The Foundation of Mountain Building Mountain building, also known as orogenesis, is a geological process that involves the ...

The world's longest mountain chain stretches along the entire west coast of South America, but scientists have been struggling to explain how it formed. Published Dec. 1 in Nature, research led by ...

A study published in Nature Geoscience reports new findings on the effects that erosion has on the carbon cycle. The study comes from a group of researchers led by Aaron Bufe and Niels Hovius of the ...

Asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest, George Mallory famously responded "because it´s there." But there was also a more practical reason - "for the stone from the top for geologists." This ...

Geologists doing fieldwork in southeastern Utah's Cedar Mountain Formation found carbon isotope evidence that the site, though on land, experienced the same early Cretaceous carbon-cycle change ...