Plate tectonics and 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
Plate motion calculator

Himalaya

Birth of the Himalaya

The India-Asia collision and the lost lithosphere
"Roof of the Earth" Offers Clues About How Our Planet Was Shaped
Himalayan Front and Tibetan Plateau
Strike-slip faults, western China

Appalachian Mountains

Geology and Physiographic Provinces of Maryland

• Geologic cross-sections through Appalachians and Piedmont provinces
• Geologic cross-section of the Coastal Plain

Geology of the Sideling Hill road cut
Geology of Virginia (includes Appalachian physiographic provinces)

• Using Cereal Bowls and Car Crashes to Understand Virginia Geology
• Brief tectonic history of Virginia

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

Excerpts from NASA's "Geomorphology from Space"

Appalachian Mountains
Folded Appalachians
Pine Mountain thrust

Sierra Nevada Mountains and general geology of California

Sierra Nevada Research papers and abstracts (including the abstract from the Science article)

Shaded relief map and geology of California (image and brief discussion)
3-D digital elevation models: eastern Sierra Nevada, California
A field trip to Owens Valley/Mammoth Lakes
Geology/Natural History of Lake Tahoe and formation of Sierra Nevada Mountains
California's coastal mountains
Geologic history of Santa Cruz County/formation of Coast Ranges