Title: Natural Disasters Abbott, Patrick Leon; Samson, Claire; Sutherland, Stuart; Phillips, David; Patterson, Tim; MacEachern, Fiona and Martell, David
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0070980373
ISBN 13: 9780070980372
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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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. "Natural Disasters" 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 histories.

The text aims to explain important principles about the Earth and then develop further understanding through numerous case histories. The book includes recent happenings such as the Western United States wildfires during the summer 2000 and the Los Alamos prescribed burn,also occurring in 2000.

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