The towering peaks of the Southern Andes are not just shaping the skyline of South America—they are also quietly influencing ...

Differential erosion is a simple concept with a beautiful impact. Variability in rock hardness changes how it is sculpted by water and wind. It’s a bit of a tease that geoscientists look at any ...

River rock often plays a practical role in gardens and landscapes. Here are a dozen ways to use this natural material for ...

A buried wedge of stiff mantle rock might be the reason why the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau have stayed so high for ...

SINCE Ramsay recognised in 1878 that the even skyline of South Wales represented a plain of marine denudation, uplifted and dissected, upland surfaces of low relief have been recognised in all parts ...

New research provides further evidence that rocks representing up to a billion years of geological time were carved away by ancient glaciers during the planet's 'Snowball Earth' period. New research ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover has spotted strange rock formations on the red planet that appear to have formed into small, twisted towers. A photo of the rock formations was shared on Twitter last month ...