How were the Himalayan mountains shaped? Surprisingly, long before the collision between what is now India and Central Asia.

As the Earth's crust shifted and groaned over millions of years, something extraordinary happened beneath the surface. Deep inside the planet, hot rock began rising. Over time, this invisible force ...

New research from Adelaide University suggests the power of the ancient Tethys Ocean might have shaped Central Asia's topography during the Cretaceous period. Researchers made the discovery using a ...

In the context of the “Tethys one-way train” (long-term cyclical northward breakup-drifting of Gondwana continental fragments), increase in low-latitude continental area leads to the decrease in ...