These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable ...

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Kirt Kempter likes to tease conservation groups about their efforts to try to stop erosion in the Galisteo Basin. As a geologist, he contextualizes time a bit differently than other people. He knows ...

the Bitterroot National Forest has opened a new sedimentary source. The Stevensville Ranger District has opened a former rock quarry in the Sapphire Mountains for public rock collecting.

Himalayas reiterate a tale of planetary transformation — of drifting continents, lost oceans, and the birth of life itself.

A ritual and funerary landscape is emerging in northwestern Africa, revealing connections with the Mediterranean, Atlantic ...

Mountain interiors with their consistent temperature and humidity also provide suitable environmental conditions for preserving the conventional high explosives (used to compress the fissile material) ...

Iran's folded rocks are rugged mountain ridges and valleys to the ... The rocks are formed of countless sedimentary layers, which were upturned and creased into the landscape we see today during ...

In the Danxia Shan national geopark tens of millions of years of erosion and tectonic activity have sculpted red sedimentary rock into dramatic ... from an adjoining mountain by tectonic forces ...