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This book focuses on natural disasters: how the normal processes of the Earth 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 * detailed and readable case studies.
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Earthquake coverage is now two chapters (it had been three chapters) and volcano coverage is now two chapters (it had been one chapter).
Updated Internet References and the addition of Internet questions at the end of each chapter.
Updated with the most recent events and current data (throughout).
Optional package with The Smithsonian's Journey Through Geology: Earthquakes and Volcanoes version CD-ROM.
The Energy Theme is discussed throughout. Release of gravitational energy is discussed in the mass wasting chapter (8) and the sun's heat energy is discussed as the cause of severe weather disasters. Initial discussion is found in chapter 1.
Critical Thinking Questions have been added to the end of the chapters.
About the Author:
Updated Internet References and the addition of Internet questions at the end of each chapter.
Updated with the most recent events and current data (throughout).
Optional package with The Smithsonian's Journey Through Geology: Earthquakes and Volcanoes version CD-ROM.
The Energy Theme is discussed throughout. Release of gravitational energy is discussed in the mass wasting chapter (8) and the sun's heat energy is discussed as the cause of severe weather disasters. Initial discussion is found in chapter 1.
Critical Thinking Questions have been added to the end of the chapters.
Pat Abbott is a professor at San Diego State University
Pat Abbott is a professor at San Diego State University
Pat Abbott is a professor at San Diego State University
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- PublisherMcGraw Hill Higher Education
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0072528095
- ISBN 13 9780072528091
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number4
- Number of pages416
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