Natural disasters / Patrick L. Abbott
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TextPublication details: Boston: McGraw-Hill, c2006.Edition: 5th edDescription: xvii,496p.: illus 28cmISBN: - 0073040770
- GB5014.A24
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Includes index.
Contents: Natural disasters and the human population -- Energy flows in earth history and natural disasters -- Plate tectonics and earthquakes -- Basic principles of earthquake geology, seismology, and 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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