When you walk around on land, you are walking on top of Earth’s rocky crust. Below the crust is another thick layer of rock. These layers form Earth’s tectonic plates, and when those plates collide ...

Mount Denali, North America's highest mountain, is a beautiful sight. While beautiful, though, scientists have long wondered exactly how this mountain came to be. Now, new research has finally ...

The Rocky Mountains are beautiful, sure, but to geologists they have also been a bit frustrating—because they aren't located where mountains are supposed to be. Now, one team of geologists think they ...

In 2005, I was navigating winding roads through the Drakensberg Mountains, in Lesotho, Southern Africa. Towering cliff-like features known as escarpments interrupt the landscape, rising up by a ...

The most pronounced topographic features on Earth are large collisional mountain belts such as the European Alps, Himalayas, Andes, and Southern Alps of New Zealand. While it is well known that these ...

AMHERST, Mass. - The formation mechanism of the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York has long posed a geologic mystery, say seismology researchers at the nearby University of Massachusetts Amherst ...

Patrice Rey receives funding from the Australian Research Council. This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an ...

A new study co-authored by researchers at Indiana University sheds light on how the forces that shape mountain ranges also influence the evolution of species. In the study, "Direct effects of mountain ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. "Mountains are an essential part of the landscape, but big ...

Nigerian-born geoscientist Isaac Ogunrinde, currently pursuing a graduate degree in geology at the University of Alabama, is conducting pioneering research on the Coast Mountains Batholiths, the ...