The following internet sites are useful for learning about the continental crust and orogenesis - the geologic processes of mountain formation.

http://main.amu.edu.pl/~sgp/gw/gw1.htm
Geomorphology is the study of the formation and evolution of the surface of the Earth. The Virtual Geomorphology web page, maintained by Zbigniew Zwolinski, of the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, contains a wealth of links to information about surface features (including mountains) on all continents of the world. Links to regional geomorphology and planetary geomorphology are particularly interesting.

http://topex.ucsd.edu/marine_topo/mar_topo.html
The Digital Globe page, from the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, SIO, Geodynamics Laboratory, NOAA - Geological Data Center, SIO - Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. This site contains colorized topographic images of some of the world's major mountain ranges, including the Andes and Himalayan mountain belts.

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/RotatingGlobeLQ.mov
This link connects you to a large, rotating globe showing surface topography, including all of the world's mountain ranges.

http://www2.nature.nps.gov/grd/tour/mountain.htm
The U.S. National Park service maintains this list of links to information about mountains in national parks.

http://nsccbio.sccd.ctc.edu/tfurutani/field_trip/northcascades.html
A virtual field trip to the North Cascades Range in Washington State by Tracy Furutani at North Seattle Community College.

http://vishnu.glg.nau.edu/people/jhw/Tibet/Tibet.html
A virtual field trip, at Northern Arizona University, to Tibet with information about the cultures, topography, and geology of the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayan Mountains.

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