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By Rachel Hergett, MSU News Service

BOZEMAN — When Devon Orme looks at a mountain range, she sees more than its towering beauty. She thinks about how it formed, the unseen forces that built it and the rocks making up its slopes. She sees a slow series of processes occurring over millions of years, what she calls “deep time.”

“Geology is very much a way to look at the landscape and also understand it in the aspect of time,” said Orme, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth Sciences in the College of Letters and Science at MSU.Orme is seeking greater understanding on how time and tect...