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Furious Earth: The Science and Nature of Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis
Edited by Ellen Prager
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This book presents the science behind the earth's most catastrophic phenomena. If our planet is a sleeping giant, it slumbers fitfully. Earth's fabric is shifting, creaking, and groaning. Our familiar landscape bears the scars of hidden forces at work deep beneath it. ""Furious Earth"" contains the latest science on these forces and the cataclysmic phenomena they produce - earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsumanis. Now, hard-won knowledge of these phenomena, gained from often dangerous efforts to understand and predict the unpredictable, is presented here by experts. The scientific contributors include: Stanley Williams, Ph.D., Professor of Vulcanology, Arizona State University, on volcanoes; Kate Hutton, Ph.D., Seismologist, California State Institute of Technology, on earthquakes; and Costas Synolakis, Ph.D., Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Southern California, on tsunamis.
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Publisher | McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Published date | 22 Nov 1999
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 235
Dimensions | 226 x 157 x 20mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 557g
ISBN | 978-0-0713-5161-4
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BISAC | science / earth sciences / seismology & volcanism
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