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Natural Disasters - Softcover

Abbott, Patrick L.

 
9780073369372: Natural Disasters
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0073369373 ISBN 13: 9780073369372
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Natural Disasters, 8th edition, is marked by major changes in organization and expanded coverage of weather and climate. The discussion of natural disasters is based on 4 main energy flows: 1) Earth's internal energy flow underlies earthquakes and volcanoes, 2) the external energy flow from the Sun fuels weather and climate including tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, 3) gravity acts to pull down mass movements of earth and snow, and 4) impacts with asteroids and comets can have major effects on life. The book focuses on the Earth's natural processes and the disasters that occur when the Earth concentrates its energy and releases it to causing death and destruction. 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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    Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

    Pat Abbott is a professor at San Diego State University

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    Verlag
    McGraw-Hill Professional
    Erscheinungsdatum
    2011
    Sprache
    Englisch
    ISBN 10 
    0073369373
    ISBN 13 
    9780073369372
    Einband
    Taschenbuch
    Anzahl der Seiten
    469
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