Westerly winds over Main Range caused an oscillating "mountain wave" effect which lasted a few hours on Monday.

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 ...

Mountains are ancient things, but some are far younger than others and some are still growing.

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 ...

Researchers say they finally know how the fault that gave rise to Mount Denali, North America's highest mountain, formed.

In National 5 Geography, study the formation of glaciated upland mountain features, such as corries, arêtes and pyramidal peaks, and the processes that create them.

The clouds, shaped like curling waves and formed by a phenomenon known as Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, occur as a result of differences in air density in adjacent layers of the sky.

As virtual mountains formed, these animals dispersed and adapted to their surroundings, eventually evolving into multiple distinct species.

We’ve come a long way in understanding the processes that lead mountain ranges to form away from the edges of continents.