A 7-km (4-mile) lake in northern Pakistan, created by a mountain mudslide, is threatening to burst and unleash potentially ...

Rodinia was a supercontinent that included nearly all of Earth’s landmasses for about 450 million years during the Proterozoic Eon, according to Britannica. It formed around 1.2 billion years ago from ...

Today, this 1,267-foot-high pinnacle of phonolite (a silica-poor fine-grained igneous rock) is described in many textbooks as an intrusion of igneous rock that never reached the surface to form a ...

Now, new research has finally pinpointed how the Denali Fault formed, giving birth to the spectacular mountain we know today. The Denali Fault is what scientists call a strike-slip fault.

A plant press used by the researchers doing fieldwork in the Hengduan Mountains. (Photo courtesy of Deren Eaton) (CN) — Mountainous regions are home to a breadth of biodiversity found in few other ...

"The formation of this very species-rich community was fueled by ancient mountain-building and then subsequent effects of the monsoon. The biodiversity that we see today has been profoundly shaped ...

"Ancient mountain formation and monsoons helped create a modern biodiversity hotspot." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 1 August 2020. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 07 / 200730141326.htm>.

University of Rochester. "Taking the pulse of mountain formation in the Andes." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 21 April 2014. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 04 / 140421135926.htm>.

Displate.com, March 3, 2021, 'Mighty Mountain' poster Factly, March 24, 2021, An edited photo created by a digital artist is falsely shared a photo of ‘Wolf Mountain’ in Norway ...