Natural disasters /
Patrick L. Abbott
- 5th ed.
- Boston: McGraw-Hill, c2006.
- xvii,496p.: illus 28cm.
Includes index.
Contents: Natural disasters and the human population -- Energy flows in earth history and natural disasters -- Plate tectonics and earthquakes -- Basic principles of earthquake geology, seismology, and tsunami -- Some earthquakes in Western North America -- More U.S. and Canadian earthquakes -- Volcanic eruptions: plate tectonics and magmas -- Volcano case histories: Killer events -- Mass movements -- Atmosphere, oceans, and long-term climate change -- Short-term climate change and severe weather -- Hurricanes and the coastline -- Floods -- Fire -- The Great dyings -- Impacts with space objects.