Natural disasters / Patrick L. Abbott.

By:

Abbott, Patrick L

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Dubuque, Ind. : McGraw-Hill, 2001Edition: 3rd edDescription: x, 422 p. : ill., mapsISBN:

0072428651 (pbk)

Subject(s):

Natural disasters

DDC classification:

904.5 21

Contents:

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	904.5 NAT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		011578111

Includes bibliographical references, glossary and index

Energy sources of disasters -- Plate tectonics and earthquakes -- Basic principles of earthquake geology and seismology -- Earthquakes in western North America -- More United States and Canadian earthquakes -- Volcanoes -- Volcanism and plate tectonics -- Mass movements -- Climate change -- Severe weather -- Hurricanes and the coastline -- Floods -- Fire -- The great dyings -- Impacts with space objects -- Population growth

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