Alex Hyde / Fairy's thimble flower (Campanula cochleariifolia) growing in a crack running through a limestone slab. Triglav National Park, Julian Alps, Slovenia. July.

Bruno D'Amicis / Fennec fox (Vulpes zerda) Sultan tied up in front of a tourist shop in the souk, Douz, Kebili Governorate. Tunisia. Unwittingly, tourists support the capture of fennec fox cubs from the wild by payi...

Jerry Monkman / Man walking with his climbing gear at Lower Slab in Pawtuckaway State Park, New Hampshire, USA, September 2008. Model released.

John Cancalosi / Polished Sonora sunrise rock slab, composed of chrysocolla, cuprite and iron. From Milpillas Mine, Cuitata, Municipio de Cananea, Sonora, Mexico.

John Cancalosi / Azurite-malachite rock slab, cut and polished, white quartz with veins azurite and malachite copper minerals, occurs in copper-bearing rocks in central Siberia. Stepnoye Mine, Altay Mountains, Siberia...

Ashley Cooper / Climber with spindrift during high winds moving snow above Grasmere, Lake District, England, UK. December 2010

Ashley Cooper / A climber being blasted by spindrift during high winds moving snow above Grasmere, Lake District, UK. December 2010

Ashley Cooper / Climberwith spindrift during high winds moving snow above Grasmere, Lake District, UK. December 2010

Ashley Cooper / Climbers in spindrift during high winds moving snow above Grasmere, Lake District, UK. December 2010

Ashley Cooper / Paving slabs which have been ripped up and tossed 30 feet across the street after severe storm, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK. January 2014

Ashley Cooper / The New Gloucester Service Station on the M5 motorway, UK, is a green roofed building with eco credentials that serves and sells locally sourced food.

Ashley Cooper / Seal meat butchered by an Inuit man, Ilulissat, Greenland, July 2008.

Ashley Cooper / Cyclist in Poynton village, Cheshire which has recently undertaken a shared space road experiment, where pedestrians and vehicles share the same space. England, UK, May 2012.

Steve Downer / Common european toad (Bufo bufo) on a paving slab, June. Captive.

Steve Downer / Common european toad (Bufo bufo) on a paving slab, June. Captive.

Steve Downer / Yellow slug (Limax flavus) crawling from moss to a paving slab and leaving a slime trail, England, UK.

John Cancalosi / Serpentinite, 'rainforest brown' slab, India, March.

Nick Turner / St. James' church at dawn, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, UK. April 2015.

Paul D Stewart / Lithograph of a slab with multiple dinosaur trackways. From 'Ichnology of New England. A Report on the Sandstone of the Connecticut Valley, especially its Fossil Footmarks'. Boston: William White, 185...

Constantinos Petrinos / Detail of a slab covered roof, village of Small Papigo, Zagori area, Timfi mountain, western Greece, Mediterranean, Greece, October 2003.

Eric Baccega / Salt caravans made up of hundreds of dromedary camels (Camelus dromedarius), donkeys and their pullers transporting salt slab cuts from the salt lake Assale to the Mekele market, Danakil depression, A...

Eric Baccega / Salt caravans made up of hundreds of dromedary camels (Camelus dromedarius) and their pullers transporting salt slab cuts from the salt lake Assale to the Mekele market, Danakil depression, Afar regio...

TJ Rich / Elephants and Horses carved into moon-stone or 'Sandakada pahana' (a semi-circular stone slab placed at entrances) Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka.

Pascal Tordeux / Tarpaulin bags containing methane inflating on a concrete slab, part of a biogas production process, Spain, January 2013.

John Cancalosi / Granite, a metamorphic rock, polished slab, from Northern Italy.

LYNN M. STONE / Male Exotic Shorthair cat, on rock slab by roses in garden; Illinois, USA

LYNN M. STONE / Male Exotic Shorthair cat, on rock slab by roses in garden; Illinois, USA

Jouan & Rius / Detail of rock slab fragments, Hamersley gorge, Karijini National Park, Pilbara, Western Australia. August 2009

Jouan & Rius / Detail of rock slab, Kalamina gorge, Karijini National Park, Pilbara, Western Australia. August 2009

Jouan & Rius / Detail of rock slab, with sediment layers showing, Kalamina gorge, Karijini National Park, Pilbara, Western Australia. August 2009

Jerry Monkman / Man rappelling over Lower Slab in Pawtuckaway State Park, New Hampshire, USA, September 2008. Model released.

Philippe Clement / Detail of traditional wooden granary / raccard showing a circular stone slab to prevent rodents from gaining access to the grain or fodder reserves, Valais, Switzerland

Niall Benvie / Rock slab with cracks forming a shape like a rhinoceros, above Coire an Arr, Wester Ross, Scotland, October

Niall Benvie / Rock slab with cracks forming a shape like a rhinoceros, above Coire an Arr, Torridon, Wester Ross, Scotland, October

Ross Hoddinott / Hut circle remains and large circular granite slab, against stormy sky, Merrivale, Dartmoor NP, Devon, UK. September 2008.

Ross Hoddinott / Hut circle remains and large circular granite slab, Merrivale, Dartmoor NP, Devon, UK. September 2008.

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Weddell Seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) waking up on coastal rock slab, Cape Evensen, western Antarctica

John Cancalosi / Zebrastone rock slab, Western Australia

PREMAPHOTOS / Ant queen (Camponotus castaneus) with first few larvae in an early nest beneath a slab of stone, South Carolina, USA

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of 'The Country of the Iguanodon' by the apocalyptic artist John Martin, commissioned by Gideon Mantell as the frontis for his popular book 'The Wonders of Geology' (1838). Martin was vis...

Rick Tomlinson / Main and mizzen sails on 180ft Superyacht "Adele" are furled via traditional slab reefing systems with “Park Avenue” booms, lazy jacks from boom to mast and full length battens in both sails. The main...

Linda Pitkin / Jersey cudweed (Helichrysum luteoalbum) in flower. Surrey, UK. March.

Linda Pitkin / Jersey cudweed (Helichrysum luteoalbum) in flower. Surrey, UK. March.

Charlie Hamilton-James / Black rat (Rattus rattus) resting on stone slab next to food left by visitors, Karni Mata Temple (The Temple of Rats), a Hindu temple dedicated to the Hindu Goddess Karni Mata and famous for thousands...

Will Watson / Large slab of rhyolite at base of Craig Rhosyfelin, the origin for some of the Bluestones at Stonehenge, Preseli Hills, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK. January.

Will Watson / Large slab of rhyolite at base of Craig Rhosyfelin, the origin for some of the Bluestones at Stonehenge, Preseli Hills, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK. February.

Ashley Cooper / Walkers on the Three Peaks footpath next to piles of stone being used for repair work, Ingleborough, Yorkshire Dales National Park, Yorkshire, UK. April, 2021.

Ashley Cooper / Stone slabs used for repair work, piled up along the extremely popular Three Peaks footpath, Ingleborough, Yorkshire Dales National park, Yorkshire, UK. April, 2021.

Theo Bosboom / Drift ice on the shore of IJsselmeer, Stavoren, the Netherlands, February.

Juergen Freund / Slabs of rock in marble quarry. Chillagoe, Mareeba, Far North Queensland, Australia. 2015.

Andy Sands / Beautiful hook-tip moth (Laspeyria flexula) at rest on slate patio slab, Hertfordshire, England, UK, May