Climbing Table Mountain means venturing through pristine forests, steep rocky corridors and lunar plateaux, before climbing ...

While it is often said that mountains don’t move, in reality, the Colorado Rocky Mountains are the result of a slow dance that has been occurring beneath the earth’s surface for hundreds of ...

In the Himalaya, this fault spans some 1,400 miles, and it has several kinks and bends—remnants from the ancient smashup that raised the mountains in the first place.

Recent paleoseismic work has documented four surface-rupturing earthquakes that occurred across the Santa Cruz Mountains section of the San Andreas Fault (SAF) in the past 500 years. The research ...

We finally know how a fault that gave rise to Denali, North America's highest mountain, first formed. According to new research, the Denali Fault is actually an ancient suture mark where two land ...

Scientists at Idaho State University map out a new, active seismic fault in the US Rocky Mountains capable of unleashing a 7.5 magnitude earthquake.

The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic tectonic collision that created the Himalayas.

The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn and the Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle are two of the greatest living lyricists in American music, they both always make amazing faces when they’re performing ...

Geologists Find A New Active Fault In Nepal, Potentially Links Climate With Mountain Building Date: April 26, 2005 Source: Dartmouth University Summary: A Dartmouth researcher is part of a team ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) – Engineers made plans to move some structures at the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump after rock samples indicated a fault line unexpectedly ran beneath their original location ...

Professor Weiss said the quake rippled along an old, inactive fault line within the Appalachian Mountain Range. The shallow nature of this quake and the kind of rock located in northern Jersey is ...

All the tenants of the late Alan Sulzenfuss were recently served letters informing them they must vacate by Sept. 30.