Stretching like a colossal spine along western South America, the Andes stand as the world's longest mountain range. It spans ...

Mountains form in a variety of ways, some of which geologists are now just starting to understand. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

A study led by Colorado State University suggests that the answers to how and why mountains form are buried deeper than once thought. "Mountain building is a fundamental process of how Earth behaves,” ...

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...

Pacific absolute plate-motion change as obtained from a hotspot reference frame (red; from Wessel and Kroenke (2008)) versus as obtained from RPM analysis (blue; fixed Eurasia plate). Map shows the 30 ...

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 ...