Landscape category
L01 Amazing beach of huge geological significance with enormous sand dunes and a large, tectonically modified sedimentary deposit. Located North of Kaihoka Lakes, top of the West coast.
Photographer: Elliot Bowie
L02 Wangaloa Domain - pure, well-sorted, finely laminated limestone which is being eroded by the sea.
Photographer: Simone Hicks
L03 Beautiful upthrust schist mountains around the glacial lake.
Photographer: Aaspreet Boparai
L04 This section of the upper Hollyford Valley is composed of 135-141Ma gabbro, forming part of the Outboard Median Batholith. The U-shaped valley was carved by a huge glacier about 20Ka.
Photographer: Alex Carroll
L05 Basalt outcrops at Purau Bay, Banks Peninsula forming part of the 5.8-8.1Ma Diamond Harbour Volcanic Group. The Port Hills in the background are composed of an older 9.7-11Ma sequence.
Photographer: Alex Carroll
L06 The glacial highway is in full view flying above the Himalayan peaks of northern India.
Photographer: Jess Hinojosa
L07 Beautiful scenery of uplifted mountains and erosional processes in action, Glenorchy, New Zealand.
Photographer: Bryce Robinson
L08 Bombardment after an explosion lifting puffs of ash and dust into the wind from the outer slopes of the crater at Sakurajima volcano, Japan.
Photographer: Marco Brenna
L09 Pouncenot, Patagonia, a granitic glacial remnant in a sea of turbidites with condor for scale.
Photographer: John Williams
L10 The Wave- Schist outcrop exposed after glacial erosion processes gave it a smooth curvy surface, Franz Josef.
Photographer: Jordan Crase
L11 The colourful volcanic rocks and soils in the crater of Mt Vesuvius, Italy.
Photographer: Jess Hillman
L12 The Brandberg massif - an early Cretaceous granitic intrusion in Damaraland, Namibia. The red colour at sunset gives it its name which means Fire Mountain in Afrikaans.
Photographer: Jess Hillman
L13 Rising mountains: the early morning view from Crawford Knob, above the Franz Josef Glacier
Photographer: Dave Prior
L14 Eroded sea stacks of the sub-Antarctic Antipodes Volcano. The volcano is < 500 000 year old intraplate volcano that erupted through the continental crust of the Campbell Plateau.
Photographer: James Scott
L15 These moraine pinnacles accumulate on the ice shelf surface from basal adfreezing of relict moraines on the McMurdo Sound floor which are transported to the ice surface by ablation.
Photographer: Jacob Anderson
L16 The Koettlitz Glacier peels around Heald Island as it flows toward McMurdo Sound. The Walcott Glacier flows through the Royal Society Range in the background.
Photographer: Jacob Anderson
L17 The Arthur Marble karst landscape of Mount Owen, Nelson
Photographer: Nichole Moerhuis
L18 Not-so-Dry Valleys: At the height of Antarctic summer, Commonwealth Stream drains the Commonwealth Glacier, Taylor Valley, Antarctica
Photographer: Christina Riesselman
Field category
F01 Spider Rock in Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Northern Arizona, carved by Monument Creek eroding into Permian aeolian sandstone.
Photographer: Tammo Reichgelt
F02 A pleasant rest stop on the vast glacial outwash planes Skeidararsandur, Southern Iceland.
Photographer: Tammo Reichgelt
F03 Wangaloa Domain - asymmetric mud-silt ripples interbedded with a medium grained sandstone as a result of (paleo)-tidal activities. The beds are topped by a conglomerate sandstone.
Photographer: Simone Hicks
F04 Field geology kit list: hat, hammer, sturdy boots and map board......pants and shirt optional. Swinburn 2013.
Photographer: Simon Sheppard
F05 Desert storm! After a sudden deluge with hail and thunder, the Harrat Rahat Volcanic Field, here showing an eroded cone, sprang to life with rivulets and lakes.
Photographer: Marco Brenna
F06 Jason Grieve logging the section through the Grebe mylonite zone in Jacquiery Steam, Fiordland.
Photographer: Dave Prior
F07 Fieldwork in the Fish River valley, Southern Alps. Haast Schist can be seen in the background. The schist in this area is intruded by lamprophyre dikes carrying peridotite (mantle) xenoliths.
Photographer: James Scott
F08 Life and Death: A visitor gazes at a wall of late Pleistocene dire wolf (Canis dirus) skulls from the La Brea tar pits (Page Museum, Los Angeles).
Photographer: Bobby Boessenecker
F09 Kieran Crookbain on a pillow basalt "this may be a pillow but it is not for sleeping on"
Photographer: Marcus Richards
F10 Southern Alps Gecko on Barrosa Andesite at Mt Somers, Canterbury
Photographer: Marcus Richards
F11 Fair winds and a following sea: Andrew Gorman, Jess Hinojosa, Bob Dagg, and Claudine Sterling soak up some Fiordland sun as Otago's R/V Polaris II rounds Puysegur Point at the end of a successful field season.
Photographer: Christina Riesselman
F12 Standing on a resistant headland of Murihiku Terrane Jurassic conglomerate overlooking Waikawa Harbour, Catlins Coast.
Photographer: Jelte Keeman
F13 A summer's day working in the field at Sams Creek, Northwest Nelson.
Photographer: Markham Phillips
F14 X Marks the Spot. A good day in the field on Nancy Sound, Fiordland National Park.
Photographer: Andrew Gorman
Micro scale category
M01 A quartz layer squeezed around a garnet porphyroclast (green) undergoes recrystallisation. Inverse pole figure colouring of an Alpine Fault Zone mylonite, imaged using EBSD in the Zeiss SEM.
Photographer: Andrew Cross
M02 Conodont microfossils from the Late Permian found in Meishan, China are still a puzzle - no one knows what these structures were used for in these tiny, soft-tissue, now-extinct creatures.
Photographer: Jess Hinojosa
M03 Hyalite opal lining the walls of a vesicle in a volcanic breccia clast from the Otago Peninsula.
Photographer: Jordan Crase
M04 Pristine benthic foram Astrononion novozealandicum, recovered from the entrance to Bligh Sound, Fiordland.
Photographer: Imogen Browne
M05 A multitude of tiny Psephidia bivalves mantle cross-stata in the unconsolidated Port Orford Formation (Middle Pleistocene) of coastal Oregon.
Photographer: Bobby Boessenecker
M06 Folding of kyanite and bright blue muscovite within a quartz vein. Onekaka Schist, Northwest Nelson.
Photographer: Nichole Moerhuis
M07 Clusters of hydrothermal zircons nucleate in microveins and along the edges of arsenopyrite.
Photographer: Markham Phillips
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