The Foundation of Mountain Building Mountain building, also known as orogenesis, is a geological process that involves the ...

An odd-looking cloud formation over Mount Rainier drew curious eyes from social media users Wednesday as the volcano looked as if it was giving a warning before some sort of event, but experts quickly ...

It takes a lot of stress, and a little chaos, to create some of the tallest mountains in our solar system. That is the theory proposed by earth and planetary scientists at Washington University in St.

Social media was abuzz after people in the greater Seattle metro area saw what appeared to be venting on Mount Rainier on Wednesday. A video of the most glaciated peak in the contiguous U.S. was ...

Learn how stress inside a volcano can make gas bubbles form early, helping explain why some eruptions stay quiet instead of exploding.

I have the honor of disagreeing with Bill Wade and the “Breed hypothesis” for the formation of the Red Mountain amphitheatre. Following the 2002 USGS Fact Sheet, in 2008, Wendell Duffield, Emeritus ...

The Olympus Mons volcano on Mars shares morphological similarities with active volcanic islands on Earth, suggesting that it formed when a vast ocean once occupied the planet's northern lowlands. A ...

What is the importance of studying explosive volcanism on Venus? This is what a study published in the Journal of Geophysical ...

Few things in life are certain but we do know that wet dogs stink, Star Trek is great, some hikers think beer is the fifth food group and Red Mountain is one of the most magical places on Earth. OK, ...