A new study co-authored by researchers at Indiana University sheds light on how the forces that shape mountain ranges also ...

This means these dinosaurs lived and died, and then their remains were elevated to 5,000 feet, before the Rockies were formed.

An ocean floor pushed toward a land mass will always slide under the land mass. This is because the land mass is more buoyant, or lighter, than the ocean floor. When two land masses meet, on the ...

This is a corrie - an armchair shaped hollow found high on mountains where glaciers form. Layers of snow compact into ice and start moving down the mountain. As the ice moves, it plucks rock from ...

What a flat, dull place the world would be without mountains. Formed over millions of years by relentless movements of the planet's crust, squeezing and lifting land upwards to the sky, mountain ...

By John Cannon Millions of years ago, as the Indo-Australian plate pushed into the Pacific plate, a volcanic arc of islands ...

As the overlying plate lifts up, it also forms mountain ranges. In addition, the diving plate melts and is often spewed out in volcanic eruptions such as those that formed some of the mountains in ...

The mountains form a natural barrier between the densely populated southern and eastern provinces of China and the great wilderness of the Tibetan Plateau, the highest and largest in the world.