The UK has several areas of glaciated upland ... This is a corrie - an armchair shaped hollow found high on mountains where glaciers form. Layers of snow compact into ice and start moving down ...

So how are mountains formed? A key factor, other than time, is the meeting of tectonic plates. When these large rocky plates that make up the Earth’s lithosphere (the outermost layer of its ...

Soon, geologists recognized that in mountain ranges - or at least in the Alps - layered sedimentary rocks surrounded a central core of undifferentiated rocks, which were formed by slow cooling of ...

In 2005, I was navigating winding roads through the Drakensberg Mountains, in Lesotho, Southern Africa. Towering cliff-like features known as escarpments interrupt the landscape, rising up by a ...