While there's a new observatory in the works in Amherst, Massachusetts, it's not aimed at looking up. It's a landform observatory. On a recent hot summer day Thomas Johnson, founder of the Friends of ...

Scientists have been familiar with Finnish landforms for decades. Now, however, researchers have discovered a new landform previously unknown to science with the aid of laser technology. After the ...

PACIFIC CITY, Ore. — Scott Burns, professor emeritus in geology at Portland State University, thought he had seen it all — until he saw a couple of photos of an extremely rare sand formation on the ...

Twenty-six sites with remnants of gravelly saprolites (grus) have been located in southeast Sweden. Joint block hills (castle kopjes) and steep rock walls with weathered joints as well as rounded ...

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

The intensity of frost shattering and the amount and type of debris produced from quartzite, granulite and rapakivi granite samples were studied with laboratory experiments. The experiments were run ...