Plate tectonics and mountains

Continents and mountain building

Terrane: a definition

The Geological Evolution of the Earth

Index of Continents and Oceans Past and Present

   The Supercontinent Cycle
    Dance of the Giant Continents
    New Lands Along an Old Coast

Exotic Terrane: a 27-minute film on the geologic history of the Pacific Northwest (view with Quicktime)
Rocks of the Exotic Terrane of New England

Probing the structure and evolution of the Rocky Mountains

Continental Dynamics - Rocky Mountain Project
       Structure and evolution of the lithosphere beneath the Rocky Mountains
Geologic history of the northern Sierra Nevada
Sierra Nevada geologic history

Molten rock may hold key to rise of High Sierra

San Andreas: an animated tectonic history of western North America

Geologic history of California

Himalaya

Birth of the Himalaya
Geology of the Himalaya

The India-Asia collision and the lost lithosphere
"Roof of the Earth" Offers Clues About How Our Planet Was Shaped

Appalachian Mountains

Geology and Physiographic Provinces of Maryland

Geology of the Sideling Hill road cut
Geology of Virginia

Physiographic/geologic provinces of Virginia

Appalachian Mountains tectonic overview
Overview of New York geology (includes some Appalachian geologic history)
West Virginia geology

Plate Tectonics

  • This Dynamic Earth-- [USGS]
  • Deconstructing Pangaea
  • WebDogs virtual plates: where I found many of the links below
  • Animated motion of the plates - from UC Berkeley
  • Plate tectonics and continental drift - global earth history
  • Paleomap project
  • Future animation: from today to 250 million years in the future
  • Paleogeographic Atlas of the World
  • Digital isochrons of the world's ocean floor
  • Measured and estimated seafloor topography
  • The Plates Project
  • Selected North American orogenies (mountain-building events)
  • Tectonic reconstructions of the Caribbean region
  • Lecture notes on plate tectonics (Pamela Gore, DeKalb College)
  • Lecture notes on the ocean floor (Pamela Gore, DeKalb College)
  • Lecture notes on mountain building (Pamela Gore, DeKalb College)

  • ODSN Plate Tectonic reconstruction service - build your own animation