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ISBN10: 1264091168 | ISBN13: 9781264091164
Natural Disasters
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Natural Disasters focuses on explaining how the normal processes of Earth concentrate their energies and deal heavy blows to humans and their structures. Students have a natural curiosity about natural disasters and why they occur. This text explains why natural disasters occur by interweaving the themes of Energy sources, Plate tectonics, Climate change, Earth Processes, Geologic time, the complexities of multiple variables operating simultaneously throughout the text.
Prologue: Energy Flows
1. Natural Disasters and the Human Population
2. Internal Energy and Plate Tectonics
3. Earthquake Geology and Seismology
4. Plate Tectonics and Earthquakes
5. Earthquakes throughout the United States and Canada
6. Volcanic Eruptions: Plate Tectonics and Magmas
7. Volcano Case Histories: Killer Events
8. Tsunami versus Wind-Caused Waves
9. External Energy Fuels Weather and Climate
10. Tornadoes, Lightning, Heat, and Cold
11. Hurricanes
12. Climate Change
13. Floods
14. Wildfire
15. Mass Movements
16. Coastal Processes and Hazards
17. Impacts with Space Objects
18. The Great Dyings
About the Author
Patrick Leon Abbott
Pat Abbott is a professor at San Diego State University
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