Processes called erosion, mass movement and weathering break down and remove material from the coast. The material is moved along the coastline by the sea and deposited when there is energy loss.

The discovery of a new type of taller and slenderer columnar Karst landscape has been disclosed by Hubei Geological Sciences Research Institute on Wednesday at Kanzi Mountain in Yunxi County, central ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud. When you ...

Pingtan Island is located off the southeast coast of China. The erosion of the land by the action of the sea has formed various kinds of rock formations. Pingtan Island is known as the "museum of ...

Danxia landform is the general name given in China to a unique type of landscape. The inscribed site comprises six areas found in the sub-tropical zone of Southwest China, including Chishui (Guizhou ...

Local authorities in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province said on Monday that they have launched an investigation into an incident where a tourist allegedly trampled on the Danxia landform, a range of ...

Drumlins are a ubiquitous landform in lands once overrun by glaciers, and yet after two centuries of studying them, we still aren’t certain how these teardrop-shaped hills form. Top image: A drumlin ...

It is one of Earth's newest landforms and it could just tell us where to look for evidence of life on Mars. The tongue-twisting volcanic island of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai exploded out of the Pacific ...