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Natural disasters / Patrick L. Abbott.
Author
Abbott, Patrick L.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
Sixth edition
Published/Created
Boston : McGraw-Hill, ©2008.
Description
xvii, 510 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
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ReCAP - Remote Storage
GB5014 .A24 2008
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Stokes Library - Wallace Hall (SPIA)
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Natural disasters
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Summary note
Natural disasters and the human population - Energy flows in earth history and natural disasters - Plate tectonics - Earthquakes - Tsunami - Volcanic eruptions - Magmas - Killer events - Mass movements - Atmosphere, oceans and long-term climate change - Short-term climate change and severe weather - Hurricanes and the coastline - Floods - Fire - Fossils - Mass extinctions.
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
Natural disasters and the human population
Energy flows in earth history and natural disasters
Plate tectonics and earthquakes
Earthquake geology and Seismology
Tsunami
Some earthquakes in western North America
More U.S. and Canadian earthquakes
Volcanic eruptions : plate tectonics and magmas
Volcano case histories : killer events
Mass movements
Atmosphere, oceans, and long-term climate change
Short-term climate change and severe weather
Hurricanes and the coastline
Floods
Fire
The great dyings
Impacts with space objects.
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ISBN
9780073050348 ((hard copy ; : alk. paper))
0073050342 ((hard copy ; : alk. paper))
9780071102186
0071102183
LCCN
2006102905
OCLC
86115518
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