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Natural Disasters
ISBN: 9780072428650 | 0072428651
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Pub. Date: 5/25/2001
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This book focuses on natural disasters: how the normal processes of the Earth concentrate their energies and deal heavy blows to humans and their structures. "Natural Disasters" is concerned with how the natural world operates and, in so doing, kills and maims humans and destroys their works.
Throughout the book, certain themes are maintained:
* energy sources underlying disasters
* plate tectonics and climate change
* Earth processes operating in rock, water, and atmosphere
* significance of geologic time
* complexities of multiple variables operating simultaneously
* detailed and readable case histories.
The text aims to explain important principles about the Earth and then develop further understanding through numerous case histories. The book includes recent happenings such as the Western United States wildfires during the summer 2000 and the Los Alamos prescribed burn, also occurring in 2000.
1 Energy Sources of Disasters2 Plate Tectonics and Earthquakes3 Basic Principles of Earthquake Geology and Seismology4 Some Earthquakes in Western North America5 More United States and Canadian Earthquakes6 Volcanoes7 Volcanism and Plate Tectonics8 Mass Movements9 Climate Change10 Severe Weather11 Hurricanes and the Coastline12 Floods13 Fire14 The Great Dyings15 Impacts with Space Objects16 Population Growth
3 Basic Principles of Earthquake Geology and Seismology4 Some Earthquakes in Western North America5 More United States and Canadian Earthquakes6 Volcanoes7 Volcanism and Plate Tectonics8 Mass Movements9 Climate Change10 Severe Weather11 Hurricanes and the Coastline12 Floods13 Fire14 The Great Dyings15 Impacts with Space Objects16 Population Growth
5 More United States and Canadian Earthquakes6 Volcanoes7 Volcanism and Plate Tectonics8 Mass Movements9 Climate Change10 Severe Weather11 Hurricanes and the Coastline12 Floods13 Fire14 The Great Dyings15 Impacts with Space Objects16 Population Growth
7 Volcanism and Plate Tectonics8 Mass Movements9 Climate Change10 Severe Weather11 Hurricanes and the Coastline12 Floods13 Fire14 The Great Dyings15 Impacts with Space Objects16 Population Growth
9 Climate Change10 Severe Weather11 Hurricanes and the Coastline12 Floods13 Fire14 The Great Dyings15 Impacts with Space Objects16 Population Growth
11 Hurricanes and the Coastline12 Floods13 Fire14 The Great Dyings15 Impacts with Space Objects16 Population Growth
13 Fire14 The Great Dyings15 Impacts with Space Objects16 Population Growth
15 Impacts with Space Objects16 Population Growth
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