How Mountains Form
Most of the world's great mountain ranges were raised by the slow collision of tectonic plates, then sculpted into peaks and ridges by ice, water, and wind.
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How Plateaus Form
A plateau is a broad, elevated area of relatively flat land, raised largely intact by tectonic uplift or built up from repeated layers of volcanic rock.
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How Rift Valleys Are Created
A rift valley forms where tectonic plates pull apart, stretching and thinning the crust until a section of it drops down between parallel fault lines.
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Why Some Natural Landscapes Take Millions of Years to Form
Natural landscapes form at wildly different speeds because rock hardness, the strength of the forces acting on it, and how continuously those forces act all combine differently from place to place, ranging from a single rockfall to tens of millions of years of mountain building.
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