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This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously thought to occur only in continental crusts made by the ...

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Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian tectonic plate collided with the Arabian plate millions of years ago.