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Mountain Building
Destinations
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 We have made a concerted effort to search the Web for relevant material, but no matter how hard we try there will always be more information available than we can possibly examine.
However, the following list contains links to many of the most interesting and informative Web sites related to topics explored in the chapter that we were able to locate. Check them out, but make sure you come back to do more investigating when you're done.
- Fault Animations
- Excellent animations of faults, plate subduction, earthquake wave propagation, and other processes from PBS' Savage Earth program.
- Folds, Faults, and Mountain Links (Houghton Mifflin)
- Links to several folds, faults, and mountain building sites, including class lecture notes, arranged by topic.
- Grand Teton National Park Field Trip
- An illustrated walking trip through parts of Grand Teton National Park, including the geology of the area.
- Hayward Fault
- A walking tour of California's Hayward Fault.
- Mountain Building Activity (Geosphere)
- An excellent interactive activity on mountain building from the University of Montana's Geosphere. With this activity learners identify major mountain ranges, formation processes, and utilize plate tectonics to explain geologic formations.
- National Parks Links
- Links to all U.S. National Parks arranged alphabetically by name.
- Structural Block Diagrams by Stephen J. Reynolds
- Block diagrams illustrating various types of inclined bedding and how geology is expressed in the landscape.
 - Structural Geology and Tectonics Division (GSA)
- The Geological Society of America (GSA) Structural Geology and Tectonics Division home page includes links to several related sites.
- Structural Geology and Tectonics Groups
- An alphabetical listing of university research groups in structural geology by country.
- Structural Geology Links (NAGT)
- A listing of structural geology links from the National Association of Geology Teachers.
- Structural Geology on the Web
- A great site to begin your investigation of a folds and faults.
- Structural Geology Tutorial
- Structural geology tutorial from Texas A & M University.
- Virtual Field Trips Listings
- An extensive listing of numerous geology-related virtual field trips, subdivided into three broad categories.
Photo/Figure Credits (In Order of Appearance)
- Tetons (Corel) (Property of Kenneth Pinzke)
- Mountain Range (Corel) (Property of Kenneth Pinzke)
- Simple Folds (Photo by E.J. Tarbuck)
- Reverse Fault (Photo by E.J. Tarbuck)
- Himalaya Mountains, Northeast India (Shuttle Photo) (Courtesy of NASA)
- Appalachian Mountains (Shuttle Photo) (Courtesy of NASA)
- Pangaea Diagram (Courtesy of USGS)
- Richat, Mauritania (Shuttle Photo) (Courtesy of NASA)
- Mountain Diagram (Copyright © Prentice Hall, Inc.)
- Fault Diagram (Copyright © Prentice Hall, Inc.)
- Fold Diagram (Copyright © Prentice Hall, Inc.)
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Courtesy of the National Park Service)
- Snowcovered Mountain (Corel) (Property of Kenneth Pinzke)
- Half Dome, Yosemite (Corel) (Property of Kenneth Pinzke)
- Weathering Along Vertical Joints (Corel) (Property of Kenneth Pinzke)
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