June 7 (UPI) --According to a newly conducted seismic CT scan, the southern half of the Tibetan Plateau, the "Roof of the World," was created by a sudden uplift. The plateau's dramatic rise occurred ...

New research shows that the Altiplano plateau in the central Andes -- and most likely the entire mountain range -- was formed through a series of rapid growth spurts. "This study provides increasing ...

How did the continents form? Although to a certain extent this remains an open question, the oceanic plateau of the Kerguelen Islands may well provide part of the answer, according to a ...

China's Loess Plateau was formed by wind alternately depositing dust or removing dust over the last 2.6 million years. The new study is the first to explain how the steep-fronted plateau formed: wind ...

China’s Huangtu Plateau has built hype for the research interests of geoscientists by being one of the biggest and most complete dust deposits on Earth. Paul Kapp, a UA professor of geoscience, and Dr ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Ontong Java Plateau, a volcanically-formed underwater plateau located in the Pacific Ocean north of the Solomon Islands, is younger and its eruption was more protracted than ...

The high eastern Tibetan Plateau was thought to have formed from an inflow of material from the lower crust. The cooling histories of rocks exposed at the plateau margin, however, reveal protracted, ...