The Foundation of Mountain Building Mountain building, also known as orogenesis, is a geological process that involves the ...

Mount Denali, North America's highest mountain, is a beautiful sight. While beautiful, though, scientists have long wondered exactly how this mountain came to be. Now, new research has finally ...

New findings begin to fill major gaps in understanding about how geological faults behave and appear as they deepen, and they could eventually help lead future researchers to develop better earthquake ...

SEATTLE — New information about how the hazardous Seattle fault zone may have formed could help scientists improve hazard modeling for this densely populated region. More than 4 million people live in ...

AMHERST, Mass. - Structural geologist Michele Cooke calls it the "million-dollar question" that underlies all work in her laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst: what goes on deep in ...

One structural geologist calls it the 'million-dollar question' that underlies all work in her laboratory: what goes on deep in the earth as strike-slip faults form in the crust? This is the fault ...