Patrick Leon Abbott, Leon Abbott Patrick

Natural Disasters

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 is concerned with how the natural world operates and, in so doing, kills and maims humans and destroys their works.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
• 5th Revised edition
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 274mm x 219mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 1111g
• ISBN-13: 9780073040776
• ISBN-10: 0073040770
• Artikelnr.: 21135851

Autorenporträt

Pat Abbott is a professor at San Diego State University

Inhaltsangabe

1 Natural Disasters and Their Energy Sources
2 Plate Tectonics and Earthquakes
3 Basic Principles of Earthquake Geology, Seismology and Tsunami
4 Some Earthquakes in Western North America
5 More United States and Canadian Earthquakes
6 Volcanic Eruptions: Plate Tectonics and Magmas
7 Volcanic Eruptions Continue
8 Mass Movements
9 Climate Change
10 Severe Weather
11 Hurricanes and the Coastline
12 Floods
13 Fire
14 The Great Dyings
15 Impacts with Space Objects