A new study co-authored by researchers at Indiana University sheds light on how the forces that shape mountain ranges also ...

Rising mountains do more than reshape the landscape – they also drive evolutionary change, according to a new study. By simulating millions of years of tectonic uplift, researchers have uncovered a ...

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

Schematic illustration showing the effects of landscape modification by mountain uplift in the stratigraphic and provenance signature of sedimentary rocks This is what I am mostly interested in ...

Not all mountains in the Yellowstone region are volcanic in origin. The Wind River Range, southeast of Yellowstone National Park, is an excellent example of an ancient pile of rocks ...

"Following the collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates, there is a low-elevation Central Tibetan Valley between the Gangdese and Tanggula mountains. Our findings reveal that the surface uplift ...