It takes a lot of stress, and a little chaos, to create some of the tallest mountains in our solar system. That is the theory proposed by earth and planetary scientists at Washington University in St.

A CHAPTER on mountains will not be an inappropriate introduction to that part of the world’s history on which we are now entering, when the great inequalities of the earth’s surface began to make ...

Aim: Complex topography in continental East Asia mirrors geological events such as formation of rivers and mountains, but to what extent these events drive diversification remains underexplored. We ...

An unprecedented abundance of oceanic life played a crucial role in the creation of Earth's first big mountains, a study led by scientists at the University of Aberdeen and published in the journal ...

John Parnell receives funding from NERC. While the formation of mountains is usually associated with the collision of tectonic plates causing huge slabs of rock to be thrust skywards, our study has ...

IN the account of M. Favre's experiments in NATURE, vol. xix. p. 103, I find the following passage:—“It is, in fact, very probable that our globe is at the stage when, according to Élie de Beaumont, ...