because of the more visible moai statues on Easter Island, rock art petroglyphs are more sophisticated and unique in design.
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  • Ahu Akahanga – This small Moai in the blue light of late evening shows the early style for crafting Moais – he has really big eyes – shorter proportions - and it may have been associated with the Ahu behind it at this place over the ocean.  This area on the south coast had a higher population density and had more Moai.  The early statues were more variable in form… later they started to look more alike.<br />
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Easter Island is the most remote inhabited island in the world.  The nearest population center is Chile (2300 miles) and the nearest Polynesian center in the opposite direction is Tahiti (2600 miles).  Easter Island, (Rapa Nui, Isla de Pascua) is famous for Moai everywhere along the coast toppled on their Ahu’s and littered abandoned in the center along the Moai roads used to transport them.  Polynesians had a knack for colonizing even the most inhospitable oceanic rock.  They were adept sailors, explorers, colonizers and their experience taught them the best way to escape war or famine was to sail east, to windward in search of new islands.  There is no evidence that a 2nd group reached the island in early history as Heyerdall alledges – in fact it points to the opposite.  Easter Island had military rule until 1965 and had cashless societies of fishing and farming that have since been broken apart by independence and a dependence on tourism.  Rapanui incest laws are strict with everybody tracing roots to 30 or so couples who survived 19th century Peruvian slave raiding and epidemics.
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  • In Kireka, women break rocks to be used in construction materials.
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  • Aerial photograph showing the city with roads built in the Black Rock Desert for Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival. The vast playa is a salt flat or dry lake bed on one of Earth's flattest spots. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience  in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation area.
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  • Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation area attracts costumed artists. A bicyclist pulls red wagons wheeling along the Black Rock Desert, a vast playa, a salt flat or dry lake bed on one of Earth's flattest spots. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience.
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  • A tent city is erected for thousands of people at Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival in the Black Rock Desert. They create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience on one of Earth's flattest spots.
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  • Fire and glowing smoke are part of the festivities at Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation area. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience in the Black Rock Desert on one of Earth's flattest spots.
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  • Costumed stilts carefully plod toward festivities of Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada's National Conservation area. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience on one of Earth's flattest spots.
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  • Fire and glowing smoke are part of the festivities at Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation area. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience in the Black Rock Desert on one of Earth's flattest spots.
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  • Costumed and on stilts, an artist joins the festivities of Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival in the Black Rock Desert. A unique mobilized vehicle is part of the art. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience in Nevada's National Conservation area, one of Earth's flattest spots.
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  • A neon statue of Burning Man is steadied above the costumed crowd that gathered for the annual weeklong festival in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada's National Conservation area.  Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience on a dry lake bed on one of Earth's flattest spots.
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  • Petroglyph Beach is a State Historic Site with a collection of petroglyphs carved by Tlingit Native Alaskans. At low tide, the site reveals a series of 40 different rock sketches overlooking the Stikine River and Zimovia Straits.
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  • Man on an off-road vehicle drives home after stones and debris turned the flooded road into rubble during a summer rain. Small streambeds are dumped with the excess rock and dirt that the length of the Ohio River is filled in. The result is a threat to clean water and the biodiversity of the ecosystem. Flash flooding occurs where it never has before.<br />
Like a cancerous mutation of strip mining, entire mountaintops are blasted away to obtain a small seam of coal. Unwanted rock is pushed into valleys and streams, destroying natural watersheds.
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  • Shadows and sun sets on the arid plateau and rock face creating stunning colors of the Vermillion Cliffs.  From a 3,000-foot-high escarpment to a canyon 2,500 feet deep, Arizona's Vermillion Cliffs National Monument encloses a host of geological wonders.
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  • Sunlight kisses a snow-dusted peak in the Dolomite Mountains. The mountain range in the northern Italian Alps numbers 18 peaks which rise to above 3,000 meters. The striking landscape features vertical walls, sheer cliffs and a high density of narrow, deep and long valleys. The geology is marked by steeples, pinnacles and rock walls, the site also contains glacial landforms and karst systems. The characteristic rock of the Dolomites consists of fossilised coral reefs formed during the Triassic Period (around 250 million years ago) by organisms and sedimentary matter at the bottom of the ancient tropical Tethys Ocean.
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  • Visitors at Arches National Park in Utah hike along sandstone formations as dark shadows fall across smooth red rocks. The park has over 2,000 natural stone arches and hundreds of soaring pinnacles, massive rock fins, and giant balanced rocks.
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  • A costumed artist hangs onto plastic banners that fly in the wind along the vast playa of the Black Rock Desert. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience. Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival is in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation area , a salt flat, dry lake bed on one of Earth's flattest spots.
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  • Water cascading over rocks in a woodland setting.
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  • A silver-painted but nude, tuba-playing unicyclist rides through the desert at Burning Man Festival. Balancing her sousaphone, she was like a mirage and disappeared into a crowd in the Black Rock Playa. The counter-culture celebration is held annually in Nevada and attracts thousands of costumed participants to party. Many performance artists plan unique and strange costumes that are creative and whimsical. There are no spectators, only participants.
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  • Hikers watch the setting sun and stay into twilight at Delicate Arch, one of spectacular views in Utah's Arches National Park. The park has over 2,000 natural stone arches and hundreds of soaring pinnacles, massive rock fins, and giant balanced rocks.
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  • Children gather firewood in a rock-strewn valley. Yayla culture involves go up and down the mountains looking for forage for your animals.
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  • A costumed Uncle Sam wheels along the vast playa, the Black Rock Desert, a salt flat, dry lake bed on one of Earth's flattest spots. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience. Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival is in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation area.
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  • Skiers negotiate rocks on the ski runs at Passo Di Sella in the Dolomites where the snow pack melts and annually declines because of warming temperatures. Climate change is warming mountain regions at the lower elevation.
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  • A wildflower blooms in the Black Rock Desert as California costume designer dons a neon costume and pink scarf to brave a sandstorm at Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation area. Beyond, Uncle Sam wheels along the vast playa, a salt flat or dry lake bed on one of Earth's flattest spots. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience.
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  • Rocks are smashed and washed by hand in search of gold flecks in an old mine tunnel left by Belgians.
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  • Skeletons bleach in the desert sun Chauchilla Cemetery, a burial ground dating from the late Nazca Period from A.D. 500-700. Grave robbers have looted most of the tombs in this  remote spot of southern Peru, scattering bones, garments and pottery shards across the blistering sands. Tourists pay to see some skulls that have been re-arranged. Mummies with hair, teeth and clothing sit in rock walled tomb-like graves facing east.
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  • Aerial view of TexasGulf Potash Ponds which are solar evaporation ponds used in the process of mining potash. Potash, a water-soluble potassium salt  is extracted and blue dye is added to increase the rate of evaporation. It is mainly used in fertilizer products but also in the making of soap, glass, ceramics and batteries.<br />
The mine is currently owned and operated by Intredpid Potash Inc and the ponds cover 400 acres of land surrounded by sandstone cliffs and wilderness near Moab.
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  • Aerial view of morning fog rising from the Dolomites, a mountain range in the northern Italian Alps numbering 18 peaks which rise above 3,000 meters. Jagged ridges  are made of  characteristic rock consisting of fossilized coral reefs formed during the Triassic Period (around 250 million years ago) by organisms and sedimentary matter at the bottom of the ancient tropical Tethys Ocean.
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  • Aerial view of the Dolomites dusted with snow under a setting full moon at sunrise. The mountain range in the northern Italian Alps numbers 18 peaks that rise above 3,000 meters. The striking landscape features vertical walls, sheer cliffs and a high density of narrow, deep and long valleys. The geology is marked by steeples, pinnacles and rock walls, the site also contains glacial landforms and karst systems.
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  • Sediment pond at the bottom of a valley fill that overflowed after a heavy rain at a  mountaintop removal mining site. Over 1000 miles of stream beds have been filled in with rock and debris where water flowed freely into rivers. Flooding occurs where it has not in the past, and sediment fills sources of drinking water.
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  • Bulldozers fill trucks with excess rock at a small mountaintop removal site in Man, West Virginia, where a small crew is mining coal in a site in Logan County that was left by a large coal company as rubble. Mine operator Gordon Justice said, "One man's trash is another man's treasure."<br />
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Large mining operations are only visible from the air, although coal and debris are removed using enormous earth-moving machines known as draglines that stand 22 stories tall and can hold 24 compact cars in its bucket. The machines can cost up to $100 million, but are favored by coal companies because they can do the work of hundreds of employees. A small operation like this one can keep 17 employees working for five years and making good wages.
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  • Skeletons bleach in the desert sun Chauchilla Cemetery, a burial ground dating from the late Nazca Period from A.D. 500-700. Grave robbers have looted most of the tombs in this  remote spot of southern Peru, scattering bones, garments and pottery shards across the blistering sands. Tourists pay to see some skulls that have been re-arranged. Mummies with hair, teeth and clothing sit in rock walled tomb-like graves facing east.
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  • The arid plateau north of the Grand Canyon is viewed from Navajo sandstone rocks of Coyote Buttes. From a 3,000-foot-high escarpment to a canyon 2,500 feet deep, Arizona's Vermillion Cliffs National Monument encloses a host of geological wonders.
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  • A dog runs full tilt along the coast, free and unleashed on an Oregon Beach. Storm clouds clear over Three Arch Rocks in Oceanside.
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  • Tourists walk on an outcrop in a wildlife sanctuary, Reserva Nacional de Paracas, Peru. Dunes line the most important wildlife sanctuary, Reserva Nacional de Paracas, on the Peruvian coast known for it's eroded, sculpted rocks and arches and birds and marine life.
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  • A native dancer, a tourist and a dog at Ahu Tahia in modern day Easter Island.<br />
Situated near the town of Hanga Roa, the ahu sits near a canoe ramp and was restored by an archaeologist in 1974. <br />
It is perched alone on a ceremonial platform.<br />
Tahai is thought to be among the earliest ahu structures on the island dating back to 690 AD.
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  • A petroglyph with a birdman motif that is half man and half bird and connected to cult events at the sacred site Orango.<br />
The purpose of the Birdman competition was to obtain the first egg of the season from an offshore islet, Motu Nui. Contestants descended the sheer cliffs from Orongo and swam to Motu Nui where they awaited the coming of the birds. The first to procure an egg became the winner. He presented it to his sponsor who then was declared Birdman for that year, an important status position.
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  • A single restored moai stands watch at Ahu Tongarik and serene Hanga Nui Bay.<br />
Ahu Tongariki is the largest ahu and its moais were toppled during the island's civil wars, and in the twentieth century the ahu was swept inland by a tsunami. It has since been restored and has fifteen moai, including one that weighs eighty-six tons, the heaviest ever erected on the island.
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  • Restored moai with topknots on Akakena Beach. Two of the seven moai have deteriorated that stand above a white sand beach. Archaeological value is high, however, because it was the first ancient city on the island and founded by the first king of  Rapa Nui, Ariki Jotu Matua.
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  • Restored moai stand watch at Ahu Tongariki on the east side of the volcanic island. Lined up on a platform with their backs facing the Pacific Ocean, the monolithic statues wear hats on top of their carved, minimalist human faces.<br />
Photo is shot from camera attached to a kite and triggered by remote before the use of drones.
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  • A picturesque waterfall drains into the canyon river below in this scenic shot of the landscape of Siberia's Putorana Plateau.  Eons of rain and snowmelt have etched steep canyons into the endless plateaus of the tableland of Putorana.
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  • A moai statue at Ahu Akahanga.
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  • Burning Man statue is erected  for the annual weeklong festival in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation area. Participants gather and wheel along the vast playa, a salt flat or dry lake bed on one of Earth's flattest spots. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience.
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  • A fish out of water bicycle, one of the eclectic modes of transportation at Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation area. Beyond wheels, the wind blows dust along the vast playa, a salt flat or dry lake bed on one of Earth's flattest spots. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience.
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  • Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation areaattracts many artists with eclectic costumes. Flags line the vast playa, a salt flat or dry lake bed on one of Earth's flattest spots. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience.
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  • An artist with a flaming hat rides under a glowing night sky at Burning Man, at the annual weeklong festival in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation area. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience on a salt flat or dry lake bed on one of the flattest places on Earth.
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  • An artist with a flaming hat rides by glowing Burning Man, at the annual weeklong festival in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation area. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience on a salt flat or dry lake bed on one of the flattest places on Earth.
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  • Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation area attracts costumed artists. Many wheel along the vast playa, a salt flat or dry lake bed on one of Earth's flattest spots. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience.
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  • An American photographer on assignment with an Easter Island photographer.
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  • Ancient Moai statues dot a hillside on Rano Raraku crater.
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  • A couple stroll beneath power lines toward moai statues at Ahu Tahai.
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  • Restored moai with topknots on Akakena Beach.
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  • Restored moai stand watch at Ahu Tongariki. RANDY OLSON Photographer.
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  • Restored moai stand watch at Ahu Tongariki.
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  • An ancient Moai statue and wild horses on Rano Raraku crater.
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  • An ancient Moai statue on a hillside at night.
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  • Ancient Moai statues dot a hillside on Rano Raraku crater.
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  • Ancient Moai statues dot a hillside on Rano Raraku crater.
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  • A restored Maoi at Ahu Nau Nau.
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