Stretching like a colossal spine along western South America, the Andes stand as the world's longest mountain range. It spans ...

Paleostress modeling shows how a region of the Andean Plateau was uplifted and formed beginning more than 20 million years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Mountain waves, it's a large-scale wind pattern that typically happens in the cooler months from fall to early spring. This weather phenomenon occurs in many mountain ranges around the globe including ...

The youngest and oldest mountain ranges on Earth: It might surprise you to know that mountains aren't static; they are constantly being formed and weathered away over millions, even billions, of years ...

Many mountain ranges near Tucson have significantly contributed to Arizona’s mining history. These include the Sierrita, Silver Bell, Patagonia and Santa Rita Mountains, which have a similar ...

He received the National Medal of Science for his foundational work on plate tectonics and the presence of volcanic “hot spots” called mantle plumes W. Jason Morgan, a Princeton University geologist ...