"This discovery suggests that these regions are not merely isolated landforms; they are interconnected components of a larger continental structure." Continents are difficult to define because the ...

Scientists have solved one of Earth’s mysteries of how continents rose more than 1km ... mystery” of how some of the most dramatic landforms came into being. Tom Gernon, professor of earth ...

Waves in the underlying layer known as the mantle can scour off the keels of continents, buoying their surfaces upward to form prominent landforms far from any active plate boundaries, researchers ...

There are glaciers on every continent except Australia. They are found in the coldest places, in Polar regions and on mountains. Glaciers can form distinct landforms through erosion of the ...