The ancient Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains in the middle of East Antarctica are entombed beneath kilometres of ice ...

The ancient Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains in the middle of East Antarctica are entombed beneath kilometres of ice ...

The Gamburtsev Mountains are preserved by a deep layer of ice, making it one of the best-preserved mountain belts on Earth.

The Southern Alps are eroding away almost as quickly as the tectonic plates are pushing them up.STEVE CULLEN / SUPPLIED The Southern Alps are among the fastest rising mountains in the world.

The mysterious ‘ghost mountains’ – buried beneath kilometres of Antarctic ice – have puzzled scientists for decades.

Mother Nature had one of her wildest moments shaping the Alps, which thrust up millions of years ago when the African and Eurasian tectonic plates collided. These peaks rip across Central Europe ...

The Gamburtsev Mountains are similar in scale and shape to the European Alps. But we can't see them ... a mountain range will rise in places where two tectonic plates clash with each other.

Scientists discover gigantic hydrogen reserves dating back a million years beneath mountain ranges, boosting clean and ...

Scientists have unearthed Greater Adria, a lost continent the size of Greenland, hidden beneath Southern Europe for 140 million years. Advanced geological software reconstructed tectonic plate ...

the Alps in Europe, or even the Mid-Atlantic Ridge deep in the ocean. Some mountain ranges are formed when two sections of the Earth’s outer surface, called tectonic plates, push against each ...