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 ...

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 ...

During the Proterozoic, Earth grew no taller - the tectonic processes that form mountains stalled, leaving continents devoid of high mountains for nearly 1 billion years, according to a new study.