Canyon series 1

[Dune]

That's what I understand as well. I'm actually curious if a simple color (even blue node) would render very differently.

[Tangled-Universe]

That node omits the displacement data from the incoming connection.
I'm trying a test now with having that as colour function of a surface shader, but I can't imagine that it would make a difference. Neither as a child of that surface layer.

OK so that took 10 minutes for 9% completion, I know enough...

[Dune]

Yes, used inline it does indeed.