Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life—largely thanks to continental silicate weathering, which acts as a long-term planetary thermostat.

The stratigraphies of foreland basins have been related to orogeny, where continent–continent collision causes the construction of topography and the downwarping of the foreland plate. These ...

Intracontinental compression orogens develop in four stages from initial contraction through upward growth via not only thickening and uplift but also propagation via lateral and forward growth to ...

Can you guess what 'orogeny' mean? Learn about our latest geography word of the week now! The process of mountain formation that happens when two tectonic plates collide, either pushing the Earth’s ...