(See related pages)
Below you will find links to a number of interesting web sites with information about Mountain Belts and the Continental Crust.
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| Geology of New York (the Empire State) | ||
| Geological history of New York that includes discussion of ancient mountain building episodes that made the state great. ( http://gretchen.geo.rpi.edu/roecker/nys/nys_edu.pamphlet.html ) | ||
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| A Virtual Field Trip of Eastern New York | ||
| A companion to the description of New York geology above. ( http://www.hartwick.edu/geology/work/VFT-so-far/VFT.html ) | ||
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| The Unique Geological Features of the Tibetan Plateau | ||
| A website about the "Roof of the World". ( http://www.100gogo.com/geo.htm ) | ||
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| The Geology of Vermont | ||
| An article describing the geologic history of Vermont, USA. ( http://www.platetectonics.com/archives/archive61.htm ) | ||
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| Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology | ||
| A research institute dedicated to understanding geologic processes of Himalayan mountain building. ( http://www.himgeology.com/index.htm ) | ||
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| The Mountain Gallery | ||
| A site devoted to capturing the lure of high places. ( http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~qtluong/gallery/ ) | ||
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| Deep structures of the Western Alps | ||
| Geology, geophysics, plate tectonics, and the history of the western Alps of Europe. ( http://www-sst.unil.ch/research/seismic/w_alps.htm ) | ||
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| The Nanga Parbat Continental Dynamics Project | ||
| Now we'll find out how the Himalayas really work. Includes a wonderful image gallery under the "Data" link. ( http://www.lehigh.edu/pkz0/public/www-data/nanga.html ) | ||
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| The Cornell Andes Project | ||
| The Andes present an unparalleled opportunity to study the processes of orogenesis in a continental margin underlain by a subducting oceanic plate. Cornell University is on top of it! ( http://www.geo.cornell.edu/geology/cap/CAP_WWW.html ) | ||
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| Andes of Bolivia: Geology | ||
| Not to be outdone by Ivy League Yankees, Duke University (Durham, North Carolina, USA) has composed this page dedicated to the Bolivian Andes. ( http://www.geo.duke.edu/field/Geo184S/bolivia/geo.htm ) | ||
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