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 ...

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

A new study co-authored by researchers at Indiana University sheds light on how the forces that shape mountain ranges also influence the evolution of species. In the study, “Direct effects of mountain ...

We finally know how a fault that gave rise to Denali, North America's highest mountain, first formed. According to new research, the Denali Fault is actually an ancient suture mark where two land ...