The Waiho Loop moraine in New Zealand's southern Alps had long been viewed as a southern icon of a recent glacier response to cooling climate, possibly the Younger Dryas cold event. But a closer look ...

Most landscape related models need detailed, quantitative data about landform morphology (e.g. slope length, gradient, relief) in addition to data about soil properties. Prior to the creation of the ...

Even as momentum builds toward sending humans to Mars in the next decade, several regions on the Red Planet remain off-limits ...

Arizona can be divided into three physiographic zones, each distinct and unique from the other. They are: the Colorado Plateau, the Arizona Transition Zone and the Basin and Range Province. The ...

Geomorphology is the study of landforms and landscapes on Earth and other planets, and the processes that shape them. This discipline is primarily concerned with the erosion and deposition of rock and ...

The site of the Dolomites comprises a mountain range in the northern Italian Alps, numbering 18 peaks which rise to above 3,000 metres and cover 141,903 ha. It features some of the most beautiful ...