Natural disasters / Patrick L. Abbott.

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Abbott, Patrick L

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Boston : McGraw-Hill Higer Education, 2004.Edition: 4th edDescription: xiv, 460 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cmISBN:

0072528095

Partial contents:

Ch. 1. Natural disaster and their energency sources -- Ch. 2. Plate tectonics and earthquakes -- Ch. 3. Basic principles of earthquake geology, seismology, and tsunami -- Ch. 4. Some earthquakes in western North America -- Ch. 5. More United States and Canadian earthquakes -- Ch. 6. Volcanic eruptions : plate tectonics and magmas -- Ch. 7. Volcanic eruptions continue -- Ch. 8. Mass movements -- Ch. 9. Climate change -- Ch. 10. Severe weather -- Ch. 11. Hurricanes and the coastline -- Ch. 12. Floods -- Ch. 13. Fire -- Ch. 14. The great dyings -- Ch. 15. Impacts with space objects -- Ch. 16. Population growth.

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