127 pictures found
© Juan-Carlos Muñoz / Biosphoto
Eroded sandstone massif Jaizkibel Basque Country Spain
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Names engraved by shepherds or soldiers in historical times. Regulated area of Les Merveilles, where thousands of Neolithic engravings dating from
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Names engraved by shepherds or soldiers in historical times. Regulated area of Les Merveilles, where thousands of Neolithic engravings dating from the Bronze Age (- 3000 years) are protected - Mercantour National Park - Alpes Maritimes - France
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Farmer and his plough, famous petroglyph among thousands engraved by hammering in cupules in Permian pelites. Regulated area of Les Merveilles and
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Farmer and his plough, famous petroglyph among thousands engraved by hammering in cupules in Permian pelites. Regulated area of Les Merveilles and Fontanalba, where thousands of Neolithic engravings dating from the Bronze Age (- 3000 years) are protected - Mercantour National Park - Alpes Maritimes - France
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Engraving representing a figure in 18th century dress carrying a
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Engraving representing a figure in 18th century dress carrying a floral branch, representing an alchemist (?) carrying a fruit or a flower - Mercantour NP - Alpes Maritimes - France
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Top view of the carriage - Petroglyphs engraved by hammering in cupules in Permian pelites. Regulated area of Les Merveilles and Fontanalba, where
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Top view of the carriage - Petroglyphs engraved by hammering in cupules in Permian pelites. Regulated area of Les Merveilles and Fontanalba, where thousands of Neolithic engravings dating from the Bronze Age (- 3000 years) are protected - Mercantour NP - Alpes Maritimes - France
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Lucerne puddingstone columns and Caen stone sculptures, cloister
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Lucerne puddingstone columns and Caen stone sculptures, cloister of Mont Saint Michel, France
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Crumpling in the Helminthoid Flysch, Ubaye Valley, Alpes de Haute
© David Tatin / Biosphoto
© David Tatin / Biosphoto
Crumpling in the Helminthoid Flysch, Ubaye Valley, Alpes de Haute Provence, France
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Crumpling in the Helminthoid Flysch, Ubaye Valley, Alpes de Haute
© David Tatin / Biosphoto
© David Tatin / Biosphoto
Crumpling in the Helminthoid Flysch, Ubaye Valley, Alpes de Haute Provence, France
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Rock engravings of the Sacred Way, in the Fontana Valley. Farmer
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Rock engravings of the Sacred Way, in the Fontana Valley. Farmer and his plough, a famous petroglyph among thousands engraved by hammering in cupules in Permian pelites. Regulated area of Les Merveilles and Fontanalba, where thousands of Neolithic engravings dating from the Bronze Age (- 3000 years) are protected - Mercantour National Park - Alpes Maritimes - France
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Rock engravings in the Vallon de Fontanalba. Petroglyphs engraved
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Rock engravings in the Vallon de Fontanalba. Petroglyphs engraved by hammering in cupules in Permian pelites. Regulated area of Les Merveilles and Fontanalba, where thousands of Neolithic engravings dating from the Bronze Age (- 3000 years) are protected - Mercantour National Park - Alpes Maritimes - France
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Rock engravings in the Vallon de Fontanalba. Petroglyphs engraved by hammering in cupules in Permian pelites. Regulated area of Les Merveilles and
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Rock engravings in the Vallon de Fontanalba. Petroglyphs engraved by hammering in cupules in Permian pelites. Regulated area of Les Merveilles and Fontanalba, where thousands of Neolithic engravings dating from the Bronze Age (- 3000 years) are protected - Mercantour National Park - Alpes Maritimes - France
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Rock engravings in the Vallon de Fontanalba. Petroglyphs engraved by hammering in cupules in Permian pelites. Regulated area of Les Merveilles and
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Rock engravings in the Vallon de Fontanalba. Petroglyphs engraved by hammering in cupules in Permian pelites. Regulated area of Les Merveilles and Fontanalba, where thousands of Neolithic engravings dating from the Bronze Age (- 3000 years) are protected - Mercantour National Park - Alpes Maritimes - France
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Rock engravings in the Vallon des Merveilles. Petroglyphs engraved by hammering in cupules in Permian pelites. Regulated area of Les Merveilles and
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Rock engravings in the Vallon des Merveilles. Petroglyphs engraved by hammering in cupules in Permian pelites. Regulated area of Les Merveilles and Fontanalba, where thousands of Neolithic engravings dating from the Bronze Age (- 3000 years) are protected - Mercantour National Park - Alpes Maritimes - France
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Rock engravings in the Vallon des Merveilles. Petroglyphs engraved by hammering in cupules in Permian pelites. Regulated area of Les Merveilles and
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Rock engravings in the Vallon des Merveilles. Petroglyphs engraved by hammering in cupules in Permian pelites. Regulated area of Les Merveilles and Fontanalba, where thousands of Neolithic engravings dating from the Bronze Age (- 3000 years) are protected - Mercantour National Park - Alpes Maritimes - France
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Neolithic rock engravings in the Vallon des Merveilles. La roche de l'éclat - Petroglyphs engraved by hammering in cupules in Permian pelites.
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Neolithic rock engravings in the Vallon des Merveilles. La roche de l'éclat - Petroglyphs engraved by hammering in cupules in Permian pelites. Regulated area of Les Merveilles and Fontanalba, where thousands of Neolithic engravings dating from the Bronze Age (- 3000 years) are protected - Mercantour National Park - Alpes Maritimes - France
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Musty domes of Permian pelites in the Vallée des Merveilles. In glaciology, a roche moutonnée is a rock formation altered by the passage of a
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Musty domes of Permian pelites in the Vallée des Merveilles. In glaciology, a roche moutonnée is a rock formation altered by the passage of a glacier. The glacial polish gives the rock a convex, truncated and sometimes striated shape. Les Merveilles restricted area, where thousands of Neolithic engravings dating from the Bronze Age (- 3000 years) are protected - Mercantour National Park - Alpes Maritimes - France
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Neolithic rock engravings in the Vallon des Merveilles. La roche de l'éclat - Petroglyphs engraved by hammering in cupules in Permian pelites.
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Neolithic rock engravings in the Vallon des Merveilles. La roche de l'éclat - Petroglyphs engraved by hammering in cupules in Permian pelites. Regulated area of Les Merveilles and Fontanalba, where thousands of Neolithic engravings dating from the Bronze Age (- 3000 years) are protected - Mercantour National Park - Alpes Maritimes - France
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Rock engravings in the Vallon des Merveilles. Petroglyphs
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Rock engravings in the Vallon des Merveilles. Petroglyphs engraved by hammering in cupules in Permian pelites. We can see a big corniform, and above a reticulated (cultivated field ?) Regulated area of Merveilles and Fontanalba, where thousands of neolithic engravings dating from the bronze age (- 3000 years) are protected - Mercantour NP - Alpes Maritimes - France
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"Christ", a remarkable rock engraving from the Vallon des
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
"Christ", a remarkable rock engraving from the Vallon des Merveilles. This rare portrait is one of three examples of anthropomorphic figures among thousands of petroglyphs engraved by hammering in cupules in Permian pelites. Regulated area of Les Merveilles and Fontanalba, where thousands of Neolithic engravings dating from the Bronze Age (- 3000 years) are protected - Mercantour National Park - Alpes Maritimes - France
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"Christ", a remarkable rock engraving from the Vallon des Merveilles. This rare portrait is one of three examples of anthropomorphic figures among
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
"Christ", a remarkable rock engraving from the Vallon des Merveilles. This rare portrait is one of three examples of anthropomorphic figures among thousands of petroglyphs engraved by hammering in cupules in Permian pelites. Regulated area of Les Merveilles and Fontanalba, where thousands of Neolithic engravings dating from the Bronze Age (- 3000 years) are protected - Mercantour National Park - Alpes Maritimes - France
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Foliose lichens (Xanthoparmelia stenophylla) on red pelites, Gorges de Daluis, Southern Alps, France
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Foliose lichens (Xanthoparmelia stenophylla) on red pelites, Gorges de Daluis, Southern Alps, France
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Helminthoid flysch cliff in Haute Ubaye. Helminthoid flysch is a turbidity that dates from the Upper Cretaceous, and shows sinuous traces associated
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Helminthoid flysch cliff in Haute Ubaye. Helminthoid flysch is a turbidity that dates from the Upper Cretaceous, and shows sinuous traces associated with the movements of gastropods, which grazed the mud of the sea floor creating sinuous grooves. Haute Ubaye, Alpes de Haute-Provence, France
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Helminthoid flysch in Haute Ubaye. Helminthoid flysch is a
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Helminthoid flysch in Haute Ubaye. Helminthoid flysch is a turbidity that dates from the Upper Cretaceous, and shows sinuous traces associated with the movements of gastropods, which grazed the mud of the sea floor creating sinuous grooves. Haute Ubaye, Alpes de Haute-Provence, France
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Permian pelites in the Daluis Gorges, Alpes Maritimes, France. Permian pelites aged 250 Ma: clays of volcanic and detrital origin were oxidised under
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Permian pelites in the Daluis Gorges, Alpes Maritimes, France. Permian pelites aged 250 Ma: clays of volcanic and detrital origin were oxidised under a tropical climate and slowly transformed into rocks, over a thickness of 1000 metres. Daluis Gorges, Dôme du Barrot
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Permian pelites in the Daluis Gorges, Alpes Maritimes, France.
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Permian pelites in the Daluis Gorges, Alpes Maritimes, France. Permian pelites aged 250 Ma: clays of volcanic and detrital origin were oxidised under a tropical climate and slowly transformed into rocks, over a thickness of 1000 metres. Daluis Gorges, Dôme du Barrot
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Snails (Solatopupa cianensis) on Permian pelites of the Gorges du Cians, Alpes Maritimes, France. Endemic species of the Gorges du Cians and Daluis,
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Snails (Solatopupa cianensis) on Permian pelites of the Gorges du Cians, Alpes Maritimes, France. Endemic species of the Gorges du Cians and Daluis, Dôme du Barrot
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Permian pelites of the Cians Gorges, Alpes Maritimes, France.
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Permian pelites of the Cians Gorges, Alpes Maritimes, France. Permian pelites aged 250 Ma: clays of volcanic and detrital origin were oxidised under a tropical climate and slowly transformed into rocks, over a thickness of 1000 metres. Gorges du Cians, Dôme du Barrot
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Mudcracks in the Permian pelites of the Cians Gorges, Alpes Maritimes, France. Permian pelites aged 250 Ma: clays of volcanic and detrital origin
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Mudcracks in the Permian pelites of the Cians Gorges, Alpes Maritimes, France. Permian pelites aged 250 Ma: clays of volcanic and detrital origin were oxidised under a tropical climate and slowly transformed into rocks, over a thickness of 1000 metres. Mudcracks were formed on the surface of sedimentation lagoons during dry periods in a tropical climate. Gorges du Cians, Dôme du Barrot
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Permian pelites of the Cians Gorges, Alpes Maritimes, France. Permian pelites aged 250 Ma: clays of volcanic and detrital origin were oxidised under
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Permian pelites of the Cians Gorges, Alpes Maritimes, France. Permian pelites aged 250 Ma: clays of volcanic and detrital origin were oxidised under a tropical climate and slowly transformed into rocks, over a thickness of 1000 metres. Gorges du Cians, Dôme du Barrot
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Mudcracks in the Permian pelites of the Cians Gorges, Alpes Maritimes, France. Permian pelites aged 250 Ma: clays of volcanic and detrital origin
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Mudcracks in the Permian pelites of the Cians Gorges, Alpes Maritimes, France. Permian pelites aged 250 Ma: clays of volcanic and detrital origin were oxidised under a tropical climate and slowly transformed into rocks, over a thickness of 1000 metres. Mudcracks were formed on the surface of sedimentation lagoons during dry periods in a tropical climate. Gorges du Cians, Dôme du Barrot
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Flysch, detrital sedimentary deposit, geology, Bidart, Basque coast,
© Laurent Lhoté / Biosphoto
© Laurent Lhoté / Biosphoto
Flysch, detrital sedimentary deposit, geology, Bidart, Basque coast, Pyrénées Atlantiques, France
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Flysch, detrital sedimentary deposit, geology, Bidart, Basque coast, Pyrénées Atlantiques, France
© Laurent Lhoté / Biosphoto
© Laurent Lhoté / Biosphoto
Flysch, detrital sedimentary deposit, geology, Bidart, Basque coast, Pyrénées Atlantiques, France
© David Tatin / Biosphoto
Les Mées village from the top of the Pénitents des Mées rocks, Alpes de Haute Provence, France
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Natural Land Art in the Chéran gorges, at the foot of the Bauges
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Natural Land Art in the Chéran gorges, at the foot of the Bauges massif. The Chéran, a wild river in the Bauges, has carved gorges in the soft mollassic sandstone deposited in the Tertiary period. The pebbles deposited by a recent flood are limestone from the massif itself, PNR des Bauges, Savoie, France
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Natural Land Art in the Chéran gorges, at the foot of the Bauges massif. The Chéran, a wild river in the Bauges, has carved gorges in the soft
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Natural Land Art in the Chéran gorges, at the foot of the Bauges massif. The Chéran, a wild river in the Bauges, has carved gorges in the soft mollassic sandstone deposited in the Tertiary period. The pebbles deposited by a recent flood are limestone from the massif itself, PNR des Bauges, Savoie, France
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Natural Land Art in the Chéran gorges, at the foot of the Bauges
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Natural Land Art in the Chéran gorges, at the foot of the Bauges massif. The Chéran, a wild river in the Bauges, has carved gorges in the soft mollassic sandstone deposited in the Tertiary period. The pebbles deposited by a recent flood are limestone from the massif itself, PNR des Bauges, Savoie, France
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The Cheran gorges, in the Bauges massif. The Cheran, a wild river in the Bauges, has carved gorges in the soft mollassic sandstone deposited in the
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
The Cheran gorges, in the Bauges massif. The Cheran, a wild river in the Bauges, has carved gorges in the soft mollassic sandstone deposited in the Tertiary period. Savoie, PNR des Bauges, France
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The Cheran gorges, in the Bauges massif. The Cheran, a wild river
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
The Cheran gorges, in the Bauges massif. The Cheran, a wild river in the Bauges, has carved gorges in the soft mollassic sandstone deposited in the Tertiary period. Savoie, PNR des Bauges, France
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Remarkable folding in flysch, Vallée du Bachelard, Alpes de Haute
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Remarkable folding in flysch, Vallée du Bachelard, Alpes de Haute Provence, France
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The Var river in the Gorges de Daluis, Mercantour National Park, Alps, France
© Michel Rauch / Biosphoto
© Michel Rauch / Biosphoto
The Var river in the Gorges de Daluis, Mercantour National Park, Alps, France
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Helminthoid flysch, Traces of fossil activity characteristic of flysch in the Embrun region, Vallon du Rabioux, Ecrins National Park, Hautes Alpes,
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Helminthoid flysch, Traces of fossil activity characteristic of flysch in the Embrun region, Vallon du Rabioux, Ecrins National Park, Hautes Alpes, France
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Flysch from Pic de Goléon, the Aiguille du Goléon is a pyramid cut entirely in the nummulitic flysch, Ecrins National Park, north of La Grave, Alps,
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Flysch from Pic de Goléon, the Aiguille du Goléon is a pyramid cut entirely in the nummulitic flysch, Ecrins National Park, north of La Grave, Alps, France