Thus, erosion, by reducing the weight of the mountain range, actually accelerates tectonic processes beneath the mountains. For this reason, erosional processes can be viewed as "sucking" crust ...

If you think about mountain ranges like the Andes or the Himalayas, you can come up with multiple factors that must affect their size and shape. There’s the collision of tectonic plates that ...

Mountains may look ancient — but some are mere toddlers, while others are great-grandaddies, geologically speaking. So, what is the oldest mountain range? And what about the youngest?

Rivers are Earth's arteries. Water, sediment and nutrients self-organize into diverse, dynamic channels as they journey from ...

Glaciers' 'buzz-saw effect' can level mountains. But at high altitudes, glaciers can freeze to mountains and shield against erosion, new research suggests.

Increased erosion associated with the rise of the world's great mountain ranges has been held to be the cause of a prolonged episode of past climate cooling. That connection is now brought into ...

These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable — and the world is unprepared.

Mount Everest is having a growth spurt, but it’s not the only mountain getting taller. The Rocky Mountain ranges we call home, along with the white-capped Everest are still growing. How can something ...

Punctuated mountain building The team found evidence of several intermittent phases of mountain formation and subsequent erosion in the basement rocks of the Transantarctic Mountains.

As climate ‘whiplash’ worsens, post-CZU soil erosion in the Santa Cruz Mountains reveals post-wildfire problems Even four years after the devastating blazes, many residents still face winter ...

ONE of Scotland's most eroded mountains is to be protected from its own popularity with the help of #256,000 of lottery funding which will be announced today. Stac Pollaidh, north of Ullapool, is ...