Earth is speckled with mountains, from the slight Mount Wycheproof, rising 482 feet (147 meters) above sea level in Victoria, Australia, to the highest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest, standing ...

The theory of plate tectonics is strikingly recent in scientific history, which was widely accepted in the early 1960's. Now, scientists have discovered an alternative style to plate tectonics and ...

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 ...

Mountains rise, continents merge and split ... Because of this constant planetary recycling, the oldest incontrovertible evidence of plate tectonics — rocks formed solely in subduction zones — dates ...

Across the world, rivers wash mountains into the sea. In the beautiful and rugged mountains of southeast Alaska, glaciers grind mountains down as fast as the earth's colliding tectonic plates shove ...

Intense glacial erosion has not only carved the surface of the highest coastal mountain range on earth, the spectacular St. Elias range in Alaska, but has elicited a structural response from deep ...

If you think about mountain ranges like the Andes or the Himalayas, you can come up with multiple factors that must affect their size and shape. There’s the collision of tectonic plates that squeezes ...

For hundreds of millions of years, Earth’s climate has warmed and cooled with natural fluctuations in the level of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere. Over the past century, humans have pushed CO₂ ...

The great Rocky Mountains: a haven and ski destination for people from all around the world. Its rugged ranges and massive 14ers create an air of mystery and sense of awe for all who visit. But how ...

The road snakes deeply into Silverado Canyon, past remote clusters of homes and live oaks until it dead-ends at a parking lot seemingly at the foot of Santiago Peak. It’s a wall of a mountain, and ...

Okay, made me laugh... Does that mean we have to worry about Darth Mountain? But the results here aren't really unexpected, but I think they're not taking into account longer-term erosion. Unless the ...

For hundreds of millions of years, Earth’s climate has warmed and cooled with natural fluctuations in the level of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere. Over the past century, humans have pushed CO₂ ...