Rivers typically avoid massive mountain ranges–and they flow downhill, as gravity pulls water downward. However, the Green ...

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 ...

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

Based on how far the drip fell and how fast it descended, scientists estimate that it broke off two to five million years ago ...

Rivers always take the easy route. Most start in the highlands before submitting to gravity and flowing down towards the sea, weaving around whatever obstacles they might find in their path. But the ...

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

A 3.5 magnitude earthquake shook parts of Utah Thursday, the second felt in two weeks. The tremors come as experts remap the ...

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

Seismologists with the University of Utah will be providing an update on the 4.7 magnitude earthquake Thursday morning.

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

Learn more about the Green River and how a lithospheric drip may have led to the river flowing 'uphill.' ...