are part of the Greater Caucasus mountain range and emerge between Baku and Quba in Azerbaijan. The striking red and white stripes are made up of shale, a type of sedimentary rock with many thin ...

Almost all fossils are preserved in sedimentary rock. Organisms that live in topographically ... Reading the layers is complicated by the fact that as continents move and mountains rise, the layers ...

This ocean is entirely gone today, although the sedimentary rocks that settled ... they crumpled into mountain ranges—the Himalayas. By 10 million years ago the two continents were in direct ...

Sedimentary geologist and geochemist works on critical minerals, the tectonic evolution of mountains and sedimentary basins, and terrestrial climate proxy records. Studies brine- and sediment-hosted ...