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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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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