mountains

Our own Blue Marble gives us some of the most amazing, unexpected art. Here you will find a few of its offerings.

Bedrock carved by ice sheet holds clues to effects on sea level.

Underground rock movements surprise geologists.

Mountain ranges run from Alaska, through Canada, and down through California.

Plate tectonics and glacier erosion have shaped iconic peaks.

Chemical traces revise theory of formation of American Cordillera.

This dormant volcano is one of the largest in the Americas.

Creation of super continent turned an ocean floor into mountains.

Researchers probe inner Earth below Himalayas, Tibetan Plateau.