Tag: mountains

Japan’s first western ichthyosaur discovered during educational museum event

PALEONTOLOGY16/07/2025

A vertebrate fossil discovered in a rock from the Late Triassic period (approximately 220 million years ago) in Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture, has been confirmed through joint research by Okayama University of Science and other institutions...

Study finds link between Grand Canyon landslide and Meteor Crater impact

ASTRONOMY16/07/2025

Geology is full of detective stories about the Earth's history, and a new paper in Geology by University of New Mexico Distinguished Professors Emeritus Karl Karlstrom and Laurie Crossey, along with their co‐authors, links two iconic...

Rockfall frequency from French mountains has doubled since Little Ice Age

EARTH16/01/2025

The Little Ice Age was a period of significant cooling from the early 14th to mid-19th centuries, which saw mean temperatures across the northern...

The search for Earth’s hidden mountains

EARTH28/08/2023

The deep Earth contains vast mountain ranges with peaks up to four times the height of Everest. But no one knows why. It was a...

Researchers uncover reasons to rethink how mountains are built

EARTH02/06/2023

A study led by Colorado State University suggests that the answers to how and why mountains form are buried deeper than once thought. "Mountain building...