The Alps form a part of a Tertiary orogenic belt of mountain chains along the southern margin of the continents Asia and Europe, called the Alpide belt. This belt of mountain chains was formed during ...

The Alps are growing just as quickly in height as they are shrinking. This paradoxical result comes from a new study by a group of German and Swiss geoscientists. Due to glaciers and rivers, about ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Johann Jakob Scheuchzer was a Swiss physician who lived in the ...

GEOLOGY students from Queen Elizabeth (QE) Sixth Form College, in Darlington, recently enjoyed a week-long trip to the Alps. The main purpose of the trip was to study the landscape and geological ...

Snake Hill on the east side of Saratoga Lake is a unique geological feature that can be compared to developments in the Alps. I worked with a student on the geology of this low (about 200-foot) hill.

The Alps’ glaciers are melting, and these Swiss cartographers have work to do. A cartographer at the Federal Office of Topography in Switzerland. Jürg Gilgen draws the first lines of the Cornettes de ...

Pizza and cider to be served while we speak about glaciers. What drives glacial cycles? A bi-hemispheric perspective on the Last Glacial Termination using Glacier chronologies from the Southern Alps ...

AMONG the magnates of Swiss geology, no name has held a more honoured place than that of Bernard Studer, who now at the ripe age of ninety-three years has passed away. Upwards of sixty years ago he ...

image: In a recent Geology paper, geologists from the universities of Innsbruck and Leeds report on ancient cave systems discovered near the summits of the Allgäu Mountains that preserved the oldest ...

Alpine summits at 3,000 to 4,000 m may have been ice free until about 5,900 years ago, just before the lifetime of the Tyrolean Iceman (Oetzi), when new glaciers started to form, according to a study ...