Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian ...

In the Triassic era, North America was part of Pangea, a supercontinent whose massive scale sparked extreme monsoons that ...

Why it's incredible: The mountains' folded rocks form stunning rainbow patterns. As the name suggests, China's Rainbow Mountains are multicolored formations in the northwest of the country. The ...

The methods his group has employed over the years include geologic field mapping (we climb mountains in the Yanshan belt and look at faulted and folded rocks to establish their ages relative to ...