“It’s such a weird path,” said Adam Smith, a researcher in numerical modeling at the University of Glasgow, describing a ...

This makes the story of how the Green and Colorado Rivers met so perplexing to geologists like Adam Smith at Scotland’s ...

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

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

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 ...

As Lake Powell and Lake Mead near critical elevations, federal planners face narrowing operational options that could reshape ...

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