Few things in the world are more representative of strength and the passing of extreme time than mountains. On the face of it, these colossal formations look like they have always been there, ...

A study suggests that the answers to how and why mountains form are buried deeper than once thought. Clues in the landscape of southern Italy allowed researchers to produce a long-term, continuous ...

Instead, the new findings indicate that the hot blob, which sits 125 miles (200 kilometers) deep and stretches 220 miles (350 km) across New England, appeared around 80 million years ago, when what ...

Examples of Cumberlandite and titanomagnitolivinite will be on display at the John Hay Library through August 2026.

Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — With more than 800 miles of trails in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and waterfalls, sweeping cliffside views, towering forests, backcountry wilderness and ...

A giant blob of abnormally hot rock beneath the Appalachian Mountains formed when Greenland separated from North America around 80 million years ago, new research suggests. Scientists previously ...