Proving that North America’s highest mountain formed because of a collision of tectonic plates isn’t exactly news, of course. That’s how mountains typically formed as the Earth evolved over ...

Those mountains paralleled today’s Front Range, about 30 to 40 miles west. Around that time, Colorado was surrounded by ...

The formation of Heart Mountain near Cody is a story of a block of rock the size of Rhode Island moving at 700 mph, an ...

Our new study, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, reveals how this hidden mountain chain emerged more than 500 million years ago when the supercontinent Gondwana formed from ...

Scientists solve mystery of Antarctic mountain range hidden for 500 million years. The ancient Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains in the middle of East Antarctica are entombed beneath kilometres of ice ...