01069nam a22001817a 4500 111027t xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0073040770 GB5014.A24 Abbott Patrick L. Natural disasters / Patrick L. Abbott 5th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, c2006. xvii,496p.: illus 28cm. 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. Natural disasters lcc BK 193 7693 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 GEN 2011-10-27 0 GB5014.A24 490/11 2011-10-27 00:00:00 1 2011-10-27 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 GEN 2011-10-27 0 GB5014.A241 491/11 2011-10-27 00:00:00 2 2011-10-27 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 GEN 2011-10-27 0 GB5014.A242 492/11 2011-10-27 00:00:00 3 2011-10-27 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 GEN 2011-10-27 0 GB5014.A243 493/11 2011-10-27 00:00:00 4 2011-10-27 BK