Beneath the frozen wastes of the Arctic, a three-way geopolitical tug-of-war is taking place over which country owns a ridge of undersea mountains. The winner will change maps forever. One of the ...

Mountains part of continental shelf? Preliminary tests on soil samples gathered by a Russian scientific expedition indicate that a vast mountain range under the Arctic Ocean is part of Russia’s ...

The research team attempted to measure all the material that left and entered the St Elias Mountain range, on the Alaskan ... gulf and the Alaskan continental shelf. Sean Gulick, lead author ...

rising like the tops of books slumped sideways into an empty shelf. The difference is that these layers started off flat, not vertical. The Sawtooth Mountains lie entirely within the range of the ...

The world’s loneliest house, stuck on the side of a remote mountain range, had lain empty for 100 years — but its mystery remains. Nearly 9,000 feet above sea level in the midst of Italy’s ...

Not all mountain ranges are ancient, geologically speaking. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Mountains may look ancient ...

The mysterious ‘ghost mountains’ – buried beneath kilometres of Antarctic ice – have puzzled scientists for decades.