Rivers always take the easy route. Most start in the highlands before submitting to gravity and flowing down towards the sea, ...

Millions of years ago, the Green River carved a path through the Uinta Mountains instead of flowing around the formation. Now ...

For more than a century, the Green River's course through the Uinta Mountains in Utah's northeast has been a geological mystery, seemingly defying physics. Rivers carve their paths by flowing downhill ...

The finding "may be the hidden answer to more tectonic mysteries than we’ve previously realized," said geologist Adam Smith.

New research may have solved an American mystery which has baffled geologists for a century and a half: How did a river carve ...

This aligns with preexisting estimates of when the river probably carved through the Uinta Mountains—creating a canyon that today is 2,297 feet (700 meters) deep—and joined the Colorado system. In ...

The western US is a geologists' dream, home to the Rocky Mountains, the Grand Canyon, active volcanoes and striking sandstone arches. But one landform ...

The Green River’s dramatic route through Utah’s Uinta Mountains has puzzled geologists for more than a century. Now, a group ...