Crack Photos

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Water rushes through a narrow crack, in the red sandstone of Zion National Park, with fallen autumn leaves
Water rushes through a narrow crack, in the red sandstone of Zion National Park, with fallen autumn leaves.
Location: Zion National Park, Utah
Image ID: 26100  
Water rushes through a narrow crack, in the red sandstone of Zion National Park, with fallen autumn leaves
Water rushes through a narrow crack, in the red sandstone of Zion National Park, with fallen autumn leaves.
Location: Zion National Park, Utah
Image ID: 26138  
Water rushes through a narrow crack, in the red sandstone of Zion National Park, with fallen autumn leaves
Water rushes through a narrow crack, in the red sandstone of Zion National Park, with fallen autumn leaves.
Location: Zion National Park, Utah
Image ID: 26113  
Water rushes through a narrow crack, in the red sandstone of Zion National Park, with fallen autumn leaves
Water rushes through a narrow crack, in the red sandstone of Zion National Park, with fallen autumn leaves.
Location: Zion National Park, Utah
Image ID: 26137  
Water rushes through a narrow crack, in the red sandstone of Zion National Park, with fallen autumn leaves
Water rushes through a narrow crack, in the red sandstone of Zion National Park, with fallen autumn leaves.
Location: Zion National Park, Utah
Image ID: 26143  
A glacier fractures and cracks, as the leading of a glacier fractures and cracks as it reaches the ocean. The pieces will float away to become icebergs, Neko Harbor
A glacier fractures and cracks, as the leading of a glacier fractures and cracks as it reaches the ocean. The pieces will float away to become icebergs.
Location: Neko Harbor, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica
Image ID: 25654  
A glacier fractures and cracks, as the leading of a glacier fractures and cracks as it reaches the ocean. The pieces will float away to become icebergs, Neko Harbor
A glacier fractures and cracks, as the leading of a glacier fractures and cracks as it reaches the ocean. The pieces will float away to become icebergs.
Location: Neko Harbor, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica
Image ID: 25741  
Brain rocks. Sandstone is curiously eroded through the forces water and wind acting over eons. Cracks and joints arise when water freezes and expands repeatedly, braking apart the soft sandstone, North Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona
Brain rocks. Sandstone is curiously eroded through the forces water and wind acting over eons. Cracks and joints arise when water freezes and expands repeatedly, braking apart the soft sandstone.
Location: North Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona
Image ID: 20747  
Iceberg detail. Cracks and melt patterns. Blue ice, Brown Bluff
Iceberg detail. Cracks and melt patterns. Blue ice.
Location: Brown Bluff, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica
Image ID: 24801  
Water rushes through a narrow crack, in the red sandstone of Zion National Park, with fallen autumn leaves
Water rushes through a narrow crack, in the red sandstone of Zion National Park, with fallen autumn leaves.
Location: Zion National Park, Utah
Image ID: 26396  
Iceberg detail. Cracks and melt patterns. Blue ice, Brown Bluff
Iceberg detail. Cracks and melt patterns. Blue ice.
Location: Brown Bluff, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica
Image ID: 24861  
Iceberg detail. Cracks and melt patterns. Blue ice, Brown Bluff
Iceberg detail. Cracks and melt patterns. Blue ice.
Location: Brown Bluff, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica
Image ID: 24862  
A glacier fractures and cracks, as the leading of a glacier fractures and cracks as it reaches the ocean. The pieces will float away to become icebergs, Neko Harbor
A glacier fractures and cracks, as the leading of a glacier fractures and cracks as it reaches the ocean. The pieces will float away to become icebergs.
Location: Neko Harbor, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica
Image ID: 25671  
A glacier fractures and cracks, as the leading of a glacier fractures and cracks as it reaches the ocean. The pieces will float away to become icebergs, Neko Harbor
A glacier fractures and cracks, as the leading of a glacier fractures and cracks as it reaches the ocean. The pieces will float away to become icebergs.
Location: Neko Harbor, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica
Image ID: 25738  
Geometric joints and cracks form in eroding sandstone, North Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona
Geometric joints and cracks form in eroding sandstone.
Location: North Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona
Image ID: 20610  
Sandstone joints. These cracks and joints are formed in the sandstone by water that seeps into spaces and is then frozen at night, expanding and cracking the sandstone into geometric forms, North Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona
Sandstone joints. These cracks and joints are formed in the sandstone by water that seeps into spaces and is then frozen at night, expanding and cracking the sandstone into geometric forms.
Location: North Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona
Image ID: 20748  
Brain rocks. Sandstone is curiously eroded through the forces water and wind acting over eons. Cracks and joints arise when water freezes and expands repeatedly, braking apart the soft sandstone, North Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona
Brain rocks. Sandstone is curiously eroded through the forces water and wind acting over eons. Cracks and joints arise when water freezes and expands repeatedly, braking apart the soft sandstone.
Location: North Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona
Image ID: 20750  
Brain rocks. Sandstone is curiously eroded through the forces water and wind acting over eons. Cracks and joints arise when water freezes and expands repeatedly, braking apart the soft sandstone, North Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona
Brain rocks. Sandstone is curiously eroded through the forces water and wind acting over eons. Cracks and joints arise when water freezes and expands repeatedly, braking apart the soft sandstone.
Location: North Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona
Image ID: 20754  
A glacier fractures and cracks, as the leading of a glacier fractures and cracks as it reaches the ocean. The pieces will float away to become icebergs, Neko Harbor
A glacier fractures and cracks, as the leading of a glacier fractures and cracks as it reaches the ocean. The pieces will float away to become icebergs.
Location: Neko Harbor, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica
Image ID: 25655  
A glacier fractures and cracks, as the leading of a glacier fractures and cracks as it reaches the ocean. The pieces will float away to become icebergs, Neko Harbor
A glacier fractures and cracks, as the leading of a glacier fractures and cracks as it reaches the ocean. The pieces will float away to become icebergs.
Location: Neko Harbor, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica
Image ID: 25672  
A glacier fractures and cracks, as the leading of a glacier fractures and cracks as it reaches the ocean. The pieces will float away to become icebergs, Neko Harbor
A glacier fractures and cracks, as the leading of a glacier fractures and cracks as it reaches the ocean. The pieces will float away to become icebergs.
Location: Neko Harbor, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica
Image ID: 25740  
A glacier fractures and cracks, as the leading of a glacier fractures and cracks as it reaches the ocean. The pieces will float away to become icebergs, Neko Harbor
A glacier fractures and cracks, as the leading of a glacier fractures and cracks as it reaches the ocean. The pieces will float away to become icebergs.
Location: Neko Harbor, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica
Image ID: 25742  
A glacier fractures and cracks, as the leading of a glacier fractures and cracks as it reaches the ocean. The pieces will float away to become icebergs, Neko Harbor
A glacier fractures and cracks, as the leading of a glacier fractures and cracks as it reaches the ocean. The pieces will float away to become icebergs.
Location: Neko Harbor, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica
Image ID: 25743  
Iceberg detail. Cracks and melt patterns. Blue ice, Brown Bluff
Iceberg detail. Cracks and melt patterns. Blue ice.
Location: Brown Bluff, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica
Image ID: 24858  
Iceberg detail. Cracks and melt patterns. Blue ice, Brown Bluff
Iceberg detail. Cracks and melt patterns. Blue ice.
Location: Brown Bluff, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica
Image ID: 24859  
A glacier fractures and cracks, as the leading edge reaches the ocean. The pieces will float away to become icebergs, Neko Harbor
A glacier fractures and cracks, as the leading edge reaches the ocean. The pieces will float away to become icebergs.
Location: Neko Harbor, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica
Image ID: 25739  
Checkerboard Mesa, a good example of crossbedding (horizontal lines) and vertical cracks caused by thermal expansion/contraction. Navajo sandstone forms the cliffs and walls of Zion National Park. The sandstone reaches a thickness of 2300 feet and consists of ancient cemented desert sand dunes. Horizontal lines, commonly called crossbedding, represent layers of wind-blown sand that built up into sand dunes. These dunes were then buried, and the sand grains glued together by calcite and iron oxide to form sandstone
Checkerboard Mesa, a good example of crossbedding (horizontal lines) and vertical cracks caused by thermal expansion/contraction. Navajo sandstone forms the cliffs and walls of Zion National Park. The sandstone reaches a thickness of 2300 feet and consists of ancient cemented desert sand dunes. Horizontal lines, commonly called crossbedding, represent layers of wind-blown sand that built up into sand dunes. These dunes were then buried, and the sand grains glued together by calcite and iron oxide to form sandstone.
Location: Zion National Park, Utah
Image ID: 12526  
Dried mud, scorched earth, cracks from long-dried rain puddles, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California
Dried mud, scorched earth, cracks from long-dried rain puddles.
Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California
Image ID: 20478  
Dried mud, scorched earth, cracks from long-dried rain puddles, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California
Dried mud, scorched earth, cracks from long-dried rain puddles.
Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California
Image ID: 20486  
Geometric joints and cracks form in eroding sandstone, North Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona
Geometric joints and cracks form in eroding sandstone.
Location: North Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona
Image ID: 20663  
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