Rivers shape the landscape through erosion. This video explores how vertical erosion creates V-shaped valleys, interlocking spurs, waterfalls and gorges. It also explains how geology affects rates of ...

New analysis of data from the Curiosity rover reveals that much of the craters on Mars today could have once been habitable rivers. New analysis of data from the Curiosity rover reveals that much of ...

The ice-covered season plays an important role in the development of river channels, a new study shows. The spatial variability of sediment transport and differences in depositional and erosional ...

From rugged mountain peaks to sandy beaches, erosion is constantly at work reshaping the Earth’s surface. Driven by water, wind, ice, and even human activity, this process can take millennia—or just ...