A new Stanford study challenges the decades-old view that the rise of land plants half a billion years ago dramatically ...

Crescent dunes and meandering rivers can 'forget' their initial shapes as they are carved and reshaped by wind and water while other landforms keep a memory of their past shape, suggests ...

The film explores the processes of weathering and sedimentation that shape the Earth's surface. It explains how rocks break down into mud and sand through natural elements, which are then carried ...

The Yangtze River, stretching 4300 kilometers, forms a continuous topographic gradient from alpine gorges to estuarine deltas ...

But, really, you should think first of the depositional landform, the places where rivers deposit their sediment when they meet the sea. In fact, deltas should probably be your favorite ...

That river appears to be part of a larger network. Newer images captured by Curiosity depict “bench and nose” landforms, which are believed to be signs of several ancient fluvial structures.