If we could put our planetary clock on fast forward, Earth’s surface would writhe with activity. Continents would scurry across the globe, oceans would open and close, and new mountains would shoot up ...

How and when do mountains grow? It is tempting to think of mountain formation as something that takes place only extremely gradually, on timescales of tens of millions of years. One tectonic plate ...

THE fourth part of the sketch of the geography and geology of the Himalayas is entirely the work of Mr. H. H. Hayden, and is devoted to a review of the present state of our knowledge of the Himalayas.

THE original edition of this work, which appeared in 1908, was intended to mark the centenary of the first expedition sent to the Himalaya by the Survey of India for geographical purposes, having for ...

A new method for quantifying grandeur is reshuffling the pecking order of the planet’s most impressive peaks. Turns out ...

Not even the most remote places on the planet are free from the presence of technology, and advances allow us to know more ...

Researchers examined the plant life in the China's Hengduan Mountains, the Himalaya Mountains, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Using DNA to build family trees of species, they learned that the ...

Majestic mountains, particularly the \"eight-thousanders\" of the Himalaya and Karakoram, symbolize nature's might and human ...

Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 40, No. 2, Open Issue (May 2020), pp. R1-R14 (14 pages) Mountains are facing growing environmental, social, and economic challenges. Accordingly, effective ...

Chinese officials are investigating outdoor clothing brand Arc'teryx after it apologised for a fireworks display in the ...

Editor's Note: Caprock Chronicles are edited each week by Jack Becker a retired TTU Librarian. He may be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu Today’s article is by Mary Walker Clark, an award-winning travel ...