Colorado State University
College of Natural Resources
Mountain Building Processes
This photograph shows the glaciated
terrain of the Indian Peaks Wilderness, located about
25 miles west of Boulder along Colorado's Front Range (D. Merritt).
Welcome to the Fundamentals
of Mountain Building Home Page!! This page was designed at Colorado
State University to supplement the 7th grade World Geography course at
Lincoln Middle School in Fort Collins, Colorado.
This lesson begins by introducing some
fundamental earth processes such as plate tectonics and mountain formation
at a global scale. The lesson then uses specific examples of how
these processes at global and continental scales resulted in the landscape
that we live in here on the Front Range of Northern Colorado. The
page also includes a glossary of terminology and links to other home pages
that might be of interest to the study of mountain building.
Fundamentals
of Mountain Formation
Mountain
Building on the Colorado Front Range
Steams
and Glaciers as Erosive Agents
Glossary
of Terms
Links to find out more about Plate Tectonics and
Mountain Building
(click on the one you would like to visit)
United
States Geological Survey, Plate Tectonics and Sea-Floor Spreading
USGS,
Volcanoes and Natural Hazards
USGS
Cascades Volcano Observatory
USGS
National Earthquake Information Center
National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Visualize the Plates
AA&ES
Earth Science Page, Moving Mountains
University
of Michigan, Geology: Plate Tectonics Theory
University
of California, Berkley, Plate Tectonics
University
of California, San Diego, Periodicals List Subduction
Zones
National
Snow and Ice Information Center
To contact us please e-mail:
Bill Barter by clicking here... barter123@aol.com
or
David Merritt by clicking here... davem@lamar.colostate.edu
Written by Bill Barter and David Merritt
Copyright, 1997
All Rights Reserved
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