EarthArt: Colours of the Earth will be published by Phaidon in November 2013
Alien Earth: Our Planet from Above
Earth can look pretty unearthly sometimes. In honor of Earth Science Week, TIME presents Bernhard Edmaier's aerial, and close up, photographs from his new book "EarthART"
Bernhard Edmaier
Gibber Plains, Coober Pedy, Australia.
The Australians call flat desert areas covered with loose rocks and stones of various sizes "gibber plains." At the Gibber Plains in Coober Pedy, Australia, each individual stone has a dark, often shimmering purple iron oxide crust. When rainfall flushes out the fragile pavement of these flgstoned deserts, or when gem hunters dig the ground for opals, then the pale subsoil becomes visible.
