Mount Denali, North America's highest mountain, is a beautiful sight. While beautiful, though, scientists have long wondered exactly how this mountain came to be. Now, new research has finally ...

We finally know how a fault that gave rise to Denali, North America's highest mountain, first formed. According to new research, the Denali Fault is actually an ancient suture mark where two land ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Fault lines are fractures or breaks in the Earth's crust where tectonic plates move past each other, often resulting in earthquakes. These geological features are classified into three ...

New findings begin to fill major gaps in understanding about how geological faults behave and appear as they deepen, and they could eventually help lead future researchers to develop better earthquake ...

While it is often said that mountains don’t move, in reality, the Colorado Rocky Mountains are the result of a slow dance that has been occurring beneath the earth’s surface for hundreds of millions ...

The east coast of North America was once as wild as the West, with massive mountains rising between colliding tectonic plates, volcanoes belching lava and giant faults slicing the crust. That's ...