Geophysicists in Australia think they may have solved the long-standing enigma of how the Andes mountain range was formed. Using computer simulations that model the fluid dynamics and mechanics of ...

Stretching like a colossal spine along western South America, the Andes stand as the world's longest mountain range. It spans 8900 kilometers along South America's western periphery, is up to 700 ...

South America is the world’s most species-rich area. There have been many theories as to why, ranging from animals and plants accompanying the continent when it broke loose from Africa to variations ...

The world's longest mountain chain stretches along the entire west coast of South America, but scientists have been struggling to explain how it formed. Published Dec. 1 in Nature, research led by ...

Scientists have long been trying to understand how the Andes and other broad, high-elevation mountain ranges were formed. New research by Carmala Garzione, a professor of earth and environmental ...

A new computer model developed in part by scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography are giving researchers better insight into the formation of the Andes Mountains in South America, ...

Scientists are a step closer to predicting when and where earthquakes will occur after taking a fresh look at the formation of the Andes, which began 45 million years ago. Scientists are a step closer ...

Argentine geoscientist Victor Alberto Ramos was named the winner of the 2017 TWAS-Lenovo Science Prize today for his work on the formation of the Andes, both shedding light on the story behind his ...

A giant, sombrero-shaped rock formation is growing in the Andes as magma bobs up like a blob in a lava lamp, new research has found. These findings, detailed in the Oct. 12 issue of the journal ...

The Andes have been a mountain chain for much longer than previously thought, new research from the University of Bristol suggests. The Andes were formed by tectonic activity whereby earth is uplifted ...

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Vol. 48, No. 8 (August 2009), pp. 1682-1695 (14 pages) ABSTRACT This study examines the seasonal and diurnal dynamics of convective cloud entities—small ...