Tagged: geology

This Frozen World, Like Snow in Midsummer

Pamukkale, honestly, took my breath away.Trundling through the plains and mountains of Central Turkey, a vast white slope emerges from nowhere, as if a giant...

The curving edges of Wilpena Pound, a gigantic geological depression.

Seeing Stars in the Outback

Weather doesn’t get more biblical than droughts, floods and plagues of locusts. And that precise trifecta has hit the South Australian outback this summer. The...

Junk moored on beach of Monkey Island, near Halong Bay, Vietnam

Round Halong Bay by Junk

Halong Bay, North Vietnam, is one of the most dramatic seascapes the planet has to offer. Five hundred million years in the making, twenty million...