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
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