Natural disasters

Patrick L. Abbott

474 pages, parution le 04/12/2003 (4^eme édition)

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Tornadoes generate the highest wind speeds on earth. The aesthetically sculpted tornado ouched down on the high plains of eastern New Mexico.

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. It largely ignores the numerous ease histories describing human actions anil resultant environmental responses; these topics are left to the excellent textbooks on environmental geology. Nor does this book address resource extraction, utilization, and disposal; these subjects are covered by fine textbooks on earth resources, minerals, energy, soils, and water. This book is concerned with how the natural world operates and, in so doing, kills and maims humans and destroys their works.

Natural Disasters and their Energy Sources
Plate Tectonics and Earthquakes
Basic Principles of Earthquake Geology, Seismology and Tsunami
Some Earthquakes in Western North America
More United States and Canadian Earthquakes
Volcanic Eruptions: Plate Tectonics and Magmas
Volcanic Eruptions Continue
Mass Movements
Climate Change
Severe Weather
Hurricanes and the Coastline
Floods
Fire
The Great Dyings
Impacts with Space Objects
Population Growth
Glossary
Index

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Mc Graw Hill
Auteur(s)	Patrick L. Abbott
Parution	04/12/2003
Édition	4^eme édition
Nb. de pages	474
Format	21,5 x 27,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1055g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780071218511