Madagascar’s cliffs, rolling plateaus, and winding rivers weren’t shaped by a single violent event. Instead, the island’s breathtaking landscape took form through two massive tectonic rifts that ...

Mountain building, also known as orogenesis, is a geological process that involves the formation and uplift of large, elevated landforms, known as mountains. The term "orogenesis" comes from Greek ...

Mount Everest’s towering height isn’t shaped by tectonic forces alone. Its continued growth owes a quiet debt to nearby rivers. These rivers, cutting through deep gorges, have helped lift the mountain ...

Scientists have answered one of the most puzzling questions in plate tectonics: how and why 'stable' parts of continents gradually rise to form some of the planet's greatest topographic features.

Diamonds present at the birth of the Okavango Delta have a lasting connection to this landscape and are playing a unique role in its conservation today. 3:41 Geological time and tectonic forces have ...

Ground fissures and tectonic faults represent critical structural features within sedimentary basins, where the interplay of regional stress fields, depositional environments and, at times, human ...

ARC Early Career Industry Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne Ben Mather receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Adriana Dutkiewicz ...