Natural Disasters （4 PCK）

Natural Disasters （4 PCK）

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780072921984
  • DDC分類 577

Full Description


This book focuses on natural disastersEarth 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. Throughout the book, certain themes are maintained: energy sources underlying disasters; plate tectonics and climate change; earth processes operating in rock, water, and atmosphere; significance of geologic time; complexities of multiple variables operating simultaneously; and detailed and readable case studies.

Contents

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 16 Population Growth