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| Arizona lupine is a common early spring ephemeral wildflower of the Colorado Desert. The purple-pink flowers show a yellow spot on the upper petal, which changes in color to red once the flower has been pollinated to discourage insects from visiting it after pollination. Image ID: 35180 Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California, USA | Dune evening primrose (white) and sand verbena (purple) mix in beautiful wildflower bouquets during the spring bloom in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Image ID: 30500 Species: Dune Evening Primrose, Sand Verbena, Sand verbena, Oenothera deltoides, Abronia villosa Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California, USA | Dune evening primrose (white) and sand verbena (purple) mix in beautiful wildflower bouquets during the spring bloom in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Image ID: 30528 Species: Dune Evening Primrose, Sand Verbena, Sand verbena, Oenothera deltoides, Abronia villosa Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California, USA |
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| Dune evening primrose (white) and sand verbena (purple) mix in beautiful wildflower bouquets during the spring bloom in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Image ID: 30529 Species: Dune Evening Primrose, Sand Verbena, Oenothera deltoides, Abronia villosa Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California, USA | Dune evening primrose (white) and sand verbena (purple) mix in beautiful wildflower bouquets during the spring bloom in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Image ID: 30543 Species: Dune Evening Primrose, Sand Verbena, Oenothera deltoides, Abronia villosa Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California, USA | Dune evening primrose (white) and sand verbena (purple) mix in beautiful wildflower bouquets during the spring bloom in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Image ID: 30552 Species: Dune Evening Primrose, Sand Verbena, Sand verbena, Oenothera deltoides, Abronia villosa Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California, USA |
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| Devil's Postpile, a spectacular example of columnar basalt. Once molten and under great pressure underground, the lava that makes up Devil's Postpile cooled evenly and slowly, contracting and fracturing into polygonal-sided columns. The age of the formation is estimated between 100 and 700 thousand years old. Sometime after the basalt columns formed, a glacier passed over the formation, cutting and polishing the tops of the columns. The columns have from three to seven sides, varying because of differences in how quickly portions of the lava cooled. Image ID: 23281 Location: Devils Postpile National Monument, California, USA | Devil's Postpile, a spectacular example of columnar basalt. Once molten and under great pressure underground, the lava that makes up Devil's Postpile cooled evenly and slowly, contracting and fracturing into polygonal-sided columns. The age of the formation is estimated between 100 and 700 thousand years old. Sometime after the basalt columns formed, a glacier passed over the formation, cutting and polishing the tops of the columns. The columns have from three to seven sides, varying because of differences in how quickly portions of the lava cooled. Image ID: 23282 Location: Devils Postpile National Monument, California, USA | Devil's Postpile, a spectacular example of columnar basalt. Once molten and under great pressure underground, the lava that makes up Devil's Postpile cooled evenly and slowly, contracting and fracturing into polygonal-sided columns. The age of the formation is estimated between 100 and 700 thousand years old. Sometime after the basalt columns formed, a glacier passed over the formation, cutting and polishing the tops of the columns. The columns have from three to seven sides, varying because of differences in how quickly portions of the lava cooled. Image ID: 23283 Location: Devils Postpile National Monument, California, USA |
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| Devil's Postpile, a spectacular example of columnar basalt. Once molten and under great pressure underground, the lava that makes up Devil's Postpile cooled evenly and slowly, contracting and fracturing into polygonal-sided columns. The age of the formation is estimated between 100 and 700 thousand years old. Sometime after the basalt columns formed, a glacier passed over the formation, cutting and polishing the tops of the columns. The columns have from three to seven sides, varying because of differences in how quickly portions of the lava cooled. Image ID: 23284 Location: Devils Postpile National Monument, California, USA | Devil's Postpile, a spectacular example of columnar basalt. Once molten and under great pressure underground, the lava that makes up Devil's Postpile cooled evenly and slowly, contracting and fracturing into polygonal-sided columns. The age of the formation is estimated between 100 and 700 thousand years old. Sometime after the basalt columns formed, a glacier passed over the formation, cutting and polishing the tops of the columns. The columns have from three to seven sides, varying because of differences in how quickly portions of the lava cooled. Image ID: 23286 Location: Devils Postpile National Monument, California, USA | Devil's Postpile, a spectacular example of columnar basalt. Once molten and under great pressure underground, the lava that makes up Devil's Postpile cooled evenly and slowly, contracting and fracturing into polygonal-sided columns. The age of the formation is estimated between 100 and 700 thousand years old. Sometime after the basalt columns formed, a glacier passed over the formation, cutting and polishing the tops of the columns. The columns have from three to seven sides, varying because of differences in how quickly portions of the lava cooled. Image ID: 23287 Location: Devils Postpile National Monument, California, USA |
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| Delicate Arch, dusted with snow, at sunset, with the snow-covered La Sal mountains in the distance. Delicate Arch stands 45 feet high, with a span of 33 feet, atop of bowl of slickrock sandstone. Image ID: 18106 Location: Delicate Arch, Arches National Park, Utah, USA | Lowlying plants grow where a forest fire has cleared the forest floor of debris, allowing seeds of small shrubs and trees to take root. The charred and burnt trees remain behind, some of them still alive in spite of their blackened appearance. Image ID: 23262 Location: Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Lowlying plants grow where a forest fire has cleared the forest floor of debris, allowing seeds of small shrubs and trees to take root. The charred and burnt trees remain behind, some of them still alive in spite of their blackened appearance. Image ID: 23277 Location: Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park, California, USA |
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| Burrowing owl (Western North American race hypugaea). This 10-inch-tall burrowing owl is standing besides its burrow. These burrows are usually created by squirrels, prairie dogs, or other rodents and even turtles, and only rarely dug by the owl itself. Image ID: 22477 Species: Burrowing owl, Athene cunicularia, Athene cunicularia hypugaea Location: Salton Sea, Imperial County, California, USA | Fallen coast redwood tree. This tree will slowly decompose, providing a substrate and nutrition for new plants to grow and structure for small animals to use. Nurse log. Image ID: 25803 Species: Coast redwood, giant redwood, California redwood, Sequoia sempervirens Location: Redwood National Park, California, USA | Dune evening primrose (white) and sand verbena (purple) mix in beautiful wildflower bouquets during the spring bloom in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Image ID: 30526 Species: Dune Evening Primrose, Sand Verbena, Sand verbena, Oenothera deltoides, Abronia villosa Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California, USA |
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| Fallen coast redwood tree. This tree will slowly decompose, providing a substrate and nutrition for new plants to grow and structure for small animals to use. Nurse log. Image ID: 25820 Species: Coast redwood, giant redwood, California redwood, Sequoia sempervirens Location: Redwood National Park, California, USA | Dune primrose (white) and sand verbena (purple) bloom in spring in Anza Borrego Desert State Park, mixing in a rich display of desert color. Anza Borrego Desert State Park. Image ID: 10467 Species: Dune Evening Primrose, Sand Verbena, Sand verbena, Oenothera deltoides, Abronia villosa Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California, USA | Burrowing owl (Western North American race hypugaea). This 10-inch-tall burrowing owl is standing besides its burrow. These burrows are usually created by squirrels, prairie dogs, or other rodents and even turtles, and only rarely dug by the owl itself. Image ID: 22478 Species: Burrowing owl, Athene cunicularia, Athene cunicularia hypugaea Location: Salton Sea, Imperial County, California, USA |
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| California brown pelican, portrait in pink-purple predawn light, rests on sandstone seabluff. The characteristic mating plumage of the California race of brown pelican is shown, with red gular throat pouch and dark brown hindneck colors. Image ID: 23664 Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus Location: La Jolla, California, USA | California brown pelican, portrait in pink-purple predawn light, rests on sandstone seabluff. The characteristic mating plumage of the California race of brown pelican is shown, with red gular throat pouch and dark brown hindneck colors. Image ID: 23665 Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Limestone and marble underground formations in Oregon Caves National Monument. Eons of acidified groundwater have slowly etched away at marble, creating the extensive and intricate cave formations in Oregon Caves National Monument. Image ID: 25861 Location: Oregon Caves National Monument, USA |
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| Limestone and marble underground formations in Oregon Caves National Monument. Eons of acidified groundwater have slowly etched away at marble, creating the extensive and intricate cave formations in Oregon Caves National Monument. Image ID: 25862 Location: Oregon Caves National Monument, USA | Limestone and marble underground formations, Miller's Chapel grotto in Oregon Caves National Monument. Eons of acidified groundwater have slowly etched away at marble, creating the extensive and intricate cave formations in Oregon Caves National Monument. Image ID: 25863 Location: Oregon Caves National Monument, USA | Limestone and marble underground formations, Miller's Chapel grotto in Oregon Caves National Monument. Eons of acidified groundwater have slowly etched away at marble, creating the extensive and intricate cave formations in Oregon Caves National Monument. Image ID: 25864 Location: Oregon Caves National Monument, USA |
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| Paradise Lost formation in Oregon Caves National Monument. Eons of acidified groundwater have slowly etched away at marble, creating the extensive and intricate cave formations in Oregon Caves National Monument. Image ID: 25865 Location: Oregon Caves National Monument, USA | Clover covers shaded ground below coast redwoods in Redwood National Park. Image ID: 25868 Location: Redwood National Park, California, USA | Clover covers shaded ground below coast redwoods in Redwood National Park. Image ID: 25869 Location: Redwood National Park, California, USA |
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