In a new paper, Jordan Jensen and Alexis Ault introduce a new forensic tool designed to enhance our understanding of how unconformities form. Iron oxide minerals are found in rocks around the world.

Primary minerals form at elevated temperatures from cooling magma during the original solidification of rock or during metamorphism, and they are usually derived from igneous and metamorphic rocks ...

Over time, the layers are compressed and glued together.Metamorphic ... of rock formation is happening right now, all over the planet. Rocks close rockA rock is a solid material made of minerals.

The characteristics of the rocks that hold fossils can be as informative as the fossils themselves. There are three main types of rock: igneous rock, metamorphic rock ... causing the minerals that ...

His research interests range from the evolution of metamorphic rocks in Montana and ... lab (“cooking rocks”). A common theme of his research projects and those of the students who work with him is ...