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.

The folded mountains of central Pennsylvania were past peak leaf-peeping but still colorful when the (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite passed over on November 9, 2020.

In the Cape Fold Mountains, we now know that every mountain peak has an endemic species. This suggests that in unsampled areas there are likely to be additional novel diversity, waiting to be found.

The first, extending across the photo, is the elongated fold mountains and intervening valleys of heavily folded limestone layers. These mountains and valleys are oriented approximately east to west.

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The highest mountain in the Alps is Mont Blanc. The model above uses cardboard boxes and towels to show how fold mountains are created by the collision of tectonic plates.

In the Cape Fold Mountains, we now know that every mountain peak has an endemic species. This suggests that in unsampled areas there are likely to be additional novel diversity, waiting to be found.