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Arctic Landscape Tanqueray Fiord, Ellesmere Island

Meltwater stream is absorbed by eroded sand. Erosion features. Drømmebugt, King Oscars Fjord. East Greenland.

The Hulahula River passing between foothills of the Romanzof Mountains and Kikiktak Mountain to the Coastal Plain beyond. The limestone in the foreground is Devonian Katakturuk Formation. The small tributary creek in the background is Esetuk Creek. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Brooks Range, Alaska.

Remains of the Gypsum mine, Skansbukta, Svalbard, 2006. Print size to A4.(8 x 11.5 inches)

Icebergs float with the Hematite rich red slopes of Røde Fiord behind them. East Greenland. 2005

Erosion features below a hanging valley in Drømmebugten, Bay of Dreams, off Kong Oskars Fjord in East Greenland. 2005

Dawn in Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord, with the amazing Eleonora Sediment layers, bright and broken. East Greenland National Park. 2005

Teufelsschloss, Devils Castle rises nearly 1,500m over Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord. North-east Greenland National Park. 2005

Bands of sorted stones run downhill, caused by frost and solifluction. Hurry Inlet. East Greenland. 2005

Plateau shaped mountains of level sedimentary layers. Cholmaksla, Brepollen. Hornsund. Svalbard.

Glacial erratic perched on the tundra at Blomstrandhalvoya, Purple Saxifrage flowers nearby. Spitsbergen.

Gail Goldberg breaks rocks to look for fossils high on the moraine to Longyearbreen above Longyearbyen. Svalbard

Tourists on an Esker with the mountains of Greenland's interior on the horizon. Traill Ø. North-east Greenland National Park. 2005

Iceberg floats in Eleonora Bay, famous for its 16km deep sedimentary layers. Kejser Franz Joseph Fiord. North-east Greenland National Park. 2005

Light catches an area of solifluction and erosion in the Dombrava River Valley. Hurry Inlet. Scoresbysund. East Greenland. 2005

One of the remarkable spherical stones on Champ Island. Franz Josef Land, Russia. 2004

Spectacular rock formation at Cape Tegettoff on Hall Island. Franz Josef Land.

Cross section of rock showing fossilised organism, believed to be the start of a spherical rock. Franz Josef Land. 2004

One of the remarkable spherical stones on Champ Island. Franz Josef Land, Russia. 2004

Soil terraces caused by the action of thawing, called Solifluction. Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. 1994

Hedgehog/rose rocks, Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada

Qilakitsoq where the 16th Century mummies were found. Uummannaq. West Greenland.

Eroded bank of the Pur River. Purovsky Region, Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

The Hoodoo's, a Dramatic eroded land form in a river valley on Bylot Is. Pond Inlet. Nunavut. Canada. 1999

Polygonal Patterned Ground with an autumnal Arctic Willow. Ellesmere Is. Canada. 1994

Autumn leaves of Arctic willow on curving groups of basalt columns. Vikingebugt Scoresbysund Fiord. East Greenland

Autumn leaves of Arctic willow on curving groups of basalt columns. Vikingebugt Scoresbysund Fiord. East Greenland

A sea stack left when the softer surrounding rock wore away leaving this rock isolated, now the softer rock beneath is eroding faster. Røde Ø, Scoresbysund. East Greenland.

Røde Pynt, Rødefjord. Scoresbysund. East Greenland.

Dramatic striped strata rock from the Cambrian in Segelsällskapets Fjord, Yacht Club Fiord in the North-East Greenland National Park.

Dramatic striped strata rock from the Cambrian and late pre-Cambrian in Segelsällskapets Fjord, North-East Greenland National Park.

Dramatic striped strata rock from the Cambrian and late pre-Cambrian in Segelsällskapets Fjord, North-East Greenland National Park.

Glaciers have smoothed striped strata rock from the Cambrian and late pre-Cambrian in Segelsällskapets Fjord, North-East Greenland National Park.

Dramatic rock formation on the North coast of Inglefield Bay in Northwest Greenland. (1991)

Aerial view of mountains and valleys formed by glaciers on Greenland's West Coast north of Ilulissat. West Greenland

Tundra, Aulavik National Park, patterned ground and tundra ponds. Northern Banks Island, NWT, Arctic Canada