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

AMES, Iowa – Today’s geology lesson is all about anticlines. Students can read all they want about geological folds, axial planes, hinge lines, antiformal synclines and synformal anticlines. But it ...

Scientists know that tectonic stresses have left dips and folds deep within the Earth's crust across a large swath of the Puget Sound region called the Seattle uplift. New research shows the same ...

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 ...

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. The landscapes of the Xinjiang province of western China are very special. It is here the ancient trade routes of ...

A new web application that makes it quick and easy for people to use 3-D printers to make terrain models of any place on Earth has now been developed by researchers. Their idea -- they call it ...