Natural hazards and quarternary climatic change.
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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1976Description: 15p., 43 refsReport number: AcademicSubject: This paper is presented as a background report to the Natural Hazards Symposium. It is an attempt to place into a time perspective the type, magnitude, direction, rate and problems associated with environmental changes which have occurred over the last 2 million years of geological time, the so-called Quarternary period, or Ice Age. Emphasis will be placed on: 1) the last 20,000 years of this period, and 2) environmental change which is associated with climatic change, and therefore directly influences such natural hazards as floods, cyclones, fronts, droughts, dust storms and coastal erosion. The paper is not concerned with geological hazards except where they relate to climatic change (e.g. glacial surges, landslides, avalanches)
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This paper is presented as a background report to the Natural Hazards Symposium. It is an attempt to place into a time perspective the type, magnitude, direction, rate and problems associated with environmental changes which have occurred over the last 2 million years of geological time, the so-called Quarternary period, or Ice Age. Emphasis will be placed on: 1) the last 20,000 years of this period, and 2) environmental change which is associated with climatic change, and therefore directly influences such natural hazards as floods, cyclones, fronts, droughts, dust storms and coastal erosion. The paper is not concerned with geological hazards except where they relate to climatic change (e.g. glacial surges, landslides, avalanches)
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