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Columnar Basalt

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St. Mathieu Pucon Puebla Puerto la Cruz Pumpkin Patch Punakaiki Punta Mujeres Puracé Puracé National Natural Park Purnululu National Park Puy de Dome Puʻu Kahaualeʻa Puʻu ʻŌʻō Crater Pu‘u ‘O‘o vent Pyritized Ammonite Pyrocumulus Pāhoehoe Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut Quarry Canyon Queen Maud Land Quiraing Quito Canton Quảng Ninh Province Rabaul Racetrack Playa Rainbow Wood Rangárvallasýsla Raudholar Rawthey Valley Red Bluff Canyon Red Hill Volcano Red Lions Red Mountain Red Rock Canyon Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area Red Rock Canyon State Park Red quartz crystals Redondos Valley Reelfoot Lake Regans Lookout Republic of Cabo Verde Reykjahliy Reykjanes Volcano Reykjanesskagi Reykjavik Reykjavík Reykjavík beach Rhenish Massif Rhodochrosite Rhone-Alpes Ridge Lakes Ridge-and-Valley province Rim of the World Scenic Byway Ring Road Rio Grande Rift Rio Majes Valley Riverbed Road Cut Robson Glacier Rochinha Rock Strata Rock of Gibraltar Rocks Rocky Mountains Wyoming Rocky Mountian Garden Wall Rocky Mountians Ross Island Ross Sea Rotorua Roussillon Rowley Mine Rt. 23 North Ruapehu Russian Federation Ryfylke SE Iceland SE Utah SW Coast Path SW Iceland Sacramento Valley Sacred Valley of the Incas Sag pond Salar de Uyuni Salar de Yuni. 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Democratic Republic of the Congo Viti crater Volcan Licancabur Volcanic rock Volcanic sand beach Volcanoes of Kamchatka UNESCO World Heritage Site Volcán Calbuco Volcán Pululahua Volcán Turrialba Volcán Wolf Volcán de Colima Västernorrland County Vík í Mýrdal Waco Waco Mammoth National Monument Wahweep Hoodoos Wai-o-tapu Thermal Wonderland Waikupanaha Wainiha Ridge Waiotapu Waitaki District Wallace Creek Waputik Mountains Waputik Range Waterfall of the Gods Waterfowl Lake Wave Rock Welded tuff West Java West Thumb Seyser Basin West Virginia Western Arkansas Western Iceland Western Norway Westland Tai Poutini National Park Whale Island Wharariki Beach White Cliffs of Dover White Dome Geyser White House Ruin White River National Forest White Sands Desert White Sands National Monument White Water River White Water River Falls Willis Palms Wind Cave Wind Cave National Park Windjana Gorge Wisconsin Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater Wrightwood Wulfenite over Mimetite Yacoraite Yardangs Yasur Yosemite Your Shot Yuma and La Paz counties Zambezi River Zambia Zanskar valley Zhangjiajie National Forest Park Zhangye Danxia Geological Park Zhangye Danxia National Geological Park Zumaia agate aka Mount Baldy ash flow aurora borealis autumn borders of Chimaltenango bornhardts canton of Bern carboniferous sandstone cave chlorite cliffs colorful strata columnar comoplex volcano compound volcano craters crow diatreme dolomite domes dry lake eastern Greenland elbaite elephant erg erosion flash flood from Mirador del Río gabbro glacial till granite hogback hotspot volcano ice cap igneous impact structure iron island k-t karst topography lago Mývatn lagoon lake beds laterite maar metamorphic rock meteors mushrooms normal fault pack ice pillars of Hercules pre-eruption rhyolitic tuff river salt diapir saltpan sand sea caves sedementary sedimentary rock shale silicate slate snow soda lake south of Badwater southwestern Iceland storm summer surface fault the Highlands the Kimberly thrust fault tree molds uranium valley volcanic island volcanic plug volcanic stratigraphy volcanoes waterfalls wilderness Þingvellir Þríhnúkagígur

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